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Jason Sattler / I Know How Much You Care:
JD Vance is Trump's gift to Putin — The GOP nominee may have picked the one American his second-biggest donor prefers over him. — 1× — The pick of JD Vance, who underperformed Ohio's last Republican Senator by 15% and the entire Ohio GOP ticket by 11%, has made clear …
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Behind the Curtain: Why J.D. … - Youth & vigor: Vance, who turns 40 in two weeks, is half Trump's age. … - Smart: Vance can put an intellectual wrapper around Trump's red meat. … - American Dream bio: James David Vance grew up in a broken Rust Belt home in Middletown, Ohio, with deep ties to Appalachia.
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Authoritarian Ticket — Another one for the “weeks where decades happen” files: Hours before the Republican National Convention and Donald Trump's selection of J.D. Vance as his running mate took over the news cycle, Judge Aileen Cannon squeezed in a little news of her own …
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Joseph Bernstein / New York Times:
Who Is Usha Vance, the Wife of J.D. Vance? — The two met at Yale Law School, and Ms. Vance has helped him along in his political rise ever since — including now to Donald J. Trump's vice-presidential pick. — If you were to build a member of the American elite from scratch, she might look something like Usha Vance.
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Suzanne Lynch / Politico:
Europe reacts to J.D. Vance as Trump's VP pick: ‘This is a disaster for Ukraine’
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NBC News:
The inside story of how Trump chose JD Vance as his running mate
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Paul Bradley Carr / The San Francisco Standard:
With JD Vance as VP, Peter Thiel would finally have Trump right where he wants him
Kelsey Vlamis / Business Insider:
JD Vance said a dinner with elite CEOs made him realize he might end up hating what he'd become
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Washington Post, The Message Box, Semafor, The Lever and The Times of Israel
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Special counsels are unconstitutional if they make Trump sad — PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. Appreciate our independent journalism? Then please sign up to support us. — 🏙️ Subscribe to Public Notice 🏙️ — It finally happened.
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Robert B. Hubbell / Today's Edition Newsletter:
The education of Aileen Cannon — Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. — Judge Aileen Cannon is not smart enough to come up with the idea of ignoring controlling precedent to hold that special counsel Jack Smith's appointment violates the Constitution.
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Politico:
FBI, DHS warn of possible retaliation for attack on Trump — Intelligence bulletin raises alarm about election violence. — U.S. authorities are concerned about possible attacks in retaliation to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security …
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trump — This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do. — The man who shot then-Alabama Governor George Wallace wanted to be famous, and he thought becoming an assassin was the best way to do it.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
These Republicans use violent rhetoric. They are featured speakers at the RNC.
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Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk has said he plans to commit around $45 million a month to a new super political-action committee backing former President Donald Trump's presidential run, according to people familiar with the matter. — Other backers of the group, called America PAC, include Palantir Technologies …
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Lester Holt / NBC News:
Transcript: Read the full Biden interview with Lester Holt on NBC News — President Joe Biden sat down for an interview with NBC News anchor Lester Holt. — LESTER HOLT: Mr. President, thank you for sitting down with us. There's a lot to talk about. I'd like to start with the horrible events …
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Stop Pretending You Know How This Will End — In the immediate aftermath of the failed attempt on Donald Trump's life, pundits and politicians rushed to proclaim that they knew exactly how the awful event would affect American politics. Commentators on the left and right predicted on social media that …
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OutsideTheBeltway, Los Angeles Times and The Daily Beast
New York Post:
Firefighter Corey Comperatore's widow refused Biden call after Trump rally shooting: 'Didn't want to talk to him' — SARVER, Pa. — The heartbroken widow of Corey Comperatore, the hero firefighter shot dead by a sniper at a Trump rally, wanted nothing to do with President Biden when he called after the tragedy, she told The Post.
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Axios:
Scoop: How the DNC plans to run out the clock for Biden … - Once Biden receives votes from a majority of the nearly 4,000 delegates, it will become exceedingly difficult to remove him from atop the Democratic presidential ticket. — The DNC's current plan is to train state party chairs next week …
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Washington Examiner, The Guardian, The Gateway Pundit and The American Spectator
Eli Hager / ProPublica:
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona's Budget. — Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.
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Alistair Smout / Reuters:
UK deputy PM dismisses ‘Islamist’ nuclear state jibe by Trump VP pick Vance — Britain's deputy prime minister on Tuesday played down comments by U.S. vice presidential contender J.D. Vance that Britain was an Islamist nuclear-armed country, saying he had a history of making “fruity” remarks.
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John King / CNN:
Private efforts to nudge Biden to step aside continue — The public calls from Democrats asking President Joe Biden to bow out of the presidential race have quieted in recent days, but private efforts to nudge the president and his top aides continue, several Democratic sources told CNN.
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David Weigel / Semafor:
Donald Trump may be the luckiest man in the world — The Scene — MILWAUKEE — John Miller arrived at Monday's RNC protest in full costume: An orange jumpsuit, an oversized Donald Trump mask, and handcuffs, useful for holding onto his plastic water bottle.
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CNBC:
Trump 2.0 could be bad news for global inflation, analysts say … A second presidential term for former President Donald Trump could reignite global inflation as his America-first policies drive up costs across the world, analysts warned. — The high tariff, low tax economic agenda …
Victor Nava / New York Post:
Bandaged Trump defiantly appears at RNC 2024 just days after dodging assassin's bullet — MILWAUKEE - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made an appearance Monday at the GOP convention, two days after he was left bloodied by a sniper's bullet. — Most of the 78-year-old former …
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