Month: June 2024

The Biden campaign sent a lengthy email to supporters Saturday night urging them to “keep the faith” while trying to buck up the “bedwetting brigade” still reeling from Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance against President Trump Thursday where Biden appeared dazed and confused much of the time.

In an effort to show that dumping Biden would be a mistake, the Biden campaign bizarrely included the results of a poll by a Democrat pollster that shows President Trump beating Biden and every other named Democrat. The case the campaign makes is that Trump only beats Biden by three points while all the others lose to Trump by…two or three points like Biden.

Intro to the email, sent by Deputy Campaign Manager Rob Flaherty, as posted by ABC News reporter Will Steakin:

Biden campaign email with advice to supporters on how to talk to “your panicked aunt, your MAGA uncle, or some self-important Podcasters” following the debate: pic.twitter.com/WHkuTZWJFS

— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) June 29, 2024

Excerpt from the email posted by HuffPost’s Yashar Ali:

“The bedwetting brigade is calling for Joe Biden to “drop out.” That is the best possible way for Donald Trump to win and us to lose.

First of all: Joe Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee, period. End of story. Voters voted. He won overwhelmingly. And if he were to drop out, it would lead to weeks of chaos, internal foodfighting, and a bunch of candidates who limp into a brutal floor fight at the convention, all while Donald Trump has time to speak to American voters uncontested.

All of that would be in service of a nominee who would go into a general election in the weakest possible position with zero dollars in their bank account. You want a highway to losing? It’s that.”

Biden campaign fundraising email:

“The bedwetting brigade is calling for Joe Biden to “drop out.” That is the best possible way for Donald Trump to win and us to lose.

First of all: Joe Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee, period. End of story. Voters voted. He won… pic.twitter.com/y4iEvegTRE

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) June 30, 2024

Image of the poll graphic from the email:

The poll included Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Cory Booker (NJ), California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN), Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker

Results:

Trump: 48% (+3)
Biden: 45%

Trump: 48% (+3)
Harris: 45%

Trump: 46% (+2)
Whitmer: 44%

Trump: 47% (+3)
Newsom: 44%

Trump: 46% (+3)
Shapiro: 43%

Trump: 47% (+3)
Buttigieg: 44%

Trump: 46% (+3)
Klobuchar: 43%

Trump: 46% (+3)
Pritzker: 43%

1,011 LV | June 28

Post-debate poll: @DataProgress

Trump: 48% (+3)
Biden: 45%
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Trump: 48% (+3)
Harris: 45%
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Trump: 46% (+2)
Whitmer: 44%
—
Trump: 47% (+3)
Newsom: 44%
—
Trump: 46% (+3)
Shapiro: 43%
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Trump: 47% (+3)
Buttigieg: 44%
—
Trump: 46% (+3)
… pic.twitter.com/zYJAeauAm6

— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) June 30, 2024

Never Trumper Bill Kristol observes, “Panic at Biden HQ? They included a chart in their fundraising email purporting to show Biden’s the strongest candidate against Trump. It shows no such thing. All the possible Dem candidates–though obviously less well known than Biden–already do just as well as Biden.”

Panic at Biden HQ?

They included a chart in their fundraising email purporting to show Biden’s the strongest candidate against Trump. It shows no such thing. All the possible Dem candidates–though obviously less well known than Biden–already do just as well as Biden. https://t.co/h10v4BCTgw

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 30, 2024

The entire email was posted in sections by journalist Gary Weiss

If you think for even a moment that Biden is droppingout, read this long email blast that went out just now from Rob Flaherty, Biden’s Deputy Campaign Manager.

Yep, make no mistake. Mumbles is staying! Here’s the whole thing. Continues in replies. They are friggin’ desperate. pic.twitter.com/4Ga4qUanjS

— Gary Weiss (@gary_weiss) June 29, 2024

3/ Here’s the email header. Went out at 7:32 pm Eastern time. pic.twitter.com/4KNfyBdxEh

— Gary Weiss (@gary_weiss) June 29, 2024

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Billboards for marijuana dispensaries dot the drive along Interstate 80/90, which runs through northern Ohio and northern Indiana. Until last November, recreational cannabis was illegal in both states, but the billboards have littered the interstate for several years, advertising dispensaries located just north of the Michigan border, to which I-80/90 runs parallel. 

