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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Trump: I'll accept election results — if I win … opened up a Thursday campaign rally by saying he'll accept the results of the presidential election as long as he wins. — “I will totally accept the result of this great and historic presidential election,” Trump told supporters in Delaware, Ohio.
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
LePage calls Trump's election results comment ‘an absolute stupid move’
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Nathaniel Meyersohn / BuzzFeed:
Paul LePage On Trump's Election Results Answer: “C'mon, Get Over Yourself”
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
On “Accepting Election Results”
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Larry O'Connor / Hot Air:
Last week Hillary agreed that Gore ‘won’ 2000 election
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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton, Mocking and Taunting in Debate, Turns the Tormentor — She mansplained him. “Let me translate that if I can,” Hillary Clinton said dryly after Donald J. Trump talked up his tax plan. — She interrupted him. When Mr. Trump boasted of the gilded Las Vegas hotel that bears his name …
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
The 5 Most Outrageous Hillary Clinton Lies From The Last Debate — The third and, mercifully, final presidential debate featuring Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton also turned out to be the most conventional. Fox News' Chris Wallace did a solid job pressing the candidates on issues in Las Vegas …
Politico:
Full transcript: Third 2016 presidential debate
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Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Trump's Shocking Answer On Respecting Election Results Is The Only Debate Moment That Matters
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Poll Shows Republicans Less Committed to Trump in Defeat — Just 24 percent of Republicans and those who lean that way say Trump should be the face of the party nationally if Clinton wins. — Republican primary voters strongly backed Donald Trump for the presidential nomination …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Flake says it might be Garland time — Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake has maintained for months that Republicans should take up Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination if it looks like the presidential contest is a lost cause for the GOP. — It's looking about that time, Flake said in an interview on Thursday.
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Republicans in tough races blast Trump for refusing to say whether he'll accept election results
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump-driven divide will consume GOP long after the election
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail Accounts — On March 19 of this year, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta received an alarming email that appeared to come from Google. — The email, however, didn't come from the internet giant.
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Eric Geller / Politico:
Russian hackers infiltrated Podesta's email, security firm says — Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's Gmail account was hacked by the same Russian intelligence-linked hackers that breached the DNC and the DCCC, researchers confirmed Thursday, spurring Clinton's team to immediately lash …
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Tim Johnson / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
WikiLeaks claims sham U.S. firm is trying to smear Assange
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Libby Nelson / Vox:
Watch Michelle Obama's Arizona speech: live stream and what to expect after the Clinton-Trump debate — First lady Michelle Obama, whose last major campaign appearance for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was an emotional speech on Donald Trump's comments about women …
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Kevin Tampone / Syracuse Post-Standard:
SUNY professor says Trump win at least 87 percent certain; other polls ‘bunk’ — Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach, Fla — Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Esther Yu Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Another woman just came forward to say Trump assaulted her — “He said, 'hey look at this one. We haven't seen her before. Look at those legs.'” — Just one day after the third and final presidential debate, another woman has come forward to say that Republican presidential candidate Donald …
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Trump used his foundation to fund guerrilla filmmaker James O'Keefe — He funneled at least $10,000 to O'Keefe's Project Veritas — In Wednesday's presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed that new videos proved that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had “hired people” and “paid them $1,500” …
Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Trump Jr.: Running for president a ‘step down’ — (CNN)Donald Trump's eldest son said Wednesday night that his father's unlikely pursuit of the presidency represented a “step down” from the Republican nominee's business career. — “Unlike Hillary Clinton, who's gotten very rich being a politician …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
For Trump, a solid debate performance disappears in an instant
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Hillary Clinton in 2002: George W. Bush Was ‘Selected, Not Elected’ — It is completely irresponsible to argue that a president who reaches 270 electoral votes is not “elected” and legitimate, right, Hillary Clinton? Only a shameless partisan with no concern for democracy or our system …
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Washington's foreign policy elite breaks with Obama over Syrian bloodshed — There is one corner of Washington where Donald Trump's scorched-earth presidential campaign is treated as a mere distraction and where bipartisanship reigns. In the rarefied world of the Washington foreign policy establishment …
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Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Obama Roasts Rubio: You Call Trump A ‘Con Artist’ But You'll Vote For Him? — President Barack Obama read Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and, by proxy, the entire Republican Party, the riot act on Thursday for supporting Donald Trump despite previously condemning him.
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Simon Dumenco / Ad Age:
Fox News Is No Longer a Top 20 Best-Perceived Brand Among Republicans — New data out today from YouGov BrandIndex suggests that Fox News is losing its luster in the eyes of Republican consumers — who, it must be noted, pretty much despise CNN and MSNBC more than ever.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Clinton Probably Finished Off Trump Last Night — I'm not sure I need to tell you this, but Hillary Clinton is probably going to be the next president. It's just a question of what “probably” means. — Clinton went into the final presidential debate on Wednesday with a lead of about 7 percentage points over Donald Trump.
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Washington Post:
Iraq's U.S.-trained counterterrorism troops join attack on Mosul — BARTELLA, Iraq — Iraq's elite counterterrorism units advanced to within six miles of Mosul on Thursday as Kurdish forces opened a new front to the north — in a significant escalation of the fight for the Islamic State-held city.
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