Election 2024 live updates: Kamala Harris edges ahead of Trump and Biden in new poll

Project 2025 — a blueprint for Trump’s presidency spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation and more than a dozen former Trump administration officials — is essentially a wishlist for his administration with plans to expand his executive authority, replace civil servants with ideologically aligned appointees, crush abortion rights and impose an anti-immigrant agenda, among other policies.

But the former president is trying to distance himself from the plan, claiming that he knows “nothing” about it or “who is behind it,” despite its authors coming from Trump’s White House and the GOP’s close ties to the group that launched it.

Alex Woodward has the details.

Many of the Trump family will be in attendance at Trump National Doral for this evening’s rally. Jake Traylor of NBC News saw seat assignments for all three sons — Don Jr, Eric, and Barron — amongst others.

Notably, still no Melania Trump.

However, potential running mate Senator Marco Rubio is set to attend alongside his wife.

So how would that actually happen?

On Monday, the president sent a letter to congressional Democrats saying he is “firmly committed” to staying in the presidential race against Donald Trump.

During votes on Monday evening, many House Democrats — specifically members of the Congressional Black Caucus — reiterated their support for Biden.

Donald Trump will get back on the campaign trail this evening in Doral, Florida this evening for the first time in a week as the decision about who will join him on the Republican ticket draws nearer.

The former president has said he would announce his pick for vice president ahead of next week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

It is widely believed that the main two contenders are Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who once ran against Trump in the 2016 GOP primary, and Senator JD Vance of Ohio, who was also once not a fan of the former president.

Here’s Rubio backing up Trump’s efforts to distance himself from Project 2025:

And here’s Vance calling Trump “clearly a good husband”:

There was very little enthusiasm visible from members of President Joe Biden’s party as they continued to trickle back onto Capitol Hill this week for the return of business in the House and Senate.

Even those who have urged Biden to make the hard choice and withdraw from the race — like ranking Judiciary member Jerry Nadler — admitted to reporters on Tuesday that they were at an impasse.

John Bowden reports from Washington, DC.

Bit of a late start due to a conversation with the president in the Oval Office concerning Hurricane Beryl in Texas.

Donald Trump has once again hit out at Fox News over polls they have shown during their daytime news programming.

The former president wrote on Truth Social:

FoxNews will never take great polls, from reputable pollsters, where I’m beating Crooked Joe, the worst President in history, by a lot, but will take FAKE confidential Democrat polls, that they leaked to Fox, and go up big with them. John Roberts, a real heavyweight, was the “anchor.” I’ll be releasing REAL POLLS shortly!

We wait with bated breath…

Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee on federal courts, and Ron Wyden (D-OR), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week requesting the appointment of a special counsel to investigate potential violations of ethics, false statement, and tax laws by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the benefactors who have supplied him with undisclosed gifts.

Whitehouse and Wyden write in their letter that the full pattern of Justice Thomas’s omissions of outside income and luxury gifts from his legally required financial disclosures warrant criminal investigation by the Department of Justice.

Here’s Ariana Baio reporting from June on some of Thomas’s undeclared trips: