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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
Is the House in Play? What We Know Now — Ever since last Friday's Access Hollywood bombshell, Speaker Paul Ryan has treated Trump's campaign as a sinking ship and has sounded an alarm to donors to shift resources towards saving the majority. Meanwhile, we have been inundated with questions …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Pence: ‘Something missing’ from polls showing Trump trailing — Polls showing a widening gap between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump with just weeks to go until Election Day are missing something, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said Friday morning, because they fail to capture the enthusiasm the GOP nominee has stirred among American voters.
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Trump Goes to War — OCALA, Florida—In Donald Trump's war of all against all, none shall be spared. — “I'm so angry at the Republicans,” he says, eyes slitted in a mocking grimace. He's riffing off the leaked email that shows that allies of Hillary Clinton gave her a question in advance of a town hall broadcast by CNN in March.
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New York Magazine
Nancy Collins / Hollywood Reporter:
Donald Trump Talks Family, Women in Unearthed Transcript: “When I Come Home and Dinner's Not Ready, I Go Through the Roof” — “Psychologists will tell you that some women want to be treated with respect,” he told Nancy Collins in a never-released 1994 transcript from ABC's ‘Primetime Live.’ …
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Political Wire, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, The Week and Jezebel
The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Made Nasty Comments About Khloe Kardashian On ‘Apprentice,’ Staffers Say — Sources say he called her a “piglet.” — During a 2009 taping of “Celebrity Apprentice,” Donald Trump made disparaging remarks about Khloe Kardashian's weight before firing her from the program …
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The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Called Deaf ‘Apprentice’ Marlee Matlin ‘Retarded’ — Just in case you thought Donald Trump was insufficiently awful: He repeatedly called a deaf actress “retarded,” three sources tell The Daily Beast. — Trump, who was accused on Wednesday of making sexual comments to Marlee Matlin …
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Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Prepares New Attack on Media, Clinton — GOP presidential nominee says reports are ‘slanderous’ and media are pitted against him and his supporters — Donald Trump will broaden his attack against the media to hit globalism and the Clinton Foundation by charging …
Scott Stump / TODAY.com:
Mike Pence on TODAY Show says evidence disproving Trump's accusers ‘hours’ away — Defending running mate Donald Trump, Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence told TODAY's Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie Friday that the evidence to disprove Trump's accusers was just “hours” away from being made public.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Leaked emails: Clinton allies pondered polling in 2008 on rumors about Obama's cocaine use, his father's Muslim faith — Political campaigns and super PAC often hire pollsters to survey voters about the potential strengths and weaknesses of an opponent or themselves.
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Daniel Halper / New York Post:
Clinton allies polled voters about Obama's ties to Islam
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Armed protester stands outside Dem's office for 12 hours — An man exposed his firearm while standing outside a Democratic U.S. House candidate's office for 12 hours on Thursday, CBS 19 reported. — Daniel Parks said he was protesting Hillary Clinton — 's campaign by standing outside …
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Taylor Cairns / Newsplex:
Legally armed protester stands outside Dittmar campaign offices for hours
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Talking Points Memo
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Two speeches in two hours crystallize the state of Campaign 2016 — Two speeches. Two Americas. A pair of apocalyptic arguments and one call to burn down the house. That's the summation from just two remarkable hours Thursday that crystallized the final month of Campaign 2016.
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New York Times:
Cut Ties to Donald Trump, Big Donors Urge R.N.C. — WASHINGTON — Several of the Republican Party's most generous donors called on the Republican National Committee on Thursday to disavow Donald J. Trump, saying that allegations by multiple women that Mr. Trump had groped …
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Jon Passantino / BuzzFeed:
Trump Jr. Suggested Women Who Can't Take Harassment “Don't Belong In The Workforce” — Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., dismissed workplace sexual harassment in a 2013 radio interview — and suggested that women who couldn't take it should become kindergarten teachers.
Erick-Woods Erickson / New York Times:
Erick Erickson: The G.O.P. After Donald Trump — ATLANTA — Over the past few months, a cavalcade of Republican policy wonks, pundits and partisan strategists have beclowned themselves on national television trying to defend the indefensible: their party's nominee. Free-trade advocates have become protectionists.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and The Resurgent
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CNNMoney:
Trump on Lindsay Lohan in 2004: ‘Deeply troubled’ women are ‘always the best in bed’ — Donald Trump said in a 2004 interview with Howard Stern about Lindsay Lohan that “deeply troubled” women are “always the best in bed,” according to a CNN KFile review of the appearance.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
This is the best book to help you understand the wild 2016 campaign — On September 11, 2016, the political media's attention was firmly fixed on Lower Manhattan, where Hillary Clinton unexpectedly ducked out of a 9/11 memorial event. Video soon surfaced of her looking very unwell …
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National Geographic and CNBC
Sasha Issenberg / Bloomberg:
How Republican Rob Portman May Derail the Trump Train in Ohio — The senator works to turn out ticket-splitters with a ground game powered by high-schoolers. — Rob Portman may have been the last of nine senators to abandon Donald Trump in the day after the revelation of his sexual-assault boast …
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RedState
Tegna / WFAA-TV:
New poll: Trump lead shrinks in Texas, within margin of error — A new poll of Texas voters shows Donald Trump's lead shrinking in the Lone Star State, to within the margin of error. Jason Whitely reports. … DALLAS - After perhaps the most damaging week of his campaign …
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Washington Post, Business Insider, Politicus USA and The New Civil Rights Movement
Virgin:
I want an entrepreneur to become President one day - just not Donald Trump — I would like to see an entrepreneur become President one day. I believe entrepreneurial thinking is incredibly valuable in leaders, and there are many entrepreneurs who I would be delighted to see in power - just not this one.
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Politico and Business Insider
Steven Shepard / Politico:
GOP insiders: Trump's chances fading — Republican insiders are rapidly losing confidence in Donald Trump's ability to win their states. — After a nightmarish, seven-day stretch that began with the release of a tape of the now-GOP presidential nominee making sexually aggressive remarks …
Jfarrell / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Releases New Hillary Clinton Email Answers Given under Oath — (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch today released received responses under oath from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton concerning her email practices. Judicial Watch submitted twenty-five questions …
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Shane Harris / The Daily Beast:
Did a Russian Ship Cut Syria's Internet Cables? — A Russian ship that intelligence and military officials reportedly fear can cut undersea Internet cables is near the coast of Syria. And its appearance coincides with what researchers say is a marked uptick in the instability of Internet traffic in that country.
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The Daily Caller
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Clinton Emails: Comey Lied And The Scandal Died — Corruption: When FBI Director James Comey dismissed the case against Hillary Clinton he said it was because no reasonable attorney would take the case. Now we learn that there were plenty who would have done so.
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