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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Trump Pulls Closer to Biden After RNC — Post-convention poll shows Trump almost halved national deficit against the Democratic nominee — Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Trump 50% to 44% among likely voters following the Republican National Convention vs. a lead of 52% to 42% before it began.
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump is the president of the loud minority, not silent majority — (CNN)I've spent a lot of time talking about the importance of the 50% mark for former Vice President Joe Biden. Biden, unlike Hillary Clinton four years ago, is consistently hitting and exceeding 50% in the polls …
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Raw Story
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News-YouGov Poll: Biden's lead over Trump shrinks to 6 points after the RNC — his smallest margin in months — The presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump has tightened after this week's Republican National Convention, according to a new Yahoo New-YouGov poll …
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Top intelligence office informs congressional committees it'll no longer brief on election security — (CNN)The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has informed the House and Senate Select Committees on Intelligence that it'll no longer be briefing on election security issues, a senior administration official told CNN.
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Politico:
ODNI to scale back election security briefings to House committees — The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is scaling back its election security briefings to the congressional intelligence committees, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
New York Times:
How the G.O.P. Stretched Hard to Defend Trump on Race and Gender — Never before has a convention by a major party felt compelled to call such a diverse array of speakers to defend the character of a sitting president. — The Republican convention this week marked an extraordinary effort …
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Los Angeles Times and RealClearPolitics
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Why Democrats are worried about Kenosha — (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump both recognize the potential political fallouts if protests in the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting are seen as peaceful or as violent. Biden benefits if they are seen as the former …
Yahoo News:
Trump resumes campaign rallies and utters the unthinkable: ‘If Biden wins...’ — LONDONDERRY, N.H. — One night after accepting the Republican nomination, Donald Trump resumed campaigning for reelection as though the coronavirus pandemic was a thing of the past, rallying hundreds of supporters at an airport hangar.
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The Hill and New York Times
Gabrielle Fonrouge / New York Post:
This is why Jacob Blake had a warrant out for his arrest — The cops involved in the shooting of Jacob Blake — which touched off a fresh wave of angry, anti-police sentiment across the country — were attempting to arrest him for violating a restraining order stemming from an alleged sexual assault, The Post has learned.
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TheBlaze, Fox News, The US Sun, Twitchy and Althouse
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Alan Butterfield / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Criminal complaint cops used to handcuff paralyzed Jacob Blake to his hospital bed for almost a week is revealed - showing he was accused of domestic abuse and felony sexual assault
EXCLUSIVE: Criminal complaint cops used to handcuff paralyzed Jacob Blake to his hospital bed for almost a week is revealed - showing he was accused of domestic abuse and felony sexual assault
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Redstate, Fox News, The US Sun, Associated Press, ABC7 and Just The News
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Tenants Say They Were Tricked Into Appearing in R.N.C. Video — “I am not a Trump supporter,” one of the tenants said, adding that she was furious that her interview with a government official was used for the convention. — It started with an unexpected call last week from Lynne Patton …
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Axios, Talking Points Memo, Gothamist, Slate, Associated Press, The Hill, Mediaite and Political Wire
Natalie Escobar / NPR:
One Author's Argument ‘In Defense Of Looting’ — In the past months of demonstrations for Black lives, there has been a lot of hand-wringing about looting. Whether it was New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying that stealing purses and sneakers from high-end stores in Manhattan was “inexcusable …
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Althouse, Power Line, The Post Millennial, Twitchy, Clayton Cramer and Instapundit
Wall Street Journal:
New Covid-19 Layoffs Make Job Reductions Permanent — As companies brace for years of pandemic-related disruption, thousands of furloughed workers are told they won't be coming back — A new wave of layoffs is washing over the U.S. as several big companies reassess staffing plans and settle in for a long period of uncertainty.
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Political Wire
Oregonian:
Did you see photos of officers supposedly injured last weekend in NW cities? The facts don't check out — The Associated Press checks out some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. This one is bogus, even though it was shared widely on social media.
