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From: The Lid <email@mail.nbcnews.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:06 AM
Subject: The Lid: The Lord of the Ring
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Forward this email to a friend April 27, 2016 Tune in to Meet the Press with Chuck Todd, Sundays on NBC News Welcome to The Lid, your afternoon dose of the 2016 ethos… In an attempt to make an analogy to the plot of the movie "Hoosiers," Ted Cruz referred to a basketball hoop as a "basketball ring" yesterday. The good news is that his move to preemptively select a presidential running mate is being reviewed as a real "blast-dunk!" Why Ted Cruz Just Named Carly Fiorina His VP Wed, 27 Apr 2016 21:52:56 GMT From NBC's Carrie Dann and Andrew Rafferty Well, this was hardly a sleepy post-primary day! But here's a little bit of #realtalk about Ted Cruz's unusual (but not unprecedented!) move to pick Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential running mate when he's trailing badly in the delegate count. On the plus side, Cruz was at least partially able to shake up a bad news cycle by teasing and then confirming the announcement. The pick of a woman who's never held elected office and has a good record of fiery debates gives him a high-value surrogate who is eager to fight a two-front war against Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. And Fiorina is the kind of candidate who's gotten under Trump's skin before and could conceivably provoke a damaging reaction from the GOP frontrunner. But plenty of critics are deriding the move as desperate, presumptuous and calculating - themes that Donald Trump is sure to repeat for the rest of the week. And being perceived as desperate is a tough place for Cruz to be with a must-win contest in Indiana just days away. (By the way, the precedent we mentioned earlier is none other than Ronald Reagan, who announced Sen. Richard Schweiker as his running mate heading into the open convention in 1976. The difference then: The primary voting was over and a contested convention was assured.) (h/t Ari Melber for the history lesson!)  Click for more. Latest Stories Ted Cruz Names Carly Fiorina as Running Mate Fiorina endorsed Cruz in March and has been a frequent presence with the candidate on the campaign trail ever since.  Click for more. Sanders to Lay Off Staff After Tuesday Primary Losses "It's a posture of reality," said a Sanders spokesman.  Click for more. Trump Wins Big Among Pennsylvania's Unbound Delegates Donald Trump dominated the fight for the state's 54 unbound delegates to the GOP convention -- making his path to the nomination much easier.  Click for more. For the Record "Carly may become the first vice president in history to have a very impressive fluency with heart and smiley face emoticons." - Ted Cruz, on naming Carly Fiorina as his VP Tomorrow's Sked Donald Trump campaigns in Indiana and California. John Kasich is in Oregon. More News Five Charts That Explain Tuesday's Primaries Analysis: Do Trump, Clinton Have Clear Paths to Nominations? Bernie Got Game: Sanders Shoots Hoops With NBC's Chris Jansing Trump Takes Aim at Obama in Foreign Policy Speech You_��re receiving The Lid from NBC News Politics. Share this with your family and friends and keep them up to date. Share now Follow Us   Privacy  | NBC NEWS, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112