The 'Women's Card'? We Measured, and It's Not Worth Much New York Times

Donald Trump talks like the women's card bestows a heavy benefit on the woman politician running under it. The Upshot reminds us that being a woman running for office is actually a negative in America. The United States has such an aversion to electing women to political office that our country ranks 90th in the world, based on this NYT analysis Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments, 2006-2015.

Led by Rwanda at 57.1 and Sweden at 45.5, the US at 17.5 is sandwiched between Greece and Bangladesh and is the lowest female representation of any other rich country. This is one of the reasons why the cavalier attitude of America's millennial women on electing women is such a major source of concern.

Insiders Say Hillary Will Crush Trump

Insiders: Clinton would crush Trump Politico

"In the swing states that matter most in the presidential race, Donald Trump doesn’t have a prayer against Hillary Clinton in the general election.

That’s according to top operatives, strategists and activists in 10 battleground states who participated in this week’s POLITICO Caucus. Nearly 90 percent of them said Clinton would defeat Trump in their home states in a November match-up.

Republicans are only slightly more bullish on Trump’s prospects than Democrats: More than three-quarters of GOP insiders expect Clinton to best the Republican front-runner in a general-election contest in their respective states. Among Democrats, the belief is nearly universal: 99 percent of surveyed said will Clinton will beat Trump.

In three of the biggest swing states—Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida—Republicans were particularly downbeat about the prospect of a Trump-Clinton contest.

“There is positively no way for Trump to win in Pennsylvania,” said a Republican from that state.

“Trump cannot and will not carry Ohio,” a Republican from that state insisted. “He will do well in Appalachia and in the Mahoning Valley but he will get killed in the rest of the state. The danger for the GOP is losing Rob Portman which is a very real possibility under this match-up.”

Racism Is Real. Trump Helps Show It by Jenee Desmond-Harris New York Times

In a world where racism and discrimination — both personal and systemic — shape opportunities and can even determine life or death, but are often denied, they’re rarely owned so boldly as they have been during this campaign.

As Professor Jiménez put it, “Trump and his supporters have turned the racial dog whistle into an air horn.”

The air horn is so piercingly loud that few can pretend they don’t hear it, or understand what it represents about the country.

At a March rally for Mr. Trump in Louisville, Shiya Nwanguma, a student, says she was called the n-word and other repulsive slurs. Video of the event shows her being pushed and shoved. Another protester there, Chanelle Helm, told Vibe magazine in March: “In my entire life I had never had anyone look at me with such hate. It was like the videos and photos we’ve seen from the Little Rock 9 and other school integration moments from the 1950s and ’60s where the fury was palpable in the eyes of the white women.”