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“So let me be as honest and clear as I possibly can. Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is.” Michelle Obama is justifiably getting most of the attention after her Dem Convention opening night speech. But the broader message of the evening was the participation of GOP politicians who argued that this moment goes beyond party. “If Biden does manage to win in November, good luck getting Sanders, Kasich, and Klobuchar to agree on very much. But, on Monday, all three urged viewers to consider the circumstances.” The New Yorker: A Temporary Truce at the Democratic National Convention. Featuring GOP speakers was exactly the right move. You don’t beat division with more division. You beat it with unity.

+ “Miles Taylor, a former senior Trump administration official, publicly warned President Donald Trump on Tuesday he’s just the ‘opening salvo‘ of former administration officials coming forward to tell unflattering stories witnessed first-hand from inside the Trump administration.” (Here’s Taylor’s video explaining the decision to oppose Trump’s reelection.)

+ “Do you see what’s happening in New Zealand? They beat it, they beat it, it was like front-page news because they wanted to show me something.” Trump calls out New Zealand’s ‘terrible’ Covid surge, on day it records nine new cases.

+ Related: Women leaders saved lives from Covid-19 by locking down earlier.

+ Trump to posthumously pardon Susan B. Anthony. (Hasn’t this woman suffraged enough?)

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