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5:20 PM ET, August 3, 2016

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NBC News:
Trump Allies Plot Candidate Intervention After Disastrous 48 Hours  —  Key Republicans close to Donald Trump's orbit are plotting an intervention with the candidate after a disastrous 48 hours led some influential voices in the party to question whether Trump can stay at the top …
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Washington Post:
GOP reaches ‘new level of panic’ over Trump's candidacy  —  The Republican Party was in turmoil again Wednesday as party leaders, strategists and donors voiced increasing alarm about the flailing state of Donald Trump's candidacy and fears that the presidential nominee was damaging the party …
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Senior GOP Officials Exploring Options if Trump Drops Out  —  Republican officials are exploring how to handle a scenario that would be unthinkable in a normal election year: What would happen if the party's presidential nominee dropped out?  —  ABC News has learned that senior party officials …
John Harwood / CNBC:
Ally of Trump staffer Paul Manafort: The staff is ‘suicidal,’ he's mailing it in  —  Donald Trump's behavior in recent days, from criticizing the parents of a fallen American soldier to declining to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan, has strained the nerves of his campaign staff as he falls behind in the polls.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Gingrich blasts Trump's ‘very self-destructive’ behavior  —  Donald Trump's behavior over the past week has been “very self-destructive” to his campaign, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday, comparing the Republican nominee to a Hall of Fame quarterback who is in the midst of an interception-throwing slump.
NBC News:
GOP Reels After Unprecedented 24 Hours From Trump  —  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.  —  GOP, Trump go from ‘unraveling’ to ‘break glass’ mode
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Walker, Johnson, Ryan skipping Trump event  —  Madison - Wisconsin's top three Republicans are skipping Donald Trump's visit to Green Bay.  —  The billionaire GOP presidential nominee's trip to the Badger State is coming just days after he declined to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan and praised Ryan's primary opponent, Paul Nehlen.
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
John Harwood / CNBC:
Former top Gingrich ally calls Trump nom ‘mistake of historic proportions’  —  Vin Weber, a key early lieutenant in the Newt Gingrich revolution that transformed the U.S. House of Representatives and the GOP, rejected the candidacy of Donald Trump on Wednesday as “a mistake of historic proportions” for his party.
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
If Trump Drops Out, The Result Will Be A Horrible Legal Quagmire  —  Republican leaders have entered the denial phase of grief again.  —  After months of overt racism, religious bigotry, mockery of veterans and people with disabilities, and otherwise erratic behavior, Republican presidential candidate Donald …
New York Times:
Mike Pence Splits With Donald Trump on Paul Ryan Endorsement
Associated Press:   The Latest: Trump Dubs Clinton “Founder of ISIS”
Ivan Levingston / CNBC:
What happens if a candidate—say Donald Trump—drops out of the presidential race
Discussion: Washington Monthly and RedState
Katy Tur / NBC News:
RNC Chairman Priebus ‘Apoplectic’ Over Trump's Refusal to Endorse Ryan
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Meg Whitman, Calling Donald Trump a ‘Demagogue,’ Will Support Hillary Clinton for President
Martinlongman / Washington Monthly:
With Trump, Every Day is a New Buffet
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Obama Commutes Sentences Of More Than 200 People Serving Federal Sentences  —  Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama commuted the sentences of 214 people serving federal sentences on Wednesday — the most commutations issued by a president in a single …
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Neil Eggleston / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
President Obama Commutes the Sentences of 214 Additional People  —  Today began like any other for 214 federal inmates across the country, but ultimately became a day I am confident they will never forget.  This morning, these individuals received a message from the President: your application for clemency has been granted.
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Obama just commuted the sentences of a record number of inmates
Discussion: TalkLeft
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Trump denies asking why nukes aren't used  —  's presidential campaign denied a report on Wednesday that the Republican presidential nominee had three times asked a foreign policy adviser why the U.S. could not use its vast nuclear arsenal.  —  “There is no truth to this,” …
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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Trump asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC
New York Times:
Voices From Donald Trump's Rallies, Uncensored  —  “Trump that bitch!”  —  “Build a wall — kill them all.”  —  New York Times reporters have spent over a year covering Donald J. Trump's rallies, witnessing so many provocations and heated confrontations at them that the cumulative effect can be numbing …
Jim Galloway / Political Insider blog:
Georgia Republican says he might withhold electoral college vote from Donald Trump  —  I just finished a highly unusual telephone conversation with Baoky Vu, a naturalized U.S. citizen and longtime GOP activist in Georgia.  —  Vu will be on the November ballot as an elector …
Wall Street Journal:
George W. Bush Delivers Critique of Donald Trump's Policies  —  Former president stops short of putting his remarks in the context of the 2016 presidential campaign  —  Without naming Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, former President George W. Bush delivered an incisive critique …
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Freedom Caucus Blasts House GOP Leaders For Kansas Rep's Primary Loss  —  Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) released a scathing statement Wednesday morning blasting House GOP leaders for the primary loss of fellow Freedom caucus member Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), a fifth generation farmer who found himself without …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
A Tea Party Defeat in Kansas
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Police officer for D.C. subway system accused of trying to help ISIS  —  A Metro Transit police officer has been arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State, marking the first time a U.S. law enforcement officer has been accused of trying to aid the terrorist group.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump Tells Virginia Town It's Failing, Cites the Wrong Place  —  Whoever prepped Trump for his visit to Ashburn apparently has never been there before.  —  ASHBURN, Virginia — When Fawad Rahimyar learned Donald Trump was coming to his neck of the woods, he hopped on Facebook.
German Lopez / Vox:
The list of jokes Donald Trump allowed and banned at his Comedy Central roast is amazing  —  Donald Trump will let you make fun of his hair, his family, his sex life, and his failed businesses.  But if you question his wealth, that's a step too far for the Donald.
Discussion: Business Insider, alan.com and The Week
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
A Trump Victory Is a Scary Thought.  A Disputed Loss Might Be Scarier.  —  Why his “rigged” comments are so corrosive and dangerous.  —  We have a tradition in the United States.  When you lose an election, you take the L, and you move on.  It's what John Adams did after he lost …
Discussion: Salon
 
 
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Bianca Padró Ocasio / Politico:
Clinton uses props to rip Trump at tie factory stop
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Senator: It Has Been ‘Proven Scientifically’ That Globe Is Not Warming
Discussion: The Bob and Chez Show
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Sanders: ‘I hope that I made you proud’
Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
Clinton Foundation drug contracts intersected with State Department work
Mary McGuire / WFLA-TV:
‘Pinky’ the flamingo dies after attack by man at Busch Gardens
Discussion: WSLS-TV and fox8.com
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Democrats, Looking Past Mere Victory, Hope to End the Trump Movement
Discussion: Politicus USA
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
How Clinton Could Knock Trump Out
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Ryan Cross / MIT Technology Review:
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Joe Bob Briggs / Taki's Magazine:
Donald, You Ignorant Slut
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Tom Williams / Associated Press:
Pastor suspects racial motivations behind termination
Discussion: The Root, Raw Story and LawNewz
Daniel Dalewashington / Toronto Star:
No, Donald Trump did not eject a baby
Discussion: twitchy.com
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
‘Boy Bye!’ CNN Panel Goes Off the Rails After Lewandowski Goes Birther on Obama
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed
 

 
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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
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