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2:40 PM ET, August 4, 2016

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WBUR:
WBUR Poll: After Conventions, Clinton Up 15 Points Over Trump In New Hampshire 06:31  —  Play  —  According to a new WBUR poll of New Hampshire voters, Hillary Clinton is enjoying a dramatic post-convention bump and now leads Donald Trump by 15 points.  Our poll also shows Democrat Maggie Hassan …
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Detroit News:
Clinton jumps to a big lead over Trump in Michigan poll  —  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over Republican Donald Trump in Michigan as 3-in-5 likely voters say the New York businessman is not qualified to be president, according to a new poll conducted for The Detroit News and WDIV-TV.
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Ex-GOP senator: Trump's a sociopath  —  Former Sen. Gordon Humphrey (R-N.H.) says he is considering voting for Hillary Clinton  —  Humphrey, who served in Congress from the '70s to 1990, told NBC News on Thursday he is confident that Trump has major psychological issues …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Pennsylvania poll: Clinton has double-digit lead over Trump  —  has opened up an 11-point lead over Donald Trump  —  among likely voters in Pennsylvania, according to a new Franklin and Marshall College poll.  —  Clinton has 49 percent in the poll among likely Pennsylvania voters while Trump has 38 percent.
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump: 'I don't know why we're not leading by a lot'
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Former GOP Senator Might Vote for Clinton
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Why is progressive frustration with Hillary Clinton not boosting the Green Party?
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Paul Manafort Acknowledges ‘Conflict’ Within the Trump Campaign Over Paul Ryan Endorsement  —  Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, acknowledged that “there's a conflict within the Trump campaign” over the Republican presidential nominee's hesitation to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin for re-election.
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Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Media trumpeting Trump implosion, but is it real?  —  This is what a full-fledged feeding frenzy looks like.  —  With Donald Trump facing the roughest stretch of his candidacy, the media have moved from questioning his sanity to depicting a campaign in disarray and top Republicans still wondering whether they can dump the nominee.
Discussion: Vox Popoli and Instapundit
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan just summed up Republicans' Donald Trump problem in three lines  —  If the top priority for politicians was simply to dominate news coverage through sheer volume, there's no question Donald Trump has succeeded like no other.  Between the slights and non-endorsements …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Giuliani blames Gingrich for Trump ‘intervention’ reports
Associated Press:
The Latest: Ryan Reaffirms Support for Trump
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
Nick Gass / Politico:
Manafort misspeaks on Ryan: 'I'm going to be supporting him as a candidate for president, too'
Discussion: Towleroad
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Gaps in Melania Trump's immigration story raise questions  —  Nude photographs published this week are raising fresh questions about the accuracy of a key aspect of Melania Trump's biography: her immigration status when she first came to the United States to work as a model.
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Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
Melania Trump, Lucky Immigrant
The Sean Hannity Show:
LISTEN: Sean Explains Why Republican Insiders Will Be To Blame If Trump Is Defeated In November  —  GOP insiders are in full-on panic mode over Donald Trump after a rough week led to a dip in the polls for the Republican nominee.  While we're still several months from the November election …
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Lawrence Delevingne / Reuters:
Billionaire Klarman slams Trump, vows to work for Clinton
Foursquare Direct:
How the Trump Presidential Campaign is Affecting Trump Businesses  —  At Foursquare, our data scientists are often called upon to analyze real world trends; we use Big Data to determine how commercial fortunes are rising or falling.  This year, politics and business are intersecting …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Erickson Angrily Tears Into Trump Boosters: You ‘Reflect the Evil Character of Your God’  —  Erick Erickson has been a #NeverTrump conservative for a while now, but something Trump said today finally pushed him to a place of extreme anger at his boosters.  —  Erickson was set off …
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Donald Trump did not actually watch an Iranian recording of that controversial money transfer  —  As Fox News reported on the controversial transfer of $400 million in cash to Iran in January, it repeatedly played dark, grainy footage of shadowy figures walking off a small private plane with bags with hand.
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Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Officials Raised Objections on U.S. Cash Payment to Iran
Gayle Fee / Boston Herald:
Sasha Obama lands summer job at Vineyard seafood joint  —  Sasha Obama, who has lived eight of her 15 years in the luxurious confines of the White House, is learning how the other half lives this summer.  The First Daughter is working the takeout window at Nancy's, a seafood restaurant on Martha's Vineyard.
Glamour:
President Barack Obama on Feminism, Michelle, and His Daughters  —  There are a lot of tough aspects to being President.  But there are some perks too.  Meeting extraordinary people across the country.  Holding an office where you get to make a difference in the life of our nation.  Air Force One.
Kristen Taketa / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Missouri's head public defender assigns case to Gov. Nixon, cites overburdened staff  —  Fed up with what he says is the governor's failure to properly fund his overwhelmed office, the state's lead public defender ordered Gov. Jay Nixon this week to represent a poor person in Cole County this month.
Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Hanging Tough  —  Why we've made only minor changes to our Electoral College ratings since March  —  On March 31, we released our first general election map of the Electoral College.  With our self-imposed rule of permitting no cop-out “toss-ups” — a rule we'll try to hold to as we handicap …
Discussion: Politico and Business Insider
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Megyn Kelly Loses It Over Trump Rehashing Old Dirt: ‘What Is He Doing?!’  (VIDEO)  —  Fox News' Megyn Kelly couldn't conceal how baffled she was by Donald Trump's choosing to remind voters about his oldest campaign controversies on the trail this week.  —  After Trump tried to rehash …
Ian M. Smith / The Hill:
Bill Clinton's call for mass voter fraud should be condemned  —  Illegal aliens have never had more incentives and ability to vote in our elections as they do this cycle.  After being told by the globalist elite they're illegal entry into the country is without consequence …
David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
The Political Process Isn't Rigged — It Has Much Bigger Problems  —  All right, I need to vent.  For months, I've watched Donald Trump decry as “rigged” everything from the Democratic primaries, the Republican primary rules (that's right, the same rules that helped him win the nomination) and the fall debate schedule.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 
 
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Nancy Fischer / Buffalo News:
North Tonawanda's only black firefighter targeted by racist letter at his home
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Nicole Santa Cruz / Los Angeles Times:
After 16 years, a call out of the blue leads to the LAPD capturing a ‘most wanted’ murder suspect
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Clint Eastwood / TMZ.com:
DEMS EXPLOITED KHAN FAMILY
Maria Cardona / The Hill:
The ‘Trump Train’ flies off the rails, again
Discussion: Raw Story
Blake Neff / The Daily Caller:
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Khans Jeopardize Trump Strategy Banking on Veterans' Votes
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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
Wearing 'Don't Tread on Me' insignia could be punishable racial harassment
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Right blames Ryan for rebel's loss
Discussion: Washington Post, KBSL-TV and Politico
Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
The Trump Hispanic Engagement Effort Is Sputtering
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Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post:
Third party candidates won't really matter in November
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