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Washington Post:
Biden announces 2024 reelection bid, saying he wants to ‘finish the job’ — President formalizes his intent to seek another term, setting the stage for a tumultuous election — President Biden officially announced his bid for reelection Tuesday morning, saying in a solemn launch video that he wants to …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
‘Damning’ new J6 recording: Ted Cruz discusses how to force a reassessment of Biden's win — MSNBC's Ari Melber on Tuesday said that he had acquired a “damning” new recording of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) discussing how to potentially overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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The Daily Beast and New York Times
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The analyst who saw through 2022's red mirage has a prediction for Biden 2024 — Throughout the 2022 elections, Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg offered up a counterintuitive diagnosis: Confident GOP predictions of a “red wave” weren't just wrong, they were designed to deenergize Democratic voters with “negative sentiment.”
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Sen. Bernie Sanders says he's endorsing Biden for reelection — Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Tuesday that he would forgo another presidential bid of his own and instead endorse President Joe Biden's reelection. The leading progressive, who was Biden's chief rival …
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NBC News:
Biden announces he is running for re-election, framing 2024 as a choice between ‘more rights or fewer’ — Biden, who at 80 is already the oldest commander-in-chief, said “MAGA extremists are lining up” to take away the social safety net and personal freedoms.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Announces Re-election Bid, Defying Trump and History — While the president once pitched himself as “a bridge” to a new generation of Democratic leaders, he has decided that he is not ready to turn the torch over yet. — WASHINGTON — President Biden formally announced on Tuesday …
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
First look: RNC slams Biden in AI-generated ad … - The video features AI-created images appearing to show Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrating at an Election Day party, followed by a series of imagined reports about international and domestic crises that the ad suggests would follow a Biden victory in 2024.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
RNC's AI-generated Biden attack ad puzzles pundits, Democrats
RNC's AI-generated Biden attack ad puzzles pundits, Democrats
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Washington Post and Forbes
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Joe Biden Is Old. Get Over It.
Joe Biden Is Old. Get Over It.
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden's never-Trump campaign for '24
Biden's never-Trump campaign for '24
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CBS News:
CBS News poll finds Democrats meet Biden reelection bid with acceptance, more than excitement
CBS News poll finds Democrats meet Biden reelection bid with acceptance, more than excitement
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
The Map, the Issues and the Incumbency Favoring Democrats
The Map, the Issues and the Incumbency Favoring Democrats
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National Review:
America Doesn't Want This Biden Reelection Bid
America Doesn't Want This Biden Reelection Bid
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Biden names Julie Chávez Rodríguez as his campaign manager.
Biden names Julie Chávez Rodríguez as his campaign manager.
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Politico, The Hill and Washington Examiner
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Biden's balance sheet: Weak numbers, but in Donald Trump, a valuable foil
Biden's balance sheet: Weak numbers, but in Donald Trump, a valuable foil
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CNN, Truthout, Washington Examiner, New York Times, Politico, Mother Jones, CBS News and Fox News
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Tucker Carlson's Prayer Talk May Have Led to Fox News Ouster: “That Stuff Freaks Rupert Out” — Fox Corp. chair Rupert Murdoch is said to have balked at Carlson's remarks in a Friday night speech, driving another theory about the prime-time star's abrupt exit. “He doesn't like all the spiritual talk,” said a source.
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American Prospect:
The Smuggest Man On Air — Goodbye for now to Tucker Carlson, who punctured the lazy pieties of the media class. — Tucker Carlson poses in a Fox News Channel studio on March 2, 2017, in New York. — Tucker Carlson has left Fox News, just days after the network settled a historic defamation lawsuit …
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Forbes, Joe.My.God., The Desk, Washington Examiner, NPR and New York Times
Rolling Stone:
Fox Has a Secret ‘Oppo File’ to Keep Tucker Carlson in Check, Sources Say — Eight sources tell Rolling Stone that the network's top brass has been stockpiling information on the departing primetime host … When Fox announced Carlson's departure on Monday, the network presented the separation as amiable.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News' sudden firing of Tucker Carlson may have come down to one simple calculation
Fox News' sudden firing of Tucker Carlson may have come down to one simple calculation
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Washington Post, Morning Shots, Mercury News, Vox, RADAR, Forbes and New York Times
Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property — The Supreme Court justice did not report the identity of the purchaser, whose firm has had numerous cases before the court. — For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colo.
