Why Many Leaders Are Suggesting Trump Is Ordained by God After the Assassination Attempt

 https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/trump-assassination-texas-christians/

Many evangelical supporters and far-right Christian leaders now have come to see Trump as their ordained champion in the fight for the country they believe is rightfully theirs. Any resistance—a legal challenge, an electoral loss, a bullet of still-mysterious origin, caught in the early stages of investigation—only further sanctifies the cause and its vessel. God’s ways are not mysterious to them. His ways, they believe, are their own.

Pro-Trump Christian extremists use scripture to justify violent goals

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/13/trump-christian-nationalist-violent-rhetoric/

Democrats aren’t opponents, but enemies to be “smited.” Vice President Harris is depicted as Jezebel, the epitome of womanly wickedness who meets a grisly end. Teachers, librarians, drag queens — all perceived as introducing dangerous ideas to children — are condemned to drowning with millstones around their necks, a la Matthew 18:6.

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Biden was asked several questions about NATO that Donald Trump couldn't answer

Trump gets away with dodging the key questions

 https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-809813

Trump may see the media as his permanent enemy but in reality they are his greatest ally. He is a skilled performer and his rage and rants at his rallies have been rewarded with more airtime and ink than his opponents, and with minimal scrutiny. He’s been more entertaining than any of his opponents, Republican and Democratic, and that attracts the viewers and advertisers.

Economists Say Inflation Would Be Worse Under Trump Than Biden

 https://www.wsj.com/economy/economists-say-inflation-would-be-worse-under-trump-than-biden-263bc900?mod=hp_lead_pos1

In a Wall Street Journal survey, economists see Trump’s plans to raise tariffs and crack down on illegal immigration as putting upward pressure on prices

Americans Aren't Abandoning Joe Biden

 https://www.newsweek.com/americans-arent-abandoning-joe-biden-debate-john-fetterman-chris-coons-1923205

"I spent time in Pennsylvania the weekend after the debate. Not a lot of folks were worried," Democratic Senator Chris Coons told Newsweek.

'Incoherent' immunity decision renders 'Constitution itself unconstitutional':

Trumpism means ‘never having to say you're sorry for being stupid’

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Joe Biden Starts to Turn the Tide on Rebel Democrats Published Jul 09, 2024 at 9:28 PM EDT

 https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-starts-turn-tide-rebel-democrats-1923058.

New York Democratic Representative Jerrold Nadler, who on Sunday reportedly argued in favor of Biden stepping aside during a private call with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, appeared to reverse course in comments to reporters.

MAGA Senator Josh Hawley Advocates for Being a Christian Nationalist

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator-josh-hawley-goes-mask-off-on-being-a-christian-nationalist-at-national-conservatism-conference?ref=home?ref=home

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) assured the National Conservatism conference on Monday that he is a “Christian Nationalist.”

Hawley has previously written that “America as we know it cannot survive without biblical Christianity,” reiterated his Christian nationalist bona fides for the conservative conference.

“Some will say now that I am calling America a Christian nation. And so I am,” Hawley told the crowd. “And some will say that I am advocating Christian nationalism. And so I do.”

'186,000 Gazans dead’: Lancet magazine publishes new blood libel

 https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-809632

The Lancet magazine, an esteemed medical journal founded in 1823, published a piece earlier this week authored by doctors Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee and Salim Yusuf, which claimed that “it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.”

Health Ministry says 153 diagnosed with West Nile fever since start of outbreak, 11 have died

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/health-ministry-says-153-diagnosed-with-west-nile-fever-since-start-of-outbreak-11-have-died/

The Health Ministry reports that 153 patients have been diagnosed with West Nile fever in an ongoing outbreak, and a total of eleven people diagnosed with the virus have died.

Biden gaining ground on Trump in battleground states despite disaster debate: new poll

 https://nypost.com/2024/07/06/us-news/biden-gain-ground-on-trump-in-battleground-states-poll/

It’s the smallest gap since the poll began in October.

Although Biden is losing in Pennsylvania, the state where he grew up, he now leads Trump in Michigan and Wisconsin.