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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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NBC News:
First Read: A Last Exit Ramp for the GOP? — First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — A last exit ramp for the GOP? — Donald Trump's confounding war with a Gold Star family …
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Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
To the Go-Along Republicans — Memo to Paul Ryan …
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Paul Nehlen and Politico
CNN:
With Russia a campaign issue, Clinton gains on foreign affairs
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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Democrats, Stop Your Unearned Moral Superiority: Hillary's As Bad As Trump
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Lori Geary / WSB-TV:
Clinton, Trump deadlocked in latest Georgia poll
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Washington Post, Political Insider blog, Politicus USA and WXIA-TV
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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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama Says Republicans Should Withdraw Support for Trump — WASHINGTON — In his strongest denouncement of Donald J. Trump so far, President Obama on Tuesday said Mr. Trump was “unfit to serve as president” and urged the leaders of the Republican Party to withdraw their backing for his candidacy.
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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 …
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Obama Hammers GOPers Distancing Themselves From Trump's Khan Attacks — President Obama on Tuesday called out Republicans who distanced themselves from Donald Trump's attacks on Khizr and Ghazala Khan, but who have not withdrawn their endorsement of the GOP nominee.
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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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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton campaign reports nearly $90 million raised in July — Hillary Clinton raised nearly $90 million between her campaign and joint fundraising committees with the national and state parties in July, setting her up to enter August — and the campaign's home stretch — with more than $58 million on hand.
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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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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.
Wall Street Journal:
NYPD Commissioner William Bratton to Announce Resignation — Bratton, 68, will be replaced by Chief of Department James O'Neill. — New York City police Commissioner William Bratton will announce on Tuesday that he is resigning and will be replaced by Chief of Department James O'Neill …
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Amber Jamieson / Guardian:
New York City protesters demand police commissioner Bill Bratton be fired
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The Daily Beast:
Why Did Russia Send ‘The Terminator’ on a Humanitarian Mission in Syria? — Russia's Defense Ministry says the aircraft was returning from a ‘humanitarian cargo’ mission. If so, it was a strange model to use. — While we don't yet know which rebel group shot down a Russian military helicopter …
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Lisa Barrington / Reuters:
Rescuers say toxic gas dropped on Syrian town where Russian helicopter shot down
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The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon
Nick Gass / Politico:
Eric Trump: Ivanka wouldn't allow herself to be subjected to sexual harassment — Ivanka Trump would not put herself in a position to be sexually harassed in the way that former Fox News chief Roger Ailes is accused of doing, Eric Trump said of his older sister on Tuesday …
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Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Trump and feminists should quit blaming Roger Ailes' victims: Kirsten Powers
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Kurt Chirbas / NBC News:
Woman, 23, Fatally Shot by Cops in Maryland; Boy, 5, Hurt — A woman was shot and killed on Monday when an hours-long standoff at a Maryland apartment ended in an exchange of gunfire that also left a 5-year-old boy wounded. — Authorities said Korryn Shandawn Gaines, 23 …
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Alison Knezevich / Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore County police fatally shoot woman in Randallstown barricade
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Media Matters for America:
Trump vs. Khan: How Smearing Everyday Americans Became A Right-Wing Media Tradition — Who picks a campaign fight with Gold Star parents who have paid the ultimate sacrifice? — That's the dominant campaign question being asked from so many different quarters as Donald Trump continues …
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Politico, Reuters, Balloon Juice and Washington Post
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Trump: Wind power ‘kills all your birds’ — bashed renewable energy sources Monday night, saying solar power doesn't work well and wind turbines kill birds. — The GOP presidential nominee has stated his preference for coal and natural gas, and has previously said that solar power …
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