CORPORATE MEDIA, INCLUDING POLITICO, ARE FAILING TO REPORT FACTS!
THIS DISINFORMATION IS BEING DRIVEN BY REPUBLICANS & RUSSIANS!
PROJECT 2025, THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION & KEVIN ROBERTS THREATS OF VIOLENCE HAVE NOT BEEN REPORTED!
FLORIDA RELEASED THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN DOCUMENTS THAT CONTINUE TO BE DAMNING - WHERE'S THE REPORTING? ALEX ACOSTA & OTHERS WERE INVOLVED IN THE CUSHY DEAL. ALAN DERSHOWITZ NEGOTIATED IT. WHERE'S THE REPORTING?
tRUMP APPOINTED ALEX ACOSTA - WHO HAS MADE THE CONNECTION?
This is PEDOPHILIA!
JPMORGAN CHASE was involved in MONEY LAUNDERING and those documents need to be made PUBLIC!
tRUMP LIES, DISINFORMATION ARE REPEATED ENDLESSLY - WITHOUT CHALLENGE!
The RNC CONVENTION regurgitated LIES. Who in the MEDIA has discredited those LIES?
It's not INFLATION. It's CORPORATE GREED!
Where has the media explained EXCESS PROFITS & STOCK BUYBACKS?
President Biden proposed a penalty on STOCK BUYBACKS which avoid taxes -
DON'T EXPECT MAGA GOP TO SUPPORT IT!
Where has the MEDIA reported on BIG OIL collusion with OPEC to keep gas prices HIGH? The US is pumping RECORD OIL. Why isn't the price dropping? BIG OIL is investing their EXCESS PROFITS in STOCK BUYBACKS. TAXPAYERS are still subsidizing BIG OIL.
Why isn't the MEDIA reporting on the GOP VOTER SUPPRESSION?
There are lawsuits all over the nation - IN RED STATES!
tRump left office with REFRIGERATED TRAILERS FILLED WITH COVID DEAD and the economy TANKED! How about a reminder of COVID DEAD due to INCOMPETENCE?
JD VANCE has been outspoken about eliminating SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE
WHERE'S THE REPORTING?
MAGA GOP has proposed outlandish legislation - WHERE'S THE REPORTING?
The grassroots join the Biden revolt
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BREAKING NEWS — President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid, the White House said late today. His symptoms are mild, according to a White House statement, and he will self-isolate in Delaware.
TRICKLE DOWN POLITICS — Today, Rep. Adam Schiff, a close ally of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who is likely to be California’s next senator, joined the roster of prominent Democrats calling on Joe Biden to bow out of the presidential race.
Biden continues to insist he isn’t going anywhere. He has said that the pressure to withdraw is being driven by party elites. Yet there is now growing evidence of deep unease with his candidacy at the grassroots level, where his June 27 debate performance rattled the confidence of many of the party’s foot soldiers.
Last Friday, several progressive fundraising and organizing coalitions — including the Sunrise Movement and the Movement Voter Project (MVP) — called for Biden to pass the baton amid concerns about Biden’s viability in key battleground states.
Organizing groups like these were critical to this victory in 2020, helped to spark turnout among young voters. But reports from the field, some of these groups say, reveal that enthusiasm among this demographic is waning – particularly in the wake of a debate that raised questions about Biden’s mental acuity and fitness to take on Trump.
“For the past many months, we’ve described our biggest challenge in beating Trump as closing the Biden enthusiasm gap,” MVP director of communications Zo Tobi said. “That gap since the debate has become the Grand Canyon.”
EVERY SINGLE COMMENT POSTED SUPPORTS BIDEN!
An AP-NORC poll released today showed that 65 percent of Democratic voters think the president should withdraw and allow his party to select a different candidate. Younger Democrats are especially restive: Those between the ages of 18 and 44 report being very dissatisfied with Biden by a more than 2-to-1 margin over Democrats over 45.
“The sentiment regarding the Biden administration is not new news,” Rico Ocampo, organizing lead for Make the Road Action in Nevada — a canvassing and voter mobilization group that has itself yet to call directly for Biden to step down — said regarding voter frustration. “We hear it every day when we talk to voters and when we’re canvassing.”
The Biden campaign isn’t worried, as they argue that their fundraising and volunteer efforts have been strong in the past two weeks.
“On every metric that matters, data shows it did nothing to change the American people’s perception, our supporters are more fired up than ever, and Donald Trump only reminded voters why they fired him four years ago and failed to expand his appeal beyond his MAGA base,” Biden for President campaign chair Jen O’Malley said in a statement.
REPORT FACTS ABOUT WHAT MAGA GOP ARE DOING!
IT'S NOT BEING REPORTED! TRUMP'S RACISM WAS CLEARLY STATED DURING THE DEBATE....IMMIGRANTS COMING FROM MENTAL INSTITUTIONS? PROJECT 2025 INCLUDES MASS DEPORTATION & DETENTION CAMPS!