Once across the Michigan border, recreational cannabis dispensaries abound, providing a convenient stop along the drive for passers-through or an easy destination for residents of northern Ohio and Indiana. Though Ohio legalized recreational weed with a 2023 ballot initiative, the state’s licensing framework will take some time to implement. So, for now, Michigan holds the monopoly on marijuana in the northern Midwest.

Weed has long been a Western problem. The San Francisco activists Harvey Milk and Dennis Peron pushed for the legalization of so-called medical marijuana in California amidst the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the late 1990s, and Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Nevada soon followed suit. In 2012, Colorado and Washington were the first states to legalize recreational weed. Since California’s legalization measure passed in 2016, the Golden State led the nation in recreational marijuana sales—until now. 

For the first time, Michigan dispensaries have overtaken the California weed market, selling more units of marijuana—grams of cannabis, pre-rolls, gummies, and the like—than California dispensaries. California’s market remains larger in terms of dollar sales, selling $5.1 billion in recreational marijuana in 2023, compared to Michigan’s $3 billion in sales. Then again, a one-gram pre-roll joint on sale at a dispensary in Los Angeles costs $17.50, while the same product sells for $7 in Ferndale, a suburb of Detroit. 

With one-quarter the population of California, Michigan’s booming cannabis economy has been driven just as much by out-of-state consumers and government incentives as by local potheads. 

Dispensaries along Michigan’s border see frequent visits from residents of neighboring states. Just a mile north of the Ohio border, Morenci is Michigan’s southernmost town. Six marijuana dispensaries operate within a half-mile radius, serving the local population of 2,200—and customers from across the border. Morenci city administrator Jeff Hall said there was “quite a lengthy list” of cannabis dispensaries that wanted to obtain an operating license. 

Farther east, about half of the customers at dispensaries in Monroe Township, just across the border from Toledo, are Ohio residents. Township supervisor Alan Barron said that out-of-state customers are responsible for 70 percent of cannabis sales in Monroe Township. Even though medical marijuana has been legal in Ohio since 2016, customers can buy cannabis for one-quarter the price in Michigan.  

Communities along the state’s northern border with Wisconsin have seen the same boom in cannabusiness. Dispensaries have sprung up in towns like Ironwood, Iron River, Iron Mountain, and Menominee, eager to capitalize on close proximity to Wisconsin consumers. Local shops estimate that 85 percent of sales are to out-of-state customers. Transporting marijuana across state lines remains illegal, but cops lying in wait over the Wisconsin border isn’t enough to dissuade “pot pilgrims” from crossing into the Upper Peninsula for pot.

Out-of-state customers aren’t the only people frequenting Michigan’s dispensaries. In 2020, one in five Michigan residents used cannabis, a 75 percent increase from 2010. And though only about 10 percent of municipalities in the state allow recreational sales, the state is home to nearly one thousand dispensaries—8.2 percent of the nation’s pot stores—according to Cannabiz Media. But the communities that have opted to license recreational sales are rewarded by the state. 

Though excise taxes are levied to discourage consumption, Michigan’s recreational marijuana scheme directly rewards communities that permit the sale, possession, and use of recreational marijuana. Municipalities and counties are awarded nearly $60,000 for each licensed dispensary within their boundaries, and the state increased the amount awarded per license by $7,000 over the past year. 

In 2024, the state awarded a record $87 million to local and county governments, with five cities and 14 counties collecting more than $1 million from the state treasury, drawing from over $290 million in the Marihuana Regulation fund. For instance, Monroe Township, the marijuana mecca for Toledo residents, budgeted for $500,000 in kickback for fiscal year 2023 but received nearly double that amount. 

The state has a stake in the continued growth of the marijuana economy. Two public universities in Michigan offer undergraduate degrees in cannabis studies. Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie offers degrees in both cannabis chemistry and cannabis business. Three hours west in Marquette, Northern Michigan University is home to a major in Medicinal Plant Chemistry and the Cannabis Studies department. 

