Vance's Dynamic Dialogue

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  • US: 'We're close to the end': Biden world braces for the possibility that the president steps aside (NBC News)

  • World: European leaders discuss migration and Ukraine at a UK summit as concern grows about direction of US (AP)

  • Business: Netflix has a plan to keep you paying for your subscription (CNN)

  • Technology: OpenAI Releases GPT-4o Mini, a Cheaper Version of Flagship AI Model (Bloomberg)

  • Sports: Fever's Caitlin Clark has WNBA-record 19 assists in loss to Wings (ESPN)

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Right: Trump’s Assassination Attempt Is 'a Wake-Up Call', Miranda Devine, New York Post

Right: Dems Need a New Messenger for a Changed Campaign, A.B. Stoddard, The Bulwark

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Vance's Dynamic Dialogue

Today’s Top Story in One Sentence: Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) accepted the Republican vice presidential nomination and gave a speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday.

Reporting from the Right: Vance goes on charm offensive with VP acceptance speech at RNC (Washington Examiner)

Reporting from the Left: JD Vance introduces himself as Trump’s running mate and makes direct appeal to his native Rust Belt (AP)

RIGHT-LEANING SENTIMENT

Man of the People

The Top Argument From The Right: J.D. Vance Appeals To The ‘Cast Aside And Forgotten’ In RNC Speech, M.D. Kittle, The Federalist: “The man who would be vice president formally introduced himself to a jubilant Republican National Convention on Wednesday evening in Wisconsin — and to voters nationwide. And he had a very compelling story to tell. … By many measures, Vance is the epitome of the American Dream. He grew up in poverty, a “family tradition” in rust-belt Middletown, Ohio, and in the Appalachian region of eastern Kentucky. The son of a drug-addicted mother and a father who left him, Vance, as they say, rose above his circumstances. He went to college on the G.I. Bill after serving in the Marines and the Iraq War. He earned his law degree from Yale and made a very comfortable living in venture capital. Vance’s bleak memoir was made into a movie in 2020, a couple of years before his successful Senate run. ‘Never in my wildest imagination could I have believed that I would be standing here tonight,’ Vance told the thousands of conventiongoers assembled at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum and the millions more watching across the country.”

Honorable Mention #1: J.D. Vance Showcases His Populist Pivot to the RNC, McCormack et al., The Dispatch.

Honorable Mention #2: J. D. Vance’s Obama-esque Convention Speech, Jim Geraghty, National Review.

LEFT-LEANING SENTIMENT

Trump’s Apprentice

The Top Argument From The Left: J.D. Vance Becomes Trump’s New Apprentice, James Poniewozik, The New York Times: “When it came to introducing himself, Mr. Vance had a head start and a challenge. He was telling a story he had already told, in the memoir ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ and so had Ron Howard, in the 2020 film adaptation. But that story was in some ways not fitted to this audience. His book made the case that poor Appalachians — part of the rural base of the Trumpist G.O.P. — were often at fault for their own problems of unemployment and addiction and that they told themselves ‘lies’ to blame their woes on outsiders. Wednesday, the author gave that story a bit of a rewrite. He depicted his hometown, Middletown, Ohio, as having been ‘cast aside and forgotten by America’s ruling class,’ who Mr. Vance said had shipped jobs away and let fentanyl stream in. In this remake, President Biden was the villain, the elites’ longtime capo. …Mr. Vance served as an avatar of a kind of rural American life that his party celebrates as especially authentic. … There would be time for other aspects of policy, on the campaign trail and if Mr. Vance won the vice presidency. Wednesday night’s introduction was about bringing J.D. Vance into the family, which, in the Trump operation, is all part of the apprenticeship.”

Honorable Mention #1: J.D. Vance’s Populist Pitch, Eric Coretllessa, Time.

Honorable Mention #2:Did Vance sell a new kind of conservative nationalism? Jason Willick, The Washington Post.

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Vance v. Harris

Recent YouGov poll results reveal that Vice President Kamala Harris is significantly more popular than Vance. Harris, recognized by 94% of respondents, holds a 49% popularity rating, while Vance, known by only 63%, has a 28% popularity rating. The data indicates that although many Americans are undecided about Vance, Harris clearly leads in both recognition and favorability. (Newsweek)

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Seneca Falls, Botox in a Bottle, Bumble Bee Bridge

On This Day in 1848, at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, a woman’s rights convention—the first ever held in the United States—convenes with almost 200 women in attendance. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.

Today I learned the Golden Gate Bridge was almost painted black and yellow.

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Over the last 20 years, record prices achieved for Banksy’s art have grown at an astounding 63% compound annual rate. Even more impressive? It's not just the ultra-wealthy benefiting from this phenomenal growth. Thanks to Masterworks.

Masterworks enables its 820,000+ users to access investments in multi-million dollar artworks by artists like Banksy, Basquiat, and Picasso for just a fraction of the cost of an entire piece.

When Masterworks sells a painting, like the 16 it’s already sold, investors can get a return on their investment. With 3 recent sales, Masterworks investors realized net annualized returns of 17.8%, 21.5%, and 27.3%.

Every offering is limited, and shares can sell out in just minutes, but The Flag readers can skip the waitlist with this exclusive link. Skip the waitlist!

Past performance is not indicative of future returns, investing involves risk. See disclosures masterworks.com/cd

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