NATIONAL—USA Today/Suffolk–Clinton 50, Sanders 45
NATIONAL–GENERIC CONGRESSIONAL BALLOT–GWU/Battleground–Democrats 46, Republicans 41
NATIONAL—USA Today/Suffolk–Trump 45, Cruz 29, Kasich 17
CONNECTICUT—Gravis–Trump 54, Kasich 27, Cruz 9 Trump +27
NATIONAL—USA Today/Suffolk–Clinton 49, Cruz 42 | Clinton 50, Trump 39
MARYLAND—Gravis–Trump 53, Kasich 24, Cruz 22
PENNSYLVANIA—Harper–Clinton 61, Sanders 33
PENNSYLVANIA—FOX 29/Opinion Savvy–Clinton 52, Sanders 41
PENNSYLVANIA—FOX 29/Opinion Savvy–Trump 48, Cruz 28, Kasich 19
PENNSYLVANIA–US SENATE—Harper–McGinty 39, Sestak 33, Fetterman 15
PENNSYLVANIA–US SENATE—FOX 29/Opinion Savvy–McGinty 39, Sestak 34, Fetterman 14
RHODE ISLANBD—Gravis–Trump 58, Kasich 21, Cruz 10
A new NBC News/Survey Monkey poll finds Donald Trump has cracked 50% support among GOP voters for the first time, followed by Ted Cruz at 26% and John Kasich at 17%.
So the polls are open. If you read this page, you better vote. Use this thread to talk about your polling experience, and if you are a poll worker, we would love to hear your stories about turnout and other campaign stories that are going on at your precinct. I voted first thing, the 5th voter in line at my polling place.
Rick Klein: “Putting aside the practical challenge of convincing tens of thousands of Republican voters to support not their favorite guy but some other guy – all to block a third guy – there’s a serious ideological rift between the two camps that are trying to team up. Many Kasich supporters thing Cruz is every bit as much of the problem with their party as is Donald Trump. Similarly, many Cruz supporters think the GOP has made too many mistakes with Kasich-like candidates.”
“You know who is comfortable talking about the new alliance? Donald Trump. It says something that the strategy being employed by his rivals fits Trump’s message much more comfortably than it does Kasich’s or Cruz’s.”
“The Republican Party could be maimed for years following the 2016 presidential election,” party insiders tell the Washington Examiner.
“They worry not just that front-runner Donald Trump will lose the general election to Hillary Clinton, but that the disruption he’s proudly caused will mean lost elections and diminished influence for years to come.”
“The outlook is so bad that a contested convention to stop the New York businessman is not their biggest worry, they say, even as he gets close to the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the nomination… The deeper concern is that Trump will remake the party in his own image, breaking it to pieces and ending its existence as America’s recognizable and electable conservative party.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders conceded on MSNBC that he “faces narrow odds in convincing super delegates to switch their allegiances from the Democratic presidential front-runner, and instead hand him the nomination.”
Said Sanders: “At the end of the process, frankly, if we are behind in the pledged delegates, I think it’s very hard for us to win.”
“Sanders reiterated that his campaign plans to remain in the race through the California primary on June 7. In the face of a narrow path toward winning the Democratic nomination outright, Sanders said he was holding out for superdelegates to reconsider their support of party front-runner, Hillary Clinton.”
A new Harvard Institute of Politics poll of young voters finds Hillary Clinton the clear front-runner over Donald Trump to win the White House in 2016, 61% to 25%.
“More than three in five (61%) prefer that a Democrat win the White House, while 33% prefer a Republican. The divide of 28 points is nearly double what it was in Spring 2015, when the divide was 15 percentage points (55% Democrat; 40% Republican).”
Washington Post: “Obama has presided over a greater loss of electoral power for his party than any two-term president since World War II. And 2016 represents one last opportunity for him to reverse that trend.”
“The first big tests of the rebuilding efforts come Tuesday in Pennsylvania, where Obama is taking the unusual step of wading into two contested Democratic primaries, endorsing Senate hopeful Katie McGinty and Josh Shapiro, a Montgomery County official and early supporter of his who is hoping to become state attorney general.”