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Trump Rented Buses Across Florida To Pack Rally

The New York Times reports: Despite weeks of hype from the president and his campaign, the official kickoff rally for a re-election campaign that he has been running since the day he took office was, in the end, just another rally. Mr. Trump had no new campaign message to unveil. He had no new theory of the case to mount …

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Proud Boys March For Trump At Orlando Rally [VIDEO]

The Daily Beast reports: Members of the far-right Proud Boys men’s group repeatedly tried to confront an anti-Trump demonstration in Orlando on Tuesday, only to be blocked by police. The incident, documented by videos posted to social media, happened near President Donald Trump’s campaign kickoff at Orlando’s Amway Center. That footage shows dozens of Proud Boys and their pro-Trump allies …

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Trump Campaign Manager: The US Is “Too Complex Now” For Anybody To Rely On Accurate Polling [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign manager Brad Parscale argued in an interview Tuesday that the country is “too complex now” to rely on polls. Speaking to CBS News before Trump’s 2020 campaign kickoff rally in Orlando, Fla., Parscale followed Trump’s lead in questioning the validity of recent polls. “There are so many ways and different people who …

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Trump Issues Vague Threat On Deporting “Millions”

CNN reports: President Donald Trump on Monday night issued a vague threat to deport “millions” of undocumented immigrants next week, though he did not provide details and administration officials did not respond to requests for clarification. The tweets came hours before the President is set to officially kick off his 2020 bid. He launched his 2016 campaign vowing to take …

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BRITAIN: Foreign Secretary “150% Agrees” With Trump Retweet Of Extremist’s Attack On London’s Mayor

The Guardian reports: Jeremy Hunt has vigorously defended Donald Trump for quoting the far-right commentator Katie Hopkins in an attack on the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, as Downing Street initially declined to condemn the US president’s words. The foreign secretary said he would not have used the same words as Trump but he would “150% agree” with the overall sentiment. …

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Trump Blows Up At Fox News Over Impeachment Poll

Deadline reports: President Donald Trump took on the “fake news” again today. While that in itself hardly qualifies for a headline, this part of his tweet du jour (or du hour) does: It targets Fox News. The poll that elicited Trump’s friendly fire was released Sunday and reported today on Fox & Friends (one of said “friends” being the president, …

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CNN’s Jake Tapper: Trump Is “Untethered To The Facts”

Talking Points Memo reports: CNN’s Jake Tapper opened today’s The Lead by reviewing the dust-up over and fallout from Team Trump’s internal poll numbers. To review: Trump initially denied the reporting on the internal polling showing him losing to Joe Biden in several key states. Then ABC News obtained that data. And the fallout ended with pollsters being fired. Given …

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RNC Chair: Just Ignore Those Lousy Polls For Trump

Politico reports: It’s far too early to put much stock into 2020 polling, RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Monday — unless you’re a Democrat. “It’s way too early to be looking at polls. [Former Wisconsin Gov.] Scott Walker was leading heading into 2016. People come and go and they fade,” she said in an interview on Fox News. But, she …

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SAD: Trump’s ABC News Special Draws Lousy Ratings

TV By The Numbers reports: Are Americans growing tired of the Trump show? President Donald Trump’s interview with ABC News made serious headlines last week before its airing in full Sunday night, but according to the ratings, viewers were not all that interested in the hourlong special. The interview had fewer viewers than Celebrity Family Feud, which aired in the …

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SCOTUS Affirms Exception To Double Jeopardy Rule: States And Federal Govt May Charge For Same Crime

The Washington Examiner reports: The Supreme Court left intact a century-old exception to the Fifth Amendment’s double jeopardy clause that permits a state and the federal government to prosecute a person for the same criminal offense. The court ruled 7-2 in declining to overturn the separate sovereigns doctrine, with Justice Samuel Alito delivering the opinion of the court. Justices Ruth …

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John Oliver Makes The Case For Impeachment [VIDEO]

Mashable reports: As John Oliver breaks down in his latest Last Week Tonight segment, impeachment is no simple matter. It requires a certain number of votes in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The latter would mean 20 republican senators would need to go against Trump — making it pretty unlikely that he’d actually end up leaving office. …

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Trump Unveils New Nickname For Democratic Field

Glorious Leader’s latest nickname comes due to this: For days, aides to Trump have tried to figure out whom to point the finger at over the leak of the data, which infuriated the president. In continuing to discuss it, aides violated a long-held unofficial rule of campaigns not to comment publicly on internal polling, even if the numbers leak. The …

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ISRAEL: New “Trump Heights” Town Doesn’t Exist

Haaretz reports: In huge gilded letters (what else?), on a piece of synthetic lawn (of course), a large sign was erected in the Golan Heights, as if taken directly from the best of comedy sketches. Ramat Trump, or Trump Heights, will be built here. Even the strong gusts, which made it difficult to put up the scenery, gave this ridiculous …

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Trump Fires Pollsters After Embarrassing Results Leak

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is cutting ties with some of its own pollsters after leaked internal polling showed the president trailing former Vice President Joe Biden in critical 2020 battleground states, according to a person close to the campaign. The move comes after NBC News obtained new details from a March internal poll that found Trump …

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Trump Floats Remaining In Office After Second Term Because “People Would Demand That I Stay Longer”

The Washington Post reports: President Trump on Sunday floated the possibility of staying in office longer than two terms, suggesting in a morning tweet that his supporters might “demand that I stay longer.” The president has previously joked about serving more than two terms as president, including at an event in April where he told a crowd that he might …

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Trump Has Now Accused People Of “Treason” 24 Times

Axios reports: President Trump has accused people or entities of committing treason at least 24 times since he was elected, according to a Factbase record of his comments. His most recent target is the New York Times, which published a story on Saturday reporting that the U.S. is stepping up its online attacks on Russia’s power grid. Treason is one …

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Trump Accuses New York Times Of “Virtual Treason”

The New York Times reports: The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin and a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new authorities to deploy cybertools more aggressively, current and former government officials said. Advocates of the more aggressive strategy said it was long overdue, …

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Trump Sprung “Border Czar” On WH And Border Czar

CNN reports: President Donald Trump’s announcement on “Fox and Friends” Friday morning that Tom Homan would be his new “border czar” appears to have been premature. Homan, a Fox News contributor, was caught by surprise by the announcement. Two senior White House officials acknowledged the details of a position are still being worked out and conversations are ongoing. Trump’s announcement …

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Glorious Leader: Markets Will Crash If I Lose In 2020

Newsweek reports: President Donald Trump on Saturday simultaneously attempted to talk up his economic achievements while warning of financial doom and gloom if he is not reelected in 2020. While a number of traditional economic indicators, including unemployment and job growth, have continued to be a positive for the Trump administration, a recent survey from Bankrate.com found that nearly half …

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OOPS: ABC Gets Internal Polls Trump Said Don’t Exist

ABC News reports: Data from President Donald Trump’s first internal reelection campaign poll conducted in March, obtained exclusively by ABC News, showed him losing a matchup by wide margins to former Vice President Joe Biden in key battleground states. Trump has repeatedly denied that such data exists. The polling data, revealed for the first time by ABC News, showed a …

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