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10:10 AM ET, August 28, 2020

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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
In photos: Over 1,000 Trump guests pack into White South lawn for RNC  —  President Trump will officially accept the Republican nomination for president before a crowd of more than 1,000 people on the White House South Lawn Thursday night.  Meanwhile, demonstrators gathered outside in Lafayette Park to protest his administration.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
3 winners and 4 losers from the final night of the Republican National Convention  —  President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech for the Republican Party nomination from the South Lawn of the White House.  Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images  —  A big day for Black Republicans; not much social distancing.
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Protesters confront Rand Paul outside White House after RNC  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was confronted by protesters early Friday morning after leaving the Republican National Convention at the White House.  —  “Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House.
Mike Barnicle / The Daily Beast:   A Sick President Scrambles to Spread His Contagion of Fear
Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
With the White House as a backdrop, Trump accepts GOP nomination: Live analysis
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Tom Cotton accuses Biden of aiding China's rise for 50 years
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Malign Fantasy of Donald Trump's Convention  —  Using the White House as his prop, the President makes war on Joe Biden, and pretends the pandemic is all but defeated.  —  For four years, Donald Trump has been asking us to believe the unbelievable, to accept the unthinkable, to replace harsh realities with simple fantasies.
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump — defiant and dark as ever — claims Biden would destroy America
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Secretly recorded audio of Trump's sister prompts new call for investigation into his admission to Penn  —  A professor at the University of Pennsylvania has renewed a request to investigate how President Trump was admitted to the school in 1966, citing what he called “new evidence” …
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Mary Trump says GOP convention ‘disturbing to watch,’ calls portrayal of president a sham
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
German Lopez / Vox:
The absurdity of Trump's RNC speech, in one photo
Paul Krugman / New York Times:   April Was Trump's Cruelest Month
George Packer / The Atlantic:
This Is How Biden Loses  —  Here is a prediction about the November election: If Donald Trump wins, in a trustworthy vote, what's happening this week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will be one reason.  Maybe the reason.  And yet Joe Biden has it in his power to spare the country a second Trump term.
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Clare Proctor / Chicago Sun-Times:
Jacob Blake handcuffed to hospital bed, father says  —  Jacob Blake's father, also named Jacob Blake, speaks at a press conference Tuesday afternoon.  On Thursday, Blake's father said his son has been handcuffed to his hospital bed.  Pat Nabong/Sun-Times  —  “He can't go anywhere,” …
TODAY.com:
Kamala Harris: Officer in Jacob Blake shooting should be charged  —  In her first one-on-one network interview since becoming the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Kamala Harris talks to TODAY's Craig Melvin about the shooting of Jacob Blake, saying “I don't see how anybody could reason …
Discussion: Politico
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Shinzo Abe, Japan's Longest-Serving Leader, to Resign Because of Illness  —  Mr. Abe has been prime minister for nearly eight consecutive years, a significant feat in a country accustomed to high turnover in the top job.  —  TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan will resign because of ill health …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Instead of Evolving as President, Trump Has Bent the Job to His Will  —  In a 40-minute phone call this week, Mr. Trump struggled to describe how he has changed in office.  “I think I've just become more guarded than I was four years ago,” he said.  —  WASHINGTON — For a man on the edge of history …
Brandon Ambrosino / Politico:
‘She was the aggressor’: Former Liberty student alleges sexual encounter with Becki Falwell  —  A former Liberty University student says Becki Falwell, the wife of the university's then-President Jerry Falwell Jr., jumped into bed with him and performed oral sex on him while he stayed …
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?  —  Right-wing influencers are dominating the political discussion on Facebook, raising questions about whether it will translate into electoral success in November.  —  Listen, liberals.  If you don't think Donald Trump can get re-elected in November …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
What Donald Trump couldn't bring himself to say: Takeaways from RNC Night 4  —  President Donald Trump had a lot to say Thursday night — and he took his time saying it.  —  In accepting the Republican Party's nomination for the presidency, Trump spoke for one hour and nine minutes …
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New York Times:
Trump Heads Into General Election He Casts as a Crusade for Law and Order
Discussion: Reuters and Washington Post
David Brooks / New York Times:
Trump and the Politics of ‘Mean World’
Discussion: Real Clear Politics and Raw Story
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump Botches His Big Speech and No One Will Care  —  He didn't put much effort into addressing voters other than his most avid supporters.  —  Nomination speeches at normal conventions are easy.  Joe Biden even showed last week that nomination speeches given remotely during a pandemic aren't that hard.
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
White House says it is creating ‘very large’ dossier on Washington Post journalist and others  —  New York (CNN Business)The White House said in a story published Thursday that it was compiling a “very large” dossier on a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter and others who it said are a …
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Sean O'Keefe / NBC News:
Trump and the RNC abandoned the Republican platform and the legacy of Ronald Reagan  —  Time was, you could highlight Republican principles on a flash card, particularly when it came to national security.  At the 1980 Republican National Convention— when Republican clarity about the party's ideals …
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Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
Against Self-Doubt  —  It took me until the last night, but I finally figured out the theme of this convention.  And it's not really “American Carnage 2.0.” The riots were mentioned but not by a yelling cop like Sheriff Clarke.  Instead, it was by Melania Trump.  —  There were some hard-edged messages at the RNC.
New York Times:
Trump Stomps on the Rules, but the Pandemic Isn't as Easily Trampled  —  “We're here and they're not.”  The president shows that he didn't need a party in a big arena when the White House lawn was available.  —  President Trump made a dramatic entrance from the South Portico to deliver …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What we learned over the last two weeks
Chris King / St. Louis American:
David Dorn's daughters oppose father's widow speaking at RNC  —  'She should not politicize our father's death for Trump's agenda'  —  David Dorn's daughters want it known that their late father did not support President Donald Trump and would not want his name or image to be used to further Trump's political agenda.
Discussion: Washington Post, ABC News, Vox and Breitbart
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Biden snags ‘Keep America Great’ domain in latest act of Trump trolling  —  After trolling Republicans throughout their convention, the Biden campaign has pulled its final act of the week: acquiring the web domain KeepAmericaGreat.com.  —  When Trump launched his reelection campaign last year …
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Viral pro-Trump tweets came from fake African American spam accounts, Twitter says  —  Twitter has taken action to stop a spam operation that pushed messages from fake accounts about Black people abandoning the Democratic Party.  —  The company removed two fake accounts and deleted the account …
 
 
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