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5:45 PM ET, August 26, 2016

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Scott Thistle / The Portland Press Herald:
'Prove I'm a racist': LePage challenges Westbrook lawmaker in obscenity-laced voice mail  —  The governor later says he wishes he and Rep. Drew Gattine could have a duel and ‘I would point (my gun) right between his eyes.’  —  Gov. Paul LePage left a state lawmaker from Westbrook …
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Annie Karni / Politico:
GOP plots early wake-up call for Clinton  —  Hillary Clinton has managed to win support from Republicans without conceding any part of the progressive economic agenda she outlined during the Democratic primary.  —  But with fall approaching and momentum on Clinton's side …
Discussion: ABC News, Raw Story and Politicus USA
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Eric DuVall / UPI:
UPI/CVoter poll: Donald Trump maintains slim lead over Hillary Clinton  —  The UPI/CVoter daily presidential tracking poll released Friday shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton by less than 1 percentage point.  —  The online poll shows Trump with 48.52 percent to Clinton's 47.73 percent …
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
Hillary Clinton Hits Trump With New Ad on Race
Discussion: Daily Kos and Guardian
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Clinton leads Trump by 5 points in Reuters/Ipsos poll
Discussion: The Hill
Guardian:
Trump campaign chief Steve Bannon is registered voter at vacant Florida home  —  Exclusive: Bannon's enrollment is apparent violation of crucial swing state's election law requiring voters to be legal residents of county they register in  —  Donald Trump's new presidential campaign chief …
Media Matters for America:
Hannity Defends Alex Jones From Hillary Clinton: “Really, She Doesn't Believe In Freedom Of Speech?”  —  SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Who ever heard of an “alt-right” movement until this week?  I'd never heard of it.  Somebody said, “Well, Steve Bannon said he's an alternative-right.”
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Denounces the ‘Alt-Right,’ and the Alt-Right Is Thrilled
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump When Asked About Alt-Right: ‘Nobody Even Knows What It Is’
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
6 Things You Need To Know About Hillary's Speech Slamming The Alt-Right
Discussion: Instapundit
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Eric Trump Claims Dad Running Because Of Nonexistent National ‘Holiday’ Tree  —  The War on Christmas is back, and it's more strained than ever!  —  While listing the reasons why his father ran for president in an interview published Thursday, Eric Trump pointed to the tree on the White House lawn …
Discussion: alan.com
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Eric Trump: My Dad Ran Because The White House Christmas Tree Is Now A “Holiday Tree”  —  Eric Trump, listing off reasons his father is running for president, said in an interview this week that one of the motivations was the renaming of the White House Christmas tree to the “holiday tree.”
Spiegel Online:
Bush Advisor Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for Clinton  —  In an interview, Paul Wolfowitz, 72, an advisor to former President Bush, discusses the dangers of a Donald Trump presidency, why he will likely vote for the Democrat's candidate this year and mistakes made during the Iraq war.
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Andrea Shalal / Reuters:
Former Bush adviser Wolfowitz to vote for Clinton: Spiegel
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, AOL and alan.com
Claude Brodesser-Akner / New Jersey Online:
Trump's big immigration reversal shaped by Christie, Giuliani says  —  TRENTON — Donald Trump's apparent pivot away from his calls for mass deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants is partially the result of prodding by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, according to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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James Gordon Meek / ABC News:
President Obama Broke Promise for Charity Donation, ISIS Hostage Family Says  —  As President Barack Obama tried to console the parents of Kayla Mueller after she was killed in ISIS captivity last year, they say he offered to make a contribution to a foundation they had established in her name.
Boston Herald:
Cozying up to Clintons  —  The steady drip, drip drip about Hillary Clinton's too-cozy relationships with big-time donors to the Clinton Foundation while she was secretary of state continued unabated this week.  —  The most astonishing figure came from Clinton's State Department calendars released …
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Tré Goins-Phillips / TheBlaze.com:
Gowdy: Clinton Erased Emails So Meticulously 'Even God Can't Read Them'
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
No, Donald Trump, America Isn't a Hellhole  —  Donald Trump has taken a strange turn lately.  O.K., he has taken a lot of strange turns — that's what happens when you nominate a short-attention-span candidate who knows nothing about policy and refuses to sit still for more than three minutes.