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn't Be. — The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus. — Some of the nation's leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing …
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Army of Allies and TV Sycophants Is Crumbling — The president has always considered himself his best advocate. Now, he's got to prove it. — When Republicans nominated Donald Trump for the presidency four years ago in Cleveland, they had a stable of regular on-camera personalities to back them up.
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Raw Story
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump: I want to see first woman president, but not Harris — President Trump on Friday said he would support seeing a female president in the United States, but quickly added that it should not be Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).
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Talking Points Memo, Townhall, CNN, Breitbart, The Week and Political Wire
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Kelley L. Carter / The Undefeated:
Chadwick Boseman knew his voice had power and used it to challenge Hollywood — Bringing the Black Panther's King T'Challa to life wasn't just a role, it was a transformation — Chadwick Boseman was one of the good guys. — I was living in Atlanta and freelancing for Ebony magazine …
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Florida Politics, Variety and Showbiz411
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Washington Post:
Amid fears that Trump might not leave office, two lawmakers press for Pentagon assurances on the election — In a sign of the growing concern that President Trump might not leave office voluntarily or might attempt to use the military to hold onto power, two moderate Democratic lawmakers posed …
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Fox News, Forbes and Task & Purpose
Arizona Republic:
ASU conservatives raising funds for Kenosha protest shooter Kyle Rittenhouse — A conservative student organization at Arizona State University announced on Friday that they will be accepting donations to support the legal defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with homicide …
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
A Kenosha Militia Facebook Event Asking Attendees To Bring Weapons Was Reported 455 Times. Moderators Said It Didn't Violate Any Rules. — In a companywide meeting on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that a militia page advocating for followers to bring weapons to an upcoming protest in Kenosha …
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Shirin Ghaffary / Vox:
Facebook banned violent militia groups. We still found plenty of them on its platform.
Facebook banned violent militia groups. We still found plenty of them on its platform.
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Variety, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Post, The Daily Beast and New Republic, more at Techmeme »
Cynthia Fernandez / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Surge in mail-in ballots could delay election results, so Wolf wants to change the rules — Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLIVE/The Patriot-News, Triblive/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media.
Caroline Kitchener / The Lily:
A police captain's widow used his story to back Trump at the GOP convention. His daughters say it was ‘despicable.’ — David Dorn was a registered Democrat who opposed Trump, his daughters say — Lisa Dorn and Debra White first heard the news from a family friend: Their father's widow …
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Power Line
Hanna Trudo / The Daily Beast:
Trump Fanboys Gear Up to Smear Kamala Harris and Jill Biden — The attacks were baseless, sexist and utterly predictable. — It took less than an hour after the world learned about Sen. Kamala Harris' (D-CA) promotion for actor and internet troll James Woods to go online and degrade her publicly.
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Gabriela Schulte / The Hill:
Poll: Trump approval rises among black, hispanic voters amid convention — President Trump's support among black voters rose 9 percentage points amid the Republican National Convention, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds. — Twenty-four percent of registered black voters in the Aug. 22-25 survey …
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New York Times:
Rival Themes Emerge as Race Enters Final Weeks: Covid vs. Law and Order — The national political conventions over the last two weeks set the battle lines for the election's remaining weeks. Joe Biden is focusing on President Trump's virus management, while the president is hammering a law-and-order message.
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Politico, Breitbart, Al Jazeera, Washington Post and ABC News
Michael Kruse / Politico:
What the RNC Looked Like to Donald Trump's Niece — It's been a month and a half since Donald Trump's only niece released the bestselling book in which she described the president as a “a narcissist,” “a petty, pathetic little man,” “ignorant, incapable, out of his depth, and lost in his own delusional spin.”
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and The Hill
New York Times:
C.I.A. Uncensors Memoir of F.B.I. Agent Who Protested Torture of Terrorists — Nine years after the C.I.A. blacked out parts of Ali Soufan's book, the agency has finally allowed a more complete version of his story to be published. — WASHINGTON — After a group of Qaeda suspects was captured …