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8:50 AM ET, July 22, 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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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 …
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: alicublog, Guardian and JustOneMinute
Associated Press:
Trump says US will be safer, richer if he is president  —  CLEVELAND (AP) — Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president Thursday, promising anxious Americans that they will be safer and richer if he is elected in November.  —  Trump painted a dire state of affairs …
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.
Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
These Ohio voters are being won over by Trump in spite of the chaos
Discussion: Business Insider
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:   Donald Trump's law and order acceptance speech didn't feature any actual crime policies
Julia Ioffe / Politico:
‘Republican source’ leaks Trump speech to Dems
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Leaked Trump speech came from Republican source: report
Discussion: RedState and The Week
Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:
Trump's Speech Is Good.  Really Good  —  The Federalist publishes …
Discussion: Vox Popoli and The Federalist
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Please, can we not grade Donald Trump's acceptance speech on a curve?
T. Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Coulter on Cruz's non-endorsement: He's a ‘little bitch’
Discussion: RedState
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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Joe Klein / TIME:
An Unhinged Republican Convention and the Nation's Greatest Test
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:   Roger Ailes Resigns From Fox News; Rupert Murdoch to Take Over
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
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David McCabe / The Hill:
Tech investor Thiel to GOP convention: Bathroom bills are a ‘distraction’
Discussion: ABC News
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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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
Ray Sanchez / CNN:
Attacker in Nice plotted for months with ‘accomplices,’ prosecutor says  —  Attack in Nice: Who was Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel?  —  Story highlights  — One suspect allegedly sent driver message: “Load the truck with tons of iron and cut the brakes.”  —  (CNN)The man who drove a truck …
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France 24:
Nice truck killer had support, accomplices for carefully planned attack
 
 
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Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
‘I Alone Can Fix It’  —  Has any American political leader claimed …
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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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