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Donald Trump exits the stage after his wife, Melania Trump, spoke on Monday at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.Joe Raedle/Getty Images CLEVELAND—The first day of the Republican National Convention opened in chaos and ended in disaster. We’ve covered the chaos, but the disaster requires a little explanation. That night, the headline speech belonged…
Pat Smith — the mother of Sean Smith, an information analyst who died in the attack on the American embassy in Benghazi — gave an impassioned, if factually sketchy, speech at the Republican National Convention in which she stated that she “blame[s] Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son.” An emotional Smith claimed…
Monday’s attempted coup by forces loyal to Texas Senator Ted Cruz and a swirling plagiarism scandal notwithstanding, the Republican Party took its roll-call vote Tuesday afternoon and decided that Donald Trump will, in fact, still be the GOP presidential candidate in 2016. The nominating process began with House Speaker Paul Ryan welcoming Alabama Senator Jeff…
Have pity on a group of California GOP staffers in Ohio who have been vomiting uncontrollably from both ends of their bodies, not because of the plagiarism and open racism at the convention, but because of an apparent outbreak of norovirus. Stat News and the Los Angeles Times are reporting that as many as a…
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivers a speech on the second day of the Republican National Convention.Joe Raedle/Getty Images There is so much that is unprecedented in Donald Trump’s lurid, shambolic Republican convention that it is easy to become inured to each new low. On Tuesday night, the tweet ticker at the Quicken Loans…
For an idea of how a presidential election will go, you could do a lot worse than look at the stock market. It has a record of prescience that is hard to exaggerate. Since 1928, U.S. equities have correctly signaled who will win, incumbent or challenger, 19 out of 22 times, data compiled by Strategas Research…
Last Friday I found myself sitting in an NPR studio, discussing the week’s news. I’m a frequent panelist on this show, and I have yet to sit with another person of color. It is me and a room full of white people. As always, my blackness is palpable, even over the airwaves. But this is…
Welcome to ConBag, a daily roundup of gossip from the Republican National Convention, which we are attending for four very long days. CLEVELAND — I’m happy to report that my colleague, Anna Merlan, and I are still alive. The same, however, can’t be said for the Never Trump wing of the Republican party. On Monday,…
Like his wife, Donald Trump has never written all of his own material, but with his recent “professional” hires, it’s been harder than ever to tell which tweets actually come from the Donald himself. So we decided to make it easier. Meet @RealRealDonaldTrump—your only source for pure, unfiltered Trump tweets just the way god intended….
First Lady hopeful Melania Trump has been under fire ever since she just so happened to repeat (nearly word for word) parts of Michelle Obama’s convention speech from 2008 last night. Now, Melania is left with the task of proving her credibility. And the Trump campaign isn’t making her job any easier. http://gawker.com/melania-trump-… As Politico…