RNC 2020

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Matthew Walther

Trump's RNC speech eventually returns to what got him there — American carnage

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Ryan Cooper

Trump's White House RNC address was shamelessly illegal

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Damon Linker

Sleepy Donald closes out the RNC

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RNC 2020

Bush's 2004 strategist says 'people's hair would be on fire' if Bush, Obama had used the White House as a re-election prop

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RNC 2020

More than 3,600 Americans died of COVID-19 during the Republican National Convention

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RNC 2020

CNN's fact-checker says Trump 'serially lied' in his RNC speech. Other fact-checkers agree, more politely.

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RNC 2020

Trump accidentally says the U.S. 'pioneered the fatality rate' — among other verbal slips

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RNC 2020

Biden notes 'the violence we're witnessing is happening under Donald Trump. Not me.'

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RNC 2020

Trump uses RNC speech as an unprecedented attack on Joe Biden

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Bonnie Kristian

Trump to Biden: Hands off my savior shtick

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RNC 2020

Trump 'very modestly' says he's done more for the Black community than any president since Lincoln

White House lawn with hundreds of chairs pushed side by side.

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RNC 2020

Hundreds of seats fill the White House Lawn for Trump's convention speech — and social distancing isn't an option

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Ryan Cooper

The RNC's crime panic is an indictment of the Trump presidency

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Matthew Walther

This was Ivanka Trump's convention

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RNC 2020

Ivanka Trump dubs her father 'the people's president'

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RNC 2020

The Trump family got cushy thrones to watch their father's convention speech — while Cabinet members got hard chairs

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Bonnie Kristian

The RNC's 2 incompatible claims about crime

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Damon Linker

Tom Cotton's strength fetish

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RNC 2020

The Lincoln Project's newest ad takes aim at Trump's mocking of a disabled reporter

Protesters outside the Republican National Convention.

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Protesters gather beyond multiple barricades surrounding White House ahead of Trump's RNC speech

Photo Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via Getty Images

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RNC 2020

McConnell inexplicably claims that Democrats want to tell Americans 'how many hamburgers you can eat'

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Ryan Cooper

What Trump's really campaigning for: More time to stuff your money into his own pockets

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RNC 2020

Mary Trump says it's 'disturbing' to watch family fawn over the president at the RNC

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RNC 2020

Critics slam Trump for transforming the White House grounds into a campaign rally

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RNC 2020

Trump's RNC speech will attack Biden for 'most extreme' agenda ever

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RNC 2020

Trump's RNC stage will be flanked by 54 American flags

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RNC 2020

That 'famous' Lincoln quote in Lara Trump's RNC speech? He never said it.

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Joel Mathis

Night 3 of the RNC featured a conspicuous lack of Donald Trump

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Ryan Cooper

Trump is about to bungle another natural disaster

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RNC 2020

Biden spokesman likens the Republican National Convention to the Twilight Zone

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Damon Linker

Mike Pence's rabid case for Trump

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RNC 2020

Mike Pence says Joe Biden will be 'nothing more than a Trojan horse for a radical left' in VP acceptance speech

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Trump basks in attention of unmasked RNC crowd as America's coronavirus deaths near 180,000

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Matthew Walther

Why Trump needs Mike Pence

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Damon Linker

The brazen contradictions of the RNC