Walker also compared Trump attacking him to someone attacking Brett Favre at Lambeau Field.

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday morning celebrated Donald Trump's defeat in his state's primary and blasted the national media for giving Trump soft coverage in pursuit of ratings.

Walker had endorsed Ted Cruz, who won Wisconsin's primary on Tuesday.

"It's a great day for Wisconsin, it's a great day for America," said Walker on WTMJ's Charlie Sykes Show. Walker credited Sykes, who confronted Trump in a hostile interview last week, with not selling out like national media outlets in exchange for access to Trump.

"Well, again I give all credit to the voters to begin with, but I think a number of different things," said Walker. "I certainly think some time, I think you in particularly, you leading the other talk radio hosts across the state had a significant, significant impact in terms of just running counter to what we see nationally where the national media can't help fall over themselves, mainly because, I think they're so worried about access to drive up what they perceive as big ratings. You and others following along with you were actually interested in getting information out to voters, the real facts and understanding that this wasn't about ratings, this was ultimately about the future of our state and of our country."

Walker said that Trump attacking him in Wisconsin was akin to him attacking Aaron Rogers or Brett Farve at Lambeau field.

"What I thought about in Green Bay a couple times this week, it would have been like coming into Lambeau Field and taking a whack not only at Aaron Rogers but it would be like taking a whack — even though he's been gone for a while — at someone like Brett Favre," Walker said.

"That would have been like having somebody coming in and not getting it and somehow attacking Brett Favre in Lambeau Field in Green Bay."

Rep. David Jolly’s Senate campaign also accused a Wikipedia user of adding “propaganda” to the page on behalf of a rival campaign. That user told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday that such accusations were absurd.

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Republican Rep. David Jolly, who is running for Senate in Florida, said Wednesday it was a mistake for his campaign to have edited his Wikipedia page to remove unflattering information.

"It was a careless staff mistake that I first learned about from the Times," Jolly told the Tampa Bay Times. "I stand by my full record, relationships, and life experience, and believe every day that voters and the community are best served by having as much information as possible, regardless of whether it comes from critics or supporters."

A spokesperson for Jolly, Sarah Bascom, confirmed to BuzzFeed News on Tuesday that the campaign removed references to Jolly's past career as a lobbyist, his association with the Church of Scientology, his support for same sex marriage, and political contributions he made to Democratic candidates.

Bascom had accused a unspecified rival campaign of adding what she described as "campaign propaganda" in to the Wikipedia page, singling out a longtime Wikipedia editor named "Champaign Supernova" as working for the rival campaign.

"Champaign Supernova" told BuzzFeed News that the charge was absurd, and noted as BuzzFeed News did, that much of the information deleted by the campaign was cited, and some of it had been included in his Wikipedia page for more than a year.

"Oy vey," user "Champaign Supernova told BuzzFeed News in a comment on the user's Talk Page. "It's an absurd allegation. I made my first edit to the David Jolly page on February 29, 2016. I made some minor copy-edits, added sources for information already in the article, and added a section on his 2016 re-election bid."

"I didn't remove any information or add any 'propaganda' (whatever that means). The Scientology stuff and the other information his campaign attempted to scrub has been in the article for months and in some cases for years," the user continued. "None of it was added by me, or by the other user, CFredkin, who the campaign has accused. It looks to me like a political campaign got caught red-handed trying to scrub a page, and they are now engaging in some sort of conspiracy theory to try to take attention off of their blunder. I'm not interested in engaging with it, and this is the last I'll say on the matter."

Bascom's Wikipedia account has received three warnings to no longer edit Jolly's page.

LINK: Florida Senate Campaign Admits To Scrubbing Candidate’s Wikipedia Page

“LOLZ. ROFL. LMAO” —Hillary Clinton

Bernie Sanders may have scored a win in Wisconsin's primary on Tuesday, but he still trails Hillary Clinton in the delegate count, even after winning seven of the last eight contests.

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The attack came hours after Clinton said Sanders should have “done his homework” before conducting a recent newspaper interview.

In his strongest attack yet against his Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders said Wednesday Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be president.

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"She has been saying lately that she thinks I am quote unquote unqualified to be president. Well let me just say in response to Secretary Clinton, I don't believe that she is qualified if she is through her super PAC taking tens of million of dollars in special interest funds. I don't think that you are qualified if you get $15 million from Wall Street through your super PAC. I don't think you are qualified if you have voted for the disastrous war in Iraq. I don't think you are qualified if you have supported virtually every disastrous trade agreement that has cost us millions of decent-paying jobs. I don't think you are qualified if you supported the Panama Free Trade Agreement, something I very strongly opposed and which all of you know has allowed corporations and wealthy people all over the world to avoid paying their taxes to their countries.