Demand in Michigan for recreational marijuana hasn’t grown naturally since legalization in 2018. The state’s licensing framework effectively undermines the excise tax by subsidizing the counties and municipalities that license dispensaries. Between thousands of out-of-state consumers and millions of dollars poured into weed-friendly communities, it’s no surprise that Michigan’s cannabis industry has ballooned into the nation’s largest market. And just like the weed they’re selling, the demand is far from organic. 

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Among all the sayings, mantras, witticisms, digressions, and occasional song lyrics that Donald Trump has recited at rallies, press conferences, and media appearances over the last eight years, there’s one that he ought to use more often: “No drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes.”

This sharp, stern warning against the use and abuse of mind-altering (and health-diminishing) substances never exactly became part of the Trump hit parade, but, during the 2016 presidential campaign, the then-candidate trotted it out fairly regularly.

It may be hard to picture today, but back then, Trump did not feel the need to project the outlaw persona that he has been forced to adopt amid the countless court battles of recent years. Instead, Trump seemed comfortable dispensing parental advice, since, as even Hillary Clinton had to admit during one of her debates with the eventual president, Trump and his assorted spouses had raised an upstanding brood. 

In late 2015, at a campaign event in Waterville Valley, N.H., that opened to the sounds of Twisted Sister rather than the now-ubiquitous Lee Greenwood, Trump framed his opposition to drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes chiefly in fatherly terms. “Since when they were little—since they could barely speak—I’d say, ‘No drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes,’” Trump said, referring to his kids. “If you don’t drink and if you don’t take drugs, your children…are going to have a tremendously enhanced chance of really being successful and having a good life and having a happy life.” 

Here, the future president sounded like he was channeling Dr. Spock more than Al Capone.

In fact, one senses that Trump’s personal abstinence from drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes—and his counsel to his children, and the children of America, to refrain from partaking in the same—is one of a fairly limited suite of positions in which he genuinely, completely, and unwaveringly believes. (His commitment to tariffs, opposition to unwinnable foreign wars, and tough border policy may be lumped in the same category.)

As far back as December 2014, more than six months before he even announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination, Trump managed to get on the topic while being interviewed at the Economic Club of Washington D.C. Interestingly, he characterized his opposition to vices like alcohol as a form of self-knowledge and self-protection: If we are aware of just how weak we really are, we ought to avoid those things that prey on our weaknesses. 

“I went to the Wharton School,” Trump said in a characteristic blend of bragging, reminiscing, and advice-giving. “I had a friend who hated the taste of scotch—hated it—but he tried to develop a taste for scotch. And I saw him recently—he’s a total alcoholic. He developed a taste for scotch. And all he had to do was stay away from it.”

Trump also often referenced the sad example of his late elder brother Fred, whom, he said, was laid low and brought to an early grave by a love for drink.

Sometimes Trump’s evangelism against alcohol could pop up at surprising moments. Although then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was subjected to disgracefully unfair Senate confirmation hearings, Trump’s bafflement at someone who made beer a centerpiece of his existence had a certain undeniable integrity. “I can honestly say I’ve never had a beer in my life,” Trump said during the Kavanaugh firestorm. “It’s one of my only good traits.”

The former president can still drift into this topic, but at least during his first administration, his strongly held convictions never cohered into a program with the consistent messaging and visibility of Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign. This was a missed opportunity. Never before in modern American history has there been a greater need for a high-profile public figure to push back against our seemingly society-wide acceptance of casual alcohol consumption and recreational drug use. 

We see anecdotal evidence for this ho-hum acceptance all around us. Witness the huge increase in popularity and numbers of microbreweries, brewpubs, and taprooms, or the conspicuous placement of the accouterments of a bar on the set of Bill Maher’s widely consumed Club Random podcast. Marijuana legalization and commercialization is no longer restricted to bastions of hippie culture but has spread, like an uncontrolled garden weed (so to speak), to seemingly middle-of-the-road states like Ohio. From The Big Lebowski up to and including this year’s Bob Marley biopic, Hollywood has rendered normal and amusing marijuana use. 

