| 10:23 PM: | Obama on the Nile. Many Egyptians and other Arab Muslims really like him and hope that he wins the presidency. NYT. | |
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| 9:32 PM: | Obama Vetter Not Worth Vetting. If Obama is about a break with the past, he could find no one more counter-intuitive than Johnson. Craig Crawford. | |
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| 9:31 PM: | 5 lessons for picking a running mate. No move will be more closely chronicled or subjected to more fevered speculation than Barack Obama's and John McCain's choices. USA Today. | |
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| 8:31 PM: | McCain, Obama present different views on taxes. Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama staked out starkly opposing stances on taxes on Tuesday, with McCain promising corporate tax breaks and Obama pledging tax increases for many. Reuters. | |
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| 8:30 PM: | Part II: Casualty of War. Bill Moyers interviews former talk show host Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro on the true cost of war. Bill Moyers. | |
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| 8:30 PM: | A few random thoughts. Wouldn't it be cool if the vetting process for potential VP's were an open process, blogged about by the parties in real-time? Remove indirection from the trial-balloons. And it's not as if the press isn't already doing their own vetting. Scripting News. | |
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| 8:29 PM: | Obama protests questions about lead V.P. vetter's history. Barack Obama dismissed scrutiny of Jim Johnson and his ties to a subprime lender. USA Today. | |
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| 8:29 PM: | House GOP's Bold Economic Agenda. House Republicans will unveil their economic agenda tomorrow with proposals to end earmarks, simplify the tax code and increase energy production. Redstate. | |
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| 8:28 PM: | Ripples in the Vice-Presidential Pool. The universe of potential candidates in Barak Obama’s vice presidential search process shrank by one name and grew by another on Tuesday. NYT. | |
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| 8:28 PM: | Political Memo: Those Loyal to the Clintons Take Note of Who Was Not. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s aides have kept close track of the past allies and beneficiaries of the Clintons who supported Barack Obama’s campaign. NYT. | |
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| 8:27 PM: | News Analysis: An Elusive Starting Point on Harsh Interrogations. Congress is pressing Bush administration officials on a still-unanswered question: How did the United States come to embrace harsh interrogation methods it had always shunned? NYT. | |
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| 8:14 PM: | An Obama Delegate's Road to Politics Began With an Online Donation. With another click of the mouse, 52-year-old Linnie Frank Bailey, a political neophyte, morphed into a campaign volunteer. Washington Post. | |
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| 7:54 PM: | Barack Obama sets up internet 'war room' to fight slurs. A crack team of cybernauts will form a rapid response internet "war room" to track and respond aggressively to online rumours that Barack Obama is unpatriotic and a Muslim. Times Online. | |
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| 6:46 PM: | Webb's rebel roots: An affinity for Confederacy. Webb is no mere student of the Civil War era. He’s an author, too, and he’s left a trail of writings and statements about one of the rawest and most sensitive topics in American history. Politico. | |
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| 6:42 PM: | Democrats back Obama's call for economic stimulus. The top two Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday backed a call by their party's presidential candidate, Barack Obama, for a second economic stimulus package. Reuters. | |
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| 6:11 PM: | Christian leaders meet privately with Obama. Barack Obama discussed Darfur, the Iraq war, gay rights, abortion and other issues Tuesday with Christian leaders, including a conservative who has been criticized for praising the Democratic presidential candidate. AP. | |
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| 6:02 PM: | President Bush regrets his legacy as man who wanted war. President Bush has admitted to The Times that his gun-slinging rhetoric made the world believe that he was a "guy really anxious for war" in Iraq. He said that his aim now was to leave his successor a legacy of international diplomacy for tackling Iran. Times of London. | |
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| 5:10 PM: | Gates begins wartime transition to new leadership. Anticipating the first wartime change of presidents in 40 years, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday he has begun laying the groundwork to enable his successor to manage the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - and other challenges - from his or her first day in office. AP. | |
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| 4:29 PM: | Top Lieberman Campaign Official: We Begged Obama For Help In 2006 -- And He Came Through. It's not widely understood just how urgently the Lieberman people begged for Obama's help at a critical moment in Lieberman's career -- and in that light, just how much of a back-stabbing Lieberman's attacks on Obama now represent. TPM. | |
