The Welcome to Ponce Save America. I'm John Lovett. I'm Tommy Vittor. I'm Dan Fifer.

It has been a rough couple of shifts in the democracy minds as the Supreme Court issues ruling after ruling

slashing at the basic workings of our institutions, our ability to regulate pollution, punish corruption, and hold

presidents accountable to the law. Democrats continue to debate Joe Biden's fitness to be our

representative in the fight to protect democracy this fall.

I am recording this from home

because I got COVID on the road.

John's on vacation.

Lucky him.

I'm here with Dan and Tommy.

It is 2 o'clock Pacific on Tuesday. We're time stamping it because

this debate seems to be moving pretty quickly. A lot of churn since we last talked

about this in Boston. We're going to get to as much of it as we can, but the gist is, as of now, the Biden campaign is projecting confidence that Biden will remain the nominee. They put out a one minute ad that's basically just a cut down version of the speech we talked about in Boston.

The campaign is also pointing out that they pulled in a hundred and twenty seven million dollars in June,

including thirty eight million in the days after the debate.

In a memo on Monday, the campaign shared internal polling

to claim that Biden wasn't hurt by the debate.

Though in a call with donors later,

the campaign also said they were seeing an impact in the polling because of the debate.

At first the dynamic had been one in which elected Democrats were bravely offering anonymous hand-wringing

and then on the record displays of support but by Tuesday that was shifting

Representative Lloyd Doggett from Austin became the first sitting Democrat to call on

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