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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Biden Tells Allies He Knows He Has Only Days to Salvage Candidacy  —  The president's conversations are the first indication that he is seriously considering whether he can recover after a devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta.  The White House said the report was false.
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Caught on Video Claiming ‘Broken-Down’ Biden Has Quit: 'It's Kamala'  —  ‘SO F***ING BAD’  —  In a leaked video, Trump offers a frank analysis of his rival's performance in the first presidential debate, calling Biden a “broken-down pile of cr*p.”  —  Donald Trump delivered …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ABC News Moves Biden-Stephanopoulos Interview to Friday Primetime  —  George Stephanopoulos' coming interview with President Biden is too hot to delay.  —  ABC News said it will move an interview between the anchor and President Joe Biden to Friday evening, rather than waiting until Sunday morning …
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump Widens Lead After Biden's Debate Debacle, Times/Siena Poll Finds  —  Donald Trump is ahead of President Biden by six percentage points among likely voters in a new national survey.  Overall, 74 percent of voters view him as too old for the job, an uptick since the debate.
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Biden wins crucial support of Democratic governors to continue campaign: 'We're going to have his back' - as it happened  —  This blog is now closed  —  ABC to air full Joe Biden interview on Friday Newsom on Biden: 'He's all in - and so am I'  —  Whitmer gives backing to Biden: 'He's in it to win it and I support him'
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Netflix Co-founder Becomes One of the Biggest Democratic Donors to Call for Biden to Step Aside  —  A public declaration from a megadonor is another crack in the armor in the president's foundation of support.  —  Reed Hastings, the Netflix co-founder who in recent years has become …
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Forcing Biden Out Would Have Only One Beneficiary: Trump  —  Joe Biden refuses to drop out of the presidential race even as some liberals, rattled by the incumbent's frightening debate performance last week, keep pressuring him to do so.  —  Who's surprised by that?
Discussion: Breitbart
New York Times:
Biden Tells Governors That He Is Staying in the Race  —  At a meeting with Democratic governors at the White House, the president was grilled about the path forward as he worked to solidify support from elected leaders.  —  President Biden told a group of Democratic governors on Wednesday …
NBC News:
Biden privately remains torn between defiance and acceptance amid calls to step aside  —  In some discussions, Biden has acknowledged that the blowback may grow too large to overcome, while in others he's been dismissive of any notion that he might walk away.
Washington Post:
Jeffries seeks to stem House defections, for now, as Democrats panic over Biden  —  Only two sitting House Democrats had called on President Biden to exit the presidential race as of Wednesday night.  —  As of early Wednesday morning, President Biden had called just one congressional leader personally …
Discussion: Politico
Tim Balk / New York Times:
Raúl Grijalva Is Second House Democrat to Call for Biden to Drop Out
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Some DNC delegates want more time before nominating Biden
Discussion: Politico and Washington Examiner
Bloomberg:
House Democrats Consider Demanding Biden Withdraw From Race
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:   Time to Roll the Dice  —  November's election has very high stakes: the nature and, indeed …
Bonchie / RedState:
NEW: Joe Biden Gives Definitive Answer About His Future, and Democrats Are Going to Need a Stiff Drink
Politico:
Biden: 'No one's pushing me out'
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Biden's latest excuse: Blame it on the travel
Seung Min Kim / Associated Press:
Top White House aide urges staff to tune out ‘noise’ and focus on governing during debate fallout
Robert B. Hubbell / Today's Edition Newsletter:
The press vs democracy
Discussion: Associated Press
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Biden Told Ally That He Is Weighing Whether to Continue in the Race
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Biden Must Resign
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Vice President Kamala Harris' past donors privately strategize in case Biden drops out
Slate:
The Supreme Court Is Fully MAGA-Pilled.  The Time for Action Is Now or Never.  —  “We are in the process of the second American Revolution,” Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts thundered on Tuesday in celebration of the Supreme Court's decision granting Donald Trump, and all future presidents …
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:   The Supreme Court Term That Fundamentally Changed America
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Man Behind Project 2025 Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
The spinelessness of John Roberts  —  Chief Justice John Roberts doesn't want to lead.  He is, though, carefully setting up a path to allow the right-wing court to respond to whatever comes its way in 2025.  —  When it comes to leading, Chief Justice John Roberts has chosen: No.
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and Wall Street Journal
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
White House Reporters: Biden Handlers' ‘Credibility’ Is Shot  —  TELL THE TRUTH  —  One journalist said while Biden press reps' credibility had been “eroding” for a while, the lack of transparency over his health “has kind of been a bit of an iceberg falloff.”
Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Some Mississippi legislative districts dilute Black voting power and must be redrawn, judges say  —  Three federal judges are telling Mississippi to redraw some of its legislative districts, saying the current ones dilute the power of Black voters in three parts of the state.
Reuters:
Romanian ruling coalition agrees parliamentary, presidential election dates  —  Romania's ruling coalition of leftist Social Democrats and centre-right Liberals has agreed to hold a presidential election on Nov. 24 and Dec. 8, with parliamentary polls in between, they said on Thursday.
Discussion: Bloomberg
 
 
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