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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Dozens of Republicans to urge RNC to cut off funds for Trump — More than 70 Republicans have signed an open letter to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus urging him to stop spending any money to help Donald Trump win in November and shift those contributions to Senate and House races.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump team, RNC to meet at pivotal moment — Donald Trump's campaign and top Republican Party officials plan what one person called a “come to Jesus” meeting on Friday in Orlando to discuss the Republican nominee's struggling campaign, according to multiple sources familiar with the scheduled sit-down.
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NBC News, The Week and Political Wire
Jeremy Fugleberg / Cincinnati.com:
Email: Trump campaign scrambling in SW Ohio — With the presidential election 90 days away, the Donald Trump campaign is scrambling to set up the basics of a campaign in Hamilton County, a key county in a swing state crucial to a Republican victory, a recent internal email obtained by The Enquirer shows.
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Heat Street, Hot Air, Washington Post, Raw Story and Political Insider blog
Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Exclusive: The Republican Party's Chairman's Warning to Donald Trump
Exclusive: The Republican Party's Chairman's Warning to Donald Trump
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CNN, Guardian, Mediaite, New Urban Legends, Daily Wire, Hot Air, Occupy Democrats and Raw Story
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
The Other Olympic Sport in Rio: Swiping — One athlete poses in his full team kit. Others post their Olympic bedspreads as their profile pictures. When they're not competing, they're ready to date. — RIO DE JANEIRO — I expect you've heard the legend of the athletes' village …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
This Daily Beast Grindr Stunt Is Sleazy, Dangerous, and Wildly Unethical — On Thursday morning, the Daily Beast published an exceedingly gross and bizarre article by a straight, married male writer who lured in gay Olympians through hookup apps for no particular purpose.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and LGBTQ Nation
Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:
Trump: Americans could be tried in Guantánamo — A President Donald Trump might push for Americans accused of terrorism to be tried in military tribunal at the U.S. Navy base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Republican nominee told the Miami Herald on Thursday.
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump says he'd try U.S. citizens in Gitmo military tribunals — said that he would try Americans accused of terrorism in military tribunals in Guantanamo Bay, a big shift from current policy. — During an interview with the Miami Herald on Thursday, Trump was asked if he would push …
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Balloon Juice
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump predicts winning the presidency will get him into heaven — Donald Trump called on evangelical pastors to help him win the presidency this November, which he said is “maybe the only way I'm going to get to heaven.” — “For evangelicals, for the Christians, for the everybody …
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Religion News Service and Washington Post
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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Hannity, Ingraham Say It's Immoral Not To Vote Trump. Here Are 3 Reasons They're Wrong. — On Wednesday night, Fox News' Sean Hannity, apparently desperate to begin casting blame for Donald Trump's November election loss in August, called out conservatives unwilling to vote for Donald Trump.
Associated Press:
Trump touts child care programs, but they're for guests only — NEW YORK (AP) — When Donald Trump vowed this week to make child care more accessible and affordable, it was just the second time during his White House campaign that he's talked about an issue that affects millions of working Americans with young children.
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Vox and Mother Jones
Tal Kopan / CNN:
Donald Trump: I meant that Obama founded ISIS, literally — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Thursday that he meant exactly what he said when he called President Barack Obama the “founder of ISIS” and objected when a conservative radio show host tried to clarify the GOP nominee's position.
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Duane Patterson / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Donald Trump Makes A Return Visit
Donald Trump Makes A Return Visit
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Sabrina Siddiqui / Guardian:
Donald Trump calls Obama the ‘founder of Isis’
Donald Trump calls Obama the ‘founder of Isis’
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Clinton/Trump Race Tight in South Carolina — PPP's newest South Carolina poll* finds that the state is trending toward being competitive in the Presidential race this year, just like in neighboring Georgia. Donald Trump has only a 2 point lead with 41% to 39% for Hillary Clinton, 5% for Gary Johnson, and 2% for Jill Stein.
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Ivan Levingston / CNBC:
Trump: If I lose, I'll have a ‘nice long vacation’ — Donald Trump made a rare allowance that he may lose the presidential election on Thursday, but told CNBC that he will not back away from his uncensored style. — “I'm a truth teller. All I do is tell the truth,” Trump said on “Squawk Box” Thursday.