A disturbing assumption is implicit in our casual consent to this state of affairs: that it is perfectly OK for wide swaths of humanity to become prisoner to substances that exist only as tonics from reality. Even if the abuse of alcohol and use of marijuana was not dangerous, what good can ever come of a society that encourages people to become, at minimum, mildly drunk or slightly high? 

“One of the things that’s turned me against LSD is that all the people I know who use it have a peculiar inability to distinguish between things that are really interesting and stimulating and things that appear so in the state of universal bliss the drug induces on a ‘good’ trip,” Stanley Kubrick, whose film 2001: A Space Odyssey had been unfairly adopted by drug users, once said in a clear-headed interview with Playboy. “Perhaps when everything is beautiful, nothing is beautiful.”

Even tobacco use—perhaps the least compelling of Trump’s proposed triad of bad behavior—involves an unacceptable diminution of autonomy and increase in gluttony within the smoker: The nicotine in the cigarette will forever chip away at the smoker’s willpower and demand its continued use. 

Our leaders can either celebrate indulgence or promote restraint. Trump is better positioned than many to do the latter. Remember: “No drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes.”

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Anita Dunn, who serves as an adviser on the Biden 2024 presidential campaign, was confronted during an appearance on MSNBC about the possibility of him dropping out of the race.

Dunn downplayed the significance of Biden’s awful debate, saying it was just 90 minutes in a campaign and an administration. She suggests he is not dropping out and that the campaign is moving on to other things.

She does not seem to grasp the Democrat panic that is unfolding around her.

The Hill reports:

Anita Dunn: Biden team focused on ‘what do we do next’ after lackluster debate

Biden administration adviser Anita Dunn said President Biden is focused on what’s next after his lackluster debate performance this week.

Dunn joined MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Saturday, where she continued the Biden campaign’s attempt to tamp down the panic after the debate.

“A debate is one moment in the campaign,” she said. “And the reality is that I think voters experienced this debate a little differently than perhaps some of the insiders.”

She added, “The conversation we had is, ‘OK, what do we do next?’”

Dunn said the campaign is looking at ongoing research and the key issues that are important to voters.

“So, I think that what you will see, as you often see after these debates, are not huge changes,” Dunn said. “The president is going to continue to be out there and he can make his case for why Donald Trump is a threat to this country and why there is a better bath ahead of America.”

See the video below:

Top Biden aide Anita Dunn on the debate to @SymoneDSanders @AliciaMenendez:
“It’s 90 minutes in a campaign…Maybe it wasn’t a great debate, but he has been a great president…I think there is an issue her of what is really important to voters.” pic.twitter.com/sDgQbiuxrZ

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) June 29, 2024

Dunn seems pretty confident despite the fact that even the New York Times is calling on Biden to drop out of the race.

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Donald Trump has taken a slight lead over Joe Biden in blue New Jersey, according to new polling from Coefficient.

Trump has spoken about making a serious play for New Jersey in this election and if this poll is accurate, it looks like he has a chance to do so.

It’s also important to point out that this poll was conducted before the debate on Thursday night which exposed Biden’s mental decline to the country.

RedState reports:

Dems Are Going to Flip Out: NJ Poll Has Shocking, New Numbers in Presidential Race

If there was ever a state that one would bet their money on to stay in the grip of the Democrats, it might be New Jersey.

But now there’s a poll out that is truly shocking; it has Trump up in New Jersey by one point.

Trump is leading Biden 41 to 40, when one counts in Robert F. Kennedy Jr at 7 percent and undecided at 13. If there was ever a “wow,” that would be it. In the 2020 election, Biden was up about 16 percent. If it’s moved that close, that’s incredible.

The poll is of likely voters, so that’s good. It’s even from before the debate, so that hasn’t influenced it. That might even make the numbers move more in Trump’s favor. CNN’s snap poll after the debate said 67 percent thought that Trump won, compared to 33 for Biden.

