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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
White Flight From Trump? What a Decisive Biden Win Would Look Like — Republican structural advantages in the House, the Senate and the Electoral College would be in jeopardy. — Recent national polls show that Joe Biden's commanding lead has eroded longstanding demographic divisions …
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Electoral College: Florida Moves From Toss Up to Lean Democrat — Given its track record in presidential campaigns over the last 20 years, it's hard to think of Florida as anything other than a Toss Up. Since 2000, the winner of the state has never carried it by more than 5 points.
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Axios
Jessica Taylor / The Cook Political Report:
Almost 100 Days Out, Democrats Are Favored to Take Back the Senate — With just over 100 days until Election Day, the political climate appears dire for Republicans across the board. President Trump is the decided underdog against former Vice President Joe Biden in our Electoral College ratings …
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Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Raw Story, The Hill, Axios and Political Wire
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden tops Trump in battlegrounds Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania, according to Fox News statewide registered voter surveys.
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National Review, Politico, Washington Post, Mediaite, Axios, The Week, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill, courthousenews.com and Florida Politics
Rick Klein / ABC News:
Biden holds early edge in ABC News' Electoral College race ratings: ANALYSIS
Biden holds early edge in ABC News' Electoral College race ratings: ANALYSIS
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Reuters
CNN:
Trump says he could send as many as 75,000 federal agents to US cities — Seattle Mayor: Unsettling Trump is continuing down this path — (CNN)President Donald Trump said Thursday that he's willing to send as many as 75,000 federal agents into American cities to quell violent crime, a recent campaign theme for the President.
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Talking Points Memo
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New York Times:
Feds Sending Tactical Team to Seattle, Expanding Presence Beyond Portland — After outrage over the presence of federal agents in Portland, Ore., the Trump administration is sending a team to Seattle. Officials say they will be on standby. — The Trump administration …
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The Hill, New York Post, Sputnik News, Daily Kos and Axios
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
No, it's not ‘fascism’ to protect federal property from riots, revolutionaries — Are the images of lawlessness and disorder pouring out of Portland, Ore., and the gun violence and crime waves overtaking New York and Chicago going to have a negative impact on the rising political fortunes of the left?
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Rioters barricaded DHS officers in Portland courthouse and tried to set it on fire
Rioters barricaded DHS officers in Portland courthouse and tried to set it on fire
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Breitbart
Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Portland DHS Operation Is Legal and Proportionate
The Portland DHS Operation Is Legal and Proportionate
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Breitbart
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Delivers a Lesson in Decency on the House Floor — One could be forgiven for thinking that rhetorical dynamism long ago vanished from the hallways and chambers of the United States Congress. It has been a hundred and sixty-four years, for example, since Charles Sumner …
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KTLA, The Gateway Pundit, Redstate and Slate
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Dave Levinthal / Business Insider:
Trump's most important 2016 donor is sitting out 2020 — Robert and Rebekah Mercer ranked among President Donald Trump's most influential backers in 2016. But they've all but abandoned the embattled president and aren't likely to help him in the home stretch for 2020, five people who know the media-averse Mercers tell Insider.
Wall Street Journal:
A Note to Readers — These pages won't wilt under cancel-culture pressure. — By The Editorial Board — We've been gratified this week by the outpouring of support from readers after some 280 of our Wall Street Journal colleagues signed (and someone leaked) a letter to our publisher criticizing the opinion pages.
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Vanity Fair, Fox News, Breitbart, Althouse and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV”: Trump's Mental Health Is a Test for America — Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV. Sadly, I suspect I don't need to explain what I'm referring to here. If you're reading this, you most likely already know what these five words are …
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Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Ed Shanahan / New York Times:
Homeland Security Made False Statements in Fight With N.Y., Officials Admit — The surprise admission came as the Trump administration unexpectedly reversed its decision to bar New Yorkers from programs that allow travelers to speed through airports. — Homeland Security officials …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Future of Nonconformity — Where freethinkers go to fight. — Like other realms, American intellectual life has been marked by a series of exclusions. The oldest and vastest was the exclusion of people of color from the commanding institutions of our culture.
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National Review
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
The Importance of Reopening America's Schools this Fall — As families and policymakers make decisions about their children returning to school, it is important to consider the full spectrum of benefits and risks of both in-person and virtual learning options.
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The Hill, fox8.com, WSVN-TV and Mother Jones
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Coronavirus clash hands Mitch McConnell his ‘toughest challenge as majority leader’ — WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has navigated his way out of predicaments before, but internal party divisions over coronavirus aid and an unpopular president may have put him in his toughest jam yet as Republican leader.
