In South Carolina’s 6th District, Rep. Jim Clyburn May Finally Have Met His Match

“A sense of concern is growing inside the top ranks of the Democratic Party that leaders of Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee are not taking seriously enough the impact of the president’s troubling debate performance earlier in the week,” the AP reports. “DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison and Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez held a Saturday afternoon call with dozens of committee members across the country, a group of some of the most influential members of the party.

“President Biden sought to extinguish anxieties among top Democratic donors Saturday following a disastrous debate performance that raised alarm about his age and ability to remain the party’s presumptive nominee, as the White House worked to keep the party fully behind the president,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The task at hand was significant.

President Biden’s campaign on Saturday night, in a fundraising appeal to supporters, said the president dropping out would only “lead to weeks of chaos” and leave the eventual replacement weakened ahead of a November faceoff with Donald Trump, ABC News reports.

President Biden’s “miscues and limitations are more familiar inside the White House,” Axios reports. “The time of day is important…From 10am to 4pm, Biden is dependably engaged — and many of his public events in front of cameras are held within those hours.” “Outside of that time range or while traveling abroad, Biden is more likely to have verbal miscues and become fatigued.”

“President Emmanuel Macron’s decision three weeks ago to call snap elections overturned any semblance of political stability in France and opened the door to the possibility of the first far-right government in the modern republic,” Bloomberg reports. “Not only did his call to dissolve the National Assembly shock both the public and markets — sending some risk indicators to levels last seen during the euro-area crisis — it also took Macron’s own cabinet by surprise.” Washington Post: In France’s rebranded far right, flashes of antisemitism and racism persist.

Light of the world, shine on me Love is the answer Shine on us all, set us free Love is the answer. "Love Is the Answer" is a song written by Todd Rundgren and performed with his band Utopia. It is the closing track on their 1977 album Oops! Wrong Planet, and was the only single released from the album. Two years later, England Dan & John Ford Coley released their version as the lead single from their seventh studio album.