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Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
It's a Question No One Says They Want to Ask. But the Women Running for President Keep Hearing It. — GREENVILLE, S.C. — Some people whisper it, some apologize for it, and some are very careful to mention their neighbors — their neighbors would be the ones to ask.
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Maggie More / NBC4 Washington:
RNC Receives VIP Tickets to Trump's Fourth of July Celebration; DNC Does Not — Tanks for July 4th Celebration Come in on Trains — An official with the Democratic National Convention told NBC News the organization has not received tickets to the VIP section for President Donald Trump's Fourth …
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
How Is Trump's Parade Offensive? Let Me Count the Ways — The restraint of a superpower was one of the ways in which America used to be great. Now a civic holiday is an occasion for self-aggrandizement. — Donald Trump's planned Fourth of July celebration of himself has so many things wrong …
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Shareblue Media, Washington Post and Politico
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Chaos, Fireworks, Political VIPs On Tap For Trump's Last-Minute July 4 Bash
Chaos, Fireworks, Political VIPs On Tap For Trump's Last-Minute July 4 Bash
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Prynard / Iowa Starting Line:
New Iowa Poll: Warren Leads, Harris And Biden Close Behind, Sanders Falls To 4th — Home- 2019- July- 3- New Iowa Poll: Warren Leads, Harris And Biden Close Behind, Sanders Falls To 4th — We have a shakeup in Iowa. — Elizabeth Warren leads the pack in the Iowa Caucus …
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Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, IJR and Daily Kos
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Harris scores in debate performance while electability keeps Biden in front
Harris scores in debate performance while electability keeps Biden in front
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July 2019 Poll Results
July 2019 Poll Results
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The Hill, Political Wire and Washington Times
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
MSNBC Guest Compares Betsy Ross Flag to Swastika, Burning Cross — ‘Those symbols are symbols of hate’ — MSNBC guest Michael Eric Dyson compared the Betsy Ross American flag to the Nazi swastika and a burning Ku Klux Klan cross during an appearance Wednesday.
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Washington Times, twitchy.com and Instapundit
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EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone:
Why Is Everyone So Upset About the Betsy Ross Flag?
Why Is Everyone So Upset About the Betsy Ross Flag?
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Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Trump Jr. blasts Nike with photo of Soviet-style shoe design: ‘More in line with their views’
Trump Jr. blasts Nike with photo of Soviet-style shoe design: ‘More in line with their views’
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New York Magazine, Breitbart and Conservative News Today
Julio Rosas / Washington Examiner:
Julián Castro was happy to see Nike pull the American flag shoes
Julián Castro was happy to see Nike pull the American flag shoes
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Patterico's Pontifications, IJR and twitchy.com
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump Wants Tanks on the National Mall. What Could Go Wrong? — Hello, comrades! Happy Fourth of July, or should I say, Happy 45th President of July! How fortunate we are to see our Tremendous Nation's military hardware as we celebrate the 240th-ish anniversary of something or the other …
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Washington Post, Politico, Sunlight Foundation and ThinkProgress
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon grapples with how to move tanks from a Washington rail yard to the National Mall
Pentagon grapples with how to move tanks from a Washington rail yard to the National Mall
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump says his Fourth of July fest won't come with a big price tag
Trump says his Fourth of July fest won't come with a big price tag
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Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
The tanks for Trump's July Fourth ‘Salute to America’ have rolled through Washington before
The tanks for Trump's July Fourth ‘Salute to America’ have rolled through Washington before
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National Review, New York Times, The Daily Caller and CNN
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
NRA meltdown has Trump campaign sweating — The National Rifle Association aired an avalanche of TV ads and pushed its 5 million-plus members to the polls for Donald Trump in 2016, propelling him in the Rust Belt states that delivered him the presidency. — Now, the gun rights group …
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Washington Post:
Newtown massacre divided NRA leaders, foreshadowing split to come — Twenty young children had just been gunned down by an assault rifle in their classrooms in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012, and inside the hardened bunker of the National Rifle Association, rattled officials were wrestling with rare feelings of self-doubt.
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Meghan McCain, Feeling Like an ‘Exhausted, Defeated... Caged Animal,’ May Exit ‘The View’ — Sources close to McCain tell The Daily Beast she feels like ‘a caged animal’ on the ABC talk show. 'It's getting to the point where it's not worth the emotional toll every week.'
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Buttigieg introduces national service plan — SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg will unveil his proposal to dramatically expand national service programs during a town hall here on Wednesday. — The plan, which Buttigieg's campaign is calling …
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Meredith Lerner / CREW:
Nauert Reported Earning Fox Salary While at State Department — Heather Nauert, a former State Department spokesperson and President Trump's original pick to replace Nikki Haley as the United States Representative to the United Nations, reported in her termination financial disclosure report …
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ThinkProgress and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Democratic Presidential Candidates Need to Stop Taking Unpopular Stances — The Democratic presidential primary has worked to the party's disadvantage by maneuvering its candidates into unpopular positions. This is not quite a crisis, but it is a serious danger that, if not redressed, could blow up in the party's face.
