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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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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? — 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.
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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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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Doug Schoen / Fox News:
Trump did something he's never done before with RNC speech. Now, the election may already be over
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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 …
Qasim Rashid / Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid:
Fact Checking Donald Trump's RNC Speech
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump the Lion, or Trump the Lyin'?
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Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Trump Emerges from Convention a Republican Caesar
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New York Times:
Secluded in Rehoboth, Biden Stews at Allies' Pressure to Drop Out of the Race — As he recovers from Covid, the president has grown resentful toward Democratic congressional leaders and former President Barack Obama. — Sick with Covid and abandoned by allies, President Biden has been fuming …
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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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Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Sherrod Brown joins senators calling on Biden to step aside … - “These are the issues Ohioans care about and it is my job to keep fighting for them,” he said, adding, “I agree with the many Ohioans who have reached out to me.” — “At this critical time, our full attention must return to these important issues.
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Washington Post:
Twelve more Democrats, including two senators, call on Biden to drop out
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Seth Moulton / The Boston Globe:
Why Biden should exit the race
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Ja'han Jones / MSNBC:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns anti-Biden Democrats about what comes next if they succeed — The progressive New Yorker spoke on Instagram about the potential risks of pressuring President Joe Biden to end his campaign. — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has issued a dire warning …
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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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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Warns of ‘Enormous Peril’ if Democrats Push Biden Aside
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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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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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New York Times:
Michael Moritz, Democratic Megadonor, Urges Biden Exit: ‘Clock Has Run Out’
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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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Michelle Shen / CNN:
Sheila Jackson Lee, long-serving Democratic congresswoman and advocate for Black Americans, dies at 74 — Sheila Jackson Lee, a longtime Democratic congresswoman from Texas who was an outspoken advocate for Black Americans for decades, has died. She was 74.
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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 …
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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NBC News:
Trump shooter flew drone over venue hours before attempted assassination, source says — The gunman was killed after he shot former President Donald Trump in the ear in an assassination attempt. A motive remains unknown. — The gunman who shot former President Donald Trump in the ear …
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Eboni Boykin-Patterson / The Daily Beast:
Meghan McCain Doesn't ‘Believe’ Biden Has COVID — TRUTHER — The late senator John McCain's daughter expressed her view that Biden's administration is using COVID as an “excuse for him to step down gracefully.” — Meghan McCain doesn't believe the president really has COVID …
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