Beatrice Peterson / Politico:
Ann Coulter promotes Trump's ‘fraud’ narrative  —  If Donald Trump loses in a close election, Ann Coulter says fraud will be to blame.  —  In an interview with POLITICO, the commentator on the far right of the conservative spectrum fed a narrative popular among Trump's supporters …
Discussion: alan.com and Mediaite
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Breaking: Trump Has No Campaign Manager  —  This is far from the biggest problem plaguing Donald Trump's campaign.  But as we get into the thick of the fall campaign, it's worth noting.  Kellyanne Conway now carries the label campaign manager.  But that does not appear to be what she's doing.
Discussion: Daily Kos
BBC:
France burkini: Highest court suspends ban  —  France's highest administrative court has suspended a ban on full-body “burkini” swimsuits that was imposed in a town on the Mediterranean coast.  —  The ban in Villeneuve-Loubet “seriously and clearly illegally breached fundamental freedoms”, it found.
Lisa France / CNNMoney:
HLN cancels ‘Dr. Drew’  —  It's a wrap for Dr. Drew Pinsky's show on HLN.  —  CNN executive vice president Ken Jautz announced Thursday that “Dr. Drew and I have mutually agreed to air the final episode of his show on September 22.”  —  “Dr. Drew and his team have delivered more than five years …
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
‘Dr. Drew’ show canceled days after host's negative speculation about Hillary Clinton's health
Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:
GEORGIA: Pastor Who Said Pulse Victims “Got What They Deserved” Arrested For Child Molestation  —  From Jacksonsville's ABC affiliate:  —  A Georgia pastor and and conservative political activist was arrested Friday morning on charges of child molestation and aggravated child molestation.
CBS Sacramento:
Ken Doll Cake Orders Flooding Freeport Bakery After Photo Goes Viral  —  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Overwhelming support is pouring in for a Sacramento bakery after it set off a firestorm of Facebook comments over a picture of a custom cake.  Freeport Bakery's Ken Doll cake has garnered national attention …
Discussion: CBS Chicago, Consumerist and WCMH-TV
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Assange: WikiLeaks's Trump info no worse than him  —  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his group's intel on Donald Trump  —  pales in comparison to the billionaire's own rhetoric.  —  Assange, whose organization has released embarrassing Democratic National Committee emails believed …
Discussion: RedState
Bill Allison / Bloomberg.com:
Millions From Maxed-Out Clinton Donors Flowed Through Loophole  —  When the Democratic National Committee announced its $32 million fundraising haul last month, it touted the result as evidence of “energy and excitement” for Hillary Clinton's nomination for the White House and other races down the ballot.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Gary Johnson Isn't Fading  —  Gary Johnson doesn't seem to be going anywhere.  In recent elections, third-party candidates have tended to lose support as Election Day approaches.  But the Libertarian Party presidential nominee and former New Mexico governor is holding steady in the polls …
Discussion: RedState, Hot Air, Hit & Run and VTDigger
New York Daily News:
Father of slain TV reporter Alison Parker rips NRA, vows to continue fight for gun reform on one-year anniversary of daughter's death  —  It's a parent's worst nightmare to get that call that your child has been killed.  —  That's what happened a year ago when my daughter Alison was murdered on live television.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
 
 
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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Donald Trump broke the conservative media
Discussion: Guardian
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
A Wounded Boy's Silence, and the Candidates'
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Establishment frets: Freedom Caucus and Club for Growth in cahoots
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Campaign Hires Ex-Christie Aide to Bolster Political Operation
Discussion: LawNewz, CNN and twitchy.com
Emily Bazelon / Slate:
The “Meet the New Trump” Edition
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
DOJ asks Supreme Court to let NC voter ID ruling stand
Discussion: RedState and NBC News
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
The Alt-Right Has Its Own Comedy TV Show On A Time Warner Network
 Earlier Items: 
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
A bleak choice between a ‘liar’ and your ‘drunk uncle’ for one Wisconsin focus group
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Trumpocrats Say Clinton ‘Alt-Right’ Speech Backfires, Turns Democrats Toward Donald …
CBS Boston:
New Concerns Arise About Mental Health Of College Students
Discussion: National Review and JustOneMinute
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Man Jailed For Oral Activity On Boardwalk
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
After Ailes, Fox News Has a New Crisis: Can It Keep Megyn Kelly?
 

 
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