memeorandum: Trump campaign: Obama born in the US (Daniella Diaz/CNN)

9:35 AM ET, September 16, 2016

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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 …

Donald J Trump for President:

TRUMP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT — “Hillary Clinton's campaign first raised this issue to smear then-candidate Barack Obama in her very nasty, failed 2008 campaign for President. This type of vicious and conniving behavior is straight from the Clinton Playbook. As usual, however, Hillary Clinton was too weak to get an answer.

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Daniella Diaz / CNN:

Trump campaign: Obama born in the US — “In 2011, Mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion,” his campaign said — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's campaign on Thursday said he believes President Barack Obama was born in the US, a major reversal from a line of attack Trump launched five years ago.

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Jake Sherman / Politico:

Exclusive: Reid hits back at Trump — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid punched right back at Donald Trump for poking fun at his grisly eye injury, calling the GOP presidential nominee a “con artist” and rapping Republican leaders for not getting answers from the New York billionaire.

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CNN:

Michelle Obama makes case for Clinton — Michelle Obama's entire Democratic convention speech — Washington (CNN)With virtually unmatched popularity at her back, First Lady Michelle Obama debuts on the stump for Hillary Clinton Friday, hoping to galvanize suburban voters behind a candidate she once fiercely opposed.

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Alana Abramson / ABC News:

Donald Trump Jr.: 'Doesn't Know' if Father Will Explicitly Say Obama Born in US — Donald Trump Jr. says he “doesn't know” if his father will explicitly say President Obama was born in the United States, but said that the statement released from the campaign last night is “coming from him.”

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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump refuses to say whether he thinks Obama was born in US

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump on Obama's citizenship: ‘We have to keep the suspense going, OK?’

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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Donald Trump Again Won't Acknowledge Obama Was Born in U.S.

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New York Times:

Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Voters Drifting Toward Third Party — WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies, unnerved by the tightening presidential race, are making a major push to dissuade disaffected voters from backing third-party candidates, and pouring more energy into Rust Belt states …

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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:

Gary Johnson cuts into Clinton's lead — NEW YORK — Gary Johnson was never supposed to be a problem for Hillary Clinton. — The low-profile Libertarian's presence on the ballot would serve as an easy out for #NeverTrump Republicans, Democrats aligned with the nominee have long figured, and that could only hurt Donald Trump.

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Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:

Poll: Donald Trump gaining on Hillary Clinton in Michigan — WASHINGTON - A month after it appeared the race for president in Michigan might be all but over, Donald Trump has cut deeply into Hillary Clinton's post-convention lead, with an exclusive new Free Press/WXYZ-TV poll showing …

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Dana Blanton / Fox News:

Fox News Poll: Clinton and Trump in a one-point race among likely voters — The presidential race is tight. Hillary Clinton tops Donald Trump by just one point among likely voters in the four-way ballot. In the head-to-head matchup, Trump's up by one point.

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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The race is tightening for a painfully simple reason

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Bill Bartel / Associated Press:
Trump-Clinton is now too close to call in Virginia, according to new poll

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QU Poll:
Release Detail — While the presidential horse race between …

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Liz Crokin / The New York Observer:

Exclusive: Hillary Clinton Campaign Systematically Overcharging Poorest Donors — Wells Fargo fraud department inundated with calls from low-income Clinton supporters reporting repeated unauthorized charges — Hillary Clinton's campaign is stealing from her poorest supporters by purposefully …

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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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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Aide Shuts Down Local TV Interview With Trump Jr. When Charity Issue Is Raised

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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Didn't Keep His Word in Flint, Pastor Says

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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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FACT SHEET: DONALD J. TRUMP'S PRO-GROWTH ECONOMIC POLICY WILL CREATE 25 MILLION JOBS

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Donald J Trump for President:
TRUMP DELIVERS SPEECH ON JOBS AT NEW YORK ECONOMIC CLUB

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Clare Foran / The Atlantic:

How Bernie Sanders Die-Hards Echo Clinton Conspiracy Theories — Some conservatives are hard at work spreading conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton's health in an attempt to disqualify her from seeking higher office. Video footage of the Democratic nominee stumbling as she abruptly departed …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Paul Demko / Politico:

Obama steps in to save Obamacare — Deep into the final year of his presidency, Barack Obama is working behind the scenes to secure Obamacare's legacy, struggling to bolster a program whose ultimate success or failure will likely be determined by his successor.

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Lindsay Wise / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Senate is on track to work fewest number of days since 1956

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Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
How Obamacare Clears the Field for a GOP Senate Win

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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:

What's Really Ailing Hillary — She wasn't always like this. She wasn't always a woman who could almost collapse in public, then emerge from seclusion a couple of hours later announcing, “I'm feeing great,” as if nothing had happened, as if she hadn't already known for two days that she had pneumonia.

Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:

Kasich: ‘Very unlikely’ I'll vote for Trump … Ohio Gov. John Kasich isn't ruling out voting for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — , though he says it's “highly unlikely” he'll support his former GOP rival. — “I'll let everybody know when, but I think my actions have spoken very loudly …

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Jim Woods / The Columbus Dispatch:

Boy, 13, dies after he was shot by Columbus police on Near East Side — City and police officials are planning to discuss this morning the 13-year-old boy who died Wednesday night after he was shot by Columbus police in the Olde Towne East neighborhood. — Tyree King died at Nationwide …

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