Morning Jolt: The End of an Error

WITH JIM GERAGHTY

July 22 2024

On the menu today: Do you realize this country came within an inch of not having Donald Trump or Joe Biden on the ballot in November?

With a Released Statement, the Invisible President Disappears

He actually did it. Joe Biden actually pulled an LBJ and quit his pursuit of a second term.

I'm going to put down a marker: Joe Biden's in much, much rougher shape — physically and mentally — than anyone at the White House has been willing to admit. The evidence pointing towards this isn't just the terrible debate — you know, the historically early debate that he and his team proposed. ("Make my day, pal!")

And it's not just that we didn't see a genuinely, indisputably good performance from Biden after the debate, either, just variations of "marginally less bad." He told George Stephanopoulos he ...

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