Biden to travel to Florida today to rebuke Trump over six-week abortion ban

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Pres. Biden: “I’ve never thought I’d see a time when I’m going through a neighborhood, or a rural town that’s in the West, and see big signs that have a Trump sign in the middle that says ‘F Biden,’ and having a little kid standing with his middle finger.'
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Biden’s handling of Gaza shakes his support in the Black community

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
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Iran attack complicates Biden’s push to change the course of Gaza war
By Yasmeen Abutaleb
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Biden uses release of 2023 tax returns to draw contrast with Trump
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
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New: The Biden campaign’s internal polling has found that abortion outranks the Gaza war in importance to many voters

More in my look at the Biden playbook for abortion and how officials hope it’s a silver bullet for the president’s struggles

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Biden says the 2024 race is binary. Millions don’t see it that way.

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Biden team increasingly hopes to ride the abortion issue to victory

By Tyler Pager
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Donald Trump’s perfect vice president looks the part: attractive and telegenic. They are ideally Black or a woman, though that’s not required. And they are most certainly not taller than Trump himself.

Veepstakes latest w Marianne LeVine + Josh Dawsey: washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Inflation was 3.5% in the past year --> highest since September.

Here are key items really driving inflation now
Car insurance +22% in past year
Car repair +12%
Baby formula +10%
Veterinarian +10%
Rent +5.9%
Electricity +5%
Restaurants +4.2%
(Gas up 1.3% in past year)

FINISH WHAT WE STARTED by Isaac Arnsdorf is out today. This is an immersive untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing fringe dedicated to dismantling democracy itself.

Happy pub day Isaac Arnsdorf! Your book, FINISH WHAT WE STARTED, began years ago, but we always knew it was a story that was essential. So proud, and glad you’re showing the importance of this story, as the stakes of 24 cannot be discounted! Little, Brown and Co alyssa persons The Cheney Agency

At White House, Japanese prime minister will trumpet strength of U.S. alliance wapo.st/3J9bAVw
By Michelle Ye Hee Lee

JERUSALEM, April 8 (Reuters) - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that a date has been set for an Israeli invasion of Rafah, Gaza's last refuge for displaced Palestinians, without disclosing that date as a new round of ceasefire talks take place in Cairo.

‘Increasingly chaotic’: Several House Republicans explain why they are heading for the exits and why this cycle may be different than others. My latest: wapo.st/4cNXMNH

Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015 washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

House Republicans are dreading their return to DC this week, knowing that a “silent majority” of the conference is upset with the speaker & a vacate threat dangles over his head as he embarks on piecing together legislation that divides the GOP. My latest: washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Of course I wrote about もしトラ and ほぼトラ:

‘If Trump’: Japan readies for the return of a quixotic American president
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JUST IN: Another blockbuster month for jobs. The US economy added 303,000 jobs in March — way above expectations. The big gains were healthcare (72k) and gov’t (71k).

Unemployment rate: 3.8% (vs 3.9% in Feb)

Wage growth: 4.1% in past year (well above 3.2% inflation)

Centrist group No Labels says it will not field a ticket in the 2024 presidential election, via Michael Scherer washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…