Great point by Karl Rove just now -- Team BIDEN just politicized the TRUMP trial in one fell swoop.

Now De Niro is arguing with a Trump supporter while a car alarm continues to blare in the background...

Biden said that Romney was going to bring back slavery.

Biden campaign special guests: Harry Dunn, Michael Fanone, and Robert DeNiro.

This seems plausible. I'd also note that social trust is strongly correlated with reactions to COVID, vaccine hesitancy, for example. Few people now still list COVID as a concern, but it may have scrambled the political coalitions a bit.

If the Biden campaign didn't want to give the impression this trial is all about 2024, what would they be doing differently?

.Jerry Seinfeld finds those protesting at his shows—and calling him a “Nazi” or “genocide supporter”—more comedic than anything else:

“It’s so silly… They want to express this sincere, intense rage, but [they’re] a little off-target.”

Full episode: thefp.pub/3X4ifZv

Biden tonight visited his daughter-in-law Hallie Biden who is set to testify in Hunter’s trial next week.

ICYMI:

My favorite films of 2024 so far:

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Challengers
3. Monkey Man
4. We Grown Now
5. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
6. Babes
7. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
8. Cabrini
9. One Life
10. Ordinary Angels

SCOOP: USA Today’s Louisiana newspapers quietly deleted a published op-ed by GOP Sen. John Kennedy about his opposition to trans athletes in women’s sports… without even telling him.

A truly wild story:
foxnews.com/media/usa-toda…

SCOOP: USA Today’s Louisiana newspapers quietly deleted a published op-ed by GOP Sen. John Kennedy about his opposition to trans athletes in women’s sports… without even telling him.

A truly wild story:
foxnews.com/media/usa-toda…

I cannot stop laughing at this - happy Friday y’all 😂

18-29 year old voter registration by this point in the cycle in Pennsylvania:

2020 D+16
2022 D+4
2024 R+8

RFK Jr. is a step away from making the Florida presidential ballot

The Reform Party nominated him last night

Now it needs to reconstitute itself in Florida and, if all goes as planned, he should be on the ballot

Right now, the Reform Party isn’t an active committee in FL

I’m at Trump’s rally in the Bronx reporting for The Free Press, where I met John Wang, a Chinese-born U.S. citizen who says he’s voting for Trump: “I’m from communism, I know how bad it is. Now I feel like here is getting like China.”

Deputy Prime Minister of Spain: “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea,” a slogan adopted by Hamas calling for the destruction of Israel.

If Donald J. Trump takes her as his running mate, it’s because he believes they will win.

And in politics, winning isn’t the most important thing.

It’s the ONLY thing