Hey, good morning. It's Saturday, June 29. This has already been by far the strangest and most unprecedented election cycle in recent memory. And then this week happened. President Joe Biden turned

in an alarmingly weak performance at the first presidential debate of the season that the news

cycle has since been dominated by, not by, for instance, by the Supreme Court's decision to extend

its session past June for only the fourth time in nearly 40 years to further delay

criminal cases against Donald Trump from proceeding before election day and not by the

court's overturning of four decades of precedent on Friday in a ruling that many court

watchers are calling a blatant and dangerous judicial power grab. Instead,

the news cycle has been dominated by calls for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race,

including from the editorial board of the New York Times and leaders of the economist

and dispatches from panicked inner circles of the Democratic Party scrambling to come up with a

backup plan. But so far anyway, no elected or party leader has gone on the record suggesting

that Biden be dropped from the Democratic ticket and one of the country's most popular Democrats,

the former President Barack Obama, who himself delivered a poor performance

in his run for a second term in a debate, stepped in with a reminder that performance in a debate

is not the same thing as performance as president.

Quote, bad debate nights happen.

Trust me, I know.

But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life

and someone who only cares about himself.

Republicans and Biden critics are gloating.

While most Democrats are disappointed, alarmed even.

But that debate and this election simply

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