Biden's presser leaves Dems in 'purgatory'

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DRIVING THE DAY

GOOD MORNING, MR. PRESIDENT — “The race for the presidency remains statistically tied despite [President JOE] BIDEN’s dismal debate performance two weeks ago, a new national NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. Biden actually gained a point since last month’s survey, which was taken before the debate,” NPR’s Domenico Montenaro writes.

“In this poll, he leads [DONALD] TRUMP 50% to 48% in a head-to-head matchup. But Biden slips when third-party options are introduced, with Trump holding the slightest advantage with 43% to 42%. … The poll also found that, at this point, no other mainstream Democrat who has been mentioned as a replacement for the president on the ticket does better than Biden.”

Joe Biden speaks at the NATO summit.

President Joe Biden vaulted over the lower-than-the-Earth’s-core expectations at last night's press conference. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP

BIDEN’S INK-BLOT TEST — It was arguably the most important news conference of Biden's long career. Rumor had it that scores of congressional Democrats, expecting a disaster, had preemptively drafted statements calling on him to step aside as the party’s presidential candidate as soon as it ended. Some even privately hoped he would face-plant so that it could be a clean break.

Instead, Biden vaulted over the lower-than-the-Earth’s-core expectations. Now the Democratic Party’s path forward is even more uncertain than it was before Biden took the stage.

The fundamental challenge is that everyone saw a performance that seemed to reconfirm their prior beliefs about Biden.

Aides with the Biden campaign and White House were celebrating.

“He exceeded expectations. He answered really fucking hard foreign policy questions beyond my personal capacity to answer. And he also had a couple of great lines that we're going to be able to use in the campaign,” one Biden aide told us last night. “It was important for the media, it was important for the Hill, it was important for an audience that we really need to show that we're up to the task.”

“The green badge staffers that sit in EEOB and give shitty comments to the press don’t know Joe Biden,” another Biden aide reveled in a text message to Playbook. “He’s got a core group of folks who have always believed!! And everyone is going to thank us when he wins!” (Acknowledging the back and forth of the last week, the person added: “check back on me in like 2 days.”)

One former senior administration official told us last night was another reminder that Biden won’t go quietly into that good night. “I don’t know how congressional Dems will view this but Lord, the man ain’t going,” they said. “And if the congressional members really want to win, they will drop it.”

Yeah, don’t count on that.

Democrats who had doubts about Biden’s viability beforehand feel left in a lurch afterwards.

“This is the worst of all worlds,” one Democratic aide texted us. It was “damaging for [Biden’s] prospects, but not so bad it [that] provides enough fodder to use this to dump him from the ticket.”

“After the first gaffe, President Biden spoke confidently on foreign policy issues with command. The problem is that he left us in purgatory,” a veteran Democratic operative told Playbook. “Candidates and campaigns are supposed to make you feel something — hope, optimism, courage — but instead most of us felt nothing after that presser. And feeling nothing is how you lose elections.”

“Biden has lowered the bar until it’s on the floor and Democrats have to decide if they’re going to go along with it,” added another. “Being able to get through a press conference and being able to beat Trump are not the same thing.”

Most Dems we spoke with last night — even those who are ready for him to depart — agree that the presser moved things in the right direction for Biden. And that while unscripted moments are the things he needs to do the most to make folks comfortable again about him as the nominee, those unscripted moments are what gives them heartburn.

For them, watching Biden make a statement — especially one in a dynamic and unscripted environment — is the political equivalent of seeing a high-wire act without a net: If they fall, it’s likely fatal; if they don’t, they’ve simply wobbled to the other side to survive one more day.

Indeed, several more congressional Democrats called on Biden to leave the race after the conference ended. Reps. JIM HIMES (D-Conn.), SCOTT PETERS (D-Calif.) and ERIC SORENSON (D-Ill.) joined the chorus. But nowhere near the hyped “scores” of House members some had predicted.

Some Democrats we spoke with dreaded the likelihood that Biden aides would spin the night as a big win that showed a president in full command of his faculties. And so, the Biden detractors will regroup. Many lawmakers had drafted statements and were waiting to release them after the NATO summit and press conference wrapped up. Will they release them today?

What’s more, Democratic leaders at some point will also have to speak to Biden about the situation. How frank will they be?

