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Donald Trump Starts Summer Push With Crippling Money Deficit — Donald J. Trump enters the general election campaign laboring under the worst financial and organizational disadvantage of any major party nominee in recent history, placing both his candidacy and party in political peril.
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After Months of Loyalty, Trump Finally Decided to Fire His Campaign Manager After a Bad Answer at a Meeting — “What's your plan here?” the candidate asked Corey Lewandowski. — At around 9:30 Monday morning, Donald Trump and his adult children gathered for a regular strategy meeting at Trump Tower.
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First on CNN: Trump adviser resigns after mocking Lewandowski on Twitter — (CNN)A top adviser to Donald Trump resigned Monday after sending a mocking tweet about just-fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, a campaign source tells CNN. — Michael Caputo, a Trump adviser and head …
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Hillary Clinton Clobbers Donald Trump in Fundraising, Reports Show — Donald Trump was considerably out-fundraised by opponent Hillary Clinton last month as he kicked off his general election campaign. — Financial disclosure documents show Hillary Clinton raised $19.7 million in May …
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Donald Trump's May fundraising totals are disastrously bad — Donald Trump's campaign raised $3.1 million in May and ended last month with $1.3 million in the bank, a remarkably poor showing that will only heighten Republican concerns about his ability to run a serious general election campaign …
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RNC head: Trump's staff shakeup shows ‘seriousness’ — Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus says Donald Trump — 's firing of his campaign manager shows the billionaire is preparing for Hillary Clinton — “This is a new direction for the campaign,” he said Monday on Fox News's “On The Record.”
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Trump Campaign Has Just $1.3M Cash on Hand, Filings Show
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Trump reboots flailing campaign
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Trump entered June with just $1.3 million in the bank, while Clinton sat on $42 million war chest
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The Real News Is Trump is Broke
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Poll: Clinton tops Trump, but neither prompts excitement — (CNN)Democrat Hillary Clinton tops Republican Donald Trump by a 47% to 42% margin in the race for the presidency, according to a CNN/ORC Poll released Tuesday, and just 22% of registered voters say their minds could change between now and November.
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Democrats Tanked Gun Control To Up Their Election Chances — On Monday evening, Senate Democrats put party over principle in rejecting common-sense, reasonable gun control measures. After the mass murder at Orlando gay club Pulse, Sen. Chris Murphy and his colleagues staged a flashy talk …
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Chris Murphy: ‘Republicans have decided to sell weapons to ISIS’
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BREAKING: Senate Blocks Gun Control Measures And Accomplishes Nothing After Orlando Shooting
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Senate rejects series of gun measures
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Senate rejects gun control background check measures
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Senate votes down gun control proposals in wake of Orlando shootings
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Authorities: Man at Vegas rally said he wanted to kill Trump — LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal officer says a man arrested at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas told authorities he tried to grab an officer's gun so he could kill the candidate. — A complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court …
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Will Trump Swallow the G.O.P. Whole? — Inside the identity crisis roiling the Republican Party. — Every week or so during the spring, I met with Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, at the party headquarters on Capitol Hill. We fell into a familiar routine.


Exclusive — Secret Service Agent Book: Raging Hillary Clinton Threw Bible at Agent's Colleague — Hillary Clinton once threw a Bible at the back of a Secret Service agent's head, part of a pattern of unhinged rage that the now-presumptive Democratic nominee exhibited, as exposed …
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Secret Service veterans denounce anti-Clinton tell-all book
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Clinton seeks rock-star convention lineup — Democratic operatives planning next month's national convention in Philadelphia have reached out to Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award-winning writer and star of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” about performing at the Wells Fargo Center, sources told POLITICO.
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How American Politics Went Insane — It's 2020, four years from now. The campaign is under way to succeed the president, who is retiring after a single wretched term. Voters are angrier than ever—at politicians, at compromisers, at the establishment. Congress and the White House seem incapable …
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Joint Statement From Justice Department and FBI Regarding Transcript Related to the Orlando Terror Attack — The Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued the following statement regarding the FBI's release of the transcript related to the Orlando shooting:
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Why did the White House just humiliate Loretta Lynch? — Idiotic: That's the only word for the Obama administration's move to scrub references to Islam or ISIS from the transcripts of Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen's calls. — Under an avalanche of ridicule, the Justice Department on Monday relented and released the full transcripts.
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Read Sonia Sotomayor's Atomic Bomb of a Dissent Slamming Racial Profiling and Mass Imprisonment — The Supreme Court issued an extraordinarily disappointing 5-3 decision on Monday in Utah v. Strieff, a Fourth Amendment case about police searches. Yet the terrible ruling came with a bright spot …
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The Brexit crash will make all of you poorer - be warned — My 60 years of experience tells me the pound will plummet, along with your living standards. The only winners will be speculators — avid Cameron, along with the Treasury, the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund …
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