POLITICO Playbook: HILLARY ALLIES will enlist Muslims, Hispanics and gays to paint Trump as divisive

Happy Friday! NICE TRY -- "Anti-Trump forces contemplate the end: After a week of bruising losses, many are ready to give up the fight," by Alex Isenstadt, with Katie Glueck and Ken Vogel: "Trump's dazed and demoralized adversaries find themselves at a defining moment: After unloading millions of dollars in attack ads aimed at destroying the real estate mogul, after the party's 2012 nominee delivered a no-holds barred speech targeting him, and after conservatives far and wide spoke out in unrelenting terms about how he could never be president, he's more dominant than ever ... 

"[M]ore and more [Republicans] are contending that it's time to reach a point of acceptance - and that a drawn-out primary or convention battle could be worse. ... Some in the anti-Trump movement now concede that the push to defeat him hasn't worked - and may be backfiring. ... The mogul is poised for another strong performance on Tuesday, when he's seen as the favorite in the winner-take-all Arizona primary. He also is expected to rack up a number of delegates in Utah, which votes the same day." https://politi.co/1UlviyU

--"Endangered House Republicans: Trump who? Call it the head-in-the-sand strategy," by Lauren French: "Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy ... said Trump has the potential to turn out new Republican voters ... At the same time, [he] is privately advising GOP lawmakers in tight races to keep their focus at home and ignore Trump. ... House Democrats are staking much of their campaign strategy on the belief that Trump would repel female and minority voters, ... and help [Ds] begin to dig out from deep in the House minority." https://politi.co/1S7K0X1

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POLITICO MAGAZINE Friday cover: "How Trump beats Hillary. And how Hillary beats Trump. Two game plans for the bruising race we're about to see": 

--Bill Scher, liberal pundit: "The hard reality is that you need to win over some swing-state voters who went with Obama in both of the past two elections: the blue-collar workers saved by the auto bailout, the unmarried women who want equal pay and reproductive freedom, the Catholic moderates and other irregular churchgoers who swung from George W. Bush to Obama and, yes, the Latinos who made the same jump. ... 

"Consider spending your spring on a Hillary-esque 'listening tour' of small roundtable discussions with African-Americans, Latinos and Muslims-not for the cameras, but for actual listening. Allow some unvarnished talk on bigotry in America to seep into your brain. ... You need a real policy team, and you need it now. ... In the general: Pivot like nobody has pivoted before." https://politi.co/1TSZ1Q0 ...

--Matt Latimer, conservative pundit: "The only way to combat Trump's tactics is to steal them. Keep him off balance by doing things he-and, most importantly, the media-won't expect. Instead of the typical debates-or perhaps in addition to them-challenge him to meet you at a community center in Flint ... 

"Find your inner Goldwater girl: Trump has alienated many mainstream Republicans ... At the same time, he has won support from evangelicals, moderates, conservatives and even a legion of Democrats. Which means that in 2016, at least, ideology matters less than it ever did. Why not take advantage of this-and play for the Republican middle. ... 

"Trump's defense of Planned Parenthood likely isn't just some random act. He's already planning to make a play for the votes of women ... So why not make a play for issues that seem to appeal to men. ... Play the national security card." https://politi.co/1TSZ1Q0

22 LIBERAL GROUPS unite against Trump - WSJ A1, at fold, "Clinton Coalition Takes Aim at Trump," by Peter Nicholas and Laura Meckler: "Among their plans: anti-Trump demonstrations, possibly including protests at the Republican National Convention ... in Cleveland, and marches in major cities. ... A spokesman for Mr. Trump predicted that such efforts would backfire. 'What you find with Donald Trump is he's a counter-puncher,' Corey Lewandowski, the Trump campaign manager, said ... 'Someone punches him and he punches back, and he punches back much harder. That's what the Republican field has come to realize.' ...