This campaign is gaining momentum because we are listening to the American people, not wealthy campaign contributors."

Sanders appeared to be referencing an interview from earlier in the day on MSNBC's Morning Joe where Clinton was asked three times if she thought Sanders was qualified to be president. She said voters would have to make that decision.

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Host Joe Scarborough asked the questions in light of a recent interview Sanders conducted with the New York Daily News where the candidate was pressed on how he would break up big banks, a frequent promise of his campaign. The newspaper asked Sanders if he believed the Federal Reserve already has the authority to take action.

"Well, I don't know if the Fed has it. But I think the administration can have it," Sanders replied.

Scarborough asked if Clinton thought Sanders was ready and qualified to be president.

Clinton said it seemed that Sanders hadn't "done his homework," which raised questions.

"What he has been saying about the core issue in his whole campaign doesn't seem to be rooted in an understanding of either the law, or the practical ways you get something done." she said. "And I will leave it to voters to decide who can do the job that the country needs."

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MIAMI — Dan-el Padilla Peralta's life story is one of hardship and scholarly excellence, as the Dominican-born undocumented young man went from a homeless shelter to Princeton, Oxford, and Columbia. He turned the tale into a memoir, but part of that story — and the focus of a new Spanish-language ad — involves Hillary Clinton and her efforts to get him a visa to return to the United States after studying abroad.

The new ad entitled "Life Requires Risks," which will run in the New York City media market beginning Thursday, features narration from Peralta, who entered the country on a tourist visa when he was 4 years old. "Hillary Clinton fought for an undocumented Dominican kid and helped me get a visa to return," he says.

In an interview with BuzzFeed News as he left the library at Columbia University, where he is finishing a post-doctorate degree before returning to Princeton University to become an assistant professor, Peralta said that Clinton interceded on his behalf on three separate occasions.

When her initial letter to help him regularize his status fell on deaf ears, Peralta took a big risk, leaving the country for the chance to study at Oxford.

Clinton then sent a letter to the U.S. Embassy in London and followed up again months later. Peralta credits that final effort with allowing him to reenter the country.

As the campaign has turned to the suddenly important and delegate-rich New York primary, Clinton has made an effort to remind voters of her time as senator. These reminders began aimed at upstate residents — Clinton famously went on a listening tour of 62 counties as she transitioned from First Lady to a senator.

Now reminding New Yorkers of her work on immigration is part of that effort, too.

When Clinton ran in 2008, she made what was considered a major gaffe on immigration — bumbling an answer and backtracking on driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants. But during her time as senator she also co-sponsored the DREAM Act, supported the 2006 immigration bill, and introduced a bill to give immigrant children access to Medicaid.

Even before Peralta left for Oxford, uncertain if he could return, Bill Clinton spoke to him at his Princeton graduation, who told him that he had heard about his case from Hillary Clinton.

"It meant the world to me to know that that here were these two extremely important politicians who wanted to help me with my immigration predicament," Peralta said. "It wasn't a passing familiarity but they were conversant in the details, and offered to lend their support to me. To this day it's difficult to capture in words."

Trump praised the Japanese economic model just as the Lost Decade was beginning.

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In an interview with the Washington Post on Saturday, Donald Trump predicted a "very massive recession" was coming, adding that "it's a terrible time right now" to invest in the stock market.

It's not the first time Trump has offered up his economic forecast. In the years before his current run for president, the billionaire businessman and reality TV star has frequently cast himself as an expert on the economy, while providing analysis that often turned out to be wildly incorrect.

During this time, Trump at various points predicted imminent economic collapse, even going so far to suggest in 2011 that the price of bread would soon rise to $25. But his optimistic predictions have been wrong, too, such as when he argued in 2005 and 2006, just before the housing crisis, that the real estate market would continue to be strong.

Trump said in 1991, at the beginning of what is known in Japan as the Lost Decade, that the Japanese economic model was "totally brilliant."

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"You look at Japan, the way the've managed their economy, it's totally brilliant," Trump said on Joan Rivers' talk show. "What they've done is totally brilliant."

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“The rules of this new economy, an international economy, will not be the same.”

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Donald Trump, whose promises to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States from China and Mexico have been a cornerstone of his campaign, wrote in his 2011 self-help book that the industrial economy was gone and never coming back.

"Since the market crash that began in 2007, the biggest crash since the Great Depression, many have been waiting for the economy to come back," writes Trump with Robert Kiyosaki, with whom he teamed up with to author Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich — and Why Most Don't. "The economy will come back, but it will not be the same economy. The old economy of the Industrial Age is dying, and a new economy of the Information Age is emerging. The rules of this new economy, an international economy, will not be the same."

