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12:15 PM ET, June 21, 2016

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New York Times:
Donald Trump Starts Summer Push With Crippling Money Deficit  —  Donald J. Trump enters the general election campaign laboring under the worst financial and organizational disadvantage of any major party nominee in recent history, placing both his candidacy and party in political peril.
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Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Trump Said He Had ‘More Cash Than Any Campaign In The History Of Politics.’ That Was A Huge Lie.  —  Just over three weeks ago, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tweeted that his campaign “has perhaps more cash than any campaign in the history of politics.”
Associated Press:
Trump's campaign cycles $6 million into Trump companies  —  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Donald Trump's campaign likes to keep it in the family.  —  When Trump flies, he uses his airplane.  When he campaigns, he often chooses his properties or his own Trump Tower in New York City, which serves as headquarters.
Discussion: Vox and Talking Points Memo
NBC News:
First Read: A Trump Campaign in Critical Condition  —  First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  A Trump campaign in critical condition  —  Here's the good news for Donald Trump …
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Vows to Match Up to $2 Million in Donations  —  Plea suggests Trump is unnerved by Clinton's substantial financial lead  —  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday emailed supporters a fundraising plea in which he vowed to match up to $2 million …
Discussion: RedState and New York Magazine
Christopher Good / ABC News:
Donald Trump on Pace to Raise Less Money Than Almost Any Presidential Candidate in Modern Era
Discussion: Politico
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's May fundraising totals are disastrously bad
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Trump entered June with just $1.3 million in the bank, while Clinton sat on $42 million war chest
Reuters:
Trump doubles monthly campaign fundraising, lags Clinton
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump getting crushed by Clinton money machine
Christina Wilkie / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump's Campaign Paid Trump Companies More Than $1 Million In May
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
RNC head: Trump's staff shakeup shows ‘seriousness’
Gabriel Malor / The Federalist:
Democrats Tanked Gun Control To Up Their Election Chances  —  On Monday evening, Senate Democrats put party over principle in rejecting common-sense, reasonable gun control measures.  After the mass murder at Orlando gay club Pulse, Sen. Chris Murphy and his colleagues staged a flashy talk …
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CNN:
Poll: Clinton tops Trump, but neither prompts excitement  —  (CNN)Democrat Hillary Clinton tops Republican Donald Trump by a 47% to 42% margin in the race for the presidency, according to a CNN/ORC Poll released Tuesday, and just 22% of registered voters say their minds could change between now and November.
Louis Nelson / Politico:
National poll: Clinton lead narrows in 4-way race  —  Amid a campaign shakeup and swirling controversy at Trump Tower, Hillary Clinton holds a five point lead over Donald Trump in a new poll released Tuesday.  —  Clinton tops Trump 47 percent to 42 percent among responding registered voters …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump vows to hammer Clinton in Wednesday speech  —  Delayed by the Orlando attack, Donald Trump's much-touted speech hitting Hillary Clinton's history in politics with former President Bill Clinton is back on for Wednesday, the presumptive Republican nominee announced Tuesday.
Discussion: Political Wire
Alana Abramson / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Clobbers Donald Trump in Fundraising, Reports Show
CNN:
First on CNN: Trump adviser resigns after mocking Lewandowski on Twitter
Howard Dean / CNN:   How Clinton can redraw the map
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Clinton to paint Trump as reckless and misguided in economy speech
Discussion: Politico and Infowars
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Secret Service veterans denounce anti-Clinton tell-all book  —  The author of a new tell-all book about Hillary Clinton could never have seen any of what he claims — he was too low-ranking — say several high-level members of Secret Service presidential details, including the president …
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Secret Service Agent Book: Raging Hillary Clinton Threw Bible at Agent's Colleague  —  Hillary Clinton once threw a Bible at the back of a Secret Service agent's head, part of a pattern of unhinged rage that the now-presumptive Democratic nominee exhibited, as exposed …
Reuters:
Obama: senators ‘failed the American people’ on gun control  —  The White House accused U.S. senators of a “shameful display of cowardice” on Tuesday and said they failed the American people by not advancing any gun control measures after the nation's largest mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, last week.
Discussion: Infowars
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Joe Reedy / Associated Press:
Florida GOP candidate to give away semi-automatic rifle
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Will Trump Swallow the G.O.P. Whole?  —  Inside the identity crisis roiling the Republican Party.  —  Every week or so during the spring, I met with Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, at the party headquarters on Capitol Hill.  We fell into a familiar routine.
Discussion: Daily Wire
Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton seeks rock-star convention lineup  —  Democratic operatives planning next month's national convention in Philadelphia have reached out to Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award-winning writer and star of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” about performing at the Wells Fargo Center, sources told POLITICO.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Week
Jonathan Rauch / The Atlantic:
How American Politics Went Insane  —  It's 2020, four years from now.  The campaign is under way to succeed the president, who is retiring after a single wretched term.  Voters are angrier than ever—at politicians, at compromisers, at the establishment.  Congress and the White House seem incapable …
Discussion: Instapundit
Mari A. Schaefer / Philly.com:
Police seeking information in assault at Geno's Steaks  —  Philadelphia police are looking for five men in connection with an assault outside Geno's Steaks on June 11.  —  The men, all caught on surveillance video, fled in two cars - a dark colored pickup truck and an SUV - both with New Jersey license plates.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
Authorities: Man at Vegas rally said he wanted to kill Trump  —  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal officer says a man arrested at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas told authorities he tried to grab an officer's gun so he could kill the candidate.  —  A complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
UPDATE=> ILLEGAL ALIEN ARRESTED - Overstayed Visa - Tried to KILL DONALD TRUMP at Vegas Rally (VIDEO)
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
 
 
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USA Today:
The Senate's shame on guns: Our view
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