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David Frum / The Atlantic:
This Crew Is Totally Beatable — At the climax of the Republican National Convention last night, former President Donald Trump's nomination-acceptance speech was a disheveled mess, endless and boring. He spoke for 93 minutes, the longest such speech on record.
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Raw Story, ABC30 and The Moderate Voice
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Jill Filipovic:
Was That the Worst Convention Speech of All Time? — I hope that you were not, like me, required to watch Donald Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night (and into Friday morning), and were instead doing something more enjoyable: Going out with friends …
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Advocate, Raw Story, Mediaite, New Jersey Online and Diane Ravitch's blog
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump tramples unity theme in two-act convention speech … - Inside the Fiserv Forum, the ebullient mood gave way to rapt silence. … - “I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of Almighty God,” he said, echoing a long list of GOP convention speakers who had cited divine intervention for Trump's survival.
Doug Schoen / Fox News:
Trump did something he's never done before with RNC speech. Now, the election may already be over — I may be a Democrat, but I'm also a clear-eyed political analyst. Donald Trump clearly rose to the occasion with his RNC speech — Donald Trump may well have sealed the outcome …
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RedState, TMZ.com, Associated Press, Breitbart, CBS News, Forbes, Axios, WisPolitics, USA Today and The American Conservative
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Excruciating! Trump's Endlessly Long, Wildly Dishonest RNC Speech
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The Good in Us, New Yorker, New Republic, Washington Post and New York Times
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Cannot Even Pretend to Change Who He Is
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Progress Pond, Daily Kos, Notes from the Middleground, Washington Post, Hartford Courant, New York Post, The Guardian, NOTUS and Baltimore Sun
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Donald Trump Can (and Must) Be Defeated
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Washington Post, UnHerd, New Republic and Washington Times
CNN:
Fact check: Trump makes more than 20 false claims in RNC acceptance speech
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New York Times, Scripps News, Mediaite, Roll Call, ABC News, New Republic, WFAA-TV, The Guardian and Baltimore Sun
Molly Ball / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Hasn't Changed, but the GOP Has
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ABC News, USA Today, The Gateway Pundit, The Hollywood Reporter, Breitbart, Boston Herald, Variety, Times Now, News18, Associated Press, DNyuz and The Japan Times
Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:
Top Biden ally says president is weighing options for November — Sen. Chris Coons said Biden is “weighing ... who is the best candidate to win in November.” — One of the national co-chairs of President Joe Biden's reelection campaign acknowledged Friday that the president is evaluating …
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New York Times:
Here's the latest on the presidential campaign. — Five House members and a senator joined the drumbeat of party members calling for Biden to exit the race. The president, who is isolating after a Covid diagnosis, said he would return to the campaign trail next week. — Here's the latest on the Democratic campaign.
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Associated Press:
Biden's campaign faces critical moment, as Democrats encourage him to consider exiting 2024 race
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Washington Examiner, CNBC, New York Times, Chicago Sun Times, Associated Press, So What, Baltimore Sun and NBC News
Yamiche Alcindor / NBC News:
Kamala Harris allies weighing how they could build a campaign if Biden exits
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Politico
Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Wave of Hill Dems renew calls for Biden to drop out
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Journal Sentinel and WisPolitics
Matt Sedensky / Associated Press:
Too old to work? Some Americans on the job late in life bristle at calls for Biden to step aside
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Biden campaign admits “slippage” but says he will “absolutely” remain in race
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Scripps News, Associated Press, Fox News, Washington Examiner, IJR and CBS News
NBC News:
Biden's family starts discussing his exit plan from the 2024 race — The president's family members have discussed how he would want to end his re-election bid on his own timing and with a carefully calculated plan in place. — WASHINGTON — Members of President Joe Biden's family …
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The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner, New York Post, Slate, The Gateway Pundit, HotAir, RedState, TMZ.com, The Sun, Breitbart, The Bulwark and Raw Story
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Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
AOC Issues Dire Warning on Threats to Come if Biden Drops Out … On Instagram Live early Friday morning, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discussed the ongoing debate over whether President Biden is fit to run for reelection. — Speaking for close to an hour, the New York progressive explained …
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Rolling Stone and IJR
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Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
'That's Bullsh*t!' AOC Slams Democratic Colleagues, Drops BOMBS in Impassioned Defense of Biden — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dropped a series of bombs and made an impassioned case for keeping President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket during a livestream on Thursday.
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Washington Examiner, Fox News and Boing Boing
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Warns of ‘Enormous Peril’ if Democrats Push Biden Aside
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HotAir, HuffPost, Balloon Juice and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Gustaf Kilander / The Independent:
AOC goes live on Instagram saying many who want Joe Biden to drop out of race also want to remove Kamala
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USA Today, Breitbart, Raw Story, PoliticusUSA and DNyuz
Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Secret Service Director Will Testify Before Congress on Monday — It will be Kimberly A. Cheatle's first appearance before lawmakers since the assassination attempt on former President Trump's life. — The director of the Secret Service, Kimberly A. Cheatle, will appear before lawmakers …
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The National Pulse, Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
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Reuters:
Global cyber outage grounds flights, hits banks, telecoms, media — A software update wreaked havoc on computer systems globally on Friday, grounding flights, forcing some broadcasters off air and hitting services from banking to healthcare. — An update to a product offered …
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Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
The Zeal of a Convert — Much of the coverage of JD Vance presents has implied, if not outright stated, that Vance is a hypocrite and opportunist. How else do you explain someone who denounced Trump in a myriad of ways, and then jumped onto Trump bandwagon when struggling in his primary race?
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Politico and The Spectator World
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Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
How JD Vance's path to being Trump's VP pick wound through Silicon Valley
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New York Times, CBS News, The Information, Raw Story, HuffPost, Advocate, Mediaite and Washington Post
Katherine Doyle / NBC News:
Foreign officials courted Trump allies at the Republican convention — A number of ambassadors from other countries came to Milwaukee to get ready for a second Trump administration. — MILWAUKEE — Top foreign officials courted Donald Trump's allies during the Republican National Convention …
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USA Today
Sean Casten / Chicago Tribune:
Rep. Sean Casten: It's time for Joe Biden to pass the torch — Our country faces an existential threat this November. — On the one hand, we have Joe Biden. A man who passed the biggest climate and infrastructure bills in our nation's history; expanded NATO; has overseen record-breaking economic growth …
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Bloomberg:
Zuckerberg Calls Trump's Response to Shooting ‘Badass’ — Meta CEO doesn't endorse Trump or Biden for president — Mark Zuckerberg said that former President Donald Trump's immediate reaction after being shot was “badass” and inspiring, and helps explain his appeal to voters.
Jamison Foser / Finding Gravity:
Horny for fascism — You ever have one of those days where nothing surprises you but the sheer volume of things not surprising you is kind of overwhelming? — Here's Politico reporter Natalie Allison with an extremely unsurprising yet deeply stupid bit of not-journalism:
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
