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Chris Massie / CNN:
John McCain: 'I don't know' if Trump will be better for Supreme Court than Clinton — (CNN)Republican Sen. John McCain said on Monday that he wasn't sure if Donald Trump would be a better president for appointing Supreme Court justices than Hillary Clinton. — Trump has released lists of 21 potential justices.
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Matt York / Talking Points Memo:
McCain: GOPers Will Unite To Block ‘Any’ Clinton SCOTUS Nominee — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) suggested Monday that the Republican party's months-long refusal to fill a vacant seat on the Supreme Court would extend into the next administration if Hillary Clinton is elected president.
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Balloon Juice and alan.com
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
McCain Vows Supreme Court Blockade Will Continue Through Clinton's Presidency
McCain Vows Supreme Court Blockade Will Continue Through Clinton's Presidency
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Althouse and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
John McCain: Republicans will block anyone Clinton names to the Supreme Court
John McCain: Republicans will block anyone Clinton names to the Supreme Court
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Media Matters for America and The New Civil Rights Movement
Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute — Trump Hurt by Misconduct Claims as Clinton Lead Widens — Voters divided on whether most guys use same language — West Long Branch, NJ - Hillary Clinton is currently ahead of Donald Trump by 12 points among voters likely to cast ballots in November.
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Washington Post, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, The Week, Althouse and The New Civil Rights Movement
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: 41 percent of voters say election could be ‘stolen’ from Trump — The American electorate has turned deeply skeptical about the integrity of the nation's election apparatus, with 41 percent of voters saying November's election could be “stolen” from Donald Trump due to widespread voter fraud.
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The Nation, Daily Mail, NBC News, Fox 59, Rasmussen Reports, Mediaite, Washington Post, Guardian, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Washington Times, Raw Story, The Week and Political Wire
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump lashes out at Republicans for not buying election rigging line
Trump lashes out at Republicans for not buying election rigging line
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Associated Press, CNN, Business Insider, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
David Weigel / Washington Post:
‘Rigged’ election talk didn't start with Trump
‘Rigged’ election talk didn't start with Trump
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Vox, Talking Points Memo, Morning Consult, Daily Kos and The Atlantic
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Melania Trump: Donald Trump was ‘egged on’ into ‘boy talk’ — (CNN)Melania Trump says her husband was “egged on” in the 2005 tape in which he made lewd comments about his own sexually aggressive behavior toward women — remarks she says were “boy talk.” — “I said to my husband that, you know, the language was inappropriate.
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The Atlantic, Mother Jones, alan.com, CNBC, New York Magazine, The Right Scoop, twitchy.com, Business Insider, Politicus USA and Heat Street
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's email problems just came roaring back — For the past few months, Hillary Clinton's decision to exclusively use a private email server while at the State Department has receded as a campaign issue as Donald Trump's comments about women have come to dominate the daily chatter about the 2016 race.
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Heat Street, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon, The Right Scoop, twitchy.com and Judicial Watch
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
State Dept. official accused of offering ‘quid pro quo’ in Clinton email scandal — A top State Department official allegedly “pressured” the FBI to downgrade the classification of one of Hillary Clinton's emails as part of a “quid pro quo,” according to documents released by the bureau on Monday.
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RedState, Washington Free Beacon, Mashable, Independent Journal Review, Hit & Run, NO QUARTER USA NET and The Federalist
Tal Kopan / CNN:
FBI, State deny ‘quid pro quo’ over Clinton email — Newly released documents contain a summary of notes related to the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton — Washington (CNN)The FBI is denying that any “quid pro quo” was offered in a fight between the bureau and State Department …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton camp wades deeper into Senate fight — Hillary Clinton's campaign is moving to pour new money into down-ballot races in an attempt to swing the Senate back to Democrats and claw back seats in the House, hoping to leverage Donald Trump's implosion into renewed Democratic control of Congress.
