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1:25 PM ET, June 30, 2024

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CBS News:
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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NBC News:
'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 …
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:
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 …
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.
Discussion: Axios, Politico and DNyuz
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 …
Discussion: CBS News and Fox News
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Pelosi on Democrats calling for Biden to step down: 'I'm not doing it'
Discussion: ABC News
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.”
Discussion: Power Line and New Jersey Online
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Two Joe Bidens: The night America saw the other one
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.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
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.
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.
Discussion: Associated Press and Joanne Jacobs
 
 
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