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NBC News: “As a former secretary of state, she has the bona fides to provide Biden with a measure of political cover amid a war in the Middle East that has split the Democratic Party.” “Clinton is popular with women and key parts of the Democratic base and remains a fundraising draw who can help ensure Biden has the money to get his message out…” “Clinton’s role is only expected to grow in the new year, but for now, she is filling a space that at a later point in the campaign season former President Barack Obama will join.

“When a historian wrote an essay the other day warning that the election of former President Donald Trump next year could lead to dictatorship, one of Mr. Trump’s allies quickly responded by calling for the historian to be sent to prison,” the New York Times reports. “It almost sounds like a parody: The response to concerns about dictatorship is to prosecute the author.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said he doesn’t necessarily put much stake in Donald Trump’s specific words, describing him as a “human gumball machine,” Politico reports. Said Romney: “A thought or a notion comes in and it comes out of his mouth. There’s not a lot of filter that goes on… He just says whatever.

“There’s a lot that has to be done to begin to rebuild the Republican Party, potentially to build a new conservative party. But in my view, that has to wait until after the 2024 election because our focus has got to be on defeating Donald Trump.” — Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), quoted by ABC News.

“A number of Hispanic and Latino members of Congress, as well as advocacy groups, are becoming increasingly concerned that President Joe Biden may strike a deal with Republicans on immigration that they find unacceptable in order to secure passage of his high-priority Ukraine and Israel aid package,” NBC News reports. “The fear, one Capitol Hill Democrat with knowledge of the negotiations said, is that the president will accept border policy changes proposed by Republicans that are ‘unimaginably cruel.'”

“Allies of Hungary’s far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán will hold a closed-door meeting with Republicans in Washington to push for an end to US military support for Ukraine,” The Guardian reports.