"A senior Democrat who has spoken with Clinton campaign officials ... said the multi-pronged strategy under review includes enlisting the Muslim, Hispanic and gay communities in an effort to paint Mr. Trump as a divisive force in American politics. ... 'There are things that a campaign won't want to do that need to get done,' said David Brock, the founder of both Correct the Record and American Bridge. 'They'll need a lot of surrogates to say things you don't want the candidate saying.'" https://on.wsj.com/1R7R8Aw

IF YOU READ ONLY 1 THING ... The great DAVID MARANISS and Robert Samuels, a Medill alumnus who joined The Post in 2011, "THE GREAT UNSETTLING: Storms brewing for decades shaped the turbulence of the 2016 campaign" - Part 1 of a 4-part series, "Looking for America": "Each presidential campaign has its own rhythm and meaning, but this one unfolded with dizzying intensity, an exaggeration of everything that came before. It felt like the culmination of so many long-emerging trends in American life. The decomposition of traditional institutions. The descent of politics into reality-TV entertainment. Demographic and economic shifts quickening the impulses of inclusion and exclusion and us vs. them.

"All of it leading to this moment of great unsettling, with the Republican Party unraveling, the Democrats barely keeping it together, and both moving farther away from each other by the week, reflecting the splintering not only of the body politic but of the national ideal. ... So much of this campaign seemed to be about differing takes on what it meant to be an American." https://wapo.st/258cV4s 

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HAPPENING TONIGHT in AUSTIN: Morning Joe Music, Joe Scarborough's nine-person band, opens for The Cult showcase at 8 p.m. CT at Moody Theater. Joe is also playing at St. David's Church at 8 p.m. tomorrow. The flyer with a pic of Joe on the guitar: https://bit.ly/1py1qmG

SPOTTED: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), on United flight to Brussels. And he does not carry his own bags. ... Amb. Max Baucus on Wednesday afternoon in the Senate near the Ohio Clock. ... Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz flying into the West Palm Beach airport yesterday afternoon, with a sheriff escort waiting for her when she got off the plane ... Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sec. Tom Perez on American Airlines shuttle from DCA to LGA yesterday afternoon.

OBAMA ALUMNI: "Stephanie Cutter has joined NBC News and MSNBC as a Political Analyst. She will contribute exclusively on a range of topics across all platforms including Meet the Press, TODAY, Nightly and MSNBC." She'll be on "Andrea Mitchell Reports" at noon today.

--NYT A17, "Obama Mobilizes Campaign Veterans to Push for Court Nominee," by Michael D. Shear and Eric Lipton: "[Stephanie] Cutter ... will oversee the efforts by the new group, to be called the Constitutional Responsibility Project. Anita Dunn, the former White House communications director, is handling the news media, along with Amy Brundage, a veteran Obama aide. Also involved are Julianna Smoot, the chief fund-raiser for Mr. Obama's campaigns; Paul Tewes, Mr. Obama's top field operative in 2008; and Katie Beirne Fallon, the president's last legislative director." https://nyti.ms/1R3hshn

WORTH THE CLICK - Weekly Standard's new cover, "DEBRIEFING MIKE MURPHY -- MATT LABASH on why the Right failed to Rise" with an illustration of Murphy (with rainbow socks) sitting on top of Jeb! 2016 basura boxes (garbage in Spanish) holding a sign saying "DON'T BLAME ME -- I WAS FOR JEB!" https://bit.ly/1PfyW5A

--MATT LABASH's cover story : "In his early career, profilers taking note of his long hair, leather jackets, and loud Hawaiian shirts made Murphy sound like a cross between the wild man of Borneo, Jimmy Buffett, and an unmade futon. These days, his hair is short, and there's a little less of it to account for. He looks more like a shambling film professor, in smart-guy faculty glasses, Lacoste half-zip, and khakis ... 

"Murphy bellows a greeting and introduces me around to his crew, who are packing and tying up loose ends, such as calculating pro-rata donor refunds for what's left of the money (about $12 million). The office will be vacated by the following week. 'This is Matt Labash,' he says to the troops. 'He's here to write my political obituary!'" https://tws.io/1UFIHkr

TWEAKING TWITTER -- "Twitter's algorithmic timeline is now live by default for everyone," by Mashable's Stan Schroeder: "A month after Twitter launched its new timeline, which sorts tweets in your feed according to relevancy instead of chronology, the company has quietly turned it on by default. It also appears to be live for all users. Originally launched in February, the new timeline was opt-in, and it was only available to some users. Now users are reporting getting a notification that the setting is now opt-out." https://on.mash.to/22qTvWd

