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2:50 PM ET, August 25, 2016

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Coulter mocks Trump's immigration muddle  —  Ann Coulter revealed her sense of disgust with Donald Trump's latest comments on immigration in which he suggested an openness to changing his hard-line stance on illegal immigration.  —  Speaking to Fox News' Sean Hannity in a town hall event …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Coulter Goes to War with Trump And It Is Glorious  —  Liberals may die tonight because there are limited supplies of those injections they give you for acute schadenfreude toxicity.  Ann Coulter has been Donald Trump's biggest New York City white nationalist supporter.  She's transformed toadying into a militant act.
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Coulter: Trump's ‘softening’ on immigration remark a panic move  —  “panicked” when he said he was open to softening his immigration policies, according to conservative pundit and Trump ally Ann Coulter.  —  “It's just rhetoric but it's still annoying,” Coulter told The Hill Wednesday night.
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
Ann Coulter: Maybe it's ‘in our interest’ to let some illegal immigrants stay  —  Conservative author and Donald Trump supporter Ann Coulter isn't giving up on her candidate yet, even as he appears to be shifting on an issue most dear to her.  —  Trump is now open to possibly “softening” …
Discussion: RedState, The Right Scoop and Mediaite
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Trump ‘softening’ on immigration? Many of his supporters don't seem to mind.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Sen. Sessions: I can ‘be supportive’ of Trump's immigration move
Discussion: The Hill
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Trump: ‘Hillary Clinton Is a Bigot’  —  JACKSON, Miss. — Donald Trump has spent the week calling for African-Americans to uproot voter trends, reject “the bigotry” of Hillary Clinton, and vote for him in November.  But Wednesday night, Trump escalated the line of attack and labeled Clinton herself a “bigot.”
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
CNN erupts in laughter as Katrina Pierson pushes a bizarre defense of Trump's immigration flip-flop
Sam Reisman / Mediaite:
He Actually Wrote It Down: ‘Hillary Clinton Is a Bigot,’ Says Donald Trump
Bianca Padró Ocasio / Politico:
Trump says he'll lay out ‘exact plan’ on immigration soon
Discussion: RedState
Tegna / KARE-TV:
Trump, Pence not yet on MN ballot … ST. PAUL, Minn. - Don't plan to vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump?  You'll have options on the Minnesota ballot this November.  —  Tuesday was the deadline for non-major party candidates for President and Vice President to file the necessary paperwork to be on the ballot in Minnesota.
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Streiff / RedState:
BREAKING. Donald Trump Is Not On the Ballot In Minnesota
Discussion: Politico
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Trump temporarily missing from Minnesota ballot
Discussion: Hot Air, Capitol View and The Week
Wall Street Journal:
Chelsea Clinton Plans to Stay on Board of Family Foundation  —  Clinton Health Access Initiative might also continue to accept foreign government and corporate funding  —  The Clinton Foundation is considering exceptions to its plan to stop accepting corporate and foreign donations …
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Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Hillary Lied, Withheld Evidence, Traded Power for Money, and Could Be President
Discussion: Washington Monthly, NPR and Daily Wire
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Ethicists scoff at Clinton Foundation transition plan
Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air and Balloon Juice
Jon Miltimore / intellectualtakeout.org:
Univ. of Chicago pushes back on trigger warnings, safe spaces  —  Letters sent to the incoming class of 2020 make it clear the University of Chicago isn't a fan of trigger warnings or safe spaces.  —  Academics around the country are embracing the relatively new trend of using trigger warnings …
Massimo Calabresi / TIME:
What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower  —  Massimo Calabresi joined the Washington bureau of TIME in 1999 and has covered the CIA, State, Justice, Treasury, Congress and the White House.  He covered the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo as TIME's Central Europe bureau chief …
Discussion: RedState and Mediaite
Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:
Uber Loses at Least $1.2 Billion in First Half of 2016  —  After touting profitability in the U.S. early this year, the ride-hailing company is said to post second-quarter losses exceeding $100 million.  —  The ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. is not a public company …
Fox News:
Ryan Lochte to be summoned to testify in Brazil over robbery claim  —  Ryan Lochte will be summoned to give testimony in front of Brazil's Justice Department in Rio de Janeiro over his claim he and other U.S. Olympic swimmers were robbed at gunpoint, a police official told Fox News on Thursday.
Discussion: Mediaite, LawNewz and The Daily Caller
Annie Garau / Esquire:
Mike Pence Used to Draw Cartoons.  We Found Them.  They're Strange.  —  Behold the VP nominee's alter ego, Law School Daze  —  Before his P was penetrated by Donald's T, before thousands of women called him to chat about their menses, even before he lost Indiana more than $60 million …
Discussion: Mediaite
Dyno Rush / dailyrushbo.com:
Limbaugh CRACKS UP!  Who Knew It Would Be Trump That Converts GOP Base On Amnesty!  —  RUSH: Could you imagine what it's like to be Jeb Bush today?  Who knew — (laughing) I'm sorry, folks.  “She's a bigot!”  Who knew.  First they tried Marco Rubio.  They tried the Gang of Eight.
John Sides / Washington Post:
How many votes will Trump give up by not running a professional campaign?  A lot.  —  Stories about the ramshackle nature of the Trump campaign are abundant.  A recent article called Donald Trump's organization “more concert tour than presidential campaign.”
Discussion: New York Magazine
Orlando Sentinel:
Orlando Health, Florida Hospital won't bill Pulse shooting victims  —  Orlando Police officer Gerry Realin was part of the small hazmat team that was responsible for removing the bodies from Pulse nightclub.  He now struggles with PTSD and blood pressure so high he was recently admitted to the hospital.
Margaret Newkirk / Bloomberg:
Thanks to Trump, Georgia Could Be Ripe for a Clinton Win  —  Rising numbers of minority and young urban voters have helped put a longtime Southern Republican stronghold up for grabs.  —  On Sunday, Aug. 21, Hillary Clinton's campaign opened its Georgia headquarters in Atlanta.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Senator's Outreach Ad To Black Voters Appears To Use Stock Video From Africa  —  A new ad highlighting Sen. Richard Burr's (R-NC) work in helping disadvantaged children in his state appears to feature black children from a school in Africa, not North Carolina.
Discussion: The Bob and Chez Show
Suffolk University:
Suffolk University Michigan Poll Shows Clinton Leading Trump by 7 Points  —  Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (44 percent) leads Republican Donald Trump (37 percent), in Michigan, according to a Suffolk University poll of likely voters in that state.
Discussion: Washington Times and Politico
NBC News:
Where will the Republican Party go after 2016?  —  The future of the Republican Party — with or without Donald J. Trump — is weighing heavily on the party's top elected officials, thought leaders and activists.  It's a topic sure to be dissected once the results on Election Day, November 8, 2016, are tallied.
 
 
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