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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Breitbart coordinated with liberal activist and organizer who disrupted GOP primary campaign events — A liberal activist and organizer coordinated with reporters from the conservative news site Breitbart during the primaries to cover his disruptions of events for candidates such as Sen. Marco Rubio.
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RedState, New York Magazine, The Resurgent, Raw Story and The Right Scoop, more at Mediagazer »
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Warren Henry / The Federalist:
Liberals Adored Trump When He Was Winning The GOP Primary
Liberals Adored Trump When He Was Winning The GOP Primary
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Salon and Washington Post
Business Insider:
The GOP must do something about the conservative media industrial complex if it wants to survive — Standing before a Miami audience, sleeves rolled up, President Barack Obama was hard at work campaigning for Hillary Clinton. — But, as he sometimes does when he's riffing on the stump, the president took a detour in his speech.
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Washington Examiner, bradford-delong.com and RedState
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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Fact-free conservative media is a symptom of GOP troubles, not a cause — My colleagues Oliver Darcy and Pamela Engel have written a good account of the Republican Party's captivity to its own disinformation complex of talk radio and conservative websites that push both extremism and false information.
Tami Luhby / CNNMoney:
Obamacare premiums to soar 22% — Obamacare premiums are set to skyrocket an average of 22% for the benchmark silver plan in 2017, according to a government report released Monday. — The price hike is the latest blow to Obamacare. Insurers are raising prices and downsizing their presence …
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Townhall.com
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Obamacare's double-digit rate hike, explained in 400 words
Obamacare's double-digit rate hike, explained in 400 words
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twitchy.com
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Obama administration confirms double-digit premium hikes
Obama administration confirms double-digit premium hikes
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Obamacare in 2017: Much higher premiums, much less choice
Obamacare in 2017: Much higher premiums, much less choice
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Patterico's Pontifications
Michael Gross / The Daily Beast:
Inside Donald Trump's One-Stop Parties: Attendees Recall Cocaine and Very Young Models — The morals of Donald J. Trump, as a longtime model lover and then a modeling agency owner, were forged in another era, one in which young girls were used as a sort of currency between men doing business with one another.
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The Right Scoop, Little Green Footballs, Occupy Democrats and RedState
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Obama reads round two of ‘mean tweets’ on Kimmel — President Obama will appear on ABC's “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” late Monday night, reading a second batch of “mean tweets” about himself. — ...bro, do you even lift?" he read. “ Well, I lifted the ban on Cuban cigars. That's worth something.
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ABC News, Politico, Raw Story and RealClearLife
Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Trump's Campaign Is Launching a Nightly News Show on Facebook — Welcome to the Donald Trump show! — Tonight, the Trump campaign is kicking off a show that will air on the candidate's Facebook page every night at 6:30 pm ET via Facebook Live from the campaign war room at Trump Tower.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Reid: ‘I have set the Senate’ for nuclear option — (D-Nev.) is predicting a Democratic-majority Senate next year could break out the “nuclear option” to change the rules on Supreme Court nominations. — The outgoing Democratic leader told Talking Points Memo that he's paved …
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Instapundit, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Talking Points Memo
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Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Harry Reid's Parting Shot: Dems Will Nuke The Filibuster For SCOTUS
Harry Reid's Parting Shot: Dems Will Nuke The Filibuster For SCOTUS
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Constitution Daily, New York Magazine, Mother Jones and Daily Kos
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Trump on porn actress who accused him of misconduct: 'Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before' — (CNN)Donald Trump on Monday addressed the latest accusations of inappropriate sexual contact made against him, saying of the accuser, an adult film performer, “Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before.”
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Telegraph:
Pro-Trump fundraisers agree to accept illicit foreign donation — Donald Trump's presidential campaign is facing a fundraising scandal after a Telegraph investigation exposed how key supporters were prepared to accept illicit donations from foreign backers.
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Daily News Bin, New York Times, Hot Air, Raw Story and Politicus USA
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Florida spirals away from Trump — From polling to early voting trends to TV ad spending to ground game, Donald Trump's Florida fortunes are beginning to look so bleak that some Republicans are steeling themselves for what could be the equivalent of a “landslide” loss in the nation's biggest battleground state.
