1. Advice for graduates: dump Trump
In a commencement address, Michelle Obama delivered a withering attack on Donald Trump, warning graduates that intimidation and fear are ingredients for a national demise.
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Graduates, that is not who we are. That is not what this country stands for … Here in America we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Here in America we don’t give in to our fears, we don’t build walls to keep people out.
– First lady Michelle Obama
2. Clinton: ‘glass ceiling’ cracks Tuesday
“Starting next Tuesday we’re on our way to breaking the highest and hardest glass ceiling,” Clinton told California supporters, resurrecting a line from her 2008 concession speech.
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If all goes well, I will have the great honor as of Tuesday to be the Democratic nominee for president.
– Hillary Clinton
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Clinton is just 70 delegates (including superdelegates) away from clinching the Democratic nomination. Almost 700 delegates are up for grabs Tuesday.
The state of the delegates race
3. Polls show Sanders strength
California polls showed steady gains all year long by Bernie Sanders, who appeared neck-and-neck with Clinton. A win would increase his leverage ahead of the national convention.
Sanders climbs in California polls
4. Poll has Trump falling behind
A new Reuters-Ipsos poll found Clinton ahead of Trump by double-digits, 46-35, among likely voters. But a lot of voters, 19%, chose “neither”.
5. Trump says ‘heritage’ disqualifies judge
Donald Trump said the US-born judge overseeing class-action cases against Trump University had “an inherent conflict of interest” based on his ancestral roots.
'I have a Mexican judge'
I have a Mexican judge. He’s of Mexican heritage. He should have recused himself, not only for that, for other things.
– Donald J Trump
6. Ryan: judge comments ‘out of left field’
House speaker Paul Ryan distanced himself from Trump, just one day after endorsing him: “It’s reasoning I don’t relate to. I completely disagree with the thinking behind that,” Ryan said.
Ryan says Trump in ‘left field’
... and another thing:
You literally said all those things. https://t.co/6VX5AfR7gL https://t.co/U8LfWdPU7x
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 3, 2016
