Read more: Kentucky primary: Hillary Clinton appears to clinch narrow win over Bernie Sanders
Sanders wins Oregon primary, adding to string of late wins over Clinton
Trump pleads ignorance of his Megyn Kelly ‘bimbo’ tweets: ‘Did I say that?’
Sanders: ‘nonsense’ to claims of Nevada supporters’ ‘penchant for violence’
Delegate tracker: path to the Democratic nomination
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We’re going to wrap up our live coverage of the Kentucky and Oregon primaries. Here’s what happened:
4.40am BST
Bernie Sanders has won the Democratic primary in Oregon, the Associated Press projects.
The call came within an hour of polling stations closing.
I've never seen that before- CA crowd starts chanting "Bernie or Bust" repeatedly & holding signs that say the same. pic.twitter.com/m9qE8vcNcF
4.35am BST
Sanders goes after the Kochs, Adelson and Trump, by name.
The American people are sick and tired of billionaires running our economy and our political life.
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Donald Trump has been talking about THE MOVEMENT in all caps lately. He also brags about his margin of victory in a race he was effectively running alone.
Congratulations to THE MOVEMENT, we have just won THE GREAT STATE OF OREGON. The vote percentage is even higher than anticipated! Thank you.
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Sanders makes the case that he’s the better candidate to take on Trump:
If the Democratic party wants to be certain that Donald Trump is defeated, and that we must do, we together are the campaign to do that.
Our campaign has the energy, and the enthusiasm, and the grassroots capability to make certain that in November, in the general election we have a yuge voter turnout.”
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Megyn Kelly questions Donald Trump for calling her a ‘bimbo’ – video
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Sanders quickly jumps out to a solid lead in Oregon. Visit our comprehensive results page here.
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Sanders says he can win a majority of pledged delegates by the convention in July, which would require 67% wins for him from here on out.
“We have the possibility. It will be a steep climb, I recognize that. But we have the possibility of going to Philadelphia with the majority of the pledged delegates.”
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Sanders: “I think we’re going to win here in California.”
The crowd likes that, chanting Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!
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Sanders says “it appears tonight we’re going to end up with about half the delegates in Kentucky.”
Sanders notes HRC beat Obama in KY by 250k votes in '08: "It appears tonight that we're going to end up with about half of the delegates."
4.15am BST
Bernie Sanders has taken the stage before thousands of supporters in Carson, California. They are charged up. Lots of exuberant cheering to welcome the candidate to the stage.
He thanks the crowd for coming out. And thanks Danny Glover, the actor, who introduced him.
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The presumptive nominee wins the uncontested primary, the Associated Press projects.
Trump is just under 100 delegates short of the 1,237 he needs to win the nomination outright. Oregon will award a total of 28 Republican delegates.
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There’s no immediate call as Oregon polling stations close. Both Republicans and Democrats are mailing in ballots there tonight.
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CNN reports based on an anonymous source in the Sanders campaign that Sanders does not intend to request a recount in Kentucky, and that in his imminent speech in Carson, California, Sanders is likely to acknowledge a narrow loss in Kentucky.
He may also be in position to announce a win in Oregon, depending on how long he waits to speak.
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Bernie Sanders is expected to speak soon in Carson, California. MSNBC has a live video stream here.
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Polls in Oregon are scheduled to close in about 15 minutes, at 11pm ET. The state votes by mail – the 11pm ET / 8pm local time cutoff marks the last moment voters can drop their ballots off at collection sites. But with so many votes coming in early by mail, the results in Oregon may come in relatively quickly.
3.40am BST
The Hillary Clinton campaign takes the Kentucky secretary of state – a Clinton supporter – at her word and declares victory in the Bluegrass state:
We just won Kentucky! Thanks to everyone who turned out. We’re always stronger united. https://t.co/8qYPHIje8I pic.twitter.com/elNUP4nFoO
3.32am BST
The Trump campaign announces it has entered joint fundraising agreements with the Republican national committee, allowing the party to apply money raised by the presidential campaign to down-ballot races.
