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New York Times:
Inside the Failing Mission to Save Donald Trump From Himself — Donald J. Trump was in a state of shock: He had just fired his campaign manager and was watching the man discuss his dismissal at length on CNN. The rattled candidate's advisers and family seized the moment for an intervention.
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New Century Times and alan.com
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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Fox News, AFF, The Daily Caller, RedState, Guardian and Business Insider
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Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Hacker publishes House Dems' cell phone numbers
Hacker publishes House Dems' cell phone numbers
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CNN, Politico, Washington Free Beacon, The Week, Mediaite and BizPac Review
ThreatConnect:
ThreatConnect Identifies DCLeaks As Another Russian-backed Influence Outlet
ThreatConnect Identifies DCLeaks As Another Russian-backed Influence Outlet
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Politico, Foreign Policy, The Smoking Gun, Computerworld and The Gateway Pundit
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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New York Times, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, BizPac Review, Hot Air and Joe.My.God.
GUCCIFER 2.0:
Guccifer 2.0 hacked DCCC
Guccifer 2.0 hacked DCCC
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Talking Points Memo, RT, AOL, The Gateway Pundit, CANNONFIRE and Mother Jones
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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Los Angeles Times, Talking Points Memo, BuzzFeed, Guardian, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, NPR, Daily Kos, twitchy.com and Weekly Standard
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump campaign launches drive to recruit ‘election observers’ — Donald Trump's campaign is seeking to recruit “election observers” following the Republican nominee's repeated claims that the general election is “rigged.” — In a move that's unprecedented in a presidential election …
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RedState, The Gateway Pundit and Joe.My.God.
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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neo-neocon, Outside the Beltway, BuzzFeed, Washington Monthly, The Hill and ABC News
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Trump Spox Katrina Pierson: We Weren't in Afghanistan Until Obama Decided to Go In — Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson has once again blamed President Obama for something that happened years before he took office. — Remember how Pierson blamed Obama for Captain Humayun Khan's death in 2004?
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ThinkProgress, The Atlantic and Joe.My.God.
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Trump Spokesperson Says Obama Invaded Afghanistan. He Didn't. — He was a state senator at the time. — A spokesperson for Donald Trump's presidential campaign has blamed President Barack Obama for invading Afghanistan a foreign policy decision he never made.
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The New Civil Rights Movement
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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Hullabaloo and twitchy.com
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Trump's run at blue Connecticut
Trump's run at blue Connecticut
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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, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Hill and bradford-delong.com
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.
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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 …
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alan.com
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Does Sean Hannity Want Hillary to Win? — Rather than hold Trump to his promise to pivot, Hannity is defending Trump's shtick. … Dear Reader (including Vanilla Ice, because we now live in a world where that's possible), — This is an honest question: Does Sean Hannity want Hillary Clinton to be president?
Discussion:
Townhall.com
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, Raw Story and Booman Tribune
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” …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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
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
The Hill:
‘Expedited Removal’ process as cold as ICE: Response to Jeh Johnson — I remember the look of dread on Mariana's face when I told her I was returning to Miami. I met with her on my first day in Texas, volunteering at the Karnes family detention center with the non-profit Refugee …
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ImmigrationProf Blog and Rewire
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., WBUR and electionlawblog.org
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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