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Hillary Clinton takes a 7-point lead over Trump. Could Trump turn Utah blue this year? Napier-Pearce to replace Orme as Tribune editor.
Happy Monday. Donald Trump found himself with a small bump after the Republican National Convention but that has since evaporated. Hillary Clinton has vaulted back into the lead in the presidential race after the Democrats held their convention, according to a new poll. The former secretary of state leads her Republican opponent by seven percentage points, 46 percent to 39 percent, in a fresh CBS News national poll. Clinton's seven-point lead comes just one week after a poll showed her and Trump tied at 42. [<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/campaign-2016-did-hillary-clinton-get-a-post-convention-bump/">CBSNews</a>] [<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/cbs-poll-226493">Politico</a>]
<strong>Topping the news: </strong>With<strong> </strong>Donald Trump at the top of the ticket this November, some Utah Democrats are hopeful the state could actually turn blue, though Republicans scoff at the idea. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4173439-155/could-donald-trump-turn-utah-blue?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> Former Tribune staffer Jennifer Napier-Pearce will return to lead the state's largest newspaper after its new owner asked Editor Terry Orme to step aside. Napier-Pearce praised Orme for guiding the paper through rough times in recent years. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4172798-155/salt-lake-tribunes-new-editor-napier-pearce">Trib</a>] [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865658989/Jennifer-Napier-Pearce-named-editor-of-Salt-Lake-Tribune.html?pg=all">DNews</a>]
-> Coalville Rep. Mel Brown has asked for a recount – including absentee ballots that were postmarked after the deadline – after losing the House District 53 Republican primary to Morgan County Council Chairman Logan Wilde by eight votes. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4176171-155/utah-house-incumbent-requests-recount-of?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> The Short Creek polygamous community is transitioning to a conventional American community with an advantageous location near several national parks. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4076223-155/polygamous-towns-gradually-becoming-conventional-american"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
<strong>Tweets of the weekend:</strong> From <a href="https://twitter.com/AshLeeStrong"; target="_blank">@AshLeeStrong</a>: "Before you RT statements with name calling, ask yourself if you're helping the dialog."
From @<a href="http://www.twitter.com/MeghanMcCain">MeghanMcCain</a>: "I would ask what kind of barbarian would attack the parents of a fallen soldier, but oh yeah it's the same person who attacks POW's."
From @<a href="http://www.twitter.com/Bencjacobs">Bencjacobs</a>: "So the much vaunted Clinton gaggle today involved her taking questions for 7 minutes. Trump's presser last week was an hour."
<strong>Happy Birthday: </strong>to <span class="s1">Jennifer Fox Young, Chrysler's manager of federal government affairs. </span>
<strong>Opinion section: </strong>Richard R. Nelson, president and CEO at the Utah Technology Council, says Sen. Orrin Hatch has done more than any other elected official to benefit Utah's growing tech industry. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4169286-155/letter-hatch-has-done-perhaps-more"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> Elizabeth Love, a junior at West High School, says Utah leaders need to see victims of gun violence as actual people instead of inconsequential minority statistics. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4169304-155/op-ed-to-understand-race-and-gun"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> Howard Stephenson, president of the Utah Taxpayers Association and a state senator from Draper, says Utah's "hidden" special service districts use taxpayer money without the oversight of elected officials. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4169279-155/op-ed-something-smells-in-utahs-special"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> James "Cid" Seidelman, distinguished service professor of economics and former provost at Westminster College, says a "workers agenda" would help national companies face international companies in an era of globalization. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4169337-155/op-ed-workers-agenda-would-lift-workers"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> Jamie Williams, president of The Wilderness Society, says preserving access to the outdoors is vitally important, especially as more people participate in recreational activities. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4169349-155/op-ed-as-recreation-booms-access-to"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> Nazz Kurth, president of Petzl America, says President Obama should create a national monument in the Greater Grand Canyon Area in Arizona. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4169358-155/op-ed-obama-should-declare-this-monument"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> Margaret Tarkington, professor of law at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law, says a bill requiring women to register for the draft is a threat to religious freedom. [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865658807/My-view-Drafting-women-a-threat-to-religious-liberty.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]
-> Teresa Stillo Ramirez, an ESL adjunct instructor at Salt Lake Community College, says Melania Trump's plagiarized speech may teach students that cheating and plagiarizing are acceptable. [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865658958/My-view-What-message-does-Melanias-plagiarism-send-to-students.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]
