memeorandum: Biden team brings in $10 million in the 24 hours after the State of the Union (NBC News)

2:20 PM ET, March 10, 2024

Top Items:

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: The Hill 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, The Hill, National Review 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

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

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

Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Florida Democrat: Marginalized communities won't ‘survive’ a second Trump term

Discussion: New York Post

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: The Daily Beast, New York Times, New York Post, Raw Story, NBC 7 San Diego, The Hollywood Reporter 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: 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: NPR, The Hill, USA Today, Mother Jones, al.com, WFLA-TV, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, DNyuz, Mediaite, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and CNBC

John Archibald / al.com:
How Katie Britt, Alabama's so-called ‘reasonable’ senator, lost herself and much more

Discussion: Raw Story

Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Katie Britt's false linkage of a sex-trafficking case to Joe Biden

Discussion: NBC News, CNBC, Vanity Fair, The Hill, The Guardian, TMZ.com, New York Times, al.com, Raw Story, Forbes, The Moderate Voice, MeidasTouch, HuffPost, Digby's Hullabaloo and Political Wire

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 — The former president is appealing two civil court losses after he was found liable for sexually abusing and then defaming the writer. — ROME, Georgia — Former President Donald Trump …

Discussion: Mother Jones and New Jersey Online

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

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

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 …

Kellen Browning / New York Times:

Kari Lake Tries a New Tactic: Mending Fences — The close Trump ally is courting former foes and trying to mend fences as she runs for Senate in Arizona. But bad blood from her 2022 campaign simmers at home. — Conciliatory messages on social media. Open invitations for coffee.

Discussion: CNN, Progress Pond and Raw Story

David Edwards / Raw Story:
Nancy Mace explodes at ABC host for rape ‘shaming’ her for supporting rapist Donald Trump

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

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.”

Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Expresses Regret for Calling an Undocumented Immigrant ‘an Illegal’

Discussion: Fox News, Power Line, Deadline, DNyuz, Daily Caller News Foundation, HuffPost, The Hill and Political Wire

Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants Points for ‘Scaring’ Joe Biden at SOTU

Discussion: New York Times, abc7NY, RTÉ, MeidasTouch, The Gateway Pundit, CBS News, Fox News, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, DNyuz, Crooks and Liars, Mediaite and NPR

Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Biden says he regrets referring to ‘an illegal’ during his State of the Union address

Discussion: New York Post, Vanity Fair, ABC News, Rolling Stone, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Power Line, Associated Press, Frontpage Mag, USA Today, Twitchy, DNyuz, The Hill, NBC Bay Area and MSNBC

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 …

Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:

After Trump ballot ruling, critics say Supreme Court is selectively invoking conservative originalist approach — Some legal scholars criticized the court for ignoring arguments based on the text and original understanding of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment in a ruling that kept Trump on the ballot.