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3:20 PM ET, July 19, 2024

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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.
Discussion: Raw Story, ABC30 and The Moderate Voice
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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 …
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump tramples unity theme in two-act convention speech … - Inside the Fiserv Forum, the ebullient mood gave way to rapt silence. … - “I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of Almighty God,” he said, echoing a long list of GOP convention speakers who had cited divine intervention for Trump's survival.
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 …
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:   Trump Emerges from Convention a Republican Caesar
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Excruciating! Trump's Endlessly Long, Wildly Dishonest RNC Speech
Molly Ball / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Hasn't Changed, but the GOP Has
Will Saletan / The Bulwark:   What Happens When a Felon Throws a ‘Law-and-Order’ Convention
Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:
Top Biden ally says president is weighing options for November  —  Sen. Chris Coons said Biden is “weighing ... who is the best candidate to win in November.”  —  One of the national co-chairs of President Joe Biden's reelection campaign acknowledged Friday that the president is evaluating …
Discussion: Fox News
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New York Times:
Here's the latest on the presidential campaign.  —  Five House members and a senator joined the drumbeat of party members calling for Biden to exit the race.  The president, who is isolating after a Covid diagnosis, said he would return to the campaign trail next week.  —  Here's the latest on the Democratic campaign.
Yamiche Alcindor / NBC News:
Kamala Harris allies weighing how they could build a campaign if Biden exits
Discussion: Politico
Matt Sedensky / Associated Press:   Too old to work? Some Americans on the job late in life bristle at calls for Biden to step aside
New York Times:
People Close to Biden Say He Appears to Accept He May Have to Leave the Race
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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NBC News:
Biden left feeling angry and betrayed by top Democratic leaders wavering on his campaign
Robert B. Hubbell / Today's Edition Newsletter:   Keeping my head down, Part II.
CBS News:
Trump's national lead over Biden grows — CBS News poll
NBC News:
Election 2024 live updates: Trump speaks at the RNC; Biden faces growing calls to drop out of the presidential race
Discussion: Breitbart and E&E News
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 …
Discussion: Rolling Stone and IJR
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Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
'That's Bullsh*t!'  AOC Slams Democratic Colleagues, Drops BOMBS in Impassioned Defense of Biden  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dropped a series of bombs and made an impassioned case for keeping President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket during a livestream on Thursday.
Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Secret Service Director Will Testify Before Congress on Monday  —  It will be Kimberly A. Cheatle's first appearance before lawmakers since the assassination attempt on former President Trump's life.  —  The director of the Secret Service, Kimberly A. Cheatle, will appear before lawmakers …
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
More Democrats join wave of lawmakers calling on Biden to drop out of 2024 race
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 …
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
The Zeal of a Convert  —  Much of the coverage of JD Vance presents has implied, if not outright stated, that Vance is a hypocrite and opportunist.  How else do you explain someone who denounced Trump in a myriad of ways, and then jumped onto Trump bandwagon when struggling in his primary race?
Discussion: Politico and The Spectator World
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Katherine Doyle / NBC News:
Foreign officials courted Trump allies at the Republican convention  —  A number of ambassadors from other countries came to Milwaukee to get ready for a second Trump administration.  —  MILWAUKEE — Top foreign officials courted Donald Trump's allies during the Republican National Convention …
Discussion: USA Today
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 …
Bloomberg:
Zuckerberg Calls Trump's Response to Shooting ‘Badass’  —  Meta CEO doesn't endorse Trump or Biden for president  —  Mark Zuckerberg said that former President Donald Trump's immediate reaction after being shot was “badass” and inspiring, and helps explain his appeal to voters.
Jamison Foser / Finding Gravity:
Horny for fascism  —  You ever have one of those days where nothing surprises you but the sheer volume of things not surprising you is kind of overwhelming?  —  Here's Politico reporter Natalie Allison with an extremely unsurprising yet deeply stupid bit of not-journalism:
 
 
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
'You Bet I'm Worried': Bush's Attorney General Fears Trump 2.0
Discussion: Baltimore Sun
Derek Guy / Politico:
Who Slayed and Who Flopped With Their GOP Convention Looks
Discussion: Raw Story
Samuel Benson / Deseret News:
Utah Gov. Cox endorses Trump
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Ewen Callaway / Nature:
Hundreds of racist plant names will change after historic vote by botanists
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
July 18, 2024  —  Paul Manafort walking onto the floor of the Republican National Convention …
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Republican National Convention Is a Trumpian Triumph
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Rudy Giuliani can't even fall out of bankruptcy right
Discussion: Above the Law and Raw Story
 

 
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Sources: GB News investor and hedge fund tycoon Paul Marshall is poised to buy the Spectator for up to £100M in a deal expected to close by the end of the week

Rachel Hagan / The Independent:
Russian court sentences journalist Sergei Mikhailov to eight years in prison for “spreading false information” about the Russian army in his newspaper Listok

Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
A New Hampshire man is sentenced to 27 months in prison for harassing New Hampshire Public Radio journalists, including by vandalizing their homes
 
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