VALLEY TALK - N.Y. Times A1, above fold, "Reluctant Staff Could Impede IPhone Ruling," by John Markoff, Katie Benner and Brian X. Chen in S.F. (online: "Apple Encryption Engineers, if Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist"): "Apple employees are already discussing what they will do if ordered to help law enforcement authorities. Some say they may balk at the work, while others may even quit their high-paying jobs rather than undermine the security of the software they have already created." https://nyti.ms/1Z8eMBZ

--N.Y. Times Quotation of the Day, JEAN-LOUIS GASSéE, a venture capitalist who was once an engineering manager at Apple, on how company engineers may balk if ordered to unlock a San Bernardino attacker's iPhone: "If the government tries to compel testimony or action from these engineers, good luck with that." 

MEGATRENDS - USA TODAY 1-col. lead, "LOWER OIL PRICES END MODERN GOLD RUSH: Suffering seeps through much of energy industry," by Nathan Bomey and Roger Yu: "A shakeout is sweeping through the U.S. oil and gas business, putting small-time petroleum prospectors who got rich off of shale energy out of business as rock-bottom oil prices reshape the sector despite [a] slight uptick [closed above $40 yesterday for first time since Dec.]. ... Oil and gas companies worldwide have ... announced plans to cut more than 319,000 jobs since late 2014 ... 

"The shift [bankruptcies and consolidation] bears a striking resemblance to the evolution of the gold rush in the mid-1800s, when many individual gold seekers got rich quick but then gave way to well-capitalized companies that industrialized the process." https://usat.ly/1XzD8Dg

BEHIND THE Q-POLL ... "Poll Power ... puts once-obscure school on map," by AP's Mike Melia: "The development office for Quinnipiac University [in Hamden, Conn.] ... blasts [the poll numbers] by email to alumni and parents - a chance to share in the excitement of the latest poll to have their school's name on the lips of newscasters across the country. ... Much as basketball put the University of Connecticut on the map, Quinnipiac officials say the polls have elevated the national profile of the [9,000-student] school in a New Haven suburb, aiding its rise from a local college to a university that draws students from around the country. ... 

"The polling center was created in 1988 to teach students about survey research and in 1994, when current director Doug Schwartz was hired, it involved a dozen interviewers ... with paper and pencils. Today, the poll has 150 computer-assisted telephone interviewing stations. Schwartz points to two key races that helped establish the polling center's credibility ... the 1998 New York Senate race, in which a Quinnipiac poll accurately predicted Democrat Chuck Schumer's upset victory over Republican incumbent Al D'Amato, and the 2000 New York Senate race in which the poll nailed Hillary Clinton's margin of victory." https://apne.ws/22oBX0c

SUNDAY SO FAR ...

--"Fox News Sunday": Kasich ... Panel: Bob Woodward, George Will, Lisa Lerer, Kristen Soltis Anderson

--CNN's "State of the Union" - Dana Bash anchors from D.C.: Kasich ... Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ... Panel: SE Cupp, Bakari Sellers, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Dick Harpootlian

--CNN's Inside Politics, Sunday from 8 to 9 a.m.: Maggie Haberman, Ed O'Keefe, Julie Pace, MJ Lee.

PAUL SINGER CONCLAVE ... SPEAKER RYAN "huddles with GOP donors: Big-money givers convene in Palm Beach, weighing what to do about Trump," by Isaac Arnsdorf in Palm Beach, Ken Vogel and Jake Sherman: "Ryan met Thursday night at a pricey French restaurant here [Café Boulud at the Brazilian Court Hotel] with some of the party's biggest donors to assess ... what to do about Donald Trump. The dinner was a highlight of a secretive two-day conclave, convened under heavy security by a donor group headed by New York hedge-fund manager Paul Singer." https://politi.co/1R7In9F ... See Café Boulud's menu. https://bit.ly/1XzxQrq

