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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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Little Green Footballs and Daily Kos
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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.
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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Mediaite, Daily Kos, Washington Post, Infowars, The Right Scoop, The Week and Politico
Reuters:
Trump campaign asks Capitol Hill to back him in Khan controversy — U.S. Republican Donald Trump's presidential campaign appealed to Capitol Hill for support on Monday as his attacks on the Muslim parents of a decorated American soldier killed in Iraq drew sharp rebukes from fellow party members.
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Balloon Juice, Daily Kos, CNBC and WAVY-TV
Scott Detrow / NPR:
GOP Criticism Mounts As Trump Continues Attacks On Khan Family — Two weeks ago, in the midst of controversy over the fact his wife, Melania, had plagiarized passages of her convention speech from Michelle Obama, Donald Trump tweeted that “all press is good press.”
David Wright / CNN:
While Khan talks peace, Trump tweets against him — (CNN)The father of the slain Muslim U.S. soldier at the center of a controversial feud with Donald Trump said Monday he had no desire to escalate the conflict and that it's time to “join hands with good Muslims” — even as the Republican candidate attacked …
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Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Humayun Khan's grave becomes a shrine in the wake of his father's speech
Humayun Khan's grave becomes a shrine in the wake of his father's speech
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American Thinker, Daily Kos, ABC News and The Week
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Clinton Cash: Khizr Khan's Deep Legal, Financial Connections to Saudi Arabia, Hillary's Clinton …
Clinton Cash: Khizr Khan's Deep Legal, Financial Connections to Saudi Arabia, Hillary's Clinton …
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ThinkProgress, The San Diego Union …, Little Green Footballs, The Gateway Pundit and Politico
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Khan fight highlights a huge GOP problem: No one knows how low Trump can go
The Khan fight highlights a huge GOP problem: No one knows how low Trump can go
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CNN, Media Matters for America, Independent Journal Review, Business Insider, Mashable, Fox News, The Hill, Boston Globe and New York Times
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Surrogate: Trump Sacrificed Two Marriages To Create Jobs!
Trump Surrogate: Trump Sacrificed Two Marriages To Create Jobs!
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Politicus USA
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trump Veterans Adviser Attacks Khizr Khan As A ‘Muslim Brotherhood Agent’
Trump Veterans Adviser Attacks Khizr Khan As A ‘Muslim Brotherhood Agent’
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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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CNN:
Post-convention poll: Clinton retakes lead over Trump — Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton emerges from her party's convention in Philadelphia with a restored lead over Donald Trump, having earned a 7-point convention bounce, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll. — In a two-way head-to-head matchup …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans More Positive About Democratic Than GOP Convention — PRINCETON, N.J. — Americans are evenly divided on whether they view the Democratic Party more favorably (44%) or less favorably (42%) after the party's national convention last week. However, their ratings of the Republican Party …
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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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The Daily Beast, Mediaite and Washington Post
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Gallup: Trump support tumbles after conventions
Gallup: Trump support tumbles after conventions
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Washington Post, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog … and Joe.My.God.
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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Mediaite
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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Infowars, RedState and Joe.My.God.
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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Right Wing Watch, No More Mister Nice Blog and Daily Wire
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
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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Crime and Consequences Blog, TheBlaze.com and RedState
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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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Baltimore Sun and Instapundit
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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Guardian, Grist, Common Dreams, The Nation and 24Ahead
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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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Power Line, Raw Story and Heat Street
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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Guardian, Talking Points Memo, Media Matters for America, Mediaite and The Week
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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WXIA-TV:
EXCLUSIVE POLL: Trump holds narrow lead over Clinton in Georgia — ATLANTA — With 14 weeks until election day, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a narrow lead over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in Georgia, according to a new SurveyUSA poll conducted for 11Alive.
Josh Haskell / ABC News:
Warren Buffett Challenges Trump to Show Tax Returns, Says He's ‘Afraid’ — Business magnate Warren Buffett took on Donald Trump over his refusal to release his tax returns — issuing the real estate mogul a challenge to put his cards on the table. — Speaking at a Hillary Clinton rally in Omaha …
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Damon Root / Hit & Run:
Is SCOTUS a Good Reason to Support Trump? Libertarian and Conservative Legal Experts Weigh In — Donald Trump is hoping to pitch himself as the conservative legal movement's last best hope for securing the future of the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump says that if he's elected president …
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New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, The Resurgent, Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight and Washington Examiner
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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