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David Wasserman / NBC News:
How Trump could lose by 5 million votes and still win in 2020 — Analysis: The nation's two most populous states, California and Texas, are at the heart of Democrats' geography problem. — In the wake of President Donald Trump's tweets suggesting several nonwhite progressive congresswomen …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Trump's Electoral College Edge Could Grow in 2020, Rewarding Polarizing Campaign — Re-election looks plausible, with an even bigger loss in the national popular vote. — President Trump's approval ratings are under water in national polls. His position for re-election, on the other hand, might not be quite so bleak.
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Outside the Beltway and Political Wire
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
How the Ilhan Omar Marriage Smear Went From Fever Swamp to Trump — The curious journey of the unproven rumor that Omar married her brother to get him citizenship—from an obscure Somali diaspora forum to the president. — When Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that Rep. Ilhan Omar …
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Jon Schlosberg / ABC News:
Rabbi in Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's district compares Trump rally to ‘Nazi Germany’
Rabbi in Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's district compares Trump rally to ‘Nazi Germany’
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The Guardian, Breitbart, Politico and IJR
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
George Nader, Witness in Mueller Probe, Hit With New Charges of Sex Trafficking — The key cooperator faces additional child-porn charges in a new indictment to be unsealed Friday. — George Nader, who was a key witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation …
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The Daily Caller, Axios, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit and Law & Crime
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Businessman who testified in Mueller probe indicted on child pornography charges
Businessman who testified in Mueller probe indicted on child pornography charges
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Boing Boing
Andrew Rice / New York Magazine:
Alan Dershowitz Cannot Stop Talking Accused of a slew of terrible things, the defense has no intention of resting. — One morning in July, days after his onetime client Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex-trafficking charges, the famed attorney Alan Dershowitz was reminiscing as he drove the winding roads of Martha's Vineyard.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Devoun Cetoute / Miami Herald:
Palm Beach sheriff opens internal affairs investigation into handling of Jeffrey Epstein
Palm Beach sheriff opens internal affairs investigation into handling of Jeffrey Epstein
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Big League Politics and The Daily Caller
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Betting That Indecency Can Win in America — In the deeply disturbing moments after Donald Trump invoked a three-minutes-of-hate session toward Congresswoman Ilhan Omar Wednesday night, and the crowd erupted with chants of “Send Her Back! Send Her Back!”, a protester yelled something inaudible, and caused a commotion.
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The Intercept, The Week, Bloomberg and Summit News
CNN:
Trump campaign and RNC spend more than $600,000 on law firm representing Hope Hicks — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee have paid more than $600,000 in legal fees to the law firm that represents Hope Hicks, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.
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Political Wire and The Daily Caller
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Jerry Nadler asks Hope Hicks to clarify her “inconsistent” testimony about hush payments
Jerry Nadler asks Hope Hicks to clarify her “inconsistent” testimony about hush payments
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Politico, Hullabaloo, Vanity Fair and CNN
Paul Seamus Ryan / Just Security:
After Publishing Strong Evidence of Trump's Campaign Finance Crimes, DOJ Closes Case Without Explanation
After Publishing Strong Evidence of Trump's Campaign Finance Crimes, DOJ Closes Case Without Explanation
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ThinkProgress and Washington Press
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Can't Just Walk Away From ‘Send Her Back’ — There's a reason the president can't bring himself to condemn a bigoted chant. — Last Sunday, President Donald Trump suggested that four Democratic congresswomen of color, three of whom were born in the U.S., “go back” to their ancestors' countries.
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Cabot Phillips / Campus Reform:
VIDEO: Students say Obama immigration quote racist...when they think it's from Trump
VIDEO: Students say Obama immigration quote racist...when they think it's from Trump
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Breitbart and Daily Wire
Weijia Jiang / CBS News:
Trump took heat from Melania and Ivanka over racist chants at rally — Washington — CBS News has learned President Trump took a lot of heat from his family over the racist chants at a campaign rally in North Carolina on Wednesday. He heard from first lady Melania Trump, his daughter Ivanka and Vice President Mike Pence.
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Des Bieler / Washington Post:
ESPN's Dan Le Batard rips President Trump, derides network's no-politics policy
ESPN's Dan Le Batard rips President Trump, derides network's no-politics policy
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Hollywood Reporter, Deadspin, NPR, CNN, Breitbart, CNSNews and The Daily Caller
Gavrielle Jacobovitz / HuffPost:
New Hampshire Lawmaker: 'Owning Slaves Doesn't Make You Racist' — GOP state Rep. Werner Horn told HuffPost that human beings have always owned other human beings, and “it's never been about race.” — New Hampshire state Rep. Werner Horn (R) doesn't think American slavery was racist …
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Salon, USA Today, UnionLeader.com and Slate
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Republican State Lawmaker: 'Owning Slaves Doesn't Make You Racist'
Republican State Lawmaker: 'Owning Slaves Doesn't Make You Racist'
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Washington Monthly and Fox News
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Scoop: John Delaney's staffers have asked him to drop out — On July 9, John Delaney's senior team sat him down and told him to drop out of the presidential race by mid-August, according to three sources close to the campaign. — Why it matters: He's been running for president for 721 days.
