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Increasing numbers of voters don't think Biden should be running after debate with Trump — CBS News poll — For months before the first debate, the nation's voters repeatedly expressed doubts over whether President Biden had the cognitive health enough to serve.
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'It's a mess': Biden turns to family on his path forward after his disastrous debate — Democratic leaders have stood by the president as he faces questions about his ability to defeat Trump in November. But privately, many are expressing concern. — WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden …
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Axios:
Behind the Curtain: What scares Democrats most … A Democratic official talked us through the gentle approach to getting Biden to end his run on his terms. This official, who demanded anonymity for self-evident reasons, said Biden's sister, Valerie Biden, and longtime friend, Ted Kaufman, should make this case to the president:
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Reckoning of Joe Biden — For the President to insist on remaining the Democratic candidate would be an act not only of self-delusion but of national endangerment. — There is an immense bounty of bunk about the wisdom of age available to all of us who require it from time to time …
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ABC News:
Biden campaign argues president dropping out would ‘lead to weeks of chaos’ — The president has spent Friday and Saturday fundraising, vowing to fight harder. — President Joe Biden participates in the CNN Presidential Debate, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta.
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New York Times:
48 Hours to Fix a 90-Minute Mess: Inside the Biden Camp's Post-Debate Frenzy — With countless calls and a rush of campaign events, the president's team began a damage-control effort to pressure and plead with anxious Democratic lawmakers, surrogates, activists and donors.
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
‘Mental Masturbation’: Trump Camp Dismisses Dem Talk of Shoving Biden Aside — JOE BIDEN HAS NO PLANS TO QUIT the presidential race. Nor does Donald Trump's campaign expect him to. — Amid the fallout from the president's dire performance in Thursday night's debate …
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Pelosi on Democrats calling for Biden to step down: 'I'm not doing it'
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Stuart Stevens / New York Times:
Democrats: Stop Panicking
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Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC:
Biden campaign fundraises $27 million after first debate
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Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Biden aides plotted debate strategy for months. Then it all collapsed. — The Biden team gambled on an early debate and prepared intensively at Camp David, but they could not prevent their candidate's stumbles onstage. — CAMP DAVID, Md. — President Biden's debate prep went fine.
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the raceBoard — President Joe Biden's debate performance was a disaster. His disjointed responses and dazed look sparked calls for him to drop out of the presidential race.But lost in the hand wringing was Donald Trump's usual bombastic litany of lies …
emptywheel:
The “Wow, Pictures!” Tabloid Coverage of Trump's Stolen Documents Is as Bad as Conspiracy Mongering — The other day, I mined the documents and photographs released in the government's response to Trump's bid to throw out his indictment based on a complaint that the FBI failed to preserve the order of documents in boxes.
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Top aides shielded Biden from staff, but couldn't hide the debate … - “It's time for Joe to go.” … - “I know many of these people and how the White House operates. … - Reached by phone, West said he wrote the post because “the debate was not the first bad day, and it's not gonna be the last.”
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Dave Philipps / New York Times:
Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Died by Suicide … Longtime Navy SEALs like David Metcalf, shown with teammates in a photo from a personal collection, are exposed repeatedly in training to the blasts from detonating explosives and firing weapons.
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Amichai Lau-Lavie / New York Times:
The Pride March Doesn't Have a Place for Me — I've been marching in Pride parades since 1995, but I won't be marching this year in New York, where I live. — Pride Month has always been about a political and progressive embrace of our rainbow of choices.
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Gilad Edelman / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump's Theory of Everything — At Thursday's debate, while Joe Biden struggled to put a sentence together, Donald Trump struggled to utter any sentence that wasn't about illegal immigrants destroying the country. — Harsh rhetoric—and policy—on migrants and the border has long …
Sara Cline / Associated Press:
How will Louisiana's new Ten Commandments classroom requirement be funded and enforced? — Even as a legal challenge is already underway over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of how the mandate will be implemented and enforced remain murky.
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