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Scenes from a Hillary Clinton watch party

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Tuesdayā€™s impromptu election-night watch party was probably the largest concentration of post-menopausal women in Tallahassee history. An observation I shared with many of the women there. No one was insulted. We laughed. No, there wasnā€™t a whole lot of estrogen in the room, but there was a giddiness as the crowd of about 75 (including maybe five or so men) cheered when MSNBC called New Jersey for Hillary Clinton ā€” propelling her into history as the first woman nominated for…

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Tom Jackson: With Donald Trump, GOP faces expensive overhaul

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Surveying the conundrum confronting the Republican Party in the age of Donald Trump, an antique TV ad touting Fram oil filters comes to mind. If you bought the Beatlesā€™ White Album the day it was released and remember Muhammad Ali in his prime, you know the spot: A mechanic in the midst of an overhaul pauses to point out the carā€™s owner could have avoided this wallet-crushing repair if only heā€™d been punctual about changing the oil. ā€œYou can pay…

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Testy Donald Trump takes his war with the press to a new level

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Donald Trump‘s heated war with the media reached new heights as he turned the brag-worthy feat of raising $5.6 million for veterans’ charities into a sparring match with reporters pressing him on the issue. “The press should be ashamed of themselves,” a defensive Trump railed during a Tuesday news conference at Trump Tower, called to announce a list of 41 charities that received a cut of the money he raised during a highly publicized January fundraiser. The presumptive Republican presidential…

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Donald Trump reaches the magic number to clinch nomination

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Donald Trump reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president Thursday, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign. Trump was put over the top in the Associated Press delegate count by a small number of the party’s unbound delegates who told the AP they would support him at the national convention in July. Among them is Oklahoma GOP chairwoman Pam Pollard. “I think…

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Diane Roberts: Bernie Sanders, stop trashing Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party

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The Bern? Duly felt. Duly appreciated. Sen. Sanders has put inequality where it belongs, in the center of the American conversation. He has energized hundreds of thousands of young people whoā€™ve never felt a part of the political process and gotten America to revisit ā€œsocialistā€ ideals as universal health care, universal education, and healthy skepticism of profit Ć¼ber alles. But Sanders needs to cut out the tantrums. Hillary Clinton is not the enemy. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is not the enemy, though…

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Tom Jackson: GOP wonā€™t like what follows the summer of Donald Trump

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The atmosphere crackled like the approach of a late-afternoon thunderstorm with the release over the weekend of polls showing the current state of the presidential race. Which is appropriate, because so far there has been lots of menacing rumbling, if not a great deal of light. And, like any storm on the horizon, this one might pass without leaving a trace. Still, it seems the time is right to brace ourselves. Based on the freshest available evidence, itā€™s no longer…

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Darryl Paulson: It’s now or never for #NeverTrump

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The opposition to Donald Trump has been constant from the start of the 2016 presidential campaign. However, it has been unfocused and essentially leaderless. Many Trump opponents believed he would not enter the race. When he entered, they believed he had no chance of winning. Now that Trump has won the nomination, they believe he can be stopped by an independent or third party campaign. As early as December 2015, before the first caucus or primary, Mike Fernandez, a Coral…

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