July 11, 2024
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Biden's press conference carries high stakes as first presser since disastrous debate . . . President Biden is slated to face the media late Thursday afternoon in his first solo press conference since his disastrous debate last month, and it's anticipated that he'll be grilled as the nation weighs his mental acuity amid heightening health concerns. Biden is expected to hold the news conference on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. after hosting NATO leaders in Washington, D.C., this week. The media has dubbed the press conference a "big boy press conference," with the president fielding questions from the media solo. It marks Biden's first solo press conference of the year and the first time he will speak to the media at a presser since his debate against former President Trump on June 27. Fox News
Odd timing. He will be tired after a day trying to stay awake and pretend he is listening at the NATO summit. It seemed like they forgot to juice him up before the debate, like they did during the State of the Union, so we should nevertheless look for a perky president this evening. But one particularly bad moment and it's over for him. And he has lots of particularly bad moments.
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Politics
George Clooney who hosted Biden fundraiser, says he has to go . . . The one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. It's devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe "big F-ing deal" Biden of 2010. He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate. Was he tired? Yes. A cold? Maybe. But our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn't see what we just saw. George Clooney in the New York Times
So Clooney calls on Democrats, including Barack Obama, who was also at the fundraiser, to stop lying to Americans.
Pelosi gives Biden a subtle shove out the door . . . Democratic Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi disregarded President Biden's declarations that he will not drop out of the presidential race. Biden has repeatedly said that he will not drop out. Pelosi, however, insinuated that Biden is still making a decision on whether he will stay in the race as more Democrats break on the issue. "It's up to the president to decide if he is going to run. We are all encouraging him to make that decision, because time is running short," Pelosi, D-Calif., told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Fox News
Her message was: Please make the decision I want.
Welch is first Senate Democrat to publicly urge Biden to withdraw . . . Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) on Wednesday became the first Senate Democrat to publicly call on President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race. Welch wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that while he has "great respect" for the president, whom he calls one of the best of his lifetime, it is time for Biden to step aside for the good of the country. "I, like folks across the country, am worried about November's election. The stakes could not be higher. We cannot unsee President Biden's disastrous debate performance. The Hill
ABC News threatens to pull Stephanopoulos over Biden remark . . . The head of ABC News issued George Stephanopoulos a stern warning after he was caught on camera declaring he did not believe embattled President Joe Biden could serve out a second term — and even threatened him with being taken off the air if he didn't apologize. Debra OConnell, the powerful president of the news division, summoned 63-year-old Stephanopoulos to an urgent meeting on Tuesday night. OConnell called an "all-hands-on-deck" meeting before privately dressing down Stephanopoulos. Radar Online
White House corrects record: Parkinson's expert was there to evaluate Biden . . . The White House is playing cleanup after press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday that a meeting between White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor and Dr. Kevin Cannard, a renowned neurological and Parkinson's disease expert, was not related to care for President Biden. The White House now says the Jan. 17 meeting between O'Connor and Cannard at the White House was for a neurological exam of Biden. O'Connor reported the results on Feb. 28, stating that an "extremely detailed neurological exam" did not show Biden had signs of Parkinson's or any cerebellar or other central neurological disorder. Fox News
House passes SAVE Act that bans non-citizen voting in federal elections
Harris claims Trump has said he would "terminate" the Constitution . . . Vice President Kamala Harris stepped up her attacks on former President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday as she said in Dallas that Mr. Trump would round up his political enemies, deport peaceful protesters and terminate the Constitution in a second term. "Consider: Donald Trump has openly vowed if re-elected he'll be a dictator on day one, that he will weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies, round up peaceful protesters and throw them out of our country and even, and even and I quote, 'terminate' the United States Constitution," Ms. Harris said. New York Times
Where are all the fact-checkers?
