In Stunning Decision, Judge Cannon Dismisses Trump Documents Charges

New York Times: “The new data shows how July was one of the most unusual months in American political fund-raising history. Before Mr. Biden’s exit, Democrats were struggling to raise significant money. Then, after he revealed his decision in a single post on social media on a Sunday afternoon, Democrats began raising money hand over fist.”

Jonathan Chait: “Experienced in the moment, Barack Obama’s speech to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago felt like the rousing culmination of a pep rally, peppered with funny insults of Donald Trump and familiar soaring patriotic oratory. But if you read it more closely, an argument emerges: against Trump and also against Obama’s own skeptics, including those within the Democratic Party who have turned away from his legacy.” “Obama first electrified his party 20 years ago at the Democratic convention in Boston with a hopeful speech disdaining social division.

Donald Trump questioned whether Democrats knew where Vice President Kamala Harris “came from,” reprising a tactic that he has previously used against other Democrats, including former president Barack Obama and women of color in Congress, the Washington Post reports. Said Trump: “I wonder if they knew where she comes from, where she came from, what her ideology is.”

PBS Newshour: “The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the PM of Israel urging him not to cut a deal right now because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign.”

The New York Times have every song played by DJ Cassidy last night at the Democratic convention. Earlier for members: The Best Delegate Roll Call in History

“Maria Bartiromo repeatedly used her Fox Business show to peddle an election fraud conspiracy theory that she claimed originated with the wife of a friend of a friend in Texas and that she made no apparent effort to confirm,” Media Matters reports. “But when the Texas Department of Public Safety and the local Republican Party investigated her reckless allegation, they discovered that none of it was true.”