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Bloomberg:
Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Loss — The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race. — President Joe Biden registered his best showing yet …
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NBC News:
'It's Shakespearean': Long-simmering tensions between Biden's family and aides spill out — Biden has taken full responsibility for his debate performance, saying in an interview on Friday it was “nobody's fault but mine.” — President Joe Biden's family is attempting to become more involved …
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Biden's team drafted the questions for his first post-debate interviews … - WURD is the only African-American owned and operated talk radio station in Pennsylvania, but the White House's director of Black media was not part of the process. — It is the latest instance of the White House continuing …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Biden Aides Provided Questions in Advance for His Radio Interviews — A radio host told CNN that she had received a list of eight questions to approve before one of the president's interviews on Wednesday. — The questions asked of President Biden by two radio interviewers this week …
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New York Times:
As Biden Digs In, More Supporters Look to Push Him Out
As Biden Digs In, More Supporters Look to Push Him Out
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Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Biden's credibility crisis
Behind the Curtain: Biden's credibility crisis
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Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Live Election Updates: Biden Will Return to the Trail, Seeking to Salvage His Campaign
Live Election Updates: Biden Will Return to the Trail, Seeking to Salvage His Campaign
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Owen Lavine / The Daily Beast:
Former Trump Advisor Stephen Miller Denies Involvement With Project 2025, Ad Says Otherwise — WE GOT THE RECEIPTS — Former Trump advisor Stephen Miller claimed he has “never been involved with Project 2025” in a post on X on Saturday, however, a video on the Project 2025 YouTube channel says otherwise.
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Robert Reich / The Guardian:
We should all be terrified of Trump's Project 2025 — The presumptive Republican nominee has promised to give rightwing evangelical Christians what they want - and more — “Project 2025” is nothing short of a 900-page blueprint for guiding Donald Trump's second term of office if he's re-elected.
MSNBC:
Trump World ‘panicking’ as Project 2025 gets on the radar of voters — “Trump does not want people to know about the entire vanguard of extremist weirdos around him—and what their plans are when he governs,” says Chris Hayes on voters finding out about the far-right agenda that is Project 2025.
Jon Levine / New York Post:
President Biden's physician met with Parkinson's disease specialist in White House — A top Washington D.C. neurologist had a meeting with President Biden's personal doctor at the White House earlier this year, visitor logs reviewed by The Post show. — Dr. Kevin Cannard …
Lauren Floyd / Axios:
Trump wins delay in classified documents case … - It's an opinion that Trump has used to throw a wrench in prosecutors' plans although the SCOTUS decision on July 1 failed to clarify whether his alleged conduct on Jan. 6 was protected. … - Trump's attorneys have also used presidential immunity …
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Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian:
Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? — Yes, Biden had a bad debate - but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016 — I am not usually one to offer diagnoses of people I've never met, but it does seem like the pundit class …
Radley Balko / The Watch:
The Supreme Court folds — The Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. United States is its worst decision of my lifetime. John Roberts's sloppy, arrogant, contradictory majority opinion provides license for any future president to lie, cheat, steal, suppress dissent, and — if they have the stomach for it — assassinate.
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Associated Press:
Hamas clears the way for a possible cease-fire in Gaza after dropping key demand, officials say — (AP video/Abdel Kareem Hana, Production: Wafaa Shurafa) — ‘Even if we had money, there are no goods’: Palestinians at Gaza refugee camp suffer food shortages
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The Guardian:
The French republic is under threat. We are 1,000 historians and we cannot remain silent — Patrick Boucheron, Antoine Lilti and others — We implore voters not to turn their backs on our nation's history. Go out and defeat the far right in Sunday's vote
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Politico:
American allies fear Biden is finished and can't beat Trump — “We're not sure that, even if he wins, he can survive four years more,” said one official from a European NATO country. — Diplomats and world leaders preparing for next week's NATO summit are privately expressing acute concern …
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Tressie McMillan Cottom / New York Times:
Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lost — I watched the debate from a pub in Ireland. A man sitting next to me pegged me for a Yank. “Sorry about all that — screwed no matter what you do,” he said before the final minutes of the debate ended.
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he 'won't take sides' on what happened on 9/11 — The independent presidential candidate made the remark in a social media post, later saying that he was referring to “possible Saudi involvement” in the 2001 terror attacks. — Independent presidential candidate …
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