Headline Roundup August 4, 2016
Does the GOP Need an Intervention?
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NBC News Digital
Several top backers — including Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani — are trying to persuade Trump to move past his feud with the parents of the late Iraq War soldier Humayun Khan, stop bashing fellow Republicans like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. John McCain, and refocus his attacks on Hillary Clinton.

Fox News Digital
This is what a full-fledged feeding frenzy looks like.
With Donald Trump facing the roughest stretch of his candidacy, the media have moved from questioning his sanity to depicting a campaign in disarray and top Republicans still wondering whether they can dump the nominee.

The Hill
There is a growing bipartisan feeling that something has gone wrong in America. We may have been heading toward it for a long time before the 2016 race and paid no attention. But now America is in crisis. It can be seen in the headlines of opinion writers this week in The Washington Post. From the right, Robert Kagan says, "There is something very wrong with Donald Trump." On the left, Eugene Robinson asks, "Is Donald Trump just plain crazy?"
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