memeorandum: Democrats hope IVF issue might topple key Republican in Pa. swing seat (Colby Itkowitz/Washington Post)

2:55 PM ET, March 10, 2024

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Fine, Call It a Comeback — If the Joe Biden who showed up to deliver the State of the Union address last week is the Joe Biden who shows up for the rest of the campaign, you're not going to have any more of those weak-kneed pundits suggesting he's not up to running for re-election. Here's hoping he does.

Discussion: Bloomberg and The Guardian

NBC News:

Biden team brings in $10 million in the 24 hours after the State of the Union — First to NBC News: The financial haul dwarfs some of the president's biggest fundraising days in 2023, before his rematch with Donald Trump was set. — President Joe Biden's re-election machine brought …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Business Insider, Mother Jones, National Review, The Hill and Blue Virginia

Barak Ravid / Axios:

Biden breaks with Netanyahu but sticks with Israel … But in many ways, Biden sees Netanyahu as the one responsible for the deal slipping away. … - Biden has given the Israeli government unprecedented support over the past five months, at the cost of strong pushback from the president's party during an election year.

Discussion: MSNBC, HotAir, Middle East Monitor, Washington Post, Fox News, New York Post, Israpundit, MeidasTouch, Power Line, Business Insider, Breitbart and The Guardian

Nick Robertson / The Hill:

NYT columnist calls Biden SOTU speech a ‘comeback’ after saying he should not run — New York Times columnist Ezra Klein walked back his previous demands for President Biden not to run for reelection, calling his State of the Union speech a “comeback” for his electoral hopes on Sunday.

Discussion: The Guardian

Nick Robertson / The Hill:

Byron Donalds finds it ‘disgusting’ that Biden scolded Supreme Court during SOTU — Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) chastised President Biden for criticizing the Supreme Court during his State of the Union speech, calling the comments “disgusting.” — Biden called out the court for overturning …

Discussion: Axios

George Chidi / The Guardian:

Biden hits out at Trump in Georgia rally: 'He's been sucking up to dictators all over the world' — Biden took the State of the Union to the battleground state that was critical to his 2020 win ahead of Tuesday's primary — The question isn't whether Democrats in Georgia will vote for President Joe Biden …

Discussion: New York Times, The Hill, CNN, Georgia Recorder, Political Wire, Washington Examiner and WAGA-TV

Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Americans split on who they trust to do a better job as president: POLL

Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire

Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Trump backtracks on statement that Georgia polls are rigged because now he is ‘winning by so much’

Discussion: ABC News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, CNN, Raw Story, Associated Press, NBC News, Fox News, CBS News and Breitbart

Jay Kuo / The Status Kuo:

Status Report: The Katie Britt Lie — Fallout from the Alabama senator's intentionally and highly misleading story continues. — By now you've probably heard the news: Sen. Katie Britt's rebuttal to President Joe Biden's State of the Union was not just a painfully bad theatrical performance …

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Examiner, New York Post, TMZ.com, The Hill, Raw Story, NBC 7 San Diego, al.com, Forbes, MeidasTouch, The Hollywood Reporter, DNyuz, Washington Post and CNBC

Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:

Fox News Confronts Katie Britt on Falsely Connecting Biden to Sex-Trafficking Story — Sen. Britt dodged the question and tried to defend her false linkage of President Biden to a horrible, decades-old sex-trafficking story. — Even when confronted by Fox News on Sunday morning …

Discussion: Raw Story, The Guardian and DNyuz

Fox News:

Republicans are ‘moving the process of appropriations forward’: Katie Britt — Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., joins ‘Fox News Sunday,’ to discuss foreign aid appropriations, criticism linking a human trafficking case to President Biden, and IFV access in her state.

Discussion: Vanity Fair, NBC News and Deadline

Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy

Discussion: NBC News, CNBC, NPR, The Guardian, The Hill, Mother Jones, USA Today, New York Times, WFLA-TV, al.com, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, Mediaite, DNyuz, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, HuffPost and Digby's Hullabaloo

David Edwards / Raw Story:

Nancy Mace explodes at ABC host for rape ‘shaming’ her for supporting rapist Donald Trump — Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) exploded at ABC host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday after he asked why she supported Donald Trump after he was found liable for sexual assault.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, The Hill, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, PoliticusUSA, Mediaite, Crooks and Liars and DNyuz

The Daily Beast:

$91M Bond Didn't Stop Trump From Trashing E. Jean Carroll Again — Donald Trump just had to post a $91.6 million bond while he appeals the verdict in the defamation case won by his rape accuser, E. Jean Carroll. But that whopping sum wasn't enough to get him to stop trashing her.

Discussion: New York Magazine, New York Times and Raw Story

NBC News:
Despite being found liable for attack, Trump claims E. Jean Carroll made ‘false accusations’ against him

Discussion: Mother Jones and New Jersey Online

Steven Greenhouse / The Guardian:

Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ — Trader Joe's and SpaceX are among businesses challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board — Upset by the surge in union drives, several of the best-known corporations in the US are seeking …

Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:

Democrats hope IVF issue might topple key Republican in Pa. swing seat — Rep. Scott Perry (R) says he supports in vitro fertilization — but he backed a bill declaring embryos people, and Democrats want voters to know it — CAMP HILL, Pa. — Rep. Scott Perry, a conservative Republican representing …

Discussion: DNyuz

Sophia Cai / Axios:

Scoop: Trump's team hires lawyer to “watch the money” at RNC … - Trump campaign co-campaign manager and incoming RNC chief operating officer Chris LaCivita is bringing on Sean Cairncross to be his number two at the RNC. — Cairncross is a lawyer with a reputation of enforcing financial discipline …

Nick Robertson / The Hill:

Johnson, Scott hit Biden over walking back ‘illegal’ remark: ‘The president is cowering to his base’ — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other Republicans went after President Biden on Sunday for walking back remarks he made during his State of the Union address, calling a man accused of murder an “illegal.”