Biden and Trump block off in Iowa

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Joe Biden approaching to strike President Trump on meridian change and unfamiliar routine position during Iowa visit

Democratic presidential claimant Joe Biden set to reason village eventuality in Iowa; Peter Doocy reports from Mount Pleasant.

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On a roster: Biden and Trump block off in Iowa – Time Out: Funny face frog – Gillibrand secures discuss pitch – A understanding on subpoenas, for now – *ahem* Nailed it

BIDEN AND TRUMP SQUARE OFF IN IOWA
AP: “Democrat Joe Biden is assailing President Donald Trump on trade and broadly branding him as ‘existential hazard to America’ in a preview of what a nation competence design if he prevails in his party’s primary contest. The president, also entrance to Iowa on Tuesday, was approaching to have some choice difference in response. Biden was approaching to 0 in on a economy … during a discuss in Davenport, a core of eastern Iowa’s rural production industry. … Though a Democratic assignment is early and fluid, a visits to Iowa offer a glance into what a Trump-Biden matchup would demeanour like if a former clamp boss wins a nomination. Even before they landed in a state on Tuesday, it was transparent a quarrel would be tough. Trump and Biden have been encircling any other for months. Despite a private warn of his advisers, Trump has thrown a solid tide of open insults during Biden. Since March, Trump has mocked or criticized Biden on Twitter scarcely 40 times.”

Biden pulling no punches – ABC News: “Biden will make his second outing to Iowa given announcing his presidential run behind in April, creation his representation to electorate during 3 events Tuesday opposite eastern Iowa. … One thing is extravagantly transparent about Biden’s summary this time around: He skeleton to residence being in a same state as Trump conduct on. ‘You know, Donald Trump and we are both in Iowa today. It wasn’t designed that way, yet we wish Trump’s participation here will be a clarifying event,’ Biden wrote in prepared remarks for his eventuality in Davenport, that will take place while a boss attends a fundraiser for a Iowa GOP party. Biden’s remarks, expelled early by a campaign, pitch some of Biden’s many forked attacks of a boss — mentioning his name 44 times, and attack Trump for his tariff routine and a impact it has on Iowa farmers and manufacturers. … Biden also skeleton to strike Trump for his health caring routine and rejection of meridian change.”

Iowa Dems owly over Biden’s delayed hurl – Politico: “When he initial launched his presidential bid in April, Joe Biden betrothed he’d revisit Iowa so mostly a state would be ill of him. They’re still waiting. After creation customarily 4 appearances during a two-day pitch here in late April, Biden has been AWOL from a pivotal early state that’s accustomed to saying presidential possibilities in a flesh. … ‘He needs to come out and do some sell politics with us. He comes here with aloft name ID yet that isn’t going to totally lift a day. we don’t consider he can take anything for granted,’ pronounced former Iowa Lt. Gov. Patty Judge. ‘I don’t consider Bernie Sanders can take anything for postulated possibly … We have some people who are operative unequivocally tough here.’”

Trump to make Biden his aim – NYT: “Mr. Biden seems to have gotten into a president’s conduct — during slightest for now. And on Tuesday, a boss will rivet with him, if indirectly, for a initial time during a 2020 discuss when they both make appearances in Iowa. Mr. Trump’s revisit to an ethanol plant in Council Bluffs is an central White House event. But discuss aides see it, as good as a after coming during a Republican dinner, as an event to both goblin Mr. Biden and buoy a claimant who needs an identifiable competition to keep his seductiveness and who has been alternately pensive in and isolated from his re-election effort.”

The president’s revisit will boost involved Dem – Des Moines Register: “U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne will seem with President Donald Trump in Iowa this week. Axne will join Trump on Tuesday for a discuss of a renewable appetite trickery in Council Bluffs, according to a news recover from a Democratic representative’s office. Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds is also approaching to join a discuss of Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, according to a governor’s office. It’s misleading either a 3 will seem together. Axne, a West Des Moines business owner, is approaching to appreciate Trump for finalizing year-round entrance to E15, that is gasoline with aloft blends of ethanol. … Axne’s bureau pronounced she will also appreciate Trump for signing a roughly $19 billion disaster assist package that has income for Iowa communities impacted by flooding.”