"And the old ideas from the Industrial Age — job security for life, pensions, benefits, and labor unions — will not be able to survive in our new Information Age," continues the pair in their co-signed introduction. "Many of today's Fortune 500 businesses that were born in the Industrial Age will fade away. The Fortune 500 companies of tomorrow will emerge from this crisis, led by a new era of entrepreneurialism and a new class of entrepreneurs."

The change is one Trump links, like many historians, to the year 1989 and the commercialization of the Internet.

"The world changed in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall came down and the World Wide Web went up," writes Trump. "Those events signaled the end of the Industrial Age and the beginning of the Information Age. Today, your competition is everywhere. Your competition is in everyone's home, office, and cell phone. The cyber world of "Free" is taking down one-time mega-brands such as TIME magazine, because TIME has no idea how to compete in our new world. On top of that, technology speeds up transaction time. The reason we have 20-year-old billionaires and 50-year-old unemployed, college-educated people is because businesses in the cyber-world can sell to more people faster for lower prices and with fewer employees."

During his presidential campaign, Trump has repeatedly attacks U.S. trade deals for negatively impacting American workers, and has lamented the collapse of domestic manufacturing, saying several times, "We don't make anything anymore."

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WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee on Tuesday will publicly release a breakdown of its hiring and contracting practices that reveal incremental gains in diversity and inclusion over the past five years.

A DNC official said the move is part of a commitment that the DNC's staff reflects the “great variety of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences that make up our party and our country," according a release made available to BuzzFeed News.

In 2015, women made up 48% of DNC employees, according to a memo reviewed by BuzzFeed News; 35.9% were people of color, up from 32.1%. Blacks made up of 18.9% of the party's workforce last year, and 7.7% of employees were Hispanic-American; 8.1% were Asian-American or Pacific Islander; 1.2% were Native American.

"The statistics also reflect that half of the Democratic National Committee’s senior staff members are now female and that two-thirds are persons of color," the memo reads.

The Democrats said diverse suppliers and vendors registered to do business with the DNC had also improved — something that has been a source of scrutiny and contention in the past. The DNC said it has a directory of close to 500 minority-owned businesses. In 2015, nearly a quarter of DNC contracts (25% of the total dollars spent by the DNC) went to such small businesses.

“A commitment to diversity takes more than words on paper,” DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in an email statement to BuzzFeed News. “It takes a concerted effort to expand outreach and engage diverse communities at every level. Democrats fundamentally believe in the American promise that everyone, regardless of who they are or what their last name is, should have a fair shot at the American Dream, and I am proud of the Democratic Party’s diversity goals and achievements."

On Monday, several groups gave the DNC credit for its commitment to increased transparency.

Inclusv, a group started this election cycle that challenged electoral campaigns to release their numbers on diversity and inclusion, applauded the release and its content. In December, Inclusv asked the DNC to release diversity numbers. They met in January, and the DNC agreed to release them to the general public.

"Inclusv applauds this significant and transparent step by the DNC to publish its staff and contracting diversity data," Inclusv co-founder Alida Garcia told BuzzFeed News in a statement. "This sets a great example for state parties to follow to ensure that diversity and inclusion are prioritized across the country to build efforts that are truly reflective of the American electorate."

Kouri Marshall, the executive director of Democratic GAIN, a progressive membership association that facilitates recruitment and training in politics, said the numbers signaled marked improvement but warned that the Democrats work is not done.

“These numbers are a step forward. However, there is still more work to do in terms of diversity especially as it relates specifically to contracting opportunities for minority owned firms and vendors," Marshall told BuzzFeed News in an interview. "On paper commitments to diversity and inclusion only work well when they are followed up by action. We are all hoping to see that action during the 2016 cycle and beyond.”

The DNC named Gregory Hinton, who led the effort behind researching and reporting diversity numbers, to the role of chief diversity officer in 2011. "That role has been responsible for developing a pipeline of talent that is helping the DNC and other Democratic Party committees identify talent across every relevant field in political campaign operations," the memo reads.

"Diversity is the definition of the American experience, and if the Republican Party continues to alienate and divide, it should expect to continue to lose the White House for generations to come," Wasserman Schultz said.

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Ted Cruz likes to tell jokes.

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He's fond of one in particular about Walker, Texas Ranger star Chuck Norris.

The joke follows a very simple construction. Some people, usually children, wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas. And Chuck Norris wears the pajamas of whichever politician Cruz is attempting to flatter at the time.

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Gov. Robert Bentley has admitted making sexual statements to a top aide, but denied having a physical relationship with her.

Gov. Robert Bentley listens to a phone call as Rebekah Mason announces his win for Alabama governor in 2014.