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| 3:30 PM: | Obama's Official Blog is Boring. Why That's Bad News for the GOP. Obama is light years ahead of McCain on the Internet, especially in terms of converting online energy into offline results. Newsweek. | |
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| 3:22 PM: | Dem congressman won't endorse Obama. Oklahoma Rep. Dan Boren says he will vote for Barack Obama, both at the polls and at the party convention, but says Obama is too liberal for his constituents. Salon. | |
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| 3:22 PM: | Laura Bush Drags Luxuriously Trashy Trailer On Military Plane. She flew on a military troop carrier, but she sure as hell wouldn't sit in the "regular chairs." So they dragged a luxury trailer on board. Wonkette. | |
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| 3:21 PM: | Alleged Clinton Sex Secrets Posted Online. Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones are offering Internet viewers the lurid details of encounters they claim they had with former President Bill Clinton - for $1.99 a pop. CBS News. | |
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| 3:20 PM: | Where They Are Wednesday. Obama: Chicago, IL. McCain: Philadelphia, PA. Mark Halperin. | |
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| 3:20 PM: | 2 Energy Bills, Including Windfall Tax, Stall in Senate. A Democratic proposal to impose heavier taxes on big oil companies stalled in the Senate as Republicans and Democrats offered different ideas on how to deal with soaring energy costs. NYT. | |
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| 3:17 PM: | Former Cuban political prisoner in radio ad for McCain. John McCain has started a Spanish-language radio ad in South Florida that features Cuban exile Roberto Martin Perez, a political prisoner for 28 years. USA Today. | |
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| 3:16 PM: | Obama Responds to Trade Deficit Spike. The Illinois Senator says in a statement: "This is not an accident. This is yet another sign of the failed economic policies of the Bush administration that John McCain seeks to extend." Mark Halperin. | |
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| 2:10 PM: | The Train Wreck Ahead. Medicare is rolling toward disaster, and there is no easy way to fix it. Weekly Standard. | |
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| 2:04 PM: | Why Jim Webb would make an awful running mate. A volcanic temperament is endurable in a novelist or an opera singer. It is not endurable at the bottom of a national ticket. Slate. | |
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| 2:00 PM: | Is Obama's Appeal In The West Overblown? Conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama is poised to expand the map, especially in the west, which is usually defined as Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada. MyDD. | |
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| 1:59 PM: | Gates: Next pres. likely to have 'sensible' Iraq plan. No matter who winds up being the next president, he is likely to "take a sensible approach" to the Iraq war, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told CNN in an exclusive interview Tuesday. CNN. | |
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| 1:41 PM: | Obama's Answer on the Johnson Conundrum. ABC News' Sunlen Miller today asked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, how he could "rail against Countrywide Financial Corp as an example of insiders and today's economy while your VP search is headed by someone who got questionable loans from Countrywide?" ABC. | |
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| 1:25 PM: | Ron Paul's own convention. Ron Paul's campaign is planning an event at a "large venue" with a "sizable" crowd Sept. 2 -- the Tuesday of convention week -- in the St. Paul-Minneapolis area a couple of miles from the convention site. MSNBC. | |
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| 1:23 PM: | Biden's Got Game. Like Ezra Klein I think there's something to be said about the idea of Joe Biden as a VP candidate. Yglesias. | |
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| 1:21 PM: | Nader at 6 Percent? The fact that Nader received 6% of the vote among the 921 registered voters interviewed surprised and intrigued many of our readers. Pollster.com. | |
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| 1:19 PM: | Blitzer: White House hopefuls worlds apart on the issues. If you had a chance to watch the John McCain and Barack Obama speeches this week laying out their respective economic strategies, you saw two very different approaches to dealing with what the American public sees as the top issue in the campaign. CNN. | |
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| 1:19 PM: | Obama Cancels Iowa Trip. Sen. Barack Obama has canceled his Wednesday trip to Cedar Rapids, IA, due to floods. Natl Journal. | |
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| 1:18 PM: | Well, Scratch Strickland. Says the Governor of Ohio: "If drafted I will not run, nominated I will not accept and if elected I will not serve." Marc Ambinder. | |
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| 11:05 AM: | No reporters allowed. McCain's finance events tonight in New York City are not open to the press pool as yesterday's highly touted open events in DC and Virginia were. The reason, per the campaign, is that the senator is not delivering remarks -- he will be mingling with attendees one-on-one. MSNBC. | |
