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Mark Cuban: ‘Is There Any Bigger Jagoff In The World Than Donald Trump?’ — Is there a bigger jagoff than Donald Herr Drümpenführer? When Trump seemed less insane, (maybe it's a medical issue?) he was a pro-choice, Hillary supporter who had no problem admitting that he had liberal views.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
McCain slams Trump over Khan fight — Sen. John McCain slammed Donald Trump Monday morning for feuding with the parents of a fallen Muslim soldier, offering perhaps his sternest rebuke yet of a candidate with whom he has clashed throughout the campaign process.
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Raw Story, The Week, The Hill and AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …
Katie Zavadski / The Daily Beast:
ISIS Joins Donald Trump in Dishonoring Humayun Khan's Sacrifice — The Republican nominee continued his war on the parents of a U.S. Army captain while the Islamic State called the Muslim war hero an apostate—and attacked Hillary Clinton. — ISIS joined Donald Trump on Sunday in dishonoring …
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Longtime Trump confidant smears Khan family as members of the Muslim Brotherhood — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — While Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence was posting a Facebook statement claiming Donald Trump “cherishes” the Khan family, a close confidant and advisor …
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Media Matters for America and CANNONFIRE
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Republicans denounce Trump as confrontation with Muslim parents escalates — Donald Trump faced mounting criticism from leaders of his own party Sunday, as a confrontation between the Republican nominee and the Muslim American parents of a soldier killed in Iraq continued to consume the presidential race.
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump: Muslim soldier was a hero, but his father ‘has no right’ to criticize me
Trump: Muslim soldier was a hero, but his father ‘has no right’ to criticize me
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Politico, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, ABC News, Patterico's Pontifications and The Week
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McConnell, Ryan defend Khans amid Trump remarks
McConnell, Ryan defend Khans amid Trump remarks
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NBC News, American Prospect, The Resurgent and Political Wire
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Confrontation With Muslim Soldier's Parents Emerges as Unexpected Flash Point
Donald Trump's Confrontation With Muslim Soldier's Parents Emerges as Unexpected Flash Point
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
In Ohio, Clinton warns voters not to be ‘misled’ by Trump
In Ohio, Clinton warns voters not to be ‘misled’ by Trump
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Raw Story and Washington Post
CBS News:
Did Clinton get a post-convention bump? — Hillary Clinton has received a bump in support after the Democratic convention and has now pulled ahead of Donald Trump. — Forty-six percent of voters nationwide say they'll vote for Clinton in November, while 39 percent say they'll back Trump.
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New York Times:
Top Trump Aide Previously Wielded Influence in Ukraine — WASHINGTON — Few political consultants have had a client fail quite as spectacularly as Paul Manafort's did in Ukraine in the winter of 2014. — President Viktor F. Yanukovych, who owed his election to, as an American diplomat put it …
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Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
What happened to my party? — The nomination of Hillary Clinton has been secured, but the future of the Democratic Party is far from certain. Despite the patina of unity at the end, the Democrats, like their GOP adversaries, seem divided as to their future direction.
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
GOP confidence in Senate majority builds — Republicans are growing much more optimistic about their chances of saving their Senate majority. — Less than 100 days before the election, unconventional Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — has yet to become the albatross many Republicans feared.
Max Boot / New York Times:
How the ‘Stupid Party’ Created Donald Trump — It's hard to know exactly when the Republican Party assumed the mantle of the “stupid party.” — Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such prominent early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes.
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Washington Post and Politicus USA
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Clinton's claim that the FBI director said her email answers were ‘truthful’ — “Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I've said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails.”
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Hot Air, Weekly Standard, Fox News Insider, Mediaite and Independent Journal Review
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John Tierney / City Journal:
Monuments to Idiocy — Let's honor the public servants responsible for giving us the TSA. — Summer 2016 — Public safety — Naming anything after a living politician is usually a bad idea; but this summer, we can make an exception. Now that Americans will be spending …
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Israel Matzav
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Melania Trump's girl-on-girl photos from racy shoot revealed — Here's the nation's would-be first lady — and right beside her, a second lady. — Three years before she met husband Donald Trump, Melania Trump was snapped in a nude frolic with another female model, bombshell photos obtained exclusively by The Post show.
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Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE: Breitbart/Gravis Blockbuster Immigration Poll Demonstrates Americans Want Total Revolution Against Mass Immigration — New polling data shows that it would be virtually impossible for Hillary Clinton to win the general election if the Republican nominee were able to frame …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Wasserman Schultz's problems aren't over yet — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's political troubles aren't over yet. — The Florida Democrat is facing the toughest political race of her life after ending her controversial tenure as leader of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Trouble for Hillary — Watching the Democrats' smoothly staged, potently scripted convention last week, voters could easily think that Hillary Clinton has this election in the bag. — The critiques of Donald Trump made devastatingly clear that he's a preposterous, dangerous candidate for the presidency.
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Washington Post and JustOneMinute
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Liberalism's Big Bet
Liberalism's Big Bet
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Balkinization and Marginal REVOLUTION