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1:55 PM ET, June 29, 2016

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Tal Kopan / CNN:
First on CNN: Poll shows Clinton with battleground leads  —  Elizabeth Warren joins Clinton to attack Donald Trump  —  Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump across the board in a new poll of battleground states.  —  According to Ballotpedia's battleground poll, Clinton leads Trump:
Discussion: Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh and The Week
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Are Deadlocked, Poll Shows  —  Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are deadlocked less than a month before the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions, according to a new national poll that shows the American electorate feeling disappointed in each candidate.
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
British Politicians Demand to Exit ... Donald Trump's Fundraising List  —  Americans are accustomed to being bombarded by unsolicited fundraising solicitations from American politicians.  The British?  Not so much.  —  Several members of the U.K. Parliament in recent days have publicly complained …
Jim Ruth / Washington Post:
I hate Donald Trump. But he might get my vote.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:   Hillary Clinton Tweets for Trump=> “DONALD TRUMP KNOWS HOW TO CREATE MANUFACTURING JOBS”
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Chris Stevens's Family: Don't Blame Hillary Clinton for Benghazi  —  On Tuesday, the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which is controlled by a Republican majority, charged the Obama Administration with diplomatic miscalculations, security failures, and a lengthy delay in rescue efforts …
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Donovan Slack / USA Today:
Exclusive: NRA to run $2 million Benghazi-themed ad campaign for Trump  —  The National Rifle Association's political arm is launching its first ad campaign of the 2016 presidential race, with a survivor of the terror attack in Benghazi urging viewers to vote for Donald Trump.
John Podhoretz / New York Post:   Benghazi lies were just standard procedure under Obama
Bloomberg:
Trump Campaign Lining Up Tyson and Ditka for Convention  —  Several sports personalities and musical entertainers have agreed to appear at this summer's convention.  —  kevcirilli  —  ESPN has nothing on this summer's Republican national convention.  —  Donald Trump's campaign aides …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Who will show up?  Who will pay?  The many unknowns of the GOP convention.  —  Dozens of well-known Republicans aren't showing up.  There's no word yet on who will speak.  A growing number of corporate sponsors are taking a pass.  Groups of white supremacists and other agitators are on the way …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Anxiety mounts over GOP convention's security
ABC News:
Nate Silver Predicts Clinton Wins General Election Against Trump … “We're at halftime of the election right now,” Silver said.  “She's taking a seven-point, maybe a ten-point lead into half time.  There's a lot of football left to be played.  She's ahead in almost every poll, every swing state, every national poll.”
Matt Canham / Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah's Misty Snow makes history as Dems' transgender Senate nominee  —  Primary sets up contest with GOP's Lee in November.  —  Utah voters picked a historic, and largely unknown, Democratic candidate to challenge Sen. Mike Lee this November.  —  Misty K. Snow is the first transgender nominee …
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Emma Platoff / Philly.com:
Why police were called to a South Jersey third-grade class party  —  On June 16, police were called to an unlikely scene: an end-of-the-year class party at the William P. Tatem Elementary School in Collingswood.  —  A third grader had made a comment about the brownies being served to the class.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Carson: My mother ‘would have taken a gun’ and shot ‘dishonest reporters’  —  Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson joked Wednesday that if his mother did not have Alzheimer's disease, she would have likely taken to arms and gone after the “dishonest reporters” covering the campaign herself.
Discussion: The Week
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Dr. Ben Carson / Play.It:
Brown and Scoop … FacebookTwitter … Former Presidential …
Discussion: Business Insider
Bob Eschliman / Charisma News:
After Donald Trump's Salvation, Dr. James Dobson Reminds How to Deal With ‘Baby Christians’  —  Following his statement last week that Donald Trump has been saved, Dr. James Dobson apparently had some explaining to do with some Christians.  —  He issued the following response as a result:
Discussion: The Resurgent and The Right Scoop
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Evangelical Leader Backpedals On Story Of Trump's Recent Conversion
Discussion: alan.com and The Resurgent
The Hill:
EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Hillary group takes $200K in banned donations  —  has accepted $200,000 in donations from a company holding multiple contracts with the federal government — despite a ban on such contributions.  —  According to a review of contributions by The Hill, Boston-based Suffolk Construction …
Ray Rahman / EW.com:
JESSICA WILLIAMS IS LEAVING THE DAILY SHOW — EXCLUSIVE  —  Thursday's episode will be her last, Williams reveals in an interview with EW  —  The youngest correspondent to ever join The Daily Show is about to become the youngest correspondent to ever leave it: After four years with the late-night series …
Discussion: AOL, Mashable, Mediaite, The Verge and Jezebel
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Plagiarized Lessons and Deceptive Tactics: A Look Inside the Trump Institute  —  In 2005, as he was making a transition from developing real estate to capitalizing on his fame through ventures like a reality show and product-licensing deals, Donald J. Trump hit upon a two-pronged strategy for entering the field of for-profit education.
Discussion: Raw Story
James Traub / Foreign Policy:
It's Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses  —  The Brexit has laid bare the political schism of our time.  It's not about the left vs. the right; it's about the sane vs. the mindlessly angry.  —  I was born in 1954, and until now I would have said that the late 1960s …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ballotpedia News:
Ballotpedia's battleground poll, 2016  — Ballot access for presidential candidates  — The media's coverage of Hillary Clinton  — Insiders Poll: First Democratic debate (October 13, 2015)  — Insiders Poll: Winners and losers from the Fox News Republican Debate
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat:
The DoNotPay bot has beaten 160,000 traffic tickets — and counting  —  A bot made to challenge traffic tickets has been used more than 9,000 times by New Yorkers, according to DoNotPay maker Joshua Browder.  —  The bot was made available to New Yorkers in March.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Why Did Bill Clinton And Loretta Lynch Meet On Her Airplane In Phoenix This Week?  [VIDEO]  —  Why Did Bill Clinton And Loretta Lynch Meet On Her Airplane In Phoenix This Week?  —  If It Wasn't For This CIA Officer, A Lot More People Would Have Died In Benghazi  —  DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION |
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Daily Mail:
‘Gosh, I suppose I better get up!’  SARAH VINE (aka Mrs Gove) reveals what her husband said when he learned Leave had won the referendum... and how PM's resignation was ‘absolutely’ not intended  —  The first I knew about the referendum result was at 4.45am last Friday when I was woken …
Susan Wright / RedState:
CHILLING: Senator Marco Rubio Accurately Predicts Istanbul Terrorist Attack  —  Florida Senator Marco Rubio is no lightweight, and has proven himself well-versed in the threats facing our nation at this very critical juncture in world history.  —  In the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attack …
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
What Is on Justice Anthony Kennedy's Mind?  —  Some years ago, Dahlia Lithwick and I christened Justice Anthony Kennedy “the Sphinx of Sacramento.”  Throughout his nearly 30 years on the Supreme Court, Kennedy's mind has often seemed like a distant and mysterious country …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Gun Control Wall, Bolstered by Republicans, Shows a Crack  —  WASHINGTON — A widely publicized sit-in by House Democrats.  A bipartisan compromise proposal in the Senate.  Neither is very likely to lead to any legislative action in Congress on gun safety this year.
Discussion: Politicus USA
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
McConnell: Trump Still Not A ‘Credible’ Candidate, ‘Needs To Change’  —  With less than a month to go until the Republican Party formally coronates Donald Trump as its 2016 presidential nominee, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) still isn't convinced Trump is a “credible” candidate.
Discussion: NY1 News
 