Biden's money is drying up . . . President Joe Biden is quickly losing access to the money he will need to stay in the presidential race as a growing number of prominent Democratic officials and donors call for him to drop out. Money has started to dry up following his disastrous debate with former President Donald Trump, when the president struggled to respond to his opponent's barrage of verbal attacks and gave incoherent answers, said six Democratic advisers and operatives who work with major donors. Some fundraisers have been canceled, while some donors have threatened to withhold donations until the president drops out. Politico
Culture
Biden floods Ohio town of Springfield with 20K Haitian immigrants . . . The town situated just west of the state capitol in Columbus has been a target of Haitian immigrants at least since 2014, and in the ensuing years, some ten thousand had moved to the Rust Belt town. But in the last four years alone, that population has ballooned to more than 20,000. The influx is causing serious pressures to mount on the town. Ohio's Republican U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance put the blame for the mounting problems squarely on the Biden administration, which is causing small towns all across the country to suffer just like Springfield. Breitbart
National Security
NATO vows 'irreversible path' to Ukraine membership . . . Nato members have pledged their support for an "irreversible path" to future membership for Ukraine, as well as more aid. While a formal timeline for it to join the military alliance was not agreed at a summit in Washington DC, the military alliance's 32 members said they had "unwavering" support for Ukraine's war effort. Nato has also announced further integration with Ukraine's military and members have committed $43.3 billion in aid in the next year, including F-16 fighter jets and air defense support. BBC
International
Europe facing 'wave of antisemitism', survey finds . . . Jewish people in the EU continue to face high levels of antisemitism, according to the latest survey from the bloc's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). More than 8,000 Jews in 13 EU countries, including Germany and France, were interviewed - with 96% saying they had encountered antisemitism in their daily life. The vast majority had experienced harassment online. The FRA's director, Sirpa Rautio, warned that this was severely limiting the ability of Jewish people in EU countries to "live in safety and with dignity". BBC
Money
Home insurance premiums are surging, and states are allowing it . . . State regulators across the U.S. appear to be buckling to industry demands for fear that insurers will pack up and exit their regions, leaving residents with few coverage options. In the last 12 months alone, one state has decided its regulator can no longer veto rate requests and another has made it easier for insurers to reduce storm coverage. A third has agreed to expand the types of costs companies can take into account when setting rates. States are also giving home insurers almost everything they ask for on rates. Wall Street Journal
Republicans fracturing on the economy . . . On one side is a pro-business libertarian wing that backs low taxes, free trade and international openness. On the other is a growing contingent of conservatives skeptical of big business, ambivalent about tax cuts and vocally supportive of tariffs. While both wings back Trump, who straddles this divide. The new Republican thinking was evident this week at the annual meeting of "national conservatism," one of many labels attached to the new movement (along with the "new right," "populist right" and "conservative economics"). Speakers interspersed attacks on the "Marxist" and "radical" left with condemnation of the "corporatist right," "free marketism" and "globalism." Wall Street Journal
You should also know
George Soros' son Alex engaged to Huma Abedin . . . Alexander Soros, son of George Soros and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, is engaged to veteran Democratic operative Huma Abedin. Soros proposed to Abedin in New York City in late May, with the couple later absconding to Italy to celebrate and only making their engagement public more than a month later, Vogue reported. George Soros handed over control of his $25 billion philanthropic empire to Alex in June 2023, with the younger Soros subsequently describing himself as "more political" than his father. Daily Caller
Hillary Clinton's longtime consigliere and the Soros heir will be a formidable team spreading leftism everywhere you can think of.
New York to roll out small shampoo bottle ban at hotels . . . New York state will be mandating hotels to forgo small bottles containing "hospitality care" products such as shampoo and lotions. The enforcement comes as a bill was passed in the New York Assembly in hopes of reducing waste. Beginning on Jan. 1, 2025, hotels with more than 50 rooms will not be able to provide toiletry bottles under 12 ounces, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation's website. Fox Business
Guilty Pleasures
Hot dog-eating competition world is rocked by cheating scandal . . . The competitive eating world has been rocked by hard-to-swallow claims that a contender in this year's Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest cheated to beef up his score. Nick Wehry is being accused of using sleight of hand trickery during the July Fourth contest in order to inflate his tally of eaten hot dogs and falsely place himself among the sport's elite contenders. "100% he cheated," one source told The Post Tuesday. On the day of the competition, Wehry's score was a respectable 46.75 hot dogs when they called it out at Coney Island, good enough for a fourth-place finish. But that figure later jumped to 51.75 on the official Major League Eating (MLE) results website, New York Post
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