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12:50 PM ET, July 3, 2019

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Prynard / Iowa Starting Line:
New Iowa Poll: Warren Leads, Harris And Biden Close Behind, Sanders Falls To 4th  — Home- 2019- July- 3- New Iowa Poll: Warren Leads, Harris And Biden Close Behind, Sanders Falls To 4th  —  We have a shakeup in Iowa.  —  Elizabeth Warren leads the pack in the Iowa Caucus …
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Focus on Rural America:
July 2019 Poll Results
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Harris scores in debate performance while electability keeps Biden in front
Discussion: Washington Post
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
It's a Question No One Says They Want to Ask.  But the Women Running for President Keep Hearing It.  —  GREENVILLE, S.C. — Some people whisper it, some apologize for it, and some are very careful to mention their neighbors — their neighbors would be the ones to ask.
Maggie More / NBC4 Washington:
RNC Receives VIP Tickets to Trump's Fourth of July Celebration; DNC Does Not  —  Tanks for July 4th Celebration Come in on Trains  —  An official with the Democratic National Convention told NBC News the organization has not received tickets to the VIP section for President Donald Trump's Fourth …
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Buttigieg introduces national service plan  —  SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg will unveil his proposal to dramatically expand national service programs during a town hall here on Wednesday.  —  The plan, which Buttigieg's campaign is calling …
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Pete For America:
A New Call to Service  —  Policy Proposal  —  Pete often …
Discussion: Axios
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Joe Biden Raises $21.5 Million for 2020 Presidential Bid
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Teenager Accused of Rape Deserves Leniency Because He's From a ‘Good Family,’ Judge Says  —  The family court judge also said the victim should have been told that pressing charges would destroy the accused's life.  —  The 16-year-old girl was visibly intoxicated, her speech slurred …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Meghan McCain, Feeling Like an ‘Exhausted, Defeated... Caged Animal,’ May Exit ‘The View’  —  Sources close to McCain tell The Daily Beast she feels like ‘a caged animal’ on the ABC talk show.  'It's getting to the point where it's not worth the emotional toll every week.'
Discussion: TVLine, NB Blog, Mediaite, Splinter and Page Six
The Hill:
Trump appears to contradict officials, says census citizenship question not abandoned  —  President Trump stirred confusion on Wednesday by saying that reports his administration is halting its effort to include a citizenship question in the 2020 census are “FAKE,” even though multiple departments …
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Chris Hamby / New York Times:
Hacking, Glitches, Disinformation: Why Experts Are Worried About the 2020 Census
Discussion: Politico and Outside the Beltway
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
MSNBC Guest Compares Betsy Ross Flag to Swastika, Burning Cross  —  ‘Those symbols are symbols of hate’  —  MSNBC guest Michael Eric Dyson compared the Betsy Ross American flag to the Nazi swastika and a burning Ku Klux Klan cross during an appearance Wednesday.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone:
Why Is Everyone So Upset About the Betsy Ross Flag?
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump Wants Tanks on the National Mall.  What Could Go Wrong?  —  Hello, comrades!  Happy Fourth of July, or should I say, Happy 45th President of July!  How fortunate we are to see our Tremendous Nation's military hardware as we celebrate the 240th-ish anniversary of something or the other …
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Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
The tanks for Trump's July Fourth ‘Salute to America’ have rolled through Washington before
Meredith Lerner / CREW:
Nauert Reported Earning Fox Salary While at State Department  —  Heather Nauert, a former State Department spokesperson and President Trump's original pick to replace Nikki Haley as the United States Representative to the United Nations, reported in her termination financial disclosure report …
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News Streaming Service Reeling After Misconduct Claim Goes Public  —  The network said it has “resolved” a claim that host Britt McHenry leveled against co-host Tyrus.  She has hired an employment lawyer.  —  Late last year, Fox News launched its ambitious foray into the future of digital media …
Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
Trump Facebook ads use models to portray actual supporters  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A series of Facebook video ads for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign shows what appears to be a young woman strolling on a beach in Florida, a Hispanic man on a city street in Texas and a bearded hipster …
Jim Sciutto / CNN:
Military chiefs have concerns about politicization of Trump's July 4th event  —  (CNN)Military chiefs have concerns about the politicization of President Donald Trump's July 4 event, a source with direct knowledge told CNN.  —  In the planning for the event, they had reservations …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
NRA meltdown has Trump campaign sweating  —  The National Rifle Association aired an avalanche of TV ads and pushed its 5 million-plus members to the polls for Donald Trump in 2016, propelling him in the Rust Belt states that delivered him the presidency.  —  Now, the gun rights group …
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Justice Department watchdog to investigate decision to cancel FBI headquarters plan  —  The Justice Department's inspector general will investigate the FBI's role in dropping plans a decade in the making to move its headquarters to the Washington suburbs, he told Congress in a letter Tuesday.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Whatever happened to Breitbart?  The insurgent star of the right is in a long, slow fade  —  In January 2017, Breitbart.com was flying high.  Donald Trump, the candidate it had backed during the 2016 campaign, was sworn in as president.  Its former executive chairman, Stephen K. Bannon …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Democratic Presidential Candidates Need to Stop Taking Unpopular Stances  —  The Democratic presidential primary has worked to the party's disadvantage by maneuvering its candidates into unpopular positions.  This is not quite a crisis, but it is a serious danger that, if not redressed, could blow up in the party's face.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
A Crime by Any Name  —  The horrors detailed in the press were hard to believe.  —  Detainees described overcrowding so severe that “it was difficult to move in any direction without jostling and being jostled.”  The water provided them was foul, “of a dark color, and an ordinary glass would collect a thick sediment.”
