Pun intended
Younger voters might save us after all.
CNN caught GenZ Rep. Max Frost (D-FL) Tuesday morning and he, like other younger party electeds, is standing behind Joe Biden:
Frost said that he had discussions with young voters, during which he said he heard concerns about Project 2025 — a playbook from the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation for a potential Trump presidency — not about Biden’s age. Former President Donald Trump has sought to distance himself from Project 2025, claiming he doesn’t know anything about it.
Frost added that he plans to head to New Hampshire this weekend to continue engaging with young voters.
Frost said he is convinced Biden will secure a second term this November and help Democrats regain control of the House.
Why, I don’t know, but electeds like Frost, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of The Squad seem not just cooler than some of the old party hands, but have kept cooler heads during the public freakout over Biden’s awful June 27 debate. The Congressional Black Caucus remains committed to Biden. Others who have asked Biden to step aside are accepting that he will not.
Intelligencer on the progress of Debategate:
A week and a half after Joe Biden’s unsettling debate performance prompted widespread concerns over his mental and physical fitness and ability to defeat Donald Trump, there’s no indication he is even considering dropping out of the presidential race. But while the 81-year-old president has repeatedly insisted he’s still fit to serve and can and will defeat Donald Trump in November, a sizable number of congressional Democrats remain unconvinced — and there are at least some signs they may try to pressure him to step aside so he can be replaced as the party’s nominee. How many ultimately do so, in what way, and whether their efforts make a difference remains to be seen. Biden and his allies on Capitol Hill are already fighting back.
It seems the Monday verbal slugfest in the White House press room was prompted by half-assed re-reporting from the New York Times (Washington Post):
On Saturday morning, the New York Post reported that Kevin Cannard, “a Parkinson’s disease expert at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center,” met with Biden’s personal physician, Kevin O’Connor, at the White House in January. They were joined, the Post reported, by a cardiologist.
That same day, Alex Berenson — who gained fame as a purveyor of misinformation during the pandemic — noted on Substack that Cannard had made more than a half-dozen visits to the White House in the past year. Berenson described this information as being “VERY URGENT.”
On Monday, the New York Times covered the visits, walking through the timeline of Cannard’s visits. “Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Months,” the headline read. The report triggered a flurry of questions during Monday’s White House press briefing, during which Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, insisted that privacy and security constraints limited her ability to discuss the visits.
The White House posted a memorandum from O’Connor debunking the Parkisnon’s story late Monday. Or reporters could have just Googled Biden’s health report from February, but where are the hot takes and clicks in that?
Marcy Wheeler: “This conspiracy theory started from NYPost and Alex Berenson. People who call themselves journalists took as their assignment editors a right wing propaganda outlet and a notorious conspiracy theorist.”
Who lacks fitness for their jobs?
I’m beginning to wonder if the entire Washington press corps is a Russian psyop. How’s that for a conspiracy theory?
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