memeorandum: 5 Stories You'll Care About in Politics This Week (Rick Klein/ABC News)

9:55 AM ET, July 12, 2015

Top Items:

Donald Trump just gave an amazingly surreal speech in Las Vegas — Donald Trump just gave one of the most bizarrely captivating speeches of his several-weeks-old campaign. — Standing in front of an animated screen in Las Vegas on Saturday, Trump spoke passionately for almost a half an hour …

Discussion: Althouse

Will Dunham / Reuters:

White House contenders Trump, Bush in virtual dead heat: Reuters/Ipsos poll — Donald Trump, who became the center of attention in the race for the 2016 Republican U.S. presidential nomination with his denunciation of illegal immigrants from Mexico, has vaulted into a virtual dead heat …

Discussion: RealClearPolitics Videos, Raw Story, Hot Air, Progress Pond, National Review, Political Wire and Townhall.com

Mark Hensch / The Hill:

Poll: Jeb, Trump in virtual tie — GOP presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Donald Trump are locked in a virtual tie for the 2016 Republican nomination, according to a Reuters-Ipsos poll released Saturday. — It found that 16.1 percent of self-identified Republicans back Bush, the former governor of Florida.

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Nick Gillespie / The Daily Beast:
Hillary's Strategy Is Actually Brilliant

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Cafe Hayek

Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump rides momentum to Arizona

Discussion: Arizona Republic and ABC News

Todd Gitlin / New York Times:

The Bernie Sanders Moment — THE white-haired politician stands before 10,000 cheering supporters in Madison, Wis., and calls for “political revolution,” denouncing a “rigged economy” that produces “a grotesque level of inequality,” returning to a theme that '60s radicals have long been trumpeting.

Discussion: Daily Kos

Anthony Weiner / Business Insider:

I have one big question for Bernie Sanders — Apart from the Donald Trump sideshow, one of the biggest stories in the presidential election this past week has been the apparent momentum Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is enjoying in his underdog campaign. — Sanders has been drawing crowds …

Discussion: Liberal Values, Weekly Standard, Mediaite, Slantpoint and Fox News

Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Class or Ideology? My Conversation With Bernie Sanders

Discussion: Business Insider and Washington Post

Jordain Carney / The Hill:

Senate Republicans push to punish ‘sanctuary cities’ — Republicans want to use a largely non-controversial education bill to crack down on so-called “sanctuary cities” in the wake of a San Francisco shooting that garnered national attention. — The recent killing of 32-year old Kathryn Steinle …

Rick Klein / ABC News:

5 Stories You'll Care About in Politics This Week — While the media may be feeling a little strung along, it turns out that might be because nobody works enough hours. Jeb Bush gave us some huge fundraising numbers, though there was also a distraction that was more “yuge” than huge.

Discussion: The Hill and The Gateway Pundit

New York Times:

In Fiery Speeches, Francis Excoriates Global Capitalism — ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — His speeches can blend biblical fury with apocalyptic doom. Pope Francis does not just criticize the excesses of global capitalism. He compares them to the “dung of the devil.”

Discussion: JustOneMinute, The Gateway Pundit and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

providencejournal.com:

DEM: ‘Something happened,’ but no evidence of device after ‘ground disturbance’ at Salty Brine beach — PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Salty Brine beach was evacuated Saturday morning while the state bomb squad investigates reports of a possible explosion near the rocks, according to a spokeswoman …

Discussion: Raw Story and Associated Press

Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:

DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — In an interview with the Union Leader, aspiring 2016 Republican presidential nominee Jeb Bush took a slap at the foreign policies of President Barack Obama, stating that the leader of the free world uses too many big words and wastes his time at conferences …

Discussion: Gawker, Addicting Info, theGrio and New York Times

Mehreen Khan / Telegraph:

24 hours to save the euro: Germany prepares for a ‘temporary’ Greek exit as euro project on the brink of collapse — Berlin readies humanitarian aid for Greece proposing a five-year expulsion from the euro, after Athens is accused of destroying the trust of its partners

Discussion: Reuters and Forbes

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

The Obamacare Resistance Regroups — Three Congressional votes, two Supreme Court lawsuits, and an election have slowed them down but not stopped them. — Shares … The 16th Amendment to the Constitution, authorizing the federal income tax, was ratified in 1913.

Michael F. Cannon / Washington Examiner:
The ACA is dead — long live Obamacare

Discussion: Salon and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Martin Matishak / The Hill:

Miffed Benghazi chairman: State gave me ‘articles about Richard Gere’ — The chairman of the House panel investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday ridiculed the State Department's responses to requests for documents. — “It is still like pulling teeth to get the information …

Discussion: Hot Air

Candace Barnette / WTOK-TV:

New Details in Stonewall Death Investigation … Headlines List — Stonewall, Miss. — The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is stepping in to investigate an incident in Clarke County where a man died after an altercation with a police officer. — Clarke Co. coroner Greg Fairchild …