memeorandum: AOC goes live on Instagram saying many who want Joe Biden to drop out of race also want to remove Kamala (Gustaf Kilander/The Independent)

2:20 PM ET, July 19, 2024

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Biden's family starts discussing his exit plan from the 2024 race — The president's family members have discussed how he would want to end his re-election bid on his own timing and with a carefully calculated plan in place. — WASHINGTON — Members of President Joe Biden's family …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner, HotAir, Slate, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, TMZ.com, RedState, The Sun, Breitbart and Raw Story

Sean Casten / Chicago Tribune:

Rep. Sean Casten: It's time for Joe Biden to pass the torch — Our country faces an existential threat this November. — On the one hand, we have Joe Biden. A man who passed the biggest climate and infrastructure bills in our nation's history; expanded NATO; has overseen record-breaking economic growth …

Discussion: Axios, Business Insider, NPR, Fox News, Politico, Washington Examiner, E&E News and ABC7

Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:

Top Biden ally says president is weighing options for November — Sen. Chris Coons said Biden is “weighing ... who is the best candidate to win in November.” — One of the national co-chairs of President Joe Biden's reelection campaign acknowledged Friday that the president is evaluating …

Discussion: CNBC

Associated Press:

Biden pushes party unity as he resists calls to step aside, says he'll return to campaign next week — Democratic strategist discusses Biden and what may be next for Democrats — President Joe Biden on Friday appealed for party unity to take on former President Donald Trump's “dark vision …

Discussion: The Detroit News, The Boston Globe, CNBC, The Daily Beast, Associated Press, The Mercury, So What, Bloomberg, Plain Dealer, USA Today, Fox News, DNyuz, RedState, Washington Examiner, Business Insider, Roll Call, al.com, Daily Kos and NBC News

Politico:
Why the big boot-Biden House Dem wave isn't here yet

Discussion: New York Times, CNN, The Hill, Hartford Courant and CBS News

Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
More Democrats join wave of lawmakers calling on Biden to drop out of 2024 race

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Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Wave of Hill Dems renew calls for Biden to drop out

Discussion: Journal Sentinel and WisPolitics

NBC News:
Biden left feeling angry and betrayed by top Democratic leaders wavering on his campaign

Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Guardian, New Republic, Politico, The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider, IJR, Instapundit, New York Post and HuffPost

CBS News:
Trump's national lead over Biden grows — CBS News poll

Discussion: Punchbowl News, RedState, The Guardian, The Root, Daily Caller News Foundation, modernity, The Hill, New York Post, Breitbart, Power Line, DNyuz and The Atlantic

Robert B. Hubbell / Today's Edition Newsletter: Keeping my head down, Part II.

New York Times:
People Close to Biden Say He Appears to Accept He May Have to Leave the Race

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NBC News:
Election 2024 live updates: Trump speaks at the RNC; Biden faces growing calls to drop out of the presidential race

Discussion: Breitbart and E&E News

Washington Post:
Pelosi has told House Democrats that Biden may soon be persuaded to exit race

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David Frum / The Atlantic:

This Crew Is Totally Beatable — At the climax of the Republican National Convention last night, former President Donald Trump's nomination-acceptance speech was a disheveled mess, endless and boring. He spoke for 93 minutes, the longest such speech on record.

Discussion: Raw Story, ABC30 and The Moderate Voice

Jill Filipovic:

Was That the Worst Convention Speech of All Time? — I hope that you were not, like me, required to watch Donald Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night (and into Friday morning), and were instead doing something more enjoyable: Going out with friends …

Discussion: Advocate, Raw Story, New Jersey Online, Mediaite and Diane Ravitch's blog

Zachary Basu / Axios:

Trump tramples unity theme in two-act convention speech … - Inside the Fiserv Forum, the ebullient mood gave way to rapt silence. … - “I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of Almighty God,” he said, echoing a long list of GOP convention speakers who had cited divine intervention for Trump's survival.

