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Full text: Donald Trump 2016 RNC draft speech transcript — Remarks as prepared for delivery according to a draft obtained by POLITICO Thursday afternoon. — Friends, delegates and fellow Americans: I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's nomination is the first time American politics has left me truly afraid — Tonight, Donald J. Trump accepted the Republican Party's nomination for president of the United States. — And I am, for the first time since I began covering American politics, genuinely afraid.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Leaked document: Trump will tell the nation, ‘I am your voice’ — Donald Trump will present himself as a big-hearted champion of the everyman on Thursday night as he accepts the Republican Party nomination for president, tempering his hard-edged policies with a protective embrace of those down on their luck.
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Media Matters for America:
Fox Host: The RNC Is “The Worst Convention I've Ever Seen” — KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE (CO-HOST): Do you have something positive to say? Do you think it's going better now, or what do you think? — JUAN WILLIAMS (CO-HOST): No, remember yesterday I asked you, you think this convention is a success?
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump's prepared speech to the Republican National convention, annotated — Donald Trump's prepared remarks accepting the Republican nomination in Cleveland Thursday night were provided on an embargoed basis. The embargo was broken by other news organizations — therefore we are posting them here.
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
‘Vote Your Conscience’ Was A Rorschach Test, And Donald Trump's Campaign Failed — It didn't have to be a complete disaster. — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) didn't say a negative thing about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Cleveland on Wednesday night.
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CNN:
Peter Thiel to tell RNC he's proudly gay — Cleveland (CNN)Peter Thiel is set to admonish the GOP for refusing to embrace LGBT rights on stage here tonight. — The tech billionaire will declare to the Republican National Convention that he is proud to be gay, a source familiar with Thiel's remarks told CNN.
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump taunts GOP in private donor meeting — CLEVELAND — Just hours before accepting the Republican Party's presidential nomination, Donald Trump taunted his party on Thursday, ripping into his rivals and joking that, had he run as an independent, he could have defeated the GOP.
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Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump introduces her father — with a personal appeal to women — CLEVELAND — Ivanka Trump, the polished, careful daughter of a shoot-from-the-hip presidential candidate, made a personal appeal to women voters tonight who remain skeptical of a Trump presidency, describing her father “as a fighter” for the nation and women.
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
‘Republican source’ leaks Trump speech to Dems — CLEVELAND — A super PAC backing Hillary Clinton on Thursday night mysteriously obtained and leaked drafts of Donald Trump's nomination speech — and those of several other convention speakers — hours before the night's proceedings were set to kick off …
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Joe Klein / TIME:
An Unhinged Republican Convention and the Nation's Greatest Test — The Republican Convention opened with a distraught mother, tears in her eyes, saying something palpably outrageous: “I blame Hillary Clinton. I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son-personally.”
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump's law and order acceptance speech didn't feature any actual crime policies
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump doesn't want to make America great. He wants to make it afraid.
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Leaked Trump speech came from Republican source: report
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Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Cruz Campaign Manager: Christie “Turned Over His Political Testicles Long Ago”
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
I Choose Ted — I find it nothing short of hilarious …
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Please, can we not grade Donald Trump's acceptance speech on a curve?
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump speech draft leaks hours in advance
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T. Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Coulter on Cruz's non-endorsement: He's a ‘little bitch’
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Boehner on Cruz: ‘Lucifer is back’
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Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
The RNC is Officially More Dishonest than the Trump Campaign Itself
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Roger Stone, Alex Jones plot primary challenge to Cruz
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Daniel Pipes / Philly.com:
Why I just quit the Republican Party — The Republican Party nominated Donald Trump as its candidate for president of the United States - and I responded by ending my 44-year GOP membership. — Here's why I bailed, quit, and jumped ship: — First, Trump's boorish, selfish, puerile …
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Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Illinois GOP revokes delegate's credentials for ‘racist’ FB post
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21st Century Fox:
Roger Ailes Resigns as Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and Chairman Fox Television Stations — Rupert Murdoch to Assume Role of Chairman and Acting CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network — 21st Century Fox today announced that Roger Ailes …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Ailes, Trump have been counseling each other over the past week
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Tony Romm / Politico:
Thiel urges Republicans to back off ‘culture wars’ — Technology investor Peter Thiel implored Republicans from the convention stage on Thursday against waging “culture wars” on lesbian, gay and transgender communities, mere days after the GOP approved a national platform that defines marriage as between “one man and one woman.”
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Alexandra Klausner / New York Post:
Male escorts are making crazy money at the RNC — More On: — It's been a great week for gay escorts in Cleveland. — Male prostitutes contacted by The Post said business is booming and Republican National Convention attendees — most of them married — are clamoring for their services.
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Seth Barrett Tillman / THE NEW REFORM CLUB:
As A Legal Matter, MacArthur Was Right And Truman Was Wrong — My goal here is to convince you that nearly everything you have been taught about this subject is incorrect. As a legal matter, MacArthur was entirely justified in regard to the course of conduct he took during the Korean conflict.
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Adrian Wojnarowski / Yahoo Sports:
NBA pulls 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, focuses on New Orleans — Without any movement by state legislators in North Carolina to change newly enacted laws targeted at the LGBT community, the NBA is pulling the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, league sources told The Vertical.
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