memeorandum: Congress voted against funding a cure for cancer just to block a win for Biden (Dr. Thomas K. Lew/USA Today)

9:40 AM ET, May 6, 2024

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Playbook: GOP eyes some Santos payback — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — BREAKING OVERNIGHT — Gaza cease-fire talks appear to have collapsed following a Hamas rocket attack yesterday that killed three soldiers at an Israeli checkpoint …

Andrew Solender / Axios:

Scoop: House GOP homes in on Biden as top 2024 punching bag … - In addition to citing Biden's underwater national approval, the memo posits that he is unpopular in evenDemocratic-leaning swing districts. — “We expect Democrats to wake up and furiously backpedal away from Biden in the fall.

Discussion: Raw Story

Nick Robertson / The Hill:
‘If Roe v. Wade can fall, anything can fall,’ says Jeffries in stressing importance of elections

Discussion: WFLA-TV and Washington Examiner

Axios:

Behind the Curtain: 6% of six states … - Those were the battlegrounds disputed by Donald Trump after the 2020 election. … - A seventh state, North Carolina, is included in some swing-state polls. … Republicans think they're winning. The swing-state map is a big reason why.

Discussion: Newsday

USA Today:

It's a tie: Biden 37%-Trump 37% as Hispanic, Black and younger voters shift - Exclusive — Susan Page Sudiksha Kochi Rachel BarberUSA TODAY — It couldn't be closer. — Six months before Election Day, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are tied 37%-37% …

Discussion: HotAir, The Hill and ABC News

Public Notice:

Hunter Biden's revenge — Smear campaigns have consequences. — ∙ Paid … Have you noticed that after years of saturation coverage, Fox News hosts have suddenly cooled it on the Hunter Biden stuff? There's a reason for that. — Last week, Fox News pulled the six-part series …

AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:

Kristi Noem Cries ‘Fake News’ After Disastrous Interview on CBS — DOGGED BY SCANDAL — The South Dakota governor complained that the host of “Face the Nation” had interrupted her “once every 25 seconds”—something that would never happen to, say, Gretchen Whitmer.

Discussion: Rolling Stone, IJR, RedState, Mother Jones, HuffPost, New Jersey Online, PoliticusUSA, The Daily Caller, The Dakota Scout, Raw Story, Digby's Hullabaloo and Mediaite

Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Kristi Noem Suggests Biden's Dog Should Have Been Killed, Too

Discussion: CNN, New Jersey Online, Raw Story, New York Post, Business Insider, NBC News, Washington Examiner, New York Magazine, CNBC, WFLA-TV and AllSides Balanced

Nandika Chatterjee / Salon:
Kristi Noem's animal cruelty is hurting the GOP financially

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Dr. Thomas K. Lew / USA Today:

Congress voted against funding a cure for cancer just to block a win for Biden — Some Republicans, refusing to give President Joe Biden a ‘win,’ voted against the renewal of funding for cancer research. Vote for those who do not politicize Americans' health. — I'm afraid I have some bad news.

emptywheel:

400 Rich People Pay $40K to Hear Trump Glorify Cop Assailants — On Saturday, a bunch of people paid a lot of money — at least $40,0000 apiece, and one or two people took Trump up on an offer to speak if they gave $1 million — to hear Trump glorify cop assailants.

Discussion: Raw Story, USA Today and Washington Post

Brett Samuels / The Hill:

White House: Trump Gestapo comment echoes ‘appalling rhetoric of fascists’ — The White House on Sunday slammed former President Trump after he compared the Biden administration to the Gestapo police force in Nazi Germany. — “Instead of echoing the appalling rhetoric of fascists …

Discussion: USA Today, Frontpage Mag, Axios, HuffPost, RedState, CBS News, Reuters, Associated Press, The Guardian and AllSides Balanced

Judd Legum / Popular Information:

Congressman praises racist heckling. Will his corporate backers stand by him? — On Thursday, Jaylin Smith, a graduate student at the University of Mississippi, participated in a small, non-violent protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Smith and the other protesters were greeted …

Discussion: Phi Delta Theta, HuffPost, New Jersey Online, TIME, CNN, WPR and The Daily Beast

CNN:

RNC chief counsel resigns after two months — The Republican National Committee's chief counsel Charlie Spies has resigned two months after accepting the position. — Spies' departure follows weeks of growing tension with RNC officials, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.

Discussion: Politico, The Hill, New York Times, Washington Examiner, Washington Post and NBC News

Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:

Biden Races to Trump-Proof His Agenda — Trump made unprecedented use of a 1996 law to overturn Obama-era regulations. Biden's aides hope to stop the Republican from doing it again if he wins.

Paul Rosenberg / Salon:

Who believes the most “taboo” conspiracy theories? It might not be who you think — White men with graduate degrees, a new study finds, are highly likely to hold especially noxious beliefs — Like Henry Ford before him, Elon Musk has emerged as America's top conspiracy spreader. But he's hardly alone.

Sophia Cai / Axios:

Trump's real-time reviews of 2024 VP possibles and other surrogates … - Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) — “As a candidate he did a good job, but as a surrogate he's unbelievable.” — Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) — “He wasn't a supporter of mine at the very beginning... He was saying things …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Crooked Media and Raw Story