5 takeaways from the Democratic convention, Biden's speech on Day 1  —  Biden's swan song, Ocasio-Cortez's coming-out party and a heavy Trump focus.  —  CHICAGO — Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest developments in the 2024 election, where the Democratic National Convention so far is largely about Donald Trump.

Former Trump official Stephanie Grisham to speak at the Democratic convention  —  Grisham resigned from the Trump administration immediately after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.  —  CHICAGO — Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham will speak at the Democratic National Convention …

Project 25 co-author says the quiet part on tape  —  Russ Vought is confident that Trump will come through once again for anti-choice Republicans.  —  🚨 This special five-edition week of PN is made possible by paid subscribers 🚨 If you aren't one already, please sign up to support our independent journalism.

Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Is Now the Worst Buyout for Banks Since the Financial Crisis  —  Loans of around $13 billion have remained ‘hung’ for nearly two years, bringing in interest payments but weighing on banks' balance sheets  —  The $13 billion that Elon Musk borrowed to buy Twitter …

Beware the Pundit-Brained Version of the Democratic Convention  —  It's one of those moments that is tattooed on your brain forever—if your brain is the kind that is fully occupied by an encyclopedic memory of inane political moments that normal people forget: Donald Trump steps out onto …

Trump Insists He's “Extremely Normal” During Incredibly Weird Speech  —  After stewing in Tim Walz's “weird” label for several weeks, Donald Trump has finally cooked up a comeback: No, you.  —  “You know, he said we're weird,” Trump told a small crowd in York, Pennsylvania …

Trump Is About to Get the All-Clear to Cash In on Media Shares  — Donald Trump has not indicated plans to sell any of 60% stake  —  Donald Trump is a month away from being able to turn his paper social-media fortune into cold, hard cash.  The question is, will he?

Former Trump voter: Trump is ‘lying about pretty much everything’  —  Rich Logis, a former voter for former President Trump, appeared in a video message broadcast to the Democratic National Convention on Monday night to say that the COVID-19 pandemic showed him how Trump was “lying about pretty much everything.”

Democrats blame ‘raucous applause’ for massive delays to convention programming  —  It's something in the way they cheered.  Or at least that's how Democratic convention officials spun it.  Democrats pushed President Joe Biden out of primetime on Monday — just a few weeks after driving him out of the race altogether.

Harris Unlocks Unprecedented Wave of Money from Women Donors  —  Billionaires and small-dollar donors alike are pushing women to give at higher rates than in any previous presidential election.  —  Kamala Harris' rise to the top of the presidential ticket has unlocked a flood of money from an ascendant group of donors: women.

Fact-checking Day 1 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention  —  Speakers said that Trump called for injecting bleach, wrote love letters to dictators and advocated that women be punished for abortion, among other claims.  —  The first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention featured …

Republicans ask the Supreme Court to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters  —  The Republican Party wants the Supreme Court to weigh in on a nauseatingly complicated voting rights case, which could potentially disenfranchise thousands of presidential voters in the swing state of Arizona.

The Morning Briefing: The Final Ride of Adderall Joe  —  Top O' the Briefing  —  Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends.  Astwellecker was surprised that Polaroids of his “corduroy chaps and tie-dye” years were a hit with the cul-de-sac smash burger devotees.  —  Fight those DNC blues.

Harris Wages War on U.S. Energy  —  In the name of fighting climate change, she pushes net-zero policies that would enervate America.  —  Growing up in Ohio, I learned the hard way that poverty breaks families.  To break the cycle of dependency, families need to be able to rely on a growing …