“The Super Friends are assembling,” said a House Democrat who did not believe Biden's performance yesterday changed anything. “There’s a group of people who are going to go make their case to whomever they can get to at the White House that he needs to step aside and we’re going to get our asses kicked if he doesn’t.”

In an “ideal world,” this “Super Friends” delegation, the member said, would be Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER, President Pro Tempore PATTY MURRAY, House Minority Leader HAKEEM JEFFRIES, speaker emerita NANCY PELOSI and JIM CLYBURN.

Today, during his trip to Michigan, Biden is expected to outline “the dangers of Trump's Project 2025’s agenda with the promise of what America can accomplish in the first 100 days of a second Biden term” — another opportunity for Biden to prove his ability to prosecute the political case against Trump. Same thing in his interview with NBC’s Lester Holt on Monday. And with the RNC starting next week, expect attention to swing back to Republican side of the ballot.

So if these “Super Friends” are really going to force him off the ticket, they’ve gotta work fast.

Happy Friday. Thanks for reading Playbook. Drop us a line: Rachael Bade, Eugene Daniels, Ryan Lizza.

 

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SIREN FOR DEMOCRACY — “Trump allies at Heritage declare 2024 election illegitimate in advance,” by WaPo’s Isaac Arnsdorf: “A ‘war game’ presented at the right-wing foundation imagined far-fetched scenarios for election interference to justify preemptive measures.”

HEADLINE OF THE DAY— Ry Rivard, with this must-click tour through the venues where Sen. BOB MENENDEZ (D-N.J.) and his alleged patrons are accused of wheeling and dealing: “Diners, drive-ins and bribes: How Bob Menendez’s corruption trial is explained by food”

THE PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW: ELAINE KAMARCK — So what exactly happens if the Democratic Party suddenly loses its presumptive presidential nominee? No one knows more about the process than Kamarck — a longtime member of the DNC’s rules committee, a scholar at Brookings, a former advisor to top Democrats such as BILL CLINTON, AL GORE and WALTER MONDALE; and the author of “Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates.” On this week’s episode of Playbook Deep Dive, Eugene presses her on what would ensue if Biden were, in fact, to step aside, including: how and when he might do it; whether his delegates can rebel against him if he doesn’t; whether or not he can choose a successor; how exactly an open convention would unfold in Chicago; and what she thinks the public’s reaction would be if the Democratic nominee for president were chosen by a handful of party insiders in the proverbial smoke-filled back rooms. Listen on Apple or Spotify

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WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY

On the Hill

The Senate is in. The House is out.

3 things to watch …

  1. The push to hold AG MERRICK GARLAND in “inherent contempt” and slap him with $10,000-a-day fines flopped on the House floor yesterday after four Republicans voted against Rep. ANNA PAULINA LUNA’s (R-Fla.) resolution and another dozen failed to vote at all. Luna, however, insists she will bring the measure back up later this month and give it another go. In the meantime, she said she is lobbying the Republicans opposed and counseled her X followers to “be respectful with them in correspondence.”
  2. Biden’s push to confirm more judges than Trump got a surprising setback yesterday when the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the nomination of SARAH NETBURN to the Southern District of New York on a 10-11 vote. The surprise came courtesy of Sen. JON OSSOFF (D-Ga.), who broke party ranks amid questions about Netburn’s handling of a transgender woman’s prison assignment in her role as a federal magistrate judge. An Ossoff spokesperson said the senator was exercising “rigorous and independent judgment on behalf of his constituents.” More in Inside Congress from Katherine Tully-McManus
  3. A pair of House Republican primaries are headed to recounts: Yesterday, Virginia Rep. BOB GOOD made it official, filing for a recount against JOHN McGUIRE, who leads him by 374 votes in the certified tally for the June 18 primary in the 5th District. The margin also narrowed this week in the Utah contest between Rep. CELESTE MALOY and COLBY JENKINS, with Jenkins now 214 votes behind the incumbent — inside Utah’s recount margin. He said he intends to request one following a statewide certification on July 22. More from the Deseret News

At the White House

Biden will receive the President’s Daily Brief in the morning and then travel to Michigan before flying to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, at night.

VP KAMALA HARRIS will have briefings and meetings.

