Summary of the day Here’s a quick recap of today’s developments: Several Republican candidates have showed willingness to challenge Donald Trump’s claims of “political persecution” since the indictment was unsealed on Friday, revealing the full extent of the serious charges Trump faces. Mike Pence, Trump’s former vice-president who has broken with him, tried to thread the needle, simultaneously calling the allegations “very serious” while worrying about the politicization of the justice department. Asa Hutchinson, a former Arkansas governor who is among the most anti-Donald Trump candidates standing for the Republican presidential nomination, said he would not vote for the former president if he is convicted of a felony. But Trump has reportedly raised more than $7m since he was indicted last week, including more than $2m at a fundraising event at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, hours after appearing in a Miami federal court on Tuesday. A new poll showed that, for Republican voters, Trump’s federal indictment over the Mar-a-Lago documents changes little. He remains the most popular GOP candidate for president, with 53% support, against runner-up Ron DeSantis’s 23%. The attorney general, Merrick Garland, defended special counsel Jack Smith in the Department of Justice’s indictment of Trump. Smith was a “veteran career prosecutor” who has “assembled a group of experienced and talented prosecutors and agents who share his commitment to integrity and the rule of law”, Garland said in his first public comments about the indictment since Trump pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges on Tuesday. The House voted to reject a Republican resolution to censure the California congressman Adam Schiff over his comments about Trump and investigations into his ties to Russia. The Republican-led chamber defeated the motion by a vote of 225 to 196, with 20 Republicans joining 205 Democrats in opposition. Joe Biden vetoed a Republican-led resolution that would have overturned his administration’s new limits on emissions from heavy-duty trucks. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) heavy-duty vehicle emissions rule will “make our air cleaner and prevent thousands of premature deaths by limiting hazardous heavy-duty vehicle pollution,” Biden posted to Twitter. Fox News labelled US president Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator” who attempted to have “his political rival arrested” during a live broadcast of Trump’s post-arraignment speech. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has become the latest Republican to seek the 2024 GOP nomination, according to a Federal Election Commission filing. Suarez is expected to give a speech on Thursday in California, during which he is expected to formally announce his candidacy. He is the only Hispanic candidate seeking the GOP nomination and the third candidate from Florida, along with frontrunner Trump and Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis. Donald Trump has raised more than $7m since he was indicted last week as of the previous hour, my colleague Hugo Lowell reports, citing a person familiar. Earlier we wrote that Donald Trump reportedly raised more than $2m at a fundraising event at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Tuesday, hours after appearing in a Miami federal court. Trump’s team have said the former president has raised $4.5m online since his federal indictment, according to the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman. If true, that would mean Trump has raised $6.6m since the indictment. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is expected to give a speech on Thursday in California, during which he is expected to formally announce his candidacy. Earlier today, a Super Pac supporting Suarez released a two-minute video earlier today touted crimes rates in Miami, adding that “conservative mayor Francis Suarez chose a better path for Miami” compared to Democratic mayors in major cities. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez files to join Republican presidential race Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has become the latest Republican to seek the 2024 GOP nomination, according to a Federal Election Commission filing. Suarez, 45, a Cuban-American, is in his second term as mayor after winning a resounding reelection in 2021. He is the only Hispanic candidate seeking the GOP nomination and the third candidate from Florida, along with frontrunner Donald Trump and Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis. The House has voted to reject a Republican resolution to censure Adam Schiff, the California congressman who became a household name as the lead prosecutor in Donald Trump’s first impeachment. The Republican-led chamber defeated the motion by a vote of 225 to 196, with 20 Republicans joining 205 Democrats in opposition. The censure resolution, whose sponsors included Republican representatives Anna Paulina Luna, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert, attempted to fine Schiff $16m over his comments about Trump and investigations into his ties to Russia. Schiff was House intelligence chair and led Trump’s first impeachment, for seeking political dirt in Ukraine. He published a book about the Russia investigation and is now running for Senate. He has long been a top Republican target. Joe Biden has vetoed a Republican-led resolution that would have overturned his administration’s new limits on emissions from heavy-duty trucks. The veto preserves the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) heavy-duty vehicle emissions