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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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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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New York Times:
In Speech Draft, Donald Trump Offers Himself as Champion of the ‘Forgotten’ — CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump plans to use his prime time acceptance speech on Thursday night to denounce “15 years of wars in the Middle East” and attack politicians in both parties for failing to stand …
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Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:
Trump's Speech Is Good. Really Good — The Federalist publishes an advance copy of Trump's remarks. These aren't the remarks I, a follower of the man Swinburne contemptuously called the “pale Galilean,” would have liked to hear tonight. But from a strictly political point of view …
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
What Trump says about crime in America and what is really going on
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Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Donald Trump's RNC Speech Was a Terrifying Display of Nightmarish Authoritarianism
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Leaked document: Trump will tell the nation, ‘I am your voice’
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump claims the prize
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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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Fred Imbert / CNBC:
VC Peter Thiel says 'I'm proud to be gay,' gets applause at RNC — Peter Thiel: Proud to be gay, Republican — Entrepreneur Peter Thiel speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, about identity. — CLEVELAND — Peter Thiel received a big applause Thursday night …
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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.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Peter Thiel Comes Out at RNC as Gay Republican - Gets STANDING OVATION (VIDEO)
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Daily Wire
Alexandra Klausner / New York Post:
Male escorts are making crazy money at the RNC
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump doesn't want to make America great. He wants to make it afraid. — Donald Trump is not a candidate the American people would turn to in normal times. He's too inexperienced, too eccentric, too volatile, too risky. Voting Trump is burning down the house to collect the insurance money …
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Franklin Foer / Slate:
Donald Trump's Un-American Acceptance Speech — There was no reference to the nation's history, its values, or even its armed forces. There was only Trump. — I am your voice ... the mystical union of leader and nation. Really, that refrain is the essence of Trump's authoritarian threat.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump's law and order acceptance speech didn't feature any actual crime policies
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's nomination is the first time American politics has left me truly afraid
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Liberals press Clinton not to pick Kaine for VP — Liberal Democrats are launching an eleventh-hour campaign against Sen. Tim Kaine — 's presidential ticket. — The advocates say Kaine, a moderate who's risen to the top of the VP shortlist, should be disregarded both for his positions …
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Tim Kaine Seems Likely for Hillary Clinton's No. 2, but Liberals Balk — Democrats close to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign signaled strongly Thursday that she would choose Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia as her running mate, rounding out the ticket with a popular politician from a battleground state.
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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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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
This week we saw that the Republican Party — not just Trump — is the problem
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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.
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Will Drabold / TIME:
Read Ivanka Trump's Speech at the Republican Convention
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Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
These Ohio voters are being won over by Trump in spite of the chaos
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Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
Colorado town finds THC in its water, warns residents not to drink or bathe in it — Colorado emergency management officials are heading to Hugo — A town on Colorado's Eastern Plains is warning its residents not to drink, bathe in or cook with its water because officials said evidence was found of THC …
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Ben Guarino / Washington Post:
Officials detect THC, marijuana's active ingredient, in Colorado town's public water supply
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Anica Padilla / FOX31 Denver:
Hugo water supply tainted with THC, Lincoln County County Sheriff warns
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Five ways Trump's convention was a success — The Republican National Convention came to a close on Thursday night after a dramatic week marred by a plagiarism controversy involving Melania Trump and a surreal scene in which Ted Cruz — was shouted off the stage.
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump taunts GOP in private donor meeting
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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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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
RNC Displays Tweet From White Supremacist As Trump Accepts Nom — As Donald Trump accepted the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday night, a tweet from a white supremacist account was broadcast through the convention hall at Quicken Loans Arena. … User @Western_Triumph's tweet itself was generic …
Julia Ioffe / Politico:
The World Looks at Trump, Confused — On the RNC's “America First” night, overseas reporters try to figure out what he's really talking about. — The theme of tonight's Republican National Convention is “Making America First Again”—a reference to our nation's place in the world …
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