MICHAEL HIRSH, "How Trump Rebranded the GOP: He's the greatest brander of his time, but he can't take all the credit for this one: The party had to destroy its old brand first": "[W]hat he's accomplished over the nine months since he took that now-notorious ride down the Trump Tower escalator is plainly his life's masterwork: his rebranding of the GOP in his own image. ... [T]he Trump takeover of the GOP occurred, to quote an old line from Hemingway, 'Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.'" https://politi.co/1VilfKI

2016 PLAYERS - MICHAEL COHEN interview -- "Trump is more than my boss, he is a patriarch," by Sandy Rashty in the Jewish Chronicle: "[A]s Trump's Special Counsel and Executive Vice President of the Trump Organisation ... [Cohen is] firm, brusque and refreshingly free of insipid lines. ... 'I don't really sleep much. I am used to living this life, with only a few hours' of sleep. ... Like Mr Trump, I do not require much sleep ... This affords me the opportunity to tackle issues early while most people are still asleep. ... To those of us who are close to Mr Trump, he is more than our boss. He is our patriarch.' ... 'To me, comparisons between Mr Trump and Hitler are hurtful and they are misleading. Mr Trump has always had a special place in his heart for both Israel and the Jewish people. Many of his closest friends and staff are Jewish.'" https://bit.ly/2583qT1

HOW WE GOT HERE -- "Good Times, Not Anger, Led to Trump's Rise," by Jonathan Bernstein in Bloomberg View: "Trump is doing well precisely because things aren't particularly bad for the U.S. right now. In difficult times, voters take their responsibilities more seriously, and wouldn't embrace the buffoonery of a reality-television star. People can indulge in Trump's fantasies in a period of (more or less) peace and (sort of) prosperity." https://bv.ms/1pPHI5W

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS -- "Lindsey Graham to fundraise for Ted Cruz's presidential bid," by CNN's Dana Bash and Abigail Crutchfield: "Sen. Lindsey Graham will headline a fundraiser on Monday in support of Ted Cruz. Graham told CNN that while the Texas senator is not his preferred candidate, he's 'the best alternative to Donald Trump,' and he said he will 'help Ted in every way I can.'"  https://cnn.it/22qTPUM

FLASHBACK -- "10 times Lindsey Graham criticized Ted Cruz," by Eliza Collins https://politi.co/1XzxXDx

MARGARET CARLSON on Bloomberg, "Too Late, Rubio Remembered Who He Is": "Rubio won his Senate seat in 2010 as a Tea Party darling. By 2016, he might as well have been dining nightly with Nancy Pelosi. To the angry base, he had become a Washington elite, in cahoots with Chuck Schumer on immigration to boot." https://bv.ms/1UFAMDJ

#Metromageddon ... "With lack of maintenance, DC subway system loses its luster," by AP's Ben Nuckols: "Metro, ... once a source of regional pride[,] ... is now known for broken escalators, frequent delays, an acrid smell in the stations and aging railcars with carpets caked in decades of grime. The system's board chairman, Jack Evans, says walking into the stations is like entering a 'dungeon.' Metro opened in 1976, but its problems date back ... to decisions made in the 1960s when construction began and its unusual governing structure was established.

"Metro belongs to everyone and to no one: Its board of directors includes elected officials from Maryland, Virginia and District of Columbia, and all three jurisdictions have to agree every year to provide the money needed for the system to operate. The federal government provides oversight and Congress chips in with funding, but it comes with strings attached. It's also the only major transit system in the United States without a tax that provides a dedicated revenue stream." https://apne.ws/1nTBqAp

INSTAGRAMS DU JOUR -- @seanmspicer: "Get your green on #happystpatricksday" https://bit.ly/22qUF42 ... "Post @cnn pic courtesy of the great @tomleewilliams" https://bit.ly/2584pTb ... His white-and-green pants with lots of clovers sprinkled in and his shoes https://bit.ly/1TSY22m

LIFE ONLINE -- "GIFs Are Reshaping Tinder, And Here's The Data To Prove It," by BuzzFeed's Alex Kantrowitz: "Sending a GIF on Tinder is 30% more likely to get you a response, and your conversation will last twice as long." https://bzfd.it/21yF3Jj

TV NEXT WEEK - "Hillary Clinton, will make her second appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," [next] Thursday ... Additional guests that evening include Peter Krause and musical guest Fifth Harmony. Hillary Clinton visited Jimmy Kimmel Live last November." Ben Carson is on The View that day too.

