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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The race is tightening for a painfully simple reason — Hillary Clinton's ongoing campaign to paint Donald Trump as unacceptable in the eyes of most Americans is working. It's just not good enough. That's the message of the spate of recent polls showing a dramatically tightened race that Trump may even be narrowly winning.
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Bill Bartel / Associated Press:
Trump-Clinton is now too close to call in Virginia, according to new poll — With the presidential election less than eight weeks away, the race is too close to call in Virginia, according to a poll released Thursday. — Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton held a 3-percentage-point lead …
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
MSNBC Host Complains Hillary Clinton ‘Faces a Double Standard Every Day’ — MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle complained Thursday that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was being treated unfairly by the media, saying there was a “double standard” where she received more negative coverage than Donald Trump.
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QU Poll:
Release Detail — While the presidential horse race between …
Release Detail — While the presidential horse race between …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Clinton and Trump in a one-point race among likely voters
Fox News Poll: Clinton and Trump in a one-point race among likely voters
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Aide Shuts Down Local TV Interview With Trump Jr. When Charity Issue Is Raised — An interview with Donald Trump Jr. conducted by a local Pennsylvania television station was abruptly cut off by an aide when the topic turned to a Washington Post story about Donald Trump spending his foundation's money …
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Tom Fontaine / Greensburg Tribune-Review:
Trump Jr. to Trib: Dad will ‘separate’ from business interests if elected — Donald Trump Jr. talks about his father's campaign with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review at the Trib's office on the North Shore, Wednesday, September 14, 2016. — BY TOM FONTAINE — Donald Trump Jr. dismissed …
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Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Camp Defends Don Jr.: He Was Talking Executions, Not The Holocaust! — Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump campaign both defended his “gas chamber” quip in a Thursday interview, saying that he was making a reference to capital punishment rather than the Holocaust, as many had interpreted it.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. just told everyone the real reason his dad isn't releasing his tax returns — Donald Trump has been adamant that the sole reason he is the only major presidential nominee in modern history refusing to release his tax returns is because he is under audit by the Internal Revenue Service.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Jr.: Media Would Be “Warming Up The Gas Chamber” If GOP Did What Hillary Did
Trump Jr.: Media Would Be “Warming Up The Gas Chamber” If GOP Did What Hillary Did
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Eugene Scott / CNN:
Trump son: America can't handle seeing Trump's 12,000-page tax return
Trump son: America can't handle seeing Trump's 12,000-page tax return
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Trump would roll back food safety regulations — intends to roll back food safety regulations if he wins the White House in November. — In a fact sheet Thursday, the campaign highlighted a number of “specific regulations to be eliminated” under the GOP nominee's economic plan, including what they called the “FDA Food Police.”
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Donald J Trump for President:
FACT SHEET: DONALD J. TRUMP'S PRO-GROWTH ECONOMIC POLICY WILL CREATE 25 MILLION JOBS — Donald J. Trump's Economic Policy Package Will Lead To Millions Of Jobs Created And Unbridled Economic Growth — The Trump Economy: 25 Million New Jobs Created In The Next Decade
The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel On The Supreme Court, Sources Say — The eccentric billionaire endorsed Trump in a speech at the Republican National Convention this summer. — Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post — Donald Trump has made it clear he will nominate Peter Thiel …
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Bloomberg:
Clinton Says She May Not Choose Garland for Supreme Court — Democrat would ‘look broadly’ for diverse nominees, she says — She won't preclude lame-duck confirmation, deferring to Obama — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she wouldn't be bound …
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Scott Detrow / NPR:
Trump Criticizes Flint Pastor — But Misstates Key Facts About Their Encounter — Donald Trump is lashing out against an African-American pastor who interrupted him Wednesday to chide him for campaigning in her Flint, Mich., church. — “Something was up,” Trump told Fox and Friends on Thurday morning.
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Didn't Keep His Word in Flint, Pastor Says
Donald Trump Didn't Keep His Word in Flint, Pastor Says
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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Fundamentals: Where Are We in This Strange Race for President? — And can Trump breach Fortress Obama? — Every presidential election is different, but nobody's going to tell us that this one isn't notably different from any other in the modern period.
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David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
How Trump Could Win The White House While Losing The Popular Vote
How Trump Could Win The White House While Losing The Popular Vote
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Hillary's Self-Inflicted Headwinds
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump defiant as polls rise, won't say Obama was born in United States — CANTON, Ohio — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in an interview here that he remains unwilling to say that President Obama is born in the United States, that he is more bullish than ever on his chances …
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Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
How Obamacare Clears the Field for a GOP Senate Win — Democrats have licked their chops in anticipation of the 2016 election when it comes to control of the US Senate. Under normal circumstances, a 24-10 advantage in a presidential cycle would all but guarantee Democrats victory in the Senate race.
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Lindsay Wise / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Senate is on track to work fewest number of days since 1956
Senate is on track to work fewest number of days since 1956
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Joel Stein / Bloomberg:
A new force in electoral politics. — At 4 p.m., Milo Yiannopoulos puts on a pair of glasses for the first time today. He examines himself in a mirror to see if he wants to add a gray suit to his purchases, which will push his bill to almost $12,000 at Savile Row's Gieves & Hawkes.
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Rick Seltzer / Inside Higher Ed:
The Librarian's Bequest — Alumnus and longtime library employee left largely unrestricted bequest to U of New Hampshire. It is spending $100,000 on the library and $1 million on a video scoreboard for the football stadium. — By — It sounds too good to be true …
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Richard Zoglin / TIME:
The New Politics of Late Night — In a wild election with a ripe orange target, comics are ditching balance and taking sides — No late-night-TV comedian attacks the job with more righteous intensity than Samantha Bee. Once a week on her TBS show Full Frontal, she stands before a wall of video monitors …
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