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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Poll: Hillary Clinton won the second debate — Hillary Clinton won the second debate and leads Donald Trump by five points in a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll that also shows voters perceive the Republican Party bitterly divided four weeks before Election Day.
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Inside Ryan's decision to (almost) dump Trump — Paul Ryan may not be done yet. — As thoroughly as the House speaker shocked the national political establishment Monday by saying he's done with Donald Trump and it's time to focus on his House majority, there's a distinct possibility Ryan …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
RUMBLINGS: Top Paul Ryan Advisor Leaked Trump Sex Talk Tape to WaPo — On Friday, the Clinton Campaign (Washington Post) released video of Donald Trump bragging about grabbing p*ssy in an off the record conversation with Billy Bush. — The Los Angeles Times reported hours after audio …
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
Trump's One Public Service Was Exposing the Misogyny of the GOP
Trump's One Public Service Was Exposing the Misogyny of the GOP
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Washington Monthly and New York Times
Nicholas Fondacaro / NewsBusters:
CBS, NBC Hype ‘GOP Civil War,’ Predict Loss of House and Senate
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: ‘It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me’
Trump: ‘It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me’
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Scripting News and Joe.My.God.
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Voters Say Clinton Won Debate, but Trump's Support Remains Stable
Voters Say Clinton Won Debate, but Trump's Support Remains Stable
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Politico, Infowars, Joe.My.God., Political Wire and The Week
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
The GOP tumbles toward anarchy: 'It's every person for himself or herself'
The GOP tumbles toward anarchy: 'It's every person for himself or herself'
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Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
DEAR DONALD TRUMP AND VLADIMIR PUTIN, I AM NOT SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL — THE SCOOP VLADIMIR PUTIN SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL WIKILEAKS — I am Sidney Blumenthal. At least, that is what Vladimir Putin—and, somehow, Donald Trump—seem to believe. And that should raise concerns not only about Moscow's attempts …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The Trump-Putin link that wasn't — This tweet, retweeted thousands …
The Trump-Putin link that wasn't — This tweet, retweeted thousands …
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Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml …:
Wikileaks Releases Another 1,100 Emails From John Podesta In Third Data Dump — Moments ago, Wikileaks just released its third data dump from the hacked email account of Hillary Clinton's Campaign Chair, John Podesta, which is becoming a true headache for Hillary Clinton and her supporter base.
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Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Hillary In Leaked Email: Saudi Arabia And Qatar Are Funding ISIS
Hillary In Leaked Email: Saudi Arabia And Qatar Are Funding ISIS
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Michael Sainato / The New York Observer:
Breaking: DNC Chief Donna Brazile Leaked Sanders Info to Clinton Campaign
Breaking: DNC Chief Donna Brazile Leaked Sanders Info to Clinton Campaign
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Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
Emails: Firm that hired Abedin called Chelsea Clinton a ‘spoiled brat kid’
Emails: Firm that hired Abedin called Chelsea Clinton a ‘spoiled brat kid’
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Information Liberation, Infowars, The Daily Caller, RedState and Washington Free Beacon
Rebecca Mansour / Breitbart:
Glenn Beck: Electing Hillary Clinton ‘Is a Moral, Ethical Choice’ — The Blaze founder Glenn Beck took to his Facebook page last Saturday to urge his followers to abandon support of Republican nominee Donald Trump, declaring that if such an action results in the election of Hillary Clinton …
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
The fact-checkers keep destroying fact-checking — When Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton should apologize for “the 33,000 e-mails that you deleted, and that you acid washed,” did you think she had put emails into a washing machine with bleach or an acid? — NBC News' fact-checkers apparently thought …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cruz sticking with Trump
Cruz sticking with Trump
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PRRI:
Hillary Clinton opens up a commanding 11-point lead over Donald Trump | PRRI/The Atlantic Survey — CLINTON EXPANDS LEAD AMONG LIKELY VOTERS — Clinton Expands Lead Among Likely Voters — Hillary Clinton has opened up a commanding 11-point lead over Donald Trump …
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Independents and Women Bail on Trump, Giving Clinton a Double-Digit Lead — With less than a month to go until Election Day, Donald Trump's standing has plummeted with likely voters, falling from a dead heat just two weeks ago to a double-digit deficit behind Hillary Clinton, according to a PRRI/The Atlantic poll released Tuesday.
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Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
House Democrats believe Trump troubles give them real shot at retaking majority
House Democrats believe Trump troubles give them real shot at retaking majority
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Barack Obama / CNN:
America will take the giant leap to Mars — We do what's possible before anyone else — He says next step is to reach for Mars: learn to build new habitats that can sustain astronauts on long missions — Barack Obama is President of the United States.
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Member Of Trump's Evangelical Council Calls Him ‘Lecherous And Worthless’ — A megachurch pastor who sits on Donald Trump's evangelical council denounced the Republican presidential candidate as “lecherous and worthless” over a leaked 2005 video in which Trump boasted about grabbing women.
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Page Six:
Billy Bush suspended from ‘Today’ show — Billy Bush brazenly bragged to NBC staff about the vulgar Donald Trump tape while covering the Olympics in Rio, multiple sources tell Page Six. — Proving the infamous Ryan Lochte interview wasn't Bush's only Rio recklessness, the shamed “Today” …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Mitch McConnell Refuses To Talk Trump At Kentucky Event — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday told the audience at an event held by the Danville-Boyle County Chamber of Commerce in Kentucky that he would not discuss Donald Trump. — “If any of you are here are thinking …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Donald Trump is the GOP's chemotherapy — “Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.” — Janis Joplin — What did Donald Trump have left to lose Sunday night? His dignity? Please. His campaign's theme? His Cleveland convention was a mini-Nuremberg rally …
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
'I'm the Last Thing Standing Between You and the Apocalypse' — Inside the final weeks of Hillary Clinton's cautious — and surprisingly risky — campaign. — There can be days in this presidential campaign, if not weeks or months or maybe the entire thing, where you find yourself completely lost in dueling or blurry realities.
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