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12:00 PM ET, July 31, 2016

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Ghazala Khan / Washington Post:
Trump criticized my silence.  He knows nothing about true sacrifice.  —  Ghazala Khan's son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq in 2004.  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE  —  Donald Trump has asked why I did not speak at the Democratic convention.  He said he would like to hear from me.
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Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
Khizr Khan responds to the latest from Trump: ‘Typical of a person without a soul’  —  Two days after delivering one of the most memorable speeches of the 2016 campaign season — a moment one commentator described as the ‘fulcrum’ of the election — Khizr Khan was checking into a D.C. hotel …
Discussion: The Hill, CNN, Political Wire and The Week
ABC News:
Muslim Family of Fallen Army Captain Responds to Trump: ‘Shame on Him’  —  The grieving Khan family reacted tonight to Donald Trump's latest comments, telling ABC News in an emotional interview that “running for president is not an entitlement to disrespect Gold Star families and [a] Gold Star mother.”
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Mother of soldier killed in Iraq: I was too ‘in pain’ to speak at convention  —  The mother of a Muslim U.S. soldier killed in Iraq said that she was too emotional to speak at the Democratic National Convention this week after GOP nominee Donald Trump  —  criticized her husband's speech and her silence on stage.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Suggests Khizr Khan's Wife Wasn't ‘Allowed’ to Speak
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's slander of Captain Humayun Khan's family is horrifying, even for Trump
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Donald Trump, Vice President Joe Biden, and Ret. Gen. John Allen  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ ON July 31, 2016 and it will be updated.  —  GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Let's talk about the Democratic Convention.  So you won the rating war in the last night.
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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Ret. Gen. John Allen on Donald Trump: ‘He Has No Credibility’  —  Retired Marine Corps Gen. John Allen excoriated Republican nominee Donald Trump after the businessman called him a ‘failed general’ and criticized Allen's endorsement of Hillary Clinton.  —  “He has no credibility to criticize …
ABC News:
VP Joe Biden Doesn't Close the Door on Running for Office Again
Discussion: Politico
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Poll: Clinton Rides Convention Bump Past Trump  —  Hillary Clinton is once again leading Donald Trump in the presidential race after her party's Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.  —  The former secretary of State leads the brash businessman, 43 percent to 40 percent …
Discussion: Political Wire and Hot Air
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Melania Trump like you've never seen her before  —  Donald Trump thinks his wife will be a model first lady — and here's the proof.  —  Decades before she was sporting designer dresses on the stage of the Republican National Convention as Mrs. Trump, Melania Knauss posed nude in a photo spread …
Discussion: BizPac Review
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Clinton Image Improves Following Conventions; Leads Trump by 5  —  PPP's new national poll, taken completely after both party's conventions, finds that Hillary Clinton emerged with a much more positive image than she had a month ago.  Donald Trump meanwhile is just as unpopular as he was before the conventions.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and twitchy.com
Frances D'Emilio / Associated Press:
POPE TO YOUNG ON POLAND TRIP: BELIEVE ‘IN A NEW HUMANITY’  —  KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — Pope Francis encouraged hundreds of thousands of young people at a global gathering of the faithful Sunday to “believe in a new humanity” that is stronger than evil and refuses to see borders as barriers.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Katie Glueck / Politico:
How Ohio will be won  —  CLEVELAND— Donald Trump is at war with the state party, started organizing late and his support in traditional Republican enclaves here is shaky.  —  But the GOP nominee still has a good shot at winning Ohio, where five of the last eight public polls show him in a dead heat with Hillary Clinton.
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Assange won't implicate Russia in DNC email leak  —  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is refusing to discuss whether Russia had any involvement in a trove of emails from the Democratic National Committee leaked to his organization ahead of the party's convention.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump and RNC attack presidential debate schedule  —  Donald Trump says the fall debate schedule is “unacceptable,” raising the specter that he may try to skip them.  —  In a tweet on Friday night, Trump incorrectly said that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats are “trying to rig the debates.”
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ABC News:
Trump Supports Three Presidential Debates, But May Object To Proposed Dates
Discussion: twitchy.com and Raw Story
 
 
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