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Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Neil Gorsuch Has Joined the Supreme Court Ethics Scandal Party
Neil Gorsuch Has Joined the Supreme Court Ethics Scandal Party
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Twitchy, Washington Press and PoliticusUSA
Prem Thakker / New Republic:
Democratic Senator Calls for Clarence Thomas to Resign: “He Cannot Judge Right From Wrong”
Democratic Senator Calls for Clarence Thomas to Resign: “He Cannot Judge Right From Wrong”
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Associated Press:
Taliban kill mastermind of suicide bombing at Kabul airport — The Taliban have killed the senior Islamic State group leader behind the August 2021 suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport that left 13 U.S. service members and about 170 Afghans dead, according to the father of a Marine killed …
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New York Times:
Taliban Kill Head of ISIS Cell That Bombed Kabul Airport — Thirteen U.S. service members and scores of Afghan civilians died in the bombing as the United States was evacuating in August 2021. — WASHINGTON — The Taliban have killed the leader of the Islamic State cell responsible …
The Intercept:
Clarence Thomas Billionaire Benefactor Harlan Crow Bought Citizenship in Island Tax Haven … In partnership with — Harlan Crow, the billionaire GOP donor who paid for luxury travel on his private jet and yacht for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was a dual citizen of the U.S …
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Talking Points Memo
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nate Silver Out at ABC News as Disney Layoffs Once Again Hit News Division — ABC News is expected to retain the FiveThirtyEight brand, with plans to streamline the data-driven site. — The second round of Disney layoffs once again hit ABC News on Tuesday, with Nate Silver's data-driven politics …
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
Trump Tries to End the Game Before the Voters Get Involved — It is hard not to see a fear of Ron DeSantis animating everything Donald Trump does these days. Combine that with Trump's general modus operandi of crying foul in advance at anything he expects to go against him while declaring victory …
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Republican Primary Voters Think Trump Is More Electable Than DeSantis
Republican Primary Voters Think Trump Is More Electable Than DeSantis
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Tucker Carlson's Long Con — Was his long, strange trip a put-up job? — Washington, DC, Bureau Chief — Tucker Carlson wasn't always Tucker Carlson. Or maybe he was. — When I met the recently defenestrated Fox host in the late 1990s, he was stylizing himself as a facts-driven reporter …
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Ben Goggin / NBC News:
A 13-year-old boy was groomed publicly on Twitter and kidnapped, despite numerous chances to stop it — The abduction came after a series of missed opportunities where Twitter and law enforcement failed to effectively intervene. — The 13-year-old Utah boy hung out in the typical online spaces …
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The Daily Beast and HotAir
Wesley Lowery / Columbia Journalism Review:
A Test of the News — Objectivity, democracy, and the American mosaic — We find ourselves in a perilous moment. Democracy is under withering assault. Technological advances have empowered propagandists to profit through discontent and disinformation.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Tucker Realignment — Across Donald Trump's presidency and immediately afterward there was a lot of talk about realignment. Everyone could see that the Republican coalition was becoming more working-class and the Democratic coalition more dominated by upper-class professionals.
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The American Conservative and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Nikki Haley promised to address abortion ‘directly and openly.’ Then she didn't. — The conversation is not getting any easier for the GOP presidential contenders. — Nikki Haley's campaign had billed her Tuesday address on abortion as a “major policy speech” that would make clear …
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
E. Jean Carroll v. Donald Trump: Trials are unpredictable, but here's the roadmap for this one — As a trial begins in writer E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against former president Donald Trump, the United States contemplates the startling possibility that a federal jury may declare …
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Jesse Bedayn / Associated Press:
Colorado To Become 1st State To Pass ‘Right To Repair’ For Farmers — The law follows a nationwide outcry from farmers that manufacturers prevent them from fixing their own machines when they break down. — Colorado is set to become the first state to ensure farmers can fix their own machines …
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TechCrunch and Mercury News
Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Ex-Tucker Producer Suing Fox News Has NINETY Recordings From the Network — Nicolle Wallace interviewed Abby Grossberg, the former booker for Tucker Carlson Tonight who is Fox News for discrimination, on her MSNBC show on Tuesday. — The lengthy interview covered everything …
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The Daily Beast and The Gateway Pundit
David Wallace-Wells / New York Times:
Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’ … It was, perhaps, an impossible job. Make one man the face of public health amid an unprecedented pandemic, in a country as fractious as the United States, and there were bound to be disappointments and frustrations, and they were bound to get personal.
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Washington Post:
Retired NSA director won lucrative consulting deals with Saudis, Japan — Retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, who led the National Security Agency under Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, secured $2 million in consulting deals with foreign governments after leaving office …
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Raw Story
FIRE:
Students sue after Michigan school district forces them to remove 'Let's Go Brandon' sweatshirts — Let's go, lawsuit. — Today, two students represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sued their Michigan school district for viewpoint discrimination after they were forbidden …
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Fox News, Breitbart, Washington Times, TheBlaze and The Western Journal
Molly Jong-Fast / Vanity Fair:
The Republican Agenda Is One Bad Idea After Another — Republicans succeeded in getting Roe v. Wade overturned, and it cost them electorally. So, naturally, they turned to the also very unpopular ideas of loosening child labor laws, allowing for more guns, and banning books.
A.G. Gancarski / Florida Politics:
Ron DeSantis calls for cease fire in Ukraine … A.G. Gancarski — A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. He is based in Northeast Florida. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski
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