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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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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 …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump-driven divide will consume GOP long after the election
Trump-driven divide will consume GOP long after the election
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CNN, Politico, New York Magazine, Daily Wire, Media Matters for America and Talking Points Memo
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’
LePage calls Trump's election results comment ‘an absolute stupid move’
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State & Capitol and Politicker
Nathaniel Meyersohn / BuzzFeed:
Paul LePage On Trump's Election Results Answer: “C'mon, Get Over Yourself”
Paul LePage On Trump's Election Results Answer: “C'mon, Get Over Yourself”
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Hot Air, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
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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Politico:
Full transcript: Third 2016 presidential debate
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
Trump's Shocking Answer On Respecting Election Results Is The Only Debate Moment That Matters
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Salon, Vox, The Point, New York Times and Mother Jones
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
Russian hackers infiltrated Podesta's email, security firm says
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Motherboard and alan.com
Tim Johnson / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
WikiLeaks claims sham U.S. firm is trying to smear Assange
WikiLeaks claims sham U.S. firm is trying to smear Assange
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RedState and Sputnik International
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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The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
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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LGBTQ Nation
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump national political director ‘steps back’ from campaign — Jim Murphy, Donald Trump's national political director, is no longer playing an active role on the campaign, according to three sources briefed on the move - a troubling development for the Republican nominee coming just 19 days before the election.
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RedState, Daily Wire, Mediaite, The Week and The New Civil Rights Movement
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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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” …
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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Daily Wire and Hot Air
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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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New York Magazine, Booman Tribune, Common Dreams, Shadowproof and War on the Rocks
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
For Trump, a solid debate performance disappears in an instant — LAS VEGAS — Standing in a garish hotel lobby, casino music pounding, a Republican who has worked hard to help Donald Trump couldn't quite believe how the final presidential debate had ended just a couple of hours earlier.
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NewsBusters and Washington Monthly
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Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Trump Jr.: Running for president a ‘step down’
Trump Jr.: Running for president a ‘step down’
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BizPac Review, Mediaite, LifeZette, Jamie Dupree, Independent Journal Review, The Week and Fox News Insider
Rasmussen Reports:
White House Watch: Trump Edges Ahead — It's too early to measure the impact of last night's final presidential debate, but Republican Donald Trump now has a three-point lead nationally on Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone …
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The Last Refuge and The Gateway Pundit
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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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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Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Why Fox's Chris Wallace was a debate night winner — So Debate No. 3 had one clearcut winner: Fox News' Chris Wallace. — This has has been a challenging year indeed for presidential debate moderators, in a campaign filled with all manner of bizarre side issues and a boisterous …
Stephen L. Carter / Bloomberg:
Trump or No Trump, Elections Have Been Stolen — If Donald Trump loses the presidential race, I hope that he will concede and move on. That's what democracy demands. But the current histrionics over his insistence that the process is rigged against him are overblown.
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John DiStaso / WMUR:
WMUR poll: Hassan takes 8 percentage point lead over Ayotte … DURHAM, N.H. — For the first time in New Hampshire's blockbuster U.S. Senate campaign, the race is no longer a virtual dead heat. Gov. Maggie Hassan has taken an 8 percentage point lead over Sen. Kelly Ayotte, according to a new poll.
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The Right Scoop and The New Civil Rights Movement