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10:55 AM ET, August 15, 2018

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New York Times:
Groundbreaking Night for Women and Diversity, While a Trump Critic Falls  —  HARTLAND, Wis. — Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor and onetime presidential candidate, was soundly defeated Tuesday in his bid to reclaim the Republican nomination for governor, a remarkable upset …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and New Republic
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Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Trump Is Wreaking Havoc On Republican Governor Primaries  —  In Minnesota and Kansas, the victory of Trump-style candidates makes GOP wins less likely.  —  Throughout late 2017, national Republicans had a deep-seated fear President Donald Trump would put their party's majority in the U.S. Senate at risk.
Discussion: Washington Post and TheBlaze
Leah Barkoukis / Townhall:
Anti-Trump Tim Pawlenty's Comeback Bid Fails in Minnesota  —  Tim Pawlenty's comeback bid to become Minnesota's governor again failed Tuesday in the race to replace Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton, as GOP voters chose county commissioner Jeff Johnson as the Republican gubernatorial nominee.
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Wire
NBC News:
Tim Pawlenty goes down and six takeaways from Tuesday's primaries
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Live results: The biggest Wisconsin and Minnesota primary races
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Minnesota Republicans reject former governor Tim Pawlenty as Democrats pick historic nominees
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
White House Falsely Says Trump Beat Obama on Black Employment
Discussion: Politico, Splinter, Raw Story and The Root
Benjamin Wermund / Politico:
Omarosa: DeVos said black college students lack the ‘capacity to understand’ her agenda
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Campaign Says It Has Filed Case Against Omarosa Manigault Newman
Paul Kane / Washington Post:   The Daily 202: Republicans try to make ‘liberal’ attack line stick in new ad campaign
Washington Post:
‘He created Omarosa’: How Trump's protegee turned his tactics against him
Discussion: New York Times, Roll Call, Politico and CNN
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Kellyanne Conway's husband suggests Trump makes false statements, attacks both allies and his own employees
Discussion: Fox News, Hullabaloo and Spectator USA
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House: Three More GOP Seats Join the Toss Up Column  —  For Republicans, the 2018 House playing field is a lot like a game of Whack-a-Mole: everywhere they turn, new problems keep popping up in surprising places.  In January, we rated 20 GOP-held seats as Toss Ups or worse, including three leaning towards Democrats.
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Let's Hope There Is No Tape of Trump Using the N-Word  —  But if there is ...  I hope there isn't a tape of Donald Trump using the N-word in a manner that's clearly meant to be offensive, bigoted, and derogatory.  —  We've now reached the stage where the existence of such a tape is not proven, but is more than theoretically possible.
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Scott W. Johnson / Weekly Standard:
Can Keith Ellison Turn Lawman?  —  Few races for state attorney general receive or merit national attention.  In yesterday's Democratic-Farmer-Labor party primary, however, 5th District Rep. Keith Ellison defeated the endorsed DFL candidate and other contenders to run as the party's candidate for the job.
Discussion: Power Line
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Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
Frozen Out by Obama, Hungary's Far-Right Leader Finds a Friend in Trump  —  BUDAPEST — Across rural Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban dominates the media landscape.  His allies control the major regional newspapers, which provide supportive coverage of Mr. Orban's anti-immigrant agenda …
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Did I Join a Movement That Naturally Attracts Extremists and Kooks? … This week's news about Omarosa secretly taping chief of staff John Kelly and President Donald Trump is yet another reminder of something about Trumpworld: Politics has always attracted eccentric opportunists, but people in this administration are especially weird.
Rochelle Olson / Star Tribune:
Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman says cancer has returned to his lungs, ‘shaken my soul’  —  Coleman said his prognosis is not “overly optimistic,” but he will fight on.  —  TEXT SIZE  —  The throat and neck cancer that former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman began battling almost three years ago …
Discussion: Political Wire
Mackenzie Mays / Fresno Bee:
‘We pay for it, we should have access to it,’ but police close Nunes office during rally  —  Clovis police were called and the building housing Congressman Devin Nunes' office was locked during a rally for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security on Tuesday.  —  For more than a year …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:   ‘Not what 9-1-1 was designed for’: Devin Nunes slammed for ‘calling the police’ on protesting constituents
Hartford Courant:
Poised to Make History, Jahana Hayes Wins the 5th District Democratic Primary  —  Jahana Hayes wins the Democratic primary for 5th district defeating Mary Glassman Tuesday night.  (John Woike / Hartford Courant)  —  Jahana Hayes, the daughter of a drug addict who grew up in public housing …
adfmedia.org:
Hostility unabated: Colorado seeks to punish cake artist Jack Phillips again  —  ADF attorneys file suit against state officials  —  DENVER - Although the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that Colorado cannot treat cake artist Jack Phillips differently than others, state officials have continued …
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Exclusive: Pentagon spokeswoman under investigation for misusing staff, retaliating against complaints  —  Washington (CNN)One of Defense Secretary James Mattis' most senior civilian advisers is being investigated by the Defense Department Office of Inspector General for allegedly retaliating …
Don Behm / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Earnell Lucas defeats Richard Schmidt in Milwaukee County sheriff's race  —  Earnell Lucas, a Major League Baseball security official, won Tuesday's Democratic primary election for Milwaukee County sheriff and he becomes a sure bet to be hired by voters in November to a four-year term in the office.
