According to most reports approximately 3,000 delegates from the National Baptist Convention, attended Hillary Clinto’s key note speech.  There were 20,000 at the convention, only 3,000 showed up to listen to her speech.
According to the New York Times Hillary Clinton sold 2,912 books in the first week:

[New York Times] Hillary Clinton’s newest book, “Stronger Together,” which provides a policy blueprint for where she hopes to take the country if she is elected president, sold just 2,912 copies in its first week on sale, according to Nielsen BookScan.

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Donald Trump is in Ohio and Mike Pence is in Scranton, Pennsylvania both delivering 7:00pm speeches tonight in simultaneous rallies.  You can see Pence HERE
Candidate Donald Trump is in Canton Ohio holding a rally at the Canton Memorial Civic Center.  In an effort to try and keep Trump out of Ohio, in addition to venue costs the city of Canton charged the Trump Campaign an additional $20,000 just for security.  Trump paid it. Live Stream coverage of his event is scheduled for approximately 7:00pm EDT (or earlier):
Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream #1 – Alternate Live Stream #2

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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Today in Aston Pennsylvania candidate Donald Trump outlined an innovative plan to bring federal tax policies in line with the needs of today’s families.  The plan is not for the wealthy, but rather specifically targeted to provide the biggest benefit to working and middle-class families.
According to the proposal, the plan is needed because child care expenses are now one of the largest expenses in many families.  This complicates a family’s decision on how to care for young children.
The Trump tax reforms and policy proposals will allow a family to make the choice of whether a parent should work outside the home or not without bias from the tax code. Having employed and empowered thousands of women at every level throughout his entire career, Donald Trump understands the needs of the modern workforce.
Here’s a summary of the outline:

Proposals Contained In Mr. Trump Child Care Plan
PROPOSAL #1 : The Trump plan will rewrite the tax code to allow working parents to deduct from their income taxes child care expenses for up to four children and elderly dependents. (more…)

CNN’s Jake Tapper interviews Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson and tries, rather pathetically, to continue maintaining Clinton’s “deplorable” narrative.

Candidate Donald Trump is joined with his daughter Ivanka Trump in Aston Pennsylvania this evening holding an event at the Aston Community Center.  The event is not open to the public; however, you can watch the live stream here beginning at 7:30pm EDT:
Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream #1 – Alternate Live Stream #2

Platte River Network was the group hired by Hillary Clinton and her team to manage the personal server hosting the private communications of Clinton’s staff and key officials.
In today’s congressional hearing Representative Jim Jordan walks through the timeline and the recently disclosed communication from Platte River where realizations surfaced they were being instructed to cover-up some “shady shit”.

Intro speaker at Trump rally in Iowa tells crowd: “You are one good looking basket of deplorables.” (link)

[ Transcript ]  Thank you. It is so great to be back in Iowa. Spending time in your state has been one of the great joys of this campaign.
Together, we are going to win Iowa in November — and we are going to win the White House, and Make America Great Again.
The White House will become the People’s House. We will tackle and fix the problems that have gone unsolved for years.
We are going to fix our crumbling infrastructure, renegotiate our disastrous trade deals, free children from failing government schools, eliminate government waste, and create a fair, simple and efficient tax code that adds millions of new jobs.
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Candidate Donald Trump is holding a campaign rally today in Des Moines, Iowa.  The venue is Seven Flags Event Center, and live stream coverage is scheduled for 12:00pm CT / 1:00pm EDT:
Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream