Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a Purple Heart medal that a veteran gave to him during a campaign event in Ashburn, Virginia, on Tuesday, August 2.
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton rides on her campaign bus in Cleveland on Sunday, July 31.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks during a news conference about the Zika virus on Thursday, August 4. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued an unprecedented travel warning, advising pregnant women and their partners not to travel to a small community just north of downtown Miami where the Zika virus is actively circulating.
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Donald Trump supporters watch vendors before a campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday, August 3.
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Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, left, shakes hands with Dorothy Simonelli, a former high school lunch lady who fought for equal pay decades ago, at the State House in Boston on Monday, August 1. Gov. Charlie Baker was signing an update to the state's equal pay law.
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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, tour an exhibit at the Indiana State Fair on Friday, August 5. Pence is Donald Trump's running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's running mate, speaks at a campaign event in Richmond, Virginia, on Monday, August 1.
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U.S. veterans in Washington carry boxes Thursday, August 4, to symbolize a petition that calls for Republican leaders to withdraw their endorsement of presidential candidate Donald Trump. The petition's signatures were actually delivered electronically.
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A Donald Trump supporter prays during a campaign event in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Wednesday, August 3.
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Missouri gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens speaks to supporters in Chesterfield, Missouri, on Tuesday, August 2. Greitens won a four-way Republican primary on Tuesday.
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U.S. President Barack Obama takes questions from the audience Wednesday, August 3, during a town-hall event in Washington for the Young African Leaders Initiative.
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Billionaire Warren Buffett speaks at a rally in Omaha, Nebraska, for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday, August 1.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump addresses supporters at a campaign rally in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday, August 1.
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People work on clay sculptures of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in this image released Monday, August 1, by Madame Tussauds London. Only one will be used to create a wax figure of the next U.S. President.
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holds up a Donald Trump tie, which wasn't made in the United States, as she speaks at the Knotty Tie Company in Denver on Wednesday, August 3. The Knotty Tie Company makes ties and scarves by hand in Denver.
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Flowers rest at the gravesite of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, August 1. Khan, a Muslim-American, was killed while serving in Afghanistan in 2004. His parents have become embroiled in a high-profile feud with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after Khan's father, Khizr, criticized Trump in an emotional speech at the Democratic National Convention.
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