-> Paul Rolly writes that Bernie Sanders supporters who protested at the DNC may have harmed the party as a whole. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4169523-155/paul-rolly-have-the-democrats-shot"; target="_blank">Trib</a>] Rolly adds that Sen. Mike Lee is trying to garner campaign funds using the threat of the possibility of a Clinton administration. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4173465-155/rolly-mike-lee-seeks-campaign-cash"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> Pat Bagley gives his take on the firsts in this election: Hillary Clinton's nomination as the first female from a major party, and Donald Trump's nomination as a outlandish, non-politician. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4174362-155/bagley-cartoon-historic-campaign-firsts"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> Frank Pignanelli and LaVarr Webb question whether or not Democrats will rally around Hillary Clinton. [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865659086/Are-the-two-political-parties-merging-or-getting-further-apart.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]
<strong>Weekend in review:</strong> Groups opposing a Provo-Orem bus rapid transit appealed to the Utah Supreme Court, claiming the cities illegally did not hold voter referendums to approve the $190 million project. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4174030-155/groups-opposing-provo-orem-transit-project-appeal?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> Experts at a national security conference hosted by Rep. Chris Stewart at the University of Utah said world peace is at risk because America's allies and enemies no longer trust the country's commitment to act as the international peacekeeper. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4168558-155/u-conference-global-threats-grow-amid?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> The Utah Communications Authority still has not found new leadership after a $1 million embezzlement scandal earlier this year. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4173269-155/scandal-rocked-utah-agency-suffers-setback-in?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> After 40 years of homelessness and addiction, a Vietnam veteran has found a home in Ogden, where he is reaching out to help other struggling veterans. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4177179-155/ogden-vet-finds-stability-after-years?fullpage=1"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> Many characteristics of Lantern House in Ogden may serve as the model for future attempts to help the homeless in Salt Lake County. [<a href="http://m.deseretnews.com/article/865659107/A-real-plan-to-help-the-homeless-rises-in-Utah.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]
<strong>Nationally:</strong> After Khizr Khan, father of a fallen Muslim-American soldier who spoke at the Democratic National Convention and said that said Trump has "sacrificed nothing," Trump countered that he has sacrificed a lot and retaliated by saying that Ghazala Khan, who was standing next to her husband, wasn't allowed to speak. [<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/us/politics/donald-trump-khizr-khan-wife-ghazala.html?_r=0"; target="_blank">NYTimes</a>] [<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/30/politics/donald-trump-khizr-kahn-response/"; target="_blank">CNN</a>] Ghazala Khan responded in an op-ed piece, writing that she was too emotional to speak, but that the entire country felt her pain and claimed Trump "doesn't know what the word sacrifice means." [<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ghazala-khan-donald-trump-criticized-my-silence-he-knows-nothing-about-true-sacrifice/2016/07/31/c46e52ec-571c-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory" target="_blank">WaPost</a>]
-> Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not invade Ukraine if he were president. Putin, however, did invade Ukraine and annexed Crimea in 2014. [<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/world/europe/ukraine-trump-crimea-politics.html"; target="_blank">NYTimes</a>]
-> The summer Olympics start in Rio de Janeiro this week, but instead of being a source of celebration, preparation for the games has been problematic and escalated tensions between Brazilians and their government. [<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/specials/olympics/2016/07/30/games-approach-brazil-feeling-weight-world/lIpvINnIr7EV5y7ASJgnlO/story.html"; target="_blank">Globe</a>]
<strong>Where are they?</strong>
<ul>
<li>Rep. Mia <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/RepMiaLove"; target="_blank">Love</a> </strong>meets with constituents in her district office.</li>
<li>Gov. Gary <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/GovHerbert"; target="_blank">Herbert</a> </strong>meets with staff at the Capitol in the morning. In the afternoon, he sits down with Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and his top aides.</li>
<li>Lt. Gov. Spencer <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerJCox"; target="_blank">Cox</a></strong> has a strategy meeting and an intergenerational poverty update in the morning. In the afternoon, he has an update with Gov. Gary Herbert and attends the governor's leadership meeting. After that, he is interviewed by Fox13.</li>
<li>State Auditor John <strong><a href="http://twitter.com/FrugalDougall"; target="_blank">Dougall</a> </strong>meets with Attorney General Sean Reyes and State Treasurer David Damschen. Later he meets with a representative from Salt Lake City.</li>
<li>President Barack <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama"; target="_blank">Obama</a></strong> travels to Atlanta, Ga., where he delivers remarks at the 95th National Convention of Disabled American Veterans. Later in the afternoon, he participates in a Democratic National Committee roundtable at a private residence. After that, he returns to Washington.</li>
</ul>
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