(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The first presidential debate looms [1] [] Date: 2024-06-24 Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet. E.J. Dionne Jr./The Washington Post: Forget conventional wisdom. Trump needs the debate more than Biden. The debate will show voters who has the discipline to win and be a decent president. Do not expect bursts of eloquence that will live on in history. Pay attention instead to which of these men better understands whom he needs to talk to. This will show you who has the discipline to win and be a decent president. James Lardner/New Yorker: Biden Is the Candidate Who Stands for Change in This Election The oldest-ever President has been a groundbreaking leader. The debate gives him a chance to get that message across. Historically, polls conducted in the spring have been a poor guide to voting behavior in the fall. Even so, Biden’s allies and campaign strategists worry about an electorate currently inclined to treat the contest as a choice between the status quo and change—to compare Biden, in his own framing of the problem, to the Almighty instead of the alternative. An incumbent seeking reëlection would normally leave it to others to question a challenger’s character; Biden has decided to drop the niceties and do all that he personally can to persuade voters of Trump’s unfitness for public office. The country would be well served if the President and his team also took aim at the notion of Biden as a guardian of the established order. His many years of life (eighty-one) and service in elected office (going on fifty-five) might seem to cast him in that role. During the past three and a half years, though, the oldest-ever U.S. President has been a groundbreaking leader—an agent of changes that many of his doubters would celebrate, if they noticed. x Did everyone hear @CBSSunday? In a presidential debate-centered editorial, CBS actually - finally - said "Trump's words are not a gaffe {like's Gerald Ford's}. They're a lie." Unapologetic refutation of The Big Lie as ultimate prologue for all debate analysis. Bravo, @CBSNews. — Hal Corley (@Halcyon270) June 23, 2024 John Sasso/The Boston Globe: What Biden needs to say to win the debate with Trump The president should take off the gloves and deliver the facts — with strength and conviction. That’s all he needs to do to beat Trump’s campaign of lies, revenge, and attacks on American values. From the start, Biden should telegraph the contrast between himself and Trump in three key areas: a record of results versus bluster; a history of delivering for working families versus a record of being only for himself; and as a president who takes responsibility for his decisions versus a sore loser who always dodges responsibility. Biden should alert viewers to watch for the way Trump routinely plays the victim, blames others, and avoids any accountability — including from the law, the courts, and the American people. As the debate plays out, he can then highlight when Trump brags without results, shifts blame, or puts his self-interest above that of average Americans. x It’s pretty bad when one candidates rapid response account just posts the other guys quote verbatim with no explanation at all https://t.co/xUCJjmgEr3 — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 23, 2024 The Washington Post: Trump cranks up false, inflammatory messages to rake in campaign cash Democrats say the fundraising emails falsely suggesting he could be executed were tempting more violence. The incendiary emails are part of a concerted strategy that has allowed the campaign to erase a financial lead that President Biden’s campaign had opened up in recent months, according to people close to the former president who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak for the campaign. But experts in small-dollar fundraising say the solicitations are aggressive even by the standards of Trump’s frequently hyperbolic and inflammatory language. x Strong youth vote numbers for Biden today via @CBSNewsPoll. He's at the all important 60% threshold - and shows improvement from Spring Harvard Youth Poll which showed Biden 56% / Trump 37%. pic.twitter.com/7kEAw2LusI — John Della Volpe (@dellavolpe) June 23, 2024 Associated Press: Democrats wrestle with whether to attend Netanyahu’s address to Congress as many plan to boycott While some Democrats are saying they will come out of respect for Israel, a larger and growing faction wants no part of it, creating an extraordinarily charged atmosphere at a gathering that normally amounts to a ceremonial, bipartisan show of support for an American ally. “I wish that he would be a statesman and do what is right for Israel. We all love Israel,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said recently on CNN about Netanyahu. “We need to help them and not have him stand in the way of that for such a long time.” She added, “I think it’s going to invite more of what we have seen in terms of discontent among our own.” x Disinvite Bibi. We have no business celebrating or granting the honor of speaking to our Congress to a war criminal. https://t.co/YyNXlRiD1o via @politico — David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) June 23, 2024 “The UnPopulist” on Substack: Is Trump a Fascist or Something Else Entirely?: A Conversation with Nicholas Grossman Berny Belvedere: Nick, do you believe terms like “fascism,” “Nazism,” “communism” are overused today? If so, why do you think they are? Nicholas Grossman: So, in a way they're overused and also not. “Nazi” came to be a word that just meant bad, the thing that we all agree on is bad, and can be used in very serious contexts and comedic contexts—like the Soup Nazi in Seinfeld, and all the running jokes and memes of Godwin’s law and “everything I don't like on the internet is Hitler” and anything else along those lines. So people do overuse it. But also, with “Nazi” in particular, it can reach a level where people then think that any lesson from Nazi Germany or any lesson from the 20th century more broadly is ipso facto wrong, that there's something inherently wrong about comparing the right-wing nationalist-populist movement that won an election and then lost power and then attempted a putsch and then reconsolidated and ran for power again, to America's right-wing nationalist-populist movement that won an election and then lost power by election and then attempted a putsch and then sought power again. That seems pretty ridiculous that you couldn't connect any of those. Ashley Parker/The Washington Post: Meet the ‘double haters’ who could decide the election Many voters express resignation, dismay and anger over being asked to choose between Biden and Trump again in November There is also the matter of the potential impact of Trump’s New York conviction on 34 counts of felony business fraud in connection with paying hush-money to an adult film actress ahead of the 2016 election. A New York Times-Siena College poll following Trump’s conviction found a slight decline in Trump’s advantage over Biden, though a national poll by Monmouth University showed no clear shift. But the Times-Siena poll found that double haters were especially likely to abandon Trump, who lost more than one-fifth of those who previously supported him. Roughly half of this group said they now preferred Biden, while the other half said they remain undecided. x The CO & NY primaries are in 2 days. The US presidential debate: in 4 days. First round of the French elections: in 7 days. UK elections: in 11 days. Final round of the French elections: in 14 days. (😱) — Taniel (@Taniel) June 23, 2024 Jack Shafer/Politico: For Post’s Lewis, Credibility Dies in Silence Refusing to talk about his past ethical lapses has cost him an editor and might cost him his job. Robert Winnett, the Daily Telegraph editor that Washington Post Publisher and CEO William Lewis recruited to edit “core news” at the paper, resigned last week as the tide of exposés about his and Lewis’ shady conduct at British newspapers continued to surge. “It is with regret that I share with you that Robert Winnett has withdrawn from the position of Editor of The Washington Post,” Lewis wrote in a staff memo. Suddenly, Lewis looks increasingly isolated and his own job seems at risk — made more so by a PR strategy of deflection and silence increasingly at odds with the severity of his predicament. 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