THE RULEBOOK: TRUE DAT 
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be during a helm.” – James Madison, Federalist No. 10

TIME OUT: FUNNY FACE FROG 
National Geographic: “In a mountainous forests of New Guinea, scientists have described a new kind of tree frog whose males competition a single, obese spike on their nose. Ladies and gentlemen, accommodate a northern Pinocchio frog. Paul Oliver, a herpetologist during a Queensland Museum and Griffith University in Australia, indeed detected these curious-looking amphibians on a margin speed behind in 2008, while he and his organisation were stealing from a sleet in Indonesia’s Foja Mountains. He happened to demeanour over and pitch a dappled green, brown, and yellow frog sitting atop a bag of rice. ‘You could contend it found us, rather than we found it,’ says Oliver… Now, Oliver and his colleagues are tough during work perplexing to figure out what that darling small schnozzes are for. ‘What is utterly distinguished is that it is erectile,’ Oliver says in an email. ‘At times it sticks out utterly straight, while during other times it droops downward.’”

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SCOREBOARD
Trump pursuit performance 
Average approval: 41.6 percent
Average disapproval: 51.8 percent
Net Score: -10.2 points
Change from one week ago: up 2 points
[Average includes: IBD: 42% approve – 52% disapprove; NPR/PBS/Marist: 43% approve – 49% disapprove; CNN: 43% approve – 53% disapprove; CNBC: 40% approve – 50% disapprove; Gallup: 40% approve – 55% disapprove.]

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GILLIBRAND SECURES DEBATE SPOT
Politico: “Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-N.Y.) discuss announced she has perceived donations from 65,000 supporters, many securing a pitch on a initial Democratic presidential primary discuss theatre during a finish of June. ‘Over a weekend, we crossed 65,000 donors to a campaign—guaranteeing a pitch during a initial debates,’ Gillibrand tweeted Monday afternoon. ‘I’m so beholden to everybody who’s assisting energy this campaign. We have a lot some-more work to do in a months to come, yet for now: Thank you.’ … Gillibrand had prolonged ago crossed a polling threshold to validate for a initial debate. But attack a donor threshold shores adult her pitch on a discuss stage, since possibilities who have crossed both thresholds take priority over possibilities who customarily crossed one. The Gillibrand discuss reliable to POLITICO that she has also perceived 200 donors in 20 states. She joins 13 other possibilities who have ‘double qualified’ for a discuss stage, according to a POLITICO analysis: Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris, Jay Inslee, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Marianne Williamson and Andrew Yang.”

DNC will pull discuss lottery on Friday – The Hill: “A lottery to establish where possibilities are placed on theatre in a initial Democratic presidential discuss will take place Friday morning during NBC’s domicile during 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffers told member from a presidential campaigns of a devise to reason a lottery during NBC during a logistics call final week, according to 3 sources with believe of a call. The campaigns have been invited to send member to declare a drawing. Results will be announced right after a sketch is held. Spokespeople during a DNC and NBC did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Candidates and their campaigns have until Wednesday to validate for a debates…”

Buttigieg to betray unfamiliar routine height – Politico: “Facing questions on a route about either his discuss has put brazen adequate large ideas, Pete Buttigieg skeleton to make one area his own: unfamiliar policy. The South Bend, Ind., mayor will give a vital residence on his inhabitant confidence and unfamiliar routine height Tuesday morning during Indiana University, delving into sum on a routine front that offers presidents far-reaching embodiment yet that has gotten comparatively small courtesy from Democratic 2020 possibilities so far. It could be a standout emanate for Buttigieg, a former Navy comprehension officer who served in Afghanistan and is a customarily maestro polling in a tip half of a Democratic presidential primary. And it’s also a subject that Buttigieg can support in ubiquitous choosing terms by resisting himself with President Donald Trump, whom Buttigieg has criticized for ‘making adult a disability’ to get out of portion during a Vietnam War.”

