#Politics An #NPR Marist Poll released today shows #Biden leading #Trump 50%-48%.

But ... but ... Biden's old!! Bad news for Biden!! #Sarcasm

https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/contest-for-president-still-up-for-grabs/

#Politics

#Biden: Unifies #NATO, organizes the #Ukraine Compact, defies #Russia. Landmark infrastructure bill. Ends the COVID pandemic. Historically low unemployment, healthy economy.

#Trump: Give #Putin what he wants. My wife's name is Mercedes. Sharks. Electrocution. Bleach. Hannibal Lecter. #MAGA!

MSM: Biden is old. Trump is the next president. 🙄

#Politics I missed it as I had other commitments, and won't have a chance to watch it until tomorrow, but here's the link on the White House YouTube channel for tonight's #Biden presser. It runs an hour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YF3ksozMBw

#Ukraine #NATO The event ends. #Biden and #Zelenskyy walk off together.

Here's the complete video. It started late; if the link doesn't take you there, go to the 1:38:20 mark for the event.

https://www.youtube.com/live/sm1-iJld5Yc?si=qQx6om4a2yE_hhDp&t=5900

#Ukraine #Zelenskyy: "I thank President #Biden for his actions."

Thanks America for the air defense systems, and the other partners.

#Biden: First gaffe of the event. Introduces Zelenskyy as "President Putin," but quickly corrects itself. Zelenskyy laughs it off.

#BIden: "We're building a bridge for #Ukraine into #NATO."

The #Biden #Ukraine #NATO event has started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm1-iJld5Yc

#Politics Here's the White House YouTube channel link for you to watch President #Biden's 6:30 PM EDT live press conference.

Biden will want to talk about Ukraine, the economy, his administration's accomplishments, Trump's Project 2025, etc.

The press will only ask if he's too old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YF3ksozMBw

#Politics Coming up at 4:15 PM EDT, President #Biden hosts a live event on the Ukraine Compact. Watch on the White House YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm1-iJld5Yc

#Politics From #LATimes culture columnist and critic Mary McNamara:

"Of course, should #Biden remain in the race, Clooney will have handed #Trump a campaign ad that no money could buy."

"... all those people who claim to want to defeat Trump and preserve democracy are going to have to stop calling for Biden’s ouster and rally the hell around him."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-07-10/joe-biden-nancy-pelosi-george-clooney-democratic-party-nomination-presidential-election

#Politics Unlike the cowardly #NYTimes, the #LATimes editorial board just put the focus where it belongs:

"It’s unbelievable that the nation is spending so much time on the question of Biden’s verbal acuity, when the greatest concern ought to be that his challenger is a self-aggrandizing felon and twice-impeached election-denier."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-07-11/la-trump-unfit-for-office-biden-election

#Russia #Ukraine Breaking from #CNN: US and #Germany foil Russian plot to assassinate the CEO of a German arms manufacturer supplying the Ukraine war effort.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/us-germany-foiled-russian-assassination-plot/index.html

#Politics This morning's #MSNBC "Morning Joe" on the #NYTimes editorial calling #Trump "unfit to lead."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSpo-999CkQ

#Politics #NYTimes editorial board publishes op-ed, "Donald #Trump is unfit to lead." But they don't call for him to drop out; instead they call for voters to reject him.

The Times, meanwhile, continues to beat the drum for #Biden to drop out.

So the electorate can decide about #Trump but not #Biden?! More hypocrisy from the NYT.

I'm glad I cancelled my NYT subscription this morning.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/11/opinion/editorials/donald-trump-2024-unfit.html

#Politics #Economy From #WaPo:

MSM: Oh no! Inflation is down again! Great economic news! Bad news for #Biden! #Sarcasm

(Edited to add the free shared link.)

https://wapo.st/3XX3lo4

#Politics President #Biden yesterday at the AFL-CIO, which reaffirmed their endorsement of him. #MSNBC #Lawrence presented his speech in its entirety, which you didn't see elsewhere -- because, y'know, he didn't talk about sharks or electrocution.

At the 10:00 minute mark if the link doesn't take you there.

https://youtu.be/fERNPp4G2Sw

#Politics I don't have a #CNN subscription to cancel. Otherwise I would. This morning's nonsense:

"Biden is facing the most high-pressure presidential news conference in modern history"

Really?! What would you call Nixon's "I am not a crook" presser?! Trump's "inject bleach" presser?!

Is it really front-page material that George Clooney wrote an op-end column?!

#Politics I just cancelled my #NYTimes subscription. I wrote in the comments:

"You have created an artificial crisis with President #Biden, driving hysteria, thinking it will sell papers and generate clickbait. You have ignored the cognitive decline of candidate #Trump. The NYT is an embarassment to its history. I'll come back when you start acting like a real newspaper again."