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Washington Post:
Louis DeJoy's rise as GOP fundraiser was powered by contributions from company workers who were later reimbursed, former employees say — Louis DeJoy's prolific campaign fundraising, which helped position him as a top Republican power broker in North Carolina and ultimately as head …
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CBS News:
CBS News Battleground Tracker: National, Wisconsin contests steady amid protests; more think Biden trying to calm situation — The presidential horse race remains unchanged by recent protests — Joe Biden still leads President Trump by the same margins nationally and in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
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Associated Press, Bloomberg, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill and YouGov
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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Trump erases Biden's lead in Texas, as Hegar chips away at Cornyn's edge in Senate race — New Dallas Morning News/UT-Tyler poll shows Texas remains a battleground, but the president has regained momentum despite ongoing pandemic and economic woes. — WASHINGTON - Texas remains a toss-up in the presidential race.
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New York Post, The Hill and Politico
Harry Enten / CNN:
Biden's lead over Trump is the steadiest on record
Biden's lead over Trump is the steadiest on record
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Vox, The Hill, Townhall and POLITICUSUSA
Nicholas Grossman / Arc Digital:
Republicans vs. Imaginary Biden
Republicans vs. Imaginary Biden
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Kevin McCarthy warns Trump's war on mail could screw GOP — House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is privately encouraging voting by mail and warned President Trump the party could be “screwed” by his fight against mail-in voting. — The big picture: “We could lose based on that …
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Political Wire, The Hill and Raw Story
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Republicans see two conflicting paths in uphill fight to take back House majority — The aftermath of national protests around racial injustice is giving Republicans two strategic paths in their uphill fight to take back the majority in the House of Representatives — but those paths may be on a collision course.
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Raw Story
Alexis Benveniste / CNN:
The Atlantic's editor-in-chief says his story about Trump calling vets ‘losers’ is just the beginning — New York (CNN Business)Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, said his magazine's story about Trump calling Americans who died in battle “losers” and “suckers,” was just the tip of the iceberg.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump continues counterattack on military comments
Trump continues counterattack on military comments
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Talking Points Memo and Axios
Emma Anderson / Politico:
Boris Johnson: Britain will move on if there's no Brexit deal — The British prime minister says his government is preparing for no Brexit trade deal. — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at a press conference Nov. 29, 2019 in London. Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images
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Financial Times:
UK plan to undermine withdrawal treaty threatens Brexit trade talks — Internal market bill to override parts of N Ireland protocol as Johnson says sides should move on if no deal by Oct 15 — The UK is planning new legislation that will override key parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement …
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Bloomberg
Bloomberg:
Trump Ended 2018 France Trip Having Art Loaded on Air Force One — President decided he wanted pieces from ambassador's residence — Painting, bust, figurines flown home to display at White House — After Donald Trump's planned trip to a French cemetery for fallen Marines …
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New York Post:
Wealthy NYC woman busted in BLM rampage — That's rich. — One of the Black Lives Matter protesters now facing felony rioting and misdemeanor graffiti charges — after a window-smashing free-for-all in Manhattan — is a wealthy Upper East Sider whose mother is an architect and whose father is a child psychiatrist.
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump says Department of Education will investigate use of 1619 Project in schools — (CNN)President Donald Trump is continuing to wage battle against interpretations of history which he claims are un-American. — In a Sunday morning tweet, the President said the US Department of Education …
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Mediaite, Fox News, Just The News, ABC7, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Deadline, The Post Millennial, The Hill and New York Post
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump prepares a new fall offensive: Branding Kamala Harris — Kamala Harris is about to get the Trump treatment. — President Donald Trump has long excelled at ridiculing opponents and fomenting rivalries among those around him — from contestants on “The Apprentice” to his top aides inside the White House.
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New York Times:
A New Front in America's Pandemic: College Towns — The coronavirus is spiking around campuses from Texas to Iowa to North Carolina as students return. — IOWA CITY, Iowa — Last month, facing a budget shortfall of at least $75 million because of the pandemic, the University …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Here's what the media must do to fend off an election-night disaster — I learned about the hazards of election night the hard way. In late 2000, only a year into my job as the Buffalo News's top editor, I had to make the high-anxiety wee-hours decision about a main headline for the paper's first Wednesday morning print editions.
John Harwood / CNN:
Trump's dishonest campaign is entirely on-brand — (CNN)From the outset of Donald Trump's presidency, Americans have told pollsters they consider him dishonest. — That makes his re-election campaign entirely on-brand. In ways large and small, in targeted advertising and public remarks …
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New York Times, FITSNews and Raw Story
New York Times:
In Final Stretch, Biden Defends Lead Against Trump's Onslaught — The president is attempting to overtake his Democratic challenger with a strategy of racial polarization in heavily white Midwestern states, even as Democrats make inroads in the Republican-leaning South and West.
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Associated Press, NBC News, Dallas Morning News, Raw Story, Fox News, Politico, The Guardian, TheBlaze, Townhall, Axios, Breitbart and MSNBC
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
‘Reign of terror’: A summer of police violence in Los Angeles … Los Angeles police officers have continued to kill civilians at alarming rates and under questionable circumstances in the last three months, despite a summer of unprecedented activism and growing political pressure from lawmakers.
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Jake Tapper Attempted to Convince GOP's Sean Parnell to Run in Different District than Against Democrat Conor Lamb — CNN anchor Jake Tapper tried to convince Republican Sean Parnell to run in a different congressional district than in Pennsylvania's 17th, where he is currently …
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Trump deploys YouTube as his secret weapon in 2020 — In 2016, Donald Trump's campaign cracked the code on Facebook as a campaign tool — gaining an advantage over Hillary Clinton that was little noticed at the time but helped propel him to victory. — This time, the president is betting big on YouTube.
Erica Orden / CNN:
In tell-all book, Michael Cohen says Trump hired a ‘Faux-Bama’ during White House run — (CNN)Before Donald Trump ever sought the Oval Office, he was preoccupied by its occupant President Barack Obama, publicly questioning his birthplace and privately describing him as “a Manchurian candidate” …
Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
Kanye West's Nearly $7 Million Presidential Bid Has Hit Some Legal Snags — So far, Kanye West has spent nearly $7 million of his own money on what continues to be one of the most befuddling presidential bids in the history of American politics. — An overdue campaign-finance report filed …