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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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Campaign Plays Down Appearance at Clinton Rally by Orlando Nightclub Shooter's Father — MIAMI — The father of the shooter who terrorized a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., in June attended a campaign rally on Monday for Hillary Clinton, compelling her campaign to move quickly to distance itself from him.
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The Resurgent and Washington Free Beacon

Orlando Terrorist's Father Cheers at Hillary Clinton Rally; Calls For Gun Control
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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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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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RedState, Hot Air and New York Magazine

The Daily 202: Why some Republican politicians are really coming out against Trump
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Vox and New York Magazine


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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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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Donald Trump needs a miracle to win — Three months from now, with the 2016 presidential election in the rear-view mirror, we will look back and agree that the presidential election was over on Aug. 9th. — Of course, it is politically incorrect to say that the die is cast.
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The Ringer and Liberal Values


Clinton Campaign Now Outspending Trump on Ads — $52 Million to 0
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The Hill, The Resurgent and Tablet Magazine

Georgia poll: Clinton leads by 7 points
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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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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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Clinton Accepts Fall Debate Schedule, Challenges Trump
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CNNMoney and The New Civil Rights Movement

Clinton accepts three debate invitations
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Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos


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.
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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.


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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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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New York Magazine, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Hot Air


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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Fox News Insider, Pamela Geller, CANNONFIRE, BizPac Review and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Two Benghazi Parents Sue Hillary Clinton for Wrongful Death, Defamation
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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
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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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Giuliani slams GOP national security officials against Trump
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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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Mother Jones and bradford-delong.com


Trump Goes Traditional With Florida Meeting of Evangelical Leaders — The Republican presidential nominee will meet with members of the American Renewal Project's Pastors and Pews series, courting a key voting bloc. — JenniferJJacobs — Donald Trump is going to his first Pastors …
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alan.com, Right Wing Watch, CBN.com, Washington Post, The New Civil Rights Movement, LifeNews.com and Florida Politics


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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Daily Wire, Independent Journal Review and The Week


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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Power Line


Sean Hannity's Veneration of Ignorance — The right's political huckster gives Al Sharpton a run for his money. — It was probably inevitable that Donald Trump and his media munchkins would alight on the stab-in-the-back theory to explain his probable defeat in November.
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Mediaite

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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Political Wire and Mediaite