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The Week and Washington Post
The Brickmuppet / Brickmuppet Blog 2.0:
Steven DenBeste 1952(?)-2016 — Steven DenBeste has passed away. — I just received word from Steven's brother, graciously thanking me for making the welfare call to the police and confirming that what many of us feared had indeed come to pass. I did not inquire as to specifics …
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Patterico's Pontifications and Outside the Beltway
CNN:
How the GOP's first female presidential campaign manager manages Donald Trump — Conway on Trump: ‘He delivers his own speeches’ — (CNN)Morning at the Conway household is like mornings in most homes with children. It's a scramble to get the kids fed, dressed and out the door on time for school …
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Lanny J. Davis / The Hill:
Time for Clinton supporters to be tolerant and believe in ‘stronger together’ — This column is tough to write. I know that, out of context, I might be accused of wanting to pull punches on GOP nominee Donald Trump — and on many of his extreme, hateful supporters. — The opposite is the case.
Fox News:
ACLU chapter: High school's police event sends ‘frightening message’ — A New Jersey high school has come under fire after holding a ceremony honoring law enforcement, military and first responders before a football game Friday night. — According to NJ.com, an organizer with the New Jersey chapter …
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Hot Air
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Dan Zak / Washington Post:
Forget Trump and Clinton. ‘Black Jeopardy’ is SNL's best political sketch this year. — Just before midnight Saturday, Tom Hanks put on a denim shirt, a goatee and a red “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” hat, and in six minutes pulled off the best political sketch of the year …
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The French Revolution, Liberal Values, Mediaite, Business Insider and The Huffington Post
Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:
Republicans Threaten Lawsuits Over TV Ads Linking Them To Donald Trump — Saying a candidate supports Trump is basically defamation, they argue. — Congressional Reporter, The Huffington Post — WASHINGTON Some Republicans are running so far away from their party's nominee …
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Talking Points Memo
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
We're in the Universal Derp Implosion — Donald Trump is giving a raging, rambling speech with accusations against everyone and everything. But there's one thing he flagged that everyone needs to understand the details about. — Here's what he said ...
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The Week
Betta Stothart / Washington Post:
How angry does Donald Trump make me? Angry enough to steal 40 Trump signs. — How a middle-aged mom became a political vandal. … Donald Trump campaigns in Bangor, Maine, on Oct. 15. (Photo by Sarah Rice/Getty Images) — FALMOUTH, Maine — I committed a crime this month, along with two of my friends.
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Central Maine
Terry Jones / Investor's Business Daily:
Trump, Clinton In Dead Heat As Race Hits Final Two-Week Stretch — IBD/TIPP Poll — With the presidential election set to enter its final two weeks, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump find themselves in a near dead heat at 41% each in a four-way race, the latest IBD/TIPP presidential tracking poll shows.
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NPR, Florida Politics, WND, Newsweek, Washington Times, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Breitbart
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Kenneth Lipp / The Daily Beast:
AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit — On Nov. 11, 2013, Victorville, California, sheriff's deputies and a coroner responded to a motorcyclist's report of human remains outside of town. — They identified the partially bleached skull of a child, and later discovered the remains …
Gabe Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton aims to run up the score — NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton and her allies have an animating aim in the final 14 days of the 2016 contest - drive up the score so dramatically that claims by Donald Trump of Democratic vote-rigging will be rendered inconsequential thanks to the margin of victory.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Fearing Trump, Bar Association Stifles Report Calling Him a ‘Libel Bully’ — WASHINGTON — Alarmed by Donald J. Trump's record of filing lawsuits to punish and silence his critics, a committee of media lawyers at the American Bar Association commissioned a report on Mr. Trump's litigation history.
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Mediaite, The Week and ThinkProgress
Ben Botkin / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
RJ poll shows Clinton adding to lead over Trump in Nevada — Hillary Clinton is pulling away from Donald Trump in Nevada with early voting underway, according to a poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. — Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, has a 7-point lead …
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Politicus USA and Washington Post