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Jason Sattler / I Know How Much You Care:
JD Vance is Trump's gift to Putin — The GOP nominee may have picked the one American his second-biggest donor prefers over him. — 1× — The pick of JD Vance, who underperformed Ohio's last Republican Senator by 15% and the entire Ohio GOP ticket by 11%, has made clear …
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Business Insider, The 19th and Politico
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Authoritarian Ticket — Another one for the “weeks where decades happen” files: Hours before the Republican National Convention and Donald Trump's selection of J.D. Vance as his running mate took over the news cycle, Judge Aileen Cannon squeezed in a little news of her own …
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Why J.D. … - Youth & vigor: Vance, who turns 40 in two weeks, is half Trump's age. … - Smart: Vance can put an intellectual wrapper around Trump's red meat. … - American Dream bio: James David Vance grew up in a broken Rust Belt home in Middletown, Ohio, with deep ties to Appalachia.
Ross O'Keefe / Washington Examiner:
Here's who could take Vance's Senate seat after his vice president call
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Suzanne Lynch / Politico:
Europe reacts to J.D. Vance as Trump's VP pick: ‘This is a disaster for Ukraine’
Paul Bradley Carr / The San Francisco Standard:
With JD Vance as VP, Peter Thiel would finally have Trump right where he wants him
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Kelsey Vlamis / Business Insider:
JD Vance said a dinner with elite CEOs made him realize he might end up hating what he'd become
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Washington Post, Semafor, The Lever, Reuters and The Times of Israel
Fox News:
Special counsel Jack Smith to appeal Trump classified documents case — A federal judge in Florida dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump on Monday — The Justice Department has authorized Special counsel Jack Smith to appeal U.S. District Judge …
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Special counsels are unconstitutional if they make Trump sad — PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. Appreciate our independent journalism? Then please sign up to support us. — 🏙️ Subscribe to Public Notice 🏙️ — It finally happened.
Robert B. Hubbell / Today's Edition Newsletter:
The education of Aileen Cannon — Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. — Judge Aileen Cannon is not smart enough to come up with the idea of ignoring controlling precedent to hold that special counsel Jack Smith's appointment violates the Constitution.
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Rolling Stone, PinkNews, Mercury News, Just Security, The Intercept and New Republic
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trump — This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do. — The man who shot then-Alabama Governor George Wallace wanted to be famous, and he thought becoming an assassin was the best way to do it.
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The Guardian
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Politico:
FBI, DHS warn of possible retaliation for attack on Trump
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abc7NY, IJR, The Daily Beast, UPI and CNN
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
These Republicans use violent rhetoric. They are featured speakers at the RNC.
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American Prospect and New Republic
Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk has said he plans to commit around $45 million a month to a new super political-action committee backing former President Donald Trump's presidential run, according to people familiar with the matter. — Other backers of the group, called America PAC, include Palantir Technologies …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
‘Blindsided’ Jack Black Ends Tenacious D Tour After Trump Assassination Joke — SHOW'S OVER — The actor and musician also said he was “putting all creative plans on hold” amid an angry online backlash to his bandmate Kyle Gass' quip about the assassination attempt.
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Stop Pretending You Know How This Will End — In the immediate aftermath of the failed attempt on Donald Trump's life, pundits and politicians rushed to proclaim that they knew exactly how the awful event would affect American politics. Commentators on the left and right predicted on social media that …
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OutsideTheBeltway, Los Angeles Times and The Daily Beast
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Ugly New Post-Shooting Rant Instantly Wrecks His “Unity” Pivot — In the wake of the horrific attempt to shoot Donald Trump, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Axios reported Monday that advisers close to the former president say he “plans to seize his moment by toning down his Trumpiness” …
Lester Holt / NBC News:
Transcript: Read the full Biden interview with Lester Holt on NBC News — President Joe Biden sat down for an interview with NBC News anchor Lester Holt. — LESTER HOLT: Mr. President, thank you for sitting down with us. There's a lot to talk about. I'd like to start with the horrible events …
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New York Times:
Schiff Warned of Wipeout for Democrats if Biden Remains in Race — Representative Adam B. Schiff of California told attendees at a Democratic fund-raiser that the party would lose the Senate and miss a chance to take the House if the president did not drop out.
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Fox News, The Bulwark, HotAir, Twitchy and IJR
Axios:
Scoop: How the DNC plans to run out the clock for Biden … - Once Biden receives votes from a majority of the nearly 4,000 delegates, it will become exceedingly difficult to remove him from atop the Democratic presidential ticket. — The DNC's current plan is to train state party chairs next week …
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Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Twitchy, The Gateway Pundit and The American Spectator
Eli Hager / ProPublica:
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona's Budget. — Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.
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Diane Ravitch's blog and Iowa Starting Line
Flynn Nicholls / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Does Not Get Post-Shooting Poll Boost — Donald Trump has not received a poll boost in the first presidential election survey conducted since the — on Saturday. — The poll, conducted by Morning Consult of 2,045 registered voters on Monday, reveals that Trump is leading
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Raw Story, Washington Examiner and Washington Times
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
In Leaked Phone Call, Trump Tries to Coax Kennedy Into His Camp — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized for a leaked video of the phone call, in which Donald Trump offers anti-vaccine messaging and says the wound to his ear “felt like the world's largest mosquito.”
New York Post:
Firefighter Corey Comperatore's widow refused Biden call after Trump rally shooting: 'Didn't want to talk to him' — SARVER, Pa. — The heartbroken widow of Corey Comperatore, the hero firefighter shot dead by a sniper at a Trump rally, wanted nothing to do with President Biden when he called after the tragedy, she told The Post.
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Alistair Smout / Reuters:
UK deputy PM dismisses ‘Islamist’ nuclear state jibe by Trump VP pick Vance — Britain's deputy prime minister on Tuesday played down comments by U.S. vice presidential contender J.D. Vance that Britain was an Islamist nuclear-armed country, saying he had a history of making “fruity” remarks.
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John King / CNN:
Private efforts to nudge Biden to step aside continue — The public calls from Democrats asking President Joe Biden to bow out of the presidential race have quieted in recent days, but private efforts to nudge the president and his top aides continue, several Democratic sources told CNN.
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