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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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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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Libby Nelson / Vox:
Donald Trump's birther speech is a commercial for his new hotel — It's already remarkable — in a bad way — that a nominee for president of the United States has to make a major speech to disavow the racist, baseless conspiracy theory he started about the president's birth certificate.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trump is trying to rewrite his history of birtherism. This is what really happened. — ‘We have to keep the suspense going’ — Since 2011, Donald Trump has been the most prominent spokesperson for birtherism—the racist conspiracy theory that Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Preps New Round of Racist Agitation — With Donald Trump it is literally hard to keep up with the lies. As of this morning he's saying he's going to have a “big announcement today” about birtherism and that he can't say what it is because he needs to “keep the suspense going.”
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NBC News:
First Read: Why Trump Can't Escape His ‘Birther’ Past — Donald Trump's campaign - but not the candidate - says Obama was born in US 3:00 — First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Said In 2015 And 2016 He Didn't Know If Obama Birth Certificate Was Real — On Thursday, Donald Trump's presidential campaign issued a statement saying the Republican nominee now believes Obama was born in the United States. — Trump plans to address the issue on Friday himself …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Megyn Kelly Grills Trump Spox On Birtherism: 'That's A Dodge!' — After Donald Trump declined to say whether he believes President Obama was born in the United States, Fox News' Megyn Kelly on Thursday night quizzed campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson on Trump's refusal to denounce his birtherism.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Clinton ad: Trump ‘still the birther-in-chief’ — Hillary Clinton's campaign unveiled an ad on Friday hitting Donald Trump over his promotion of the “birther” conspiracy theory. — The ad, titled “Birther,” comes ahead of Donald Trump's speech Friday to address his own history with the conspiracy theory …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Exclusive: Reid hits back at Trump
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Libby Nelson / Vox:
Donald Trump fooled cable news into airing a 25-minute infomercial for his campaign
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ABC News:
Clinton: Trump Doesn't See President Obama as an American
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
WATCH LIVE: Trump To Make ‘Big Announcement’ On Birther Views At 10 AM ET
Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Clinton: ‘There is no Erasing’ Trump's History of ‘Birther’ Attacks on President Obama
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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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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Obama: ‘I was pretty confident about where I was born’
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Kasich to meet with Obama to discuss TPP
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Heinz Ketchup proves that Donald Trump is out of his mind — Trump wants to end food safety regulation. Seriously. — Food poisoning will make America great again! — Or, at least, that's what Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appears to be banking on with a new proposal released on Thursday.
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FACT SHEET: DONALD J. TRUMP'S PRO-GROWTH ECONOMIC POLICY WILL CREATE 25 MILLION JOBS
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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 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 feeling great,” as if nothing had happened, as if she hadn't already known for two days that she had pneumonia.
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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 …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Why the Senate Couldn't Pass a Crime Bill Both Parties Backed — WASHINGTON — A major criminal-justice overhaul bill seemed destined to be the bipartisan success story of the year, consensus legislation that showed lawmakers could still rise above politics and take on a serious societal problem.
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Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Chicago Professors Fire Back — More than 150 faculty members offer new students a different view on safe spaces, trigger warnings and diversity. — By — More than 150 faculty members at the University of Chicago on Tuesday published an open letter to freshmen in which they take a …
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