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7:15 PM ET, July 22, 2023

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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Inside Biden's unusual hidden campaign  —  The president is gambling that using Democratic and outside groups will work better than a big, centralized effort  —  President Biden's campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, has spent her first months on the job planning a sweeping national reelection effort …
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Myah Ward / Politico:
Biden looks to put North Carolina on '24 map  —  Without the Tar Heel state, Democrats say, Republicans don't have a path to the White House.  —  President Joe Biden is eyeing redemption in North Carolina next year.  —  Biden lost the Tar Heel state to Donald Trump by just 1.4 percentage points in 2020 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Before Jan. 6, Mark Meadows joked about Trump's election claims  —  In a text, Meadows wrote that his own son was unable to find more than a handful of votes potentially cast in the name of dead voters, people familiar with message say  —  Mark Meadows joked about the baseless claim …
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Nick Robertson / The Hill:
DOJ special counsel contacts Kemp, former Arizona governor in Jan. 6 probe: reports  —  Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has been contacted by the federal special counsel investigating former President Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election, Kemp's office confirmed Friday.
Jill Cowan / New York Times:
San Diego Library Protest Against Pride Books Draws a Backlash  —  Two San Diego residents cleared out the Pride month display at their library and said such materials shouldn't be available to children, one of several recent clashes over L.G.B.T.Q. issues in California.  —  Reporting from San Diego
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Trump's GOP rivals open door to cutting Social Security for younger people  —  Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence and Nikki Haley propose curbing spending on the program without affecting seniors  —  Three of Donald Trump's rivals for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination are pushing for cuts …
Andrew Zhang / Politico:
Sununu: Most New Hampshire voters are ‘not with Trump’  —  The New Hampshire said GOP contenders can topple Trump in his state, but they have to take him on directly.  —  New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu insisted Republican presidential candidates can take down frontrunner Donald Trump …
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Suzanne Bates / Deseret News:
Ahead of DeSantis' visit to Utah, a new poll shows him losing ground to Trump among the state's GOP voters
Axios:
GOP's crumbling case against Biden on crime, immigration and inflation  — Dave Lawler- Stef W. Kight- Courtenay Brown  —  Republicans are hammering “Joe Biden's America” as a land of rising violent crime, surging immigration and out of control inflation, but there's just one problem …
New York Times:
The Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis's Vaccine Turnabout  —  Once a vaccine advocate, the Florida governor lost his enthusiasm for the shot before the Delta wave sent Covid hospitalizations and deaths soaring.  It's a grim chapter he now leaves out of his rosy retelling of his pandemic response.
Dave Kindy / Washington Post:
Tony Bennett saw racism and horror in World War II.  It changed him.  —  What were the chances?  Thousands of miles from home, in a foreign land devastated by war, old friends bumped into each other on the street.  —  It was Thanksgiving Day, 1945, when two U.S. Army soldiers met unexpectedly in Mannheim, Germany.
Discussion: Task & Purpose
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Washington Post:
Fox News hosts are pushing Trump to join the Fox News GOP debate  —  The former president's refusal to commit to the first debate of the 2024 cycle could make it a ratings wash-out.  Aides say he's unlikely to change his mind.  —  Fox News personalities Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade …
BBC:
Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory - scientists  —  A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice have alarmed some scientists who say their speed and timing is unprecedented.  —  Dangerous heatwaves in Europe could break further records, the UN says.
Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
DeSantis Faces Swell of Criticism Over Florida's New Standards for Black History  —  In one benchmark, middle schoolers would learn that enslaved Americans developed skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit.”  —  After an overhaul to Florida's African American history standards …
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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
Harris, on DeSantis's turf, blasts Florida curriculum on Black history
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Morgan Stanley credits Bidenomics for ‘much stronger’ than expected GDP growth  — President Joe Biden's economic policies drove an unexpected economic surge that has forced Morgan Stanley to make a “sizable upward revision” in its GDP forecasts.  — Biden's 2021 infrastructure bill has created …
 
 
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Khristopher J. Brooks / CBS News:
Ron DeSantis threatens Anheuser-Busch over Bud Light marketing campaign with Dylan Mulvaney
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden's lawyer Kevin Morris is seen smoking a BONG on the balcony of his LA home while clearly visible from the road during a visit from the president's son
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