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☆ Opinion | Donald Trump and Greg Abbott vs. Migrants
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Bus After Bus, Texas Changed U.S. Migration” (front page, July 24):Texas did indeed have to bear the brunt of immigrants crossing its border from Mexico, and the rest of the nation might have stepped up to share the Lone Star State’s burden had Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas played the role of statesman rather than partisan gamesman. Instead, he grandstanded by depositing often desperate people in the middle of Northern cities, most of them carefully chosen for being in the hands of Democrats. For this, Mr. Abbott gained what he sought: headlines and cheers. And in the long run, he’ll be recalled in infamy.

Persons: Greg Abbott, Texas, Abbott, he’ll, James M, Banner, Jr, Donald Trump’s Organizations: Lone Star, White House, Congress, Washington, Republican Locations: Bus, Texas, Mexico

☆ Opinion | Is the Populism of the Trump G.O.P. Real or Fake?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Julius Krein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Before last week’s Republican convention, Donald Trump seemed to be moving away from the populism that characterized his 2016 campaign. “He’s defending big business, cozying up to billionaires, and wooing C.E.O.s.”When Mr. Trump named Senator JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate, though, pundits quickly concluded that he was doubling down on populism. In his convention speech, Mr. Vance denounced NAFTA and China trade deals and promised to prioritize American workers over multinational corporations. On the other hand, in a long interview with Bloomberg (conducted in late June) that came out after the announcement of Mr. Vance’s selection, Mr. Trump hardly sounded like a firebrand economic populist. He floated the idea of reducing corporate tax rates to 15 percent and said he’d consider the JPMorgan Chase C.E.O., Jamie Dimon, as a potential Treasury secretary.

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☆ Opinion | JD Vance, D.E.I. Candidate
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Lydia Polgreen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Ever since speculation began that Vice President Kamala Harris might replace President Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket, there has been a steady, ugly chorus on the right. The New York Post published a column that declared that Harris would be a “D.E.I. candidate, so is Vance. It depends, indeed, on how you understand the role of identity in shaping the opportunities that define anyone’s life. All politics is, at some level, identity politics — the business of turning identity into power, be it the identity of a candidate or demographic group or political party or region of the country.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Biden, Harris, ”, Vance Organizations: Democratic, New York Post, Republican

☆ Opinion | One of the Republican Convention’s Weirdest Lies
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I watched hour upon hour of the Republican National Convention, something I’ve done every four years since I was a young political nerd in 1984. Speaker after speaker repeated the claim that America was safer and the world was more secure when Trump was president. If past performance is any indicator of future results, Americans should brace themselves for more chaos if Trump wins. The theme of the second night of the convention was “Make America Safe Again.” Yet the public mustn’t forget that the murder rate skyrocketed under Trump. According to the Pew Research Center, “The year-over-year increase in the U.S. murder rate in 2020 was the largest since at least 1905 — and possibly ever.”

Persons: Mitt Romney, Donald Trump, Trump, ” Organizations: Republican National Convention, Republican, America, Trump, Pew Research Center Locations: America, Russia, U.S

☆ Opinion | Biden and Trump Have Succeeded in Breaking Reality
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( M. Gessen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Four years ago the Republican convention was a bizarre spectacle, a cross between a Napoleonic fantasy and a Leni Riefenstahl movie. The dominant image was of an imperial dynasty laying claim to forever rule. As for the shooting, it had been instantly mythologized as a miracle of survival: Speaker after speaker, including Trump himself, credited the Almighty with saving the former president so he could save America. There was no reference to the speculation, multiplying across the internet, that the deep state was behind the assassination attempt. Even Donald Trump was, by his standards, cogent and calm.

