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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 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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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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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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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's nomination is the first time American politics has left me truly afraid
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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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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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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.
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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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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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Peter Thiel Comes Out at RNC as Gay Republican - Gets STANDING OVATION (VIDEO)
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Daily Wire
David McCabe / The Hill:
Tech investor Thiel to GOP convention: Bathroom bills are a ‘distraction’
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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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Associated Press:
In the swirl of balloons and cheers of the masses, Donald Trump finally …
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Tim Kaine Seems Likely for Hillary Clinton's No. 2, but Liberals Balk
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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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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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Ben Guarino / Washington Post:
Officials detect THC, marijuana's active ingredient, in Colorado town's public water supply … The tests found something fishy in the water. — In the small town of Hugo, Colo., the water coursing through public pipes, officials say, has been tainted by THC.
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Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
Colorado town finds THC in its water, warns residents not to drink or bathe in it
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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.
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Will Drabold / TIME:
Read Ivanka Trump's Speech at the Republican Convention — Ivanka Trump introduced her father at the Republican national convention Thursday, arguing that he is “color blind and gender neutral” and arguing he would fight for women's issues. — “As President, my father will change …
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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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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 …
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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Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
‘I Alone Can Fix It’ — Has any American political leader claimed so directly to embody the nation, to speak for it, to be its sole hope for redemption? — In 1968, Richard Nixon spoke of a nation torn apart by crime at home, and by wars abroad. But, he promised, better days were ahead.
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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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