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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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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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CANNONFIRE and Media Matters for America
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.
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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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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
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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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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Trump Surrogate on CNN: ‘Russia Did Not Seize Crimea’ — A Donald Trump campaign surrogate argued on CNN Sunday night that Russia did not seize Crimea from Ukraine, despite the fact that Russia recently seized Crimea from Ukraine. — “Again, Russia did not seize Crimea,” GOP consultant Boris Epshteyn argued.
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New York Times:
How Paul Manafort Wielded Power in Ukraine Before Advising Donald Trump — 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 …
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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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:
Clinton Says Trump's Remarks About Putin Show He's Unfit — Democratic nominee says hacks show Russian bid to interfere — Clinton interview with Fox her first since convention — Hillary Clinton said Republican Donald Trump's repeated praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin …
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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, driftglass and Politicus USA
Seton Motley / RedState:
ObamaCare and Net Neutrality Are Doing Exactly the Damage Their Opponents Predicted — ObamaCare and Network Neutrality are really dumb policy. For many, many reasons. — Like with all huge new government power grabs, there are a few very predictable post-grab outcomes.
LeftOfCenter / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
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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The Gateway Pundit and BizPac Review
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.
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
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.
NBC News:
Meet the Press - July 31, 2016 — CHUCK TODD: — This Sunday morning a new Trump controversy. Remember this rebuke of Donald Trump from the father of a fallen Muslim Army Captain. — KHIZR KHAN: — You have sacrificed nothing and no one. — CHUCK TODD:
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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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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Liberalism's Big Bet
Liberalism's Big Bet
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Marginal REVOLUTION and Balkinization