On the trail

Biden will speak at a campaign event in the evening in Detroit, with a focus on contrasting the first 100 days of his second term with Project 2025. Other speakers will include Michigan elected officials and OCTAVIA SPENCER.

 

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AMERICA AND THE WORLD 

President Joe Biden, joined by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaks during an event on the Ukraine Compact on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Washington, Thursday, July 11, 2024. Biden launched the Ukraine Compact, signed by 25 countries and the European Union, as part of a commitment to Ukraine's long term security. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The NATO summit in Washington this week delivered in big ways for a desperate Ukraine in ways that last year’s didn’t. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo

A BIG WEEK FOR KYIV — The NATO summit in Washington this week delivered in big ways for a desperate Ukraine in ways that last year’s didn’t, Paul McLeary concludes this morning. There was a new $225 million aid package Biden announced yesterday, AP’s Tara Copp and Matthew Lee report, plus a declaration that Ukraine’s path to membership in the alliance is “irreversible.” There were pledges of tens of billions of dollars’ worth of assistance next year, and condemnations of Russia’s and China’s roles in the war. Kyiv’s leaders were reassured, especially considering how much more disappointing this week could have been, has been before and might be in the future, Matt Berg reports in National Security Daily.

But there’s plenty Ukraine still hasn’t gotten — from more air defenses to fewer limits on striking Russia — and Trump’s potential return to the White House looms as a major fear. That “irreversible” plan could quite quickly be reversed if Trump is back in power, WSJ’s Michael Gordon, Lara Seligman and Daniel Michaels note. And all that planned assistance this year won’t be enough for Ukraine to mount a major counteroffensive until 2025, NYT’s Lara Jakes and Eric Schmitt report.

Elsewhere at the summit: Canada said it will finally get up to the 2 percent military spending pledge — but not until 2032. More from Reuters … Meanwhile, NATO leaders are talking about raising the target higher than 2 percent, Miles Herszenhorn and Laura Kayali report. … The U.S., Canada and Finland launched a new pact focused on shipbuilding and the Arctic. More from The Hill … NATO Secretary-General JENS STOLTENBERG got tough on China, per Stuart Lau. … Foreign leaders met with Trump advisers all over Washington, Alex Ward reports.

Heads up: Russia planned to try to assassinate a German arms executive helping manufacture weapons for Ukraine, but the U.S. and Germany foiled the plot, CNN’s Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand and Frederik Pleitgen scooped.

ALL POLITICS

CASH DASH — Sen. SHERROD BROWN (D-Ohio), in a tough reelection fight, pulled in a major $12.8 million haul in the second quarter, Axios’ Stephen Neukam reports. He has $10.7 million on hand. GOP challenger BERNIE MORENO, meanwhile, went to Brown’s office in D.C. yesterday and bragged that he would take hard questions, unlike Brown … and then quickly sidestepped a question about abortion, per NBC’s Frank Thorp V.

— In a competitive California congressional race, Democrat DEREK TRAN announced that he raised $1.3 million, outdoing GOP Rep. MICHELLE STEEL.

RED-LIGHT REDISTRICT — The Utah Supreme Court reopened the door to an independent redistricting process in the state, ruling that the state legislature’s Republicans had erred in rewriting the ballot initiative voters had OKed. The matter now goes back to a lower court, The Salt Lake Tribune’s Robert Gehrke and Emily Anderson Stern report.

POLL POSITION — Democratic Rep. COLIN ALLRED has made up ground against GOP incumbent TED CRUZ in the Texas Senate race and now trails by just 3 points, 47 percent to 44 percent, per a new survey from the University of Houston and Texas Southern University. Trump leads by 9 points in the presidential race. More from the San Antonio Express-News

2024 WATCH

Donald Trump Jr., son of former US President and presidential hopeful Donald Trump, bows his head in prayer at a caucus location Franklin Jr. High School in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 15, 2024. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump earned his widely-expected victory Monday in the Iowa caucuses -- the first vote in the 2024 presidential race -- US media projections showed. (Photo by Christian Monterrosa / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTIAN   MONTERROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump Jr. will have a prime speaking slot at next week's RNC just prior to his father's VP pick Wednesday night. | Christian Monterrosa/AFP via Getty Images

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM — As the political world gets ready to turn its attention to next week’s Republican National Convention, new pieces of information emerged yesterday about how it will go down. DONALD TRUMP JR. will have a prime speaking slot just prior to Trump’s VP pick Wednesday night, Axios’ Sophia Cai reports. East Palestine, Ohio, Mayor TRENT CONAWAY is also slated to speak, perhaps that same night, Alex Isenstadt scooped. (Those two speakers could certainly be of a piece with Ohio Sen. J.D. VANCE if Trump goes with him for a running mate.) And MELANIA TRUMP will attend the convention in a rare campaign appearance, CNN’s Alayna Treene scooped, though it’s not clear whether she’ll speak.

