John Podesta, In Bed With The Russians All Along

“A new coalition of abortion-rights groups is marking the second anniversary of the fall of Roe v. Wade with a pledge to spend $100 million to restore federal protections for the procedure and make it more accessible than ever before,” Politico reports.

“After Melania Trump missed key events in her husband’s presidential bid earlier this year — from the kickoff of the 2024 election in Iowa to Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday victory party — reporters asked the former first lady whether she planned to hit the campaign trail. Her response: ‘Stay tuned,’” the AP reports. “But since making that comment in March, after she and Donald Trump voted in Florida’s primary, Melania Trump has largely refrained from public appearances.

New Yorker: “The Party’s future depends on re-ingratiating itself with less educated voters who might be economically populist and might dislike the G. O. P.’s turn toward the religious right, but who… ‘don’t want to feel super judged all the time.’ Fetterman’s instinct is for what Jentleson called ‘vice signalling’ — a countermeasure to the performative do-gooderism of the left.”

Politico: “Outside of the money race, a series of other developments in recent days have left even Republicans with the impression that November may not be quite as good for the GOP as it once seemed.”

Washington Post: “There is a deepening sense of fear as population loss accelerates in rural America. The decline of small-town life is expected to be a looming topic in the presidential election.”

Gallup: “More than two in three Americans continue to believe that marriage between same-sex couples should be legal (69%), and nearly as many say gay or lesbian relations are morally acceptable (64%).” “Both readings have been consistently above the 50% mark since the early 2010s and above 60% since 2017.”