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The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Teenager Accused of Rape Deserves Leniency Because He's From a ‘Good Family,’ Judge Says — The family court judge also said the victim should have been told that pressing charges would destroy the accused's life. — The 16-year-old girl was visibly intoxicated, her speech slurred …
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Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
Trump Facebook ads use models to portray actual supporters — NEW YORK (AP) — A series of Facebook video ads for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign shows what appears to be a young woman strolling on a beach in Florida, a Hispanic man on a city street in Texas and a bearded hipster …
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The Hill:
Trump appears to contradict officials, says census citizenship question not abandoned — President Trump stirred confusion on Wednesday by saying that reports his administration is halting its effort to include a citizenship question in the 2020 census are “FAKE,” even though multiple departments …
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Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
Court Orders Release of Sealed Docs About Jeffrey Epstein's Alleged Sex Ring — In a blow to the billionaire pedophile and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, a federal court ordered the release of sealed court records in a case brought by an alleged victim.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Whatever happened to Breitbart? The insurgent star of the right is in a long, slow fade — In January 2017, Breitbart.com was flying high. Donald Trump, the candidate it had backed during the 2016 campaign, was sworn in as president. Its former executive chairman, Stephen K. Bannon …
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News Streaming Service Reeling After Misconduct Claim Goes Public — The network said it has “resolved” a claim that host Britt McHenry leveled against co-host Tyrus. She has hired an employment lawyer. — Late last year, Fox News launched its ambitious foray into the future of digital media …
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Jim Sciutto / CNN:
Military chiefs have concerns about politicization of Trump's July 4th event — (CNN)Military chiefs have concerns about the politicization of President Donald Trump's July 4 event, a source with direct knowledge told CNN. — In the planning for the event, they had reservations …
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Justice Department watchdog to investigate decision to cancel FBI headquarters plan — The Justice Department's inspector general will investigate the FBI's role in dropping plans a decade in the making to move its headquarters to the Washington suburbs, he told Congress in a letter Tuesday.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Trump Approval Remains in Low 40s — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating, which has been fluctuating between 40% and 43% since early May, was 41% in the second half of June, and includes 29% who strongly approve. Fifty-four percent of Americans disapprove …
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Malcolm Jones / The Daily Beast:
ICE Told Agents ‘Happy Hunting!’ as They Prepped for Raid — The documents detail ‘Operation MEGA,’ a nationwide raid targeting at least 8,400 people—as well as the excited, even giddy anticipation of immigration enforcement agents. — As federal immigration authorities put the finishing touches …
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Jeremy Raff / The Atlantic:
What a Pediatrician Saw Inside a Border Patrol Warehouse — MCALLEN, Texas—Inside the Border Patrol warehouse on Ursula Avenue, Dolly Lucio Sevier saw a baby who'd been fed from the same unwashed bottle for days; children showing signs of malnutrition and dehydration; and several kids who …
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Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
Politics Is Changing; Why Aren't the Pundits Who Cover It? The Donny Deutsch problem in media. — In past weeks, the curtain has officially been raised on the vast and diverse field of candidates for the Democratic nomination, many of them politicians who would not have been seen …
BuzzFeed News:
These Bizarre Kamala Harris And Mark Zuckerberg Conspiracy Sites Are Run By A Montessori School Operator — A network of websites and a popular YouTube channel spreading false conspiracies about Sen. Kamala Harris, Mark Zuckerberg, and other public figures is owned by a couple who operate …
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Daily Mail:
Alex Morgan mocked the English team by pretending to drink tea in her goal celebration — Now, there are many things you can tease my fellow countrymen for, from our silly accents and love of cricket to our badly maintained teeth. — But laughing at our fondness for tea crosses an unspoken line.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
A Crime by Any Name — The horrors detailed in the press were hard to believe. — Detainees described overcrowding so severe that “it was difficult to move in any direction without jostling and being jostled.” The water provided them was foul, “of a dark color, and an ordinary glass would collect a thick sediment.”
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Brianna Hamblin / WHSV-TV:
Charlottesville City Council votes to remove Thomas Jefferson holiday — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) — Charlottesville City Council voted to officially remove Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13, as a holiday. — At a city council meeting on Monday evening, councilors voted to to remove the day as a city holiday.
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Jon Murray / Denver Post:
New poll has good news for Gov. Jared Polis but says Sen. Cory Gardner faces an uphill climb in 2020 — Republican senator's favorability lags Trump's among registered Republicans — A new poll says more than half of Colorado voters are happy with how things are going under new Gov. Jared Polis …
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