“The RNC is excited to team up with the Trump campaign to expand the robust ground, data, and digital operation we have in place to elect Republicans up and down the ballot,” said party chairman Reince Priebus in a statement.
3.26am BST
Allison Lundergan Grimes, secretary of state of Kentucky, has gone on CNN and called Hillary Clinton the “unofficial” winner of the Kentucky race. Grimes is a Clinton supporter and has campaigned with her.
Grimes said that 769 votes are untabulated in the state. And that Clinton has a lead of 1813 votes. Those figures appear to give the win to Clinton, Grimes said, but the results are not yet “official.”
Kentucky secretary of state Alison Lundergan Grimes calls it on CNN "I do believe that Kentucky will remain in the win column for Clinton"
I'm sure she's right, but this is the same Alison Lundergan Grimes who I saw on the stump with Bill Clinton in KY. https://t.co/Q25WaI9zXE
for those still keeping count—a KY tie raises the share of the remaining pledged dels left that Sanders needs from 66% to 67%.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic party chairwoman, has further harsh words for Bernie Sanders, after the insurgent candidate accused the party leadership of holding a finger on the scale in Nevada.
.@DWStweets calls on Sanders to condemn supporters in NV: "There should never be a ‘but’ when it comes to violence and intimidation."
"The senator's response was anything but acceptable," @DWStweets adds on CNN. https://t.co/QdLiUQ31Dz
.@DWStweets says she has not spoken with Sanders about his supporters' actions in Nevada but his response added "fuel to the fire."
3.16am BST
Ouch.
Well, that is it. Well done Megyn --- and they all lived happily ever after! Now let us all see how "THE MOVEMENT" does in Oregon tonight!
As a journalist, you know you nailed your live interview when the subject gives you a head pat afterward https://t.co/kK35DZC7ce
When I’m wounded, I go after people hard, and I try to unwound myself.
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The Associated Press has moved a story declaring the race in Kentucky too close to call – even “with almost all the votes counted”:
The race was too close to call a winner in Kentucky. With almost all the votes counted, the margin between the two candidates was less than one-half of 1 percent as Clinton tried to avoid ending the primary season with a string of losses to the Vermont senator. Sanders was favored in Oregon’s primary later Tuesday.
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Hillary Clinton is at home tonight in Chappaqua, New York, and she’s not expected to give a speech, NBC reports. Sanders still has a speech scheduled in California.
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The Associated Press calls Kentucky too close to call.
BREAKING: Democratic presidential primary in Kentucky between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders is too close to call.
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Louisville reports – Clinton takes the lead – and the crowd goes wild:
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With 93% of the votes counted, Clinton has a chance to win Kentucky tonight but only by a razor thin margin. This represents a dramatic change for the candidate compared to her popularity here eight years ago. In the 2008 Kentucky Democratic primary, Clinton got almost half a million votes - 65.5% of everyone who cast a ballot – while Barack Obama got 29.9%.
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The last tranche of the Trump-Kelly interview has aired. It’s a speed round.
Favorite movie? Citizen Kane
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Trump tweets from home or wherever that he’s about to “go back on” in an prerecorded interview.
Will go back on for a final question now!
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Time to start getting excited about Oregon – with results expected in just over two hours. There’s some suspense in the air, with an utter lack of polling to go on...
Our demographic model expects a clear win for Bernie in Oregon tonight, even though the only poll had Clinton ahead.
1.43am BST
Lots of knowledgable twitterati feeling a good night for Clinton in Kentucky:
Things looking pretty good for Hillary in KY at the moment. Up 4.2k votes with a good chunk of Louisville still out.
Clinton is set to net 2500 or so from Jefferson, 500 from Kenton (Cincy burbs). Don’t see how Sanders overcomes that in western KY.
85% of vote counted and Clinton is up by over 3,000 -- with a chunk of Louisville (where she's leading big) still to come
Who wins KY has no impact on Dem nom. It's so close they'll split delegates, making path for Sanders to cut into Clinton del lead narrower.
1.31am BST
Donald Trump’s promise to live-tweet his interview with Megyn Kelly amounted to him RT’ing people praising how well he was doing.
"@xGodfatherxzx: @realDonaldTrump amazing on Megan Kelly" Thanks.
"@manakoa:DonaldTrump, you are fearless! This interview shows you are the Leader we need. @megynkelly is a tough interview! Respect to both"
"@longbyfive: @realDonaldTrump great interview with @megynkelly !" Thanks.
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At the end of the Trump interview, he said that if he fails to win the presidency, he will consider the experience of running “a total waste of time and money.”
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As the Trump interview ends (or merely breaks?), Clinton pulls into the lead in Kentucky with 75.6% reporting, by AP’s count:
You know what happens if Hillary narrowly wins KY tonight? Nothing. If Bernie narrowly wins? Nothing.
1.23am BST
Here’s how Trump tweets. He dictates tweets during the day, including saying, “exclamation point.” Then after 6pm he might tweet himself.
Kelly asks him about RT’ing somebody calling her a bimbo.
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Kelly points out that Trump’s tone has seemed to inspire some followers to violence and asks him whether he will change his tone.
I do take it very seriously and I understand what is going on... 25,000 people that have seats and not one person over an hour will sit down... I do understand the power of the message.
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Kelly asks Trump why he thought the August debate question was unfair.
“That was the first question I’ve ever been asked,” my first debate, Trump says. He basically says he was flustered.
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At the beginning of the interview, Kelly asked Trump whether he regretted retweeting disparaging things about Heidi Cruz’s looks or any of his other tweets. She notes that he himself called the Cruz tweet a mistake.
He said where he gets into trouble is the retweeting – but when it’s just him tweeting it’s OK.
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Kelly asks Trump whether he learned anything about relationships from his two divorces.
He says he’s a workaholic and realized there was a tradeoff there.
When I’m wounded, I go after people hard, and I try to unwound myself.
1.07am BST
Whoops? Update: This has been fixed in the AP results (8.25pm ET) and Clinton still holds the lead.
Looks to me like all of Clinton's current lead can be accounted for in a likely AP error in Johnson County, where she leads 447-49
1.04am BST
Megyn Kelly’s interview of Donald Trump is about to air on Fox. Not Fox News. Fox Fox. Tune in if you can / are interested.
My primetime special #MegynKellyPresents starts RIGHT NOW on FOX Broadcast Network!
12.59am BST
Bernie Sanders will hold an election-night rally tonight in Carson, California – and the Sanders campaign has just announced he will hold rallies Friday in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Clinton finally wins a Clinton County, after losing various Clinton counties in eight previous tries (CNN pointed it out today):
Clinton finally wins a county with her name- Clinton Co KY votes 151 -93 -17 for her with all precincts in.
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The Kentucky race is separated by two-tenths of a percentage point with 54.4% reporting, by the AP count. Tight race – check out the results as they come in here.
Certainly wouldn't call it as Sanders still has a decent shot of winning, but AP is running behind Decision Desk and underselling Clinton.
Jefferson keeps pushing Clinton up but is now over halfway in pic.twitter.com/KY5IBFvJ4R
12.42am BST
Donald Trump’s interview with Fox News host Megyn Kelly was recorded weeks ago and now is about to air. Trump has promised to live tweet it. We’re going to live blog it.
The Trump-Kelly pas de deux did not start nine months ago – Trump was writing Kelly fan letters years earlier.
12.27am BST
Jim Gray, the mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, has won the Democratic US senate primary and will face off in November against incumbent Republican senator Rand Paul. As expected.
12.23am BST
We’re above 20% reporting in Kentucky and Bernie Sanders is out front.
However, close watchers of the incoming results, which so far include a disproportionate share of coal counties and mining country and not as many urban precincts, think the lead could switch hands an odd number of times.