TV HISTORY - "Lester Holt will report and anchor 'NBC Nightly News' from Havana, Cuba on Sunday and Mondayahead of President Obama's historic visit. Holt will sit down with Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, to discuss the normalization of diplomatic and economic ties and what the President's visit means for Americans. Holt will be joined in Havana by chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell, who has closely covered the U.S.-Cuban relationship for decades."

MEDIAWATCH -- "Times deputy business editor Peter Lattman to leave for position at Jobs organization," by Joe Pompeo: "Emerson Collective [is] a philanthropic organization created by Steve Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs. In an email to associates ... Lattman said he will be the Collective's managing director of media, a role in which he will 'oversee Emerson's media initiatives and help develop its strategy around supporting and investing in journalism and other content.'" https://politi.co/1nTm4fp

--"Trump takes on The Wall Street Journal-again," by Nick Gass: "'Trump [tweeted] '@WSJ Editorial says 'Clinton primary vote total is 8,646,551.Trump's is 7,533,692'-a knock. But she had only 3 opponents-I had 16.Apologize ... WSJ is bad at math. The good news is, nobody cares what they say in their editorials anymore, especially me!'" https://politi.co/1Luhgsm ... The critical WSJ editorial https://on.wsj.com/1pxPzVK

--"L.A. Times owner wins auction for The Orange County Register, Press-Enterprise at $56 million," by the Riger's Jonathan Lansner: "After a marathon, contentious auction that started Wednesday morning and went deep into the evening, Tribune said its $56 million cash bid was the winner over Digital First Media, publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News and Long Beach-Press-Telegram, and an investor group headed by Rich Mirman, CEO of Freedom Communications, owner of the Register and Press-Enterprise." https://bit.ly/1UaiuvR

TRAILER OF THE DAY: "'The Congressman' ... Treat Williams' Frustrated Lawmaker Escapes to Great Outdoors" https://bit.ly/1Roi1Wn

WASHINGTON, INC. - "GMMB announced Partner- and Managing Director-level promotions ... Daniel Jester, Anson Kaye and Jaime Zapata were promoted to Partner, and Micheline Kennedy and Delacey Skinner to Managing Director." https://bit.ly/1RqcSql

- "Global Strategy Group names head of Research and Dem pollster Nick Gourevitch as newest Partner. GSG CEO Jon Silvan and President Jefrey Pollock report that: "a GSG veteran of 10+ years, Nick has been at the center of our growth and success and has delivered great results for our firm, our people, and our clients."

DAVID KOCH's NCAA bracket: He picked Kansas University to win it all (against Virginia in the final) in a pool he's participating in to benefit the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. His final four lineup: KU vs. Oklahoma and Virginia vs. North Carolina. Koch, who counts Wichita as his part-time home, has Wichita State losing to Villanova in the sweet 16. Koch played basketball at MIT averaging 21 points per game over three years, a school record. He also held the single-game scoring record of 41 points from 1962 until 2009.

--See the bracket which urges fans at the bottom, "DON'T BET ON IT -- The NCAA opposes all forms of sports wagering" https://politi.co/1RSx7xu

SPORTS BLINK - USA Today cover, "MARCH MADNESS: No. 12 seeds Ark.-Little Rock and Yale and No. 11 seed Wichita State produced the Tournament's first upsets. Josh Hagins and Arkansas-Little Rock beat Purdue 85-83 in double overtime. Brandon Sherrod and Yale advanced with a 79-75 win against Baylor. Ron Baker helped Wichita State knock off Arizona 65-55."

