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2:50 PM ET, August 21, 2020

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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Sleight-of-Hand Convention  —  Joe Biden delivered the best speech in a half-century political career on Thursday night.  It was interesting to contrast his delivery with Kamala Harris's 24 hours earlier.  Both the presidential and vice-presidential nominee spoke to an empty hall.
Discussion: New York Post
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Democratic Convention's Big Blind Spot  —  Last night, Joe Biden capped a Democratic convention like no other by underscoring the themes that dominated the gathering from the beginning: empathy, national unity, racial justice, and President Donald Trump's failures in managing the coronavirus.
Kevin Stankiewicz / CNBC:
GOP pollster gives Biden high marks on speech — ‘challenges for Donald Trump are significant’
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Hillary Clinton offers Biden advice on battling Trump
NBC Boston:   Read What NH's Brayden Harrington Said About Stuttering and Biden at the DNC
Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
GOP leader: ‘There is no place for QAnon in the Republican Party’  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has denounced the QAnon conspiracy theory, becoming the highest-ranking congressional Republican to publicly condemn the theory.  —  McCarthy said during an interview …
Discussion: Mediaite
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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 …
Caleb Parke / Fox News:   House GOP leader McCarthy disavows QAnon, calls on Dems to speak out against anti-Semitism
Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Mnuchin's role in postmaster's appointment becomes target  —  WASHINGTON — In the weeks before Republican donor Louis DeJoy was installed as postmaster general, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held a series of one-on-one meetings with members of the Postal Service Board of Governors …
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CNN:
Now the VP nominee, Harris won't interrogate DeJoy at hearing
Discussion: TheBlaze and NPR
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Former top Postal Service official testifies Mnuchin and White House were involved in slowing mail
Washington Post:
Postal Service will prioritize ballots over other mail, postmaster general testifies
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Judge denies Trump's bid for a stay of subpoena in Manhattan DA's tax records case  — A federal judge on Friday denied President's Donald Trump's bid to temporarily block a ruling allowing a subpoena for his tax returns and other financial records.  — The ruling came a day after the …
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Adam Klasfeld / courthousenews.com:   Judge Green-Lights Probe of Trump Tax Returns in NY
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 …
Discussion: Axios, The Hill, NPR and Raw Story
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans have a lot to live up to
The Texas Tribune:
San Antonio postal union leader describes mass delays, says Postal Service hid backlogged mail from congressman  —  The union leader said tens of thousands of pieces of mail were carted away ahead of U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro's visit.  The office's delays have been exacerbated by employees missing because of COVID-19 concerns.
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
DeJoy Says USPS Won't Reinstall More Than 600 Removed Mail Sorting Machines
Jack Healy / New York Times:
The Chick's in the Mail? Rural America Faces New Worries With Postal Crisis
Discussion: Fortune
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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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Joe Biden seizes the spotlight with a simple argument: Vote for me, I'm not a sociopath
Discussion: Breitbart and Vanity Fair
Cincinnati.com:
Kanye West fails to make Ohio ballot  —  COLUMBUS - Kanye West will not appear on the ballot as an independent candidate for president due to mismatched paperwork, Ohio's top elections officials said Friday.  —  The Ohio secretary of state's office determined the signature and information …
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Shia Kapos / Politico:
Kanye denied ballot spot in his native Illinois
Discussion: UPI and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results  —  The world's biggest social network is working out what steps to take should President Trump use its platform to dispute the vote.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook spent years preparing to ward off any tampering on its site ahead of November's presidential election.
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
The permanent outsider  —  President Trump has no idea how to run for reelection as an incumbent  —  At a White House signing ceremony this month, President Trump lamented the “deep-swamp things happening” in the nation's “deep state.”  Speaking to workers at a Whirlpool plant in Ohio a few days later …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Robert Trump funeral to be held at White House Friday  —  Trump shares emotional post after his brother's death  —  (CNN)A funeral service for President Donald Trump's brother, Robert Trump, will be held Friday afternoon at the White House, a White House official told CNN.
Discussion: ABC News, The Hill and The US Sun
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 …
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,” …
David Siders / Politico:
Biden is already forming a government.  Here's what his Cabinet could look like.  —  Sherrod Brown, the progressive senator from Ohio, says he's talking with the Biden campaign about “where he needs to look and who he needs to look at” as he begins to form a potential administration.
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Barr ‘vehemently opposed’ to pardoning Snowden  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr said he would be “vehemently opposed” to any attempt to pardon former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, after the president suggested he might consider it.
Discussion: National Review, Axios and IJR
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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Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
Criminal justice activist Donna Hylton, featured in DNC video, was convicted for role in grisly 1985 murder
Discussion: Breitbart
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Ethics panel rebukes Gaetz for tweet targeting Cohen
Jim Ryan / Oregonian:
Federal courthouses close in Portland amid threat
Des Moines Register:
BREAKING: Iowa denies Des Moines Public Schools' request to start school year online
Discussion: American Greatness
Maxim Lott / Fox News:
Dems get Green Party kicked off ballot after pressuring petition-signers; ‘voter suppression’ alleged
Ronald Inglehart / Foreign Affairs:
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 Earlier Items: 
TIME:
Pharrell Williams: America's Past and Present Are Racist. We Deserve a Black Future
Discussion: Breitbart and UPI
Zachary Fryer-Biggs / Center for Public Integrity:
Round One: Machine beats man in air-combat exercise
Discussion: UPI and Defense One
Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
He Was Iran's Homegrown Tech Star. The Guards Saw a Blackmail Opportunity.
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Trump says he ‘listens better to African Americans’ than Martin Luther King III
Discussion: HillReporter.com
Neda Ulaby / NPR:
Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects President Trump's Pardon Of The Suffragist
Discussion: Just The News and Althouse
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Hard evidence at last that shreds Trump's lies about a Russia ‘hoax’
Discussion: Axios and The Moderate Voice