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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) used a Fox News interview about President Joe Biden to call out a right-wing plan called Project 2025 that would reshape the government if Donald Trump wins reelection.

During an appearance Monday on Fox News, host Dana Perino noted that former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) had suggested Biden should drop out in an interview with the network on Sunday.

With the Associated Press reporting that former first lady Melania Trump was nowhere to be seen at the first presidential debate in Atlanta just over a week ago, more questions are being raised about how much she will be involved in her husband's bid to return to the White House.

As AP reported, Melania was recently pressed about her role in the campaign at Trump's election kick-off, only to tell reporters, "Stay tuned."

Political strategists and journalists are responding to Donald Trump's sudden, strident, and illogical denial that he has any knowledge of Project 2025, the far-right Heritage Foundation's 920-page action plan to entirely remake the executive branch of the federal government, creating an all-powerful president in charge of a Christian nationalist authoritarian America. A Trump campaign official reportedly said the criminally convicted ex-president's denial Friday was "a direct response" to "the Biden campaign running ads on Project 2025."

Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts, a self-avowed Christian nationalist who's been described as a "cowboy Catholic" and a culture warrior, has been making the cable news rounds recently, promoting Project 2025. Late last month he gave a lengthy interview to MSNBC's Symone Sanders-Townsend, declaring Heritage's goal is to institutionalize "Trumpism" as a new version of conservatism.

Former President Donald Trump's attempt to distance himself from a problematic campaign platform crafted by his own former aides spurred an immediate uproar on both sides of the political aisle Friday.

Trump's claim that he knew "nothing" about the Project 2025, the latest source of a MAGA "freakout," was swiftly shut down by President Joe Biden's reelection campaign and condemned by conservatives.

Donald Trump's comments about "Black jobs," made a week ago at the CNN debate with President Joe Biden, got a working over on July 4th when Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Jenice Armstrong called him out while noting that, for any other candidate, it would be a career killer.

Drowned out by concerns about Biden's performance was the former president asserting, "The fact is that his big kill on the Black people is the millions of people that he’s allowed to come in through the border. They’re taking Black jobs now — and it could be 18, it could be 19 and even 20 million people. They’re taking Black jobs, and they’re taking Hispanic jobs, and you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re gonna see something that’s going to be the worst in our history."

In the seven polls showing a before the debate and after the debate number, President Joe Biden dropped an average of one point, despite his disastrous performance, and Donald Trump's average stayed the same, notes award-winning journalist Josh Marshall. He writes, "nature abhors a vacuum," and says, "this is a show, don’t tell situation," where the Biden campaign has to "put him out there at rallies or calling into shows, demonstrating his vitality and command."

Marshall, the founder and publisher of Talking Points Memo, and an occasional MSNBC guest, at TPM writes: "we need to look clearly at those numbers as a counter to what from the world of commentary and chatter has the look of a collapse of support for Biden and even Democrats generally."

Kevin Roberts, the president of the far-right Heritage Foundation, which is behind the multi-million dollar Trump-aligned Project 2025, has a warning for Democrats: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."

Roberts, according to a January New York Times interview, is "very open about being a Christian nationalist," and "views Heritage’s role today as 'institutionalizing Trumpism.'"

Demand Justice, the progressive judicial advocacy group that spent $1 million to support and promote Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination, reveals it’s planning a $10 million campaign to advocate for reforms to the nation’s highest court – including expanding it – and protect the institution from a possible Trump second term.

“Our democracy is in an absolute crisis, and the Supreme Court majority is accelerating it,” Demand Justice senior adviser Skye Perryman told Politico Monday, after SCOTUS handed down its ruling that presidents have “absolute” immunity from prosecution for “official” acts.

While there is a growing consensus that the first 2024 presidential debate between President Joe Biden and convicted felon Donald Trump was a disaster for the sitting president, there is also a faction of political observers who believe that the moderators of the debate fell down on the job.

In particular, there was a great deal of anger at CNN's Dana Bash and Jake Tapper over their failure to make Trump answer their questions and worse including allowing him to lie with impunity with no push-back or fact-checking.

As reported by the Washington Post's Jeremy Barr, the former president littered his answers with a flood of lies, yet the two CNN "State of the Union" hosts never stepped in to correct the record.

According to Barr, "Instead of fact-checking the candidates, Tapper and Bash focused mostly on keeping them within the time limits, stopping and starting and going back and forth between the candidates," before adding, "Even when Trump seemed to ignore a question about the opioid crisis by instead criticizing Biden’s economic policies, the moderators said nothing and allowed Trump to keep talking."

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With Trump also making false accusations about abortions after a birth, Kate Smith, senior director of news for Planned Parenthood, took to X, and wrote, "How are none of the moderators fact checking this post birth abortion nonsense?? That was a dumpster fire.”

NBC News and MSNBC contributor Anthony Coley used the same social media platform to complain, "The absence of real-time fact checking is the biggest failure of this debate."

“Not having fact checking was a dumb decision,” stated Ameshia Cross, a Democratic strategist.

A U.S. Supreme Court decision was leaked Wednesday after Idaho v. United States was accidentally uploaded to the court's website amid the release of other cases.

Though it was quickly removed, the document appeared to detail the decision on the Idaho case regarding women facing emergency care due to pregnancy complications.

ABC News reports that former Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran's private notes about his interactions with the former president contain even more incriminating information than has been previously revealed.

Specifically, Corcoran said in recorded notes that Trump "privately expressed concerns that turning over potentially classified documents in his possession after a May 2022 subpoena could result in criminal charges," although it appears that his subsequent decision to allegedly evade the subpoena is what actually got him hit with criminal charges.