See the numbers below:

NEW JERSEY GE: @coefficientpoll

Trump: 41%
Biden: 40%
RFK/3rd Party: 7%
Undecided:13%
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Senate
Kim: 39%
Bashaw: 33%
Menendez: 3%
Undecided: 25%

H2H Ballot –
Kim: 41%
Bashaw: 34%
Undecided: 25%

#237 (1.1/3.0) | June 26-27 | 810 LV… pic.twitter.com/X5CNraZXL4

— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) June 28, 2024

People reacted on Twitter/X:

Holy crap if true https://t.co/RgHyDHHRP4

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) June 28, 2024

I’m a Mid-Atlantic guy… I do think this is an outlier but the momentum is real. NY, NJ, yes even DE are not the same as CT or RI. Less white, less college educated, and aside from parts of NJ, much more working class, middle income. We aren’t exactly “coastal elite”. https://t.co/UAws10cOmu

— Shigeru Digeru (@ShigeruDigeru) June 28, 2024

If even New Jersey is in play, we’re looking at GOP+5 or better in Virginia. The bottom has fallen out for the Democrat Party. https://t.co/NpgvfV5tqv

— Virginia Project (@ProjectVirginia) June 28, 2024

If, and this is a HUGE if, accurate then it is so Joever. https://t.co/oNGfWSUsu9

— Burgum: The Dude (@BobbyBlueCollar) June 28, 2024

Trump winning New Jersey in November would send a shock wave through the world of politics and media.

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Guest post by Joe Hoft at JoeHoft.com – republished with permission

The greatest women’s basketball player in history is on her own in the WNBA. No veterans have reached out to Caitlin Clark to offer advice or help her through her first year in the league.

Caitlin Clark graduated from the University of Iowa and broke nearly every scoring and assist record possible in NCAA basketball during her 4-year career.

Immediately after setting the all-time NCAA women’s basketball career scoring record, Nike shared this ad. It was one of the greatest ads in sports history, not only because it was aired right after Clark broke the record, but because it was great and it showed Caitlin Clark’s greatness.

yall don’t get it, this nike commercial, and the state farm ones MEAN something to me dude! pic.twitter.com/7J1z1jboZh

— shay (@shayxthinks2) June 26, 2024

Clark was drafted number one by the WNBA and this is where the persecution started. Clark brought millions of new fans with her. She is setting records at every outlet that plays her games and every venue where she plays. It’s record setting.

Clark is able to set records despite playing for a terrible franchise with a terrible coach and hateful players in the league.

Despite single-handedly lifting the WNBA to new heights in attendance and viewers, women playing in the WNBA are envious of Clark. They hate her. They have come out in games and physically assaulted Clark.

Experts in Women’s Basketball Say Caitlin Clark Is Being “Targeted” by “Entitled” WNBA Players

Adding to the persecution, Clark was not invited to the Olympics despite having more threes than anyone selected to the team and only one team member having more assists.

OUTRAGEOUS: Caitlin Clark Makes More 3s in WNBA in 24′ than Anyone on Olympic Team, Yet Brittney Griner with 11 Points Total YTD Makes Team

Clark shared in a recent interview that no veterans have reached out and given her any advice since she joined the WNBA.

“Nobody gives me advice in games. I wish”

Still no love for Caitlin Clark from the WNBA vets

pic.twitter.com/9zr7yxJT4v

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) June 29, 2024

The WNBA is showing its true colors. No wonder this league never made a profit in nearly 30 years.

The post “Nobody Gives Me Advice in Games. I Wish” – Caitlin Clark Reveals That No WNBA Veterans Have Reached Out to Offer Advice or Show Her Love – They Are That Heartless! appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Former NFL punter and current ESPN analyst Pat McAfee blasted ESPN for planning to award Prince Harry the Pat Tillman Award for Service at the upcoming ESPYs award ceremony.

On Friday, McAfee shared that ESPN is attempting to “piss people off” by awarding Prince Harry an award named after the late Pat Tillman, who was a strong safety for the Arizona Cardinals that later enlisted in the U.S. Army following the September 11th attacks.

