memeorandum: Inside the Trump campaign's plan to re-energize evangelicals (Alayna Treene/Axios)

4:20 AM ET, July 1, 2019

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‘Surreal’: Ivanka Trump plays a prominent role in her father's historic Korea trip — Few Americans alive today have set foot inside North Korea, the isolated, nuclear-armed dictatorship sometimes called the Hermit Kingdom. — On Sunday, Ivanka Trump became one of them …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Balloon Juice and YouTube

New York Times:

In New Talks, U.S. May Settle for a Nuclear Freeze by North Korea — SEOUL, South Korea — From a seemingly fanciful tweet to a historic step into North Korean territory, President Trump's largely improvised third meeting on Sunday with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, was a masterpiece of drama …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Washington Post, illegal immigration … and The National Interest

Audrey McNamara / The Daily Beast:

Tucker Carlson: Leading a Country ‘Means Killing People’ — 'You've got to be honest about what it means to lead a country, it means killing people,' Carlson said, while speaking to Fox & Friends from South Korea. — Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Sunday that part of “what it means to lead a country” is “killing people.”

Associated Press:
'Let's do it:' 3 hours at the DMZ and a made-for-TV moment

Discussion: KTLA, Splinter and FOX31 Denver

Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Trump, ever the showman, delivers his greatest performance at DMZ: ANALYSIS

Discussion: twitchy.com, Rolling Stone, Florida Politics, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Big League Politics, PJ Media Home and Associated Press

Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Trump's press secretary bruised after jostling with North Korea security over media, report says

Discussion: CNN, The Gateway Pundit, One America News Network, Power Line, twitchy.com, Politico, New York Post, Slate, Breitbart and Conservative News Today, more at Mediagazer »

Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
'It's only fake news': Even on a historic day, Trump complains about media coverage

Discussion: Politico, Breitbart, The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon

Audrey McNamara / The Daily Beast: Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Spotted at DMZ With Trump for Interview

Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump says sanctions remain on NKorea

Discussion: Mediaite

The Independent:
Trump becomes first sitting US president to enter North Korea as he shakes hands with Kim Jong-un

Discussion: Daily Wire and Politico

Carla Marinucci / Politico:

‘Her ambition got it wrong about Joe’: Harris faces debate backlash — SAN FRANCISCO — Kamala Harris might be reveling in her sudden burst of attention after roasting Joe Biden over racial issues on the debate stage last week, but a backlash is already brewing.

Discussion: Axios

Juana Summers / Associated Press:

Harris lands 2020 endorsement from 2 Black Caucus members — BALTIMORE (AP) — Two more members of the Congressional Black Caucus are backing Kamala Harris's bid for the presidency: Reps. Bobby Rush of Illinois and Frederica Wilson of Florida. — Endorsements from the caucus …

Discussion: Axios

CNN:

Biden's ‘gay waiter’ comment on LGBTQ rights falls flat in Seattle — Washington (CNN)People gathered at a 2020 presidential fundraiser for Joe Biden Saturday pushed back against the former vice president's claim that just a few years ago people in Washington state would have let a homophobic comment slide, saying “Not in Seattle!”

Discussion: Splinter, The Daily Caller and New York Post

Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg:
Harris Stands by Decision to ‘Speak the Truth’ on Race Matters

Discussion: Axios

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Kamala Shotguns Joe Sixpack

Discussion: Althouse

Axios:
Cory Booker says Biden can't talk “honestly” about his past mistakes on race

Discussion: Politico and Breitbart

Byron York / Washington Examiner:

Anti-Trump fever takes threatening turn — The toxicity of the resistance to President Trump has risen in recent days, with the nation's most respected newspapers publishing rationalizations for denying Trump supporters public accommodation and for doxxing career federal employees …

Discussion: RedState, Daily Wire, illegal immigration … and NB Blog

John Hinderaker / Power Line:

Living In an Age of Hate [Updated] — Byron York takes a dispassionate look at today's political/cultural landscape, which is beginning to resemble the one that preceded the Civil War: … Advocacy of incivility and violence isn't coming only from the zany far left.

Washington Post:

‘The enigma of the entire Mueller probe’: Focus on origins of Russian investigation puts spotlight on Maltese professor — Shortly after Joseph Mifsud's efforts to help connect a Trump adviser with the Kremlin were detailed in court filings, an Italian reporter found him at a university in Rome …

Steven Overly / Politico:

Facebook unveils plans to fight misinformation about census — Facebook on Sunday announced it's developing a plan to stop misinformation aimed at keeping people from participating in the 2020 census, the results of which will shape American political districting for a decade.

Discussion: Facebook and New York Post, more at Techmeme »

Naomi Nix / Bloomberg:
Facebook to Ban Census Interference to Allay Undercount Worries

Discussion: Splinter

Zach Carter / HuffPost:

What The Hell Is Nancy Pelosi Doing? — House Democrats have lost their moral compass. — On Thursday morning, a reporter asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) what her party planned to do about writer E. Jean Carroll's recent rape allegation against President Donald Trump.

Alayna Treene / Axios:

Inside the Trump campaign's plan to re-energize evangelicals — President Trump's re-election campaign is developing an aggressive, state-by-state plan to mobilize even more evangelical voters than supported him last time, campaign officials tell Axios. — Why it matters …

Katherine Lam / Fox Business:

Billionaire Bernie Marcus to donate majority of fortune, support Trump for re-election — Billionaire Bernie Marcus has already given more than $2 billion to upwards of 300 organizations, and he said he plans to donate the majority of his fortune while he's still alive and support President Trump …

Discussion: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Breitbart and illegal immigration …

Stephen Kinzer / BostonGlobe.com:

Soros and Koch brothers team up to end US ‘forever war’ policy — BESIDES BEING BILLIONAIRES and spending much of their fortunes to promote pet causes, the leftist financier George Soros and the right-wing Koch brothers have little in common. They could be seen as polar opposites.

Discussion: The American Conservative

Will Bunch / Inquirer.com:

How the first U.S. city with no daily newspaper will help Trump in 2020 — In the American Heartland, the white working class was riled up. They were angry about immigrants — so many of whom didn't even bother to speak English — and the economic advancement of African Americans.

more at Mediagazer »

Mike Allen / Axios:

Sarah Sanders is exploring a book deal after White House departure — Sarah Sanders is likely to hit the speaking circuit and write a book after leaving the White House on Friday, and she'll move to Arkansas in August as the prelude to a possible 2022 run for governor, sources tell Axios.

Discussion: Political Flare, Splinter and Washington Times

Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham roughed up by North Korean security guards

Discussion: Daily Wire, Reuters and IJR

Kristina Wong / Breitbart:

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Under Fire for Not Stopping Antifa Protests — Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler's hands-off policy when it comes to Antifa protestors came under scrutiny on Saturday after journalist Andy Ngo was assaulted by masked Antifa assailants. — Wheeler, who is also police commissioner …