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4:50 PM ET, July 6, 2024

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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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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 …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
White House Provided the Questions in Advance for Biden's Radio Interviews  —  The host of “The Source” on WURD in Philadelphia said the president's aides provided her with a list of eight questions to choose from.  —  The questions asked of President Biden by two radio interviewers this week …
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 …
New York Times:
As Biden Digs In, More Supporters Look to Push Him Out  —  Interviews with dozens of Democrats illustrated an imminent clash between a defiant president and those who question his ability to win.  Many rank-and-file party officials remain supportive.  —  Numerous officials …
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Biden's credibility crisis … Some top Democrats told us Biden made matters worse Friday with his ABC interview, where he denied bad poll numbers and widespread Democratic panic.  — “All the pollsters I talk to tell me it's a tossup,” Biden told George Stephanopoulos.
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Jeffries Plans to Meet Virtually With Top House Democrats on Biden's Path Ahead
ABC News:
ABC's George Stephanopoulos' exclusive interview with President Biden: Full transcript
New York Post:
ABC interview proves that Joe Biden is in complete senile denial
Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
‘Exhausted,’ ‘bad episode’: Biden doubles down on debate explanations in ABC News exclusive
New York Times:   Some of Biden's Upcoming Fund-Raising Events Face New Uncertainty
Ursula Perano / Politico:
Warner organizing discussion for Senate Democrats to assess Biden's path forward
Politico:
Healey, a top Biden ally, urges him to consider dropping out of the race
Rasmussen Reports:
After Debate Disaster, 55% Think Democrats Should Dump Biden
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Examiner
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.
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Trump's Project 2025  —  We know that Donald Trump was fixated on polls Friday morning.  We know that because he posted about them at least 15 times on Truth social.  —  The horse race polls may not have been the only polling data Trump looked at, because after devoting his 11 a.m. hour to them …
MSNBC:
Trump World ‘panicking’ as Project 2025 gets on the radar of voters
Discussion: Raw Story and WBUR
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.
Discussion: Alternet.org and Hartford Courant
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
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 …
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.
 
 
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