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From The Reporter’s Notebook
The Dallas Morning News issued a scathing editorial Tuesday that slammed Donald Trump’s temperament and policies, TPM’s Kristin Salaky reported. According to the Hill, this will mark the first time the newspaper has refused to endorse the Republican nominee for president since 1964. In the piece, titled “Donald Trump is no Republican,” the newspaper’s editorial board reasoned that Trump does not champion Republican principles such as individual liberty and a strong national defense. “Trump is — or has been — at odds with nearly every GOP ideal this newspaper holds dear,” it read. “Donald Trump is no Republican and certainly no conservative.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “I have a great imaginative capacity to grasp the surreal, bizarre and moronic in our politics. But this new development may be outpacing even my abilities. The hacker who identifies himself as Guccifer 2.0 has ‘leaked’ hacked emails from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) to The New York Observer. What they reveal is about as surprising and scandalous as the sky being blue. But we’ll get to that in a second. Guccifer 2.0 claims to be a Romanian national but is widely believed to be a Russian national connected to the Russian security services. (Here at Motherboard and Ars Technica and The New York Times are a few articles that discuss the issue.) And what is The New York Observer? That’s the New York business and society paper owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner (Ivanka’s husband). So yes, a hacker who everybody assumes is tied to Russian intelligence has leaked hacked Democratic emails to Trump’s son-in-law’s paper. Sounds totally legit, right?”
Say What?!
“I just don’t think she has a presidential look, and you need a presidential look.”
– Donald Trump went after Hillary Clinton’s “look” in an interview.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Based off of current reporting, and what happened in the primaries, I would argue that there’s a strong case to be made Clinton out performing her polls being much more likely than underperforming them. In the primaries, Donald Trump almost never outperformed his polls. He usually did the same, or a little worse, than projected. This directly contradicts the ‘Shy Tory’ excuse that Hugh Hewitt and Kellanne Conway like to posit. Being a shy Trump voter implies that you’re socially aware enough to know you should be embarrassed to support Trump, but chose to do it anyway. I would argue that if you’re aware enough to know how embarrassing Trump is, you almost certainly couldn’t vote for him. Clinton, on the other hand, is so widely mocked, but so clearly capable, it seems more likely that people would secretly vote for her than say they’re voting for her and then not.”
Related: Clinton’s one-point lead in Texas in a new Washington Post/Survey Monkey poll of registered voters has prompted pollsters to reclassify the historically deep red state a “tossup.”
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What We’re Reading
Bereaved parents face Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists. (New York Magazine)
Trump’s Miami campaign office is actually a Facebook gag. (Miami Herald)
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