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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Carl Paladino, the co-chair for Donald Trump’s campaign in New York, said that Khizr Khan’s remarks at the Democratic National Convention demonstrated a “lack of character and backbone” that dishonored his son, a Muslim-American soldier killed in combat, TPM’s Esme Cribb reported. “She even bought him the pocket constitution,” Paladino claimed, “which he probably never read but also returned to the staff after the speech.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “You have the melding of what was unquestionably a psychic defeat in the denouement of the Cold War. National loss, literal loss of territory, people, falling life expectancy national wealth. Just on a staggering number of levels. And then I think overlaying this you have certain aspects of the culture as prone to conspiratorial thinking and then on top of that what I mentioned in the post, the mixture of overreach and myopia on the part of the West. This is what I’ve never quite understood about post-Cold War US policy. If we basically want to hem the Russians in with security alliances up against every one of their border, I guess that’s a choice we can make.”
Say What?!
“They are tired of seeing left-wing reporters literally beat Trump supporters into submission.”
– Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson either doesn’t quite understand the meaning of the word “literally” or some “left-wing reporters” have a lot of explaining to do.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “The Republicans have spent years carefully cultivating factions of single issue voters, people who reliably vote on a single issue. The classic example is the ‘pro-life’ voter. In recent years, some of those factions have been going after establishment candidates in primaries, but whether or not they replace the Republican establishment candidate with one more to their choosing they go out and vote Republican — because they don’t trust even a pro-life Democrat to stick to his guns if elected. Even if Donald Trump looks like he’s going to lose, those voters will still show up and vote because they want to support the other pro-life candidates, they want to ensure a pro-life Supreme Court, or both. The Republicans have been ginning up similar groups on issues such as the Democrats wanting to take away their guns, LGBT issues, ‘religious freedom,’ and the like. That’s not by mistake and its not by happenstance — it’s part of how they mobilize voters.”
Related: The Wall Street Journal slammed Trump in an editorial suggesting that if he does not get his act together by Labor Day, the Republican Party should move on.
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What We’re Reading
Juanita Broaddrick wants to be believed. (BuzzFeed)
The agony of transcribing Trump. (CNBC)
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