WSJ editorial board slams Vance over cat lady remark

 https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4796125-wsj-editorial-board-slams-vance-cat-lady-remark/

The Wall Street Journal editorial board slammed Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance over previous comments he made about “childless cat ladies.”

“The comment is the sort of smart-aleck crack that gets laughs in certain right-wing male precincts,” the Journal editorial board said in a new opinion piece. “But it doesn’t play well with the millions of female voters, many of them Republican, who will decide the presidential race.”

Ben Shapiro Bets Donald Trump Regrets Picking J.D. Vance

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/ben-shapiro-bets-donald-trump-regrets-picking-jd-vance?ref=home

In the wake of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ record-breaking fundraising numbers, Ben Shapiro has an answer for anyone wondering if Donald Trump would pick J.D. Vance as his running mate again: “I doubt it.”

“I think he probably would have picked somebody like Glenn Youngkin from Virginia in an attempt to broaden out his base,” Shapiro said on the latest episode of his self-titled show, according to Media Matters. “Instead, he went with J.D. Vance feeling, because he was right that at the time, he had a very solid advantage in the race against Joe Biden.”

12 killed, all aged 10-20, as Hezbollah rocket hits soccer field, sparking wider war fears

12 killed, all aged 10-20, as Hezbollah rocket hits soccer field, sparking wider war fears

At least 12 people were killed Saturday, mostly children and teens, and dozens more were wounded when a rocket fired from Lebanon hit a soccer field in the northern Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights. It was the single deadliest Hezbollah attack on northern Israel since fighting there began in October.

Donald Trump Saying 'You Won't Have to Vote' in Four Years Sparks Fear

 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-saying-you-wont-have-vote-four-years-sparks-fear-1931054

Trump added: "Christians, get out and vote just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It will be fixed. It will be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians."

Trump tells supporters they won’t have to vote in the future: ‘It’ll be fixed!

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/27/trump-speech-no-need-to-vote-future

Former president implores Christian supporters to vote ‘just this time’, then ‘in four years, you don’t have to vote again’

78 year old Criminal

What’s behind Trump’s lashing out at Netanyahu after Hamas’ attack on Israel

 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-netanyahu-biden-rcna120078

An adviser to Netanyahu said there had been no outreach by Trump in the wake of the attacks. Instead, Trump has leveled repeated broadsides at the leader of a close U.S. ally in remarks on the campaign trail as he seeks a return to the White House.

“He’s pissed off because Bibi praised Biden and the Biden White House for being supportive,” said a former Trump adviser, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname.

Trump posts letter from Palestinian leader ahead of Netanyahu meeting

 https://www.axios.com/2024/07/24/trump-palestinian-leader-letter-netanyahu-meeting-peace

But in April 2021 Trump told me his conclusion from four years of working on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process was that Abbas wanted peace, while Netanyahu didn't.

"I thought he was terrific," Trump told me of Abbas, reflecting on their "great" first meeting. "He was almost like a father. Couldn't have been nicer. I thought he wanted to make a deal more than Netanyahu."

Suddenly Trump Looks Older and More Deranged

 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-looks-older-and-more-deranged/679186/

Whatever happens next, the frame has altered. Now it is the Republicans who are saddled with the elderly candidate, the one who can’t make a clear argument or finish a sentence without veering off into anecdote. Now the Democrats are instead proposing something new. Now it is the many pundits who were already bored by the race and ready to wrap it up who look foolish.

Elon Musk Backs Away From Reports He’s Donating Huge Sums to Trump

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-backs-away-from-reports-hes-donating-huge-sums-to-trump

Elon Musk is backing away from reports that suggest he was set to donate huge sums of money to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying in a podcast interview this week that his plan to “commit” tens of millions of dollars to the former president—first reported by The Wall Street Journal—was “simply not true.” He added: “I am not donating $45 million a month to Trump.” 

She Sucked Up to Trump but He Dropped Her Anyway

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/elise-stefanik-sucked-up-to-trump-but-he-dropped-her-anyway

It’s got to hurt to be Congresswoman Elise Stefanik right now. Lots of women have been there on some level—proven their loyalty time and time again to the company, only to get passed over for the promotion by a less-qualified man. And boy is J.D. Vance ever less qualified. Just for funsies (and like Rep. Stefanik probably does every night before she goes to sleep now) let’s compare resumes.

Project 2025 shreds American values

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/19/larry-hogan-project-2025-trump-abortion/

On the left, the refusal by some to clearly stand up to radicals such as antisemitic and pro-Hamas protesters, advocates of defunding the police, and the open-borders movement has done substantial damage. However, on the right, there is no clearer example of the threat to American values than Project 2025.

Trump makes more than 20 false claims in RNC acceptance speech

 https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/18/politics/fact-checking-night-4-republican-national-convention-trump/index.html

Former President Donald Trump repeated his claim that President Joe Biden wants to hike people’s taxes by four times.

This is false, just as it was when Trump made the same claim during the 2020 election campaign and in early 2024. 

Biden has not proposed quadrupling Americans’ taxes, and there has never been any indication that he is seeking to do so. The nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center think tank, which analyzed Biden’s never-implemented budget proposals for fiscal 2024, found this: “His plan would raise average after-tax incomes for low-income households in 2024, leave them effectively unchanged for middle-income households, and lower after-tax incomes significantly for the highest-income taxpayers.”

Biden hits Trump over RNC speech: ‘What the hell was he talking about?’

 https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4783241-joe-biden-donald-trump-republican-national-convention-speech-2024/

President Biden took to social media Friday evening to blast former President Trump over the speech he gave while accepting the GOP presidential nomination at the final night of the Republican National Convention (RNC).

“I’m stuck at home with COVID, so I had the distinct misfortune of watching Donald Trump’s speech to the RNC,” Biden posted on social media platform X. “What the hell was he talking about?”