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Diaper fight: GOP in nappie rift

What’re you looking at?
What’re you looking at? Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

1. Sanders hits Clinton for Trump ties

The Bernie Sanders camp, replying to charges that his staying in the race helps Donald Trump, sent a fundraising email featuring a photo of the Clintons at Trump’s third wedding.

Could Trump the actor win for Trump the candidate?

Don’t think I won’t go there.
Don’t think I won’t go there. Photograph: Dominick Reuter/Reuters

Summary

“Pictured below,” runs the Sanders caption: “Donald Trump and the one candidate in this race he said would make a ‘great president’.” (Technically, counting himself, Trump has said the “great” thing about two candidates.)

Clinton, Trump poised to sweep ‘Acela primary’

Looks fun. Indeed too fun.
Looks fun. Indeed too fun. Photograph: Bernie Sanders campaign

Updated

2. Trump’s free advice for Sanders

3. Sanders tips hat to Warren

Asked the veep question, Sanders said it was “a little too early to be speculating” but that Senator Elizabeth Warren was “a real champion” in “taking on Wall Street”. Progressives summarily swooned.

Sanders applauds Warren

On Sanders’ A list.
On Sanders’s A list. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

4. Changing diapers: a wife’s work?

After a 2005 interview emerged in which Trump said husbands “act like the wife” by changing diapers, Texas senator Ted Cruz, a father of two, pounced.

Trump: ‘That’s not my thing’

‘Get your balls back America’
‘Get your balls back America.’ Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters

Summary

It’s a parent’s job. I can tell you with our girls, I changed a lot of diapers. Heidi changed a lot of diapers. When a diaper needs changing, whoever’s closest jumps on the grenade, so to speak.

– Grizzled diaper veteran Ted Cruz

Phew! At a Cruz rally in Maryland.
Phew! At a Cruz rally in Maryland. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

5. Trump on Clinton’s ‘woman card’

The only thing she’s got is the woman card. And that’s all she’s got. And it is pandering. You know, it’s a weak card in her hand and in another person’s hands it could be a powerful card.

– Trump on Fox News

‘That’s all she’s got’

Double-jointed Don plays the thumb card.
Double-jointed Don plays the thumb card. Photograph: Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters

6. The Acela primary

Nauseous and late? Both parties in five states in Amtrak’s Acela corridor hold primaries tonight, and frontrunners Trump and Clinton are expected to harvest many delegates.

Baltimore’s low-income voters support ...

Voting is fun in Pennsylvania.
Voting is fun in Pennsylvania. Photograph: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AFP/Getty Images

... and another thing:

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