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10:10 AM ET, August 4, 2016

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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Clinton leads Trump by 10 points, both seen as flawed  —  Sixty-one percent of voters think Hillary Clinton is dishonest, yet she's opened up a big lead over Donald Trump in the latest Fox News Poll.  —  Here's why: majorities think Clinton is nevertheless qualified to be president …
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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.
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 …
CNN:
Can a rising Obama help Hillary Clinton?
Discussion: The Week
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Why Donald Trump's campaign is like a speeding car with its parts falling off  —  Stuart Stevens was the chief strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential bid.  He is also one of the most vocal Republican critics of Donald Trump.  I reach out to Stuart every few months to gauge where he stands vis a vis Trump.
Discussion: The Week
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David Catanese / US News:
Donald Trump, Party of 1  —  Furious with his top campaign command, Trump's response is to go it alone.  —  But Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort says any talk of turmoil within the campaign is rumors instigated by the Clinton campaign.  (EVAN VUCCI/AP)
Kathleen Walter / WPEC:
CBS12 speaks One-on-One with Donald Trump  —  DAYTONA BEACH, Fl.  (CBS12) —  Republican Presidential Nominee was in Daytona Beach Wednesday, and sat down with CBS12's Kathleen Walter while on the campaign trail.  —  At the Ocean Center, she caught up with Donald Trump before his rally, to discuss a wide range of issues.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
ABC News:
Clinton Camp Not Planning Foreign Trip, Citing State Department Experience
Discussion: Hot Air and Political Wire
Bianca Padró Ocasio / Politico:
Clinton uses props to rip Trump at tie factory stop
Washington Post:
GOP reaches ‘new level of panic’ over Trump's candidacy
Michael Hainey / Esquire:
Clint and Scott Eastwood: No Holds Barred in Their First Interview Together  —  Think your old man is a ball-buster?  Try being the son of Clint Eastwood.  And then try making a name for yourself in the family business.  This month, as Clint and Scott Eastwood go head-to-head at the box office …
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Maria L La Ganga / Guardian:   Clint Eastwood defends Trump's ‘racist’ remarks: ‘Just get over it’
Kaitlan Collins / The Daily Caller:   Clint Eastwood On Hillary Clinton: 'It's A Tough Voice To Listen To For Four Years'
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap:
Clint Eastwood on Donald Trump's Racism: ‘Just F—ing Get Over It’
Discussion: Althouse
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.
Daily Mail:
HISTORY OF TERROR IN BRITAIN: HOW TONIGHT'S ATTACK MIRRORS BRUTAL MURDER OF SOLDIER LEE RIGBY THREE YEARS AGO AND COMES IN THE WAKE OF FOILED PLANS  —  Tonight's attack mirrored the brutal killing of a soldier in London and comes in the wake of an increasing number of foiled attacks in Britain.
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Mynewsdesk:
People injured at Russell Square
Mhiggins / The Sun:
RUSSELL SQUARE BLOODBATH Woman in her 60s knifed to death and five injured in possible terror attack …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Paul Sperry / Breitbart:
Khizr Khan Believes the Constitution ‘Must Always Be Subordinated to the Sharia’  —  Notwithstanding his war-hero son's genuinely patriotic example, Khizr M. Khan has published papers supporting the supremacy of Islamic law over “man-made” Western law — including the very Constitution …
Discussion: WND and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
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Dana J.H. Pittard / Washington Post:
I was Capt. Khan's commander in Iraq. The Khan family is our family.
Reuters:
In slap at Trump, some wealthy Republicans campaign for Clinton  —  Groups of wealthy Republicans unhappy with Donald Trump have been privately courting prominent peers to join them in backing Democrat Hillary Clinton's U.S. presidential bid, several people involved in the effort told Reuters.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Obama Commutes 214 Criminal Sentences, Including Firearm Offenses  —  The White House announced Wednesday President Obama has commuted 214 criminal sentences, the most of any day in history since 1900.  Sixty-seven of the individuals who were granted clemency were serving life sentences.
Discussion: Daily Wire
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Neil Eggleston / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
President Obama Commutes the Sentences of 214 Additional People
Paul Ryan / USA Today:
Drop the politics, put health first: Paul Ryan  —  Democrats obstruct deal.  —  We shouldn't be politicizing the Zika threat.  We should be fighting it.  From the start, the Republican-led Congress has made it a priority to enact smart measures and secure resources to protect the public.
BBC:
Gay Syrian man beheaded and mutilated in Turkey  —  The headless, mutilated body of a gay Syrian man has been identified by gay housemates in Istanbul who say he had been gang-raped previously.  —  The friends of Muhammad Wisam Sankari told a Turkish gay rights group, kaosgl.org, that they had been threatened by violent male gangs.
Discussion: Towleroad
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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Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Bitch! Beaner! Ni***r!: Trump Rallies Uncensored (VIDEO)
Discussion: Business Insider and Politicus USA
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump: My policies could have prevented 9/11  —  argued Wednesday that his immigration policies could have prevented the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks by keeping the hijackers from entering America in the first place.  —  The GOP presidential nominee brought up the issue at a rally in Daytona Beach …
 
 
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Erickson Angrily Tears Into Trump Boosters: You ‘Reflect the Evil Character of Your God’
Discussion: The Resurgent
The Commercial Appeal:
Todd arrested for stealing Lovell's signs, but Lovell bails him out of jail
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Charles Woods: Hillary Clinton Stood Over My Son's Flag Draped Casket and Lied To Everyone
Discussion: American Thinker
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Meg Whitman's Treason
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Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Officials Raised Objections on U.S. Cash Payment to Iran
Getty Images / KABE-LP:
EXCLUSIVE: New poll shows Trump has a big Hispanic problem in Florida
Discussion: Politicus USA
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
I have a few questions for ‘Morning Joe’...
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Republican Donors Panic As Trump Melts Down
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