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Salon’s Walsh: Trump Is Everyone’s Crazy Uncle

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball With Chris Matthews,” Salon’s Joan Walsh reacted to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s ISIS plan to bomb oil fields and deemed him to be the “crazy uncle.” Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said, “I

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The Strong Gravitational Pull of Donald Trump

The obvious story of the “Trump Summer” is his continued dominance of the GOP primary race. It would be an understatement to say that Trump has survived a media onslaught against him. Even Fox News aimed its most potent journalists at him during the first GOP debate and widely missed their target. The campaign of every Republican running for President has been impacted by the Trump candidacy and the smart ones are starting to adapt.

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Hillary Clinton Jokes About Wiping Email Server

“What, like, with a cloth or something?” Hillary Clinton cracked, referring to the fact that the server was wiped. “I don’t know how it works digitally at all,” Clinton said. It is unclear if a backup server exists.

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Hillary Clinton: Obama Doesn’t Get The Credit He Deserves

Clinton offered open support for Obama, with whom she vacationed in Martha’s Vineyard this past weekend. Her praise for Obama’s efforts to handle the financial meltdown marked a rare instance of Clinton going to bat for Obama, whose record could present a liability for Democrats in 2016. Clinton also praised Obama’s policing commission and post-Ferguson recommendation for police body cameras.

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Bobby Jindal Blasts Scott Walker Over ‘Cradle to Grave’ Healthcare Plan

“In a health care plan that is light on specifics, Governor Walker endorsed the fundamental underpinning of Obamacare – the notion that America needs another entitlement program,” Jindal said according to a press release from his campaign. “In Governor Walker’s plan, a new entitlement is created for every single American human being from the time they are born right up until they grow old and become eligible for Medicare…”

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O’Malley: DNC Trying to Cut Off Debate, Turn Primary Into Coronation

Tuesday on Concord News Radio’s “New Hampshire Now,” Democratic presidential candidate former Gov. Martin O’Malley (D-MD) said the Democratic National Committee, by limiting sanction primary debates to six, is “trying to cut off debates and turn our primary into a coronation

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Marco Rubio Opposes Donald Trump’s Immigration Reform Plan

It is perhaps not surprising that Rubio does not approve of Trump’s plan, which aims to return immigration to lower, more normal historical levels from today’s surging record highs. After all, the major immigration legislation Rubio has co-authored — both the 2013 Rubio-Schumer immigration and his new immigration bill, known as the I-Squared bill — would massively increase immigration at a time when tens of millions of Americans are out of the work.