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Trump isn’t changing the Republican Party. The Republican Party is changing Trump.   Democracy Dies in Darkness     The most important politics stories today   Sanders preps month-long campaign for single-payer health care, with legislation to follow The campaign will tee up legislation that Sanders has promised, then delayed, since March. By David Weigel  •  PowerPost  •  Read more » Analysis Trump isn’t changing the Republican Party. The Republican Party is changing Trump. Elections are mostly a competition between two partisan teams. So was this one. By Matt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins  •  Monkey Cage  •  Read more »   Analysis This is why more Republicans in Congress haven’t criticized Trump Jeff Flake is the exception. By Alexandra Filindra and Laurel Harbridge-Yong  •  Monkey Cage  •  Read more »   Analysis President Trump keeps celebrating stock market highs. That’s a big flip-flop. After warning that the stock market was in a dangerous "bubble," President Trump barely lets a day go by without hailing stock market highs. By Glenn Kessler and Meg Kelly  •  Fact Checker  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Lawsuit alleges White House link in discredited Seth Rich conspiracy theory A private investigator claimed in his defamation suit against Fox News and others that President Trump was aware of the bogus story and urged Fox to publish it on its website. By David Weigel and Paul Farhi  •  Read more »   Can this marriage be saved? Relationship between Trump, Senate GOP hits new skids. Some senators are openly defying his directives, bringing long-simmering tensions to a boil. By Sean Sullivan  •  PowerPost  •  Read more »   Senate confirms Wray as next FBI director He replaces James B. Comey who was fired by President Trump in May. By Karoun Demirjian  •  PowerPost  •  Read more »   Analysis Donald Trump, Russian adoptions and the nature of truth itself Donald Trump Jr.'s initial statement may have contained true sentences, but it was a lie. By Philip Bump  •  Read more »   White House says Trump weighed in on son’s Russia meeting statement ‘as any father would’ Huckabee Sanders's comments seem to directly contradict the statements of Trump's lawyer, who denied he was involved in the statement's drafting. By Abby Phillip  •  Post Politics  •  Read more »   U.S. judge denies Common Cause effort to block Trump voter commission Judge says appeals court likely will decide whether panel can track voting history, party ID By Spencer S. Hsu  •  Public Safety  •  Read more »   Analysis Between now and the debt-limit deadline — Sept. 29 — the House is in session for only 12 days The House is taking August off after taking off a third of weekdays so far this year. By Philip Bump  •  Read more »   The asking price for President Trump’s Caribbean estate has been cut dramatically The trust that oversees President Trump's assets is intensifying its efforts to shed a luxury beachfront estate he owns on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. By Matea Gold  •  Post Politics  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Analysis At this rate, Trump will burn through 13 more communications directors A look at turnover in the Trump administration. By Philip Bump  •  Read more »   Sean Spicer claimed to be unaware of Seth Rich story after meeting with donor who pushed it Spicer has admitted to NPR that he met with a GOP donor who was encouraging Fox to do the story, which has since been retracted. By David Weigel and Paul Farhi  •  PowerPost  •  Read more »   Analysis A timeline of the explosive lawsuit alleging a White House link in the Seth Rich conspiracy The suit claims that a wealthy Trump supporter asserted that the president reviewed a later-debunked Fox News story. By Philip Bump  •  Read more »   Recommended for you   The Energy 202 Your daily guide to the energy and environment debate. Sign Up »         Share Politics:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you are signed up for Politics PM. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. Contact us for help. ©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071