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Fox News, The Week, Vanity Fair, Splinter, The Daily Caller and Politico
James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
LAPD informant infiltrated left-wing activists during Trump protests, records show — The Los Angeles Police Department ordered a confidential informant to monitor and record meetings held by a political group that staged protests against President Trump in 2017, a move that has drawn concern …
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Trump says he won't watch Mueller testimony — President Trump insisted Friday that he won't watch special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony before Congress next week. — Trump, who was asked directly if he would be watching the marathon testimony, also told reporters that Democrats need to …
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Politico and Political Wire
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Defenders of a Racist President Use Jews as Human Shields — Trump's bigoted attack on four congresswomen of color has nothing to do with fighting anti-Semitism. — Sebastian Gorka, a onetime adviser to Donald Trump, wore a medal from the Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian group historically aligned with Nazism …
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The Federalist
Rafael Carranza / Arizona Republic:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema pushes program to streamline removal of migrant families without valid asylum claims — TUCSON — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is pushing for the implementation of a pilot program along the U.S.-Mexico border that aims to more quickly screen and remove migrant families without valid legal claims …
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National Review, Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
David Marchese / New York Times:
Graydon Carter on Vanity Fair, Jeffrey Epstein and an Editor's Power — “I didn't invent the system. I just lived by the system.” — Graydon Carter on Vanity Fair, Jeffrey Epstein and an editor's power. — During his 25-year run as editor in chief of Vanity Fair …
Leana S. Wen / New York Times:
Why I Left Planned Parenthood — I believe abortion is about health care, not politics. Many of my colleagues disagreed. — Dr. Wen is an emergency physician. — This week, I left my position as the president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood.
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Tulsi Gabbard Raised Negative $20 for Her House Campaign — The number raises questions about whether Gabbard will return to Congress should her presidential campaign come to an end. — As she runs for the Democratic nominee for president, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) also faces a primary challenge for her seat in the House.
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New York Post
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Pete Buttigieg hires former Goldman Sachs executive as national policy director — KEY POINTS — Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg has hired a former Goldman Sachs vice president and Google executive to run his policy shop, his campaign announced Thursday.
James Comey / Lawfare:
What I Would Ask Robert Mueller — If I were a member of Congress with five minutes to question Robert Mueller, I would ask short questions drawn from the report's executive summaries. — Volume One: Russia — Did you find that there were a series of contacts between the Trump campaign …
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Law & Crime and Political Wire
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“I'm Winning”: Donald Trump's Calculated Racism — On Tuesday, President Trump convened his Cabinet in the White House. First to speak after a long, rambling, and inaccuracy-filled monologue by Trump himself was Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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Daily Kos
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
There's A New Movement Trying To Create An Intellectual Strain Of Trumpism. It Just Doesn't Know What Exactly That Means. — WASHINGTON — Amy Wax, a law professor whose hard-right pronouncements have made her an object of outrage among students and led to censure at the University of Pennsylvania …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Anxious Democratic Governors Urge 2020 Field Not to Veer Too Far Left — WASHINGTON — After claiming governorships from Republicans in seven states last year, including in crucial presidential battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Michigan, Democratic governors should have good reason to celebrate.
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Fox News, Splinter, Washington Free Beacon, CNN and The Daily Caller
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
New GOP panic about Trump's racism reveals an ugly truth — Credulous pundits told us for days that President Trump's racist attacks on nonwhite lawmakers were brilliant politics, but Republicans disagree: They are widely warning Trump that presiding over a rally chant of “send her back,” …
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Politico, Reason and GovExec.com
VICE:
EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans Are Pressuring Amazon to Sell Books on Gay Conversion Therapy — WASHINGTON — A group of House Republicans is urging their members to pressure Amazon to resume selling a set of controversial gay conversion therapy books, after the platform announced this month …
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Shareblue Media, LGBTQ Nation, Metro Weekly and Queerty
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Joy of Hatred — Trump and “his people” reach deep into the violent history of public spectacle in America. — The chanting was disturbing and the anger was frightening, but what I noticed most about the president's rally in Greenville, N.C., on Wednesday night was the pleasure of the crowd.
Paulina Cachero / Yahoo:
Store clerk fired after telling customers to ‘go back to their country’ in viral video — In the midst of a national controversy about President Donald Trump's inflammatory tweets towards minority congresswomen, a store clerk at an Illinois convenience store has been fired after he was caught …
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CNN and CBS Baltimore
Meghan McCain / New York Times:
What I Learned From My Miscarriage — I loved my baby, and I always will. — Ms. McCain is a co-host of “The View.” — A few weeks ago, I was part of the photo shoot for The New York Times Magazine's cover story about ABC's “The View.” It should have been a moment of triumph …
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The Daily Caller, Page Six, RADAR and Mediaite
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
A Billionaire Makes His Case: 'I Don't See Myself as Rich' — San Francisco — Tom Steyer is a former hedge fund investor and a billionaire. Those things could be a liability for a man running for president as a progressive. But Mr. Steyer, who this month joined a field of — what is it now?
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Mother Jones, Washington Free Beacon and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Bernie Sanders defends staff compensation after complaints his campaign isn't paying $15 an hour — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders defended his campaign's compensation package Friday after a Washington Post story highlighted concerns among staffers that they were not receiving the $15-an-hour wages Sanders champions on the campaign trail.
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CNN, Washington Post, MARK HALPERIN'S WIDE WORLD …, Townhall and twitchy.com
New York Times:
16,000 Readers Shared Their Experiences of Being Told to ‘Go Back.’ Here Are Some of Their Stories. — “Go back to where you came from.” — These seven words are seared into the minds of countless Americans — a reminder that they haven't always been welcome in the country where they were born …
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Boing Boing
Jim Treacher / Trending:
After 50 Years, the Press Is Still Whitewashing Chappaquiddick — Fifty years ago this week, two major events in American history occurred within 48 hours of each other. The second one, an American astronaut walking on the Moon, drew focus away from the first one: Chappaquiddick.
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Townhall, Hot Air and Daily Wire