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Alabama lawmakers announced Tuesday they had began an impeachment process against Gov. Robert Bentley amid a sex scandal.

"The articles of impeachment will be presented today on Gov. Bentley," State Rep. Ed Henry, who is leading the effort, told reporters at a news conference.

"We've never tried to impeach a governor before," he said, adding that "the process begins today."

On March 30, Henry announced that he would start the impeachment process against the governor, who admitted last month to making inappropriate and sexual comments to his top aide, Rebekah Mason, but denied having a physical relationship with her. On the same day, Mason resigned from her position as a senior political advisor to Bentley.

The two-term governor was accused by Spencer Collier, the state's former law enforcement secretary, of making sexually charged comments and having an improper relationship with Mason, while he was married to his wife Dianne. Bentley's wife filed for divorced last fall. Collier's accusations came after he was fired about the possible misuse of state funds.

The governor, who apologized for saying "some inappropriate things," has insisted that he did not do anything illegal and has refused to resign. In a statement released Tuesday that condemned the impeachment process.

"There are no grounds for impeachment, and I will vigorously defend myself and my administration from this political attack," he said. "Today's press conference is nothing more than political grandstanding intended to grab headlines and take the focus away from the important issues the Legislature still has to address before the end of the session."

In audio recordings from 2014 released to AL.com, Bentley can be heard talking to a woman about how he liked touching her breasts. Collier also said that Bentley had told him "he was still madly in love with Rebekah Mason."

"We're looking at this governor who has betrayed the trust of the people of Alabama through actions and lies that have caused us to have some doubt about his leadership," Henry said at Tuesday's news conference. "The only course the people of Alabama have to address this issue is through the impeachment process and the process is going to start today."

"We know what was going on in that relationship," Henry said. "It's hard to believe that hasn't clouded his judgement and that he hasn't used his office to cover up those allegations. This calls into question everything the governor does."

Henry said that after introducing the articles of impeachment lawmakers would begin to "dig and investigate ourselves what has been done."

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“I’d like the message to get to the governor that I am on day three of my period.”

On March 24, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed the HEA 1337 bill into effect.

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In response to the law, one anonymous woman started a Facebook page, "Periods for Pence."

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The page notes that some women on their periods may unknowingly expel a fertilized egg and thus have a miscarriage and be potentially liable if the egg is not correctly disposed of.

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In the early 1990s, the New York Post reported that Bruni and Trump were romantically linked.

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On the morning of June 26, 1991, Donald Trump's picture was splashed across the front page of the New York Post. Next to the photo, which featured his then-girlfriend Marla Maples, was the headline "IT'S OVER."

Trump, according to the Post, was leaving Maples for Italian model (and future first lady of France) Carla Bruni. That morning, NBC's Today ran with the report.

"And Donald Trump is reportedly breaking up with Marla Maples, the woman said to have come between him and his wife Ivana," anchor Doreen Gentzler announced. "The New York Post is reporting that she's been ordered out of Trump's luxury high-rise apartment, and that Trump has begun dating an Italian model named Carla Bruni."

Trump confirmed to the Post the next day that Bruni was the "new one" in his life. Bruni, however, vehemently denied she was dating Trump, and according to one biography, Trump himself planted the story for publicity.

The episode illustrates just how personally involved Trump is in managing his own image through the press, a tactic he used to great effect as he rose to prominence in New York and one he continues to use as he runs for president.

"Trump is obviously a lunatic," Bruni said of the story in an interview with the Daily Mail later that year. "It's so untrue and I'm deeply embarrassed by it all. I've only ever met him once, about a year ago, at a big charity party in New York. And I haven't seen him since, of that I'm sure."

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"It's all nonsense," she said of any linking to Trump, saying perhaps it was mistaken identity.

"No doubt there are hundreds of models called Carla," she told the Mail. "Just because I'm well known they may have jumped to conclusions and put the wrong face to the name."

Even Trump agreed when caught by the Mail, saying there was no romance.

"These stories are sheer nonsense," he said, but added: "She is a friend."

However, Bruni, according to Harry Hurt III's Trump biography Lost Tycoon, was no friend to Trump.

"Carla does not, however, consider Donald J. Trump one of the world's 'great men,'" writes Hurt. "After her arrival in New York he tracked her down at the Mayfair Regent hotel and tried to ingratiate himself. Carla mischievously informed Donald that her 'sister' was coming to town. He immediately offered to provide a room at the Plaza Hotel. The visitor was actually one of Carla's longtime female friends, who showed up at the Plaza with a boyfriend in tow. Carla and her friends spent the next few days ordering room service and gloating over the way they fooled the 'King of Tacky.'"