Persons: Leni Riefenstahl, Sean O’Brien, Donald Trump, Trump, Biden Organizations: Republican, Teamsters ’, Democratic

☆ Opinion | How Trump Sabotaged His Own Apotheosis
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The six days that carried Donald Trump from the stage in Butler, Pa., to the rostrum at the Republican National Convention seemed at times like the buildup to a moment of total political domination, an apotheosis for the Republican nominee and confusion and defeat for his opponents. The image of Trump rising, alive and fighting and undaunted, under the red, white and blue. The cohesive and enthusiastic Republican convention that followed, complete with the anointing of a youthful vice president and heir apparent, all in contrast to the spectacle of a Democratic Party trying desperately to jettison its senescent standard-bearer. The promises of a conciliatory and unifying acceptance speech, finally delivering the “presidential” Trump that Republicans have strained to see these last eight years. For the first nearly 20 minutes of the speech, as Trump walked the audience through the experience of surviving an assassin’s bullet, the apotheosis seemed to be on track.

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☆ Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe Are Masters of None in 2024 Race
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Maureen Farrell | Rob Copeland | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It’s a bad time to be a finance billionaire. Republicans on Wall Street, who had been largely coalescing around former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to return to office, suffered outright repudiation this week with his pick of Senator JD Vance of Ohio as a running mate. Mr. Vance, a harsh critic of corporate interests and a former venture capitalist, solidified a feeling in the world of high finance that the balance of power in the party had suddenly shifted westward to Silicon Valley. In choosing Mr. Vance, Mr. Trump brushed off personal entreaties from some of the Republican Party’s biggest donors. While accepting his nomination on Wednesday at the Republican convention in Milwaukee, he said the party was done “catering to Wall Street.”

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☆ Opinion | I Watched the Republican Convention. The Democrats Can Still Win.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This year’s Republican National Convention was Donald Trump’s third as the party’s nominee, but it was the first that felt like a full expression of a G.O.P. Speakers even made efforts to reach out to unions, Black voters and immigrants — imagining a big-tent Republican Party that could be far more formidable at the ballot box. But if the Democrats were running a strong candidate right now, no Democrat would look at that convention with fear. [You can listen to this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.] In this conversation, moderated by the show’s senior editor, Claire Gordon, we dissect the themes and undercurrents of the convention and what they might signal about a Republican Party in the midst of change.

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☆ For Trump, an incredible week since escaping death
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Donald Trump may not have changed in the past week, but the presidential race clearly has. ► Watched President Joe Biden be isolated by the growing number of Democrats who worry he can’t beat him. If Biden were to look for inspiration on how to overcome the naysayers, he could find it in Trump. When Democrats win those states, they can win the White House. In the intervening days, CNN has learned that Crooks searched for information on both Trump and Biden, including for details about the Democratic National Convention.

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☆ ‘Braveheart,’ ‘Grandpa,’ ‘Trumpster’: MAGA in 7 Keywords
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( A.O. Scott | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The Republican convention, which provided a portfolio of memorable (or at least memeable) images, was borne on a typhoon of words. But politics doesn’t speak only the language of policy and platitude. AgainWhen the MAGA movement was born during the 2016 campaign, it was possible to wonder about the specific meaning of the last word. When had America been great, or not been great or stopped being great? On the last night, the original formula was tweaked to “Make America Great Once Again,” which doesn’t yield an easily pronounceable acronym (MAGOA?)

Persons: ”, ” “, —, Trump, MAGA, Donald Trump Organizations: Republican Locations: American, Milwaukee

☆ Trump Struggles to Turn the Page on ‘American Carnage’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Lisa Lerer | Michael C. Bender | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald J. Trump has long been a man undone by himself. He imperiled his presidency and political campaigns with personal grudges, impulsiveness and an appetite for authoritarianism. But on Thursday night, with his right ear still bandaged five days after he was wounded by a would-be assassin’s bullet, Mr. Trump attempted a politically cunning transformation. He opened his address by casting himself as a unifying figure, promising to bridge political divides he had long delighted in deepening. “The discord and division in our society must be healed — we must heal it quickly,” Mr. Trump said on the Republican convention’s final night.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, imperiled, —, Biden, Barack Obama’s, ” Mr, ” Organizations: Mr, Republican

