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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump: My Position On Keeping Terrorists Out Is What Bothered Khizr Khan — In an interview with a local Ohio television station on Monday, Donald Trump said that Khizr Khan was really bothered by his position on border security — specifically his promise to keep radical Islamic terrorists from entering the country.
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Mother of service member booed over Khan question at Pence rally — CARSON CITY, Nevada — The woman, in a quiet voice, stood before the crowd of hundreds at a town hall-style event here with Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and announced that her son serves in the Air Force. The crowd applauded.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump attacks CNN in tweetstorm — By the looks of Donald Trump's Twitter feed, you might think he is running against CNN, not Hillary Clinton. — On Monday afternoon Trump fired off six tweets in a row attacking CNN's news coverage and accusing the network of being the “press shop for Hillary Clinton.”
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New York Daily News:
The risk of bloody-shirt politics: Khizr Khan, Ghazala Khan, Patricia Smith, Cindy Sheehan and our politics — On the first night of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, I cringed when Patricia Smith, the grief-stricken mother of Sean Smith, an information officer killed during …
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Reuters:
Trump campaign asks Capitol Hill to back him in Khan controversy
Trump campaign asks Capitol Hill to back him in Khan controversy
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Balloon Juice, Daily Kos and CNBC
New York Times:
Mr. Trump and Spineless Republicans
Mr. Trump and Spineless Republicans
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Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
To the Go-Along Republicans — Memo to Paul Ryan …
To the Go-Along Republicans — Memo to Paul Ryan …
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Scott Detrow / NPR:
GOP Criticism Mounts As Trump Continues Attacks On Khan Family
GOP Criticism Mounts As Trump Continues Attacks On Khan Family
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KUTV-TV:
Utah could vote Democrat for president for first time in 5 decades — (KUTV) The Republican and Democrat national conventions are over and as the dust starts to settle, it looks like Hillary Clinton has a chance to carry Utah in the U.S. presidential election.
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Chuck Muth / Paul Nehlen:
Paul Ryan AGAIN Misrepresents Trump Position, This Time on “Religious Test” Brouhaha — (Team Nehlen) - In response to the media frenzy created by Khizr Khan's speech at the Democrat National Convention - in which he politicized his heroic son's death at the hands of a radical Islamic suicide bomber …
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The Daily Caller
NBC News:
Poll: Clinton Support Spikes Following Democratic Convention — Following the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton now leads Donald Trump by 8 points — 50 percent to 42 percent — up from a single-point difference last week, according to the latest NBC News| SurveyMonkey poll.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans More Positive About Democratic Than GOP Convention
Americans More Positive About Democratic Than GOP Convention
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Danielle Keeton-Olsen / Talking Points Memo:
Gallup Poll Finds Trump's Convention Is A Historic Dud
Gallup Poll Finds Trump's Convention Is A Historic Dud
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Politico, The Daily Beast, Mediaite and Washington Post
New York Times:
Donald Trump Avoided Draft With a Heel Problem, but the Details Are Murky — Back in 1968, at the age of 22, Donald J. Trump seemed the picture of health. — He stood 6 feet 2 inches with an athletic build; had played intramural football, tennis and squash; and was taking up golf.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Feel The State Tremble — It may not seem terribly important right now with all the stories roiling the campaign. But I think there's a good chance it's the most important. Over the last 48 hours Trump's allies, surrogates and now Trump himself have forcibly injected the topic of voter fraud or ‘election rigging’ into the election.
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump: 'I'm Afraid the Election Is Going to Be Rigged'
Donald Trump: 'I'm Afraid the Election Is Going to Be Rigged'
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: 'I'm Afraid' The General Election's ‘Gonna Be Rigged’
Trump: 'I'm Afraid' The General Election's ‘Gonna Be Rigged’
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Mark Weiner / Syracuse Post-Standard:
GOP Rep. Richard Hanna: I'll vote for Clinton; first House member to cross party line — U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, R-Barneveld, says he will vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton for president. Hanna said the GOP nominee, Donald Trump, is unfit to serve. The three-term congressman is shown speaking July 18 …
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Doubts Start Creeping In for Democrats — For four days in Philadelphia, almost every comment I heard from Democratic operatives, pollsters and policy wonks reminded me of an old Jackie Mason line about married couples. — “Ask them if they're happy, you get a number. ‘Are you happy?...’ ‘Thirty-one years ... ’”
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Hot Air and Algemeiner.com
Eric Bradner / CNN:
First on CNN: Top Jeb Bush adviser leaves GOP, will vote for Clinton if Florida close — Jeb Bush adviser Sally Bradshaw, who is leaving the GOP — (CNN)Jeb Bush's top adviser, Sally Bradshaw, has left the Republican Party to become an independent, and says if the presidential race in Florida is close …
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Report: Leaked text messages demonstrate Mosby's bad faith — Carly Hoilman of the Blaze says Fox News' Trace Gallagher is reporting that leaked text messages between one of Marilyn Mosby's deputies and the lead investigator in the Freddie Gray case raise new concerns about Mosby's honesty …
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Perry Chiaramonte / Fox News:
Law professor goes after Maryland prosecutor for Freddie Gray case
Law professor goes after Maryland prosecutor for Freddie Gray case
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Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Trump and feminists should quit blaming Roger Ailes' victims: Kirsten Powers — No, the short-skirted, ‘leggy’ women of Fox News aren't to blame for sexual harassment and they shouldn't have to quit their jobs. — Donald Trump thinks it's “very sad” that women at Fox News are “complaining” …
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Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Black Lives Matter Coalition Makes Demands as Campaign Heats Up — More than 60 organizations associated with the Black Lives Matter movement have released a series of demands on Monday, including for reparations. — The list of six platform demands is aimed at furthering their goals …
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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
Student body vice president writes a ‘forget Black Lives Matter’ post, and a university erupts
Student body vice president writes a ‘forget Black Lives Matter’ post, and a university erupts
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Western Free Press, Raw Story and Heat Street
Charlie Peat / Daily Express:
EU is at ‘END of existence’ Polish experts blast Merkel & claim ‘Germans have had enough’ — EUROPE is “at the end of its existence” following a summer of terror and the EU's free movement policy, an ex-Polish counter-terror officer has warned. — Former Central Bureau …
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Jeff Bercovici / Inc.com:
Peter Thiel Is Very, Very Interested in Young People's Blood — The contrarian venture capitalist believes transfusions may hold the key to his dream of living forever. — San Francisco bureau chief, Inc. @jeffbercovici — More than anything, Peter Thiel, the billionaire technology investor …
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