Athletes Unite To Fight Back Against Trump Attacks

CNN: “For months, President Joe Biden and his team pressed the case for additional aid both publicly and privately, leaning into courting Johnson – whose young speakership was under pressure from his right flank – behind the scenes through White House meetings, phone calls and detailed briefings on the battlefield impacts, administration officials said.” “Grappling with the leadership dynamics in a House GOP conference increasingly resistant to more aid, Biden directed his team to use every opportunity possible to lay out the consequences of inaction directly to Johnson.

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“Democrats are increasingly open to the idea of voting to protect Speaker Mike Johnson against an ouster attempt, putting him in a stronger than expected position even with a razor-thin majority,” Politico reports. “More than two dozen Democrats told Politico they expect a swath of the party to step in and save the Republican speaker following his decision to buck conservative members of his party and support military aid to Ukraine.” Said Rep.

“A bill to adjust the deadline in Alabama law for political parties to certify their nominees for president and vice president in order to get on the ballot in November has passed the state Senate,” AL.com reports. “It moves to the House of Representatives. It could get final passage as early as next week.”

Wall Street Journal: “Focusing on the threat to democracy and freedoms, including abortion access, posed by another Trump term has helped Biden—through his campaign committee and a joint-fundraising committee—bring in more than $89 million from small-dollar donors for the 2024 election.” “Many of those low-dollar Biden contributors aren’t just donating once or twice, but giving dozens of times.”

A new Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll found Joe Biden is ahead in just one of the seven states most likely to determine the outcome of his matchup with Donald Trump, leading Michigan by 2 percentage points. Biden trails the presumptive GOP nominee slightly in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and his deficit in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina is larger.