The policy meat: The GOP’s policy platform at the convention calls for “universal school choice.” Adding “universal” is new — and a long-sought goal for conservatives. AP’s Julie Carr Smyth digs into what it actually means: essentially, a national program to allow any student to apply for taxpayer-funded scholarships for any school, as already exists in some states. How that would actually play out remains unclear, given that the party also wants to end the federal Education Department and that lawsuits would surely ensue.

The locals to know: NYT’s Julie Bosman and Dan Simmons profile Milwaukee Mayor CAVALIER JOHNSON, who’s a Democrat and Biden backer but nonetheless thrilled to have the energy (and dollars) in his city. And POLITICO Magazine’s Michael Kruse goes deep on Milwaukee County GOP Chair HILARIO DELEON, a 23-year-old Latino who is exactly the kind of voter with whom Republicans are trying to make inroads — and is working to usher in that change himself by eating into Dems’ urban margins.

More top reads:

  • Ad it up: The Biden campaign went up with a new ad blasting Biden as a “lap dog” for Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN. More from The Hill
 

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TRUMP CARDS

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Trump National Doral Miami, Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Many experts think Donald Trump’s gambit to vacate his conviction in his Manhattan hush money case won’t succeed. | Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo

IMMUNITY FALLOUT — Yesterday was originally supposed to be Trump’s sentencing on his criminal conviction in the hush money case. Instead, thanks to the Supreme Court, the day saw Trump’s legal team officially ask Justice JUAN MERCHAN to throw out the case and vacate his conviction, ABC’s Katherine Faulders, Aaron Katersky, and Peter Charalambous report. Many experts think Trump’s gambit won’t succeed. But having already gotten sentencing postponed to September, his lawyers filed 52 pages arguing that some of the evidence in the trial should now be considered off limits in the wake of the high court’s immunity decision.

The evidence “tainted … grand jury proceedings as well as the trial,” the former president’s lawyers wrote. They said HOPE HICKS’ testimony in particular should have been inadmissible, along with Trump’s tweets and the prosecution argument that jurors should consider Trump’s motives while in office. Manhattan DA ALVIN BRAGG’s office has a couple of weeks to respond.

POLICY CORNER

HOW’S WORK — “Biden administration goes bigger on funding apprenticeships, hoping to draw contrast with GOP,” by AP’s Josh Boak: “The Biden administration said Thursday that it’s providing $244 million to expand and update the federal government’s registered apprenticeship program — an effort to bring more people into higher-paying work that doesn’t require a college degree.”

THE TAXMAN COMETH — In the latest demonstration of the Inflation Reduction Act in action, the IRS announced that it’s crossed the $1 billion threshold in picking up back taxes owed by the ultra-wealthy, AP’s Fatima Hussein reports.

TV TONIGHT — PBS’ “Washington Week,” guest-moderated by Franklin Foer: Mark Leibovich, Ashley Parker, Vivian Salama and Ali Vitali.

SUNDAY SO FAR …

FOX “Fox News Sunday”: RNC Chair Michael Whatley … new national polling. Panel: Mary Katharine Ham, Brit Hume, Karl Rove and Juan Williams. Sunday special: Behind the scenes at the GOP convention.

CNN “State of the Union,” from Milwaukee: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) … Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.). Panel: David Urban, David Axelrod, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Ashley Allison.

NewsNation “The Hill Sunday,” guest-hosted by Leland Vittert from Milwaukee: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) … Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson.

CBS “Face the Nation”: Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.).

NBC “Meet the Press”: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) … Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.). Panel: Charles Benson, Lanhee Chen, Carol Lee and Jen Psaki.

ABC “This Week,” from Milwaukee: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). Panel: Donna Brazile, Reince Priebus and Chris Christie.

