Today, Ryan himself described Trump's remarks about Curiel as "out of left field," saying he "completely disagreed with the thinking" behind it. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley went further, saying Trump-style brand of rhetoric could lead to tragedy. And Mitch McConnell spoke...very carefully. "Donald Trump is certainly a different kind of candidate," he said. (This is true.) Everyone seemed to be waiting for the storm to pass.

Then this happened:

"In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper that aired on Friday, Trump doubled down on his racially charged accusations against U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is handling two class-action lawsuits against Trump University in San Diego," reported Sean Sullivan and Jenna Johnson. "Curiel was born in Indiana but his parents are from Mexico, which Trump has repeatedly said keeps Curiel from rendering unbiased decisions.

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Here's what that sounded like:

Tapper: "If you are saying: He can't do his job because of his race, is that not the definition of racism?" Trump: "No. I don't think so at all." Tapper: "No?" Trump: "No, he's proud of his heritage. I respect him for that." Tapper: "But you're saying he can't do his job because of it," Tapper said. Trump: "Look, he's proud of his heritage, okay? I'm building a wall. Now, I think I'm going to do very well with Hispanics." Tapper: "He's a legal citizen." Trump: "But we're building a wall. He's a Mexican. We're building a wall between here and Mexico."

If that answer made any campaign staffers happy, they are probably not campaign staffers who work for Donald Trump.

Trump's Friday still wasn't over. "Later in the day at a campaign rally in an airplane hangar in northern California, Trump commented on the 'thugs' who protested at his rally the night before in San Jose, attacking several of his supporters, and began to fondly tell the story of an African-American supporter who punched a protester. He then paused mid-sentence to single out a black man in the audience before him.

"'Oh, look at my African American over here -- look at him,' Trump said as he pointed. 'Are you the greatest? Do you know what I'm talking about?'"

Elsewhere in California, Clinton was defending Judge Curiel:

In other words: it was a Friday. But what does it all mean?

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It means that right now, it's Trump's campaign, says Karen Tumulty. Everyone else just lives in it.

"There are reasons to be skeptical that the wall on the border would ever be built. Putting a ban on Muslims entering the country seems neither practical nor constitutional. But Donald Trump has finally made one three-word campaign promise that voters may be able to count on.

"'I’m not changing,' he declared this week.

"Indeed, it is the rest of the political world that is having to adjust. If recent days are any indication, the remaining five months of this presidential campaign are likely to be fought entirely on Trump’s terms. ..."

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THE VIEW FROM THE FIELD:

If you missed last evening's chaos in San Jose, where anti-Trump protests descended into chaos with attacks on some Trump supporters, you can catch some of it above. Today, Trump said "thugs" were to blame. Clinton said some of the blame belonged with Trump. And some Democrats, reported Sean Sullivan and Jose DelReal, said they worried that no matter where the fault lay, those incidents could wind up functioning as a sort of in-kind contribution to Trump:

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"Democrats and Hispanic activists said Friday that they are increasingly alarmed by a spate of violence at Donald Trump rallies instigated by anti-Trump protesters, fearing that the incidents — widely viewed on television and social media — will only help the GOP candidate and undermine their attempts to defeat him.

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"The latest flashpoint came Thursday in downtown San Jose, Calif., where a demonstration outside a Trump campaign rally quickly escalated out of control. Several protesters assaulted Trump supporters, ripped pro-Trump signs away from them and stomped on vehicles in the area. A flurry of video clips circulating Friday morning showed bystanders who sustained bloody injuries.

"The chaotic scene was part of a long-running trend of violence at Trump rallies, where uncomfortable ethnic tensions have taken center stage in response to the candidate’s proposals to deport illegal immigrants en masse and temporarily ban foreign Muslims from the country. But unlike several violent eruptions earlier this spring, when the attacks were mostly carried out by Trump supporters against protesters, young anti-Trump protesters have been the assailants at several recent events. ..."

Donald Trump has one thing that Hillary Clinton does not — presumptive nominee status. But the list of things her campaign currently possesses while his does not (or at least, doesn't yet) is a much, much longer one. One of those things is a fully-fledged communications staff handling rapid response. Right now, Trump rapid response looks like this:

That, for several reasons, is not what rapid response usually looks like. This is:

On the other side of that link: a line-by-line rundown of all the positions Clinton had attributed to Trump, cross-referenced with the exact quotes from Trump himself. By late afternoon, that rapid response had been retweeted more than the mogul's original attack.

(We don't know if a full-fledged, in-house rapid response team could also help prevent Trump from retweeting infographics like these. But it couldn't hurt.)

The good news for Bernie Sanders seems to come with asterisks already appended. For example: there are signs that he may have finally figured out how to appeal to non-white voters (and just maybe have reached terrain where non-white voters are more sympathetic to his message.) That's good news for the Vermont senator. It might be slightly better news if there was more than a week and a half left in the Democratic primary season.

