NEW: The latest NYT poll shows just how big a role RFK Jr. could play in 2024 — pulling biggest share of support from younger voters, independents and Latinos.

And in a 5-candidate race, Biden was at just 49 percent among Black voters across battlegrounds

New (from this weekend): An interview w/Governor Josh Shapiro about issues including his approach to the post-Oct. 7 moment+campus protests, whether he considers himself a Zionist and if he thinks there could be a Jewish president in his lifetime:
nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/…

one NYT Pulitzer winner (Hannah Dreier) just accepted her award after giving her 6-week-old infant a kiss; another (@katieengelhart) said she was assigned her winning story while 8 months pregnant. always blown away by the working moms in this building but especially today!

Biden, as a young man in the Vietnam era, was not much for protests. w/Matt Flegenheimer from 2020:
when Biden & his friends happened upon antiwar protesters at the chancellor’s office...his group stepped past with disdain. They were going for pizza.
nytimes.com/2020/10/17/us/…

Fwiw, I have spoken to AG over the past year about this topic & this caricature is unrecognizable. I never usually comment on media stories but this irritated me bc it's such a bs mischaracterization of his views about the importance of serious longform presidential interviews.

How the War in Gaza Mobilized the American Left nytimes.com/2024/04/12/us/… via Katie Glueck Katie Benner Sheera Frenkel

News: RJC wading into a Republican House primary in Indiana:

nytimes.com/2024/04/04/us/…

New: Two right-wing Israeli journalists traveled to Palm Beach, Fla., a little over a week ago, hoping to elicit from Donald J. Trump a powerful expression of support for their country’s war in Gaza.

Instead, one of them wrote that what they heard from Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago

can't wait to read!!

NEW: What the beat-up-Biden effigy -- at a Ted Nugent-headlined event -- tells us about the changing nature of the Republican Party in Johnson County, Kansas, once a GOP stronghold but increasingly a Democratic power center

w/ Katie Bernard
kansascity.com/news/politics-…

Huge sum: Biden team brings in $10 million in the 24 hours after the State of the Union via Kristen Welker and Scott Bland nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…

#SOTU HISTORY:

Senators who give responses to SOTU addresses delivered by presidents: Jan. 25, 1983, Joe Biden:

'As Franklin Roosevelt said during the recovery from the Great Depression: just 4 words are important'

clip bonus: in background spot future Delaware Sen Ted Kaufman

reupping this one, with Anjali Huynh :

If Trump Drives Haley From the Race, What Will Her Voters Do in November? nytimes.com/2024/02/24/us/…

Joe Biden’s Superfans Think the Rest of America Has Lost Its Mind
w/ Rebecca Davis O'Brien
nytimes.com/2024/03/04/us/…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell will step down as the Senate's Republican leader in November, ending a record run in the powerful post.