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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) lengthy yet optimistic Democratic National Convention speech was interrupted Monday as naysayers broke out into chants of “war hawk” and “Black Lives Matter” over him, TPM’s Kristin Salaky reported. Booker, who was one of the headliners of the evening, first drew the attention of the rowdier convention attendees after he spoke about Hillary Clinton’s record on civil rights and touched on her national security record.
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “Here is the bottom line for me. I don’t think Trump is being blackmailed or working for Putin. In any case, I’m usually surprised when I find out that unbelievable things are true. What concerns me deeply is that Trump has bad, bellicose and impulsive instincts. He joins that with an almost total ignorance of actual policy facts on virtually every topic and what seems to be a militant refusal to learn them. As we’ve learned from his style of speech-making he seems highly impressionable, often spouting whatever the last person who sat down with them said or what the last person liked hearing. He’s had a lot of financial help from Russian money surrounding Putin and he’s got a group of advisors who are from the world where friendship with Putin is a necessity and do not hide the fact that they think the US should take a more accommodating stance toward Russia. The above is the most generous read of the facts we know, and it’s frankly terrible.”
Say What?!
“I always said that Debbie Wasserman Schultz was overrated.”
– Donald Trump gloated on Twitter following the news that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) would resign as chair of the DNC.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “The real question is this: Was there any actual mechanical impediment to the Sanders campaign caused by DNC actions? The only possible quibble is the debate schedule; all other voting-system issues are state-level and in place long before the campaigns. The system was not rigged, if that means secret fixing of the odds, like in a casino. It was not biased, either; Sanders won in caucus states and some open primaries, Clinton won in normal primaries, and no re-arranging of schedules or types of voting changes the outcome, with the possible exception of making all primaries caucuses, and no one is asking for that.”
Related: Sen. Bernie Sanders remained committed to supporting Hillary Clinton, treating the DNC email hack as a distraction.
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