THE SHOW NOTES: Dems Panic Over Black Voters, Israel's Stunning Discovery in Rafah, & Cumulative Price Changes Under Biden

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Dems Panic Over Black Voters

Another day, another major headline story of Democrats publically panicking over the President’s standing in the 2024 election.

Yesterday, Democrats were in a “full-blown freakout” according to party insiders at Politico who claimed a “pervasive sense of fear has settled in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects.”

Today, Black leaders in the Democratic Party are publically telling the President his plan to engage Black Democrats isn’t working and he’s running out of time. Here’s the quote that matters:

The publicly voiced concern from these Black Democrats isn’t that the White House lacks policy achievements — it’s that Black voters aren’t hearing about them. Worse, they fear that the Biden campaign has not fully grasped the severity of the information gap at hand, particularly in key battleground states.

Context: Much of the consternation on the left stems from a Wall Street Journal survey in April that found 30 percent of Black men were either “definitely or probably going to vote” for Donald Trump. This is drastically up from the 12% share that Trump carried in 2020.

Young voters: Biden’s larger problem is that he is hemorrhaging young voters at an unprecedented rate compared to his 2020 campaign. According to exit polling, Biden won the young vote by nearly a 20-point margin in 2020. Today, an NPR poll shows that Trump and Biden are statistically tied. Here’s the devastating quote from NPR:

Younger voters don’t approve of the job Biden is doing, don’t particularly like him very much, don’t think he has the mental fitness to be president and don’t think he’s handling the most important issues very well — be it the economy, immigration or the war between Israel and Hamas.

Polling: While the election between Trump and Biden will be the first rematch in decades, the people deciding the election will be drastically different. According to Bloomberg, swing states have lost or replaced between 8% and 20% of their voting electorate. This takes place through death, people turning 18, or transplants moving from one state to another.

Bonus: The unusual turnout dynamic that could decide the 2024 election - CNN

Israel Advances

The IDF says it has established operational control of the Philadelphi Corridor which connects Rafah to Egypt. The news is significant because the region serves as an access point for Hamas to funnel supplies from Egypt into Gaza through an elaborate tunnel system.

Details: At least 20 complex tunnel systems with 82 access points were captured in the Philadelphi Corridor. Many of the tunnels were not previously unknown to Israel and likely served as a means to transport weapons and hostages.

Pro-terror: Squad member Rashida Tlaib is facing backlash from fellow Democrats for making an appearance at the People’s Conference for Palestine which is hosted and funded by avowed terrorists.

Fetterman: Democratic Senator John Fetterman ripped off his Harvard alumni hood at a commencement address for Yeshiva University. Fetterman went on to say he was “profoundly disappointed” in his alma mater and that “Personally, I do not fundamentally believe that it is right for me to wear this today.”

NYT: From Allies and Advisers, Pressure Grows on Biden to Allow Attacks on Russian Territory

President Biden is edging toward what may prove to be one of his most consequential decisions in the Ukraine war: whether to reverse his ban on shooting American weapons into Russian territory.

He has long resisted authorizing Ukraine to use U.S. weapons inside Russia because of concern it could escalate into a direct American confrontation with a nuclear-armed adversary.

Now, after months of complaints about the restrictions from Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, the White House has begun a formal — and apparently rapid — reassessment of whether to take the risk. Approving further uses of U.S. weapons would give Kyiv a way to conduct counterattacks on artillery and missile sites that now enjoy something of a safe haven just inside Russia.

Full story at The New York Times (paywall)

Also Known As ‘Women’

Biden’s Unpopularity Just Hit A New Record

From Heather Long at The Washington Post

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