Thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. Today the Biden campaign released a

memo outlining what they see as the state of the 2024 race so far and the big

takeaway from that memo is that Biden's campaign believes this will be a very close general election.

Now the memo only mentions Donald Trump by name twice and it makes a point of saying that the

Biden campaign is prepared to prepared no matter who emerges as the Republican

nominee but it's clear that this campaign memo is about beating Donald Trump.

MAGA is mentioned 15 times in it.

The plan, as it is laid out here, focuses on drawing a contrast between Biden and Trump and

between Biden and MAGA extremism. We saw a little bit of that contrast in action

today as President Biden visited Lewis and Maine.

Biden spoke in front of the just in time bowling alley, one of the two sites of the

last, the horrific massacre last week that left 18 dead and 13 injured.

I know consensus is only possible.

This is about common sense, reasonable, responsible measures to protect our children, our families,

our communities.

Because regardless of our politics, this is about protecting our freedom to go to a bowling alley,

a restaurant, a school, a church, without being shot and killed.

President Biden has been calling on Congress to pass a new assault weapons ban and

universal background checks and to strengthen red flag laws all things Republicans oppose.

But today, Biden's message was about asking how the nation might come together.

What change could we all agree upon.

That message, even just Biden's posture in general,

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