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12:35 PM ET, June 30, 2024

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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 …
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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.
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 …
Discussion: Althouse, Fox News and The Daily Beast
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: Politico, DNyuz and The Post Millennial
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'  —  Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she isn't calling for President Biden to step down when asked about calls from Democrats for the president to do so in the wake of his negatively-reviewed presidential debate performance.
Discussion: ABC News
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Two Joe Bidens: The night America saw the other one
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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
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
 
 
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