NEWS AND OPINION:

There’s by no means been a lot discuss of a summertime “staycation” for the U.S. president, or Congress for that matter. Let us recall that many Americans have opted for the proverbial staycation — dutifully staying at house throughout their time without work and lolling within the yard quite than at a elaborate resort or theme park.

President Biden, in the meantime, left Friday for his seaside trip in Delaware, in line with a number of information reviews, reminiscent of this native replace from the First State:

“For the third time since Father’s Day weekend, President Joe Biden is expected to be spending time at his North Shores home. However, unlike the previous two weekend-only visits, it appears the president will be staying through all of next week,” stated the Cape Gazette, a information group in Lewes, Delaware.

It famous that the anticipated return date to the White House is subsequent Sunday — Aug. 6.

“How nice for him to have 10 days of beach time away from Washington — which would be Biden’s longest stay in Rehoboth since becoming president. But didn’t Biden just get back from a beach vacation earlier this month? Why yes, he did,” quipped a Townhall.com report Sunday.

“President Biden ducks and covers on another vacation amidst a spiraling scandal,” famous a CrimsonState.com headline, additionally on Sunday.

“Mr. Biden has already spent three weekends at Camp David and a weekend at Rehoboth Beach, just in July and the last weekend of June,” the information group suggested.

Then we come to the 118th Congress.

They’re formally out of the workplace for 30 days starting Tuesday, with the Senate returning on Sept. 5 — and each chambers in session by the twelfth. This is, after all, in line with the 2023 Congressional Calendar. The press, within the meantime, is pitching some criticism on the lawmakers. Here’s a trio of pattern headlines:

“Members of Congress break for August with no clear path to avoiding a shutdown this fall,” famous the Associated Press. “Congress leaves for August recess with little movement on appropriations bills,” suggested ABC News. “House to leave for August recess without resolving key spending fight, as government shutdown threat looms in fall,” stated CNN.

NADER WEIGHS IN

The congressional trip additionally attracted the eye of somebody who has witnessed many lawmakers come and go.

We’re speaking about an open letter to “all 535 members of Congress” from Ralph Nader, the longtime environmental activist and political commentator, which he launched Friday.

“Does it seem reckless not to be in session, holding hearings, floor deliberations, personally communicating with one another, and legislating at a time of national and international convulsions?” Mr. Nader requested.

“Come to your institutional senses. Convene three out of the five weeks to work inside our legislature and focus our many unproductive committees and subcommittees on these calamities facing our country. That still leaves you with two weeks before Labor Day to rest, stretch and reflect on your full constitutional duties before the nation and the people who sent you there,” Mr. Nader suggested.

TRUMP’S VOW

Former President Donald Trump continues to attract a line within the proverbial sand as his marketing campaign heats up and his authorized issues proceed.

“Every dollar spent attacking me by Republicans is a dollar given straight to the Biden campaign,” he advised the enthusiastic crowd attending his marketing campaign rally Saturday evening in Erie, Pennsylvania.

He additionally requested the gang whether or not he ought to attend the primary Republican presidential debate on Aug. 23. The huge crowd responded with a collective roar of “no.”

Mr. Trump isn't executed but, although.

Mr. Trump predicted Sunday he’ll win a “crushing victory on Nov. 5, 2024,” which is Election Day, after all.

“I am focused on the real mission of winning back the White House,” he stated in a brand new marketing campaign message shared with Inside the Beltway.

“I will continue to travel from battleground state to battleground state and do whatever it takes to win the 2024 election and save America,” Mr. Trump vowed.

THE RAMASWAMY FACTOR

Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy continues to achieve buzz and recognition within the crowded 2024 race, and the press has begun to chart his potential trajectory within the bout.

“Ramaswamy didn’t attract all that much attention when he launched his presidential bid in February. A 37-year-old multimillionaire who made his fortune working at a hedge fund and then as a biotechnology entrepreneur, Ramaswamy had never served in government and was new to politics. He began making a name for himself as an ‘anti-woke’ crusader, but it wasn’t a name that most Republican voters had heard about,” famous NBC News in a brand new evaluation of the 2024 enjoying area launched Sunday.

“But that’s changing. Ramaswamy has blanketed the early-state trail as well as both conservative and mainstream media, embracing a strategy that has him omnipresent in the Republican presidential primary. That strategy seems to be working,” the community stated.

Indeed, Mr. Ramaswamy positioned third within the nationwide major area in line with latest polling from FiveThirtyEight.com — and that discovering isn't the one promising one for the candidate.

“A number of national surveys have recently shown Ramaswamy surging. If the polling movement has come as a surprise to some, don’t count the candidate among them,” NBC News suggested.

“Maybe it happened a tad earlier than we expected,” he advised NBC in an interview.

“But at the time we started this race, I believed I was running to be the next president of the United States and lead a national revival,” Mr. Ramaswamy stated.

“We’re just getting warmed up,” he added.

POLL DU JOUR

• 61% of U.S. adults would describe the U.S. financial system as “struggling.”

• 56% would describe the financial system as “uncertain,” 36% describe it as “unfair.”

• 27% describe it as “punishing,” 15% describe it as “rebounding.”

• 11% describe the financial system as “expanding,” 10% describe it as “stable.”

• 10% describe the financial system as “fair,” 5% describe it as “rewarding.”

SOURCE: A CBS News ballot of two,181 U.S. adults performed July 26-28. Respondents got an inventory of phrases and requested to “check all that apply.”

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