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| 11:03 AM: | Clinton Supporter Turns to McCain. Lifelong Democrat Barbara LeBey tells why she might vote for McCain instead of Obama. NPR. | |
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| 10:21 AM: | McCain to visit Columbia. He will meet with President Alvaro Uribe, reports the country's largest daily, during his one-day visit. Politico. | |
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| 10:20 AM: | Gallup Daily: Obama's Lead Stabilizing. Barack Obama continues to enjoy a modest bump in support following Hillary Clinton's exit from the campaign, leading John McCain 48% to 41% in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking numbers. Gallup. | |
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| 9:58 AM: | Obama veep vetting team looks at retired military. A Democratic senator says Barack Obama is considering former top military leaders as his running mate. AP. | |
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| 9:58 AM: | Protests Punctuate McCain Speech. Three protestors interrupted John McCain's speech to the National Federation of Independent Business on three occasions Tuesday morning to protest the war in Iraq. WSJ. | |
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| 9:56 AM: | Reagan, Reagan Everywhere. Barack Obama's current political circumstance is eerily similar to that of Ronald Reagan in his 1980 campaign for president. Time. | |
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| 9:56 AM: | Webb Takes Shot at McCain on The Daily Show. Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) said he was "surprised" by John McCain's opposition to Webb's G.I. Bill during an appearance on The Daily Show Monday night, attacking McCain for approving funds for the war but not expanding troop benefits. The Hill. | |
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| 9:56 AM: | Clinton Asks Pledged Delegates To Support Obama. Multiple Democratic sources say that Sen. Hillary Clinton, in a series of private conversations and conference calls, continues to urge her pledged delegates to vote for Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention. Marc Ambinder. | |
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| 9:55 AM: | Race, Polling and the 'Bradley Effect' Barack Obama's clinching of the Democratic presidential nomination ensures that race will play an outsized role in the November election. Or maybe not. Washington Post. | |
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| 9:45 AM: | Most Say Race Will Not Be a Factor in Their Presidential Vote. A large majority of blacks, 78%, and an even larger majority of whites, 88%, say the fact that Barack Obama is black makes no difference in terms of their likelihood of voting for him for president. Gallup. | |
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| 9:34 AM: | Rasmussen: Lautenberg Barely Leads GOP Opponent. A new poll suggests that Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) might have a tougher race than expected. The Hill. | |
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| 9:34 AM: | The Veepstakes Show. The campaigns claim they don't float trial balloons. False. Balloons are floating everywhere around us. Marc Ambinder. | |
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| 9:13 AM: | Republicans Attack Dem Congressional Candidate For Not Backing Obama. Mahoney is taking a double hit from the GOP: He's getting tarred by having a record similar to Obama while simultaneously getting slammed for trying to paper over this fact out of political cowardice. TPM. | |
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| 8:52 AM: | Lieberman Tells Obama Camp to Back off 'Sleazy Tactics' Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) tells The Page, "If the Obama campaign thinks they are going to intimidate Joe Lieberman with these sleazy tactics then they are sorely mistaken." The Hill. | |
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| 8:51 AM: | Obama Reaches Out to Elizabeth Edwards on Health Policy. He's working to draw her help on health policy, despite her having previously stated her preference for Hillary Clinton's health-care plan. WSJ. | |
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| 8:08 AM: | CNN's Klein on MSNBC's "slippery slope" CNN President calls Matthews-Olbermann team a "slippery slope." Politico. | |
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| 8:08 AM: | Obama makes hospital rounds with cardiac nurse. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama paid a visit to Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis this morning, to follow cardiac nurse Kate Marzluf on her rounds. USA Today. | |
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| 8:07 AM: | Underinsured. This new study from the Commonwealth Fund, showing a sharp rise in the number of Americans with inadequate insurance, is getting some well-deserved attention. Paul Krugman. | |
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| 8:07 AM: | McCain: Obama Is Bad For Business. John McCain said Democratic rival Barack Obama is bad for business in a speech to small business owners. CBS. | |
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| 8:06 AM: | McCain Goes After Obama On Trade And Taxes. John McCain hit Barack Obama for his economic proposals Tuesday, a day after Obama laid them out in a major speech. The Hill. | |
