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New convention chief Paul Manafort has recruited veterans of his lobbying firm to help Trump's effort. Donald Trump’s new chief campaign strategist, Paul Manafort, is bringing on some close associates for key spots on Trump's presidential campaign, including several whose lobbying histories seem to epitomize the special-interest influence against which the candidate rails. Among the influence industry veterans who have been helping the campaign in recent weeks, according to sources close to the Trump campaign, are Laurance Gay, who worked with Manafort on an effort to obtain a federal grant that one congressman called a “very smelly, sleazy business,” and...

On April 13, ABC’s World News Tonight correspondent Tom Llamas devoted most of that night’s report to chilling death threats against the Colorado state Republican party chairman, angered at how Donald Trump failed to win any delegates at the weekend party convention. Besides that one report, and two minor mentions (one on ABC’s Good Morning America and on Thursday’s CBS Evening News), that’s all the broadcast news attention given to reports of actual death threats in this increasingly nasty presidential race: 110 seconds in total, not a moment of which was on NBC. But since the Colorado convention through Thursday...

In conventional conservative doctrine, the mainstream press and much of the new media are little more than arms of Democratic Party officialdom. Also, bigotry and misogyny are no longer widespread problems, in the right’s telling—and to the extent that they still exist, they are no more prevalent on the right than on the left. In their efforts to stop Trump, conservatives have sidelined these and other premises about American political culture, so that the generic liberal critique of conservatism might be deployed against him and him alone.

Full Title Katrina Pierson: Bernie Sanders Supporters ‘Sending Me Messages’ They Will Back Donald Trump If Hillary Clinton ‘Steals’ the Democratic Nomination National spokeswoman for Donald Trump Katrina Pierson says the real estate mogul would put critical states such as Florida and New York in play for the Republicans — while getting support from Democrats angered by an expected Hillary Clinton nomination. “When we get to the general election, we have to look at the map. Sen. Ted Cruz hasn’t won a single state that would change anything,” she tells Breitbart News Daily. “Trump has won Florida. He’s going to...

Today in New York Donald Trump defended his campaign manager. Corey’s right here. He’s totally exonerated from that bogus nonsense from that bogus claim. Who, by the way, if you look at the tape it bore no relationship from what she said happened. And I tell you I really have a lot of respect for the people in Florida for looking at that fairly. I really do. I have great respect for the prosecuting attorney and for the police for taking a look at that clip and realizing she misrepresented. And he’s good. That was a weight on his shoulder....

Donald Trump and the Fox News host Megyn Kelly met at Trump Tower on Wednesday morning, a person with knowledge of the matter told CNNMoney. The meeting was brokered by Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. An NBC reporter spotted Kelly entering Trump Tower shortly before noon. Representatives for Trump and Fox News had no immediate comment. The meeting raises the possibility of a Kelly-Trump interview sometime in the future. Trump's intense dislike of Kelly -- who he has called unfair, overrated and even "crazy" -- has been one of the subplots of his run for president. Trump has essentially said...