12.05am BST
In Kentucky, 10.4% reporting and it is close:
11.55pm BST
The last polling stations close in Kentucky at 7pm ET. How long until we know what happened? The county-level cognoscenti have been digging through the returns and see potential good signs for both sides:
Clinton is up 54-44 in Lexington's Fayette County with 45% reporting. A strong sign for her.
Tonight’s most fun county: Harlan. 84.9% for Hillary in 2008. Right now it’s 63% for Bernie.
11.39pm BST
There are 55 pledged and five unpledged Democratic delegates up for grabs in Kentucky tonight. The pledged delegates will be awarded proportionally. The unpledged delegates aka superdelegates will do what they want, which in the majority of cases this year has meant support party favorite Hillary Clinton.
Oregon will award 61 pledged Democratic delegates proportionally and send 13 additional, unpledged delegates to the national convention.
11.28pm BST
A plug for a great documentary of a 1973 mine unionization fight in Kentucky:
As their votes start to come in, a reminder that if you haven't you must see Harlan County, USA https://t.co/0F7xYUx3ju
Harlan County is 68% registered Democrat, 17% for Obama in 2012 https://t.co/fvShMdNtgD
11.26pm BST
No Republican results in the Bluegrass state tonight – Trump won Kentucky back in March.
On the Democratic side, with 0.3% of precincts reporting, it’s – way too early to describe the disposition of the race.
Related: Kentucky and Oregon primary results: track the votes, county by county
11.15pm BST
Donald Trump has said he would speak with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in an attempt to halt the country’s nuclear program.
The strategy – which Trump described in a wide-raging interview with Reuters in which he also said he would try to renegotiate the Paris climate accord and dismantle Dodd-Frank banking regulations – diverges radically with current US policy, which is to isolate Kim and the country.
11.03pm BST
The Donald Trump campaign is touting a personal financial disclosure form the presidential candidate has just filed with the federal election commission (FEC), after Trump’s unwillingness to release his tax returns gave new fuel to questions about the size of his fortune.
“Mr Trump’s net worth has increased since the last statement was filed in July of 2015,” a campaign statement claimed. “As of this date, Mr Trump’s net worth is in excess of $10bn dollars.”
10.26pm BST
Our comprehensive results page for tonight is here – you’ll want to keep it handy for a county-by-county breakdown of precinct results in Kentucky and Oregon as they roll in.
Related: Kentucky and Oregon primary results: track the votes, county by county
10.24pm BST
Polling stations in Kentucky close at 6pm and 7pm ET, with early results expected just after the first polls close.
Most Oregon ballot collection centers close at 11pm ET, with results expected soon after.
I will be live tweeting my interview with @megynkelly on the Fox Network tonight at 8! Enjoy! pic.twitter.com/nlJssZeIWm
10.09pm BST
Leading up to Oregon’s primary, Democrat Bernie Sanders repeatedly urged his supporters to vote and promised to prevail if turnout was high, writes Lauren Dake in Portland for the Guardian:
By 8 p.m. this evening, it will be clear whether Oregonians listened.
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Here’s an excerpt from a new Melania Trump interview in DuJour magazine:
When I mention that the comedian Louis C.K. flat out compared Trump to Hitler, Melania stares blankly back at me.
Do you know who Louis C.K. is, I ask.
Related: Journalist who profiled Melania Trump hit with barrage of antisemitic abuse
“I don’t control my fans,” Melania says, “but I don’t agree with what they’re doing. I understand what you mean, but there are people out there who maybe went too far. She provoked them.”
8.23pm BST
When it rains, it pours: Bernie Sanders has lost the support of a superdelegate from the US Virgin Islands for his “lack of concrete positions,” according to Bloomberg News.
“There are no more windmills to joust against and no more mountains to climb,” said Emmett Hansen II, a native of St. Croix. “It comes down to one thing: what’s best for the Virgin Islands, to be fully incorporated into the United States.”
