"The Morning Meeting" at 8:30am ET Today
S1E1: Shooting aftermath, veepstakes, Biden’s search for a plan & the Republican convention gets underway....
….with Logan Kreisberg
“THE MORNING MEETING” DAYBOOK
MONDAY, JULY 15, 2024
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DAYBOOK, all Eastern Time
* Joe Biden
11:00am: President will receive an updated briefing on the shooting in the White House Situation Room from homeland security and law enforcement officials
3:45: Interview with NBC’s Lester Holt
4:50pm: President departs for Las Vegas
* Kamala Harris
11:00am: Joins president in receiving updated briefing from homeland security and law enforcement officials
* Donald Trump
11:00am: Daily Trump campaign/RNC press briefing in Milwaukee
Afternoon: Procedural and rules session in the Fiserve Forum
Primetime: Economic-themed session and, if you are betting, a Trump cameo, which will blow the roof off the joint
“The Morning Meeting” topics:
* Will Donald Trump unveil his running mate, perhaps in the conventional hall, tonight?
* What earned media message does Joe Biden want to drive today?
* Is the “Dump Biden” movement paused, dead, or moving forward behind the scenes?
* What challenges does each man face, how do they feel about those challenges, and what do they plan to do about them?
ESSENTIAL READING/VIEWING
* Of the things Donald Trump said in his various talks with the media, this one in his New York Post interview caught our attention:
[Trump] also said that “we hear” that Biden will order the Department of Justice to drop its two prosecutions of Trump.
* In one TikTok video, the absolutely perfect distillation of Blue America’s struggle to grapple with the political benefits accruing to the candidate who was shot at:
![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_640,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F41414865-692d-4a18-bad7-339ab9f9f3bd_720x1280.jpeg)
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I don’t condone violence. Period. I do, however, remember which candidate injected violence into the public sphere over and over and over since 2015. Political violence is never OK, but I’ll reserve my compassion for men who don’t do everything they can to incite it.
#trumpshot #shooterattrumprally #trumpgotshot #violenceisnottheanswer #nopoliticalviolence #trumprallyshooting #trumprally #trumpincitesviolence #trumpisdangerous #trumpdividedus #votebiden #CapCut
* Politico:
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, convinced Biden will lose, has been working the phones since June 27 in hopes of finding a way to ease him off the ticket.
One of her colleagues was struck to see her chatting, furtively but openly, with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries last week in a corner of the House Democratic cloakroom in plain sight of a dozen lawmakers.
The extent of Pelosi’s behind-the-scenes role hasn’t been fully revealed and may never be if the former speaker has her way. But I’m told by people familiar with the exchanges that she’s stage-managed phone calls to Jeffries, plotted strategy with the biggest names in Democratic politics and told one former elected official bluntly that Biden’s legacy can’t be destroying their party.