This afternoon, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton gave roughly simultaneous speeches roughly five minutes (and a thousand light years) away from one another; Trump took the stage at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to the Majority Summit as Clinton addressed Planned Parenthood Action a few blocks further up Connecticut Avenue.

The most important news out of Donald Trump's speech may be the fact that....there was very little actual news in Donald Trump's speech. Teleprompter Trump was in full effect. When Code Pink interrupted his remarks, he didn't say a word until security had escorted them out. (If you have ever seen a Trump rally, you may have trouble believing this, so we have included the clip below.)

This wasn't a one-off — the past four days have been relatively free of fresh controversy, beyond Trump's occasional efforts to defend and reframe past lightning-rod remarks. (Relatively free. See below.) Of course, much of that time was also spent in private meetings and events, in a week where his main audience was top GOP donors and party officials. That break is about to end.

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And so, "as Donald Trump prepares to campaign in at least half a dozen battleground states over eight days, the biggest question is: Which Trump will show up?" asks Sean Sullivan.

"Many leading Republicans are hopeful that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee who delivered two scripted speeches this week will reveal himself more often on the campaign trail. But there are already signs that the rabble-rousing Trump — who was embroiled in a racial controversy for nearly two weeks after attacking a Latino judge — could resurface.

"After spending the past few weeks off the campaign trail or in noncompetitive states such as blue California and red North Dakota, Trump will venture into swing states for a series of rallies and fundraisers beginning Friday night in Richmond. His travels will take him to Florida, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Nevada. Trump will also go to two potentially competitive states that lean Republican: Georgia and Arizona; as well as safely Republican Texas.

"...Trump campaign officials told House Republican backers this week that the operation is moving strategically into general election mode and plans to alter its tone and focus criticism on Clinton." The first test of that plan came tonight in Richmond, as Trump held his first rally in several days.

Republican flacks are praying he passes.

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"Katie Walsh, the Republican National Committee’s chief of staff, was just a few hours from meeting with Donald Trump’s new political director this week when the television outside her office blared the latest news breaking out of the Trump orbit. 'Christie defends Trump: He’s not a racist,' the CNN headline declared."

"The scene illustrates the tricky task facing the party, which is serving as the main engine behind Trump’s presidential bid: How do you a run a disciplined campaign for a candidate who is anything but?" asked Matea Gold.

"'He’s the nominee, and he’s going to make sure his views are known,' Walsh said carefully during an interview. 'He’s made that pretty clear. We will leave it to Mr. Trump to speak for Mr. Trump...and we will keep hitting Hillary and raising money to be ready for November.'

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"Trump’s failure to build a truly national campaign has left it to the GOP to run one on his behalf, while also trying to extinguish the regular political brush fires set off by the unpredictable candidate. The arrangement has intensified the burden on the Republican National Committee, forcing it to absorb core campaign tasks and testing whether it has improved the field and data capabilities that it fell short on in 2012."

The RNC has more than double the 170 field staffers it had on the ground in June 2012, "with the largest contingents in Florida (59), Wisconsin (49), Pennsylvania (54) and Ohio (53) — but "that remains short of what the RNC had promised state parties if a nominee had been selected back in March, worrying local officials who had hoped for a bigger ground force by now...."

Those foot-soldiers are especially critical this year, thanks to one oft-referenced indicator of Trump's dependence on the party: The Trump campaign currently has 70 employees. Hillary Clinton's has 732.

"Party officials have been making the case that the campaign needs to expand its footprint, but persuading Trump has been a slow process. The candidate scrutinizes proposed budgets, sending them back with skeptical queries, according to people familiar with the discussions. His main argument: I spent only $56 million in the primary and I beat 16 opponents — why do I need all this?

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"'It’s not so much, We don’t trust you; it’s, Help me understand why I need this,' Walsh said of the campaign’s reaction. 'There’s a dialogue that maybe wouldn’t exist with a more traditional candidate that had used more traditional methods in his primary campaign.'"

The wild card is the power of Trump enthusiasm. "This week, the campaign emailed supporters urging them to take part in a national day of action that the RNC is holding Saturday to register new voters. Before the Trump appeal went out, several hundred volunteers in Virginia had committed to attend. By Thursday morning, that number had soared to 1,000."

(Above: Trump, using his nickname for Elizabeth Warren)

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Trump didn't launch any fresh controversy this week. But some favorite lines are making for uncomfortable moments on Capitol Hill.

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Like, say, this one: "It was a bad time for Sen. Cory Gardner to be caught in an elevator with a reporter. Donald Trump had just referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts as 'Pocahontas' — again — and the Republican freshman from Colorado was struggling to figure out how to respond.

"'I think people need to be treated with respect, and that’s what we’ve demanded from everyone,' he offered.

"But was it racist?

"Gardner clammed up. He politely referred further questions to his press secretary.

"So it went for Republicans on Capitol Hill on Friday, forced to contend with yet another provocative comment by their presumptive presidential nominee — clambering for safety as Trump launched another boundary-pushing attack."

(A Trump aide draws a crowd response to the nickname in Richmond. Trump used it repeatedly at tonight's rally.)

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There have been complaints before about Trump's use of the name to refer to Warren, who has drawn special ire this week as her attacks on the billionaire ramp up. The mogul was asked today whether he had any regrets. He said he did not. He also told Marc Fisher that he was "the least racist person you've ever encountered."

Related: Adventures in domain parking...

The most important moment of Clinton's day may have been behind closed doors, at her home in Washington: she met for an hour this morning with Elizabeth Warren, the day after the Massachusetts senator told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that she considered herself qualified to be on a presidential ticket.

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"The women have had several conversations over the past month, including one that lasted around half an hour, sources told The Washington Post," reported James Hohmann. "The conversations were broad and focused on large topics and issues, rather than the nitty-gritty of the campaign. Their staffs have been engaged in more tactical discussions."

