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10:35 AM ET, August 10, 2016

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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
The GOP must dump Trump  —  The Muslim ban, the David Duke denial, the “Mexican” judge flap, the draft dodger denigrating John McCain's military service, the son of privilege attacking an immigrant Gold Star mother and the constant revisionism and lying about past political positions taken …
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Trump's Ambiguous Wink Wink to ‘Second Amendment People’  —  And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin got assassinated.  —  His right-wing opponents just kept delegitimizing him as a “traitor” and “a Nazi” for wanting to make peace with the Palestinians and give back part of the Land of Israel.
Dan Rather / Facebook:
No trying-to-be objective and fair journalist, no citizen who cares about the country and its future can ignore what Donald Trump said today.  When he suggested that “The Second Amendment People” can stop Hillary Clinton he crossed a line with dangerous potential.
Grant Smith / Reuters:
One-in-five U.S. Republicans want Trump to drop out: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  Nearly one-fifth of registered Republicans want Donald Trump to drop out of the race for the White House, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday, reflecting the turmoil his candidacy has sown within his party.
New York Daily News:
Trump must go: Hinting at assassination is too much, even for him  —  Donald Trump must end his campaign for the White House in a reckoning with his own madness, while praying that nothing comes of his musing about an assassination of Hillary Clinton.  —  In the event that Trump fails …
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Support Among Republican Women Starts to Slide  —  Of all the tribulations facing Donald J. Trump, perhaps none is stirring as much anxiety inside his campaign as the precipitous decline of support from Republican women, an electoral cornerstone for the party's past nominees that is starting to crumble.
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
From Trump's controversial words, a pattern: Outrage, headlines and then denial  —  WILMINGTON, N.C. — Donald Trump was ticking through a list of reasons to support him over Hillary Clinton on Tuesday when he decided to linger on one.  —  “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do …
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Rudy Giuliani Defends Donald Trump's Second Amendment Comments on ‘GMA’  —  Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani today defended Donald Trump's controversial comments about the Second Amendment that Hillary Clinton's campaign and others interpreted as a suggestion of violence against her.
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Says ‘Second Amendment People’ Can Stop Hillary Clinton From Curbing Gun Rights
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Democrats: Trump costing GOP in key House districts
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Donald Trump Suggests ‘Second Amendment People’ Could Act Against Hillary Clinton
Washington Post:
Trump's reckless call to ‘Second Amendment people’
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump says ‘Second Amendment people’ could stop Clinton
CNN:
Trump: ‘Second Amendment people’ could deal with Clinton
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Emails Renew Questions About Clinton Foundation and State Dept. Overlap  —  WASHINGTON — A new batch of State Department emails released Tuesday showed the close and sometimes overlapping interests between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.
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Associated Press:
LEGAL GROUP ISSUES PRIVATE EMAILS CLINTON DID NOT TURN OVER  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has turned over 44 previously-unreleased Hillary Clinton email exchanges that the Democratic presidential nominee failed to include among the 30,000 private messages she turned over to the government last year.
Ben Brody / Bloomberg:
E-Mails by Clinton Aides Show State-Foundation Links
Discussion: twitchy.com
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Deleted Clinton emails might remain secret until after election
Discussion: Hot Air
New York Post:   SEE ALL 221 STORIES  —  Hillary Clinton put the State Department …
Jason Leopold / VICE News:
FBI probe of Clinton's emails prompted by espionage fears, secret letters say
Discussion: RedState
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
In email, State asked to ‘take care of’ Clinton Foundation associate
Discussion: Liberal Values and Heat Street
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Maybe Trumpism Doesn't Work Without Trump  —  That House Speaker Paul Ryan easily won his congressional primary on Tuesday, by a nearly 70-point margin, should not have surprised anyone.  Yet the political world was watching the result on tenterhooks, waiting for a surprise that never came.
Discussion: RedState and Hot Air
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan weathers his primary but GOP's populist storm still rages
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Power Line
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Ryan crushes Trump-imitating primary foe
John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Clinton Up 6 on Trump in Two-Way Race in Bloomberg National Poll  —  The findings suggest damage has been done to one of Trump's main calling cards, his business expertise.  —  McCormickJohn  —  Hillary Clinton has retained most of the bounce she received after the Democratic National Convention …
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Trump's head of black outreach: Rally-goers blurt N-word to show ‘frustration with the system’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Ashley Bell, Donald Trump's newly-appointed director of African-American outreach, excused the repeated use of the N-word and other epithets …
Baltimore Sun:
Justice Department report: Baltimore police routinely violated civil rights  —  (Baltimore Sun video) … Baltimore police routinely violated the constitutional rights of residents by conducting unlawful stops and using excessive force, according to the findings of a long-anticipated Justice Department probe to be released Wednesday.
Discussion: New York Times, Power Line and RT
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Luke Broadwater / Baltimore Sun:
Brian Rice, highest-ranking officer cleared in Freddie Gray's death, to get $127K in back pay
Discussion: NBC News and The Root
CBS News:
Hacker demonstrates how voting machines can be compromised  —  Concerns are growing over the possibility of a rigged presidential election.  Experts believe a cyberattack this year could be a reality, especially following last month's hack of Democratic National Committee emails.
Discussion: Hot Air
David Robinson / Variance Explained:
Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half  —  I don't normally post about politics (I'm not particularly savvy about polling, which is where data science has had the largest impact on politics).  But this weekend I saw a hypothesis …
Michael V. Hayden / New York Times:
What Intelligence Briefings Can Tell Us About Candidates  —  The no-longer-presumptive nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties will soon start receiving periodic classified intelligence briefings, with the first one coming perhaps this week.  Rarely has this routine ritual received …
 
 
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