McAfee shared that the Pat Tillman award is “Going to Prince Harry, Who I don’t even think is a Prince anymore, right? He said don’t call me that? See, why does the ESPYs do this sh*t?”

Tillman was sadly killed in combat in 2004 by friendly fire during a combat mission in Afghanistan.

According to ESPN, the Patt Tillman Award is given to those who have significantly impacted the world.

WATCH:

There are plenty of people that award could’ve went to! Goes to show you money talks. Going to give it to a traitorous prince that has really done nothing. pic.twitter.com/9RyZmQ0B8w

— Sabirah Lohn (@SabirahLohn) June 28, 2024

Per The New York Post:

Pat McAfee blasted ESPN’s plan to award Prince Harry the Pat Tillman Award for Service at the upcoming ESPYs.

During the “The Pat McAfee Show” on Friday, McAfee accused his own network of “trying to piss people off” for honoring the Duke of Sussex with an award named after the late NFL safety turned Army Ranger.

The award is handed out to those who have made significant contributions in the world, which echoes Tillman’s legacy.

“It’s going to Prince Harry,” McAfee said. “Who I don’t even think is a Prince anymore, right? He said don’t call me that? See, why does the ESPYs do this s–t?”

ESPN’s Pat McAfee disapproves of Prince Harry ‘receiving’ the Pat Tilman Award at the ESPYS https://t.co/LXQ86kLtzZ pic.twitter.com/mvexd90vYm

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) June 28, 2024

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Even as Joe Biden and his campaign put on a brave face after his disastrous debate Thursday with President Trump, behind the scenes Biden feels “humiliated, devoid of confidence” according to a report by NBC News Saturday evening that reported Biden would be meeting with his family at Camp David on Sunday to discuss the “future of of his re-election campaign.”

Biden attended fundraisers in New York and New Jersey on Saturday, where he was seen slack-jawed, holding on tight to Jill as he walked across the tarmac at an airport in the Hamptons on Long Island:

Joe Biden and Jill Biden step off Air Force One upon arrival at Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, New York on June 29, 2024, AFP via Getty Images.

Several liberal politicos and newspapers including the New York Times and Atlanta Journal-Constitution have called for Biden to drop out of the race after the debate showed he was not capable of being president another four years (or six more months). No elected Democrat has called for Biden to step down, while former Presidents Obama and Clinton have voiced their support for Biden staying in the race.

The NBC report says Joe and Jill (whom the report calls the “ultimate influence” on Joe) will meet with son Hunter, daughter Ashley and their grandchildren (except Navy Joan, of course).

Excerpt from the NBC News report:

President Joe Biden is expected to discuss the future of his re-election campaign with family on Sunday, following a nationally televised debate Thursday that left many fellow Democrats worried about his ability to beat former President Donald Trump in November, according to five people familiar with the matter.

Biden’s trip to Camp David was planned before Thursday’s debate. He and first lady Jill Biden are scheduled to join their children and grandchildren there late Saturday.

…Despite delivering a rousing speech at a rally in North Carolina Friday that calmed some of his allies, Biden was described by one person familiar with his mood as humiliated, devoid of confidence and painfully aware that the physical images of him at the debate — eyes staring into the distance, mouth agape — will live beyond his presidency, along with a performance that at times was meandering, incoherent and difficult to hear.

“It’s a mess,” this person said.

Another person familiar with the dynamics said Biden will ultimately listen to only one adviser.

“The only person who has ultimate influence with him is the first lady,” this person said. “If she decides there should be a change of course there will be a change of course.”

Tellingly, NBC reports the Biden campaign declined to comment for their report:

The Biden campaign declined to comment for this piece, instead pointing to a memo Saturday from campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon that made the case that Biden can still win, pointing to the more than $27 million they raised between debate day and Friday evening.

