1. The Speaker will speak
Paul Ryan, the highest-ranking Republican in Washington, announced that he will speak at his party’s convention in Cleveland next week, even as many of his colleagues are bowing out.
Christians losing political faith
2. The party parties
Meanwhile, Republicans met in Ohio to design their party’s platform, bandying around questions of LGBT rights, trade, education, junk food, pornography and more.
Republicans bill $449,400 for Trump
Bible stumping
"In colonial America, the Bible was used for every form of education"
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) July 11, 2016
Electromagnetic politics
Here’s the GOP platform plank that commits the party to protecting against magnetic pulse attacks pic.twitter.com/KXX8zdcYCA
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) July 11, 2016
3. Donald Trump: I am the law
The presumptive Republican nominee declared: “I am the law and order candidate,” at a speech on police and veterans in Virginia. “Decades of decay, division and decline will come to an end.”
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The attack on our Dallas police is an attack on our country … It’s time for our hostility against our police, and against all members of law enforcement to end, and end immediately, right now.
– Donald Trump
Flashback
Trump today: "I am the law and order candidate" - Nixon at 1968 Republican convention pic.twitter.com/P9y4uRf8rs
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) July 11, 2016
4. The law: I can’t imagine
Supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told the New York Times she “can’t imagine what the country would be” with Trump as president. “Time for us to move to New Zealand.”
5. Trump’s 10-point plan
The Republican also laid out a plan for veterans that included promises to appoint a veterans affairs secretary who is not a “political hack” and a 24-hour phone line. “I’ll fix it myself if I have to.”
6. Bernie Sanders’ last dance
Hillary Clinton’s defeated rival at last dragged her campaign to the left on the Democrats’ official platform, with key concessions on climate change, college tuition, healthcare and marijuana.