However, MVP said post-debate reports from battleground state voter mobilization groups have raised alarm bells, prompting their escalation to call for Biden to drop out. In a public statement that was also sent to 50,000 donors, the group revealed that 74 percent of local grassroots leaders they surveyed want Biden to withdraw, as confidence in him plummets among swing-state voters — a group that includes both undecided and previously Democratic voters.
Meanwhile, Poder NC Action, a Latinx-focused advocacy and voter outreach organization in North Carolina, called on the Democratic National Committee and pledged delegates to act against Biden at the August convention.
“In order to maintain the voter turnout of 2020 and even increase it, we need the Executive Committee of the DNC to put the well-being of our entire nation ahead of any one individual,” the group said in a statement.
Irene Godinez, the founder and co-executive director of Poder NC Action, said she felt a dip in Democratic enthusiasm the day after the debate at Biden’s rally in Raleigh as organizers struggled to generate turnout.
“The audience was not as dynamic and diverse as it was maybe even a year ago,” Godinez said. “That’s a clear signal to the Democratic Party that if you can’t even rile up your own base to show up to an event the day after a pretty significant moment in the candidacy of your person, there is something really urgent that needs to happen in order to change course.”
FOCUS ON WHAT MAGA GOP ARE DOING!
NO ONE IS REPORTING IT!
Grassroots groups staying neutral on Biden agree that the debate had reverberations – but say that many have actually been positive. Field Team 6, a national voter registration group, has shifted their social media messaging to broader themes like personal freedoms and democracy instead of specific candidates, which they have found to be more effective. Voter outreach organization Swing Left reports heightened anxiety among Democratic volunteers, which has at least translated into one beneficial effect: an increased level of volunteer activity.
“We’re experiencing fall levels of activism at this early moment in the summer following the debate, in terms of people signing up to volunteer and donating,” Swing Left executive director Yasmin Radjy said.
Even so, many grassroots organizers have directed volunteers to avoid mentioning Biden in their voter outreach, finding that his name disengages voters and undercuts their efforts. Instead, these groups have focused on issue-based messaging surrounding the Republican Party’s Project 2025, a path which MVP warns is unsustainable in the absence of a compelling presidential candidate.
“We can’t speak for everyone, but many local voter engagement groups in swing states have been contorting themselves, doing electoral gymnastics, to try to elect Biden without talking about Biden,” Tobi said. “The truth is that they’ve been sounding the alarm about this for a long time, but it took until the debate for people to listen.”
New Disabled South Rising, a disability advocacy organization focused on Southern states, slammed Biden’s debate performance, saying it’s crippling their ability to rally support for Democrats at the congressional, state, and local levels.
“People have been saying, ‘I’m hearing a lot of what to vote against, and not a lot of what to vote for,’” Dom Kelly, the co-founder, president and CEO of New Disabled South Rising, said. “There’s deep concern that if Biden is the nominee, and he’s not a strong top of the ticket, it’s not going to translate down.”
MVP senior state strategy director Javier Morillo said a change at the top of the ticket is needed for the Democrats to reignite enthusiasm, especially among younger disaffected voters.
“The risk-assessments are paralyzing everybody,” Morillo said. “This could be a moment to actually really shift things. Although people are anxious about what could happen next, more people think we need a big change than not.”
In the meantime, says Tobi, Democrats and progressives must do more to support organizers on the ground, regardless of who is at the top of the ticket.
“There was a sense of resignation that [Biden] is the horse we’re riding on and we can’t pick a new horse, so we’ve just got to ride this horse off the cliff.” Tobi said. “Since the debate, it has created an opening for more and more people of conscience who desperately want to prevent a second Trump term to say, ‘maybe it’s not too late; maybe we can change the course we’re on while there’s still time.’”
Welcome to POLITICO Nightly. Reach out with news, tips and ideas at nightly@politico.com. Or contact tonight’s author at amathur@politico.com or on X (formerly known as Twitter) at @AnushaMathur4.
WHAT'D I MISS?
— Homeland Security IG to probe Secret Service after Trump shooting: The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general’s office will investigate the Secret Service efforts to provide security for former President Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania, where Trump’s ear was grazed by a bullet in an assassination attempt. The office provided few details about the scope of the investigation beyond a brief statement posted to its website that said the office will investigate the “process for securing former President Trump’s July 13, 2024, campaign event.”
— A dozen Senate Dems support expelling Menendez: A dozen Senate Democrats have signaled they are open to taking the drastic step of expelling Sen. Bob Menendez, convicted Tuesday on 16 corruption charges, if he won’t resign. And that now includes a member of Democratic leadership. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the No. 3 in the caucus, said she backed expulsion in a statement to POLITICO. “After being found guilty, Senator Menendez should resign from the U.S. Senate. If he does not, he should face expulsion. He has betrayed the trust of his constituents and his duty to this country,” she said.
