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Trump Allies Plot Candidate Intervention After Disastrous 48 Hours — Key Republicans close to Donald Trump's orbit are plotting an intervention with the candidate after a disastrous 48 hours led some influential voices in the party to question whether Trump can stay at the top …
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Senior GOP Officials Exploring Options if Trump Drops Out — Republican officials are exploring how to handle a scenario that would be unthinkable in a normal election year: What would happen if the party's presidential nominee dropped out? — ABC News has learned that senior party officials …
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John Harwood / CNBC:
Ally of Trump staffer Paul Manafort: The staff is ‘suicidal,’ he's mailing it in — Donald Trump's behavior in recent days, from criticizing the parents of a fallen American soldier to declining to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan, has strained the nerves of his campaign staff as he falls behind in the polls.
NBC News:
GOP Reels After Unprecedented 24 Hours From Trump — 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. — GOP, Trump go from ‘unraveling’ to ‘break glass’ mode
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump transcript: The Republican nominee in his own words — Republican nominee Donald Trump sat down with The Post's Philip Rucker for an interview at Trump National Golf Club on Aug. 2 following a rally at a nearby high school. This is a lightly edited transcript of the 50-minute interview.
Katy Tur / NBC News:
RNC Chairman Priebus ‘Apoplectic’ Over Trump's Refusal to Endorse Ryan — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is “apoplectic” over Donald Trump's refusal to back House Speaker Paul Ryan or Sen. John McCain, a top Republican source said. — Priebus called several Trump staffers …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Gingrich blasts Trump's ‘very self-destructive’ behavior — Donald Trump's behavior over the past week has been “very self-destructive” to his campaign, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday, comparing the Republican nominee to a Hall of Fame quarterback who is in the midst of an interception-throwing slump.
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CNN:
Sources: Trump-world frustrated by their candidate — (CNN)Donald Trump aides and people close to his campaign are increasingly frustrated by his insistence on waging various fights that steer him off message. — Sources close to the campaign are describing a series of missteps that are trailing …
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Washington Post:
GOP reaches ‘new level of panic’ over Trump's candidacy — The Republican Party was in turmoil again Wednesday as party leaders, strategists and donors voiced increasing alarm about the flailing state of Donald Trump's candidacy and fears that the presidential nominee was damaging the party …
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John Harwood / CNBC:
Former top Gingrich ally calls Trump nom ‘mistake of historic proportions’ — Vin Weber, a key early lieutenant in the Newt Gingrich revolution that transformed the U.S. House of Representatives and the GOP, rejected the candidacy of Donald Trump on Wednesday as “a mistake of historic proportions” for his party.
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Mike Pence ‘strongly’ endorses Paul Ryan, as Trump refuses to do the same
Mike Pence ‘strongly’ endorses Paul Ryan, as Trump refuses to do the same
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Pence: Trump ‘strongly encouraged me to endorse Paul Ryan’
Pence: Trump ‘strongly encouraged me to endorse Paul Ryan’
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Reports: Priebus ‘Apoplectic,’ Trump Aides ‘Suicidal’ After String Of Blunders
Reports: Priebus ‘Apoplectic,’ Trump Aides ‘Suicidal’ After String Of Blunders
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New York Times:
Mike Pence Splits With Donald Trump on Paul Ryan Endorsement
Mike Pence Splits With Donald Trump on Paul Ryan Endorsement
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Ivan Levingston / CNBC:
What happens if a candidate—say Donald Trump—drops out of the presidential race
What happens if a candidate—say Donald Trump—drops out of the presidential race
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Over the last 24 hours, Donald Trump has insulted his party's …
Over the last 24 hours, Donald Trump has insulted his party's …
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Martinlongman / Washington Monthly:
With Trump, Every Day is a New Buffet
With Trump, Every Day is a New Buffet
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Huelskamp loses GOP primary after ideological battle
Huelskamp loses GOP primary after ideological battle
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Trump denies asking why nukes aren't used — 's presidential campaign denied a report on Wednesday that the Republican presidential nominee had three times asked a foreign policy adviser why the U.S. could not use its vast nuclear arsenal. — “There is no truth to this,” …
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New York Times:
Voices From Donald Trump's Rallies, Uncensored — “Trump that bitch!” — “Build a wall — kill them all.” — New York Times reporters have spent over a year covering Donald J. Trump's rallies, witnessing so many provocations and heated confrontations at them that the cumulative effect can be numbing …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Meg Whitman, Calling Donald Trump a ‘Demagogue,’ Will Support Hillary Clinton for President
Meg Whitman, Calling Donald Trump a ‘Demagogue,’ Will Support Hillary Clinton for President
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Boy's Crude Chant Draws Attention at Trump Rally
Boy's Crude Chant Draws Attention at Trump Rally
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Wall Street Journal:
George W. Bush Delivers Critique of Donald Trump's Policies — Former president stops short of putting his remarks in the context of the 2016 presidential campaign — Without naming Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, former President George W. Bush delivered an incisive critique …
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
‘Boy Bye!’ CNN Panel Goes Off the Rails After Lewandowski Goes Birther on Obama — CNN contributor and former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski went full birther tonight in a panel segment that really went off the rails. — Lewandowski and Angela Rye were fighting …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Lewandowski Revives Birther Conspiracy Theory About Obama
Lewandowski Revives Birther Conspiracy Theory About Obama
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed — Obama administration insists there was no quid pro quo, but critics charge payment amounted to ransom — WASHINGTON—The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release …
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Jim Galloway / Political Insider blog:
Georgia Republican says he might withhold electoral college vote from Donald Trump — I just finished a highly unusual telephone conversation with Baoky Vu, a naturalized U.S. citizen and longtime GOP activist in Georgia. — Vu will be on the November ballot as an elector …
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Wall Street Journal:
Wal-Mart in Talks to Buy Web Retailer Jet.com — Jet.com launched one year ago and raised more than $500 million — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is in talks to buy online discount retailer Jet.com Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in what would mark a disappointing end …
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
A Trump Victory Is a Scary Thought. A Disputed Loss Might Be Scarier. — Why his “rigged” comments are so corrosive and dangerous. — We have a tradition in the United States. When you lose an election, you take the L, and you move on. It's what John Adams did after he lost …
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ABC News:
DC Metro Cop Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Assist ISIS — A veteran police officer with one of the nation's most prominent transit systems has been arrested for allegedly trying to help ISIS, ABC News has learned exclusively. — Authorities believe that while working …
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Evan Perez / CNN:
DC transit officer charged with aiding ISIS
DC transit officer charged with aiding ISIS
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