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Larry O'Connor / Hot Air:
Where did all those ‘Trump Lies’ articles come from this weekend? The Clinton campaign, of course — Over the weekend, several major American newspapers printed a variation of the same article pointing out instances, in their view, when Donald Trump has lied to the American people during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Raw Story, Daily Kos, Balloon Juice, Politicus USA, Vox, Shot in the Dark, Instapundit, alan.com and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Asymmetry between the major parties fries the circuits of the mainstream press — And five other ideas I use to interpret campaign coverage this year. — On the eve of the first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I thought I would write down some of the precepts and maxims …
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Washington Monthly and The Week
Breitbart:
Report: Lester Holt May Pull a Candy Crowley at First Presidential Debate — CNN's Brian Stelter says Lester Holt is signaling to his NBC colleagues that he may enter the fray in Monday night's presidential debate as a participant rather than a moderator — thanks to intense left-wing backlash …
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Vox, CNNMoney, Mediaite and The American Spectator
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Networks reject on-screen fact checking during debate
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Guardian, Politicus USA, Talking Points Memo and Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump wins the debate expectations game
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The Atlantic, Politico, TIME, The Huffington Post and NPR
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Bloomberg TV to fact check debate on-screen
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Mediaite, Politicus USA and Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Debate Expectations — Hofstra Edition
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Washington Post, Politico and The Hill
Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
Lester Holt Is At The Center Of The Great Fact-Checking Debate Of 2016
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RedState, New York Times, New York Magazine and Media Matters for America
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Glenn Beck Breaks Up With Ted Cruz Over His Donald Trump Endorsement — Glenn Beck nervously paced back and forth through his TV studio designed to look like the Oval Office. — “He's gonna call?” the conservative stalwart sheepishly asked. Beck was a lovesick puppy questioning whether …
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Mediaite, The Week and Business Insider
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Cruz profited off Trump well before endorsing him — It took Ted Cruz four months and three weeks of “careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience” to declare publicly that he would vote for Donald Trump. — He made the decision to profit by selling his supporter list to Trump far faster than that.
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Business Insider, RedState, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, FiveThirtyEight, The Week and New Century Times
Phillip Stucky / The Daily Caller:
Silver: Trump Would Win If Election Were Held Today — Statistics site 538, which is operated by Nate Silver, adjusted its projections ahead of the debate Monday, giving the odds to Republican nominee Donald Trump. — If the election were held today, Trump leads with a 54.9 percent chance …
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The Week and Morning Consult
John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Trump, Clinton Deadlocked in Bloomberg Poll Before Key Debate — The Republican nominee erased the Democrat's advantage in August's two-way contest. — McCormickJohn — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are locked in a tied two-way race for the presidency as they head to Hofstra University …
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CNN:
CNN/ORC polls: Trump, Clinton deadlocked in Colorado, Pennsylvania — Trump: If Clinton wins Pennsylvania, she cheated — (CNN)Just one point separates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in two states that are critical to both candidates' chances of becoming president, according to new CNN/ORC polls in Pennsylvania and Colorado.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Obama's campaign guru: Don't fret about polls. Clinton is winning, and she can finish the job tonight.
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twitchy.com, CNBC, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, FiveThirtyEight and Politico
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
New poll has Clinton, Trump in virtual dead heat in Colorado, Pennsylvania
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Washington Free Beacon, Mediaite and Hot Air
Donald J Trump for President:
AHEAD OF DEBATE, AMERICA'S ICE OFFICERS ENDORSE DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT — Nation's Immigration And Customs Enforcement Officers (ICE) Make First-Ever Presidential Endorsement — NEW YORK, NY - Today, the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council …
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Politico, The Daily Caller and Front Page Magazine
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Ahead of debate, Trump endorsed by U.S. immigration officers
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Hot Air, WayneDupree.com and ImmigrationProf Blog
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Clinton vs. Trump: The only 30 minutes that matter — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will debate for 90 minutes on Monday. But the winner likely will be determined in the first half-hour. — That's when Al Gore first sighed, Mitt Romney knocked President Obama on his heels …
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AOL, Daily Kos, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, NBC News and Guardian
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
The Myth Of “Trump-Whisperer” Kellyanne Conway — No one has gotten more credit (or blame) for the recent turnaround at the Trump campaign than Kellyanne Conway, the always-on-TV Republican pollster who was promoted last month to campaign manager. — In the five weeks since Conway took the job …
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National Review and Media Matters for America
Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:
Mylan's EpiPen Profit 60% Higher Than Told to Congress — Company applied 37.5% tax rate onto the profits it revealed to a House committee hearing last week — When Mylan NV's chief executive testified before a congressional committee last week about steep price increases on its lifesaving EpiPen drug …
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Business Insider, Washington Post and NBC News
New York Times:
Why Donald Trump Should Not Be President — Donald Trump is a man who dwells in bigotry, bluster and false promises. — When Donald Trump began his improbable run for president 15 months ago, he offered his wealth and television celebrity as credentials, then slyly added a twist …
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Washington Post, TheStreet.com, The Resurgent, Politico, The Week and Shakesville
Brandon Darby / Breitbart:
Leaked FBI Data Reveal 7,700 Terrorist Encounters in USA in One Year; Border States Most Targeted — Leaked documents with sensitive FBI data exclusively obtained by Breitbart Texas reveal that 7,712 terrorist encounters occurred within the United States in one year and that many of those …
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RedState
Elizabeth Koh / Macon Telegraph:
Walmart apologizes for refusing to make police officer's cake — Walmart is apologizing for refusing to make a police officer's retirement cake last week after an employee told the cop's daughter that her “thin blue line” cake design might be considered racist.
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AOL, Mediaite, Liberty Unyielding, twitchy.com and Weasel Zippers
New York Times:
Syria and Russia Appear Ready to Scorch Aleppo — BEIRUT, Lebanon — Make life intolerable and death likely. Open an escape route, or offer a deal to those who leave or surrender. Let people trickle out. Kill whoever stays. Repeat until a deserted cityscape is yours.
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