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2:10 PM ET, July 18, 2024

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Washington Post:
Obama tells allies Biden needs to seriously consider his viability  —  The former president, hugely influential in the party, has told associates that Biden's path to victory has significantly shrunk.  —  Former president Barack Obama has told allies in recent days that President Biden's path …
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Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Top Dems now believe Biden will exit … - The president is being told that if he stays in, former President Trump could win in a landslide and wipe away Biden's legacy and Democrats' hopes in November. … - Democrats fully expect polls after the Republican National Convention …
CNN:
Pelosi privately told Biden polls show he cannot win and will take down the House; Biden responded with defensiveness  —  Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi privately told President Joe Biden in a recent conversation that polling shows that the president cannot defeat Donald Trump and that Biden …
NBC News:
'We're close to the end': Biden world braces for the possibility that the president steps aside  —  As Trump is about to give a major speech accepting the GOP nomination for president, Biden is off the campaign trail with COVID.  —  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's political world is collapsing.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The End of Biden's Candidacy Approaches  —  At the start of the day yesterday, it was conceivable that Joe Biden might manage to hold on to the Democratic nomination for president.  But this morning, things seem to be slipping out of his grasp.  —  The blows to Biden were both procedural and political …
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Democratic delegates erupt over Biden's nomination in private chats  —  Messages shared between Democratic delegates and activists in California, the biggest and one of the bluest states, lay bare the infighting over their nominee's fitness for a presidential run.
Politico:
Playbook: The walls close in around Biden  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  For weeks, the Democratic Party has been paralyzed by uncertainty about whether President JOE BIDEN should stay atop the ticket or step aside.
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
July 2024 Swing State Polls  —  Trump Leads Biden in Swing States and National Poll as Biden's Support Declines  —  New polling conducted July 15-16 by Emerson College Polling and sponsored by Democrats for Next Generation finds former President Trump leading Biden in seven swing states and in a national poll.
Dustin Gardiner / Politico:
Pelosi hasn't told Biden to drop out yet. Here's what her California allies have said.
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Schumer privately urged Biden to step aside in 2024 election: Sources
Washington Post:
Jeffries and Schumer privately warned Biden he could imperil Democrats
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi Reportedly Warn Biden Against Running
New York Times:
Biden Called ‘More Receptive’ to Hearing Pleas to Step Aside
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
America will never be the same after Milwaukee's tent revival for the cult of Donald Trump  —  MILWAUKEE — I came to the American Heartland to cover a political convention, but all I found was a tent revival, Brother Trump's Traveling Salvation Show.The Republican National Convention took …
Discussion: WisPolitics
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:   The GOP's big, mysterious enemy: “They”
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Biden administration cancels another $1.2B in student debt … - PSLF allows public employees, such as teachers, firefighters, members of law enforcement, and people who work for nonprofit organizations, to apply for forgiveness after making 10 years' worth of payments on their federal student loan balance.
Discussion: ED News, Plain Dealer and IJR
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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on $1.2 Billion in Student Debt Cancellation for 35,000 Borrowers
Discussion: freebeacon.com and UPI
Damien Gayle / The Guardian:
Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25  —  Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance  —  Five supporters of the Just Stop Oil climate campaign who conspired …
Discussion: The Sun and Metro.co.uk
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The VP is clearly the stronger candidate  —  The case for Kamala Harris, from a former hater  —  I did not support selecting Kamala Harris as Joe Biden's running mate in 2020.  —  My reasons for this were pretty boring.  It's genuinely difficult to make it to the top of the political pyramid …
Discussion: Althouse
The White House:
Statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre  —  Earlier today following his first event in Las Vegas, President Biden tested positive for COVID-19.  He is vaccinated and boosted and he is experiencing mild symptoms.  He will be returning to Delaware where he will self-isolate …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Project 2025 *is* the GOP platform  —  Don't let them fool you. … Project 2025 — the right-wing template for a second Trump term — is so exhaustively evil, so vast in scope, that it feels impossible to fully comprehend it.  —  However, as the GOP faithful gather in Milwaukee …
Megan Messerly / Politico:
Trump brags about ending Roe.  No one's talking about it in Milwaukee.  —  Heading into the final day of the Republican Party's first national gathering since the Supreme Court's landmark decision, the issue has barely received a passing mention.  —  MILWAUKEE — Overturning Roe …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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New York Times:
How Trump Dominated His Own Party on a New G.O.P. Platform
Discussion: Raw Story
Tierney Sneed / CNN:
If the Trump classified documents case is reinstated, Judge Aileen Cannon would be difficult to remove  —  Even after a year of exasperating proceedings that featured several breaks from normal judicial procedure and that culminated in a shock ruling dismissing the classified documents indictment …
Discussion: Raw Story and WHDH-TV
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Rightwinger Leonard Leo helped fuel Bud Light boycott, tax filings show  —  Exclusive: Documents reveal group linked to Leo gave money to another group that played central role in boycott  —  Tax filings obtained by the Guardian show how the rightwing dark money impresario Leonard Leo helped fuel …
 
 
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Fox News:
Trump's attempted assassin posted message before shooting: ‘July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds’
Sidney Blumenthal / The Guardian:
To his supporters, Trump is a martyred messiah, resurrected after crucifixion
Washington Post:
Trump to address fully consolidated party at the RNC convention
Discussion: CBS News
Augusta Saraiva / Bloomberg:
Russia's Top Diplomat Praises Trump-Vance Ticket on Ukraine Stance
Discussion: Reuters
Jorge Liboreiro / Euronews:
Ursula von der Leyen is re-elected European Commission president by large majority
New York Times:
First Term  —  Is a  —  Warning  —  This week, Republicans have tried to rewrite …
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Ukraine's budget committee recommends passing a law on suspending debt payments
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