On the menu today: This is the last Morning Jolt until Monday, July 8. I hope you have a terrific Independence Day and weekend, but I almost wish we were on the regular publishing schedule, because since the debate, every morning has brought something new and weird and worth discussing. As our Audrey Fahlberg reports, among Democrats, it’s now “knives out” for Joe Biden. The party’s elected officials are teetering on the edge of calling for Kamala Harris to replace Biden, seething that Biden and his family hid his true condition for so long and have thereby put the 2024 election at risk, up and down the ticket.
But Now America Has to Deal with It
It’s not just that Joe Biden had a terrible debate, likely the worst debate performance ever. It’s that despite his team’s insistence that it was just an off night spurred by a cold, Biden and his team have been running a version of the “basement campaign” ever since — with the president reading off teleprompters at rallies, refusing to take questions, spending the ...
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