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Trump Picks Vance For V.P., Other GOP Convention News

VP Pick Shows Trump Is Thinking About All The Right Things — Daily Caller

J.D. Vance, Trump’s Smart VP Pick — TIPP Insights

Top Five Reasons J.D. Vance Is the Perfect VP Pick — Steve Cortes, Real Clear Politics

Trump Officially Clinches GOP Nomination Days after Surviving Assassination Attempt — National Review

Trump Rewrites His Convention Speech, and for a Very Good Reason — PJ Media

Message From First Lady Melania Trump — X (Twitter)

Elon Musk Says He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC — Wall Street Journal, via MSN

Bonus: Inside Political Conventions – at Least the Ones I Attended — Andrew Malcolm, Red State

Contemplating The Near-Assassination Of Trump

A Shot at the President — And the Turn of History — Niall Ferguson, The Free Press

Assassination Porn And The Sickness On The Left — Victor Davis Hanson, X (Twitter)

An Assassination Attempt Was Inevitable — Dennis Prager, The Daily Signal

Investigation Turns To Assassin’s Motive, Security Failures

Sources Criticize Secret Service’s ‘Supplemental’ Approach to Protective Details — Breitbart

‘Obviously An Abysmal Failure’: Former Secret Service Agents Break Down Trump Assassination Attempt, Security Response — Daily Caller

Shocking Report: Secret Service Resources Diverted From PA Trump Rally to Jill Biden, More Troubling Info — RedState

Secret Service boss blames ‘sloped roof’ for not putting sniper team on building used by would-be Trump assassin: ‘There’s a safety factor’ — New York Post

Is Illegal Immigration At Crossroads In Public Opinion?

Sharply More Americans Want to Curb Immigration to U.S. — Gallup

House Passes Bill Aiming To Keep Illegal Immigrants From Voting — Daily Caller, via MSN

Video: Illegal immigrants given Social Security cards prior to election — American Military News

Taibbi: The Slow Motion Assassination Of Donald Trump — Hot Air

Will 2024 Vote Be Fair?

Poll Shows Nearly Three in 10 Voters Would Vote Illegally in 2024 Presidential Election — Heartland Institute

How non-citizens are getting voter registration forms across the US — and how Republicans are trying to stop it — NY Post

WHOA: Young Voters Abandoning the Dems in Droves — PJ Media

After Brief ‘Reset’, Dems, Biden Back To Business As Usual

Report: Joe Biden to Resume Framing Donald Trump as ‘Threat to Democracy’ After Assassination Attempt — Breitbart

No, Mr. Biden, ‘both sides’ are not to blame for attempted assassination of Trump — Washington Times

That Was Quick: Biden Is Getting Nasty Again — Hot Air

Lester Holt interview shows Joe Biden’s a vapid, sullen old crank — New York Post

WATCH: Joe Biden Didn’t Know His Secret Service Director Is a Woman — PJ Media

Biden Campaign Blasts Trump VP Pick Vance, Claims Democracy ‘on the Line’ — National Review

Media Bias Is A Constant

Voters Overwhelmingly Say Media Bias Is Getting Worse, Not Better — MRCtv

That’s Not What He Said: NBC News Appears to Clean Up Biden’s Address — Townhall

The Democrat Media Left Built This, They Must Own It — Victory Girls Blog

Even More Losses For California . . .

Elon Musk says SpaceX and X headquarters moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law — CNBC

‘Damage Is Done’: Parents, Officials Scoff At Newsom’s Attempt To Atone For Shutting Down Schools — Daily Caller

Personal Income Fell $24B in California as Prosperous Flee, Poorer People Enter — MRCtv

Miscellaneous, But Interesting, Stuff . . .

The dangerous delusion of Biden and World Leaders of transition to ‘just electricity’ — America Out Loud News

Majority of American voters say country is heading in wrong direction: poll — NY Post

Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez Convicted In Federal Bribery Trial — Daily Caller

Biden’s New Inflation Plan: How About Federal Rent Control? — Hot Air