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CNN:
Republicans question Trump's travel choices, tight purse strings — Washington (CNN)The last time Connecticut voted for a Republican presidential candidate, Americans were listening to music on cassette tapes and most cell phones were the size of shoe boxes.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Trump's run at blue Connecticut — Donald Trump's poll numbers are faltering in deep-red states from South Carolina to Georgia, his organization is a mess in perhaps the most important county in Ohio, and he admits that he has a “tremendous problem” in Utah, which hasn't gone Democratic since 1964.
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Outside the Beltway and Hot Air
Bob Burnett / The Huffington Post:
Trump's Missing Money
Trump's Missing Money
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Washington Monthly, The Hill, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and bradford-delong.com
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds debate releasing Clinton's FBI interview — The Obama administration is urgently debating how to respond to congressional demands for the official report on Hillary Clinton's three-and-a-half-hour interview at FBI headquarters, as some inside and outside government raise concerns …
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BizPac Review
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Daniel Halper / New York Post:
SEE ALL 223 STORIES — Bill Clinton is accusing the FBI director of serving up “the biggest load of bull I've ever heard” — marking the first significant public comments from the husband of the Democratic nominee on the scandal that's plagued his wife's campaign for over a year.
MJ Lee / CNN:
Bill Clinton talks email controversy: ‘Biggest load of bull’ — Las Vegas (CNN)The Black Eyed Peas' “I Gotta Feeling” began to play — Bill Clinton's cue to get off the stage. — But the former president, addressing a gathering of the Asian American Journalists Association …
Associated Press:
Frustration abundant, GOP could be near breaking point Trump — ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — The Republican Party could be nearing a breaking point with Donald Trump. — As he skips from one gaffe to the next, GOP leaders in Washington and in the most competitive states have begun openly contemplating turning …
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Hacker Reveals Personal Information for Almost 200 Democrats — Guccifer 2.0 says records stolen as part of breach of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — WASHINGTON—A hacker posted cellphone numbers and other personal information of nearly 200 current and former congressional Democrats …
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RedState, The Daily Caller, Guardian and Business Insider
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Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Hacker Publishes List Of Cell Phone Numbers, Private E-Mails For Most House Democrats
Hacker Publishes List Of Cell Phone Numbers, Private E-Mails For Most House Democrats
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BizPac Review and Joe.My.God.
GUCCIFER 2.0:
Guccifer 2.0 hacked DCCC
Guccifer 2.0 hacked DCCC
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, The Gateway Pundit, Mother Jones, CANNONFIRE, Computerworld and RT
Mara Siegler / New York Post:
Anthony Weiner caught in new flirty online chat — First he was Carlos Danger. Now — in yet another sexting scandal — he's a randy “mongoose.” — Sext fiend Anthony Weiner boasted of his animal prowess — claiming he was “deceptively strong . . . like a mongoose” …
Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:
After Mexican “Rapists” Comment, Ivanka Trump Wrote An Unused Clarification — In a deposition earlier this summer, Ivanka Trump said she drafted a statement last summer in the wake of her father's comments about the “rapists” that Mexico sends to the United States — though she denied …
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and Booman Tribune
Sally Jenkins / Washington Post:
Hope Solo, tolerated and excused in victory, exposes herself in Olympic defeat — RIO DE JANEIRO — It's called composure, and Hope Solo's never been overburdened with a lot of that, or grace either. The U.S. women's soccer team had their temperaments tested by a savvy, conservative Sweden in the Olympic quarterfinals and lost.
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New York Times and USA Today
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Clinton gains big edge in swing-state polls — has a substantial lead over Donald Trump — in four key battleground states, according to new polls released Friday. — Clinton leads Trump in Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado — the last two by double digits — in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.
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Slate, Washington Post, AOL, RT and The New Civil Rights Movement
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Tyler Pager / Politico:
Trump: Clinton will only win Pennsylvania if ‘they cheat’
Trump: Clinton will only win Pennsylvania if ‘they cheat’
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: I'll only lose Pennsylvania ‘if cheating goes on’
Trump: I'll only lose Pennsylvania ‘if cheating goes on’
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Politico and electionlawblog.org
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Donald Trump May Be Violating RNC Consent Decree Aimed at Voter Intimidation — With Trump's dangerous and irresponsible hyperventilating about voter fraud and cheating in Pennsylvania potentially costing him the election, it is probably no surprise, as reported by the Weekly Standard …
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Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, BuzzFeed, twitchy.com and Weekly Standard
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump says he will only lose Pennsylvania if there's widespread voter fraud. That's very wrong. — Donald Trump held a rally in Altoona, Pa., on Friday night, during which he told the audience that the only way Hillary Clinton could win the state was if “in certain sections of the state they cheat.”
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Guardian, Joe.My.God. and WBUR
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Missteps Risk Putting a Ceiling Over His Support in Swing States
Donald Trump's Missteps Risk Putting a Ceiling Over His Support in Swing States
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Althouse
Mike Cernovich / Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play:
Hillary Clinton Has Parkinson's Disease, Physician Confirms — Hillary's health is declining, as anyone who has looked at her can see. The question is: What condition does she have? A board certified Anesthesiologist has written a memo of Hillary's health.
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CBS News:
Stores to customers: “Cash not welcome here” — To get a glimpse of the future of commerce in America, look no further than Sweden. — The Scandinavian country is largely a cashless society, with consumers relying on mobile phone payments or plastic.
Victor Mather / New York Times:
Rio Today: A Taste of Middle East Tension — An Egyptian judo player declined to shake hands with his Israeli opponent after their match on Friday, eliciting jeers from the audience. — Or Sasson of Israel defeated Islam El Shehany of Egypt in a first-round match in the heaviest weight class.
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Associated Press, The Week, Mediaite and Guardian
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Joe Uchill / The Hill:
Site connected to Russian hackers posts Republican emails — The emails on the site, known as DCLeaks, appear to be from state party officials and former Republican presidential candidates, including Sen. Lindsey Graham — (R-S.C.). The messages range from June to October of 2015.
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The Week, The Daily Beast, Raw Story and RedState