You’re not quite as sharp as you once were.” … I have just turned 80 and I have found over the last two or three years I think it would have been unwise for me to try to run any organization. Biden’s weekends in Delaware as much as possible.”ĭAVID GERGEN, who has advised four presidents: “I do feel it’s inappropriate to seek that office after you’re 80 or in your 80s. … Although White House officials insist they make no special accommodations the way Reagan’s team did, privately they try to guard Mr. His energy level, while impressive for a man of his age, is not what it was, and some aides quietly watch out for him. Biden looks older than just a few years ago, a political liability that cannot be solved by traditional White House stratagems like staff shake-ups or new communications plans. Biden remained intellectually engaged, asking smart questions at meetings, grilling aides on points of dispute, calling them late at night, picking out that weak point on of a memo and rewriting speeches like his abortion remarks on Friday right up until the last minute. “In interviews, some sanctioned by the White House and some not, more than a dozen current and former senior officials and advisers uniformly reported that Mr. From Peter Baker’s front-page take on Biden’s age in the NYT this morning: The reaction: “Outrage Erupts as White House Calls Abortion Rights Activists ‘Out of Step,’” The Daily BeastĢ. It’s to deliver help to women who are in danger and assemble a broad-based coalition to defend a woman’s right to choose now, just as he assembled such a coalition to win during the 2020 campaign.” KATE BEDINGFIELD, the outgoing comms director, with a statement making waves online: “Joe Biden’s goal in responding to Dobbs is not to satisfy some activists who have been consistently out of step with the mainstream of the Democratic Party. The White House pushes back against its critics in this WaPo piece from Ashley Parker, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Tyler Pager on “the administration’s 14-day struggle to craft a message and policy plan after the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs.” Two big pieces delve into two of Biden’s biggest problems: the continued dissatisfaction on the left and the age issue.ġ. Mag’s Ed Kilgore notes that the president “is now polling worse than Trump was at the same point in his presidency.” | Jose Luis Magana/AP PhotoīIDEN AGONISTES - President JOE BIDEN continues to struggle. “Suddenly, we were staring down at a sidewalk full of blood.”Ībortion-rights supporters demonstrate outside the White House during a protest to pressure the Biden administration to protect abortion rights on Saturday, July 9. We ran out to the motorcade and headed to the Upper East Side. But MAXWELL YOUNG, the mayor’s communications director, announced, ‘We have to go.’ The mayor had pulled up outside in his black Suburban, but plans had changed. “I pulled out a notebook, getting ready to interview Adams. “On a breezy June night in the Bronx, I was on the balcony at the restaurant Zona De Cuba, sipping a mojito, vibing to a salsa band and peeking at a special menu for the plant-based mayor of New York, Eric Adams, who was soon to arrive. You couldn’t ask for a better match of writer and subject: MUST-READ - If you read only one thing this weekend, make it this Maureen Dowd classic on ERIC ADAMS. “Orange you glad it’s premiere day?” Holder tweeted, referring to the noticeably heavier makeup on Trump in his sitdown interviews with the filmmaker. NOW STREAMING - ALEX HOLDER’S “Unprecedented,” the three-part documentary about DONALD TRUMP and his family, dropped at 4 a.m.
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