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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Biden Gets No Immediate Convention Bounce, but Still Leads Trump — Democratic nominee earns best favorability ratings yet in post-DNC poll — In a post-convention poll, former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by 9 points among likely voters, compared with an 8-point margin earlier in the week.
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New York Times, Breitbart, The Week, Politico, Bloomberg, Just The News and Insights - Nielsen
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Young voters prefer Biden, but they may not vote — (CNN)There is good news for former Vice President Joe Biden when it comes to younger voters. He's no longer underperforming where Hillary Clinton ended up in the final 2016 polls. — The big question coming out of the Democratic National Convention …
Colleen Long / Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's distortion on Dems and the pledge
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Twitchy, The Post Millennial, Axios, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and New York Post, more at Mediagazer »
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Michelle Obama won the Democratic convention
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Associated Press and Real Clear Politics
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
The party of Trump is already a convention of ghoulish clowns
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Raw Story, TheBlaze, Breitbart, The Daily Beast, The Hill, Fox News, Public Pool, Reason, The Yeshiva World, Townhall and POLITICUSUSA
Don Walton / Lincoln Journal Star:
McCollister endorses Biden, invites other Nebraska Republicans to join
New York Times:
Trump's Approval Rating, Biden's Low Bar: This Week in the 2020 Race
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USA Today, AFP, Raw Story, Washington Post, Newsbusters, The Guardian, The US Sun, The Indian Express, Associated Press and The Unz Review
Meghan Roos / Newsweek:
GOP Vermont Gov. Says He Won't Vote for Trump But ‘Would Consider’ Supporting Biden
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Townhall and HillReporter.com
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
William Barr told Murdoch to ‘muzzle’ Fox News Trump critic, new book says — The attorney general, William Barr, told Rupert Murdoch to “muzzle” Andrew Napolitano, a prominent Fox News personality who became a critic of Donald Trump, according to a new book about the rightwing TV network.
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Mediaite, Fox News and Political Wire
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Danika Fears / The Daily Beast:
AG Barr Asked Rupert Murdoch to ‘Muzzle’ Fox News' Judge Napolitano for Criticizing Trump: Book — ‘INCENSED’ — At Donald Trump's behest, Attorney General William Barr asked Rupert Murdoch to “muzzle” Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano after he began criticizing the president on air, according to a new book.
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The Guardian
New York Times:
Mnuchin Paved Way for Postal Service Shake-Up — At President Trump's behest, the Treasury Secretary sought out appointees who would restructure the United States Postal Service. — WASHINGTON — In early February, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin invited two Republican members …
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House Committee on Oversight and Reform:
New Postal Service Documents Show Nationwide Delays Far Worse Than Postal Service Has Acknowledged — Internal “PMG Briefing” Shows Alarming Delays Across the Board— First-Class, Marketing, Periodicals, and Priority Mail — “After being confronted on Friday with first-hand reports …
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The Hill, Breitbart, Raw Story, The Guardian and Fox News
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Column: DeJoy's appointment as postmaster general looks even more dishonest than you thought — For anyone concerned about the manifest slowdown of mail at the U.S. Postal Service or who watched the uninformative performance of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy before a Senate committee Friday …
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Forbes and BillMoyers.com
Grace Panetta / Business Insider:
Postmaster general Louis DeJoy and several Republican senators broke with the president to say voting by mail is safe
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NBC New York, Forbes and WINK NEWS
Mariam Khan / ABC News:
House set to vote on USPS bill amid mail-in voting controversy
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The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, UPI, RochesterFirst, Breitbart, One America News Network, Boston.com, Just The News, KCLO-TV and IJR
Pam Fessler / NPR:
More Than 550,000 Primary Absentee Ballots Rejected In 2020, Far Outpacing 2016 — Audio will be available later today. — An extraordinarily high number of ballots — more than 550,000 — have been rejected in this year's presidential primaries, according to a new analysis by NPR.
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Seth Cohen / Forbes:
The Real Reason Alyssa Milano Attracts Such Fierce Animosity From The Right — If you spend time reading or listening to conservative media outlets these days, you would think that the United States faces a far greater threat than Covid-19, global warming, racial injustice, or economic inequality.
Evan Simko-Bednarski / CNN:
Court orders Donald Trump to pay legal fees in Stormy Daniels suit — (CNN)A California Superior Court judge has ordered President Donald Trump to pay $44,100 to Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, to reimburse her attorneys' fees in the legal battle surrounding her nondisclosure agreement.
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Judge orders Trump to pay legal fees to Stormy Daniels
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The US Sun, Sputnik News, HillReporter.com, The Gateway Pundit, JONATHAN TURLEY and UPI
Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump is leading Republicans to an unwanted record in the popular vote — (CNN)American elections tend to swing on a pendulum. No one party usually holds power for too long. Since 1952, for example, only once has a party won the presidency three elections in a row.
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Raw Story
Joe Mario Pedersen / Orlando Sentinel:
Once in a lifetime: two hurricanes, same time, same place — As if the 2020 hurricane season needed another reason to be remembered, meteorologists are now predicting two hurricanes may hit near the same location at about the same time. — The phenomenon is one that has never been recorded before …
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Twitchy
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Tennessee governor signs bill increasing punishments for certain protests — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) quietly signed a bill into law ramping up punishments for certain kinds of protests, including losing the right to vote. — The GOP-controlled state General Assembly passed the measure …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
A Glimmer of Hope for Trump? How Bush Mounted a Comeback in 1988 — For Biden, a cautionary tale. For Trump, a search for his own Willie Horton. — George H.W. Bush was in trouble. It was July 1988 and Michael Dukakis, the Democratic candidate for president, was on a roll after his party's convention in New York.
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The Week
Washington Post:
Trump looks to Republican convention for optimistic campaign reboot — Republicans will open their national convention Monday with an urgent mission: To convince voters pessimistic about the state of a country battered by the coronavirus pandemic, economic recession and racial upheaval …
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New York Times, The Hill, Rantt Media, Politico and Louder With Crowder
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
How the NXIVM Sex Cult Defended Trump from Media Attacks — STRANGE BEDFELLOWS — Keith Raniere's women-branding sex cult had a media arm called The Knife, which published hundreds of articles and appeared on “Fox & Friends” defending Trump against “media bias.”
Dan Evon / Snopes.com:
Did Democrats Omit ‘Under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance? — Claim — The Democratic National Convention omitted the phrase “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance in 2020. — Rating — What's True — The phrase “under God” was omitted from at least two recitations of the Pledge …
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POLITICUSUSA, The Federalist and Twitchy
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Daniel Funke / @politifact:
The DNC did not omit ‘one nation under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance
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The Guardian
KASW-TV:
McSally asks supporters to ‘fast a meal’ so they can donate to her campaign — In an audio clip, Sen. Martha McSally asked supporters to “fast a meal” so they can donate to her campaign but her people said it was just a joke.
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Raw Story, HillReporter.com and DSCC
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Olivia Gazis / CBS News:
Former CIA Director John Brennan interviewed for 8 hours in Durham probe — Former CIA Director John Brennan was interviewed for eight hours on Friday by U.S. Attorney John Durham as part of Durham's ongoing review of the origins of the investigation launched into Russia's 2016 election interference …
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Associated Press, Politico and The Gateway Pundit
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