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| 8:05 AM: | Obama, the Halo Effect, and What's Changed. Whatever we many think of Obama, his marketing has been exceptional. Patrick Ruffini. | |
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| 7:43 AM: | Relax, liberals. You've already won. No matter who prevails at the ballot box in November, John McCain or Barack Obama, the four-decade-long conservative counterrevolution is over. Salon. | |
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| 6:34 AM: | McCain pledge to send unlimited troops to Iraq. John McCain pledged to send an unlimited amount of U.S. troops to Iraq in a television news interview, according to the front page of the Post on Tuesday morning. The Hill. | |
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| 6:33 AM: | Bill Clinton accusers dish dirt on Web. Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones are offering Internet viewers the lurid details of encounters they claim they had with former President Clinton -- for $1.99 a pop. CNN. | |
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| 6:32 AM: | McCain: Sizing up the 'Carter' attack. Conservative activists and bloggers seem to like McCain's "Jimmy Carter" attack on Obama. MSNBC. | |
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| 6:31 AM: | Clinton: Retiring the debt. The New York Times looks at Clinton's attempt to pay down her debt, and in the process calls it the largest debt in presidential campaign history. MSNBC. | |
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| 4:41 AM: | Gas hits record $4.04 a gallon. Gas prices pushed higher above $4 a gallon and rose to a fresh record high, auto group AAA's Web site showed Tuesday. CNN. | |
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| 4:40 AM: | Nightline (06.09.08) Visit Oil City, Pa.: America's first oil capital. Nightline. | |
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| 4:24 AM: | Obama could raise $100 million in June, fundraisers say. Record-breaking projections give Obama strong incentive to pass up $85 million in public funds that his opponent, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), has said he would accept. The Hill. | |
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| 4:18 AM: | Michelle Obama, Cindy McCain are study in contrast. Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain share a dislike of rough-edged U.S. politics. Each tried to talk her spouse out of running for the White House. Reuters. | |
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| 4:17 AM: | Indiana McCain rides again. If he wins in November, he will be the oldest person ever elected to a first term as president. He faces a Democratic opponent who, at 46, is his junior by a quarter of a century. The Economist. | |
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| 4:15 AM: | Campaign Stops: In Praise of the Primary Slog. The Democratic nomination process was long, chaotic and contentious, but it worked. NYT. | |
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| 4:13 AM: | After Campaign, Clinton Faces Debt. Days after calling her campaign off, Clinton tackles what is thought to be the "largest presidential campaign debt in history." Mark Halperin. | |
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| 4:09 AM: | Bigger battles ahead. The Democrats have, at last, nominated a man, Mr Obama, who sends crowds into paroxysms of joy. In contrast his opponent, Mr McCain, appears lacklustre at the moment: he has taken limited advantage of the prolonged division among the Democrats. The Economist. | |
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| 4:07 AM: | Bush Trip Highlights U.S.-Europe Divide. As U.S. President George W. Bush makes his way through Europe, Gallup reveals that while the nations he is visiting view U.S. leadership very poorly, Americans do not reciprocate that same negativity. Gallup. | |
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| 4:04 AM: | How Many House Seats Will Be in Play This Fall? The ever-worsening political environment and the increasing financial disparity between the two congressional campaign committees have House strategists for both parties wondering how large the playing field could grow between now and November. Washington Post. | |
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| 4:03 AM: | Gas Attack. McCain a potential victim of rising prices at the pump. Mark Halperin. | |
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| 4:03 AM: | On the Trail. McCain in DC and NY; Obama in Missouri. CNN. | |
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| 3:39 AM: | Dems can't afford donation ban. Obama’s ban on contributions from lobbyists and PACs irritates Democratic lobbyists and fundraisers. Politico. | |
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| 3:39 AM: | Obama to Meet the Media in St. Louis. Democrats' nominee-presumptive plans 10:45 am ET press session. Mark Halperin. | |
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| 3:38 AM: | McCain wants low corporate taxes, regulate CEO pay. John McCain will promise on Tuesday to lower corporate tax rates if he wins the U.S. presidency and ease the tax burden on middle-class workers to help revive the faltering economy. Reuters. | |
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| 3:38 AM: | Obama vetter draws unwanted scrutiny. Despite Jim Johnson’s legendary fastidiousness, his high-profile campaign role has suddenly exposed him to questions about his financial dealings. Politico. | |
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