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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump refuses to support Paul Ryan, John McCain in upcoming Republican primaries — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is refusing to back House Speaker Paul D. Ryan in his upcoming primary election, saying in an interview Tuesday that he is “not quite there yet” in endorsing his party's top-ranking elected official.
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Trump Says He'll Spend More Than $500 Billion on Infrastructure — The proposal would amount to a massive new government program. — Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed a plan to rebuild U.S. infrastructure that costs “at least double” the amount that Hillary Clinton has floated …
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Matt Friedman / Politico:
Christie calls Trump criticism of the Khans ‘inappropriate’ — In an unusual break with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Gov. Chris Christie said that Khizr and Ghazala Khan have the “right” to say whatever they want, and that criticism of them is “inappropriate.”
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Andrea Waguespack / Houston Chronicle:
New York Times uncovers Donald Trump's draft deferments — The subject of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's military service, or lack thereof, has been in the news of late. — But how, exactly, was Trump able to get out of the draft after he graduated high school college in 1968, the deadliest year of the Vietnam War?
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Christie Breaks Rank To Criticize Trump's ‘Inappropriate’ Khan Attacks
Christie Breaks Rank To Criticize Trump's ‘Inappropriate’ Khan Attacks
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Panic Mode: Khizr Khan Deletes Law Firm Website that Specialized in Muslim Immigration
Panic Mode: Khizr Khan Deletes Law Firm Website that Specialized in Muslim Immigration
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Dan Riehl / Breitbart:
Nehlen: Paul Ryan a ‘Soulless Globalist’ ‘Grown in a Petri Dish in DC’ Who Puts ‘Corporate America’ Over WI Workers
Nehlen: Paul Ryan a ‘Soulless Globalist’ ‘Grown in a Petri Dish in DC’ Who Puts ‘Corporate America’ Over WI Workers
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Neelesh Moorthy / @politifact:
Wrong: Fox News anchor says networks covered Khizr Khan but skipped Patricia Smith
Wrong: Fox News anchor says networks covered Khizr Khan but skipped Patricia Smith
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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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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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Donald J Trump for President:
TRUMP STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FAILED LEADERSHIP
TRUMP STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FAILED LEADERSHIP
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Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
To the Go-Along Republicans — Memo to Paul Ryan …
To the Go-Along Republicans — Memo to Paul Ryan …
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Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Obama: Trump “Unfit,” “Woefully Unprepared” For Presidency, Has To Be A Point Where Republicans Say “Enough”
Obama: Trump “Unfit,” “Woefully Unprepared” For Presidency, Has To Be A Point Where Republicans Say “Enough”
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
From Silence to Reproach: How 22 GOP Senators Reacted to Trump's Fight With Khans
From Silence to Reproach: How 22 GOP Senators Reacted to Trump's Fight With Khans
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump at rally: ‘Get the baby out of here’ — Donald Trump asked a woman with a crying baby to leave his rally in Ashburn, Virginia, on Tuesday. — The GOP nominee initially suggested that he did not mind the disruption. — “Don't worry about that baby.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: ‘I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier’
Trump: ‘I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier’
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Heads roll at the DNC — With just three months until Election Day and the Democrats' official party apparatus struggling to right itself from months of dysfunction and the scandal caused by the WikiLeaks email hack, interim Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile cleaned house Tuesday with the ouster of three top officials.
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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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Ramin Setoodeh / Variety:
How Jeff Zucker Made CNN Great Again … It's the second day of the Democratic National Convention, and Jeff Zucker is huddled with his CNN staff on the ground in Philadelphia. Unlike most cable news network chiefs, he is painstakingly involved with the minutiae of hourly coverage …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Jeff Zucker praises Corey Lewandowski, slams Vice and BuzzFeed
Jeff Zucker praises Corey Lewandowski, slams Vice and BuzzFeed
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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.
That poll showing Clinton leading in Utah? It doesn't exist.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Trump memo calls for ‘urgent pivot’ from Khan controversy — 's campaign sent out an email to surrogates this week titled “URGENT PIVOT” as the campaign seeks to control the damage from Trump's war of words with the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain killed in Iraq.
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Paul Ryan: We're in fight to ‘retake the soul’ of the Republican Party — (R-Wis.) told a donor audience convened by the billionaire Koch brothers that conservatives are in a fight to “retake the soul” of the Republican Party. — “We have to do a better job of taking the moral high ground …
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Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post:
Will GOP officials jump ship on Trump?
Will GOP officials jump ship on Trump?
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
First on CNN: Ex-top Christie aide backs Clinton over Trump — (CNN)Longtime Chris Christie aide Maria Comella says she plans to vote for Hillary Clinton — saying that after Donald Trump's nomination, Republicans are “at a moment where silence isn't an option.”
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump to Baby at Rally: Crying Is for Losers — Just when you think Donald Trump's campaign can't get any more surreal, the mogul goes and ejects a crying infant from his rally. — ASHBURN, VA — At his rally in Northern Virginia today, Donald Trump found a new foe: a baby.
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Beefs With Crying Babe At Rally: ‘Get The Baby Out Of Here!’ (VIDEO)
Trump Beefs With Crying Babe At Rally: ‘Get The Baby Out Of Here!’ (VIDEO)
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Jeff Donn / Associated Press:
Medical benefits of dental floss unproven — HOLMDEL, N.J. (AP) — It's one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: Floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities. — Except there's little proof that flossing works. — Still, the federal government …
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Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
DONALD TRUMP'S MANY BUSINESS FAILURES, EXPLAINED — And while Trump is quick to boast that his purported billions prove his business acumen, his net worth is almost unknowable given the loose standards and numerous outright misrepresentations he has made over the years.
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Clinton, Allies Have Reserved $98 Million in Ads — Hillary Clinton and her allies are poised for a TV ad blitz of nearly $100 million dollars, compared to less than $1 million currently reserved on the airwaves by backers of Donald Trump. — According to ad-tracking data provided to NBC News …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump: There's something ‘phony’ about these polls — cast doubt on general election polls that show him trailing Hillary Clinton — , calling those polls “phony.” — “I see some great polls — I see one from the Los Angeles Times, just came out, where were ahead by 4 or 5 points.
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Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
Child yells profanity directed at Hillary Clinton during Donald Trump rally — A school-age child at a Donald Trump rally on Tuesday stood up and yelled “Take the bitch down” after the candidate mentioned Hillary Clinton. His mother later defended the child's right to speak and blamed his language on “Democratic schools.”
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