Jennifer Jacobs and Bill Allison reported that Elon Musk, the fascist billionaire from South Africa, who had pretended he wouldn’t spend money on electing Trump, donated to a super political action committee working to elect Donald Trump to the White House, a major gambit by the world’s richest person to make his imprint on the US political landscape. Musk has contributed to a low-profile group called America PAC, according to people familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity to detail his plans. It’s unclear how much Musk has given, but the people characterized the figure as a sizable amount. The PAC is next required to disclose its list of donors on July 15.”
Sahil Kapur, writing for NBC News, reported that at a rally in Detroit, yesterday, Biden “tore into the ‘right-wing Project 2025’ and made it a central theme of his speech… as he seeks to put a lid on Democratic calls that he withdraw from the presidential race. ‘Folks, Project 2025 is the biggest attack on our system of government and on our personal freedom that’s ever been proposed in the history of this country,’ Biden told the crowd, adding that the initiative ‘is run and paid for by Trump people’ and is ‘a blueprint for a second Trump.’ Biden, rousing the crowd with a more energetic performance than usual, said it would unleash a ‘nightmare’ on the country if his Republican rival is elected and implements it. ‘Another four years of Donald Trump is deadly serious. Project 2025 is deadly serious,’ Biden said, describing it as a threat to American values. When he took the stage, Biden was greeted to chants of ‘Don’t you quit!’ and ‘We got your back!’ The president told them there’s ‘a lot of speculation lately’ about whether he’ll stay in the race. ‘I am running, and we’re going to win!’ he said.
Nicholas Nehamas and Reid Epstein called the 35 minute speech “fiery and energetic,” noting that “Biden thundered that his rival was a ‘convicted criminal’ and a ‘business fraud,’ and said that he had ‘raped’ the writer E. Jean Carroll, whom Trump was found liable of sexually abusing by a civil court.” It was “a version of Biden that has been absent since he began his re-election campaign— and maybe one not seen since he was on a presidential ticket with Barack Obama.”
Too late? Top Michigan Democrats— Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters and Representative Elissa Slotkin— were all absent. “Cori Bush of Missouri, a progressive Democrat who has not called for Mr. Biden to step aside, said on Friday that ‘100 percent of the phone calls into our office are asking me to ask the president to step out of the race.’”
Politico’s report was pessimistic, noting that as “Biden’s support continues to crumble, his party is reckoning with the possibility of a punishing defeat in November— a potential GOP wave that would not only elect former President Donald Trump but also sweep away Democrats from power in Congress… The anxieties about being tied to Biden— who polls show has lagged behind Trump in key battlegrounds for months, but has slipped even more recently— permeate the entire ticket. Democrats’ quest to assert more local control may be compromised as well, as Biden’s crisis could jeopardize their attempts to flip legislative chambers in swing states like Arizona and Pennsylvania, and hang onto Michigan and Minnesota… Inside the Capitol, Democrats who fear Biden can’t win make up a majority of the party and a growing number are willing to say so publicly. ‘It’s over,’ one aide to a battleground Democrat said of the fight to flip the House. ‘It doesn’t matter if they’re outperforming him by 35 fucking points. The math doesn’t work.’”
Right. the math doesn't fucking work. but americans suck at math, so whatcha 'spect?