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2:35 PM ET, July 19, 2024

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NBC News:
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 …
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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
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 …
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 …
Politico:
Why the big boot-Biden House Dem wave isn't here yet  —  With assists from POLITICO's Congress team  —  In the last 24 hours, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and, now, Barack Obama, have essentially given political cover to any congressional Democrat who wishes to speak out against Joe Biden.
Discussion: 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
NBC News:
Biden left feeling angry and betrayed by top Democratic leaders wavering on his campaign
Matt Sedensky / Associated Press:   Too old to work? Some Americans on the job late in life bristle at calls for Biden to step aside
Robert B. Hubbell / Today's Edition Newsletter:   Keeping my head down, Part II.
CBS News:
Trump's national lead over Biden grows — CBS News poll
New York Times:
People Close to Biden Say He Appears to Accept He May Have to Leave the Race
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
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
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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 …
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.
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Excruciating! Trump's Endlessly Long, Wildly Dishonest RNC Speech
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:   Trump Emerges from Convention a Republican Caesar
Molly Ball / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Hasn't Changed, but the GOP Has
Will Saletan / The Bulwark:   What Happens When a Felon Throws a ‘Law-and-Order’ Convention
Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
'That's Bullsh*t!'  AOC Slams Democratic Colleagues, Drops BOMBS in Impassioned Defense of Biden  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dropped a series of bombs and made an impassioned case for keeping President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket during a livestream on Thursday.
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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: Rolling Stone and IJR
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
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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.
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Griffin Eckstein / Salon:   Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US users
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.
Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Secret Service Director Will Testify Before Congress on Monday  —  It will be Kimberly A. Cheatle's first appearance before lawmakers since the assassination attempt on former President Trump's life.  —  The director of the Secret Service, Kimberly A. Cheatle, will appear before lawmakers …
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.
 
 
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Hundreds of racist plant names will change after historic vote by botanists
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
July 18, 2024  —  Paul Manafort walking onto the floor of the Republican National Convention …
 Earlier Items: 
CNN:
WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich sentenced to 16 years for espionage by Russian court in case denounced by US as a sham
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Republican National Convention Is a Trumpian Triumph
Casey Murray / NOTUS:
Republicans Say They Want to Tone Down Political Rhetoric — But They Keep Calling Immigration an ‘Invasion’
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
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