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.

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.

In 2016, Obama Passed a Baton.  Tonight, He'll Aim to Resurrect a Movement.  —  In his speech at the Democratic National Convention, the former president will have the tricky task of helping to reassemble the kind of coalition that powered his own rise.  —  “Fair to say, this is not your …

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.

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 …

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.”

The Pro-Palestinian Protest Fizzles in Chicago  —  The Democratic National Convention begins today in Chicago; it promises a flurry of prime-time speeches, a formal nominating process (which has already been decided), and celebrity guest appearances.  All eyes Monday were on a pro-Palestinian protest …

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?

Trump's unsettling new question: ‘Why are we having an election?’  —  Given Donald Trump's hostility toward democracy, it's worth pausing when he asks supporters, “Why are we having an election?”  —  By all appearances, Donald Trump really doesn't like it when Democrats describe him as a threat …

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 …

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.

US intelligence officials say Iran is to blame for hacks targeting Trump, Biden-Harris campaigns  —  U.S. intelligence officials said Monday they were confident that Iran was responsible for the hack of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, casting the cyber intrusion as part of a brazen …