"Losing To A Girl"

Again aiming her barbs to get under some very, very thin skin, Elizabeth Warren says, Trump "makes death threats because he's a pathetic coward who can’t handle the fact that he's losing to a girl."

There's also this latest incitement of a crowd against a journalist who displeased him. A journalist who—Need it be added?—is a woman.

"Party of Lincoln", in a new nutshell...

Today In The Fox News Candidacy

"Unfiltered"

The Times' video.

The Other Team Sounds Off

Bill O'Reilly yesterday, on Michelle Obama's 7/25 speech. While some say goose-bumps and tears followed the First Lady's, "I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves," O'Reilly harrumphed—

"Slaves that worked there were well fed and had decent lodgings provided by the government, which stopped hiring slave labor in 1802."

Etc., in the patented tones of bluster and dismissiveness, from "History's Greatest Reporter".

Don Loves Vlad

Josh Marshall reports.

Pierce provides the gist—

In brief: In his business dealings, He, Trump seems increasingly dependent on money from Russia and from the former Soviet republics within its increasingly active sphere of influence. This is because most of the big banks on this side of the pond won't go near him without HazMat suits. (Gee, could it be that his sudden emergence as a Warren-esque crusader against the "rigged system" of the banksters is less of a principled opposition and simply pure animal vengeance? Unpossible!)

And Pierce concludes—

This should be the only story about the Trump campaign until he comes clean. It should be the only question anybody asks him. Frankly, even beyond the threat to this election, it's a measure of the pure arrogance of He, Trump. And if Trump thinks his ability to game the American real-estate market, and his success at swindling the rubes who signed up for Trump University, makes him ready to deal with a guy who managed to survive a career at the top-level of the KGB only to make himself the presiding autocrat of the world's leading kleptocracy, I'd like to be there when he finds out how wrong he is.

Choice

I'm becoming impressed...

As a senator, Kaine has been rated by NARAL and Planned Parenthood at 100%.

Some good takes on Clinton's pick, and the good chemistry between them, here and here.

Reality Show: The Finale

This week's installment ends; "reviews are in". Among Trump's fans is one David Duke, who announced a new run for Congress.

Pivoting... Trump reportedly stayed with the script last night; today he's back in form, and threatening to end the political careers of Ted Cruz and John Kasich.

Roy Edroso sums up last night—

There are all kinds of things you can say about Trump's speech last night, and pundits are busy saying them. What I will say is that in terms of policy it was perfectly consonant with 50 years of American conservatism -- by which I mean, there was no policy, except to scare voters out of their wits and then offer to let Daddy take care of them. This has been the traditional appeal of even the more avuncular GOP candidates like Reagan, whose celebrated sunniness was only powerful in contrast to the dark Democratic dystopia he and his henchmen were constantly portraying as the only alternative to himself. If Trump is more frightening to some people than Reagan or any of the others, it's mainly because when he does this routine, he indulges very few of the fake pieties I talked about yesterday with which conservatives traditionally try to make their bait-and-switch look socially acceptable. That's his main innovation. But just because you're scared doesn't mean other people don't find it attractive. Just like Reagan, Trump has a sunny shtick -- those goofy faces he pulls, the snarl-smile with thumbs up, seem wolfish and creepy to me. But then I didn't buy what Reagan was selling either, and I bet a lot of whatever customers of his are still alive are voting for Trump.

What I'm saying is, make sure your passport's renewed.