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11:35 PM ET, July 21, 2016

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Politico:
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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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.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's nomination is the first time American politics has left me truly afraid  —  Tonight, Donald J. Trump will accept 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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Mother Jones and TalkLeft
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Cruz Campaign Manager: Christie “Turned Over His Political Testicles Long Ago”  —  Jeff Roe responded to the New Jersey governor's criticism of Cruz's convention speech.  —  Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty Images  —  Ted Cruz's campaign manager responded on Thursday to Chris Christie's criticism …
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Leaked Trump speech came from Republican source: report
Discussion: RedState and The Week
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
‘Republican source’ leaks Trump speech to Dems
Breitbart:
Exclusive — Sarah Palin to Ted Cruz: Delete Your Career
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Please, can we not grade Donald Trump's acceptance speech on a curve?
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Boehner on Cruz: ‘Lucifer is back’
Discussion: Mediaite and Liberty Unyielding
T. Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Coulter on Cruz's non-endorsement: He's a ‘little bitch’
Discussion: RedState
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite
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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.”
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Illinois GOP revokes delegate's credentials for ‘racist’ FB post  —  CLEVELAND - The Illinois Republican Party on Wednesday revoked the convention credentials of a Donald Trump delegate from Chicago “for publicly-made racist comments and threats of violence” on a Facebook posting.
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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New York Times:
Roger Ailes Is Out at Fox News, and Rupert Murdoch Steps In
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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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.”
Discussion: ABC News
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.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Roger Stone, Alex Jones plot primary challenge to Cruz
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?
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters:
MSNBC Warns Sensitive Viewers Before Showing Anti-Hillary Buttons
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.
Discussion: ABC News
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Jill Filipovic / New York Times:
Why Men Want to Marry Melanias and Raise Ivankas
Discussion: Althouse and Instapundit
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.
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.
Johari Canty / WSVN-TV:
North Miami officer on paid leave after shooting unarmed black man  —  A therapist who works at a group home for the disabled is still in shock after a North Miami Police officer shot him, but according to the Police Union president, that officer may have been aiming for someone else.
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Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago officer hurt, suspect dead in exchange of gunfire: Officials
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As A Legal Matter, MacArthur Was Right And Truman Was Wrong
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France 24:
Nice truck killer had support, accomplices for carefully planned attack
Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
Colorado town finds THC in its water, warns residents not to drink or bathe in it
Discussion: FOX31 Denver, NPR and WTVR-TV
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Poll: Libertarian Johnson beating Trump, Clinton among active troops
Rachel Premack / Washington Post:
'I'm going to be free': Terminally ill Wisconsin teen schedules her death and one ‘last dance’
Discussion: WGN-TV
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
The Voting Rights Act Might Get Some Teeth Back
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GW basketball players report coach's ‘verbal and emotional abuse’; many fled school
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
‘Private’ video of Virgin Islands Democratic delegate posted online
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Michael Moore: Trump is going to win
Jennifer Chambers / Detroit News:
Judge blocks Michigan ban on straight-party voting
Discussion: Eclectablog
New York Times:
Transcript: Donald Trump on NATO, Turkey's Coup Attempt and the World
 

 
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