Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* Just over the last few hours, four more House Democrats — Reps. Jared Huffman, Marc Veasey, Chuy Garcia and Mark Pocan — joined the list of members calling on President Joe Biden to leave the race, writing that he should “pass the torch to a new generation of Democratic leaders.” Veasey is of particular interest because he’s the first member of the Congressional Black Caucus to ask the incumbent to forgo his re-election plans.
* Soon after, Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico became the third sitting Democratic senator to publicly call on Biden to suspend his campaign.
* That said, the news for Biden isn’t all bad: The Congressional Hispanic Caucus’ political action committee has officially endorsed his candidacy.
* The latest national CBS News/YouGov poll, conducted after Saturday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, found the former president leading Biden by 5 points among likely voters. In late June, the same poll showed the Republican ahead by 2 points. (Click the link for information on the survey’s methodology and margins of error.)
* As for state polling, the latest data from Emerson College Polling found Biden trailing in seven battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — by margins ranging from 3 to 9 points. (Click the link for information on the survey’s methodology and margins of error.)
* Hoping to put fresh distance between himself and his far-right party, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan wrote a Washington Post op-ed denouncing Project 2025. The governor, of course, is currently running for the U.S. Senate.
* On a related note, Chris LaCivita, a leading member of Trump’s political operation, this week described Project 2025 as a “pain in the ass” for the former president’s campaign.