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As more and more prominent Democrats call for President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race, the future of his re-election campaign sits somewhere between listing and sunk.

But as the political walls closed on Biden Thursday, his campaign's communications team pressed forward as if there's no question — at all — that Biden will remain in the race and be the Democratic Party's nominee.

It evoked images of a "Simpsons" episode where Principal Skinner suggests ignoring distractions by putting your fingers in your ears and making the "LALALALALALALALA" sound....

MILWAUKEE — With Republican faithful preparing for Donald Trump’s presidential nomination acceptance speech tonight at the Fiserv Forum, GOP conventioneers are split on which Democrat — President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, someone else — would be the easiest Democrat to defeat.

Many MAGA faithful want Biden to remain the Democratic nominee because of his perceived frailty. But they aren’t particularly worried, either, about Harris as a potential substitute if Biden drops out, because she’s inextricably linked to the administration’s record, which they view as damaged.

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Georgia’s State Election Board gave initial approval to an amended rule Tuesday that would give local officials more authority to dispute election results if there is a discrepancy in vote totals tallied and the number of votes cast at precincts.

The proposed rule, approved by a 3-1 vote during Tuesday’s state board meeting, would require local election officials to count ballots at the precinct level on election night and investigate any discrepancies prior to certifying the election.

Three Republican board members supported a measure they believe will help reduce the likelihood of inaccurate ballot totals requiring correction long after an election is over. ...

Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political ambitions were in peril. He was accused of dipping into a private, $18,000 slush fund to cover expenses, and doubts about the propriety of his conduct intensified as the 1952 presidential election campaign unfolded.

With its controversial 6-3 immunity ruling in Trump v. the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that presidents enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution for "official" acts but not for "unofficial" acts. Now, Judge Tanya Chutkan — the Barack Obama appointee assigned to special counsel Jack Smith's election interference case — must sort through the elements of the indictment and try to determine what qualifies as "official" conduct and what is "unofficial" conduct.

The process could be complicated and time-consuming, making it unlikely that the case will go to trial before the 2024 presidential election in November. But legal expert Tristan Snell believes there is a "silver lining" for Smith.

On X, formerly Twitter, Snell posted, "WTF is going to happen now in the DC case after the Supreme Court immunity ruling? There is a silver lining here."

READ MORE: Why these 2 Trump convictions 'will not be disturbed' by immunity ruling: legal expert

Snell added, "Judge Chutkan now takes back over — with a 'fact-specific analysis' on whether Trump's actions were 'official acts' or not. This could be brutal for Trump."

In his July 1 X thread, Snell explained, "The case now gets remanded back to the District Court, where Judge Chutkan is in charge. She's been ordered to engage in proceedings to determine whether Trump's actions were 'official acts' of the office of the President, or 'unofficial acts' of a candidate or citizen."

According to Snell, "This (is) not a trivial task. For every single action Trump is accused of, we now need to know the 5 W's and H: what he did, who he was with, where he was, when he did it, how he did it, and why he did it. We need testimony from the people he was with. We need to see evidence."

Snell continued, "If he was in a conversation with Mike Pence, was it to discuss actual government policy or something within their official jobs? Or was it to talk about the election, about Trump's legal challenges to the election *as a candidate,* etc.? So we need testimony from Mike Pence."

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The mayor of Glendale complained that two of Wisconsin’s most prominent election conspiracy theorists were disruptive while observing voting in the Milwaukee suburb of Glendale during Tuesday’s primary in the special election for the 4th Senate District.

First reported by Fox 6, Glendale Mayor Bryan Kennedy said he thought the actions of the two election deniers, Peter Bernegger and Harry Wait, were “despicable.”

“You have every right to observe the process, but our poll workers are incredibly well trained,” Kennedy told the TV station. ...