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Ivan Levingston / CNBC:
Trump just confirmed every Republican's worst fear
Trump just confirmed every Republican's worst fear
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Daily Kos, NBC News, New York Times, Business Insider, No More Mister Nice Blog and TIME
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
WIKILEAKS Proves TRUMP IS RIGHT: Hacked Emails Include Info On Hillary's Arming of Jihadists, Including ISIS — Republican nominee Donald Trump spoke to the National Association of Home Builders on Thursday morning. — Trump repeated his line that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama created ISIS.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
CNN:
Top Clinton State Department aide helped Clinton Foundation — (CNN)A top aide to Hillary Clinton at the State Department traveled to New York to interview job candidates for a top job at the Clinton Foundation, a CNN investigation has found. — The fact that the aide, Cheryl Mills …
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CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
Cruz's Popularity Takes A Hit In KTVT-CBS 11/Dixie Strategies Poll — DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Sen. Ted Cruz won the Republican presidential primary in Texas with nearly 44 percent of the vote. But most voters now do not think very highly of the U.S. lawmaker, according to the latest KTVT-CBS …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Sanders strategists exit Canova campaign against Wasserman Schultz — Less than two weeks after publicly signing on to help the campaign of ousted Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's challenger, Bernie Sanders' top political and media strategists are no longer working for Tim Canova.
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RedState and Naked Politics
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Obama's Worst Mistake — A crazed gunman's attack on an Orlando club in June, killing 49 people, resulted in blanket news coverage and national trauma. — Now imagine that such a massacre unfolds more than five times a day, seven days a week, unceasingly for five years, totaling perhaps 470,000 deaths.
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The Reality-Based Community
Matthew Cooper / Newsweek:
IS DONALD TRUMP REALLY BEING AUDITED BY THE IRS? — U.S. DONALD TRUMP TAXES 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN — Donald Trump has broken with a 40-year-old tradition of U.S. presidential candidates making public their tax returns because he claims to be under audit by the IRS …
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Media Matters for America:
Trump Names Serial Misinformer Betsy McCaughey To Economic Advisory Council — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced that his campaign was expanding its so-called “economic advisory council” to include New York Post columnist Betsy McCaughey, a serial misinformer …
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Donald J Trump for President, New York Daily News and The New Civil Rights Movement
Mara Siegler / Page Six:
Anthony Weiner still sexting other women, says Sydney Leathers — More On: — Sydney Leathers — the woman who horndog Anthony Weiner sexted as “Carlos Danger,” torpedoing his mayoral campaign in 2013 — has accused the pervy former pol of being up to his old tricks again, with yet another woman.
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Washington Free Beacon
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Secretly Censored Abusive Responses To President Obama — The move was conducted in secret, according to well-placed sources. — In 2015, then-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to filter out abusive and hateful replies to President Barack Obama during …
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Becket Fund:
Military court punishes Marine over Bible verses — Court-martial upheld because majority says verses not “important” — For Immediate Release: August 11, 2016 — Washington, D.C. - The military's highest court ruled yesterday that men and women serving in the U.S. Armed Forces …
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The Gateway Pundit
RT:
ISIS sleepers ‘arrived as refugees’ in Germany, ready for action - top intel official — Hit squads linked with ISIS terrorists have infiltrated Germany camouflaged as refugees, the head of Bavaria's intelligence service warns. citing “irrefutable evidence” of planned attacks in the country in the wake of recent assaults by migrants.
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Jihad Watch
Caryn Little / WCCB Charlotte:
Lawsuit Filed Against Trump Campaign After Charlotte Staffer Accused Of Pulling Gun — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A lawsuit was filed against the Donald J. Trump campaign for president due to an incident allegedly involving a Trump staffer pulling a gun on another staffer.
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New York Daily News, NBC News, Washington Times, Occupy Democrats, Daily Wire and Talking Points Memo
Kate Vershov Downing / shift.newco.co:
Letter of Resignation from the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission — Dear City Council Members and Palo Alto Residents, — This letter serves as my official resignation from the Planning and Transportation Commission. My family has decided to move to Santa Cruz.
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James B. Stewart / New York Times:
How Much Does Donald Trump Pay in Taxes? It Could Be Zero — Mitt Romney was excoriated during the 2012 presidential campaign for paying $4.9 million in federal income tax, or an average of just 14 percent of his adjusted gross income, in the two years for which he released returns.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Donald Trump interview that should terrify national Republicans, annotated — Donald Trump is going to do Donald Trump. That's the big takeaway from a striking CNBC interview he did Thursday morning. — Over the course of the interview, Trump unapologetically said he's going to win …
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