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Nick Gass / Politico:
Swing-state stunner: Trump has edge in key states  —  Did Donald Trump really just surge past Hillary Clinton in two of the election's most important battlegrounds?  —  New swing-state polls released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University show Trump leading Clinton in Florida and Pennsylvania …
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David Lightman / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Clinton's lead over Trump shrinks dramatically  —  It's the first time she's dropped below 50 percent support  —  Clinton up 3 points against only Trump, by 5 in 4-way contest  —  The email controversy is taking a toll on Clinton  —  CLEVELAND  —  Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump …
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Battleground Polls: Clinton Holds Narrow Lead in Key States  —  Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump in Iowa and Pennsylvania, while the two are tied in the key battleground state of Ohio, according to a trio of new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.  —  In Iowa, the presumptive …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
New poll shows Trump leading Clinton in key swing states  —  in Florida and has a lead in the swing state of Pennsylvania, according to a new poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University.  —  Trump leads Clinton, 42 to 39 percent, in Florida in the latest Quinnipiac University poll.
Lissette Rodriguez / ABC News:
Donald Trump Up to Dead Heat With Hillary Clinton in 3 Swing State Polls
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
New York Times:
Donald Trump Is Right About Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg  —  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs to drop the political punditry and the name-calling.  —  Three times in the past week, Justice Ginsburg has publicly discussed her view of the presidential race, in the sharpest terms.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Ginsburg doubles down on Trump criticism
Brian McBride / ABC News:
Donald Trump Calls for Justice Ginsburg to Resign
Media Matters for America:
CNN's Corey Lewandowski Is Still Being Paid By Donald Trump  —  Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is still being paid by the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's campaign while simultaneously drawing a salary as a CNN contributor to discuss the candidate on-air, according to the network.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:   Trump campaign manager gets rough with Breitbart reporter
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Luke Russert suddenly departs from NBC News  —  In a surprising announcement, NBC on Wednesday said that Luke Russert is leaving its news division.  —  Russert — the 30-year-old son of the late legendary “Meet the Press” moderator Tim Russert — is departing from political reporting …
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Obama Mentions Himself 45 Times During Memorial Speech For Dallas Officers  —  President Obama referred to himself 45 times over the course of the speech he delivered Tuesday at the memorial service for the five police officers killed in Dallas last week.  —  Obama referred to himself twice …
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance  —  The chant erupts in a college auditorium in Washington, as admirers of a conservative internet personality shout down a black protester.  It echoes around the gym of a central Iowa high school, as white students taunt …
Discussion: Politicus USA, Daily Kos and The Week
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Mike Pence will be in big trouble if Trump passes him over for vice president  —  THE BIG IDEA:  —  One of the bigger knocks on Mike Pence when he was in the House, whispered privately among some leading lights of the conservative movement, was that he comes across as inauthentic and a little phony.
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Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Wants an Attack Dog as His Running Mate
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP platform gets Trump-ified  —  is putting his stamp on the official policy platform of the Republican Party.  —  Republican Platform Committee members on Tuesday voted to include language calling for the construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico  —  border.
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Andrew Rosenthal / New York Times:
Bernie's Uninspiring Endorsement  —  Bernie Sanders went off for a month to contemplate life after the revolution, and this was the best he could come up with?  “Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nominating process, and I congratulate her for that.”  —  So said Sanders at a rally …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
WATCH: Clinton nods 406 times during Sanders endorsement speech
Discussion: Heat Street
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Administration: ISIS war funding amounts to authorization  —  Congress's funding of the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) amounts to a ratification of the president's authority to pursue the war, the administration argues in a legal brief asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the war is illegal.
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
The (G.O.P.) Party's Over  —  This column has argued for a while now that there is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy.  At least a one-party autocracy can order things to get done.  —  A one-party democracy — that is, a two-party system …
Jennifer Aniston / The Huffington Post:
For The Record  —  Let me start by saying that addressing gossip is something I have never done.  I don't like to give energy to the business of lies, but I wanted to participate in a larger conversation that has already begun and needs to continue.  Since I'm not on social media, I decided to put my thoughts here in writing.
Greg Meriwether / WAFB-TV:
The Investigators: New details show eerily similar incident involving Sterling, police  —  The 9News Investigators obtained a police report that details a previous arrest of Alton Sterling that is eerily similar to the incident that ultimately led to his death.
Rodney Ho / Radio and TV Talk:
CBS46 producer fired over racist rants about Black Lives Matter on Facebook  —  FTVLive earlier today posted three Facebook rants by an Emmy-winning CBS46 photographer/producer Charles Beau Menefee in which he insulted the Black Lives Matter movement, calling them “unevolved, uncivilized turds” …
Discussion: FTVLive, Mediaite and The Root
We Are The Left:
An Open Letter on Identity Politics, to and from the Left  —  We, the undersigned, are in the uncomfortable position of reporting on a problem that we are told does not exist.  —  We ask you to consider a few incidents.  —  In 1968, the leftist Shulamith Firestone gives a speech at a conference.
Salena Zito / The Hill:
Even at a funeral, dividing the nation is apparently good politics  —  We are never going to be able to meaningfully and effectively address racial issues in this country until we take away the politics and politicians who ultimately benefit from our chaos.  —  Some even instigate it …
Orin Kerr / Washington Post:
9th Circuit: It's a federal crime to visit a website after being told not to visit it  —  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has handed down a very important decision on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Facebook v. Vachani, which I flagged just last week.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Durbin: Senate Dems will back opioid bill  —  (D-Ill.) on Tuesday said Democrats would support a deal combating the opioid epidemic and send the legislation to President Obama's desk ahead of Congress's seven-week recess.  —  Asked whether the caucus would support the House-passed measure …
Discussion: Daily Kos
New York Daily News:
Dallas cop shooter Micah Johnson purchased AK-47 in Target parking lot in 2014  —  Micah Johnson never balked at the $600 asking price for an AK-47 assault rifle.  The buy was arranged via Facebook, and consummated in the parking lot of a Target.  —  Seller Colton Crews forgot about the deal until …
Post Register:
Transgender woman arrested for voyeurism at Target  —  A transgender Idaho Falls woman was arrested Tuesday on one count of felony voyeurism for a report that she took pictures of another woman changing clothes in a dressing room at Target in Ammon.  —  Shauna Patricia Smith, 43 …
 
 
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