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Mnuchin Follies — With his help, Pelosi keeps outmaneuvering …
Politico:
New document shows FBI used Trump's candidate briefing to advance Russia probe — President Donald Trump's first intelligence briefing as a candidate in August 2016 was led by FBI agents who had just opened an investigation into his team's ties to Russia, according to a newly declassified document obtained by POLITICO.
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National Review, Breitbart, Raw Story and Fox News
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Ken Moritsugu / Associated Press:
Always rocky, China-US relations appear at a turning point — BEIJING (AP) — Four decades after the U.S. established diplomatic ties with Communist China, the relationship between the two is at a turning point. — Tensions have reached new heights on what has always been a rocky road …
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Reuters and One America News Network
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James Griffiths / CNN:
China orders US consulate in Chengdu to cease operations in retaliation for Houston closure
China orders US consulate in Chengdu to cease operations in retaliation for Houston closure
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Foreign Policy, Politico and New York Post
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Maine journalists under siege after false accusations from Fox News's Tucker Carlson — Two freelance journalists in Maine have sustained abuse and threats after being named by Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday night as part of an effort by the New York Times to do “a story on the location of my family's house.”
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Bangor Daily News, Poynter and PRESS RUN, more at Mediagazer »
Garrett M. Graff / Politico:
8 Big Reasons Election Day 2020 Could Be a Disaster — In a campaign year marked by a global pandemic, a recession and a national wave of protests, it's easy to forget that this whole election season began with an absolute debacle when it came to the simple act of voting.
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Sabato's Crystal Ball
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The 12 most logical picks for Joe Biden's vice president, ranked — We are now just eight days from Joe Biden's previously announced target date of Aug. 1 for his vice-presidential pick. The delayed conventions and other factors could certainly postpone the selection, but we're getting into crunchtime.
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MarketWatch
Mary Ellen Klas / Tampa Bay Times:
COVID hits Florida Capitol in DeSantis' budget office — The Office of Policy and Budget employees who had contact with the person who tested positive “have been instructed to quarantine for 14 days from the date of their last exposure with the individual,.”
New York Times:
Trump vs. Biden: Who's Winning the Money Race in Your ZIP Code? — Estimated donors by ZIP code, April through June — ◄ MORE TRUMP DONORS MORE BIDEN DONORS ► — Notes: The map shows which candidate had more individual donors in each ZIP code from April 1, 2020, to June 30, 2020.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Kimberly Guilfoyle under fire for Trump fundraising disarray — News that Kimberly Guilfoyle contracted the coronavirus had barely surfaced on July 3 before she hopped on a private flight from Mount Rushmore back to New York with her boyfriend, Donald Trump, Jr.
New York Times:
No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon's U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public — Back — TRANSCRIPT — U.S. Navy Releases Videos of Unexplained Flying Objects — The U.S. Navy has officially published previously released videos showing unexplained objects. … By Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean
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Vox, Raw Story and New York Post
Associated Press:
Cognitive Test. Trump. Biden. Campaign. Flashpoint. — WASHINGTON (AP) — It doesn't quite have the ring of “Morning in America” and “I Like Ike.” — But the phrase “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.” is getting an unlikely moment in the spotlight as President Donald Trump …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Breitbart
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘A Band-Aid on a bullet wound’: Workers are getting laid off anew as PPP runs out — The phone stopped ringing at the Nelsons' auto-body shop in Broomfield, Colo., in March. — The normal four-to-six-week wait for customers looking to have dents or bumps fixed on their cars disappeared, leaving the shop silent.
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John Lewis' procession to follow Selma to Montgomery route, to be honored at Alabama Capitol — Civil rights hero John Lewis will make the journey from Selma to Montgomery one last time. — Fifty-five years ago, the Alabama native was beaten by Alabama state troopers as he and others tried to make that trip to demand equal rights.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump is the king of lies — President Trump, who constantly and falsely claims superlative achievements in every field of human endeavor, has every right to one historical claim: He is the king of lies. Trump's presidency has offered up an endless Las Vegas buffet of completely shameless …
New York Times:
Where the Virus Is Sending People to Hospitals — At overflowing hospitals in South Texas, patients wait hours in sweltering ambulances and on recliner beds set up in hallways. The number of patients intubated in hospital beds in Tampa, Fla., is growing by the day. In Corpus Christi, Texas, a mobile morgue has arrived.
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Balloon Juice
Washington Post:
Trump cancels Republican national convention, his latest reversal as coronavirus spreads — President Trump on Thursday abruptly canceled the Republican National Convention celebrations scheduled for next month in Jacksonville, Fla., making the latest in a series of head-snapping reversals …
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New York Times, Slate, The Week, NBC News and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Reuters:
Exclusive: More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others …
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New York Post and ABC News