A DEAL ON SUBPOENAS, FOR NOW 
ABC News: “The Democratic authority of a House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, pronounced on Monday he has reached a understanding with a Department of Justice on branch over justification from special counsel Robert Mueller related to a review into what could be deterrent of probity by President Donald Trump. ‘I am gratified to announce that a Department of Justice has concluded to start complying with a committee’s summons by opening Robert Mueller’s many critical files to us, providing us with pivotal justification that a Special Counsel used to consider either a President and others blocked probity or were intent in other misconduct,’ Nadler pronounced in a statement. ‘The Department will share a initial of these papers with us after today. All members of a Judiciary Committee—Democrats and Republicans alike—will be means to perspective them. … Given a conversations with a Department, we will reason a rapist disregard routine in duration for now,’ Nadler said.”

Pelosi, Nadler during contingency over impeachment – Politico: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, dual longtime allies, are contrary over either to start an impeachment exploration opposite President Donald Trump — a pointer of how poisonous a separate over Trump has turn for House Democrats. … Tuesday, though, will underline a pivotal step that all Democrats can determine on: The full House will opinion on lenient cabinet chairs to make subpoenas released to tip stream and former Trump administration officials, including Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn. The fortitude will, in part, concede a Judiciary Committee to sue Barr and McGahn in sovereign justice to secure former special warn Robert Mueller’s unredacted news and underlying justification from his Russia investigation, as good as McGahn’s open testimony.”

Amash quites House Freedom Caucus - Fox News: “Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash announced Monday dusk he is withdrawal a successful regressive House Freedom Caucus, customarily weeks after he captivated a madness of his colleagues by arguing in Twitter posts that President Trump had committed impeachable offenses, Fox News has learned. Amash, vocalization during a Freedom Caucus residence meeting, insisted his depart was voluntary. Amash pronounced he did not wish to continue to be a ‘further distraction’ for a caucus, that is chaired by North Carolina GOP Rep. Mark Meadows.”

PLAY-BY-PLAY
Jessica Melugin: Conservatives ought to step delicately on supervision law of amicable media – Fox News

Pelosi still hasn’t called Mark Zuckerberg back - WaPo

Report: Jon Huntsman to lapse from Russia, deliberation run for administrator in Utah - Atlantic 

Check out a travel out strain playlist from the Iowa Democrats Hall of Fame discuss on Sunday – Time

AUDIBLE: AWWWWWW…
“I didn’t have a really good, certain self-image. So if people wish to take selfies with me, we consider it’s a compliment.” – Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper discussing his problem with self-image during childhood and holding photos now as a presidential candidate.

FROM THE BLEACHERS
“Here’s a humorous note about Bob’s house. Soon after completion, Bob was a guest on a Tonight Show and Johnny asked him how he favourite it. Hope pronounced it was good yet a pleasing skylight in a vital room postulated repairs in a serious charge and he was carrying difficulty removing paid on a word claim. When Carson pulpy him for details, Hope replied, ‘I have these people,’ cupping his hands in a Allstate symbol, ‘but they’re customarily giving me one finger.’” – Gary Cimino, Millville, N.J.

[Ed. note: Hey-o!]

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*AHEM* NAILED IT
KYTV: “‘I kind of gathering slow, we could feel it disposition on a side,’ [Missouri motorist Mike Sandknop] recalled. ‘As shortly as we pulled in during my parent’s house, it was totally flat.’ Flat since of a mirror from a alley that was nailed down. That nail, [was] now in Sandknop’s tire. … Typically, a reflectors aren’t nailed to a road. They customarily use an glue and hang to a alley to pitch line lines. But, a reflectors wouldn’t stick. It rained a night crews put them on a road. They attempted again a subsequent night, yet they still didn’t stay. ‘So, a executive motionless we indispensable to spike them down to keep a tabs, to keep a reflectors there,’ said Nick Edelman, Osage Beach Public Works Director. That worked. But, a city has had 5 opposite people call them to news a nails had given them a prosaic tire.”

AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES…
“The wall/fence will, of course, be ugly. So are a barriers to keep lorry bombs from pushing into a White House. Sometimes duty has to substitute form.” – Charles Krauthammer (1950-2018) speaking in a video for Prager U on Jun 19, 2017.

Chris Stirewalt is a politics editor for Fox News. Brianna McClelland contributed to this report. Want FOX News Halftime Report in your inbox any day? Sign up here.

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