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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
GOP debate: Early numbers suggest record audience — Early overnight Nielsen ratings suggest that Thursday's Republican debate was not just the most-watched primary debate in history — it may have been twice as big as the previous record-holder. — The debate on Fox News …
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Joshua Green / Bloomberg Business:
Fox News Couldn't Kill Trump's Momentum and May Have Only Made It Stronger — Judging by Thursday's electric debate, he may have sensed his true opponent before anyone else had a clue: the network. — t joshuagreen — A few hours before Thursday's Fox News debate, a friend of Donald Trump's confided to me that Trump was nervous.
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Is Trump a Clinton plant? — Tongues are wagging throughout the world of political insiders with news that former president and potential future first gentleman Bill Clinton had a great chat with Donald Trump shortly before the real estate magnate announced his candidacy for president.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
From Trump on Down, the Republicans Can't Be Serious — This was, according to many commentators, going to be the election cycle Republicans got to show off their “deep bench.” The race for the nomination would include experienced governors like Jeb Bush and Scott Walker …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Big Dog That Didn't Bark in the Republican Debate — Pop quiz: what's the biggest strategic decision facing the Republican Party over the next two months? If you answered “whether to shut down the federal government over Planned Parenthood, climate change regs, immigration, Obamacare …
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
7 things Trump said that would have destroyed any other GOP candidate — Donald Trump has said things publicly that seemingly no other candidate could have gotten away with. Criticize Sen. John McCain for being captured during the Vietnam War? Check. Call women he doesn't like fat pigs?
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
A Foxy, Rowdy Republican Debate — The first question to Chris Christie was about the nine credit downgrades that New Jersey had suffered since he became its governor. — Ben Carson was reminded of his domestic-policy blunders, of his foreign-policy blunders, of a whole raft of loopy statements …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Graham: Trump questions were an ‘inquisition’ not a debate — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is criticizing Fox News, saying the moderators of Thursday night's debate were too harsh with GOP rival Donald Trump. — “This was more of an inquisition than it was a debate,” Graham said on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Friday morning.
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Alex Weprin / POLITICO New York:
Fox News GOP primary debate smashes ratings records
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Winners and losers from the first Republican presidential debate
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
The GOP debate: 7 takeaways
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Winners at the G.O.P. Debate Did Not Include Bush and Trump
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Trump: Fox News Questions “Not Nice,” “Inappropriate”
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump is an embarrassment who is impossible to embarrass. It's his superpower.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Donald Trump lunched with Fox's Roger Ailes
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Trump Alters the Way the Rest of the Field Is Perceived
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Chuck Schumer / Medium:
My Position on the Iran Deal — Every several years or so a legislator is called upon to cast a momentous vote in which the stakes are high and both sides of the issue are vociferous in their views. — Over the years, I have learned that the best way to treat such decisions is to study …
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
MoveOn rips Schumer on Iran, says Dems should find ‘a new leader’
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: Schumer comes out against Iran deal. How much does that matter?
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
GOP candidates take turns bashing Obama's Iran deal
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Chad Livengood / Detroit News:
Recordings: State rep asked aide to hide relationship — Lansing — State Rep. Todd Courser planned the distribution of a fictional email alleging he had sex with a male prostitute in a bid to conceal his relationship with Rep. Cindy Gamrat, according to audio recordings obtained by The Detroit News.
TIME:
Transcript: Read the Full Text of the Primetime Republican Debate — Ten Republican presidential candidates met in Cleveland for a primetime debate on Fox News. — At the debate, real estate mogul Donald Trump, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio …
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Daniel Veditz / Mozilla Security Blog:
Firefox exploit found in the wild — Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched for sensitive files and uploaded them to a server that appears to be in Ukraine.
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KLTV-TV:
Judge sentences East Texas man to get married or face jail time — An East Texas couple says their choice to marry when they wanted to was taken away by a criminal court judge. — In July, a Smith County judge sentenced Josten Bundy to get married to his 19-year-old girlfriend as part of his probation …
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Bloomberg Business:
Oops: Jeb's Website Publishes, Then Deletes, Attacks on Walker, Rubio — The former Florida governor's campaign describes the attacks as “draft pages.” — Jeb Bush's official campaign website on Thursday briefly featured two separate sections attacking two top Republican rivals …
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James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times:
18-Year-Old Sentenced to Five Years for Robbing Man, 84, She Met on Dating Site — A teenager who with her twin sister robbed an octogenarian they met on an Internet dating site was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison. — The woman, Shaina Foster, 18, had pleaded guilty to one count …
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