Thursday Briefing – The New York Times

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Thursday Briefing – The New York Times

Biden’s still in but ‘willing to listen,’ Democrats say

President Biden has become more receptive in the last several days to hearing arguments about why he should drop his re-election bid, Democrats said, after Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the party’s top leaders in Congress, privately told him they were deeply concerned about his prospects.

The president tested positive for Covid yesterday, according to the White House, forcing him to cancel an event in Las Vegas and most likely sidelining him for days. A spokeswoman said he was “experiencing mild symptoms” and would “carry out the full duties of the office while in isolation.”

Three weeks after Biden’s disastrous debate performance, allies and supporters continue to press him to quit the race, saying he has little chance to defeat Donald Trump in November. Democratic Party leaders agreed to delay the start of Biden’s nomination by a week, prolonging the debate over the viability of his candidacy.

Quotable: One person close to the president said he was “willing to listen” to the case for dropping out but had no plans to abandon his campaign.

A growing rebellion: Nearly two-thirds of Democratic voters want Biden to quit the race, according to a recent survey. And Congressional Democrats have warned that his sagging prospects will make it much ******* for them to win critical House and Senate races in November.

Biden’s mind-set: What would cause the president to drop out of the race? He has offered a list of scenarios — which has recently grown.

The director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, will face sharp scrutiny next week over the ************** attempt. She is scheduled to appear before two congressional committees that are examining the *********, and inquiries by law enforcement departments, Congress and federal agencies are also underway.

Representative Ronny Jackson, *********** of Texas, who was Trump’s White House doctor, described the former president’s injuries. “The bullet took a little bit off the top of his ear in an area that, just by nature, bleeds like crazy,” he said. “The dressing’s bulked up a bit because you need a bit of absorbent. You don’t want to be walking around with ******* gauze on his ear.”

At the *********** National Convention: In a prime-time speech, Donald Trump’s running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, accepted their party’s nomination for vice president and connected his difficult upbringing to challenges confronting the ********* working class. Read highlights from the speech.

The Upshot: Times reporters asked 65 convention attendees six questions about their political views.

Britain’s new government lays out its priorities

King Charles III formally opened Britain’s Parliament yesterday, presenting the new Labour government’s center-left legislative agenda, which includes efforts to curb climate change and cultivate closer ties with the E.U.

The new government plans to create two new public companies, Great British Energy, which would invest in clean-energy projects across the country, and Great British Railways, which would put Britain’s private rail companies back into public ownership. And it will no longer exempt private schools from paying value-added tax, using the revenue raised from that to hire 6,500 teachers for public schools.

Poker face: Nothing in the king’s demeanor suggested that he was any more enthusiastic about this year’s agenda than he was about last year’s, even though this one aligns more closely with his stated interests. That’s the product of a lifetime of studied political neutrality, Mark Landler, our London bureau chief, writes.

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CONVERSATION STARTERS ARTS AND IDEAS The best croissant

In the competitive and often absurd era of extreme croissants, elite pâtissiers around the world are stuffing the pastries with exotic fillings, sculpting them into modish forms and decorating them with fragrant ganache.

But the best croissant, our food critic Tejal Rao writes in this appraisal, has none of these fripperies — just a crisp outside, housing a tender, bubbled interior. A first ***** wafts warm, butter-scented air into the face of the eater, she says.

The plain croissant may not be made for the camera. But its simultaneous crispness and softness has a special magic, Tejal writes: “The way it can embody such a mind-boggling extent of textures within just a few bites, from the dark, crackling crisp of its edge, to the pale, weightless puff of its honeycomb.”

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