TRUMP RENTS OUT IOWA THEATER FOR FREE SHOWINGS OF 13 HOURS: “This is a clever move by Trump,” Betsy Newmark writes. “It sets him up as going against Hillary rather than other GOP candidates, something he wasn’t doing earlier in the campaign. I do wonder how much the makers of the film like seeing it being co-opted into GOP politics and Trump’s campaign…I was thinking of how this movie joins another, ‘Black Hawk Down,’ to create bookends films that illustrate Clinton foreign policy failures.”

Plus additional thoughts and links regarding last night’s little-watched DNC debate.