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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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Politico, Media Matters for America, Mediaite, alan.com, The Week and twitchy.com
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Trump must go: Hinting at assassination is too much, even for him — Donald Trump must end his campaign for the White House in a reckoning with his own madness, while praying that nothing comes of his musing about an assassination of Hillary Clinton. — In the event that Trump fails …
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AOL, Politicus USA, The Canary, Fox News Insider, Mother Jones, Washington Times, The Week, Mediaite, Occupy Democrats, The Gateway Pundit and Vox


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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Vox, KSNG-TV, New York Post, Talking Points Memo, Politico, The Week and The Gateway Pundit

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.

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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alan.com, Gothamist, Guardian, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Raw Story and Politico


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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Vox, New York Magazine, Hot Air, CBS Pittsburgh, CNBC, The American Mirror and The Week


Rudy Giuliani Defends Donald Trump's Second Amendment Comments on ‘GMA’ — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani today defended Donald Trump's controversial comments about the Second Amendment that Hillary Clinton's campaign and others interpreted as a suggestion of violence against her.


Further Into the Muck With Mr. Trump — Three months from the presidential election, and one day after his running mate promised “specific policy proposals for how we rebuild this country at home and abroad,” Americans find themselves asking whether Donald Trump has called for the assassination of Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump's problem, in a nutshell: More than half the country says they'd never vote for him
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New York Magazine

‘Morning Joe’ co-hosts Brzezinski and Scarborough tiff: 'Mika, you're a Democrat'
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The Week

Democrats: Trump costing GOP in key House districts
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Washington Monthly and Outside the Beltway


Trump's Assassination Dog Whistle Was Even Scarier Than You Think
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ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, The Establishment, Vox, Shakesville, Talking Points Memo and The New Civil Rights Movement

Donald Trump's Support Among Republican Women Starts to Slide
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Political Insider blog, Outside the Beltway and Washington Monthly

From Trump's controversial words, a pattern: Outrage, headlines and then denial
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Politico, New York Magazine and BillMoyers.com

Donald Trump Says ‘Second Amendment People’ Can Stop Hillary Clinton From Curbing Gun Rights
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Washington Post and Washington Free Beacon

Trump accused of threatening violence against Clinton with gun-rights remarks
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The Atlantic and Hot Air

Warren: Trump a ‘pathetic coward’ who can't handle ‘losing to a girl’
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New York Times, Politico, Infowars, Althouse, CNN and CBS New York

The Note: Clinton Courts Republicans
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Pence attacks media after Trump's latest controversy
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RedState, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon, The Federalist, Patterico's Pontifications, The Hill and The Resurgent

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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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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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Fox News Insider and CBS Philly


E-Mails by Clinton Aides Show State-Foundation Links — Foundation aide flagged someone State should ‘take care of’ — Cache includes previously unreleased e-mails from Clinton — Newly released e-mails from a top aide to Hillary Clinton show evidence of contacts between Clinton's State Department …
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Hot Air, Politico, Scared Monkeys, Washington Free Beacon, New York Post, The Week, BizPac Review, The Daily Caller and twitchy.com

Deleted Clinton emails might remain secret until after election
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Hot Air and twitchy.com

Hillary Clinton Pitches Mormon Voters In Utah Newspaper Op-Ed — “I've been fighting to defend religious freedom for years,” Clinton writes in the Deseret News. — Hillary Clinton will pitch her candidacy to Mormon voters in Utah with an op-ed Wednesday in the church-owned Deseret News.
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Exclusive: Hillary Clinton: What I have in common with Utah leaders — religious freedom and the Constitution — Editor's note: The Deseret News has asked the major presidential candidates to share their views with our readers. Last week, we published an op-ed from Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.
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Politicus USA


WOW! BREAKING=> Julian Assange Suggests Seth Rich - Who Was MURDERED in DC - Was Wikileaks DNC Source! — On July 8, 2016, 27 year-old Democratic staffer Seth Conrad Rich was murdered in Washington DC. The killer or killers took nothing from their victim, leaving behind his wallet, watch and phone.
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Julian Assange Floats Theory That Murdered DNC Employee Was Informant In Dutch Interview
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Slate, The Hill, RedState, Hullabaloo, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Talking Points Memo, Pamela Geller, Hot Air and Heat Street


Trump's head of black outreach: Rally-goers blurt N-word to show ‘frustration with the system’ — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Ashley Bell, Donald Trump's newly-appointed director of African-American outreach, excused the repeated use of the N-word and other epithets …
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Political Insider blog


Maybe Trumpism Doesn't Work Without Trump — That House Speaker Paul Ryan easily won his congressional primary on Tuesday, by a nearly 70-point margin, should not have surprised anyone. Yet the political world was watching the result on tenterhooks, waiting for a surprise that never came.
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RedState, Washington Post, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Politico and Hot Air
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Paul Ryan weathers his primary but GOP's populist storm still rages
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National Review, Balloon Juice and Power Line

TRUMP: A TRUE STORY — The mogul, in a 2007 deposition, had to face up to a series of falsehoods and exaggerations. And he did. Sort of. — Hover over the claims above for more information … By David A. Fahrenthold and Robert O'Harrow Jr. August 10, 2016
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Boing Boing, Raw Story and The Week