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Biden tells Colorado Rep. Jason Crow: ‘I don’t want to hear that crap’
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Biden tells Colorado Rep. Jason Crow: ‘I don’t want to hear that crap’

By SARAH FERRIS | Politico President Joe Biden gave a forceful and defensive response to centrist Democrats who raised concerns about his reelection campaign in a Saturday meeting, and in one tense exchange dismissed one lawmaker’s concerns as “crap.” Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), a respected centrist in the Democratic caucus, told Biden that people want a strong leader so they can feel safe on national security. “I don’t want to hear that crap,” Biden said in response to Crow’s suggestion that voters did not have confidence in his national security credentials, raising his voice in a forceful defense of his foreign policy record, including the rebuilding of NATO, according to three people familiar with the remarks granted anonymity to discuss the private meeting. READ THE FULL ST...
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Farage: ‘Hate rhetoric from many leftish politicians and media … is not without consequences’
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Farage: ‘Hate rhetoric from many leftish politicians and media … is not without consequences’

By FEDERICA DI SARIO | Politico U.K. right-wing firebrand Nigel Farage on Sunday blamed a “liberal narrative” from political opponents for the shocking assassination attempt that left former U.S. President Donald Trump injured and bleeding Saturday night. The attack at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, which left one attendee dead and two others seriously wounded, threw another jolt into an already stormy U.S. election. Trump, who was hit in the right ear, was treated at a nearby hospital before being released. The gunman was shot dead.  “The narrative that is put out there about Trump by these liberals that oppose him is so nasty, so unpleasant, and I think it almost encourages this type of behavior,” Farage, a long-time Trump admirer, told the BBC’s Sunday Wi...
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Is Trump eyeing an Apprentice-style VP reveal at convention? Even his closest aides claim not to know pick
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Is Trump eyeing an Apprentice-style VP reveal at convention? Even his closest aides claim not to know pick

By MERIDITH MCGRAW and NATALIE ALLISON | Politico Donald Trump’s aides are discussing having the former president reveal his running mate on stage at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday night, according to two people familiar with the planning. The planning is still fluid, aides stressed. The finalists are expected to be at the convention, and if Trump decides to keep quiet over the weekend, there could be a reality show-style reveal on the convention’s opening night. It would be a dramatic end to his monthslong casting call for a running mate. The choice remains so closely held that even his top advisers insist they remain uncertain about who Trump will pick. READ THE FULL STORY AT POLITICO
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RNC ’24: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis now poised to speak at GOP convention
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RNC ’24: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis now poised to speak at GOP convention

bY GARY FINEOUT, MERIDITH MCGRAW and KIMBERLY LEONARD | Politico Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose bid for president ended following a distant second place finish in Iowa, is now poised to have a speaking slot on the main stage at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next week. DeSantis, once seen as a rising conservative star, was initially not scheduled to have a main stage speaking slot during the weeklong celebration of former President Donald Trump, three people familiar with convention plans but not authorized to speak publicly told POLITICO on Tuesday. Two of those people told POLITICO that, as of Wednesday morning, the plans had changed and DeSantis is now in the mix for a spot. The lineup for the convention is set to be announced this week, and plans for speakin...
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Biden to Hill Dems: ‘I am firmly committed to staying in this race,’ ignoring growing calls to end bid
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Biden to Hill Dems: ‘I am firmly committed to staying in this race,’ ignoring growing calls to end bid

By NICHOLAS WU and DANIELLA DIAZ | Politico President Joe Biden is attempting to head off more intraparty calls for him to drop out of the race, sending a letter to Hill Democrats Monday morning that emphatically stated he would continue on as the party’s planned nominee. “I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump,” he said in the letter to lawmakers. Not even 24 hours before, four senior Democrats said on a private call with House party leadership that Biden should step aside. With Congress returning from the July Fourth recess Monday, Biden and his campaign have scrambled to tamp down lawmakers’ concerns about his viability as a candidate after his widely-panned debate performance. READ THE FULL STORY AT POLITI...
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‘A bad night’: Biden concedes he ‘screwed up’ in debate with Donald Trump
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‘A bad night’: Biden concedes he ‘screwed up’ in debate with Donald Trump