Hurt writes that, after confirming that Bruni was not dating anybody else, he began a rumor that he and Bruni were in a relationship, leading her to confront Trump directly for spreading the rumors.

"'How dare you do this!' she screams at him. 'It's not true!'" Hurt writes.

Evidence of Trump's direct involvement emerged in People, which ran an article suggesting Trump posed as his own PR man in a phone interview with the magazine.

"On June 26, the tabloid New York Post ran a front-page headline announcing that Trump, 45, had dumped his longtime sweetheart, Marla Maples, 27, and taken up with an Italian model named Carla. A curious PEOPLE reporter called Trump's office to ask if the story were true. Five minutes later, a man identifying himself as John Miller called back, said he was handling publicity for Trump and confirmed everything, in detail. Yes, said Miller, it was over with Marla. 'It doesn't matter to [Donald] if Marla talks; he truly doesn't care.' As for that diamond ring Trump bought Marla several weeks ago, 'It was never an engagement ring,' said Miller, who went on to brag about the army of women he said were rabidly chasing The Donald: Madonna was one, he said, Kim Basinger another. 'Important, beautiful women call him all the time,' said Miller. It was a fascinating interview, made all the more fascinating when the reporter realized that the man she was talking to seemed to be...no, it couldn't be...yep, it apparently was: Donald Trump, posing as a fictitious PR man."

The magazine then played the tape for Maples, who identified the voice on the phone as Trump's.

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A campaign spokesperson for Rep. David Jolly, a Republican Senate candidate in Florida, admitted to BuzzFeed News on Tuesday that the campaign has edited Jolly's Wikipedia page to remove unflattering information.

Sarah Bascom, Jolly’s spokesperson, confirmed that the campaign removed references to Jolly’s past career as a lobbyist, his association with the Church of Scientology, his support for same sex marriage, and political contributions he made to Democratic candidates. Bascom accused a unspecified rival campaign of adding what she described as "campaign propaganda" in the first place.

Two edits were made — one on March 15 and one on April 4 — by a user named “Bascomcomm”. Bascom is the president of Bascom Communications & Consulting, a political firm in Florida.

“We were notified a few months ago that a consultant who works for one of our us senate [sic] opponents has been intentionally editing the David Jolly Wikipedia page to follow their opposition research messaging so they can use it in a mail or digital campaign,” Bascom told BuzzFeed News in an email.

“Once we found about it, we went in and attempted to correct his page to be consistent with all of his public bios.”

Each piece of information deleted by the campaign was cited, and some of it has been included in his Wikipedia page for more than a year. After the Jolly campaign deleted the information the first time, on March 15, it was reinstated later in the day by another user. On April 4, the campaign again deleted the information before it was again reinstated.

Asked by BuzzFeed News which Wikipedia users were associated with a rival campaign, Bascom pointed to two users named “CFredkin” and “Champaign Supernova.” Both users have a long history of Wikipedia editing of politicians on both sides of aisle, dating back years. In 2014, “Champaign Supernova” was awarded a Wikipedia “Barnstar Award” for editing the pages of members of Congress. “CFredkin” received a “Barnstar award” as well.

Bascom, asked abut the user's credentials responded, “Yes, we are aware of that. We disagree with his rejection of our edits, and the fact that he is mainly rejecting our edits but not the ones made months ago by someone clearly wanting a public negative narrative against David Jolly. And the other user is who we have been told is tied [to} an opposing campaign.”

User “Champaign Supernova” didn’t respond to a request for comment on their Wikipedia Talk Page about the accusation for the Jolly campaign.

Bascom declined requests to name the rival campaign she is accusing of editing Jolly's Wikipedia page.

“I have been told by numerous people who is behind it, but I can't use that,” she said. “That would be unethical.”

One line removed, read:

Jolly's relationship with the Church of Scientology, which is based inside his congressional district in Clearwater, Florida, has been reported on in the press, including Jolly's attendance at various fundraising events hosted by the organization.

It was replaced by another:

Jolly has filed legislation to provide additional and more permanent flood insurance relief, improve health care and education choices for our veterans, extend the life of ongoing beach renourishment projects for Pinellas County, and provide for investments in transportation and infrastructure, health care research and education. Jolly has also worked to eliminate wasteful government spending and cap the total tax burden on individuals and families.

The campaign also deleted a sentence that said Jolly was pro-life, but linked to an article that reported he had donated to Rep. Allyson Schwartz, a former Democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania who was also an executive at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia.

They also removed all mention of Jolly’s previous career as a lobbyist.

One passage initially read:

In 2007, Jolly began work as a lobbyist with Washington, D.C. firm Van Scoyoc Associates. Eventually, he opened his own firm, Three Bridges Advisors in 2011, and contributed political donations to both Republicans and Democrats during his time as a lobbyist. Jolly officially had his name removed from the Lobby Registry to run for the vacant House seat.