☆ Six Takeaways From the Republican Convention
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald J. Trump’s dramatic acceptance of his party’s nomination just days after a failed assassination attempt put an exclamation point on a triumphant week for a Republican Party that emerged from its convention confident and unified. He described being saved by providence and emerging “more determined than ever” to take back the White House. The near-universal Republican embrace of Mr. Trump this week — after a deadly riot at the Capitol, an impeachment, four indictments and one criminal conviction since his last nomination — was all the more vivid because Democrats were tumbling further into turmoil over President Biden’s viability. Trump being Trump, his remarks stretched past midnight on the East Coast, shattering his own record for the longest nominating speech. But nearly every ad-lib and scripted line was gobbled up by a party that has never seemed more in his grip.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, — Organizations: Republican Party, Capitol, Trump Locations: East

This source said the sentiment only grew Friday when Lofgren, Pelosi’s longtime close lieutenant, released her letter urging Biden to step aside. CNN has reached out to Pelosi’s camp and the Biden campaign for comment on this reporting. And Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon went on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Friday morning to say Biden was “absolutely” in the race. “Joe Biden is more committed than ever to beat Donald Trump.”Instead, there was a stream of new statements from House Democrats. A Democratic lawmaker told CNN that House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his team are not discouraging members from continuing to speak out against Biden’s candidacy.

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☆ Election Live Updates: Republicans Leave Convention Unified Around Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Jim Rutenberg | Adam Nagourney | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +74 min

And there was great, great sorrow. They’re going to be OK. They’re going to be doing very well. Now he’s going to get on the plane in a little while and he’s going to go back home to his wife. Great, great student at Yale. So many — just so many heroes, so many great, great people.

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☆ Inside the ‘doom loop’ of Joe Biden’s campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

“His last act will not be getting knocked down,” said one longtime Biden 2020 campaign aide of the family and the inner circle. They loved saying in 2020 that Joe Biden won because the party, and not the pundits. Some have already “quiet quit,” going through the motions until Joe Biden gets to the end that many of them now believe is inevitable. It feels like if he could go to Congress and make a rousing speech, he would,” said one Democratic operative involved with the campaign. “Here in HQ, we’re working really hard because on winning campaigns, you work really hard,” said Biden campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz.

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The crowds inside the hall in downtown Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention this week reflected the mood of the party: unified, abundant, exhilarated. If the state of the opposition could be summed up by the demonstrations outside the arena, it was quite the opposite: disjointed, sparse, gloomy. Protests through the week in Milwaukee have appeared far smaller and less energetic than those at past national conventions. At the last in-person Republican convention, in 2016, a coalition of protesters rallied in Cleveland for days, angry over the nomination of former President Donald J. Trump. That week was marked by scuffles, standoffs with police and the burning of an American flag outside the convention hall.

Persons: Donald J Organizations: Republican National Convention, Republican, Trump Locations: Milwaukee, Cleveland, American

☆ Melania Trump, Bandages and Patriotism: The Most Effective Trump Accessories
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

On the final night of the Republican convention, just in time for her husband’s official nomination as his party’s presidential candidate, Melania Trump finally took her place by his side — sort of. She was the last Trump family member to make her entrance at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, stoking the will-she-or-won’t-she anticipation to the end, arriving well after Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, who have also been largely absent during the campaign; Don Jr. and his fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle; Eric Trump and his wife, Lara; and Tiffany Trump and her husband, Michael Boulos. (Barron Trump, Donald Trump’s son with Melania, did not appear, but assorted grandchildren did.) She walked in alone, in a red suit and towering red heels, hair down, bestowing queenly waves on an adoring crowd.

Persons: Melania Trump, Trump, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Don Jr, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Eric Trump, Lara, Tiffany Trump, Michael Boulos, Barron Trump, Donald Trump’s, Melania Organizations: Republican, Forum Locations: Milwaukee

☆ What Presidential Election? So Far, the Stock Market Doesn’t Care.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Jeff Sommer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

With the Republican Convention behind us, the Trump-Vance ticket is the favorite in polls and in markets where you can predict the winner of the presidential race. The stock market has absorbed this information and more. This past Monday, when markets in New York reopened after the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday, stocks rose. Celebratory T-shirts are on sale, showing Mr. Trump’s defiant, blood-streaked, near escape from death, as an American flag unfurled against a blue sky. This image, evoking patriotism and courage, contrasts with the sound and pictures of President Biden, looking frail and bewildered during his disastrous performance in the presidential debate last month.

