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5:25 PM ET, July 5, 2020

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Washington Post:
Militias flocked to Gettysburg to foil a supposed antifa flag burning, an apparent hoax created on social media  —  GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, PA. — For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence …
Discussion: New York Post
Politico:
Donald Trump's shrinking electoral map  —  Donald Trump's campaign once spoke of expanding his electoral map into blue-leaning territory like Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico and New Hampshire.  —  Now, winning at least a handful of those states has become a matter of survival.
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump faces a now historical disadvantage  —  (CNN)Poll of the week: A new Monmouth University poll finds former Vice President Joe Biden with a 53% to 41% lead over President Donald Trump.  —  The average live interview poll conducted over the last month has Biden ahead by a similar 11-point margin.
Dana Blanton / Fox News:   Fox News Poll: Trump and Biden in close race in Georgia
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Moscow Has a Field Day With Trump's Fireworks at Mt. Russia-More  —  Kremlin-controlled media continue to flatter the American president they sometimes call their “agent.”  But they know he's in trouble, and the Putin bromance is on ice just now.  —  Kremlin-controlled Russian state media set …
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CNN:
Russian democracy is a farce.  Putin wants the same fate for America  —  Some Russian voters back a ploy by Putin to rule until 2036  —  Garry Kasparov is the chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative.  The views expressed in this commentary are his own.  View more opinion at CNN.
Paul Sonne / Washington Post:   Trump remains silent on Putin despite uproar over alleged Russian bounty payments
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
David Horowitz's Book Predicting a Trump Victory Was Not Well-Timed  —  In these dark times for the Trump reelection campaign, one prophet has emerged to give hope to the faithful.  David Horowitz's latest book, Blitz: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win, has won cheerful acclaim.
Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Protester dies after struck by speeding car at Black Lives Matter freeway demonstration in Seattle  —  One other demonstrator hit by the luxury vehicle was critically injured.  —  A young protester has died from injuries she suffered when a luxury car plowed into her and another woman during …
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Deadly Brain-Eating Amoeba Confirmed in Florida  —  WHAT'S NEXT?  —  Health officials in Florida have sounded the alarm over the discovery of a rare, brain-eating amoeba in the county that encompasses Tampa and several other cities.  The Florida Department of Health announced the news Friday …
Catherine Lucey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Jumps on Preserving Monuments as Winning Campaign Issue  —  The president's aides see his defense of statues and monuments as a unifying issue beyond his political base  —  President Trump has seized on saving statues and preserving monuments to American history as a winning issue for his re-election …
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Neo / The New Neo:
Trump gives America a history lesson at Mount Rushmore
Discussion: Instapundit
New York Sun:   At Mt. Rushmore, Trump Scoops the Democrats
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
McGrath defeats Booker in Kentucky Senate Democratic primary, NBC News projects  —  Amy McGrath has won Kentucky's U.S. Senate Democratic primary, NBC News projects, edging out progressive Charles Booker in a tougher-than-expected race for the right to face Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘Toe-tally-terry-tism’ speech  —  Perhaps President Trump's remarks at Mount Rushmore on Friday will become known as the super-spreader speech, where a few thousand people, nearly all unmasked, sat next to each other (on chairs actually tied together, which prevented social distancing) …
Discussion: American Greatness and NBC News
Caroline Graham / Daily Mail:
Nightmare in New York: How Covid-19, BLM protests and a liberal mayor are turning the city into a no-go zone as murders skyrocket, shops are looted and 500,000 middle-class residents flee  —  Two bullet-ridden bodies lay sprawled on bloodstained concrete steps.
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
239 Experts With 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne  —  The W.H.O. has resisted mounting evidence that viral particles floating indoors are infectious, some scientists say.  The agency maintains the research is still inconclusive.  —  The coronavirus is finding new victims worldwide …
Discussion: Slate and Raw Story
Yascha Mounk / Persuasion:
The Purpose of Persuasion  —  To defend the values of a free society with courage and conviction, we need to build institutions of our own.  —  1 hr  —  Friends,  —  I'm floored by the response of the past three days.  —  Once I hit send, this article will land in the inboxes of over 15,000 people.
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Ghislaine Maxwell prepared to snitch on ‘big names’ to save herself  —  Many powerful people connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell — including Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and Leslie Wexner — could be “extremely worried right now” following Maxwell's arrest — because she wrongly believed they were protecting her.
Associated Press:
Trump Cabinet members look to reassure battleground voters  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue tromped through a strawberry festival in central Florida, detailing the government's new trade pact.  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked about foreign policy at a roundtable in south Florida.
Discussion: Political Wire
Vince Bzdek / Gazette:
In the rush to do the right thing, journalism can't abandon its standards  —  The first time I got in a car to teach my son how to drive, he blew through three stop signs without blinking.  —  “Hey,” I said gently as we came to the fourth.  “You notice those red octagons back there?”
Houston Chronicle:
Once lauded for its COVID-19 response, Texas now grapples with one of country's worst outbreaks  —  In Houston, the largest medical campus in the world has exceeded its base intensive care capacity.  In the Rio Grande Valley, elected officials pleaded last week for military intervention to avoid a “humanitarian crisis.”
ABC FOX Montana:
Congressman Greg Gianforte, Kristen Juras suspend public events after potential COVID-19 exposure  —  BOZEMAN- Congressman Greg Gianforte and Lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Kristen Juras are suspending public events a potential exposure to COVID-19.  —  On Tuesday, Gianforte's wife …
Washington Post:
In an era of racial unrest, Americans converging in D.C. to celebrate the Fourth of July question the meaning of freedom  —  More than two centuries after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Americans converged on the Mall on Saturday for the Fourth of July during a season of protests …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Outside the Beltway
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DCist:
Live Updates: Protesters, Trump Supporters Clash In Front Of The Washington Monument As Fireworks Exploded Overhead |
Discussion: WTOP and NPR
 
 
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
In West Texas, Lingering Distrust in Public Health Measures as Virus Spreads
Wall Street Journal:
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Kevin McCullough / Townhall:
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Labor Secretary Scalia optimistic about economy resurgence, but warns precautions still needed
Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump decries ‘cancel culture’ — but no one embraces it more
Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
Time for cancel culture to ditch the Kennedys
 Earlier Items: 
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Democrats, Biden look to accelerate Southern political shift
New York Times:
Hong Kong, Changed Overnight, Navigates Its New Reality
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Trump's Taxes, Birth Control Top Supreme Court's Closing Agenda
Daniel Strauss / The Guardian:
'We've got to do something': Republican rebels come together to take on Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
We Now Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Convention Programming
Rebecca Tan / Washington Post:
A Confederate statue is toppled in rural Maryland, then quietly stored away
Baltimore Sun:
Christopher Columbus statue near Little Italy brought down, tossed into Baltimore's Inner Harbor
 

 
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