Putin Says Prez Race Should Be More ‘Dignified’

They’re both using shock tactics, just each in their own way. I don’t think they are setting the best example. … All this should be more dignified.

— “Vladimir Putin, blasting both Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s tactics on the campaign trail while refusing to publicly take sides in a U.S. presidential race in which he’s been accused of secretly favoring the New York real estate billionaire,” Bloomberg reports.

Carville: GOP Is Committing ‘Suicide’

I just didn’t think that a modern American party was capable of suicide. I thought that something would happen, that somebody would think of a way to stop this. And they couldn’t. I think that they wanted to but they couldn’t. … And most of the Republicans that I talk to, which are quite a few, they are not so much worried about losing the election as I think they are about losing an entire generation. No one knows how much damage that Trump is going to cause the Republican Party beyond 2016. It is really something, to watch a party just march right over a cliff, and no one can stop them.

— Political strategist James Carville, telling Vanity Fair that the Republican party is committing suicide.