“Fewer voters under age 30 plan to vote in the upcoming presidential election than did at this point in the 2020 election cycle, and less than one-third of those who identify as independents definitely plan to participate,” a newly released Harvard Youth Poll shows.

“A potential decline in participation by young voters could hurt President Biden next year in a hypothetical matchup against former president Donald Trump, given Biden draws more support from the demographic. But the poll shows larger declines in planned participation among young Republicans and independents than young Democrats.”

David Frum: “In his first term, Trump’s corruption and brutality were mitigated by his ignorance and laziness. In a second, Trump would arrive with a much better understanding of the system’s vulnerabilities, more willing enablers in tow, and a much more focused agenda of retaliation against his adversaries and impunity for himself. When people wonder what another Trump term might hold, their minds underestimate the chaos that would lie ahead.”

“By Election Day 2024, Donald Trump will be in the thick of multiple criminal trials. It’s not impossible that he may already have been convicted in at least one of them. If he wins the election, Trump will commit the first crime of his second term at noon on Inauguration Day: His oath to defend the Constitution of the United States will be a perjury.”

“A second Trump term would instantly plunge the country into a constitutional crisis more terrible than anything seen since the Civil War. Even in the turmoil of the 1960s, even during the Great Depression, the country had a functional government with the president as its head. But the government cannot function with an indicted or convicted criminal as its head. The president would be an outlaw, or on his way to becoming an outlaw. For his own survival, he would have to destroy the rule of law.”

Donald Trump shared a Washington Post op-ed warning that his second term will be a “dictatorship” on Truth Social, The Messenger reports.

“Ron DeSantis’s 2024 US presidential campaign operation is going through another bout of turmoil just weeks before the first votes are cast in the crucial Iowa Republican caucuses,” the Financial Times reports.

“The Florida governor is fighting to regain momentum in his race to catch Donald Trump in the Republican primary, but has suffered new blows in the past fortnight, with the departure of two chief executives, the board chair, and other staff from the powerful political action committee fundraising group backing his bid.”

“As he campaigns for another term in the White House, Donald Trump sounds like no other presidential candidate in U.S. history,” the New York Times reports.

“He has made baldly antidemocratic statements, praising autocratic leaders like China’s Xi Jinping and continuing to claim that the 2020 election was stolen… He has threatened to use the power of the presidency against his political opponents, including President Biden and Biden’s family. Trump frequently insults his opponents in personal terms, calling them ‘vermin,’ as well as ‘thugs, horrible people, fascists, Marxists, sick people.'”

“He has made dozens of false or misleading statements. He has advocated violence, suggesting that an Army general who clashed with him deserved the death penalty and that shoplifters should be shot. And he describes U.S. politics in apocalyptic terms, calling the 2024 election ‘our final battle’ and describing himself as his supporters’ ‘retribution.'”

“President Joe Biden sets off on a fundraising sprint Tuesday as he looks to tap into wealthy donor networks ahead of an expensive campaign year ahead,” CNN reports.

“He’s headlining three fundraisers in the Boston area, the first of seven events between now and Monday, with more scheduled for later this month.”