Subject: Negative clips
From: "Palermo, Rachel" <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Price, Jenna" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:17:08 -0700

Negative clips

The Donald Trump Pygmalion Project<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/opinion/the-donald-trump-pygmalion-project.html?ref=opinion&_r=0>

NEW YORK TIMES // EDITORIAL BOARD

Tuesday’s primaries in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware and Rhode Island could bring Donald Trump close to securing the delegates he needs to win the Republican presidential nomination, though probably not all the way there. After a series of missteps, he seems to realize that he needs to improve the style and substance of his campaign among both Republicans who resist him and the electorate at large.

Map Shrinks for Donald Trump’s Foes<http://www.wsj.com/articles/map-shrinks-for-donald-trumps-foes-1461626904>
WALL STREET JOURNAL // JANET HOOK
Donald Trump is poised to sweep five states’ Republican primaries on the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday, but his rivals are already looking ahead to next week’s contest in Indiana, which may be their last chance to keep Mr. Trump from clinching the party’s presidential nomination. Polls have shown Mr. Trump leading in Indiana, which votes on May 3. But Sen. Ted Cruz now might have a better shot at beating Mr. Trump in the state, which has 57 delegates, because the Texas senator struck a deal on Sunday with John Kasich that calls for the Ohio governor not to compete in the Hoosier state. It is a must-win state for anti-Trump forces. If Mr. Trump wins in Indiana after his expected victories on Tuesday, it will be much harder for his rivals to keep him from garnering the 1,237 pledged delegates he needs to win the Republican presidential nomination.

Cruz-Kasich alliance against Trump appears to falter early<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cruz-kasich-strike-tenuous-deal-in-attempt-to-slow-down-trump/2016/04/25/3ed573b0-0afd-11e6-8ab8-9ad050f76d7d_story.html>

WASHINGTON POST // SEAN SULLIVAN

A sudden political alliance between Ted Cruz and John Kasich against Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump quickly ran into speed bumps Monday that exposed the plan’s risks and called into question whether it would work. In their unconventional last-ditch scheme, Kasich said he would clear the way for Cruz to face Trump in Indiana while Cruz would return the favor in Oregon and New Mexico. The plan aimed to produce what anti-Trump Republicans have yearned for since the fall: a one-on-one showdown with the mogul.

Ted Cruz-John Kasich Alliance Against Donald Trump Quickly Weakens<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/us/politics/ted-cruz-john-kasich-donald-trump.html?ref=politics>

NEW YORK TIMES // ALEXANDER BURNS, MATT FLEGENHEIMER AND JONATHAN MARTIN

The temporary alliance<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/25/us/politics/ted-cruz-john-kasich-donald-trump.html> between Senator Ted Cruz<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/ted-cruz-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per> and Gov. John Kasich<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/john-kasich-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per> of Ohio, formed to deny Donald J. Trump<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/donald-trump-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per> the Republican presidential nomination, was already fraying almost to the point of irrelevance on Monday, only hours after it was announced to great fanfare.

With the pact, the two candidates agreed to cede forthcoming primary contests to each other. Mr. Kasich would, most crucially, stand down in Indiana’s primary on May 3 to give Mr. Cruz a better chance to defeat Mr. Trump there, while Mr. Cruz would leave Oregon and New Mexico to Mr. Kasich. It appeared to be a measure of last resort, but initially it seemed like a breakthrough.

Oklahoma’s Unabashed Attack on Abortion<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/opinion/oklahomas-unabashed-attack-on-abortion.html?ref=opinion>
NEW YORK TIMES // EDITORIAL BOARD
Give Oklahoma lawmakers points, at least, for honesty. They wanted to ban abortion, so they voted effectively to do just that — without offering any pretense of trying to protect women’s health, as supporters of other virulent anti-choice laws in states like Texas have done. Last Thursday, the Oklahoma House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to bar doctors from performing abortions in all cases except to save the woman’s life. A doctor who violates the law would be committing a felony, punishable by up to three years in prison and the loss of his or her medical license. If the House bill gets final approval from the State Senate, which passed an earlier version in March, it will be sent to Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican, who has signed several other measures to reduce women’s access to abortion and reproductive health care in Oklahoma, where only two abortion clinics remain.