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New York Times:
Biden's Family Tells Him to Keep Fighting as They Huddle at Camp David  —  President Biden is trying to figure out how to tamp down Democratic anxiety after last week's disastrous debate performance.  —  President Biden's family is urging him to stay in the race and keep fighting despite …
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New York Times:
The Road to a Crisis: How Democrats Let Biden Glide to Renomination  —  An 81-year-old candidate and no Plan B.  “How did we get here?” one leading Democrat asks.  The answer is complicated.  —  In the aftermath of Thursday's presidential debate, as Jill Biden led President Biden off the stage …
Discussion: Business Insider
Mike Allen / Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Biden's salvation plan … - Dismiss “bedwetting.” … - Squeeze polls for juice. … - Warn of chaos. … - Limit dissent. … - Keep elected leaders close. … - Get the donor class to chill. … - Prove vitality. … - Ignore/engage the media.
Discussion: DNyuz and NewsNation
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Biden campaign raises more than $33M since debate with Trump  —  President Biden's campaign has raked in more than $33 million since his debate with former President Trump last week despite some backlash about his performance.  —  In an email on Sunday, a Biden campaign official …
Discussion: Axios and UPI
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Democrats escalate pre-debate Biden avoidance strategy … - “I don't ever want to see him here,” the lawmaker said of Biden, adding that “every single donor — and I'm only calling major donors — is furious and wants him to step aside.”  — A senior House Democrat …
Discussion: Breitbart
Andrea Vacchiano / Fox News:
Majority of voters think Biden is cognitively unfit to serve as president: poll  —  Poll finds 72% of registered voters doubt Biden's cognitive abilities  —  A poll released by CBS News on Sunday found that more voters have doubts about President Biden's cognitive abilities after Thursday's presidential debate.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Democrats fear replacement scenarios as much as keeping Biden  —  They're not writing anything down.  They're not making any firm commitments.  —  But between staring into phones that started buzzing about three minutes into the debate and haven't stopped since, several …
Paul Waldman / MSNBC:
Trump's debate was even worse than you remember  —  To declare the former president a “winner” loses sight of the Trump we saw on that stage.  —  Thursday's debate between President Biden and Donald Trump was novel in at least one way: For the first time in six such debates over the last eight years …
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Karissa Waddick / USA Today:
Historian who predicted 9 of the last 10 election results says Democrats shouldn't drop Joe Biden
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Rep. Jamie Raskin says ‘honest and serious conversations are taking place’ about Biden's political future after debate
CBS News:
Increasing numbers of voters don't think Biden should be running after debate with Trump — CBS News poll
Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Fetterman calls ‘abandon Biden’ campaign dumb, says it helps Trump
Discussion: HuffPost and Fox News
NBC News:
Meet the sporadic voters who could decide the 2024 election  —  Polls show Trump leading among voters who didn't participate in 2020.  The question is: Will they show up in 2024?  —  Neither Joseph Mitchum nor Laura Brooks participated in the last presidential election four years ago.
Reuters:
US to criminally charge Boeing, seek guilty plea, sources say  —  The U.S. Justice Department will criminally charge Boeing (BA.N) with fraud over two fatal crashes and ask the planemaker to plead guilty or face a trial, two people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
Henri Astier / BBC:
France's far right makes big gains in first round of parliamentary election  —  Summary  — France's far right National Rally (RN) has made big gains in the first round of the parliamentary election, exit polls suggest  — Celebrating her party's early success, Marine Le Pen says …
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Clea Caulcutt / Politico:
Le Pen's far right set for big win in first round of French election
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Ron DeSantis strips more than $32m in Florida arts funding  —  Political allies are also surprised at move, which cancels nearly entirety of state's funding and will affect economy  —  Ron DeSantis stripped more than $32m in arts and culture funding from Florida's state budget over his hatred …
Discussion: Raw Story
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Top aides shielded Biden from staff, but couldn't hide the debate … - “It's time for Joe to go.” … - “I know many of these people and how the White House operates. … - Reached by phone, West said he wrote the post because “the debate was not the first bad day, and it's not gonna be the last.”
John Vandiver / Stars & Stripes:
US military bases in Europe raise security threat levels  —  STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. military bases in Europe were put on a heightened state of alert over the weekend as installations urged vigilance among their members.  —  At U.S. European Command headquarters in Stuttgart …
 
 
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