OUT AND ABOUT - Friends from Tim Burger's life in Washington celebrated his 50th birthday last night at Adams Morgan's The Consulate, Thievery Corp.'s row house now leased to C3. It was like the bar scene in the first Star Wars (which had different creatures from around the universe). Tim's party had an eclectic variety of people from different worlds in DC: many journos, flacks, military and spy folks and musicians from Tim's career in journalism and public relations. Pic of him, Kiki, Neil Grace and Nikki Schwab https://bit.ly/1Mr3Xni

--SPOTTED : Kiki, Peter Cherukuri, Michael Isikoff and Mary Ann Akers, Margaret Carlson, Steve Heuttner, Paul Kane, Carl Hulse, Kenny Day, Tony Powell, Anne and Patrick Gavin, Sara and Ron Bonjean, Kevin Sheridan, Nihal Krishan, Janet Donovan, Tom Williams, Tamera Luzzatto, Doug Heye, Dan Ronayne, Vikrum Aiyer, Liz Johnson, Polson Kanneth, Lindsay Drewel, Josh Meyer, Jeff Stein, Gordon Witkin, Barry Jackson, Gary Cohen, Alex Isenstadt, Mark Paustenbach, Christine Delargy, Jeff Dufour, Scott and Tori Sendek, Brian Danza, Dan Swartz, Susie DeFrancis, Jeani Murray, Tony Capaccio, Jack Burger, Kayo and Tim Ryan, Peter Burger, Eric Lipton.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD: Joel Miller , legislative counsel to Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), and Megan Bel Miller, VP for gov't affairs at the National Ocean Industries Association and a Steve Scalise alum, welcomed their son, Parker Jay, last Friday. The jury is still out on whether Baby Parker will be pulling for the Saints or the Steelers this fall, but Mom is already stocking up on Whodat gear. Pics https://bit.ly/1R2l8kB ... https://bit.ly/1LufJCF

BIRTHDAYS : RNC Chairman Reince Priebus is 44 - Per his staff: "celebrating with the best team in politics (h/t the best, hardest working, and most successful comms. team in the game)" ... Terri McCullough, director of No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project at the Clinton Foundation and proud Mom of Sarah Cate and Connor (h/t Howard) ... Marc "Adelmania" Adelman (Get excited!) (h/t a newly 50 Tim Burger) ... Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY's List, Tester, Franken and Dean alum, proud Montanan from pride and on the road for Hillary (h/t Jon Haber and Teresa Vilmain) ... Kristin Lee, former Hillary Clinton 2008 and Microsoft spox and current White House Office of Science and Tech Policy comms director, who celebrated early this week at SXSW (h/ts Kevin Griffis and Caren Auchman) ... F.W. de Klerk, Nobel peace laureate and former South African president, is 80 ...

... Will Ragland, CAP Action's Common Core Champion (h/t Emily Tisch Sussman) ... Will Feltus, ad placement guru for National Media (h/t Sean Spicer) ... David Mark, Politico alum now an editor for CNN Politics ... Rep. Mike Bishop (R-Mich.) ... Andree Miller of the Small Business Committee is 3-0 ... Politico's Austin Wright, Keshia Clukey and Alix Beadle-Ryby ... Ofelia Casillas, SVP of corporate affairs at Edelman and a Labor Dept. and OFA comms. team alum ... Winnie Stachelberg ... Karrah Kaplan, senior booking producer for Fox News' "The Kelly File" ... photographer Liz Gorman ... Joe Mathews ... Marcus Garza, Obama 2012 and Carolyn McCarthy alum ... Ashlee Reid Morehouse, president of fundraising firm Republic Strategies ... Chris Harris ... Kiki Kalkstein, senior policy analyst at Pathfinder International ... Erin Fogarty Owen, an NBC News alum now executive director of university comms. at the University of Nebraska at Omaha ... Todd Hames ... 

... Jerry Fritz ... Kate Denis, senior program director of Project: Time Off at the U.S. Travel Association and a U.S. Chamber alum ... Cortney Patterson ... Will Ragland ... Bloomberg's Kate Hunter ... Stuart Neil ... Cliff Schroeder ... Chris Harris, a Thai food enthusiast ... Charles Ellison ... Cortney Patterson ... Winnie Stachelberg ... Christopher Chase ... Brad Fitch (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... country singer Charley Pride is 82 ... Mike Rowe ("Dirty Jobs") is 54 ... Olympic gold medal speedskater Bonnie Blair is 52 ... Queen Latifah is 46 ... Adam Levine (Maroon 5) is 37 ... actress Ciara Bravo is 19 ... actor Blake Garrett Rosenthal is 12 (h/ts AP)

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