memeorandum: Donald Trump actually read his victory speech from a teleprompter. Here's the transcript. (Tara Golshan/Vox)

1:05 PM ET, June 8, 2016

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
Donald Trump actually read his victory speech from a teleprompter. Here's the transcript.

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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:

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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:

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Harper Neidig / The Hill:

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Catherine Ho / Washington Post:
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
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Tim Devaney / The Hill:

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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:

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Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:

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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:

So, Who Is the GOP Going to Install as Its Nominee Instead of Trump? — I feel that the GOP Establishment played along with Trump for what they felt was a reasonable period of pretending, but now, a Decent Interval has passed, and they can abandon Trump. — Lindsey Graham calls for people to begin unendorsing Trump, and then...