President Biden flew Wednesday to Italy for a Group of Seven leaders’ summit this week. He will greet nervous Western allies, who are closely following his rematch with former president Donald Trump and are worried that Biden’s vow that “America is back” may no longer ring true when they gather again next year in Canada. Trump has no advertised campaign events on Wednesday.
Hunter Biden’s guilty verdict Tuesday could weigh heavily on the president in the final months of his reelection campaign, allies privately worry.
rump plans to return to Washington on Thursday to meet with congressional Republicans near the U.S. Capitol, as the GOP tries to present a united front and coalesce around a policy agendaheading into the November elections.
I’m sorry to say this, dear reader, but you will not be deciding the 2024 election. That’s not a reflection on you personally, nor am I diminishing the power of your vote (vote!). It’s just a fact of the matter that people reading campaign politics newsletters in June 2024 are not generally the ones who will be on the fence and making crucial calls late in the campaign.
