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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Coulter Goes to War with Trump And It Is Glorious — Liberals may die tonight because there are limited supplies of those injections they give you for acute schadenfreude toxicity. Ann Coulter has been Donald Trump's biggest New York City white nationalist supporter. She's transformed toadying into a militant act.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Coulter mocks Trump's immigration muddle — Ann Coulter revealed her sense of disgust with Donald Trump's latest comments on immigration in which he suggested an openness to changing his hard-line stance on illegal immigration. — Speaking to Fox News' Sean Hannity in a town hall event …
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BuzzFeed, Fox News Insider and Political Wire
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Donald Trump Openly Weighs a Massive Immigration Reversal — Trump Reaches Out to Black, Latino Voters as Poll Numbers Show Numbers Falling 2:03 — In what would be a stunning reversal on an issue central to his candidacy, Donald Trump floated a possible process to allow undocumented immigrants …
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ThinkProgress, Wall Street Journal, Outside the Beltway, Politico, Washington Free Beacon and CNBC
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Coulter: Trump's ‘softening’ on immigration remark a panic move — “panicked” when he said he was open to softening his immigration policies, according to conservative pundit and Trump ally Ann Coulter. — “It's just rhetoric but it's still annoying,” Coulter told The Hill Wednesday night.
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Washington Post, Politico, Breitbart, twitchy.com and The Atlantic
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Team Cruz on Trump's immigration shift: Told you so
Team Cruz on Trump's immigration shift: Told you so
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RedState, The Texas Tribune, ImmigrationProf Blog and Talking Points Memo
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Ann Coulter Is Not Happy With Trump's Softening on Immigration
Ann Coulter Is Not Happy With Trump's Softening on Immigration
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Washington Post, Pirate's Cove and RedState
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump shifts on immigration: 'There's no amnesty, but we work with them'
Trump shifts on immigration: 'There's no amnesty, but we work with them'
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The Right Scoop, Joe.My.God., Talking Points Memo and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Chelsea Clinton Plans to Stay on Board of Family Foundation — Clinton Health Access Initiative might also continue to accept foreign government and corporate funding — The Clinton Foundation is considering exceptions to its plan to stop accepting corporate and foreign donations …
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CNN:
Clinton blasts Trump attacks on foundation — Hillary Clinton slammed Donald Trump and issued a strong defense of the Clinton Foundation Wednesday amid the Republican nominee's claims that she used public office for personal gain.
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Reuters:
Biden says expects Guantanamo prison to close before Obama leaves office
Biden says expects Guantanamo prison to close before Obama leaves office
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Political Wire
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The AP's big exposé on Hillary meeting with Clinton Foundation donors is a mess
The AP's big exposé on Hillary meeting with Clinton Foundation donors is a mess
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Allan Smith / Business Insider:
‘Never Trump’ presidential candidate: Sources have told me Trump ‘hides in his apartment’ and they're ‘frustrated’ — Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin told Business Insider in a Wednesday interview that members of Republican nominee Donald Trump's campaign have told …
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The Hill, RedState, Daily News Bin and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump camp brushes aside ‘alt-right’ association — Ahead of Hillary Clinton's planned speech linking Donald Trump and his campaign to the “alt-right” movement, the Republican nominee's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said she is “not that familiar with it, to be frank with you.”
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ABC News
New York Times:
A Conflicted Donald Trump Tries a New Tactic: Sticking to the Script
A Conflicted Donald Trump Tries a New Tactic: Sticking to the Script
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Brexit leader stumps for Trump: I wouldn't vote Clinton if she paid me
Brexit leader stumps for Trump: I wouldn't vote Clinton if she paid me
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Jon Miltimore / intellectualtakeout.org:
Univ. of Chicago pushes back on trigger warnings, safe spaces — Letters sent to the incoming class of 2020 make it clear the University of Chicago isn't a fan of trigger warnings or safe spaces. — Academics around the country are embracing the relatively new trend of using trigger warnings …
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Instapundit, Hit & Run and Simple Justice
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John Sides / Washington Post:
How many votes will Trump give up by not running a professional campaign? A lot. — Stories about the ramshackle nature of the Trump campaign are abundant. A recent article called Donald Trump's organization “more concert tour than presidential campaign.”
Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:
GOP FAIL: Donald Trump Not Listed on Minnesota Ballot — Just days after his supporters and motorcade were attacked by protesters in Minneapolis at a GOP fundraiser, the Minnesota Republican party has not submitted the names of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his vice presidential nominee Mike Pence …
NBC News:
Where will the Republican Party go after 2016? — The future of the Republican Party — with or without Donald J. Trump — is weighing heavily on the party's top elected officials, thought leaders and activists. It's a topic sure to be dissected once the results on Election Day, November 8, 2016, are tallied.
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Balloon Juice, bradford-delong.com and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Is Rudy Giuliani okay? — WE ARE a little worried about Rudy Giuliani, the Republican former mayor of New York. Is “America's mayor” okay? — During his 15-minute speech at the GOP convention last month in Cleveland, it was notable that when he said Donald Trump loves “all people …
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The Resurgent and TalkLeft
Annie Garau / Esquire:
Mike Pence Used to Draw Cartoons. We Found Them. They're Strange. — Behold the VP nominee's alter ego, Law School Daze — Before his P was penetrated by Donald's T, before thousands of women called him to chat about their menses, even before he lost Indiana more than $60 million …
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Mediaite
Lucia Graves / Guardian:
Trump and Farage are playing the same dangerous game — The would-be president is harnessing nationalism and bigotry. Like the former Ukip leader, he is more interested in channelling anger than he is in governance — onald Trump's movement has often been compared to that of a rightwing European party.
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Debate Commission faces new challenge in selecting moderators — The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is in just over a month, and yet neither candidate knows who the moderator will be. — They won't know until after Labor Day, sources with knowledge of the matter told CNNMoney.
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BizPac Review and Liberty Unyielding
U.S. Soccer:
Hope Solo Suspended from U.S. WNT for Six Months — U.S. Soccer has suspended goalkeeper Hope Solo from the U.S. Women's National Team for six months for conduct that is counter to the organization's principles. — The suspension for Solo, who was previously suspended for 30 days early …
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Blake Neff / The Daily Caller:
Black Lives Matter Has Officially Cost Mizzou 2,100 Students — The University of Missouri's (MU) flagship Columbia campus has officially lost a staggering 23 percent of its freshman class this year, an even worse figure than administrators initially predicted in the wake of major racial strife.
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The Gateway Pundit and Liberty Unyielding
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Is Making More States Competitive. Red States. — Donald Trump has upended much of what we thought we knew about U.S. electoral politics. Maybe Republican voters aren't as conservative as we thought. Maybe candidates can make seemingly crazy statements without harming their prospects.
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The Resurgent and BizPac Review
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
WATCH: ‘Spooky’ caller stuns Glenn Beck by threatening to ‘go after’ Trump if he breaks wall promise — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Yes, it really is possible to creep out Glenn Beck. — Per The Blaze, a Trump supporter named “Nate” called into Beck's radio show on Wednesday …
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Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
Trump Supporter Issues Threatening Message to GOP Nominee Live on the Air
Trump Supporter Issues Threatening Message to GOP Nominee Live on the Air
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Kori Schake / Wall Street Journal:
The Disconnect Beneath the Praise for U.S. Military — Kori Schake is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. She is co-editor, along with retired Gen. Jim Mattis, of “Warriors and Civilians: American Views of Our Military.” She is on Twitter: @KoriSchake.
Louise Boyle / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Jews are ‘adept at working the American political system’ aided by ‘the memory of the Holocaust’ - extraordinary claim made by journal where Huma Abedin was assistant editor — Huma Abedin, Hillary's top aide, was named as assistant editor on the masthead at the Journal of Minority Muslim Affairs for 12 years
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Israel Matzav, Washington Post and Pamela Geller
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump gnaws at shorter leash — Donald Trump, after several straight days delivering a more scripted message, loosened the rhetorical shackles tightened by his new campaign manager and went off-script several times Wednesday afternoon, offering a more passionate but at times self-contradicting case for his candidacy.