Republican primary

Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump is the lowest in two months as a number of the most recent polls show trump neck-and-neck with the establishment's mouthpiece-of-choice. From a Clinton lead of over 11pts in March, Rasmussen recently reported Trump leading 2pts, Gravis showed him lagging by just 2pts in the last two weeks, and NBC reports Clinton's lead dropping from 5pts to just 3 pts in the last week alone.

As RealClearPolitics shows, Clinton's lead is evaporating rapidly...

Anti-Trump Republicans can’t find a candidate, and it seems that one of the biggest boosters of a protest campaign doesn’t have much support at home:

On the home front, however, the Nebraska freshman found himself rebuked Saturday by party loyalists upset at his call for a third candidate to arise and give conservatives such as himself an alternative to Donald Trump in the fall election.

Peter Suderman comments on Paul Ryan’s dilemma:

Ross Douthat lays out what he calls “the conservative case against Trump.” He says that electing Trump would mean the end of Reaganism, but concedes that for some conservatives, that would not be a bug, but a feature.

Here is the heart of the argument:

Speaking through its mouthpiece Global Times, China has published its first reaction to "unpredictable" Trump's position as presumptive Republican nominee and their expectations of a Trump vs Clinton fight for The White House...