memeorandum: JD Vance Demands Joe Biden Resign from Office: 'If You Can't Run, You Can't Serve' (Olivia Rondeau/Breitbart)

11:25 PM ET, July 20, 2024

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Democratic donors funding an effort to vet potential VP candidates — The effort to vet potential running mates, should Biden exit and Harris become the nominee, is independent of the Biden campaign — Major Democratic donors are funding a preliminary vetting process for potential vice …

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New York Times:

Trump Campaign Prepares Attack Plan for Harris in Case Biden Withdraws — The effort, which includes expansive advertising and polling, assumes that the vice president would be the most likely candidate to replace the president at the top of the Democratic ticket.

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Stef W. Kight / Axios:

GOP builds new case for Biden resignation … - “Everyone calling on Joe Biden to *stop running* without also calling on him to resign the presidency is engaged in an absurd level of cynicism,” Trump's running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) posted on Saturday. — “If you can't run, you can't serve.

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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:

Democrats are gaming out post-Biden options while he remains insistent he'll remain in the race — Opposition continues to mount as some Democrats start exploring who should replace him and how. — Sequestered at his Delaware beach house as he recovers from Covid, President Joe Biden got …

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Pablo O'Hana / The Hill:

Ready for Round 2: Why we Need Hillary more than ever — “But who?” — The strongest argument against replacing President Joe Biden as the 2024 Democratic nominee is the notion that no suitable successor exists. But there is, and not just a good one but one of the most qualified people ever …

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Olivia Rondeau / Breitbart:
JD Vance Demands Joe Biden Resign from Office: 'If You Can't Run, You Can't Serve'

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Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC:
‘Ready to step up’: VP Harris gains Capitol Hill cheerleaders as Biden isolates with Covid

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CNN:
Democratic consensus solidifies around Harris, should Biden step aside

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Matt Viser / Washington Post: Biden family grapples with pressure on their patriarch to step aside

Axios:
Biden eyes Georgia and Texas trips from Rehoboth bunker

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Alex Thompson / Axios:
“Don't watch cable news”: Biden campaign tries to rally staff

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Timothy Nerozzi / Fox News:
Kamala Harris reassures Democratic Party donors that there's nothing to worry about

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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump and Zelensky speak by phone as Ukraine worries about U.S. backing.

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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Ignoring controversy, Democrats move forward with nominating Biden via virtual roll call

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Marco Margaritoff / HuffPost:

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta Calls For ‘Public Assessment’ Of Trump's Injuries After Shooting … LOADING

Dr. Sanjay Gupta / CNN:

There are still key questions about Trump's injuries after attempted assassination — It has been nearly a week since gunfire erupted at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, resulting in an injury to the former president, the death of one attendee …

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Savannah Kuchar / USA Today:
‘In the clear’: Dr. Anthony Fauci weighs in on Trump injury after shooting

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emptywheel:

Will Peter Baker Exhibit the Same Tenacity about Medical Records on the Trump Shooting as He Did a Parkinson's Conspiracy Theory? — Something funny happened on Xitter. — In an attempt to demonstrate the double standard and cowardice of the captive media, I tweeted at Peter Baker asking …

Matt Young / The Daily Beast:

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Dies at 74 After Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis — ‘INCREDIBLE GRIEF’ — The long-serving Democratic congresswoman went public with her health battle in June. — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), a longtime congresswoman who served three decades in Congress …

Washington Post:

Secret Service said to have denied requests for more security at Trump events — Top officials repeatedly rejected requests from Trump's security detail for more manpower and gear at events before attempted assassination, at times citing lack of resources, people familiar with the asks said.

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Jacob Knutson / Axios:

How Project 2025 would change American life … - At least 140 former Trump administration officials contributed to Project 2025, CNN reports. — Trump has publicly disavowed the project; his campaign has pointed to his own policy plan, Agenda47, and the official Republican Party platform as his agenda if he wins in November.

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NBC News:

Some Democratic cities have quietly begun cooperating with ICE, director says — Some sanctuary cities that wouldn't tell ICE when they released undocumented immigrants from jail are now doing so because of public concern about crime, said P.J. Lechleitner.

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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:

Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain — Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, a longtime backer of the new vice-president pick, are among those pledging support — Less than a month after Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016 …

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Annie Linskey / Wall Street Journal:

Elizabeth Warren Signals Support for Harris if Biden Drops Out — Liberal U.S. senator from Massachusetts says Biden has ‘a really big decision to make’ — WASHINGTON—A leading voice in Democratic Party's liberal wing made a case for Vice President Kamala Harris to become the presidential nominee …

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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:

Tossing Trump's case was risky for Judge Cannon — at least for now — Judge Aileen Cannon sidestepped key legal rulings to find that special counsel Jack Smith was improperly appointed to investigate Donald Trump. — Judge Aileen M. Cannon's stunning dismissal this week …

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