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REVOLT's Chief Political Correspondent Amrit Singh talks to the former Gov. of Massachusetts about the 2016 presidential election.

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Clinton in a dead heat with Trump in new poll

In the 1870s, when Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall controlled New York City, and in the 1950s and 1960s, when Chicago’s Democratic machine was especially rampant, there was a phenomenon that can be called immunity through profusion: Fresh scandals arrived with metronomic regularity, so there was no time to concentrate on any of them. The public, bewildered by blitzkriegs of bad behavior, was enervated. What Winston Churchill said about an adversary — “He spoke without a note and almost without a point” — can be said of Donald Trump, but this might be unfair to him. His speeches are, of course, syntactical train wrecks, but there might be method to his madness. He rarely finishes a sentence (“Believe me!” does not count), but perhaps he is not the scatterbrain he has so successfully contrived to appear. Maybe he actually is a sly rascal, cunningly in pursuit of immunity through profusion. He seems to understand that if you produce a steady stream of sufficiently stupefying statements, there will be no time to dwell on any one of them, and the net effect on the public will be numbness and ennui. So, for example, while the nation has been considering his interesting decision to try to expand his appeal by attacking Gold Star parents, little attention has been paid to this: Vladimir Putin’s occupation of the Crimea has escaped Trump’s notice. It is, surely, somewhat noteworthy that someone aspiring to be America’s commander-in-chief has somehow not noticed the fact that for two years now a sovereign European nation has been dismembered. But a thoroughly jaded American public, bemused by the depths of Trump’s shallowness, might have missed the following from Trump’s appearance last Sunday on ABC’s This Week. When host George Stephanopoulos asked, “Why did you soften the GOP platform on Ukraine?” — removing the call for providing lethal weapons for Ukraine to defend itself — Trump said: “[Putin's] not going into Ukraine, Okay? Just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down and you can put it down, you can take it anywhere you want.” Stephanopoulos: “Well, he’s already there, isn’t he?” Trump: “Okay, well, he’s there in a certain way, but I’m not there yet. You have [President] Obama there. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama, with all the strength that you’re talking about and all of the power of NATO and all of this, in the meantime, he’s going where — he takes — takes Crimea, he’s sort of — I mean . . . ” Maybe Trump actually is a sly rascal, cunningly in pursuit of immunity through profusion. What Trump, in that word salad, calls the “certain way” that Putin is in Crimea is called annexation, enforced by the Russian army. But Trump — channeling his inner Woodrow Wilson and his principle of ethnic self-determination — says what has happened to Crimea is sort of democratic because “from what I’ve heard” the people of Crimea “would rather be with Russia than where they were.” Before the interview ended, Trump expressed his displeasure with the schedule for presidential debates, two of which are on nights with nationally televised NFL games. (There are such games three nights each autumn week.) “I got a letter from the NFL,” Trump claimed, “saying this is ridiculous.” The NFL says it has sent no such letter. But before this Trump fib/figment of his imagination/hallucination can be properly savored, it will be washed away by a riptide of others. Immunity through profusion. The nation, however, is not immune to the lasting damage that is being done to it by Trump’s success in normalizing post-factual politics. It is being poisoned by the injection into its bloodstream of the cynicism required of those Republicans who persist in pretending that although Trump lies constantly and knows nothing, these blemishes do not disqualify him from being president. #related#As when, last week, Mike Pence reproved Barack Obama for deploring, obviously with Trump in mind, “homegrown demagogues.” Pence, doing his well-practiced imitation of a country vicar saddened by the discovery of sin in his parish, said with sorrowful solemnity: “I don’t think name calling has any place in public life.” As in “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz and “Little Marco” Rubio and “Crooked Hillary” Clinton? Pence is just the most recent example of how the rubble of ruined reputations will become deeper before November 8. It has been well said that “sooner or later, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.” The Republican party’s multi-course banquet has begun. — George Will is a Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist. © 2016 The Washington Post.

A woman has died and five other people were injured in a knife attack in Russell Square, central London, the Met Police says.

Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer why he will not be supporting GOP nominee for president Donald Trump. REP. ADAM KINZINGER (R-IL): My district voted for Donald Trump. I have a lot of great people that support me that support Donald Trump, that are probably a little upset with what I'm doing. I say this, look, great people support him. People each have their own reasons, their own decision to decide who they want to vote for. For me though, I came into politics as an extension of my service in the military and service to my country. I'm a Republican because I believe that through Republicanism is the best way to defend the United States of America, but I'm an American before I'm a Republican. When I see a frontrunner, or actually a nominee now, that throws all these Republican principals on their head, that a president who has almost unchecked power in foreign policy, who talks about how great Vladimir Putin is, how he doesn't even know that the Russians are in Ukraine, makes fun of the disabled, and the whole litany of things from the Gold Star family on. For me personally, and I'm not trying to say to other people that you can't support Donald Trump, I'm saying for me personally, how can I support that? Because he has crossed so many red lines that a Commander in Chief, or a candidate for Commander in Chief should never cross. It's a tough position for me to be in... We don't have to pick both of them. We don't have to pick among the two of them. There's a bunch of people on the ballot. There's a write-in option. I don't agree with Hillary Clinton on a lot of things, most things, probably almost all things.But, Donald Trump, you know? I don't know what he stands for on foreign policy. Look at, for instance, even yesterday doubling down on saying how great it would be to have a fantastic relationship with Putin. Our party, you know, me and other people in the party have said for the last six months how awful it was that Hillary Clinton did this reset with the Russians, and how we were taken advantage of.Now, you have Vladimir Putin basically pulling out the old KGB playbook on how to manipulate Donald Trump, and it appears he's fallen right into it.

Bush went after Trump's policies of "isolationism, nativism and protectionism."

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Excerpted from the Sean Hannity Radio show (8/3/2016)

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Ann Coulter takes on Khizr Khan: "sending out a victim to make their argument was the only option left for the 'Make America Muslim!' crowd."

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Amid renewed scrutiny of the Clinton Foundation's foreign ties this week, Hillary Clinton pointed to the success of its low-cost contracts with pharmaceutical firms in a rare acknowledgement of her family's controversial nonprofit network. The Democratic nominee, who has not held a press conference in 242 days and is selective about the media interviews she grants, seldom encounters questions about the Clinton Foundation despite the outsize role its past dealings have played on the campaign trail.

“We gained more territory. Daesh has less territory,” US Secretary of State Kerry stated bluntly in December of 2015, using the pejorative Arabic term for ISIS. Kerry made this claim in the aftermath of the Bataclan massacre in Paris Paris that left 124 people dead. Since then, ISIS militants worldwide have launched a series of attacks against Brussels, Nice, Orlando, Munich, Istanbul, Daka, Baghdad, and elsewhere.

Is ​Donald Trump going to drop out of the race? Republican Party officials think there's a real enough chance of that happening that they are actively looking into emergency measures to install another candidate.  According to ABC News' insider sources, members of the Republican National Committee are so "frustrated" and "confused" by Trump's "erratic behavior" that they've begun exploring what exactly they would have to do should he drop out. 

Across the board, Trump's criticisms of the family of a fallen soldier hurt him more than they helped, the poll found.

Speaking in an interview in the wake of a fortnight of terror attacks in Europe, the president of the Czech Republic has said the only solution to terrorism is removing the cause — deporting failed migrants — and has said in the meanwhile citizens need to be armed and ready to defend themselves and others.  

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump may be in a general election fight against his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, but he seems to be more obsessed with attacking certain Republicans than going after her, as demonstrated in a troubling Washington Post interview&n

Sixty-one percent of voters think Hillary Clinton is dishonest, yet she’s opened up a big lead over Donald Trump in the latest Fox News Poll.

Donald Trump's White House campaign was in turmoil on Wednesday after he angered senior Republican Party leaders by criticizing a dead soldier's family and refusing to back the re-election campaign of House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan.