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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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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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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.
Politico:
Trump campaign hits ‘Corrupt Kaine’ right out of the gate
Trump campaign hits ‘Corrupt Kaine’ right out of the gate
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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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New York Times:
The Swing-State Appeal of Mr. Kaine
The Swing-State Appeal of Mr. Kaine
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Tim Kaine Boycotted Netanyahu Speech, Backed Iran Deal
Tim Kaine Boycotted Netanyahu Speech, Backed Iran Deal
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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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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Influential Donors Criticize Ted Cruz for His G.O.P. Convention Speech — In an extraordinary public rebuke, two influential donors who were among the biggest supporters of Senator Ted Cruz's presidential campaign excoriated Mr. Cruz on Saturday for his decision not to endorse Donald J. Trump at the Republican National Convention.
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Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg:
Trump Says He Prevented Cruz Being ‘Ripped’ Off Stage in Cleveland — The Republican presidential nominee gives his first interview since the Republican National Convention. — kevcirilli — In his first interview since the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump said he prevented Ted Cruz …
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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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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
NOTE TO SANDERS SUPPORTERS: Bernie Would Have Won If Not for Super Delegate System! — The Democrat National Convention (DNC) starts this week. By the end of the week Hillary Clinton will be crowned the Democrat Candidate for President in spite of the many scandals surrounding her and her husband.
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MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders Campaign Chief Says Someone Must Be ‘Accountable’ for What DNC Emails Show — Bernie Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said his team was “disappointed” by the emails from the Democratic National Committee leaked through WikiLeaks, which seemed to reveal staff in the party working to support Hillary Clinton.
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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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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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BBC:
Munich gunman ‘obsessed with mass shootings’
Munich gunman ‘obsessed with mass shootings’
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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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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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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!
The Hill:
Outcry from Sanders supporters after leaked DNC ‘atheism’ emails
Outcry from Sanders supporters after leaked DNC ‘atheism’ emails
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Politico, Instapundit, New York Magazine and Techdirt
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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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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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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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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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!
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.