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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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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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Daniel McCarthy / The American Conservative:
Why Did Trump Give a Bad Speech? — There may be more to the former president's turn at the RNC than meets the eye. — Donald Trump filibustered his own nomination Thursday night—and Friday morning, too: His 90-minute acceptance remarks didn't finish until well after midnight Eastern time.
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Paul Waldman / The Cross Section:
In the Blood — “That was some weird shit.” So said George W. Bush after watching Donald Trump's inauguration speech in person in January 2017, and he might have said the same thing if he watched Trump give his 2024 convention speech in Milwaukee. — For days leading up to Trump's address …
Jamison Foser / Finding Gravity:
The totalitarian tell in Trump's “unity” speech — Kim Jung Un and Victor Orban are role models for a type of unity, but not the type you would enjoy — By now you have no doubt heard that Donald Trump (a man who, I should note, has spent years urging his supporters to commit violent acts …
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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 …
Qasim Rashid / Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid:
Fact Checking Donald Trump's RNC Speech — In his latest bid for reelection, Donald Trump delivered the longest nomination acceptance speech in US history, peppered with so many falsehoods that it's impossible to fact-check them all in a single article. Perhaps that was the point.
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Jamison Foser / Finding Gravity:
Horny for fascism — You ever have one of those days where nothing surprises you but the sheer volume …
Courtney Hagle / Media Matters for America:
Trump's RNC speech was divisive, but front pages of mainstream media claimed it was “unifying” and “healing”
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Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Trump Emerges from Convention a Republican Caesar
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Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Donald Trump Can (and Must) Be Defeated
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump the Lion, or Trump the Lyin'?
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New York Times:
Harris Struggles to Reassure Major Democratic Donors — On a call, Vice President Kamala Harris told about 300 donors that there was little to worry about. Several listeners said they found the call to have little value. — Vice President Kamala Harris tried to buck …
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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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New York Times:
Michael Moritz, Democratic Megadonor, Urges Biden Exit: ‘Clock Has Run Out’
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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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Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
'That's Bullsh*t!' AOC Slams Democratic Colleagues, Drops BOMBS in Impassioned Defense of Biden
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Warns of ‘Enormous Peril’ if Democrats Push Biden Aside
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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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Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:
Top Biden ally says president is weighing options for November
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Seth Moulton / The Boston Globe:
Why Biden should exit the race
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Inside the ‘doom loop’ of Joe Biden's campaign
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Politico:
Pelosi voiced support for an open nomination process if Biden drops out — Some California House Democrats don't want the process to replace the president on the ticket to seem like a Kamala Harris coronation. — In a meeting with fellow California Democrats last week …
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Yamiche Alcindor / NBC News:
Kamala Harris allies weighing how they could build a campaign if Biden exits
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Biden campaign admits “slippage” but says he will “absolutely” remain in race
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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown calls for Biden to drop out of the 2024 race — Brown has a competitive race in November, and his defection — the fourth by a Democratic senator — is a significant one. — Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio called on President Joe Biden to end his re-election campaign Friday …
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Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost:
Florida OKs Misleading Statement To Print Next To Pro-Choice Ballot Measure — The supposedly nonpartisan committee that drafted it included an economist from the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, the group behind Project 2025. — LOADING — The advocates behind Florida's pro …
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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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
George W. Bush's Attorney General Is Worried About Trump — Alberto Gonzales discusses the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity — and the prospect of a second Trump administration with more vendettas and fewer guardrails. — As the onetime White House counsel …
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Raw Story and Baltimore Sun
Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
Confronting the hate, Phil Williams tells neo-Nazis: ‘When I look at you guys, I do not think master race.’ — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — This is my town. — Nashville belongs to us — not the out-of-state neo-Nazis who have created havoc this week on our streets with their symbols of hate and vile words.
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Irie Sentner / Politico:
Utah governor, a longtime Trump skeptic, offers endorsement after assassination attempt — “I am doing everything I can to help and support him,” Gov. Spencer Cox said. “We will still have lots of disagreements, I'm sure.” — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was one of the only Republicans holding statewide office …
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Samuel Benson / Deseret News:
Utah Gov. Cox endorses Trump
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