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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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House GOP holds AG Garland in contempt of Congress over withholding Hur’s Biden tapes
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House GOP holds AG Garland in contempt of Congress over withholding Hur’s Biden tapes

bY JORDAIN CARNEY | Politico House Republicans voted on Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress — dramatically escalating their fight with the Justice Department. There was lingering skepticism just hours before the 216-207 vote about whether GOP leaders would be able to lock down the near unity required. Ultimately, nearly every Republican voted to take the largely symbolic step, which refers the attorney general to the DOJ for prosecution, with Democrats united in opposition. Only Ohio Rep. David Joyce voted against it on the Republican side. “As a former prosecutor, I cannot in good conscience support a resolution that would further politicize our judicial system to score political points. The American people expect Congress to work for the...
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Marijuana sales have plunged in Colorado and it is making other states nervous for future
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Marijuana sales have plunged in Colorado and it is making other states nervous for future

By MONA ZHANG | Politico On Jan. 1, 2014, Iraq War veteran Sean Azzariti made headlines worldwide as the first person in the U.S. to buy legal weed. More than 10 years later, 3D Cannabis, the dispensary in Denver’s Elyria-Swansea neighborhood where the historic purchase was made, displays a makeshift sign announcing it is “temporarily closed.” The windows and doors on the side of the building have been boarded up. Plastic bags, discarded coffee cups and other trash collect in the corners of the abandoned parking lot. The dismal state of the historic site is a fitting symbol of the plight of Colorado’s cannabis market. What once was a success story has now left a trail of failed businesses and cash-strapped entrepreneurs in its wake. Regulatory burdens, an oversaturated market...
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Lawyer, doctor, body man, bookkeeper: Joe Biden’s personal aides get involved in his relatives’ business dealings
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Lawyer, doctor, body man, bookkeeper: Joe Biden’s personal aides get involved in his relatives’ business dealings

By BEN SCHRECKINGER | Politico For years, Joe Biden shared a bookkeeper with his son, Hunter. He also shared a personal lawyer with his brother, Jim. And when Jim Biden wanted to know more about one of Hunter Biden’s associates, he hired the former head of Joe Biden’s Secret Service detail to investigate. Since 2019, Joe Biden has repeatedly distanced himself from his family’s business dealings, saying that he has never so much as discussed them with his relatives or with anyone else. But House impeachment inquiry interviews, public records and emails reviewed by POLITICO show that members of his inner circle were regularly enmeshed in those dealings: Many of the president’s closest staffers and advisers have doubled as his relatives’ business associates, both during and after their ...
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Hunter Biden was using drugs around the time he bought a gun, ex-partner and sister-in-law Hallie says
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Hunter Biden was using drugs around the time he bought a gun, ex-partner and sister-in-law Hallie says

bY BEN FEUERHERD and BETSY WOODRUFF SWAN | Politico  Hunter Biden’s sister-in-law and former romantic partner, Hallie Biden, took the stand at his trial on gun-related charges Thursday and told jurors she believed he was using crack cocaine around the time he bought a pistol in the fall of 2018. Federal prosecutors asked Hallie about a series of text messages she exchanged with Hunter in the days after he bought a Colt revolver on Oct. 12, 2018. In the texts, Hunter said he was “waiting for a dealer named Mookie” and said he was “sleeping on a car smoking crack.” The texts, along with Hallie’s testimony, are pivotal evidence as prosecutors try to prove that Hunter was an active drug user when he purchased the firearm. Special counsel David Weiss has charged the president’s son ...
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