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Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Wall Street Democrats Are Absolutely Freaking Out About Their 2020 Candidates — One night in early April, roughly 20 of the Democratic Party's highest-profile donors from the financial industry sat down over dinner to discuss how exactly they were feeling about the 2020 presidential race.
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Democrats dismiss Biden as front-runner in name only — In another election, at another time, the late entrance of a well-funded candidate leading in the polls might send convulsions through the primary field. — But Joe Biden's arrival into the 2020 race has not had that effect.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Fickle Over the Faithful — Loyal supporters of the Democratic Party deserve answers.
The Fickle Over the Faithful — Loyal supporters of the Democratic Party deserve answers.
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Jazz Shaw / Hot Air:
That Time Joe Biden Voted To Restore Robert E. Lee's Citizenship
That Time Joe Biden Voted To Restore Robert E. Lee's Citizenship
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The American Spectator
Benjamin Wittes / The Atlantic:
Five Things I Learned From the Mueller Report — I spent the week after the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report going through it section by section and writing a kind of diary of the endeavor. My goal was less to summarize the report than to force myself to think about each factual …
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Guide to the Mueller Report's Findings on “Collusion” — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report focuses only on whether crimes were committed. It addresses two Russian conspiracies to interfere in the 2016 election—one involving a social media influence campaign and the other involving …
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Political Wire
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest moves demand a tougher response. A leading Democrat shows how.
Trump's latest moves demand a tougher response. A leading Democrat shows how.
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Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Daily Caller:
Combat Vet Who Stopped The Synagogue Shooter: ‘I Scared The Hell Out Of Him’ — The man who fired a semi-automatic weapon inside the Chabad of Poway synagogue in San Diego on Saturday froze, dropped his gun and sprinted to his car when he saw Oscar Stewart come barreling toward him …
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Debra Kamin / The Times of Israel:
Poway Chabad rabbi had asked border patrol agent to pray armed - just in case
Poway Chabad rabbi had asked border patrol agent to pray armed - just in case
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Laura Newberry / Los Angeles Times:
This is the Army veteran who chased the gunman out of the California synagogue
This is the Army veteran who chased the gunman out of the California synagogue
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Kristin Lam / USA Today:
Injured California rabbi gets a call from President Donald Trump: ‘He was just so comforting’
Injured California rabbi gets a call from President Donald Trump: ‘He was just so comforting’
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Washington Post:
President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims — It took President Trump 601 days to top 5,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker's database, an average of eight claims a day. — But on April 26, just 226 days later, the president crossed the 10,000 mark …
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Garrett Haake / NBC News:
Beto O'Rourke releases $5 trillion plan to combat climate crisis — The Democratic presidential candidate Monday released his first major policy proposal of the campaign, a four-pillar plan to battle climate change. — MODESTO, Calif. — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke …
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Michael Cohen's Last Days of Freedom — These days, the President's former lawyer, and the fall guy in his web of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator. — It takes some time for Michael Cohen to work his way to a table at the grillroom of the Loews Regency Hotel, on Park Avenue.
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Julie Pace / Associated Press:
New group launches to harness political power of women — WASHINGTON (AP) — Three of the nation's most influential activists are launching an organization that aims to harness the political power of women to influence elections and shape local and national policy priorities.
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Trump's handling of illegal immigration is a weakness headed into 2020
Power Up: Trump's handling of illegal immigration is a weakness headed into 2020
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New York Times
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Napolitano Denies Trump's Allegations in On-Air Response: This is How You Treat a Friend!? — Andrew Napolitano accused Donald Trump of mischaracterizing their conversations together when the president swiped at him over the weekend. — On Saturday, Trump insulted Napolitano's intelligence …
David Freedlander / Politico:
‘I Want Him on Everything’: Meet the Woman Behind the Buttigieg Media Frenzy — If you read through the many, many profiles written of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg in the past several months, it's hard not to notice just how many reporters happen to have had personal encounters with the candidate …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Trump Is Soft on White-Supremacist Terrorism — Last week, President Trump repeated his absurd claim that he had never called the Nazi protesters who descended on Charlottesville in 2017 “very fine people.” On Saturday, yet another white-supremacist attack, on a synagogue in California …
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
John Bolton on the Warpath — Can Trump's national-security adviser sell the isolationist President on military force? — Earlier this year, as Donald Trump prepared to meet the North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, in Vietnam, he took a moment in the State of the Union address …
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Coverage of Trump's latest rally shows how major media outlets normalize his worst excesses — Lying is still being recast as “reviv[ing] an inaccurate refrain.” — President Donald Trump's rally on Saturday night in Green Bay, Wisconsin, was an ugly affair.
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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump Repeats a False Claim That Doctors ‘Execute’ Newborns
Trump Repeats a False Claim That Doctors ‘Execute’ Newborns
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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Abrams: I'm Comfortable Saying ‘I Won’ Georgia Governor's Race Because ‘Something Happened’ — Democrat Stacey Abrams said she is comfortable saying “I won” the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election because “something happened” regarding voter suppression to push Republican Brian Kemp to victory.
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Trump campaign moving early to keep Arizona from switching to blue in 2020 — The Republican Party is moving early to build a political firewall around Arizona's critical Electoral College votes, a recognition that the perennial red state is threatening to turn against President Trump in 2020.
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Chuck Grassley / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Tariffs End or His Trade Deal Dies — Congress won't approve USMCA while constituents pay the price for Mexican and Canadian retaliation. — Donald Trump bucked decades of Republican orthodoxy by railing against free-trade agreements. To say I was skeptical of his plans to rip …
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
America's majority minority future — By 2045, the U.S. as a whole is projected to become majority minority. And the changes are already underway: non-white Americans are now the majority of the population in four states, as well as in the most prosperous and powerful U.S. cities.
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Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
The NRA Civil War: Pitting Grifter Against Grifter — Everything you need to know about the implosion of the NRA. — Even though the adage has been nearly worn out in the Age of Trump, it is probably obligatory to once again quote Eric Hoffer's observation that “Every great cause begins as a movement …
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