Washington Post:
At border, grim realities of crisis collide with 2020 campaign politics  —  Homeland Security officials thought they finally were getting a handle on the crisis at the Mexican border, after warning for months that agents and holding cells were beyond “the breaking point.”
Jon Murray / Denver Post:
New poll has good news for Gov. Jared Polis but says Sen. Cory Gardner faces an uphill climb in 2020  —  Republican senator's favorability lags Trump's among registered Republicans  —  A new poll says more than half of Colorado voters are happy with how things are going under new Gov. Jared Polis …
Discussion: Political Wire
Brianna Hamblin / WHSV-TV:
Charlottesville City Council votes to remove Thomas Jefferson holiday  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) — Charlottesville City Council voted to officially remove Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13, as a holiday.  —  At a city council meeting on Monday evening, councilors voted to to remove the day as a city holiday.
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
Some Democrats Talk About Cosmetic Surgery Insurance.  It Doesn't Exist.  —  ‘Medicare for all’ would essentially do away with private insurance, a fact that some politicians seem reluctant to emphasize.  —  The “Medicare for all” bill written by Senator Bernie Sanders would cover …
Donald Woutat / Los Angeles Times:
Lee Iacocca, father of the Ford Mustang who later rescued Chrysler, dies at 94  —  Lee A. Iacocca, an ambitious immigrant's son and salesman extraordinaire whose blunt and swaggering persona dominated the automobile industry like nobody since Henry Ford, died Tuesday.  He was 94.
Alexandra Chaidez / CBS News:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg praises Brett Kavanaugh and reflects on gender equality  —  Supreme Court justice and liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Tuesday praised newly-confirmed Justice Brett Kavanugh for appointing an entirely female staff.  Ginsburg spoke about her own history in the fight …
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Federal Judge Blocks Barr's Attempt to Deny Asylum Seekers Bail  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday blocked an order by Attorney General William P. Barr that would have kept thousands of migrants detained indefinitely while waiting for their asylum cases to be decided.
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Splinter
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
The Biggest Threat to America Is Us  —  If we fail, China, Russia and Iran won't be to blame.  —  Near the close of last Wednesday's Democratic presidential debate, Chuck Todd asked the candidates what he called “a simple question.”  In “one word,” he asked, who or what is the biggest geopolitical threat to America today?
 
 
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CNN:
Fact-checking Trump's false claims about Afghanistan on Fox
Discussion: UPI, Al Jazeera and Fox News
Tamara Keith / NPR:
Patriotism To Partisanship: Trump Inserts Himself Into July 4th Celebrations
Discussion: The Atlantic and USA Today
Alfred Ng / CNET:
Amazon Alexa keeps your data with no expiration date, and shares it too
Bob Ortega / CNN:
Prosecutors to retry volunteer worker who aided migrants
Discussion: Reason and Splinter
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump team weighs giving China a get-out-of-jail free card on Iran
 Earlier Items: 
Caitlin Gibson / Washington Post:
Fireworks are America's favorite face exploding, dog torturing, bird murdering way to celebrate its birthday
Matt Ford / New Republic:
The Kids Aren't Alright  —  The annual G20 summit is a dry …
Discussion: Washington Post
Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
Have We Seen The Last Of Eric Swalwell?
Nathalie Tocci / Politico:
Get ready for a strong EU
Andy Ngo / Wall Street Journal:
A Leftist Mob Attacked Me in Portland
Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com