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The idea of a Clinton-Warren ticket thrills some Democrats. It makes others very nervous. But all that may be irrelevant, says Chris Cillizza, because it's still unlikely to happen. First, for chemistry reasons: Clinton and Warren aren't close. And one reason her endorsement yesterday was such a big deal was because she was the only Democratic woman in the Senate who hadn't backed Clinton long ago. Second, because adding Warren would solve a problem — bringing the liberal base on board — that Clinton doesn't actually have (at least, not ahead of Philadelphia):

"In the May Washington Post-ABC News poll, almost 8 in 10 (77 percent) of self-identified Democrats had a favorable opinion of Clinton. Forty-four percent of that group felt strongly favorable. Her numbers among "liberal" Democrats were much the same; 79 percent favorable with 48 percent of that bloc strongly favorable. Clinton's numbers were better than Sanders's in that poll. Seventy percent of Democrats had a favorable opinion of him; 67 percent of liberals felt the same.

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"...Given the roller-coaster relationship between Clinton and Warren, the sole reason that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee puts the Massachusetts senator on the ticket is to solve a problem on her left. A problem that doesn't exist — and seems unlikely to develop unless the end of Sanders's campaign turns into a disaster that unsettles large numbers of his liberal supporters."

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Clinton used her remarks to Planned Parenthood supporters today to hit Trump on women's issues ("...we have to ask ourselves and ask everyone we come in contact with: Do we want to put our health, our lives, our futures in Donald Trump’s hands?")

The presidential campaign was in D.C. today. Bernie Sanders was not. The Vermont senator, who headed back to his home state after his D.C. rally last night, has no further campaign events on the schedule just yet, heading into Tuesday's primary vote. (The campaign sent supporters in D.C. a message Friday afternoon telling them they needed to keep working hard for votes and delegates for Sanders "to show the strength of our grassroots movement" — not send him to the White House.)

The next big event on the senator's schedule will happen away from the cameras: he has summoned a few dozen top supporters to Burlington, Vt. for a Sunday night gathering.

"He’s bringing in some of his key supporters from around the country to get their input and advice and talk about how to move forward," Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs told John Wagner.

Here's another thing he told CNN: "I don't want to see trickle-down racism. I don't want to see a president of the United States saying things which change the character of the generations of Americans that are following... Presidents have an impact on the nature of our nation, and trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America."

The third party dream still lives for Romney — although he tried to steer the spotlight elsewhere. "If Bill Weld were at the top of the ticket, it would be very easy for me to vote for Bill Weld for president," he said. "So I'll get to know Gary Johnson better and see if he's someone who I could end up voting for. That's something which I'll evaluate over the coming weeks and months."

Behind closed doors (Yes. look, it's the theme of the week) at Romney's annual summit, some uncomfortable moments for his former running mate. "House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) faced tough questioning here Friday for his decision to endorse Donald Trump, and he tried to explain to an audience hostile to the New York mogul the factors that led him to back the presumptive GOP nominee."

Here's a sample of the awkward, via Philip Rucker: "Campbell Brown, a former CNN anchor and founder of the education news site the74.org, moderated the session with Ryan and grilled him about his decision. She told him that her young son, who knows and admires Ryan, came into the bedroom the morning after he had announced his support for Trump dismayed by the news.

"How would you explain this to a child? Brown asked Ryan. The speaker appeared uncomfortable.

Here's another: "One of the toughest questions for Ryan came from Meg Whitman, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and a longtime friend of Romney's who helped bankroll a Republican anti-Trump super PAC this spring. Whitman asked Ryan how he could endorse someone with, in her judgment, such poor character and whose campaign has been based on personal attacks and division. According to two people present, Whitman said Trump is the latest in a long line of historic demagogues, explicitly comparing him to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini."

Also a bit awkward — but probably a lot less uncomfortable for the speaker: "One attendee stood up to plead with Ryan, 'Will you please run for president in 2020?' The room erupted in applause. That assumes, of course, that Trump is not the incumbent president getting ready to run for reelection."

#FLASHBACKFRIDAY! Back in 2009, Psalm 109:8 was on-trend among some conservatives; email forwards and bumper stickers featured the reference, along with the slogan "Pray for Obama." You might smell heart-warming #bipartisanship! Unless you knew the verse.

"Let his days be few; and let another take his office."

And especially not if you knew the next one:

"Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."

In a non-Biblical frame, it sounds a lot like a wish that might draw a visit from the Secret Service.

That verse has popped in and out of vogue over the course of the Obama presidency. In the homestretch: today, it was back by way of Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), speaking at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference.

—Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi has subpoenaed a Pentagon official critical of the investigation, suggesting that he tried to prevent an Air Force sergeant from providing testimony about the night of the 2012 attacks.

—The AFL-CIO is likely to endorse Hillary Clinton for president at a meeting of union presidents on Thursday, concluding a long and sometimes contentious fight among individual unions that had backed Clinton and rival Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary.

—Republicans aren't the only ones losing Hispanic staffers: The Democratic National Committee's political director has departed, one of several Latino officials to depart the DNC.

—From the annals of flackdom, an Olympic maneuver by a hard-working RNC spokesman (don't try this one at home): There may be a good reason to tell reporters Donald Trump "has made clear he was not trying to speak to [Judge Gonzalo Curiel's] heritage," but it is a hard sale to make when Trump quotes in question include verbatim references to the judge's "Mexican heritage."

—Today, Hillary Clinton received a question at a moment she apparently was not expecting a question. Hannah Chanpong of CBS News captured the reaction that launched a thousand GIFs (trust us, it's worth the click):

#VEEPSTAKES UPDATE: