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Tory Dunnan / WPTV:
Orlando shooter's father attends Hillary Clinton rally in Kissimmee — Seddique Mateen seen sitting right behind Clinton — KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Hillary Clinton spoke to a crowd in Kissimmee, just south of Orlando. She was supposed to be talking jobs, but started the speech off paying tribute …
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Campaign Plays Down Appearance at Clinton Rally by Orlando Nightclub Shooter's Father
Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Father of Orlando Nightclub Shooter Attends Hillary Clinton Rally
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Alex Altman / TIME:
Donald Trump Says ‘I Want to Debate Very Badly.’ But He Has Conditions — ‘I renegotiated the debates in the primaries, remember?’ he tells TIME — Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will commit to three debates this fall with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, but may try to re-negotiate …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why Donald Trump might not debate Hillary Clinton — Hillary Clinton's campaign just threw down the gauntlet, challenging Donald Trump to accept the three presidential debates that have been scheduled. — In a statement Monday night, Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta …
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Politicus USA, New York Magazine and twitchy.com
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Clinton-Trump debate sites plan for a third podium — The venues that will host the presidential debates are drawing up plans for a three-person forum that would provide a lectern for a third-party candidate to stand on stage next to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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Brian McBride / ABC News:
Clinton Accepts Fall Debate Schedule, Challenges Trump
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Clinton leads in NC for first time since March — PPP's newest North Carolina poll finds Hillary Clinton leading in the state, albeit by a narrow margin, for the first time since March. She's at 43% to 41% for Donald Trump, 7% for Gary Johnson, and 2% for Jill Stein.
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NBC News:
Poll: Clinton Opens Up Double-Digit Lead Over Trump — Hillary Clinton now holds a 10-point lead over Donald Trump, 51 percent to 41 percent, according to results from the latest NBC News| SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll — Clinton's double-digit lead is up from an 8-point gap last week.
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Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post:
Donald Trump needs a miracle to win
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Clinton Campaign Now Outspending Trump on Ads — $52 Million to 0
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Susan Collins / Washington Post:
GOP senator Susan Collins: Why I cannot support Trump — The writer, a Republican, represents Maine in the Senate. — I will not be voting for Donald Trump for president. This is not a decision I make lightly, for I am a lifelong Republican. But Donald Trump does not reflect historical …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump strikes back against GOP critics — A day after Donald Trump faced a wave of criticism from members of the Republican Party, the GOP presidential nominee took to Twitter and the airwaves to hit back against his detractors. — “I am running against the Washington insiders …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Why some Republican politicians are really coming out against Trump
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Why Did Fox News Welcome Date Rape Apologist Mike Cernovich? — As Roger Ailes's sexual harassment scandal continues to unfold, Fox News is being forced to answer why Mike Cernovich was invited to be a guest on ‘Red Eye.’ — At the Fox News Channel, when it rains, it pours.
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Media Matters for America:
CNN's Brian Stelter: Fox News Sent A Staffer To Date Me And Spy On Me Ten Years Ago — BRIAN STELTER: In terms of the money, this is Gabriel Sherman's reporting in New York magazine. He's been a leader on this story, wrote a book about Roger Ailes a number of years ago.
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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Inside the Fox News Bunker — In the subterranean newsroom, fear is everywhere. “Hacking was bad,” says one person familiar with the internal investigation. “This is arguably worse.” — Few people in the news business have valued secrecy quite like Roger Ailes, the former C.E.O. of Fox News.
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
The Polls Aren't Skewed: Trump Really Is Losing Badly — We've reached that stage of the campaign. The back-to-school commercials are on the air, and the “unskewing” of polls has begun — the quadrennial exercise in which partisans simply adjust the polls to get results more to their liking …
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Sasha Goldstein / News + Opinion, Seven Days:
Bernie Sanders Buys a Summer Home in North Hero — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is the proud new owner of a summer home on the Champlain Islands, Seven Days has confirmed. — The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a camp in North Hero.
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Fox News:
Parents of 2 Benghazi victims sue Hillary Clinton for wrongful death, defamation — The parents of two of the four Americans who died in the Benghazi attack in 2012 filed a lawsuit Monday against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, alleging her “reckless handling” of classified information contributed to their deaths.
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Michael Kinsley / Vanity Fair:
Donald Trump and the Limits of Data Journalism — As the Internet changes journalism, one clear trend is a focus on data, championed by the likes of Vox's Ezra Klein and The New York Times's Nate Cohn. But not every Venn diagram contains something worth reporting.
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Is Florida Even a Swing State Anymore? — Republicans' electoral map may have ceded Virginia, but Florida is a must-win for them. Demographics and Trump's trouble with college-educated whites make that increasingly unlikely. — Remember a couple months ago when Reince Priebus tweeted …
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Florida Politics, Washington Times and Washington Post
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Trump To GOP National Security Experts: I Wasn't Going To Hire You Anyway — Donald Trump responded to a letter signed by fifty national security experts and advisors who won't vote for the GOP nominee by saying that he “hadn't planned on using any of these people.”
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Giuliani slams GOP national security officials against Trump
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Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
Obamacare Appears to Be Making People Healthier — Obamacare has provided health insurance to some 20 million people. But are they any better off? — This has been the central question as we've been watching the complex and expensive health law unfurl.
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Talking Points Memo and WBUR
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John Noonan / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed I was a Minuteman III nuclear launch officer. Take it from me: We can't let Trump become president — A deactivated Titan II ballistic missile, used during the Cold War as a nuclear deterrent, sits in a silo in southern Arizona. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP/Getty Images)
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Clinton expands battleground state map with push into Arizona, Georgia — Representatives of Hillary Clinton's campaign phoned state Democratic leaders in Arizona and Georgia on Monday night to alert them of plans to begin transferring funds to hire more field organizers in those states …
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Daily Wire, Daily Kos, Political Insider blog, The Resurgent and Heat Street
Media Matters for America:
Roger Stone Confirms That He's In Communication With Julian Assange — QUESTIONER: With regard to the October surprise, what would be your forecast on that given what Julian Assange has intimated he's going to do? — ROGER STONE: Well, it could be any number of things. I actually have communicated with Assange.
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Roger Kimball / Wall Street Journal:
The College Formerly Known as Yale — Any renaming push on the Ivy campus should start at the top—with Elihu Yale, slave trader extraordinaire. — By — The English novelist Kingsley Amis once observed that much that was wrong with the 20th century could be summed up in the word “workshop.”
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Red Alert Politics and Power Line
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
FOX News' Medical Team: What Do Hillary Clinton's Neurological Records Show? — The ‘FOX News Medical A-Team’ talks about a photo that caught internet buzz over the weekend from February that showed Hillary Clinton needing the help of aides to walk up a set of stairs and reports of Clinton health problems in general.
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