But was replaced with:

Before his successful bid to represent Florida’s 13th Congressional District, Jolly served as a vice president of a Clearwater-based specialty finance firm, as well as chief executive officer of a Pinellas County professional services company supporting life-cycle philanthropy of non-profits and individuals. Prior to that, Jolly created and owned multiple businesses, including a communications firm, a law firm and a consulting firm.

Mention of his divorce and support for same-sex marriage were also removed.

Additionally, the campaign made small, cosmetic edits. One edit changed a subhead from “Committee on Appropriations,” to “House Committee on Appropriations.” Another altered “75%” to “75 percent”, and lowercased the title “General Counsel”.

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MILWAUKEE — Ted Cruz declared his victory in Wisconsin a turning point in the race on Tuesday.

Both Donald Trump and Cruz kept a busy slate of events in the days leading up to the primary, and Cruz deployed a fleet of endorsers who did events on their own with his wife, Heidi. Trump, appearing to sense the need to put in extra work in a state where he was behind, even reportedly skipped his grandson’s bris to continue campaigning here after spending a full week off the campaign trail before that.

Cruz’s win here will hand him the lion’s share of Wisconsin’s 42 delegates and further dent Trump’s winning image. But the high could be short-lived. The next primary is in New York, Trump’s home state, where he is expected to dominate and which yields 95 delegates. Cruz slowed Trump, and made a contested convention more likely, but he didn’t stop him.

After the race was called, Cruz spoke to a couple hundred supporters gathered inside the American Serb Hall here (a venue that makes a cameo in Hunter S. Thompson’s account of the 1972 election as the site of a George Wallace speech).

Cruz used the opportunity to try and mark Wisconsin as the beginning of the end of Trump and redefine himself as a broadly appealing general election candidate.

“Tonight is a turning point,” Cruz said. “It is a rallying cry."

Cruz emphasized that the “full spectrum” of the Republican Party is uniting behind him, citing establishment endorsers like Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham, and made an appeal to women, drawing a contrast with Trump, who is broadly unpopular among women: “Strong women can accomplish anything in the United States of America,” Cruz said, citing his mother and wife.

“Hillary, get ready, here we come,” Cruz finished.

Cruz benefited, as he has throughout the primary, from a disciplined organization and key endorsements, including Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, who ended his own presidential bid relatively early on in the process. And Trump stumbled badly over the past week, changing his position on abortion five times in three days and giving embarrassingly uninformed interviews, all coming on the heels of his campaign manager being charged with simple battery in Florida. The anti-Trump movement was more coordinated than ever before in Wisconsin, with forces like Our Principles PAC spending $2 million on advertising and making 1 million voter contacts, the PAC said in an email sent to reporters.

Cruz dealt with his own obstacles in the days leading up to the primary, including the continued presence of John Kasich, whom Cruz plainly views as an irritant blocking his path to a solo fight against Trump. Before March 15, Kasich wasn’t much on Cruz’s radar. But the Cruz team has increasingly turned its firepower on Kasich, running ads and putting out mailers to try to get him out of the way.

“I’m assuming he’s auditioning to be Donald Trump’s vice president,” Cruz communications adviser Jason Miller told reporters at Cruz’s election night party in Milwaukee. “I’m sure Dennis Rodman and Omarosa and Gary Busey are gonna be real distressed to learn they have competition. That’s really all that it can be. A rational person can’t look at the John Kasich candidacy and have any understanding of why he’s continuing in this race unless he’s trying to help Donald Trump.”

The specter of a possible contested convention is looming larger and larger over the primary. Cruz increasingly acknowledges that his path to the nomination may involve a convention floor battle if no one reaches 1,237 delegates by the end of the voting process.

Pressed on whether the campaign now acknowledges that as the more likely scenario, Miller hedged, saying, “We’re trying to win the nomination, you can do that two ways,” and “There are a number of scenarios by which we can get to 1237.”

During his speech, Cruz said, “I am more and more convinced that our campaign is going to earn the 1,237 delegates" necessary for the nomination, but added that it would be "either before Cleveland or at the convention in Cleveland."

The race will now turn east to New York, and then states like Connecticut and Delaware that are not natural territory for Cruz. He is campaigning on Wednesday in the Bronx and the day after in upstate New York.

Walker also compared Trump attacking him to someone attacking Brett Favre at Lambeau Field.

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday morning celebrated Donald Trump's defeat in his state's primary and blasted the national media for giving Trump soft coverage in pursuit of ratings.

Walker had endorsed Ted Cruz, who won Wisconsin's primary on Tuesday.

