| | | | |  | | By Bethany Irvine | | Presented by |  | | | |  | THE CATCH-UP | | |  Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) is the first sitting House member to call fo Joe Biden to step down as the Democratic nominee for president. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images | For days now, elected Democrats have privately lamented President JOE BIDEN’s reelection chances and following his disastrous Thursday night debate. For the most part, what they haven’t done, though, is go on the record. Until today. — Rep. LLOYD DOGGETT (D-Texas) called on Biden to step aside — complete with an LBJ reference, via Erik Wasson: "I represent the heart of a congressional district once represented by LYNDON JOHNSON. Under very different circumstances, he made the painful decision to withdraw. President Biden should do the same." More from the Texas Tribune’s Matthew Choi — Rep. JIM CLYBURN (D-S.C.) told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that he “will support” VP KAMALA HARRIS if President Biden “were to step aside. (h/t NBC’s Gary Grumbach) — Former House Speaker NANCY PELOSI (D-Calif.) on MSNBC: “I think it's a legitimate question to say, is this an episode or is this a condition? When people ask that question, it's completely legitimate — of both candidates." Pelosi added that she's heard "mixed" opinions on whether Biden is fully up for the campaign. "Some are like, 'Well, how can we subject the [nomination] process to what might be possible? Others are, 'Joe is our guy. We love him. We trust him. He has vision, knowledge, judgment, integrity,'" she said. "I trust his judgment." More from Anthony Adragna: “Pelosi said it would be ‘essential’ for Biden to do ‘not one, maybe two’ unscripted interviews with journalists to demonstrate his capabilities without a teleprompter. ‘That would be a great thing for him,’ she said.” — Sen. PETER WELCH (D-Vt.) lambasted the Biden campaign for its “dismissive attitude” towards questions about Biden’s age. “[T]hat’s the discussion we have to have,” he told Semafor’s Joseph Zeballos-Roig. “It has to be from the top levels of the Biden campaign to precinct captains in the southside of Chicago. … The campaign has raised the concerns themselves … So then to be dismissive of others who raise those concerns, I think it’s inappropriate.” — Rep. MIKE QUIGLEY (D-Ill.) told CNN’s Kasie Hunt that Biden must “be honest with himself” about how his performance can impact Democrats’ chances of winning congressional races: “We have to be honest with ourselves that it wasn’t just a horrible night … I just want him to appreciate at this time just how much this impacts not just his race but all the other races coming in November.” More from Andrew Howard — Former Rep. TIM RYAN (D-Ohio) called for Biden to step aside and allow Harris to become the nominee in an op-ed for Newsweek. And on the state side ... CNN’s Jake Tapper reports that Democratic governors convened a call to discuss Biden’s debate performance and are pushing for a meeting with the White House to assuage concerns. Key lines: “On the call, the governors expressed surprise that none of them had heard from Biden himself. There was a strong sentiment on the call that they needed to hear from the president directly. … The governors, one of the sources said, were worried about going public with their concerns out of fear that it would lead to Biden digging in further.” Good Tuesday afternoon. Thanks for reading Playbook PM. Drop me a line at birvine@politico.com.
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Only a bipartisan, comprehensive approach will win this fight. | | | | | 6 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW | | |  A new buzzy profile of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells Kennedy's story through the lens of his close friends and family. | Thos Robinson/AFP via Getty Images | 1. SCOTUS IMMUNITY FALLOUT — Just over 24 hours after the Supreme Court’s monumental decision to grant presidents immunity for official acts, and we are already seeing the ruling play out in DONALD TRUMP’s Manhattan business fraud conviction. This morning, prosecutors agreed with the former president and his lawyers’ push to delay his July 11 criminal sentencing so the judge can weigh the impact of the SCOTUS ruling on his conviction on 34 federal fraud charges, NYT’s Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum and Wesley Parnell report. “Although the Manhattan case does not center on Mr. Trump’s presidency or official acts — but rather personal activity during his campaign — his lawyers argued on Monday that prosecutors had built their case partly on evidence from his time in the White House.” So what’s next? “If [Justice JUAN] MERCHAN agrees to delay the sentencing, it wouldn’t occur before July 24, according to a schedule proposed by prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers,” Erica Orden reports. The bigger SCOTUS picture … NYT’s Adam Liptak has the 30,000-foot view of this year’s often volatile and divisive SCOTUS term. In total, “[t]he court was divided 6 to 3 along partisan lines not only in Monday’s decision on Mr. Trump’s immunity and the three cases on agency power, but also in a run of major cases on homelessness, voting rights, guns and public corruption.” And “[e]ven when the justices agreed … they very often could not find consensus on the rationale. Indeed, they issued concurring opinions at a record rate, the highest since at least 1937 and probably ever.” 2. WOWZA — Vanity Fair’s Joe Hagan is out with a buzzy profile of ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. through the lens of his close friends and family, who describe the presidential candidate as a man whose life story is “marked by personal trauma and addiction to drugs, sex, and, perhaps most perniciously of all, public adulation.” In some of the more alarming stories, Hogan’s report includes …
- An on-the-record allegation of sexual assault from ELIZA COONEY, who was a young woman Kennedy had hired in the late 1990s to work as a babysitter and personal assistant.
- A photo of Kennedy posing with the cooked remains of a dog while traveling in Korea. “The photo was taken in 2010, according to the digital file’s metadata — the same year he was diagnosed with a dead tapeworm in his brain.”
- Allegations that he sent friends sexually explicit photos of women that may not have been taken consensually.
Writes Hogan: “Theories about Kennedy’s reckless behaviors abound. Long before it was reported, members of the family knew about the brain worm … But more often his family points to Kennedy’s 14 years as a heroin user.” Meanwhile … Kennedy’s independent presidential campaign remains in the red as it struggles to get on ballots across the country, leading some supporters to put money behind a new legal fund, NYT’s Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Theodore Schleifer report: “[T]he Kennedy campaign’s leaders increasingly see ballot access not just as necessary for his viability as a candidate, but as a rallying cry.” 3. KFILE STRIKES AGAIN: A review of comments from multiple radio shows found that ED MARTIN, the deputy policy director for the RNC’s platform committee, has repeatedly pushed to ban abortions without exceptions, suggested imprisoning women who've had abortions, and "questioned the safety of birth control," CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck report. Despite the abortion issue remaining a major liability for the GOP, “Martin has continued to advocate for some of the most extreme restrictions on abortion, discounting the case involving the rape of a 10-year-old girl from Ohio as a reason for exceptions, and even falsely claiming that abortions are never performed to save the life of a mother.”
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