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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump says ‘Second Amendment people’ could stop Clinton … Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — appeared to joke about the possibility that Hillary Clinton — could be shot in remarks at a campaign rally Tuesday in Wilmington, N.C. — Trump was discussing the possibility that Clinton …
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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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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump in trouble over ‘Second Amendment’ remark — Donald Trump on Tuesday said “the Second Amendment people” may be the only way to stop Hillary Clinton from getting to appoint federal judges if she wins the presidential election in November. — “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Camp Spins ‘2nd Amendment People’: He Means Their Votes — The Donald Trump campaign offered an explanation of an allusion the GOP nominee made to “the Second Amendment people” preventing Hillary Clinton from appointing Supreme Court justices — a line widely interpreted to be a reference …
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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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Candace Smith / ABC News:
Trump Says ‘Maybe’ 2nd Amendment Folks Can Stop Clinton's Supreme Court Picks — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump raised eyebrows Tuesday when he suggested there is “nothing” that can be done to stop Hillary Clinton's Supreme Court picks except “maybe” the “Second Amendment people.”
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Polls: Clinton's Lead Over Trump Increases in Three Battleground States
Polls: Clinton's Lead Over Trump Increases in Three Battleground States
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Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post:
Donald Trump needs a miracle to win
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
Clinton Campaign Now Outspending Trump on Ads — $52 Million to 0
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: Without ID law, voters will vote ‘15 times’ for Clinton
Trump: Without ID law, voters will vote ‘15 times’ for Clinton
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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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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Clinton-Trump debate sites plan for a third podium
Clinton-Trump debate sites plan for a third podium
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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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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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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP buzzing about Fiorina as RNC head — Carly Fiorina's quiet outreach to state party chairs in recent days has top Republicans speculating that she's laying the groundwork for a Republican National Committee chairmanship bid. — Fiorina's advisers have reached out to more than a dozen …
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Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Carly Fiorina Plotting Bid to Chair Republican National Committee
Carly Fiorina Plotting Bid to Chair Republican National Committee
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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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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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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Child rape victim comes forward for the first time in 40 years to call Hillary Clinton a ‘liar’ who defended her rapist by smearing her, blocking evidence and callously laughing that she knew he was guilty — ‘Hillary Clinton is not for women and children,’ says Kathy Shelton …
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Chicago Tribune:
Patti Blagojevich ‘dumbfounded’ as judge upholds ex-governor's 14-year prison term — Photos of Rod Blagojevich's resentencing hearing. (Chicago Tribune) — A federal judge imposed the same 14-year prison sentence on Rod Blagojevich Tuesday despite pleas for mercy from the former governor, his wife and two daughters.
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Two Benghazi Parents Sue Hillary Clinton for Wrongful Death, Defamation — The parents of two Americans killed in the 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court Monday against Hillary Clinton.
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘We ended up kissing and kissing led to other things’: Mother, 36, and son, 19, who fell in love when they met last year after she gave him up for adoption as a baby, say they'll go to JAIL to defend their relationship — Monica Mares, 36, and her son Caleb Peterson, 19 …
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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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KSL-TV:
Layton police sergeant hospitalized after Subway worker allegedly puts drugs in his drink — LAYTON — A Subway employee deliberately put illegal drugs into a Layton police sergeant's drink Monday, causing the man to be hospitalized, investigators say. — Tanis Lloyd Ukena, 18 …
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Introducing The Run-Up, Our New Election Podcast — It's 90 days until Election Day. To guide you through this final, delirious phase of the presidential campaign, The New York Times is drawing on our all-star team of reporters, columnists, magazine writers and analysts to create a new podcast.
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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.
Wayne Dupree:
TRENDING: Black Trump Supporter Tries To Save Flag From Being Burned — More and more Americans are taking the risk to stop liberal flag burners from destroying the beautiful flag of freedom. — The unnamed Trump supporter stated the following: … He's 100 percent correct.
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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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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 …