Persons: Vance, Donald J, Trump, Trump’s, Biden Organizations: Republican Convention, Trump Locations: New York, American

Six Takeaways From the Republican Convention , by Shane GoldmacherPeople Close to Biden Say He Appears to Accept He May Have to Leave the Race, by Michael D. Shear, Peter Baker and Katie Rogers

Persons: Shane Goldmacher, Biden, Michael D, Peter Baker, Katie Rogers Organizations: Republican

☆ Edgy and Unscripted, Tucker Carlson Fires Up the Convention Crowd
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Michael M. Grynbaum | More About Michael M. Grynbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Tucker Carlson’s return to prime time kicked off with a roar. Mr. Carlson, a Fox News star until his firing 15 months ago, brought the Fiserv Forum to its feet when he emerged onstage at the Republican convention on Thursday evening, his support from the Make America Great Again crowd clearly intact. The grin on his face suggested just how much he relished his return to the limelight. Mr. Carlson is freshly embedded in former President Donald J. Trump’s inner circle, and he delivered an unscripted monologue straight out of his old Fox News show, complete with off-color jokes and dark visions of a nation at risk of falling into tyranny should Mr. Trump not prevail in November. “You could take, I don’t know, a mannequin, a dead person, and make them president,” Mr. Carlson said to laughter.

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☆ Trump triumphant as Biden descends into a deepening crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Milwaukee CNN —Donald Trump will pull off his greatest feat yet as Joe Biden confronts his darkest hour. The 45th president’s comeback will only be fully realized if he becomes the second one-term president to win a return to the White House in November. But that’s one reason why his campaign is pulling its punches on Biden in the hope he stays in the race. President Joe Biden gestures to reporters as he steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base on July 17, 2024. After Trump escaped the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, his campaign has leveraged the aftermath to reshape his image.

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☆ Europe faces a hostile Russia and the prospect of an isolationist US. Unity is more crucial than ever
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Clare Sebastian | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“Together we will make our allies share in the burden of securing world peace,” he said at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “I think whoever wins the US race… it will be more America first,” Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told CNN. Europe needs to take care of its defense more.”Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen argues Europe stepping up its commitment to its own security has nothing to do with the US. “We have to be more capable of defending ourselves, with a more and more aggressive Russia, not only when it comes to Ukraine,” she told CNN. Preserving European unity is critical to a long-lasting peace, he said.

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☆ J.D. Vance, Breaking the Beard Barrier
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Not to mention the first millennial on a major party ticket. One unmistakable detail that — in the style of his running mate, Donald J. Trump — not only upended modern political wisdom, but broke a longstanding political taboo. The last bearded man elected president of the United States was Benjamin Harrison, in 1888. The last vice president with a mustache was Charles Curtis, who was Herbert Hoover’s veep. And the last major party candidate to try to break that clean-shaven streak was Thomas E. Dewey, who had a dapper little caterpillar on his upper lip and ran, unsuccessfully, for the highest office in 1944 and 1948.

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☆ Usha Vance and the Iconography of the Trump Women
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Vance, the newly nominated vice-presidential candidate, may represent the new generation of the MAGA movement. But, as became clear Wednesday night when Usha Vance stepped gingerly into the spotlight to introduce her husband at the Republican convention, his wife represents change of a different kind. It’s because she does not hew to the very specific mold of femininity that has become the norm in the world of Trump. It calls to mind a cross between a Miss America — or Miss Universe — pageant contestant and a Fox newscaster. It is the equivalent of the Palm Beach billionaire take on the trad wife (even if these wives also have work).

Persons: Vance, MAGA, Usha Vance, —, Breck, Miss America — Organizations: Republican, Trump, Miss America, Fox, Palm Beach Locations: Yale

☆ Senators confront Secret Service director on Republican convention floor
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( Alayna Treene | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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