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Banking on Roe v. Wade backlash

President Joe Biden in Colorado sounded much like Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this week in Houston as he explained how he thinks he will beat former President Donald Trump in 2024.

Speaking to campaign donors in Denver, Biden stressed that fundamental rights in America are under attack from extremists and will power their reelection in 2024. Just like Harris did in Houston 24 hours earlier when she spoke to donors, Biden on Tuesday talked specifically about the rights of women to seek an abortion being undermined by Trump and GOP leaders.

"The only reason the fundamental right has been stripped away from the American people for the first time — a fundamental right — is because of Donald Trump," Biden said.

Later he said that "Donald Trump is about to find out about the power of women in America in 2024."

Biden said the media has continually misunderstood that point even though the midterm elections last year and races across the country in November showed how important protecting access to abortion is to the coming elections.

"I think they're just misreading what's going on," Biden said of media predictions that his campaign is in trouble.

Jeremy Wallace, Texas politics reporter

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Who's up, who's down

Up: Ken Paxton.

A federal judge late Wednesday sounded like the Texas Attorney General's kind of judge when she blasted the Biden administration for failing to secure the border. Alia Moses, the chief federal judge in the U.S. Western District of Texas, slammed the Biden administration's "utter failure ... to deter, prevent, and halt unlawful entry into the United States." It's part of a suit Paxton brought against federal officials to stop Border Patrol agents from cutting through miles of razor wire the state had deployed along the banks of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass.

Down: Henry Kissinger.

A month after pulling out of an event at Rice University, the former U.S. Secretary of State died on Wednesday. Kissinger was 100 years old and had suffered an injury just before he was scheduled to fly to Houston to speak at the Baker Institute's 30th-anniversary gala.

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