memeorandum: We should all be terrified of Trump's Project 2025 (Robert Reich/The Guardian)

2:30 PM ET, July 6, 2024

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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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Annie Karni / New York Times:

Jeffries Plans to Meet Virtually With Top House Democrats on Biden's Path Ahead — The House minority leader scheduled a virtual meeting for Sunday. — Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, has scheduled a virtual meeting on Sunday with senior House Democrats …

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ABC News:

ABC's George Stephanopoulos' exclusive interview with President Biden: Full transcript — Full transcript of the ABC News exclusive interview with President Joe Biden. — President Joe Biden speaks with George Stephanopoulos on July 5, 2024, in an ABC News exclusive.

Neil Vigdor / New York Times:

Live Election Updates: Biden Will Return to the Trail, Seeking to Salvage His Campaign — With his candidacy on the line, Biden will visit Pennsylvania. — President Biden will campaign in Pennsylvania on Sunday, his second trip to a battleground state in recent days as part of a crucible …

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Washington Post:

Election 2024 latest news Defiant Biden doubles down on staying in race — In a pair of Friday events — a campaign rally in the battleground state of Wisconsin and a prime-time interview on ABC — President Biden dismissed concerns about his fitness to continue his campaign and stated he intends to remain on the ballot in November.

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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.

Discussion: Twitchy and Newsbusters

Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:

‘Exhausted,’ ‘bad episode’: Biden doubles down on debate explanations in ABC News exclusive — : Speaking with George Stephanopoulos, he dismissed concerns about mental fitness. — President Joe Biden speaks with George Stephanopoulus on July 5, 2024, in an ABC News exclusive.

Zachary Basu / Axios:
Biden at peace if he loses to Trump: “As long as I gave it my all”

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New York Post:
ABC interview proves that Joe Biden is in complete senile denial

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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden refuses cognitive test, denies he's losing to Trump

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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

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Theodoric Meyer / Washington Post:
Donors pledge $2 million for ‘mini-primary’ if Biden drops out

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Politico:
Healey, a top Biden ally, urges him to consider dropping out of the race

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Rasmussen Reports:
After Debate Disaster, 55% Think Democrats Should Dump Biden

Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Examiner

NBC News:
Biden doubles-down at Wisconsin rally: 'I'm staying in the race'

ABC News:
Trump stays relatively quiet, unseen as Biden struggles to save political future

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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.

Discussion: New Jersey Online, The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, Digby's Hullabaloo, Raw Story, Metro.co.uk, Alternet.org, Fox News, Washington Examiner, PoliticusUSA, New Republic and The American Conservative

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 …

Discussion: CNN, RedState, Forbes, Raw Story, Democrats, The Guardian, One America News Network, Washington Post, National Review, HuffPost, Blue Virginia, Digby's Hullabaloo, Washington Times, The Daily Caller, The Intercept, NOTUS and Axios

MSNBC:
Trump World ‘panicking’ as Project 2025 gets on the radar of voters

Discussion: Raw Story and WBUR

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 …

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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 …

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

Discussion: The Kyiv Independent and emptywheel

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 …

Discussion: The Wrap, Mother Jones, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Examiner

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.