Exclusive: NRA to run $2 million Benghazi-themed ad campaign for Trump  —  The National Rifle Association's political arm is launching its first ad campaign of the 2016 presidential race, with a survivor of the terror attack in Benghazi urging viewers to vote for Donald Trump.

Who will show up?  Who will pay?  The many unknowns of the GOP convention.  —  Dozens of well-known Republicans aren't showing up.  There's no word yet on who will speak.  A growing number of corporate sponsors are taking a pass.  Groups of white supremacists and other agitators are on the way …

Democrats Need to Wake Up  —  Surprise, surprise.  Workers in Britain, many of whom have seen a decline in their standard of living while the very rich in their country have become much richer, have turned their backs on the European Union and a globalized economy that is failing them and their children.

The First Post-Middle-Class Election  —  Two years ago, a pollster for Democratic candidates told me he'd begun advising his clients to cease emphasizing “the middle class” when speaking of those Americans whose interests they were defending.  Many Americans who once thought of themselves as middle-class, he argued, no longer did.