By ISABELLA RAMÍREZ | Politico President Joe Biden admitted he “screwed up” and “made a mistake” at last week’s presidential debate, conceding that his performance was rocky in some of his first interviews since the meltdown. “I had a bad night,” Biden told Earl Ingram on WAUK, a radio station based in Waukesha, Wisconsin. “I didn’t have a good debate. That’s 90 minutes on stage. Look at what I’ve done in 3.5 years.” The president sat down for pre-recorded interviews with two radio stations — WAUK and WURD, the only African-American owned and operated talk radio station in Pennsylvania — as he attempts to calm the nerves of Democrats frantic about his ability to serve. Over the past few days, he has made last-minute plans to convene more than 20 Democratic governors, call senio...
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Rudy Giuliani, once ‘America’s Mayor’ during 9/11, disbarred in New York, plans to appeal
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Rudy Giuliani, once ‘America’s Mayor’ during 9/11, disbarred in New York, plans to appeal

By KYLE CHENEY | Politico Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred in New York for his efforts to subvert the 2020 election. “The seriousness of [Giuliani’s] misconduct cannot be overstated,” a state appeals court wrote in a unanimous, unsigned opinion. Giuliani “flagrantly misused his prominent position as the personal attorney for former President Trump and his campaign,” the court found. He “repeatedly and intentionally made false statements, some of which were perjurious, to the federal court, state lawmakers, the public … and this Court concerning the 2020 Presidential election, in which he baselessly attacked and undermined the integrity of this country’s electoral process,” the five-judge appellate panel said. READ THE FULL STORY AT POLITICO
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Who could replace Biden? Possibilities range from governors to Oprah and ‘The Rock’
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Who could replace Biden? Possibilities range from governors to Oprah and ‘The Rock’

By CALDER MCHUGH | POLITICO OUT OF THE WOODWORK — After a debate performance that had prominent Democrats calling him “toast” and advocating for an open convention, President Joe Biden showed no signs of wavering at a North Carolina rally today. “I don’t debate as well as I used to,” he admitted to a crowd of cheering supporters. “[But] I know like millions of Americans know, when you get knocked down you get back up.” Any discussion of replacing Biden with another Democrat begins and ends with the president’s own inclinations — the only plausible way to remove him from the ticket is if he steps aside and releases the delegates pledged to him at August’s Democratic National Convention (or has a health issue that leaves him physically unable to continu...
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GOP resolution calls on SCOTUS to ‘intervene’ in Trump’s hush money case
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GOP resolution calls on SCOTUS to ‘intervene’ in Trump’s hush money case

By GISELLE RUHIYYIH EWING | Politico Rep. William Timmons (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution Friday urging the Supreme Court to “intervene” in the hush money case against former President Donald Trump before the 2024 election — a move that experts say is a political stunt that faces significant legal obstacles. Citing the “All Writs Act,” by which the court “may issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law,” the resolution calls on SCOTUS to intervene in the case “with all deliberate speed and possible urgency.” The resolution argues for the court’s intervention on the basis that Americans need to make “informed decisions” in the upcoming election. It also echoes Trump’s oft-us...
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Biden to take sweeping election-year action shielding estimated 550,000 from deportation
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Biden to take sweeping election-year action shielding estimated 550,000 from deportation

By MYAH WARD | Politico President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a major new policy initiative shielding tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants residing in the United States from deportation, in what amounts to one of the most sweeping immigration measures of his tenure in office. Under the initiative, the Department of Homeland Security will take action to effectively grant federal protections to some undocumented spouses and children of U.S. citizens. The new program, known as “parole in place,” will affect an estimated 500,000 spouses of U.S. citizens and 50,000 children under the age of 21, administration officials said. It’s the same immigration policy that has been used for qualifying military families since 2007. The timing of the proposal is nearly as notable as the ...
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