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As President Biden was departing the White House this morning, he confirmed that he’d spoken with his vice president about her running mate, NBC News reports. Asked further about what qualities the president hopes to see in the future vice presidential nominee, Biden said: “I’ll let her decide.”

Bloomberg reported the news of Evan Gershkovich’s release from a Russian prison before anyone else — because they broke an embargo every other outlet had agreed to, New York Magazine reports.

Georgia Republican party chair Josh McKoon sent former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) an open letter demanding that he “cease referring to yourself as a Republican” and said the party would take actions to “protect the Republican brand” from his influence, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. “The one-term former lieutenant governor has long been a vocal Donald Trump critic, but Duncan has more recently emerged as a forceful GOP supporter of Harris.

Kamala Harris is now leading Donald Trump nationally in the FiveThirtyEight polling average, 45% to 43.5%. Harris is polling on average about 3 to 4 percentage points better than Biden before he dropped out. G. Elliot Morris: “That 1.5-percentage-point lead is within our average’s uncertainty interval, which you can think of as a sort of margin of error for our polling averages.

“Elon Musk and other tech executives are funding a social media ad blitz to support the presidential campaign of Donald Trump,” CNBC reports. “Musk’s America PAC is collecting data in more than a half-dozen swing states that could determine the outcome of the 2024 election.”

Wall Street Journal: “The Russian Federation had a few final items of protocol to tick through with the man who had become its most famous prisoner. One, he would be allowed to leave with the papers he’d penned in detention, the letters he’d scrawled out and the makings of a book he’d labored over.