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8:30 AM ET, August 1, 2016

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CBS News:
Did Clinton get a post-convention bump?  —  Hillary Clinton has received a bump in support after the Democratic convention and has now pulled ahead of Donald Trump.  —  Forty-six percent of voters nationwide say they'll vote for Clinton in November, while 39 percent say they'll back Trump.
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William Jordan / YouGov US Opinion Center News:   Hillary Clinton bounces back in battleground states post-convention
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
In Ohio, Clinton warns voters not to be ‘misled’ by Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Katie Zavadski / The Daily Beast:
ISIS Joins Donald Trump in Dishonoring Humayun Khan's Sacrifice  —  The Republican nominee continued his war on the parents of a U.S. Army captain while the Islamic State called the Muslim war hero an apostate—and attacked Hillary Clinton.  —  ISIS joined Donald Trump on Sunday in dishonoring …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:   Khizr Khan, Donald Trump and the debate over Muslim immigration
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Confrontation With Muslim Soldier's Parents Emerges as Unexpected Flash Point
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Muslim Dad Khizr Khan Tells CNN Terror ‘Has Nothing to Do with Islam’
New York Times:
Top Trump Aide Previously Wielded Influence in Ukraine  —  WASHINGTON — Few political consultants have had a client fail quite as spectacularly as Paul Manafort's did in Ukraine in the winter of 2014.  —  President Viktor F. Yanukovych, who owed his election to, as an American diplomat put it …
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Wasserman Schultz's problems aren't over yet  —  Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's political troubles aren't over yet.  —  The Florida Democrat is facing the toughest political race of her life after ending her controversial tenure as leader of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE: Breitbart/Gravis Blockbuster Immigration Poll Demonstrates Americans Want Total Revolution Against Mass Immigration  —  New polling data shows that it would be virtually impossible for Hillary Clinton to win the general election if the Republican nominee were able to frame …
LeftOfCenter / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Mark Cuban: ‘Is There Any Bigger Jagoff In The World Than Donald Trump?’  —  Is there a bigger jagoff than Donald Herr Drümpenführer?  When Trump seemed less insane, (maybe it's a medical issue?) he was a pro-choice, Hillary supporter who had no problem admitting that he had liberal views.
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Salena Zito / The Hill:   Yinz guys...it's OK to call Trump a jagoff, n'at
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Clinton's claim that the FBI director said her email answers were ‘truthful’  —  “Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I've said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails.”
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Trouble for Hillary  —  Watching the Democrats' smoothly staged, potently scripted convention last week, voters could easily think that Hillary Clinton has this election in the bag.  —  The critiques of Donald Trump made devastatingly clear that he's a preposterous, dangerous candidate for the presidency.
Discussion: Washington Post and JustOneMinute
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Liberalism's Big Bet
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
GOP confidence in Senate majority builds  —  Republicans are growing much more optimistic about their chances of saving their Senate majority.  —  Less than 100 days before the election, unconventional Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump  —  has yet to become the albatross many Republicans feared.
Newt Gingrich / Fox News:
Two conventions, two realities and a jarring contrast  —  We have now finished two weeks of two conventions by two parties.  For Americans who watched both presentations, the contrast was jarring.  They weren't just offering two different political visions.
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Longtime Trump confidant smears Khan family as members of the Islamic Brotherhood  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  While Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence was posting a Facebook statement claiming Donald Trump “cherishes” the Khan family, a close confidant and advisor …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
WALA-TV:
Alleged burglar dies after being tied to a tree by homeowner  —  The Washington County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of an alleged burglar who was tied to a tree by a homeowner.  —  It happened on Spurgeon Road in Leroy late Friday night.  —  The homeowner is still being questioned.
Discussion: The Root and BizPac Review
Politico:
Trump's favorite general  —  Michael Flynn is more than a valued adviser to the presumptive GOP nominee.  He's also a potential VP candidate.  —  As the military's top spy, Michael Flynn repeatedly butted heads with the Obama administration during a rocky tenure in which he was ultimately forced out.
Max Boot / New York Times:
How the ‘Stupid Party’ Created Donald Trump  —  It's hard to know exactly when the Republican Party assumed the mantle of the “stupid party.”  —  Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such prominent early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes.
Discussion: Politicus USA
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Charles Koch Says It's “Blood Libel” To Say He'll Support Clinton  —  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The political operation affiliated with the Koch brothers might be sitting out of the presidential, but Charles Koch made the case to donors at a gathering on Saturday that their involvement …
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Charles Koch won't back Trump but calls the idea that he would support Clinton ‘blood libel’
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Raw Story
 
 
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John Tierney / City Journal:
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Critics See Efforts by Counties and Towns to Purge Minority Voters From Rolls
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Uber Said to Merge China Business With Didi in $35 Billion Deal
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Examiner:
It's the Supreme Court, stupid
Discussion: Hot Air
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
SHE LIED! Hillary's Tearjerker About Handicapped Girl in Wheelchair in DNC Speech WAS ALL A LIE!
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Military leaders do not belong at political conventions
John Cheves / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Anti-debt crusader Rand Paul has $301,108 in unpaid presidential campaign bills
Discussion: Associated Press and Raw Story
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