Discussion: JSOnline
Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
'You're on your own,' &c.  —  In the past several days, I have noted three things in the media that bear on the struggle over conservatism.  Well, maybe more than three, but I would like to comment on three.  This will not be a very fun Impromptus, maybe — but, on the plus side, it'll be brief.
BuzzFeed News:
Senate Intel Wants To Follow The Money In The Russia Probe.  But Treasury Isn't Making That Easy.  —  In its investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 election, the Senate Intelligence Committee has spent more than a year trying to follow the money.
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Twitter Suspends Alex Jones for Seven Days Over Tweet  —  WASHINGTON — Twitter on Tuesday suspended the account of the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for a week after he tweeted a link to a video calling for supporters to get their “battle rifles” ready against media and others …
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Meet the legal team defending former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort  —  The case against Paul Manafort took a surprise turn on Tuesday with the defense attorneys for the former Trump campaign chairman declining to call additional witness to mount a defense before closing arguments.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Why Trump will pardon Paul Manafort
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer concedes GOP primary to Trump ally Kris Kobach  —  Exactly a week after an election that produced one of the closest races in Kansas history, incumbent Gov. Jeff Colyer conceded the Republican gubernatorial primary to Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state …
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YouTube:
Omarosa On Her Secret Tapes & Trump's Biggest Weakness |  The Daily Show  —  Omarosa discusses her new book “Unhinged,” her secret White House tapes, and the one way to bring Trump down.  Subscribe to The Daily Show: https://www.youtub...
Discussion: Political Wire, ABC News and HuffPost
Bloomberg:
Mueller Probe Seen Pushing Past Trump-Demanded September 1 Deadline  — Giuliani says will ‘unload’ on Mueller if probe lasts longer  — DOJ guidelines don't bar indictments in period before election  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller doesn't have to shut down his Russia investigation …
Discussion: Political Wire
Craig Unger / New Republic:
When a Young Trump Went to Russia  —  On a frigid December day in 2017, Oleg Kalugin opens the door of his house in Rockville, Maryland, an upper-middle-class suburb of Washington, D.C., to meet me.  Nothing in particular distinguishes his split-level suburban home from those of the other professionals …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
 
 
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Poll: Majority of GOP agrees news media is ‘enemy of the people’
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
'The guy's not right': Morning Joe raises new questions about Trump's mental health
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Elizabeth Warren / Wall Street Journal:
Companies Shouldn't Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
Discussion: Vox and The Daily Caller
Daily Mail:
He is refusing to co-operate but MailOnline can reveal Khater moved to Britain around five years ago and
Discussion: Breitbart and Front Page Magazine
Emily Holden / Politico:
Exclusive: Draft details Trump's plan for reversing Obama climate rule
Kristen McQueary / Chicago Tribune:
Commentary: A Holocaust denier is running for Congress. …
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
The New York Times Joins Effort to Combat Trump's Anti-Press Rhetoric
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Isabella Kwai / New York Times:
Australian Senator Calls for ‘Final Solution’ to Muslim Immigration
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Trump's failure to condemn the bigots of the alt-right tars his presidency
Discussion: New York Times
Lisa Goldman / +972 Magazine:
Welcome to Netanyahu's fortress state
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
Password Analyst Says QAnon's ‘Codes’ Are Consistent With Random Typing
New York Times:
How Can I Cure My White Guilt?
Discussion: Althouse
Philip Marcelo / Associated Press:
ACLU: Federal agencies setting ‘trap’ to deport immigrants
Discussion: Splinter
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Why the Washington Post's Twitter Has Been So Good Lately