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10:50 PM ET, July 21, 2016

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Politico:
Full text: Donald Trump 2016 RNC draft speech transcript  —  Remarks as prepared for delivery according to a draft obtained by POLITICO Thursday afternoon.  —  Friends, delegates and fellow Americans: I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Leaked document: Trump will tell the nation, ‘I am your voice’  —  Donald Trump will present himself as a big-hearted champion of the everyman on Thursday night as he accepts the Republican Party nomination for president, tempering his hard-edged policies with a protective embrace of those down on their luck.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's nomination is the first time American politics has left me truly afraid  —  Tonight, Donald J. Trump will accept the Republican Party's nomination for president of the United States.  And I am, for the first time since I began covering American politics, genuinely afraid.
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
‘Vote Your Conscience’ Was A Rorschach Test, And Donald Trump's Campaign Failed  —  It didn't have to be a complete disaster.  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) didn't say a negative thing about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Cleveland on Wednesday night.
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump taunts GOP in private donor meeting  —  CLEVELAND — Just hours before accepting the Republican Party's presidential nomination, Donald Trump taunted his party on Thursday, ripping into his rivals and joking that, had he run as an independent, he could have defeated the GOP.
Washington Post:
Donald Trump's prepared speech to the Republican National convention, annotated  —  Donald Trump's prepared remarks accepting the Republican nomination in Cleveland Thursday night were provided on an embargoed basis.  The embargo was broken by other news organizations — therefore we are posting them here.
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Leaked Trump speech came from Republican source: report  —  's GOP nomination acceptance speech was leaked to a pro-Hillary Clinton  —  super-PAC through a “Republican source” and then widely disseminated to the media, Politico reports.  —  The super-PAC, Correct the Record …
Discussion: RedState
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Cruz Campaign Manager: Christie “Turned Over His Political Testicles Long Ago”
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
‘Republican source’ leaks Trump speech to Dems
Breitbart:
Exclusive — Sarah Palin to Ted Cruz: Delete Your Career
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Roger Stone, Alex Jones plot primary challenge to Cruz
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Boehner on Cruz: ‘Lucifer is back’
Discussion: Mediaite and Liberty Unyielding
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Please, can we not grade Donald Trump's acceptance speech on a curve?
T. Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Coulter on Cruz's non-endorsement: He's a ‘little bitch’
Discussion: RedState
Fox News:   Phil Robertson sends message to Ted Cruz: ‘You lost, he won’
Daniel Pipes / Philly.com:
Why I just quit the Republican Party  —  The Republican Party nominated Donald Trump as its candidate for president of the United States - and I responded by ending my 44-year GOP membership.  —  Here's why I bailed, quit, and jumped ship:  —  First, Trump's boorish, selfish, puerile …
Discussion: Mediaite
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Joe Klein / TIME:
An Unhinged Republican Convention and the Nation's Greatest Test  —  The Republican Convention opened with a distraught mother, tears in her eyes, saying something palpably outrageous: “I blame Hillary Clinton.  I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son-personally.”
Discussion: Booman Tribune
CNN:
Peter Thiel to tell RNC he's proudly gay  —  Cleveland (CNN)Peter Thiel is set to admonish the GOP for refusing to embrace LGBT rights on stage here tonight.  —  The tech billionaire will declare to the Republican National Convention that he is proud to be gay, a source familiar with Thiel's remarks told CNN.
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Illinois GOP revokes delegate's credentials for ‘racist’ FB post  —  CLEVELAND - The Illinois Republican Party on Wednesday revoked the convention credentials of a Donald Trump delegate from Chicago “for publicly-made racist comments and threats of violence” on a Facebook posting.
21st Century Fox:
Roger Ailes Resigns as Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and Chairman Fox Television Stations  —  Rupert Murdoch to Assume Role of Chairman and Acting CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network  —  21st Century Fox today announced that Roger Ailes …
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New York Times:
Roger Ailes Is Out at Fox News, and Rupert Murdoch Steps In
Media Matters for America:
Fox Host: The RNC Is “The Worst Convention I've Ever Seen”  —  KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE (CO-HOST): Do you have something positive to say?  Do you think it's going better now, or what do you think?  —  JUAN WILLIAMS (CO-HOST): No, remember yesterday I asked you, you think this convention is a success?
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters:
MSNBC Warns Sensitive Viewers Before Showing Anti-Hillary Buttons
Adrian Wojnarowski / Yahoo Sports:
NBA pulls 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, focuses on New Orleans  —  Without any movement by state legislators in North Carolina to change newly enacted laws targeted at the LGBT community, the NBA is pulling the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, league sources told The Vertical.
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New York Times:   N.B.A. to Move All-Star Game From North Carolina Over Bathroom Law
Johari Canty / WSVN-TV:
North Miami officer on paid leave after shooting unarmed black man  —  A therapist who works at a group home for the disabled is still in shock after a North Miami Police officer shot him, but according to the Police Union president, that officer may have been aiming for someone else.
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Tony Romm / Politico:
Thiel urges Republicans to back off ‘culture wars’  —  Technology investor Peter Thiel implored Republicans from the convention stage on Thursday against waging “culture wars” on lesbian, gay and transgender communities, mere days after the GOP approved a national platform that defines marriage as between “one man and one woman.”
Discussion: ABC News
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New York Times:
Transcript: Donald Trump on NATO, Turkey's Coup Attempt and the World  —  Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, discussed his views on foreign policy in Cleveland on Wednesday with David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times.  Here is an edited transcript of their interview.
Alexandra Klausner / New York Post:
Male escorts are making crazy money at the RNC  —  More On:  —  It's been a great week for gay escorts in Cleveland.  —  Male prostitutes contacted by The Post said business is booming and Republican National Convention attendees — most of them married — are clamoring for their services.
 
 
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