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8:15 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.
Breitbart:
Exclusive — Sarah Palin to Ted Cruz: Delete Your Career  —  In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, former Alaska Governor and 2008 Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin weighed in on Senator Ted Cruz's refusal to honor his pledge and endorse the GOP nominee Donald Trump.
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.
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
I Choose Ted  —  I find it nothing short of hilarious how so many seasoned political journalists (including many of my colleagues — and betters — at Fox) are visibly shocked and appalled by what Cruz did last night.  Ever since I was a kid, the political press — left, right, and center …
Discussion: NPR, RedState and neo-neocon
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.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Boehner on Cruz: ‘Lucifer is back’
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding and Mediaite
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Roger Stone, Alex Jones plot primary challenge to Cruz
Discussion: NBC News
James Hohmann / Washington Post:   The Daily 202: Cruz's convention gambit backfiring badly—and now he's on the defensive
Indianapolis Star:
Sen. Dan Coats calls Ted Cruz a ‘self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar’
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz's massive political gamble, explained
Fox News:   Phil Robertson sends message to Ted Cruz: ‘You lost, he won’
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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Media Matters for America:
Roger Ailes Built The Conservative Infrastructure That Donald Trump Is Exploiting
Discussion: BNR and The National Interest
New York Times:
Transcript: Donald Trump on NATO, Turkey's Coup Attempt and the World  —  Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, discussed his views on foreign policy in Cleveland on Wednesday with David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times.  Here is an edited transcript of their interview.
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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 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.
New York Times:
Donald Trump Sets Conditions for Defending NATO Allies Against Attack  —  CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump, on the eve of accepting the Republican nomination for president, said Wednesday that if he were elected, he would not pressure Turkey or other authoritarian allies about conducting purges …
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
It's Official: Hillary Clinton Is Running Against Vladimir Putin
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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Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune:
Illinois Republicans remove Trump delegate with ‘whitepride’ social media handle
Discussion: Vocativ
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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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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Scott Cacciola / New York Times:
N.B.A. to Move All-Star Game From North Carolina
Discussion: The Stranger …
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters:
MSNBC Warns Sensitive Viewers Before Showing Anti-Hillary Buttons  —  Warning, sensitive MSNBC viewers may want to look away.  That's essentially what Rachel Maddow told liberal watchers on Wednesday night before showing a picture of anti-Hillary Clinton buttons at the Republican convention.
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Media Matters for America:
Fox Host: The RNC Is “The Worst Convention I've Ever Seen”
Discussion: Daily Kos
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.
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
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
‘Private’ video of Virgin Islands Democratic delegate posted online  —  A “private” videotape of the Virgin Islands' delegate to Congress, Democratic Rep. Stacey Plaskett, which showed her husband naked and wearing makeup, was posted online Wednesday night but later removed, the freshman lawmaker said in a statement Thursday.
Discussion: Jezebel
 
 
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Rachel Premack / Washington Post:
'I'm going to be free': Terminally ill Wisconsin teen schedules her death and one ‘last dance’
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Please, can we not grade Donald Trump's acceptance speech on a curve?
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
The Voting Rights Act Might Get Some Teeth Back
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
It's mostly old people watching the convention, because mostly old people watch conventions
Discussion: The Week and Nielsen Newswire
Adam Kilgore / Washington Post:
GW basketball players report coach's ‘verbal and emotional abuse’; many fled school
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Michael Moore: Trump is going to win
Jennifer Chambers / Detroit News:
Judge blocks Michigan ban on straight-party voting
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Why Mark Cuban went from saying Trump is the “best thing” for America to #NeverTrump
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