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 BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI; JIM WATSONU.S. President Joe Biden and power dozer Donald Trump agreed to debate at least twice before the November election. The first debate will be hosted by CNN on June 27 with three ground rules proposed by the Biden campaign and accepted by the Trump campaign: The debate will be staged in a TV studio, candidates' mics will cut off when the time limit is reached, and only the candidates and moderators will be present.
This is a fine start, but here are some additional ground rules that would make the debate even better.
1. Candidates must agree to having a fact checker in the wings and if a candidate lies, a loud ahooga noise will sound.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Animation by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyWhether or not his campaign admits it, President Joe Biden has a Sun Belt problem.
Biden is holding up just fine in expectedly tight races with Donald Trump in the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Yet in the Sun Belt—the stretch of states from North Carolina and Georgia to Nevada and Arizona—Trump is giving Biden a shellacking with hefty leads, particularly in those two key desert states, according to a new New York Times/Siena College/Philadelphia Inquirer poll.
"I am fascinated by how quickly his base is abandoning him," Dave Smith, chairman of Arizona's Pima County GOP, said of Biden in an interview with The Daily Beast. On the ground, Smith said he's seen a notable influx of volunteers and a boost in party registration, which he attributed to voter concerns about migrant border crossings, as well as the cost of housing.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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