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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Trump's Ambiguous Wink Wink to ‘Second Amendment People’ — And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin got assassinated. — His right-wing opponents just kept delegitimizing him as a “traitor” and “a Nazi” for wanting to make peace with the Palestinians and give back part of the Land of Israel.
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
The GOP must dump Trump — The Muslim ban, the David Duke denial, the “Mexican” judge flap, the draft dodger denigrating John McCain's military service, the son of privilege attacking an immigrant Gold Star mother and the constant revisionism and lying about past political positions taken …
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Grant Smith / Reuters:
One-in-five U.S. Republicans want Trump to drop out: Reuters/Ipsos poll — Nearly one-fifth of registered Republicans want Donald Trump to drop out of the race for the White House, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday, reflecting the turmoil his candidacy has sown within his party.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Warren: Trump a ‘pathetic coward’ who can't handle ‘losing to a girl’ — (D-Mass.) took to Twitter on Tuesday to slam Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — for appearing to joke about the possibility of gun owners taking action against Hillary Clinton
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Democrats: Trump costing GOP in key House districts — Hillary Clinton is trouncing Donald Trump in several swing House districts, Democratic Party officials say in a new memo obtained by POLITICO that touts the party's down-ballot prospects in November but does not predict they'll capture the chamber.
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Dan Rather / Facebook:
No trying-to-be objective and fair journalist, no citizen who cares about the country and its future can ignore what Donald Trump said today. When he suggested that “The Second Amendment People” can stop Hillary Clinton he crossed a line with dangerous potential.
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Support Among Republican Women Starts to Slide — Of all the tribulations facing Donald J. Trump, perhaps none is stirring as much anxiety inside his campaign as the precipitous decline of support from Republican women, an electoral cornerstone for the party's past nominees that is starting to crumble.
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Will Drabold / TIME:
Former Secret Service Official: Donald Trump Is ‘Pretty Close to the Edge’ — 'You don't know what you're encouraging other people to do' — Donald Trump's comments Tuesday about “Second Amendment people” could be considered a “veiled threat” against Hillary Clinton, a former top Secret Service official told TIME.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump says ‘Second Amendment people’ could stop Clinton
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New York Times:
Donald Trump Suggests ‘Second Amendment People’ Could Act Against Hillary Clinton
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
From Trump's controversial words, a pattern: Outrage, headlines and then denial
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump in trouble over ‘Second Amendment’ remark
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New York Daily News:
Trump must go: Hinting at assassination is too much, even for him
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Camp Spins ‘2nd Amendment People’: He Means Their Votes
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Emails Renew Questions About Clinton Foundation and State Dept. Overlap — WASHINGTON — A new batch of State Department emails released Tuesday showed the close and sometimes overlapping interests between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.
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Associated Press:
LEGAL GROUP ISSUES PRIVATE EMAILS CLINTON DID NOT TURN OVER — WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has turned over 44 previously-unreleased Hillary Clinton email exchanges that the Democratic presidential nominee failed to include among the 30,000 private messages she turned over to the government last year.
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Jason Leopold / VICE News:
FBI probe of Clinton's emails prompted by espionage fears, secret letters say
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Brandon Cockerham / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Uncovers New Batch of Hillary Clinton Emails
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
In email, State asked to ‘take care of’ Clinton Foundation associate
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John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Clinton Up 6 on Trump in Two-Way Race in Bloomberg National Poll — The findings suggest damage has been done to one of Trump's main calling cards, his business expertise. — McCormickJohn — Hillary Clinton has retained most of the bounce she received after the Democratic National Convention …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan weathers his primary but GOP's populist storm still rages — JANESVILLE, Wis. — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) reveled in the aftermath of his commanding and expected primary victory Tuesday against Paul Nehlen, a Donald Trump-inspired opponent, by ordering cheese curds and beer for his supporters.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Ryan crushes Trump-imitating primary foe
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David Robinson / Variance Explained:
Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half — I don't normally post about politics (I'm not particularly savvy about polling, which is where data science has had the largest impact on politics). But this weekend I saw a hypothesis …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
RNC suffers spate of Trump-related departures — The Republican National Committee has seen a spate of departures in recent months related to its embrace of Donald Trump, whom some former staffers felt uncomfortable supporting. — In recent months, deputy press secretary James Hewitt …
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Michael V. Hayden / New York Times:
What Intelligence Briefings Can Tell Us About Candidates — The no-longer-presumptive nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties will soon start receiving periodic classified intelligence briefings, with the first one coming perhaps this week. Rarely has this routine ritual received …
Annie Karni / Politico:
Inside Clinton's GOP recruitment plan — Day by day, the defectors are trickling out: Republican elected officials, bold-faced names from the George W. Bush administration, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, all repudiating Donald Trump. — In one burst on Monday, 50 former Republican national …
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Guardian:
The Nauru files: 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention — Exclusive: The largest cache of documents to be leaked from within Australia's asylum seeker detention regime details assaults, sexual assaults and self-harm
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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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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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Lauren McGaughy / Dallas Morning News:
Professors who ban guns in their classrooms will be punished, UT lawyer says — AUSTIN — Three professors duking it out in court for the right to ban guns in their classrooms were told Monday they will be punished if they do, according to the latest legal back-and-forth prompted by Texas' new campus carry law.
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