Discussion: Associated Press, New York Times, New Republic, Silver Bulletin, Truthout, IJR, New Jersey Online, Raw Story, Business Insider, The Guardian, NPR, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post, New Statesman, Forbes, Mock Paper Scissors and ABC News

S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Excruciating! Trump's Endlessly Long, Wildly Dishonest RNC Speech

Discussion: The Good in Us, New Yorker, New Republic, Washington Post and New York Times

Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark: Trump Emerges from Convention a Republican Caesar

Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Donald Trump Can (and Must) Be Defeated

Discussion: Washington Post, New Republic, UnHerd and Washington Times

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Cannot Even Pretend to Change Who He Is

Discussion: Progress Pond, Notes from the Middleground, Hartford Courant, New York Post, The Guardian, NOTUS and Baltimore Sun

Doug Schoen / Fox News:
Trump did something he's never done before with RNC speech. Now, the election may already be over

Discussion: RedState, TMZ.com, Breitbart, Forbes, CBS News, Axios, USA Today and The American Conservative

CNN:
Fact check: Trump makes more than 20 false claims in RNC acceptance speech

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Molly Ball / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Hasn't Changed, but the GOP Has

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Will Saletan / The Bulwark: What Happens When a Felon Throws a ‘Law-and-Order’ Convention

Rolling Stone:
The RNC Is Calling This Billionaire Trump Donor an ‘Everyday American’

Discussion: Urban Milwaukee, USA Today, New York Post, Raw Story and WisPolitics

Associated Press:
Rebranding the brand man, softer Trump vs. fighter Trump, regular mentions of Harris: RNC Takeaways

Discussion: Associated Press and Hollywood Life

Gustaf Kilander / The Independent:

AOC goes live on Instagram saying many who want Joe Biden to drop out of race also want to remove Kamala — ‘A lot of them are not just interested in removing the president. They are interested in removing the whole ticket,’ congresswoman says … Support truly — independent journalism

Discussion: New York Times, USA Today, Breitbart, Raw Story, PoliticusUSA and DNyuz

Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:

AOC Issues Dire Warning on Threats to Come if Biden Drops Out … On Instagram Live early Friday morning, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discussed the ongoing debate over whether President Biden is fit to run for reelection. — Speaking for close to an hour, the New York progressive explained …

Discussion: HuffPost, Rolling Stone, Lawyers, Guns & Money and IJR

Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
'That's Bullsh*t!' AOC Slams Democratic Colleagues, Drops BOMBS in Impassioned Defense of Biden

Discussion: freebeacon.com, Washington Examiner, Balloon Juice and Shore News Network

Reuters:

Global cyber outage grounds flights, hits banks, telecoms, media — A software update wreaked havoc on computer systems globally on Friday, grounding flights, forcing some broadcasters off air and hitting services from banking to healthcare. — An update to a product offered …

Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:

The Zeal of a Convert — Much of the coverage of JD Vance presents has implied, if not outright stated, that Vance is a hypocrite and opportunist. How else do you explain someone who denounced Trump in a myriad of ways, and then jumped onto Trump bandwagon when struggling in his primary race?

Discussion: Politico and The Spectator World

Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
How JD Vance's path to being Trump's VP pick wound through Silicon Valley

Discussion: The Information, CBS News, Raw Story, HuffPost, Advocate, Mediaite and Washington Post

Matt Binder / Mashable:

Elon Musk's X adds pro-Trump icons for Trump hashtags — The move comes after Musk publicly endorsed Trump — Over the weekend, Elon Musk made his support for Donald Trump official by publicly endorsing the former-president shortly after Trump was wounded in the ear by a would-be assassin during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

Discussion: One America News Network, The Verge, Forbes and RedState

Griffin Eckstein / Salon: Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US users

Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:

Vice President Kamala Harris to Speak With Major Democratic Donors — The call comes as turmoil roils the party and its donor base. — Vice President Kamala Harris is set to address a network of major Democratic donors on short notice Friday afternoon, according to two people invited to the call.

Discussion: NBC News and Scripps News

Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Democratic donors begin mobilizing to raise money for Harris if she's the nominee

Discussion: NBC News, Election Law Blog and Axios

Jamison Foser / Finding Gravity:

Horny for fascism — You ever have one of those days where nothing surprises you but the sheer volume of things not surprising you is kind of overwhelming? — Here's Politico reporter Natalie Allison with an extremely unsurprising yet deeply stupid bit of not-journalism:

Bloomberg:

Zuckerberg Calls Trump's Response to Shooting ‘Badass’ — Meta CEO doesn't endorse Trump or Biden for president — Mark Zuckerberg said that former President Donald Trump's immediate reaction after being shot was “badass” and inspiring, and helps explain his appeal to voters.

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CNN:

Trump's would-be assassin researched previous mass shooter Ethan Crumbley and his family before attack — The Trump rally shooter searched online for information on the arrest of a Michigan mass shooter and his parents, who were prosecuted in a 2021 high school shooting. He visited websites for how to build explosives.