memeorandum: The Swing-State Appeal of Mr. Kaine (New York Times)

5:55 PM ET, July 23, 2016

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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:

Holy Crap, Tim Kaine Just Killed It In His First Speech With Clinton — He spoke Spanish to the cheering crowds and delivered a healthy dose of humility in a diseased election year. In other words, Tim Kaine just took America by storm. — Holy crap. He killed it. — I'm not trying to spin you.

Discussion: miamiherald

Politico:

Trump campaign hits ‘Corrupt Kaine’ right out of the gate — Donald Trump's campaign wasted little time depicting Hillary Clinton's new running mate as a continuation of the “rigged system,” casting Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as “Corrupt Tim” and attacking him for supporting President Barack Obama's policies.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, Washington Post, BizPac Review, RedState, Fox News Insider, New York Times, FiveThirtyEight and TalkLeft

Associated Press:

The Latest: Delegates Urged Not to Skip Meeting With Sanders — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (all times EDT): — An effort to fully eliminate superdelegates in future elections has failed at a meeting of the Democratic National Convention rules committee.

Discussion: Politico and ABC News

Slate:

WHAT WOMEN REALLY THINK — After months of speculation that Hillary Clinton might select Sen. Elizabeth Warren as her running mate, creating the first-ever two-woman ticket, or perhaps Labor Secretary Tom Perez, a civil rights lawyer who would've been the first Latino VP …

Discussion: Vox, Politico, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, The American Conservative, National Review, STAT, The Week, BizPac Review, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Common Dreams and Rewire

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:

Inside the VP hunt: How Clinton picked Kaine — They had to turn over every password for every social media account for every member of their families. — They had to list every piece of property they'd ever owned, and copies of every résumé that they'd put out for the past 10 years.

Discussion: Washington Post

Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Clinton VP pick could face liberal ire

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, Instapundit and Clayton Cramer

New York Times:
The Swing-State Appeal of Mr. Kaine

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Vox, Media Matters for America, The Huffington Post, Politico, NPR and Washington Post

Associated Press:
Kaine liberal appeal muted by energy ties, abortion concerns

Discussion: BuzzFeed and ABC News

Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Tim Kaine Boycotted Netanyahu Speech, Backed Iran Deal

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, BizPac Review, Politico and ThinkProgress

Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Tim Kaine is Hillary Clinton's VP pick, a mostly safe choice that will piss off pro-choice activists

Discussion: BuzzFeed, The Nation, whorunsGov, USA Today, WSVN-TV, Legal Planet, The Root, NPR, Raw Story, WTKR-TV, Politicus USA and Washington Post

Elizabeth Dexheimer / Bloomberg:
Kaine Pick Won't Help Clinton Win Over Anti-Wall Street Critics

Discussion: Liberal Values

Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Tim Kaine: A Self-Effacing Senator in a Sharp-Elbows Era

Discussion: Vox, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, Raw Story, Religion News Service and Power Line

Rudy Takala / Washington Examiner:

Twitter accused of suppressing DNC Wikileaks story — Twitter lit up Friday night with allegations that it tried to suppress news that secret-leaking website Wikileaks exposed thousands of emails obtained from the servers of the Democratic National Committee.

Discussion: The Right Scoop

Mike Cernovich / Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play:
5 Biggest Scoops from the #DNCLeaks WikiLeak

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Caleb Howe / RedState:
BUSTED: 19,252 Emails from DNC Leaked by Wikileaks, and Oh MAN Are They Great!

Discussion: ABC News, Scared Monkeys, The Daily Beast, The Next Web, BuzzFeed, The Resurgent, CNN, BizPac Review, Fox News Insider, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, WCTX-TV, The Hill, Engadget, The Last Refuge, The Federalist and RT

New York Post:
Leaked emails show how Democrats screwed Sanders

The Hill:
Outcry from Sanders supporters after leaked DNC ‘atheism’ emails

Discussion: Instapundit, New York Magazine, Techdirt and Hot Air

Michael Sainato / The New York Observer:
Wikileaks Proves Primary Was Rigged: DNC Undermined Democracy

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Mediaite, New Urban Legends, Liberty Unyielding, BizPac Review, Red Alert Politics, Sputnik International, CBS San Francisco, Clayton Cramer and RT

Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Leaked emails reveal Politico reporter made ‘agreement’ to send advanced Clinton story to DNC

Discussion: Heat Street, Vox, The Daily Caller, The Intercept, The Right Scoop and The American Spectator, more at Mediagazer »

Raheem Kassam / Breitbart:

BBC Scrubs ‘Ali’ From Munich Killer's Name On TV, In Articles, AND On Social Media — The BBC has unilaterally chosen not to report the Munich attacker's full name, in what appears to be an attempt to scrub any Muslim or Islamic heritage link to its coverage of the incident.

Discussion: Telegraph, The Last Refuge and RT

BBC:

Munich gunman ‘obsessed with mass shootings’ — The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings but had no known links to the Islamic State group, German police say. — Written material on such attacks was found in his room.

Discussion: Mirror.co.uk, Pamela Geller, Jihad Watch, Hullabaloo, ThinkProgress and Joe.My.God.

New York Times:

At Fox News, Kisses, Innuendo, Propositions and Fears of Reprisal — In 2006, after nearly a decade at CNN, Rudi Bakhtiar came to the Fox News Channel's headquarters in New York with a command of foreign policy, an appealing personality and a delivery that easily switched between light and serious.

Discussion: Raw Story, Media Matters for America, Praxis, Jezebel and 89.3 KPCC, more at Mediagazer »

Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:

Donald Trump Is Crazy, and So Is the GOP for Embracing Him — The Republican nominee opens his mouth and removes all doubt. — Trump's foreign policy speech, at Washington's Mayflower Hotel — Cleveland — Yes, Donald Trump is crazy. And, yes, the Republican party owns his insanity.

Discussion: The Atlantic, Power Line and New York Times

Andrew Seidman / Philly.com:

Trump probably can't win Ohio, says state's governor, John Kasich — A “divider” like GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump will have a hard time winning Ohio, an important battleground that could help decide the election in November, said Buckeye State Gov. John Kasich, a former Republican presidential candidate.

Mark Halperin / Bloomberg.com:
Trump Would Fund Super-PACs Aimed at Taking Down Cruz, Kasich

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Patterico's Pontifications, neo-neocon, The Daily Caller, electionlawblog.org, Business Insider and Bloomberg

Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Trump pulls nearly even with Clinton after Republican convention: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and The Daily Caller

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

Wow! Did Hillary Clinton Just Suffer a Seizure on Camera? — Wow! — The poor woman is in worse shape than we thought. — Hillary Clinton has seizure on camera. — Or maybe it was something else? — WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! … Satan? … The post Wow!

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Trump & Putin. Yes, It's Really a Thing — Over the last year there has been a recurrent refrain about the seeming bromance between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. More seriously, but relatedly, many believe Trump is an admirer and would-be emulator of Putin's increasingly autocratic and illiberal rule.

Discussion: Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Marginal REVOLUTION and NoisyRoom.net

Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:

In the Trump family tradition, Ivanka uses her moment in the spotlight to hawk her wares — Ivanka Trump takes the stage during the final day of the 2016 Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Amanda Smith / WKBN-TV:

Atty. refuses to remove Black Lives Matter pin, taken into custody — A Youngstown Municipal Court judge sentenced Atty. Andrea Burton to 5 days in jail, but the decision is being appealed — YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) - An attorney was removed from court and taken into custody after a judge declared …

Discussion: Liberty Unyielding, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Raw Story and The Root