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has issued a statement regarding the unrest at the Nevada Democratic convention over the weekend, in which his supporters caused property damage and began personally harassing and threatening the state’s party chair over perceived bias against the candidate. In the statement, Sanders refuses to apologize for his supporters’ actions, and claims that the onus is on the Democratic party to fix a divided electorate.
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Senate minority leader Harry Reid of Nevada told reporters today that violent threats and harassment by supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders amount to a “test of leadership” for his colleague, saying that the unrest at the Nevada Democratic convention needs to be condemned by the candidate and his campaign.
“I laid out to him what happened in Las Vegas,” Reid said, according to the Washington Post. “I wanted to make sure that he understands, that he heard what went on there - the violence, and all the other bad things that has happened there. He said that he condemns that, and I’m confident he does. I’m confident he will be saying something about it soon. This is a test of leadership as we all know, and I’m hopeful and very confident that Senator Sanders will do the right thing.”
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The Senate has passed legislation this afternoon that would allow family members of people killed in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks to sue the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in pursuit of damages, a measure that President Barack Obama has vowed to veto as a potential hindrance to American foreign policy priorities.
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The Democratic National Committee has issued a statement expressing deep concern following violent protests and death threats against party officials by supporters of Vermont senator Bernie Sanders at the Nevada Democratic convention this weekend, calling details of a letter sent by the party’s state chair “troubling.”
“We are deeply concerned about the troubling details laid out in the letter from the Nevada Democratic party,” wrote party chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. “We will be reaching out to the leadership of both of our campaigns to ask them to stand with the Democratic party in denouncing and taking steps to prevent the type of behavior on display over the weekend in Las Vegas. Our democracy is undermined any time threats, intimidation, physical violence or damage to property are present. If there are legitimate concerns, they must be addressed in an orderly, civil and peaceful manner.”
Texts sent to Nevada Democratic Party chairwoman Roberta Lange from Bernie Sanders supporters: pic.twitter.com/mItacvpUkU
6.54pm BST
Good news out of Guam for the presumptive nominee:
NEW: All 9 unbound Guam delegates decided to unanimously support Trump. Delegation is led by Gov. Eddie Calvo, who previously backed Cruz.
Related: Ted Cruz launches Guam ground game as consultant is sent to tiny island
6.33pm BST
A security specialist tipped as the potential defence secretary in a Hillary Clinton administration has set out an agenda that confidently asserts American leadership in the world, backed by strong military force.
Related: Potential Hillary Clinton Pentagon chief calls for increased action against Isis
6.32pm BST
If we didn’t know any better, we’d say that Donald Trump hadn’t already taped his sitdown interview with Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly weeks ago - he’s still holding his breath on how Kelly will treat him tonight:
I look forward to watching @megynkelly tonight, 8 PM ET. It will be interesting to see how she treats me—I think she will be very fair.
6.20pm BST
Former Massachusetts governor William Weld has emerged as a possible vice-presidential pick for Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, according to the Daily Caller, citing anonymous sources close to Johnson.
Weld served as a two-term Republican governor of the left-leaning Bay State.
6.15pm BST
Former presidential candidate Jeb Bush has (belatedly) knocked presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump for his “insensitive” Cinco de Mayo tweet, in which the candidate attempted to bond with latino voters by tweeting a picture of himself eating a taco bowl.
“First, not all Hispanics are Mexican,” Bush told a Dutch newspaper. “Secondly, not all Hispanics eat tacos. Thirdly, showing your sensitivity by eating an American dish is the most insensitive thing you can do. Fourthly, to say this, next to all things he already said, is a further insult. It’s like eating a watermelon and saying, ‘I love African-Americans.’ ”
Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics! https://t.co/ufoTeQd8yA pic.twitter.com/k01Mc6CuDI
5.42pm BST
Army Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, who walked off his combat outpost in Afghanistan and spent five years in captivity, will be court martialed under a new commander-in-chief, according to the Associated Press.
