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2:30 PM ET, July 6, 2024

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Bloomberg:
Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Loss  —  The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race.  —  President Joe Biden registered his best showing yet …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Jeffries Plans to Meet Virtually With Top House Democrats on Biden's Path Ahead  —  The House minority leader scheduled a virtual meeting for Sunday.  —  Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, has scheduled a virtual meeting on Sunday with senior House Democrats …
ABC News:
ABC's George Stephanopoulos' exclusive interview with President Biden: Full transcript  —  Full transcript of the ABC News exclusive interview with President Joe Biden.  —  President Joe Biden speaks with George Stephanopoulos on July 5, 2024, in an ABC News exclusive.
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Live Election Updates: Biden Will Return to the Trail, Seeking to Salvage His Campaign  —  With his candidacy on the line, Biden will visit Pennsylvania.  —  President Biden will campaign in Pennsylvania on Sunday, his second trip to a battleground state in recent days as part of a crucible …
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Biden's credibility crisis … Some top Democrats told us Biden made matters worse Friday with his ABC interview, where he denied bad poll numbers and widespread Democratic panic.  — “All the pollsters I talk to tell me it's a tossup,” Biden told George Stephanopoulos.
Discussion: Twitchy and Newsbusters
Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
‘Exhausted,’ ‘bad episode’: Biden doubles down on debate explanations in ABC News exclusive  —  : Speaking with George Stephanopoulos, he dismissed concerns about mental fitness.  —  President Joe Biden speaks with George Stephanopoulus on July 5, 2024, in an ABC News exclusive.
New York Post:
ABC interview proves that Joe Biden is in complete senile denial
New York Times:   Some of Biden's Upcoming Fund-Raising Events Face New Uncertainty
Ursula Perano / Politico:
Warner organizing discussion for Senate Democrats to assess Biden's path forward
Politico:
Healey, a top Biden ally, urges him to consider dropping out of the race
Rasmussen Reports:
After Debate Disaster, 55% Think Democrats Should Dump Biden
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Examiner
NBC News:
Biden doubles-down at Wisconsin rally: 'I'm staying in the race'
ABC News:
Trump stays relatively quiet, unseen as Biden struggles to save political future
Discussion: Sputnik News
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
We should all be terrified of Trump's Project 2025  —  The presumptive Republican nominee has promised to give rightwing evangelical Christians what they want - and more  —  “Project 2025” is nothing short of a 900-page blueprint for guiding Donald Trump's second term of office if he's re-elected.
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Trump's Project 2025  —  We know that Donald Trump was fixated on polls Friday morning.  We know that because he posted about them at least 15 times on Truth social.  —  The horse race polls may not have been the only polling data Trump looked at, because after devoting his 11 a.m. hour to them …
MSNBC:
Trump World ‘panicking’ as Project 2025 gets on the radar of voters
Discussion: Raw Story and WBUR
Jon Levine / New York Post:
President Biden's physician met with Parkinson's disease specialist in White House  —  A top Washington D.C. neurologist had a meeting with President Biden's personal doctor at the White House earlier this year, visitor logs reviewed by The Post show.  —  Dr. Kevin Cannard …
Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian:
Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race?  —  Yes, Biden had a bad debate - but so did Trump.  The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016  —  I am not usually one to offer diagnoses of people I've never met, but it does seem like the pundit class …
The Guardian:
The French republic is under threat.  We are 1,000 historians and we cannot remain silent  —  Patrick Boucheron, Antoine Lilti and others  —  We implore voters not to turn their backs on our nation's history.  Go out and defeat the far right in Sunday's vote
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
White House Provided the Questions in Advance for Biden's Radio Interviews  —  The host of “The Source” on WURD in Philadelphia said the president's aides provided her with a list of eight questions to choose from.  —  The questions asked of President Biden by two radio interviewers this week …
Tressie McMillan Cottom / New York Times:
Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lost  —  I watched the debate from a pub in Ireland.  A man sitting next to me pegged me for a Yank.  “Sorry about all that — screwed no matter what you do,” he said before the final minutes of the debate ended.
 
 
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