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ABC News, Washington Post, The Atlantic and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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New York Times:
Showing Confidence, Hillary Clinton Pushes Into Republican Strongholds
Showing Confidence, Hillary Clinton Pushes Into Republican Strongholds
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Political Wire
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Early voting reveals warning signs for Trump
Early voting reveals warning signs for Trump
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Washington Post, New York Magazine, RedState and Electoral-vote.com
Dave Levinthal / Center for Public Integrity:
Journalists shower Hillary Clinton with campaign cash — Far fewer making contributions to Donald Trump, analysis shows — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to members of the media on her campaign plane in September 2016. Andrew Harnik/AP — likes
Casey Reynolds / The Midnight Sun:
MIDNIGHT SUN EXCLUSIVE: New Poll Shows Trump-Clinton Tied In Alaska — New polling numbers provided exclusively to The Midnight Sun by the Alaska Democratic Party show Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in a statistical tie in The Last Frontier. — The poll was conducted …
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CNN, Mediaite, The Week, Booman Tribune, The Right Scoop, The Daily Caller and Washington Post
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Is Shep Smith The Future Of Fox News? — “The long look of history is going to be necessary, and I don't think it will reflect well on this time,” Smith says, “or on the voters' ability to decipher what it is they're hearing and seeing.” — Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post
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Lucas Grindley / Advocate:
Shepard Smith Answers Question on Roger Ailes by Coming Out
Anneta Konstantinides / Daily Mail:
But Wikileaks revealed this morning that Assange's internet link had been ‘intentionally severed by a state party’ — At 6.30am this morning WikiLeaks tweeted: 'Julian Assange's internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party', with conspiracy theorists claiming that it is linked …
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Forbes, Fox News, New Urban Legends, BizPac Review, twitchy.com, Mashable, CANNONFIRE and Vox Popoli
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Tampa Bay Times:
Trump fans boo, walk out on Amy Schumer show in Tampa — TAMPA - About 200 people walked out of Amy Schumer's comedy show at the Amalie Arena in Tampa Sunday when she mocked Donald Trump as, among other things, an “orange, sexual-assaulting, fake- college-starting monster.” — 7 Months Ago 7 Months Ago 7 Months Ago
Jamie Gregora / The Daily Signal:
This Is the Percentage of Millennials Who Believe George W. Bush Killed More People Than Stalin — The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation released its first “Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes Towards Socialism” Monday. The survey showed a distinct generation gap regarding beliefs …
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Townhall.com, Heat Street, twitchy.com, Hot Air and RedState
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
POSTAL WORKER Brags Online About Destroying Trump Ballots (Updated) — An Ohio(?) man who describes himself as a postal worker bragged online this weekend about destroying Donald Trump absentee ballots. — This was posted by Twitter user Randygdub on Sunday- — He actually bragged about it!
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Exclusive: O'Keefe Video Sting Exposes ‘Bird-Dogging’ — Democrats' Effort to Incite Violence at Trump Rallies — Democrats have used trained provocateurs to instigate violence at Republican events nationwide throughout the 2016 election cycle, including at several Donald Trump rallies …
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The Gateway Pundit, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Daily Caller and twitchy.com
Manu Raju / CNN:
Heck on tape: ‘I really’ want to support Trump but I can't — (CNN)Rep. Joe Heck gave his most extensive assessment of his decision to dump Donald Trump at a closed-door fundraiser last week, saying Republicans had “cut a lot of slack” to his party's presidential nominee for months …
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Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
D.C. McAllister / The Federalist:
I'm A Sexual Assault Victim Who Still Supports Trump — This week America was subjected to a tape of Barack Obama flashing his erection to women on a plane. With a proud smile, he spread his legs, so the ladies could see the solid outline of his penis beneath his khakis. — It brought back a memory for me.
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Men Are Treating 2016 As A ‘Normal’ Election; Women Aren't — We could be looking at the largest gender gap in a presidential election since at least 1952: Men are favoring the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, in typical numbers, but a historically overwhelming share of women say they will vote for the Democrat, Hillary Clinton.
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Washington Monthly and RedState
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
U.S. police chiefs group apologizes for ‘historical mistreatment’ of minorities — The president of America's largest police organization on Monday issued a formal apology to the nation's minority population “for the actions of the past and the role that our profession has played …
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ThinkProgress and Talking Points Memo
Guardian:
Nobel panel gives up knockin' on Dylan's door — Days after being awarded the literature prize, Bob Dylan has yet to get in touch with the Swedish Academy, or indicate whether he will attend the celebrations — The Swedish Academy says it has given up trying to reach Bob Dylan …
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