— Harris denounces ‘heinous’ assassination attempt in first public remarks on Trump shooting: Vice President Kamala Harris today condemned the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump as “heinous, horrible and cowardly” in her first public remarks on the shooting. But she raised a key question for the election moving forward: How Biden’s campaign decries violence directed against Trump as it argues why he’s unfit to be president. “There must be unity around the idea that while our nation’s history has been scarred by political violence, violence is never acceptable. There can be no equivocation about that,” Harris said at a campaign stop in Michigan. “At the same time, the hallmark of American democracy, the hallmark of any democracy, is a strong competition of ideas, policies, and a vision for the future.”
NIGHTLY ROAD TO 2024
MEDICAL TRAPDOOR — President Joe Biden would reevaluate his decision to stay in the presidential race if doctors told him he had a medical issue, he said in an interview with BET News. “If I had some medical condition that emerged,” Biden said, when asked if there was anything that would make him reconsider. “If doctors came to me and said, ‘You got this problem, that problem.’”
ROLL CALL RUCKUS — Democratic party officials are growing increasingly defensive over their nominee — with the party’s national chair getting pulled into a fight with a prominent polling commentator on social media. DNC Chair Jaime Harrison sparred on Tuesday with journalist Nate Silver on X after he accused Harrison and the DNC of “blatantly lying” about the reason behind its plan to move up its formal nominating process for President Joe Biden.
ABOUT THAT ROLL CALL — A group of furious House Democrats was prepared to publicly repudiate an effort to nominate Joe Biden before the convention. An aggressive intraparty pressure campaign has convinced those lawmakers to stand down — for now. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) told POLITICO he is no longer sending his missive to the Democratic National Committee after the party agreed to delay a vote to nominate Biden until at least Aug. 1. The letter urged DNC members against holding a virtual roll call, instead of the customary timing during the convention in Chicago later next month.
WHERE’S RFK JR? — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been silent in a moment of significant volatility in the presidential election. The independent candidate, who has sought to be the biggest threat to the two major parties in a generation, has canceled key campaign appearances in the last two weeks. He hasn’t sent a fundraising email since Saturday. And after trying repeatedly to counterprogram past events in the election, including June’s debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Kennedy is doing little to shift the focus away from the Republican National Convention or to exploit a raft of questions from Democrats over whether Biden should still be the nominee.
AROUND THE WORLD
PINCHING PENNIES — Germany, which overcame its initial reluctance to support Ukraine to become the country’s biggest European supplier of military aid, looks poised to change course as the finance minister said the government would slash future assistance by half in order to fulfill other spending priorities.
That appeared to be Berlin’s unequivocal message to Ukraine today as the government detailed its preliminary 2025 budget, in which military aid to Ukraine is slated to be cut by half to just €4 billion ($4.37 billion), according to a draft seen by POLITICO.
Speaking after the cabinet approved the draft budget, Finance Minister Christian Lindner said Ukraine would have to rely more on funds from “European sources” as well as hoped-for income from frozen Russian assets.
“The aim is to make $50 billion available this year, Ukraine can then decide for itself how to use them,” he added, referring to a deal on Russian assets struck by world leaders last month.
ORBAN OUTRAGE — The European Parliament has described Viktor Orbán’s visit to Russia as a “blatant violation of the EU’s Treaties and common foreign policy.”
In a vote today, members of the European Parliament condemned the meeting in passing a resolution that provided a commitment by the Parliament to maintain its support for Ukraine. Some 495 MEPs voted in favor of the pro-Ukraine resolution, with 137 voting against.
Orbán visited Moscow at the beginning of July as part of what he called a “peace mission” to discuss with Vladimir Putin conditions that could bring an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine.
The visit shook up Brussels and European Union capitals, as it took place a few days after Hungary took the helm of the presidency of the Council of the EU and Orbán suggested he was representing the bloc as a whole.
“The EU rotating presidency has no mandate to engage with Russia on behalf of the EU. The European Council is clear: Russia is the aggressor, Ukraine is the victim. No discussions about Ukraine can take place without Ukraine,” European Council chief Charles Michel wrote on X in early July.
The declaration approved by the European Parliament “considers the visit to be a blatant violation of the EU’s Treaties and common foreign policy, including the principle of sincere cooperation,” while arguing that Orbán did not have the right to represent the EU while at the same time “violating common EU positions.”
NIGHTLY NUMBER
RADAR SWEEP
OPTIMIZE TO WIN — Once a game largely played by degenerate gamblers, poker — and no-limit Texas Hold’Em, the most popular version of the game — has increasingly become dominated by math nerds. At the World Series of Poker held in Las Vegas this month, Red Bull has replaced whiskey and noise canceling headphones have replaced table talk. The shift relates to an attempt by players to hew as close as possible to “game theory optimal,” which they call GTO. When broken down into its component parts, Hold’em is essentially a math game with all sorts of combinations. The closer players get to GTO, the less their opponents can exploit them — and the more likely they are to make money (even if there is still some luck involved in the cards they’re dealt). For Vox, Nicole Narea explains how the shift happened, why poker is more popular than ever and what the game looks like today.
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