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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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Richard Hanna.JPG / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Rep. Richard Hanna letter: We should all be done with Donald Trump (commentary) — U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, a three-term Republican from Oneida County, represents the 22nd Congressional District. Hanna is shown speaking last month to firefighters in Binghamton. (Provided photo)
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep. Says He'll Vote For Clinton: Trump Is A ‘National Embarrassment’ — Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) on Tuesday became the first Republican member of the House to openly say that he plans to vote for Hillary Clinton in November. — Hanna, who is not running for re-election this year …
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Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post:
Will GOP officials jump ship on Trump? — The last couple of weeks have been nothing short of disastrous for the Republican Party. — No, Donald Trump's position in the race hasn't worsened dramatically, nor did the Democratic convention wash away Hillary Clinton's many political warts.
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New York Times:
Mr. Trump and Spineless Republicans — Just when it seems that Donald Trump could not display more ignorance and bad judgment or less of a moral compass, he comes up with another ignominy or two. This weekend he denigrated the parents of a fallen American military hero and suggested …
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
To the Go-Along Republicans — Memo to Paul Ryan: Trump's problem is his character, not his ‘ideas.’ — There's an old saying that in politics there are no permanent victories—and no permanent defeats. Barry Goldwater was crushed in 1964 but the ideas that animated his candidacy found new life in the Reagan Revolution of 1980.
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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NBC News:
First Read: A Last Exit Ramp for the GOP?
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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Democrats, Stop Your Unearned Moral Superiority: Hillary's As Bad As Trump
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Reuters:
Trump campaign asks Capitol Hill to back him in Khan controversy
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Chuck Muth / Paul Nehlen:
Paul Ryan AGAIN Misrepresents Trump Position, This Time on “Religious Test” Brouhaha
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The Daily Caller
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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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
That poll showing Clinton leading in Utah? It doesn't exist. — The only fitting way for the 2016 campaign to end, after all of the tumult and bizarreness that we've seen over the past 20 months, is for there to be some dramatic result on Election Day. An electoral college tie, maybe.
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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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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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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump attacks CNN in tweetstorm
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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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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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CNN:
With Russia a campaign issue, Clinton gains on foreign affairs — Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton's post-convention bump extends to enthusiasm about voting and trust on a slew of issues, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll. And on the most prominent foreign policy issue of late …
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump blasts New York Times: 'They don't write good' — Donald Trump took aim at yet another venerable news outlet Monday night, saying that The New York Times “is just absolutely a disaster” and “so unfair” to his campaign. — “The media is very unfair.
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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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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Former Ivy League athlete suspended for alleged sexual assault wins important — and surprising — court victory — Can a male student held responsible by a university for an alleged sexual assault successfully make the case that his fate was the result of sex discrimination against him?
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
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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
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