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Washington Post:
‘Pure, unvarnished, courage’: A 13-year-old ‘regular kid’ with a stutter gave a must-watch Democratic convention speech — Twenty seconds into his speech to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, Brayden Harrington started to stutter. — He knew he would — it was the reason …
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: “Biden goes to church so regularly that he doesn't even need tear gas” — Comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the emcee for Night 4 of the Democratic National Convention, concluded a segment on Joe Biden's faith by quipping: “Just remember, Joe Biden goes to church so regularly …
John Hendrickson / The Atlantic:
Stuttering Through It — You could hear the stutter in Brayden's lungs, all those heavy inhalations, his search for sounds that wouldn't come. The 13-year-old stared into a stationary camera and told the world about his problem, the affliction he shares with 3 million Americans …
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Issues & Insights:
Convention Wrap Up: Dems Keep Joe Biden's Agenda Hidden In The Basement
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David Siders / Politico:
Biden finally has his big moment
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Megan Henney / Fox News:
Pelosi implies she'll remain most powerful woman in US politics, even if Harris elected VP
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Megan Henney / Fox News:
Duckworth dismisses Trump as ‘coward-in-chief’ in DNC speech
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Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
Trump slams Biden in his birthplace ahead of Democratic nomination speech
Los Angeles Times:
‘Like Armageddon’: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks — Six weeks ago, U.S. Postal Service workers in the high desert town of Tehachapi, Calif., began to notice crates of mail sitting in the post office in the early morning that should have been shipped out for delivery the night before.
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James Comer / Fox News:
Why Dems' USPS controversy is a manufactured distraction — The USPS is in need of reform, but to paint its woes as something new is not factual — Democrats once again have fabricated a wildly irresponsible and baseless conspiracy theory. Their latest scheme is that the United States Postal Service …
The Texas Tribune:
San Antonio postal union leader describes mass delays, says Postal Service hid backlogged mail from congressman
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Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Mnuchin's role in postmaster's appointment becomes target
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New York Times:
The Republican Embrace of QAnon Goes Far Beyond Trump — As the president all but endorses the internet-driven conspiracy theory, it is shifting from the fringes of the internet to become an offline political movement. — Late last month, as the Texas Republican Party was shifting into campaign mode …
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Completely Nutso Universe of QAnon — An explainer for the conspiracy theory that's taking over the GOP. — The deranged QAnon conspiracy theory movement came close to a presidential endorsement this week when Donald Trump praised the group as “people that love our country,” …
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Axios and The Bulwark
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Texas QAnon Supporter Used Car to Attack Strangers She Believed Were ‘Pedophiles’
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Washington Post:
Trump's reelection effort has officially spent more than $1 billion, a record sum at this point in the campaign — President Trump's campaign, the Republican Party and two affiliated committees, have spent more than $1 billion since 2017, a record-breaking sum spent toward a reelection effort …
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Fredreka Schouten / CNN:
Trump pledges to send ‘sheriffs’ and ‘law enforcement’ to polling places on Election Day, but it's not clear he can — Trump slams mail-in voting while signing his mail-in ballot — (CNN)President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would send law enforcement officials to polling locations …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans have a lot to live up to — DRIVING THE DAY — EVEN IF YOU'RE A REPUBLICAN, you have to admit that the Democratic convention — which nominated JOE BIDEN on Thursday night — was a technical success. The Dems programmed a four-night television show …
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
The End of Steve Bannon—And Maybe Trump, Too — Steve Bannon's arrest on charges that he defrauded donors to a right-wing immigration group for $1 million marks the end of a political era—the era when a Trumpian admixture of economic populism and nativist immigration policy looked as if it could …
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HuffPost:
Inside Steve Bannon's Alleged Scheme To Fleece Trump Voters Who Wanted A Border Wall — The president's family denies knowing anything about the scheme, but a HuffPost investigation reveals close ties. — Brian Kolfage had a problem. It was late 2018, and the triple-amputee and Air Force veteran …
Adm. Steve Abbot / Defending Democracy Together:
A STATEMENT BY FORMER REPUBLICAN NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICIALS — We are former national security officials who served during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and/or Donald Trump, or as Republican Members of Congress.
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
‘I will be an ally of the light, not the darkness’: Biden frames election choice as light versus dark
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
DNC's audacity of hope was that America is really empathetic and good
CNN:
Transcript: Joe Biden's DNC speech
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Biden speaks from a place Trump doesn't know — the heart — President Trump has tried every dirty trick in the book — and a few new ones — to cast doubts about the workings of Joe Biden's brain. But Trump has been focusing on entirely the wrong organ. Biden's appeal is from the heart.
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New York Times:
Joe Biden Accepts Democratic Nomination: ‘I Will Draw on the Best of Us’ — Mr. Biden urged Americans to have faith that they could “overcome this season of darkness,” and he pledged to bridge the country's divisions in ways President Trump had not. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. accepted …
Washington Post:
‘Are you really going to impeach me?’: How the Ukraine bombshell unfolded over 48 hours and laid bare Trump's fixation with Biden — This article is adapted from “Trump on Trial” by Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan, which will be published Aug. 25 by Scribner.
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The Moderate Voice and Political Wire
Chicago Tribune:
Citing threats, Mayor Lori Lightfoot defends ban on protesters on her block: ‘I have a right to make sure that my home is secure’ — Mayor Lori Lightfoot defended the Chicago Police Department's ban on protesters being able to demonstrate on the block where she lives, telling reporters Thursday …
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Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
LOCK HIM UP: Anti-Neocon Grifter Steve Bannon Indicted for Wall Fraud — Steve Bannon, the anti-neocon grifter who successfully infiltrated the Trump administration before being exposed, has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly defrauding American patriots who thought …
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
The “Narcissism and Ego” That Led to Steve Bannon's Arrest
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Hard evidence at last that shreds Trump's lies about a Russia ‘hoax’ — As Democrats accelerate their drive to defeat President Trump in November, they have a potent new weapon in a report by a Republican-led Senate committee that chronicles the “grave counterintelligence threat” …
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The Moderate Voice, DCReport.org and Balloon Juice
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Hillary Clinton rips GOP senators: They seem like they've had a “lobotomy”
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Franklin Graham:
In watching some of the Democratic National Convention on television this week, it has been interesting to see the absence of God. I don't believe America's finest hours will be in front of us if we take God out of government and public life. It is God who set the standards we are to live by.
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Fox News
CNN:
Now the VP nominee, Harris won't interrogate DeJoy at hearing — Democrats call on watchdog to investigate USPS changes — (CNN)Fresh off the Democratic National Convention, vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris is back to her day job as a US senator for a high-profile showdown …
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