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"Sanders is in striking range of a victory in the nation’s largest state thanks to an early decision to play here and a long campaign to convert nonwhite voters that has taken root here in ways that it didn’t in other states that front-runner Hillary Clinton won," reports Dave Weigel from California. "The principal reason? Young Latinos and Asian Americans, who have registered in huge numbers here in part to oppose Donald Trump, and who seem to be coalescing around Sanders.

"It may be too late for Sanders. He could win California Tuesday and still effectively lose the nomination the same day, when five other states will also hold primaries. And the campaign worries that Clinton’s virtually insurmountable delegate lead could lead television networks to call the race early and depress late-in-the-day turnout on the west coast.

"But in the Sanders stump speech, and in his interactions with voters, there are clues to how he broke through with non-white votes. Immigration is now an issue of morality and workers’ dignity; gone are the days when, in sync with some labor leaders, he said that only people like David and Charles Koch wanted 'open borders.'"

(We're old enough to remember what that labor-oriented Sanders immigration message sounded like. Then again, so is anyone old enough to read this story — here's what his immigration position sounded like last year:

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"There is a reason why Wall Street and all of corporate America likes immigration reform, and it is not, in my view, that they’re staying up nights worrying about undocumented workers in this country," Sanders told the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce last summer. "...I frankly do not believe that we should be bringing in significant numbers of unskilled to workers to compete with [unemployed] kids. I want to see these kids get jobs.")

His concerns of last summer may still be a part of his policy agenda, but they're necessarily part of his stump speech. "At a Thursday rally in Modesto, Sanders promised to legalize workers by executive order if Congress did not pass 'comprehensive' reform," reported Weigel.

"'Today, there are 11 million undocumented people in this country, and when you are a worker, and when you are undocumented, you get cheated and you get exploited every single day,' he said. 'What your employer can do to you if you are an undocumented worker is a disgrace.'"

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That message is resonating. "...In the first six months of 2016, 1.8 million new California voters were registered. Latino registration was up 123 percent compared to the same period in 2012. The rise of Donald Trump propelled that increase, but Sanders seemed to reap the benefits."

—Six years ago, Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) was a Tea Party darling. Now she's a target. "If Ellmers loses Tuesday’s primary, it will be at least partially because of the very same forces that elevated her to office to begin with," reports Catherine Ho.

"When she ran six years ago, Ellmers joined the bus tour hosted by the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity that traveled the country railing against President Obama’s health care law. She later spoke at rallies hosted or co-sponsored by the group and promoted AFP events. In 2010, she even nabbed an endorsement from Sarah Palin.

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"Now, AFP is one of the main players in the costly crusade to oust Ellmers in the group’s premier foray to defeat an incumbent in a Republican race." Here's a closer look at how AFP works to get out the vote. And here's an attack ad from the group that calls the North Carolina congresswoman "part of the Washington problem."

—This week, President Obama used a commencement address to go after Donald Trump. Today, Michelle Obama did the same: "Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out..."

—Good news/bad news for Clinton in California too: She was officially endorsed by the Los Angeles Times — but some Clinton supporters say they're concerned about one election metric: "Mail-in ballots, which have accounted for more than half of all ballots cast in recent elections in the state, may favor Clinton because they are often requested by the kind of older and reliably Democratic voters who have been her strongest supporters this year. But a large number of ballots that were requested have not been returned, leading to worry among Clinton backers that voters have disengaged."

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—So as of right now, it appears someone connected to Donald Trump's campaign may not want journalists reporting on his public events; Bernie Sanders definitely does not want journalists asking questions he doesn't like; and Hillary Clinton would apparently prefer not to face any questions at all from most of the journalists who cover her. Look, we get why politicians might not like reporters; actually, it's usually a good sign if they don't. And it's fine by us! Living in a free country means candidates are free to loathe journalists with the white hot fiery hatred of a thousand suns. But it also means journalists get to attend the same public events as everyone else and ask whatever inconvenient questions they want, no matter how unlikable we may be. (It really does! We looked it up.)

—Speaking of inconvenient reporter questions: Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has questions about that Iran exchange between a State Department spokesperson and a reporter that went missing from the official video record after a 2013 briefing.

—The relationship status of Hillary Clinton and mentor Marian Wright Edelman: It's complicated, reports Frances Stead Sellers. "Hillary Clinton’s trouble with the Democratic base reaches back to the moment her longtime mentor, Marian Wright Edelman, blasted Clinton’s husband for cutting a deal with Republicans ahead of his 1996 reelection and signing a welfare overhaul law that she said 'makes a mockery of his pledge not to hurt children' ...Today, many who have followed the strained political history between these two leading women of the left are perplexed about where they stand with one another.

"...The relationship between Clinton and Edelman underscores one of the central challenges facing the Democratic candidate as she shapes her general-election strategy: how to deal with the complicated politics surrounding her husband’s economic record."

—Today, Mitch McConnell called Trump's attacks on New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez "unfortunate and unnecessary" — and Martinez's office said she hoped to speak with Trump (who has since said he would like her endorsement) soon.

—Dick Morris is now a political commentator for the National Enquirer.