Last night at a fundraiser in New York City, President Joe Biden issued
a stark warning about the risks of nuclear war in Ukraine.

“First time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat of
the use [of a] nuclear weapon if in fact things continue down the path
they are going,” Biden told donors at the home of investor James
Murdoch. “I’m trying to figure out what is [Russian President Vladimir]
Putin's off ramp? … Where does he find a way out? Where does he find
himself in a position that he does not not only lose face but lose
significant power within Russia?”

And it's the most common topic in ads for Democratic congressional
candidates and their allies this cycle: abortion rights — and, more
specifically, the GOP’s designs on a nationwide abortion ban. 

Inasmuch as there is a unifying Democratic message this cycle, this is
it. In districts as disparate as suburban Omaha and heavily Catholic
rural Texas, Dems and their allies have spent more than $25 million in
broadcast TV ads depicting Republicans as “extremists who would imprison
doctors and force women who have been raped to carry pregnancies to
term,” our Ally Mutnick reports this morning.

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