 

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PLAYBOOKERS

Gabe Vasquez, Eric Sorensen and Lori Chavez-DeRemer have a new anti-fentanyl bill.

John Fetterman’s car-crash police response footage is out.

IN MEMORIAM — “Tommy Robinson, former congressman and Pulaski County sheriff, dies at 82,” by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Grant Lancaster: The Democrat-turned-Republican “made an unsuccessful gubernatorial bid [against Bill Clinton] and was known for stealing the media spotlight with his contentious positions.”

SPORTS BLINK — The inaugural bipartisan Women’s Congressional Basketball Game tipped off Tuesday night, when the lobbyists’ team took home a 53-45 win over the congressional squad. The game was sponsored by the Hoops for Youth Foundation, with proceeds benefiting the Kay Yow Foundation. Team Congress was coached by Maryland head coach Brenda Frese, with a lineup that included Reps. Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.), Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) and Angie Craig (D-Minn.), Cheri Bustos, Sydney Beasly, Phoebe Ferraiolo, Emily Trapani, Caitlin-Jean Juricic, Emily Carwell, Hannah Spengler, Lauren Toy, Catherine Treadwell and Britney Chang. Team Lobbyists was coached by Temple head coach Diane Richardson, and its roster included Becca Salter, Makenzie Shellnutt, Ashley Shelton, Miquela Hanselman, Katie Larson, Annmarie Conboy-Depasquale, Nikki Soda, Leah Dempsey and Hannah Chargin.

OUT AND ABOUT — Phil Elwood on Wednesday night held a release party for his new book, “All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians” ($23.36), at Commissary, which appears in the book. SPOTTED: Isaac Dovere, Michael Schaffer, Bill McCarren, James Kirchick, James Grimaldi, Howard Yoon, Gail Ross, Dara Kaye, Courtney Flantzer, Dave Bartlett, Max Marcucci, Louise Radnofsky, Jamie Tarabay and Luke Mullins.

— SPOTTED on the rooftop of the MLK Library for the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung NATO reception Wednesday evening, with live music by The President of Rock and Roll: German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, Knut Dethlefsen, Matt Duss, Michael Tomasky, John Neffinger, Peter Nicoll, Christina Sevilla, Steve Rochlin, Matt Kaminski, Akbar Ahmed, Sarah March,, Ilyse Hogue and Katherine Doyle.

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Anthony Pileggi is joining Strategic Partners & Media as a partner. He most recently was a partner at Guidant Polling and Strategy, and is an IMGE and Elise Stefanik alum.

NEW NOMINEES — The White House announced that Biden is nominating Kali Jones as ambassador to Benin, Douglas Jones as ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Stephanie Miley as ambassador to The Gambia, Melanie Zimmerman as ambassador to Guinea, Keith Hanigan as ambassador to the Solomon Islands, Julie Siegel as a CFTC commissioner, Carl Bentzel for another term as a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission, Deva Kyle as director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. and Debbie Halvorson as chair of the Railroad Retirement Board.

TRANSITIONS — Ashley McManus is joining Lot Sixteen as VP. She previously was Republican staff director for the House Natural Resources Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee. … Lee Hudson will be a senior manager for PR at defense contractor RTX. She currently is defense technology and influence reporter at POLITICO. …

… Joshua Cohen is now director of comms at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. He most recently was senior adviser and speechwriter for undersecretaries Victoria Nuland and John Bass at the State Department, and is a DOD and Hill alum. … Emily Fisher will be chief strategy officer at the Smart Electric Power Alliance. She previously was EVP for clean energy and general counsel at the Edison Electric Institute.

WEEKEND WEDDING — Caroline Rose, a director at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, an adjunct professor at Georgetown and a consultant for the U.N., and Jackson Armstrong, an equity research analyst for Wells Fargo who recently completed service as a captain in the U.S. Army, got married in Sannes, France, on Saturday. They met through collegiate Model U.N. while Caroline was at American University and Jackson was at West Point. PicAnother pic 

WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Caroline Boothe Olsen, director of comms and legislative affairs at technology trade association Incompas and a Liz Cheney and Pete Sessions alum, and Jonathan Olsen, financial adviser with Edward Jones and an Army veteran, welcomed Palmer Grace Olsen on Tuesday. PicAnother pic

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