Why it matters: #Pelosi is potentially the last #Democrat with the stature and the savvy to convince President #Biden to bow out of the race.
Her dire assessment of Biden's political predicament has reverberated throughout his campaign and in the higher echelons of the #DemocraticParty. #Trump #TrumpBidenFight
Scoop: #NancyPelosi warns Biden of 2024 presidential race peril
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/18/nancy-pelosi-biden-president-2024
The #VirtualNomination was originally planned to beat an #Ohio state deadline for placing candidates on the ballot for the 5 November election that fell before the #Democrats’ August convention. But Ohio extended the deadline, negating that obstacle, the letter to the #DemocraticNationalCommittee argued. #TrumpBidenFight #Trump
#HouseDemocrats oppose party’s plan to speed up #Biden nomination
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/16/democrats-biden-roll-call-vote
This isn't going to end well 😬 This panicked move might end up backfiring pretty badly.
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The #DemocraticNationalCommittee is quietly steaming ahead with plans to technically nominate President #Biden weeks before the party's convention next month, Axios has learned. #Trump #TrumpBidenFight #USPol
Scoop: How the DNC plans to run out the clock for Biden
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/16/biden-dnc-vote-nomination-states-2024-election?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=social
In a #NewYorkTimes op-ed in April, the #Ohio senator said he remains “opposed to virtually any proposal for the #UnitedStates to continue funding this war,” and previously said it is in #America’s best interest “to accept #Ukraine is going to have to cede some territory to the Russians.” #UkraineWar #TrumpBidenFight #Biden
#Trump’s pick of #JDVance as running mate likely to alarm Ukraine and its supporters
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-pick-j-d-vance-213824283.html
..and they should have stuffed Trump in the car asap. There could have been a second shooter 🔫
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One ex-commander of the Long Beach, California, police department’s special tactics team told #NBC it was “a fundamental #SecurityFailure” to allow someone on a #rooftop so near the rally Saturday. #USPol #Biden #TrumpBidenFight
Ex-#SecretService agents say ‘massive realignment’ warranted after #Trump rally shooting
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/15/secret-service-trump-rally-shooting?utm_source=press.coop
#Biden's (& the #Democrats) D-day is right after this coming Thursday when #Trump comes out of the #RepublicanConvention much stronger because of the positive fallout from the failed assassination attempt.
It's also possible he'll have a geriatric meltdown then but I doubt it. His campaign team will leave nothing to chance. #USPol #TrumpBidenFight #Biden
#TheGuardian’s video editors have put together this report about the shooting at #Trump’s #Butler rally – including a visualisation showing where the shots where fired from [VIDEO]:
An #AssociatedPress analysis of more than a dozen videos and photos from the scene of the #DonaldTrump rally in #Butler, #Pennsylvania, as well as #SatelliteImagery of the site, shows the alleged shooter was able to get astonishingly close to the stage. #USPol #TrumpBidenFight #Biden
It is 'surprising' the #gunman was able to open fire on the stage before #SecretService killed him, #FBI special agent says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jul/14/trump-rally-shooting-assassination-attempt-shooter-thomas-matthew-crooks-pennsylvania-latest
An attender at #DonaldTrump’s rally in #Butler, #Pennsylvania, saw the alleged shooter on a rooftop about “200 to 250 yards” away from where the former Republican president was speaking to supporters yesterday, KDKA News reports. #USPol #TrumpBidenFight #Biden
#Trump rally attendee says he saw alleged shooter 'move from roof to roof' before assassination attempt
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jul/13/trump-rally-gun-shots-pennsylvania-latest-updates?page=with:block-6693a3848f08d1ccb5784e2a#block-6693a3848f08d1ccb5784e2a
Edward Helmore
Streets leading to the #Pittsburgh home of 20 year old #ThomasMatthewCrooks, the young man suspected of attempting an assassination of #DonaldTrump at a rally on Saturday, are now closed off, as #Police, #FBI and #SecretService search his family home.
It is not yet clear what the gunman’s motivation was. He was a registered #Republican, but has no known criminal record, according to a data search. #Trump #TrumpBidenFight #Biden #USpol
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