"It's a great day for Wisconsin, it's a great day for America," said Walker on WTMJ's Charlie Sykes Show. Walker credited Sykes, who confronted Trump in a hostile interview last week, with not selling out like national media outlets in exchange for access to Trump.

"Well, again I give all credit to the voters to begin with, but I think a number of different things," said Walker. "I certainly think some time, I think you in particularly, you leading the other talk radio hosts across the state had a significant, significant impact in terms of just running counter to what we see nationally where the national media can't help fall over themselves, mainly because, I think they're so worried about access to drive up what they perceive as big ratings. You and others following along with you were actually interested in getting information out to voters, the real facts and understanding that this wasn't about ratings, this was ultimately about the future of our state and of our country."

Walker said that Trump attacking him in Wisconsin was akin to him attacking Aaron Rogers or Brett Farve at Lambeau field.

"What I thought about in Green Bay a couple times this week, it would have been like coming into Lambeau Field and taking a whack not only at Aaron Rogers but it would be like taking a whack — even though he's been gone for a while — at someone like Brett Favre," Walker said.

"That would have been like having somebody coming in and not getting it and somehow attacking Brett Favre in Lambeau Field in Green Bay."

Rep. David Jolly’s Senate campaign also accused a Wikipedia user of adding “propaganda” to the page on behalf of a rival campaign. That user told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday that such accusations were absurd.

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Republican Rep. David Jolly, who is running for Senate in Florida, said Wednesday it was a mistake for his campaign to have edited his Wikipedia page to remove unflattering information.

"It was a careless staff mistake that I first learned about from the Times," Jolly told the Tampa Bay Times. "I stand by my full record, relationships, and life experience, and believe every day that voters and the community are best served by having as much information as possible, regardless of whether it comes from critics or supporters."

A spokesperson for Jolly, Sarah Bascom, confirmed to BuzzFeed News on Tuesday that the campaign removed references to Jolly's past career as a lobbyist, his association with the Church of Scientology, his support for same sex marriage, and political contributions he made to Democratic candidates.

Bascom had accused a unspecified rival campaign of adding what she described as "campaign propaganda" in to the Wikipedia page, singling out a longtime Wikipedia editor named "Champaign Supernova" as working for the rival campaign.

"Champaign Supernova" told BuzzFeed News that the charge was absurd, and noted as BuzzFeed News did, that much of the information deleted by the campaign was cited, and some of it had been included in his Wikipedia page for more than a year.

"Oy vey," user "Champaign Supernova told BuzzFeed News in a comment on the user's Talk Page. "It's an absurd allegation. I made my first edit to the David Jolly page on February 29, 2016. I made some minor copy-edits, added sources for information already in the article, and added a section on his 2016 re-election bid."

"I didn't remove any information or add any 'propaganda' (whatever that means). The Scientology stuff and the other information his campaign attempted to scrub has been in the article for months and in some cases for years," the user continued. "None of it was added by me, or by the other user, CFredkin, who the campaign has accused. It looks to me like a political campaign got caught red-handed trying to scrub a page, and they are now engaging in some sort of conspiracy theory to try to take attention off of their blunder. I'm not interested in engaging with it, and this is the last I'll say on the matter."

Bascom's Wikipedia account has received three warnings to no longer edit Jolly's page.

LINK: Florida Senate Campaign Admits To Scrubbing Candidate’s Wikipedia Page

“LOLZ. ROFL. LMAO” —Hillary Clinton

Bernie Sanders may have scored a win in Wisconsin's primary on Tuesday, but he still trails Hillary Clinton in the delegate count, even after winning seven of the last eight contests.

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On Wednesday, CNN's Chris Cuomo asked Clinton about the comments...and she literally LOL'd for a good five seconds.

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The attack came hours after Clinton said Sanders should have “done his homework” before conducting a recent newspaper interview.

In his strongest attack yet against his Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders said on Wednesday that Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be president.

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"She has been saying lately that she thinks I am quote-unquote 'unqualified' to be president. Well, let me just say in response to Secretary Clinton, I don't believe that she is qualified if she is through her super PAC taking tens of million of dollars in special-interest funds. I don't think that you are qualified if you get $15 million from Wall Street through your super PAC. I don't think you are qualified if you have voted for the disastrous war in Iraq. I don't think you are qualified if you have supported virtually every disastrous trade agreement that has cost us millions of decent-paying jobs. I don't think you are qualified if you supported the Panama Free Trade Agreement, something I very strongly opposed and which all of you know has allowed corporations and wealthy people all over the world to avoid paying their taxes to their countries.

This campaign is gaining momentum because we are listening to the American people, not wealthy campaign contributors."

