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‘No one involved in the effort thinks he has a path’: Biden insiders say the writing is on the wall — The set of Democrats who think he should reconsider his decision to stay in the race has grown to include aides, operatives and officials tasked with guiding his campaign to victory.
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Is Unfit to Lead Donald Trump Is Unfit to Lead — The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists — Next week, for the third time in eight years, Donald Trump will be nominated as the Republican Party's candidate for president of the United States.


Amid Doubts About Biden's Mental Sharpness, Trump Leads Presidential Race — Roughly 6 in 10 voters describe both Biden and Trump as ‘embarrassing’ — Table of Contents Table of Contents — Broad dissatisfaction with the 2024 campaign — Other findings: Voter engagement …
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Some Biden Advisers Are Discussing How to Convince Him to Step Aside — Close allies of the president are developing a case for why he should end his re-election campaign, though it is not clear that the discussions have reached him. — Some longtime aides and advisers to President Biden …
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The Embattled Biden Campaign Tests Kamala Harris's Strength vs. Trump — The campaign is quietly carrying out a head-to-head survey of voters between the vice president and Donald Trump, in a sign of the uncertainty even atop the Democratic Party. — Under siege from fellow Democrats …
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Angry and stunned Democrats blame Biden's closest advisers for shielding public from full extent of president's decline — At a star-studded fundraiser for President Joe Biden in Los Angeles last month, George Clooney wasn't the only one who came away concerned about the president.
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Playbook: What Obama and Pelosi are doing about Biden — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — This morning, we have a look at how, at a moment of unprecedented crisis for the Democratic Party, two of its most powerful and popular personalities …
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House Dems prepare to break with Biden if he tanks NATO press conference — Democratic lawmakers are making contingency plans in case Joe Biden tanks his highly anticipated solo press conference later Thursday, with at least a half-dozen lawmakers preparing to go public against the president …
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Republicans: No Fair Nominating Somebody Else! … The people most upset by efforts to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee, after Biden and his immediate family, are in the Trump campaign. Donald Trump's strategy is built around around portraying him as strong and virile …
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This Is How You Know Trump Smells Victory — I'm used to Donald Trump being painfully loud, proudly obnoxious and, well, sort of bonkers. I'm used to alligators-on-the-border Trump, sharks-in-the-water Trump, Hannibal Lecter Trump. — I'm not used to the Trump of the past two weeks …
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NYTimes Launders Its Own Agency
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Democrats Turn to Their Deputy Leader
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Biden and Trump tied despite debate, as 67% call for president to drop out: POLL
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Biden Aides Believe Obama Is Plotting Joe's Ouster After Clooney Op-Ed
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Trump's Lead Just Got Scarier—but This Dem Still Sees a Path for Biden
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'You're worried if he knows which direction he's going': Nervous world leaders greet Biden at NATO

The Bonfire of the Democrats — We were really hoping to make today's newsletter squarely …
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Most Democrats want Biden to drop out, but overall race is static, poll finds
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What Obama and Pelosi are doing about Biden
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Trump rips Clooney over op-ed urging Biden to drop reelection bid
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Conservatives See a Conspiracy Around Joe Biden's Stumbles
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Civic Media — Statement regarding edits to the July 4th interview with President Biden — The Earl Ingram Show was one of two radio programs contacted by the Biden campaign following the June 27th debate to speak with President Biden. The interview was recorded on July 3rd and aired …
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Milwaukee radio station says it agreed to edit interview with Joe Biden — Jessie Opoien Molly BeckMilwaukee Journal Sentinel — MADISON — Civic Media, a Wisconsin-based progressive talk-radio network, said Thursday it had agreed to make two edits to an interview with President Joe Biden …
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GOP Push To Fine Merrick Garland $10,000 A Day Over Biden Audio Fails — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who pushed for the penalty, said she would try again when Congress returns. — LOADING — Some Republicans' effort to punish Attorney General Merrick Garland for withholding audio …
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Ossoff votes with Republicans to block controversial Biden nominee
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Exclusive: US and Germany foiled Russian plot to assassinate CEO of arms manufacturer sending weapons to Ukraine — US intelligence discovered earlier this year that the Russian government planned to assassinate the chief executive of a powerful German arms manufacturer that has been producing …


Florida Plastic Man — Marco Rubio was the GOP's rising star — until Donald Trump came along. Now, a decade later, a new version of the Senator is back in the conversation about the party's future. — What happened to Marco Rubio? — What happened to the GOP's preacher of optimism …
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The GOP Has Found A New Reason To Pawn Off America's Public Lands — Trump has endorsed a new party platform that tries to make a wildly unpopular idea more digestible to voters. — LOADING — Anti-federal land zealots across the country must be licking their chops.
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Inflation continues to slow in the U.S., opening door to Fed rate cut — Consumer prices rose 3% in June, less than expected and down from May's rate, adding pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. — Price increases slowed more sharply than expected in June …
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ABC's brutal ultimatum to George Stephanopoulos after his damning verdict on Joe Biden - as network plunged into ‘fully fledged crisis’ — George Stephanopoulos was threatened with being taken off air if he didn't clarify his position on Joe Biden's ability to serve another four years, it is claimed.
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Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez suggests Biden should resign and drop out of presidential race — U.S. Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Adam Smith have also called for Biden to drop out, though not to resign. Other Oregon and Washington Democrats have been noncommittal.
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‘Someone has to birth all the babies’: How the far right is crafting their plan for women — A strong theme pervaded the fourth National Conservatism Conference this year, wrote Sarah Jones for New York Magazine's “Intelligencer” on Thursday — and that is the restrictive vision they have for women in society.
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