Are Dems ready to move on from Biden in 2024?

Democrats don't want Biden to run in 2024; Sri Lanka’s turmoil worsens.

Tonight's Sentences was written by Jariel Arvin.

Biden’s approval sinks among Democrats

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• Sixty-four percent of Democrats would like to see President Joe Biden replaced for the 2024 presidential election, according to polling the New York Times and Siena College conducted last week. [CNBC / Dan Mangan]
• One in 3 Democrats cited Biden’s age as the reason they want someone new; a similar number cited dissatisfaction with his job performance. [The Hill / Olafimihan Oshin]
• Just 13 percent of registered voters think the country is going in the right direction. Concern about the future persisted across age, race, location, and political affiliation. [Axios / Ivana Saric]
• When asked about the country’s most critical problem, 20 percent said jobs and the economy; 15 percent said the cost of living and inflation. Just 5 percent said it was abortion access. [New York Times / Shane Goldmacher]
• A possible silver lining: 44 percent of respondents said they’d support Biden in the general election compared to 41 percent for Donald Trump. That’s in part because Democrats still overwhelmingly prefer Biden to his predecessor. [People / Kyler Alvord]
• For now, many potential Democratic challengers have said they won’t run in 2024 and will support Biden’s bid for reelection. [CNN / Edward-Isaac Dovere]

Sri Lanka's turmoil boils over

• Over the weekend, protesters in Sri Lanka stormed and occupied the residences of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. [Associated Press / Krishan Francis]
• Since March, tensions have run high in the island country of 22 million people amid rising costs for food and medicine as well as rampant fuel and electricity shortages. [CNN / Heather Chen]
• Protestors say Rajapaksa and his family, who’ve led Sri Lanka for much of the past 17 years, poorly managed government spending, adding to the crisis. [NBC News / Dylan Butts]
• On Wednesday, Rajapaksa will resign, and Sri Lanka’s parliament will elect a new leader on July 20. [Reuters / Uditha Jayasingh and Devjyot Ghoshal]

The FDA is considering the first-ever application for over-the-counter birth control. [Politico / Alice Miranda Ollstein]

• The House committee investigating January 6 will hold its next hearing, focusing on the role of extremists, on Tuesday at 1 pm ET. [CBS News / Caroline Linton]
• On Monday, Russia temporarily halted gas supply to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for maintenance. Europe worries the pause could be long-term. [CNBC / Sam Meredith]
• The highly transmissible BA.5 omicron subvariant is increasing Covid-19 hospitalizations and reinfections. So far, there’s no evidence it causes more severe illness. [NPR / Allison Aubrey and Rachel Treisman]

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“I plan to support [Biden] because of the danger that Donald Trump poses. I would certainly not do anything to weaken him, and I hope no one else will do anything to weaken him.”

[Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) on Biden’s re-election bid / CNN]

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