Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* While members of President Joe Biden’s team initially said he struggled during the debate due to a cold, the Democratic incumbent told a group of supporters yesterday that international travel affected his performance.
* As Biden scrambles to put things right, the president has scheduled events in the coming days in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, in addition to an ABC News interview and a meeting with congressional leaders.
* A sign of the times: Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, a top Republican target this year, will not appear alongside Biden when he visits Madison on Friday.
* On the same day that Democratic Rep. Jared Golden said he expects Donald Trump to win in November, one of the Maine congressman’s closest allies, Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, came to the same conclusion.
* Speaking of Democrats in competitive races, Colorado’s Adam Frisch, who nearly upset Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert two years ago, yesterday called on Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race. * In light of the incumbent president’s post-debate difficulties, the Trump campaign has reportedly delayed the announcement about the former president’s new running mate. The strategy isn’t complicated: Republicans don’t want to give the political world something new to talk about. * Vanity Fair this week published a report that accused independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of, among other things, sexually assaulting a babysitter and possibly eating a dog. On a YouTube program, the conspiracy theorist refused to comment about the allegations, though he did say, “Listen, I’ve said this from the beginning: I am not a church boy.”
Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."
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