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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Holy Crap, Tim Kaine Just Killed It In His First Speech With Clinton — He spoke Spanish to the cheering crowds and delivered a healthy dose of humility in a diseased election year. In other words, Tim Kaine just took America by storm. — Holy crap. He killed it. — I'm not trying to spin you.
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Delegates Urged Not to Skip Meeting With Sanders — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (all times EDT): — An effort to fully eliminate superdelegates in future elections has failed at a meeting of the Democratic National Convention rules committee.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
How Clinton proposed to Tim Kaine — When Hillary Clinton delivered the news to Tim Kaine that he was her pick for running mate, the senator from Virginia was in Rhode Island doing that most prosaic of political work: raising money for his colleague Jack Reed at the Newport Shipyard.
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Inside the VP hunt: How Clinton picked Kaine — They had to turn over every password for every social media account for every member of their families. — They had to list every piece of property they'd ever owned, and copies of every résumé that they'd put out for the past 10 years.
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Politico:
Trump campaign hits ‘Corrupt Kaine’ right out of the gate — Donald Trump's campaign wasted little time depicting Hillary Clinton's new running mate as a continuation of the “rigged system,” casting Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as “Corrupt Tim” and attacking him for supporting President Barack Obama's policies.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Clinton VP pick could face liberal ire
Clinton VP pick could face liberal ire
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Politico, Washington Post, Instapundit and Clayton Cramer
New York Times:
The Swing-State Appeal of Mr. Kaine
The Swing-State Appeal of Mr. Kaine
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Media Matters for America, Vox, The Huffington Post, Politico, NPR and Washington Post
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Tim Kaine Boycotted Netanyahu Speech, Backed Iran Deal
Tim Kaine Boycotted Netanyahu Speech, Backed Iran Deal
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, BizPac Review, Politico and ThinkProgress
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Tim Kaine is Hillary Clinton's VP pick, a mostly safe choice that will piss off pro-choice activists
Tim Kaine is Hillary Clinton's VP pick, a mostly safe choice that will piss off pro-choice activists
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Elizabeth Dexheimer / Bloomberg:
Kaine Pick Won't Help Clinton Win Over Anti-Wall Street Critics
Kaine Pick Won't Help Clinton Win Over Anti-Wall Street Critics
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Tim Kaine: A Self-Effacing Senator in a Sharp-Elbows Era
Tim Kaine: A Self-Effacing Senator in a Sharp-Elbows Era
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Vox, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, Raw Story, Religion News Service and Power Line
Rudy Takala / Washington Examiner:
Twitter accused of suppressing DNC Wikileaks story — Twitter lit up Friday night with allegations that it tried to suppress news that secret-leaking website Wikileaks exposed thousands of emails obtained from the servers of the Democratic National Committee.
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Mike Cernovich / Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play:
5 Biggest Scoops from the #DNCLeaks WikiLeak
5 Biggest Scoops from the #DNCLeaks WikiLeak
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Caleb Howe / RedState:
BUSTED: 19,252 Emails from DNC Leaked by Wikileaks, and Oh MAN Are They Great!
BUSTED: 19,252 Emails from DNC Leaked by Wikileaks, and Oh MAN Are They Great!
New York Post:
Leaked emails show how Democrats screwed Sanders
Leaked emails show how Democrats screwed Sanders
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The Hill:
Outcry from Sanders supporters after leaked DNC ‘atheism’ emails
Outcry from Sanders supporters after leaked DNC ‘atheism’ emails
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Instapundit, New York Magazine, Techdirt and Hot Air
Raheem Kassam / Breitbart:
BBC Scrubs ‘Ali’ From Munich Killer's Name On TV, In Articles, AND On Social Media — The BBC has unilaterally chosen not to report the Munich attacker's full name, in what appears to be an attempt to scrub any Muslim or Islamic heritage link to its coverage of the incident.
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BBC:
Munich gunman ‘obsessed with mass shootings’ — The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings but had no known links to the Islamic State group, German police say. — Written material on such attacks was found in his room.
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New York Times, Pamela Geller, Hullabaloo, ThinkProgress and Joe.My.God.
Harriet Alexander / Telegraph:
Live Munich shooting: Teenage killer Ali Sonboly 'inspired by far-right terrorist Anders Breivik …
Live Munich shooting: Teenage killer Ali Sonboly 'inspired by far-right terrorist Anders Breivik …
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Mirror.co.uk, The Gateway Pundit, Jihad Watch, Fox News, RT, Allen B. West and BBC
Kate Connolly / Guardian:
Munich gunman lured victims on Facebook with 'free McDonald's food'
Munich gunman lured victims on Facebook with 'free McDonald's food'
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Observer, New York Daily News, AOL, neo-neocon, Bearing Arms, LawNewz, Common Dreams and Washington Post
New York Times:
At Fox News, Kisses, Innuendo, Propositions and Fears of Reprisal — In 2006, after nearly a decade at CNN, Rudi Bakhtiar came to the Fox News Channel's headquarters in New York with a command of foreign policy, an appealing personality and a delivery that easily switched between light and serious.
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Donald Trump Is Crazy, and So Is the GOP for Embracing Him — The Republican nominee opens his mouth and removes all doubt. — Trump's foreign policy speech, at Washington's Mayflower Hotel — Cleveland — Yes, Donald Trump is crazy. And, yes, the Republican party owns his insanity.
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Andrew Seidman / Philly.com:
Trump probably can't win Ohio, says state's governor, John Kasich — A “divider” like GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump will have a hard time winning Ohio, an important battleground that could help decide the election in November, said Buckeye State Gov. John Kasich, a former Republican presidential candidate.
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Mark Halperin / Bloomberg.com:
Trump Would Fund Super-PACs Aimed at Taking Down Cruz, Kasich
Trump Would Fund Super-PACs Aimed at Taking Down Cruz, Kasich
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Trump pulls nearly even with Clinton after Republican convention: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Trump pulls nearly even with Clinton after Republican convention: Reuters/Ipsos poll
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Outside the Beltway and The Daily Caller
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Wow! Did Hillary Clinton Just Suffer a Seizure on Camera? — Wow! — The poor woman is in worse shape than we thought. — Hillary Clinton has seizure on camera. — Or maybe it was something else? — WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! … Satan? … The post Wow!
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trump & Putin. Yes, It's Really a Thing — Over the last year there has been a recurrent refrain about the seeming bromance between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. More seriously, but relatedly, many believe Trump is an admirer and would-be emulator of Putin's increasingly autocratic and illiberal rule.
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Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
In the Trump family tradition, Ivanka uses her moment in the spotlight to hawk her wares — Ivanka Trump takes the stage during the final day of the 2016 Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Is Donald Trump a Racist? — HAS the party of Lincoln just nominated a racist to be president? We shouldn't toss around such accusations lightly, so I've looked back over more than 40 years of Donald Trump's career to see what the record says. — One early red flag arose in 1973 …
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