Along the motorcade route to the fundraiser in the Hamptons, Biden was greeted by protesters calling for him to drop out:

“Step down for DEMOCRACY!”
“THANK YOU! NEXT…”
“PLEASE DROP OUT FOR U.S.”
“WE LOVE YOU BUT IT’S TiME”

Photo by @AmandaGordon along Biden motorcade route in the Hamptons pic.twitter.com/WyyRxHOAWC

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 29, 2024

UPDATE via pool report. Official says nothing to see here, just a gathering for a family photo:

A Biden official spoke briefly to the pool on the tarmac of McGuire Air Force Base about POTUS schedule and an NBC story that just posted.

“The premise of the story is not accurate,” the official said.

On the travel to Camp David, “It was public in our guidance before the debate. It’s been on the schedule for weeks. There is nothing more to it.”

Officials said the Biden family is taking a family photo at Camp David.

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The Biden campaign issued a memo to reporters on Saturday seeking to work the refs after Joe Biden’s disastrous debate with President Trump Thursday night that saw Biden looking dazed and struggling to speak coherently at times.

While presidential debates are traditionally held in the fall in the weeks before the November election, this debate was scheduled for late June at Biden’s request in an effort to change the dynamics of a campaign that saw him tied or losing to Trump (mostly losing) in national and key swing state polls. In 2020 polls, Trump never led Biden in polls.

Instead of improving his standing against Trump with the early debate, Biden is hemorrhaging support with calls for him to drop out of the race coming from liberal politicos and newspapers including the New York Times and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

In response, the Biden campaign sent out a memo Saturday that said of the debate “On every metric that matters, data shows it did nothing to change the American people’s perception.”

The denial of reality was so strong a reporter for Politico, Rachel Bade, reacted with, “Are you serious?” to the memo stating, “If we do see changes in polling in the coming weeks, it will not be the first time that overblown media narratives have driven temporary dips in the polls.”

New memo from the Biden Campaign shows just how in total denial they are:

“If we do see changes in polling in the coming weeks, it will not be the first time that overblown media narratives have driven temporary dips in the polls.”

Are you serious?

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) June 29, 2024

The memo by campaign co-chair Jen O’Malley Dillion pointed to strong post debate fundraising of $27 million, polls that showed the race essentially unchanged and a look back at the 2012 Obama campaign in which Obama was able to bounce back after losing the first debate with Republican Mitt Romney. The memo also claimed the campaign had an increase in volunteers and job applicants post debate.

The memo:

Source: NewsNation’s Connell McShane via X Twitter:

This Biden campaign memo says the debate “did not change the horse race” and Biden “won on substance.” Even if both are true, can you still work to elect a candidate if you know he can’t physically do the job? That’s the real question. pic.twitter.com/5GXhjWNsIQ

— Connell McShane (@connellmcshane) June 29, 2024

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David Sacks is one of the Silicon Valley billionaires who is now supporting Trump and helping to raise money for his campaign.

During a recent episode of a podcast that he co-hosts, he perfectly described what the Democrats and the Biden regime have become. Sacks suggests that this is not politics as usual. He says that the people behind Biden are basically using him as cover to retain power, while they loot the republic and reward the various special interest groups that are part of their coalition.

Sacks also suggests that Biden’s awful debate performance tore the mask off of this act and exposed it for all the country to see.

Transcript via Twitter/X:

“The Democratic party is a collection of interests who want to remain in power. The Democratic Party is the party of government. Its goal is to allocate money and power from the government to the collection of interests who back the Democratic Party. In other words, it’s basically a collection of interests who want to loot the Republic.

Well obviously, no one’s going to vote for that. So they have to make it about something else. They choose a figurehead, they talk about how this is about saving democracy. They basically invent, hoax after hoax, lie after lie to basically maintain their power.

And I think what’s happened is, the mask has come off, the whole shell game has been revealed. It’s obvious that Biden was always a puppet for these interests who were hiding behind him. And now, it’s all being exposed.”

Watch the video below:

Remarkable monologue from David Sacks:

“The Democratic party is a collection of interests who want to remain in power. The Democratic Party is the party of government. Its goal is to allocate money and power from the government to the collection of interests who back the… pic.twitter.com/FjT0AK0NAj

— Revolver News (@RevolverNewsUSA) June 29, 2024

That really is an astute analysis of where we are as a country right now.

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