Related: Bowe Bergdahl trial delayed until February – under next president
5.32pm BST
The chair of the Nevada Democratic Party has released screenshots of text messages she has received since supporters of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made her private cell phone number public, in hopes of stopping a barrage of insults, threats and harassment that she has called “vile.”
“It’s been threatening messages, threatening my family, threatening my life, threatening my grandchild,” Roberta Lange told the New York Times. The messages are apparently from Sanders supporters angry with rule changes at the party’s state convention, from which rival Hillary Clinton emerged with more delegates after winning the state earlier this year.
4.56pm BST
House speaker Paul Ryan told reporters this morning that an NBC News poll that shows Republican voters trusting presumptive nominee Donald Trump more than they trust himself is a good sign for the party.
4.31pm BST
Texas governor Greg Abbott has responded aggressively to President Barack Obama’s declaration this morning that LGBT rights are human rights, tweeting that the White House’s fight against laws sending transgender people to prison for using bathrooms that comport with their stated gender identity is a far cry from, of all things, the space program.
JFK wanted to send a man to the moon. Obama wants to send a man to the women's restroom. We must get our country back on track. #tcot
4.10pm BST
Former Pennsylvania governor and secretary of homeland security Tom Ridge has officially joined the #NeverTrump movement, writing in the Harrisburg Patriot-News that “duty and loyalty to our nation must always come first,” ahead of party politics.
“Every four years since my 18th birthday, I have pulled the lever in support of the Republican nominee for President of the United States,” Ridge writes. “That streak will end this November.”
3.52pm BST
Donald Trump: Ignorance is a virtue.
"In politics, and in life, ignorance is not a virtue." This is a primary reason that President Obama is the worst president in U.S. history!
3.47pm BST
Vermont senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager told CNN this morning that the candidate is “helping” former secretary of state Hillary Clinton by remaining in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination even though his mathematical odds of winning the nomination outright is shrinking.
“I would say that we are helping Hillary Clinton, as a matter of fact, assuming that she’s the nominee, and I think that Hillary Clinton is helping Bernie Sanders, assuming that he’s the nominee,” Jeff Weaver told Chris Cuomo on CNN’s New Day.
Bernie Sanders' campaign manager: By staying in the race, we are "helping Hillary Clinton" https://t.co/6OZtrg079U https://t.co/0HrioIBC4i
3.26pm BST
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is lashing out at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton this morning for “misrepresenting” his past statements about women in a new advertisement.
The pathetic new hit ad against me misrepresents the final line. "You can tell them to go BLANK themselves" - was about China, NOT WOMEN!
Crooked Hillary Clinton put out an ad where I am misquoted on women. Can't believe she would misrepresent the facts! My hit was on China
Amazing that Crooked Hillary can do a hit ad on me concerning women when her husband was the WORST abuser of woman in U.S. political history
yeah guys, it's presidential to tell other countries to go F themselves https://t.co/NWFG9SwUfY
2.47pm BST
A lawyer for the Trump Organization has suggested that the presumptive Republican nominee may sue the New York Times in response to a deeply reported article published this weekend that highlighted the candidate’s troubled personal and professional history with women.
2.25pm BST
JK Rowling says despite finding Donald Trump “objectionable,” she defends his right to come to the UK and be “offensive and bigoted.”
2.06pm BST
Marco Rubio has little patience for speculation on his next moves since suspending his campaign for president, but he may have a future as a media critic.
The Florida senator regaled Twitter late last night with a series of tweets blasting a report in the Washington Post that had cited anonymous sources to portray him as torn over where to take his career in the coming months.
Word of advice, people often claim to know more than they really do because they enjoy status of being perceived as "in the know".
A source "close to Rubio" says he was tired after long day & has decided to sleep for a few hours before tomorrow's ZIKA debate in Senate.
A "longtime friend" says Rubio is "betwixt and between when it comes to whether to chest or legs tomorrow at gym."
According to source who knows his cousins, wife's dentist, Rubio could do cardio instead.
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