 
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Pew Research Center:
As Obama Years Draw to Close, President and U.S. Seen Favorably in Europe and Asia
Discussion: Washington Post, The Hill and Guardian
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
CAPITULATION: UC Irvine Permanently Reinstates College Republicans Following Breitbart Coverage
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
White House Emerges as Iran's Top ‘Lobbying Shop’
Discussion: Speaker.gov
Bloomberg:
Three Amigos Announce New North American Climate and Energy Plan
Daniel Klaidman / Yahoo:
CIA chief Brennan looks at Turkish attack and sees a warning for Americans
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Disclosures of new Clinton emails raise questions about her transparency
Discussion: Politico
Cindy Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Poorly performing L.A. sheriff's deputies are not weeded out in their first year, report says
Discussion: 89.3 KPCC and New York Times
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Russian FSB guard attacked U.S. diplomat outside Moscow embassy
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
New Documents Suggest IRS's Lerner Likely Broke the Law
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Fairleigh Dickinson University:
Clinton Trumps Trump by Big Margin, But Johnson Hurts Clinton More than Trump
Discussion: Politico
Clive Crook / Bloomberg:
Will Brexit Actually Happen?
Bill Scher / Politico:
The Left's Beef With Tim Kaine
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The First Post-Middle-Class Election
 

 
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