Sanders appeared to be referencing an interview from earlier in the day on MSNBC's Morning Joe where Clinton was asked three times if she thought Sanders was qualified to be president. She said voters would have to make that decision.

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Host Joe Scarborough asked the questions in light of a recent interview Sanders conducted with the New York Daily News where the candidate was pressed on how he would break up big banks, a frequent promise of his campaign. The newspaper asked Sanders if he believed the Federal Reserve already has the authority to take action.

"Well, I don't know if the Fed has it. But I think the administration can have it," Sanders replied.

Scarborough asked if Clinton thought Sanders was ready and qualified to be president.

Clinton said it seemed that Sanders hadn't "done his homework," which raised questions.

"What he has been saying about the core issue in his whole campaign doesn't seem to be rooted in an understanding of either the law, or the practical ways you get something done." she said. "And I will leave it to voters to decide who can do the job that the country needs."

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MIAMI — Dan-el Padilla Peralta's life story is one of hardship and scholarly excellence, as the Dominican-born undocumented young man went from a homeless shelter to Princeton, Oxford, and Columbia. He turned the tale into a memoir, but part of that story — and the focus of a new Spanish-language ad — involves Hillary Clinton and her efforts to get him a visa to return to the United States after studying abroad.

The new ad entitled "Life Requires Risks," which will run in the New York City media market beginning Thursday, features narration from Peralta, who entered the country on a tourist visa when he was 4 years old. "Hillary Clinton fought for an undocumented Dominican kid and helped me get a visa to return," he says.

In an interview with BuzzFeed News as he left the library at Columbia University, where he is finishing a post-doctorate degree before returning to Princeton University to become an assistant professor, Peralta said that Clinton interceded on his behalf on three separate occasions.

When her initial letter to help him regularize his status fell on deaf ears, Peralta took a big risk, leaving the country for the chance to study at Oxford.

Clinton then sent a letter to the U.S. Embassy in London and followed up again months later. Peralta credits that final effort with allowing him to reenter the country.

As the campaign has turned to the suddenly important and delegate-rich New York primary, Clinton has made an effort to remind voters of her time as senator. These reminders began aimed at upstate residents — Clinton famously went on a listening tour of 62 counties as she transitioned from First Lady to a senator.

Now reminding New Yorkers of her work on immigration is part of that effort, too.

When Clinton ran in 2008, she made what was considered a major gaffe on immigration — bumbling an answer and backtracking on driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants. But during her time as senator she also co-sponsored the DREAM Act, supported the 2006 immigration bill, and introduced a bill to give immigrant children access to Medicaid.

Even before Peralta left for Oxford, uncertain if he could return, Bill Clinton spoke to him at his Princeton graduation, who told him that he had heard about his case from Hillary Clinton.

"It meant the world to me to know that that here were these two extremely important politicians who wanted to help me with my immigration predicament," Peralta said. "It wasn't a passing familiarity but they were conversant in the details, and offered to lend their support to me. To this day it's difficult to capture in words."

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Thursday stated unambiguously that Puerto Rico's ban on same-sex couples' marriages is unconstitutional, throwing a federal judge off a case after the judge had ruled in March that the ban was still in effect.

"The district court's ruling errs in so many respects that it is hard to know where to begin," the unsigned opinion from the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals stated in harshly criticizing U.S. District Court Judge Juan Pérez-Giménez' actions in the case.

Pérez-Giménez had ruled in favor of the ban in October 2014, but the 1st Circuit sent the case back to the trial court after the Supreme Court's June 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges striking down marriage bans nationwide. The appeals court ordered Pérez-Giménez to "further consider" the matter "in light of Obergefell," adding that the appeals court judges "agree with the parties ... that the ban is unconstitutional."

Nonetheless, in March, Pérez-Giménez upheld the ban for a second time, ruling that the Supreme Court's ruling does not apply to a territory like Puerto Rico.

The appeals court disagreed strongly, stating, "In ruling that the ban is not unconstitutional because the applicable constitutional right does not apply in Puerto Rico, the district court both misconstrued that right and directly contradicted our mandate."

The appeals court granted the request from the parties challenging the ban that the appeals court issue an order "requiring the district court to enter judgment in their favor striking down the ban as unconstitutional."

The appeals court also took the extraordinary step of kicking Pérez-Giménez off the case, ordering that the case "be assigned randomly by the clerk to a different judge to enter judgment in favor of the Petitioners promptly."

The matter was before 1st Circuit Judges Juan Torruella, Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson, and William Joseph Kayatta Jr. The opinion, however, was issued "per curiam," meaning, "by the court" — as in, it was not signed by any of the judges in particular.

Puerto Rico officials have agreed with the parties challenging the ban that Puerto Rico's ban is unconstitutional since the Obergefell decision.

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