rule that will “make our air cleaner and prevent thousands of premature deaths by limiting hazardous heavy-duty vehicle pollution,” Biden posted to Twitter. Under the EPA’s new standards, truck makers must reduce emissions from heavy duty trucks, school buses and motor homes to 80% below the current standard. The EPA estimates that by 2045, the rule would prevent up to 2,900 fewer premature deaths annually. Republicans opposed the EPA rules, arguing that they are too challenging to implement, will increase supply chain costs and will make trucks too expensive for small business owners. The lawyer representing E Jean Carroll has welcomed a ruling allowing the writer to include in an ongoing defamation lawsuit disparaging comments Donald Trump made about her after she won her sexual abuse case against him. Roberta Kaplan, the attorney for Carroll, also noted on Tuesday night that she and her client looked forward to “moving ahead expeditiously” with the remaining claims after a federal judge ruled Carroll could pursue her $10m defamation case against the former US president that was filed following the publication of her 2019 book in which she accused Trump of rape and his claim she was lying. This lawsuit is related to but separate from the case in New York in which Carroll won a $5m civil judgment against Trump last month – $2m for battery and $3m for defamation – when a jury found him liable for sexual abuse after he assaulted her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. Jurors in that case decided it had not been proved Trump had also raped her, as Carroll had alleged in the suit filed last November as well as in the 2019 suit that is ongoing. Trump had argued in recent weeks that the ongoing defamation case must be dismissed because the jury in New York had concluded he never raped her. Fox News is apparently feeling some feelings about the “wannabe dictator” label it briefly gave Joe Biden last night. CBS News caught the network cutting away during the White House’s now-concluded daily press briefing, when a reporter asked Biden’s spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre about the chyron: Jean-Pierre declined to comment, but added a barb Fox executives were sure to recognize: In other Donald Trump news, he turned 77 yesterday and celebrated right after his court date for the Mar-a-Lago charges. “Some birthday”, as Trump put it. The Guardian’s David Smith takes you inside the former president’s not-so-happy day: Donald Trump, the former US president, spent his 77th birthday on Wednesday consolidating his lead in the Republican primary race for 2024 under the shadow of federal criminal charges – and bracing for further legal bombshells. In a court in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday, Trump pleaded not guilty to a 37-count indictment alleging that he unlawfully hoarded national security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them. He could face a significant prison sentence if convicted. The ex-president sought to turn his historic court appearance into a political rallying cry and fundraising opportunity. But there were ominous signs that he may soon be back in court. Republican political operatives are privately worried about the federal charges against Donald Trump, particularly considering his status as the frontrunner for the party’s nomination, NBC News reports. The story published earlier today quotes several unnamed politicos affiliated with rival presidential campaigns, who cast Jack Smith’s indictment and the possibility of further charges to come as a bad look. Here’s what someone connected to Ron DeSantis thinks: An operative in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ orbit, who requested anonymity to speak candidly without approval from higher-ups, said that “from an objective standpoint,” the federal charges Trump faces for his post-presidency handling of classified documents are far more serious than the earlier ones around hush money payments before the 2016 election. “I don’t know what’s going to happen in Georgia,” this person said, referring to the investigation into possible election interference by Trump and his allies. “But the man is going to prison. It’s happening. So at this point, where we are is ‘Who’s going to be the nominee?’ … Donald Trump broke the law, and frankly, I’m not a never-Trumper. I’m really not. But this is too much.” “This is something that if you were to get George Washington, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson and sit them down and explain to them what’s happening … they would disagree with what Donald Trump was doing and would agree that he should be prosecuted,” the person added. That sort of comment is further than where many of Trump’s rivals for the GOP presidential nomination will go publicly. Still, even out in the open, there are indications that they believe this federal indictment is far more serious than the last one. Many of the candidates are criticizing the Justice Department while avoiding giving Trump a bear hug of support. The thoughts of an aide to an unnamed campaign: “Every campaign right now that is not Donald Trump is receiving pressure from donors to go harder against Donald Trump,” an aide to a rival presidential campaign said, adding: “The pressure is there. Is that where the larger Republican [electorate is] as a whole? Look at the comments from these various campaigns. You would see that none of them are taking that advice.” However Mick Mulvaney, a former acting White House chief of staff under Trump, said some voters remain unconvinced of the severity of the charges over the Mar-a-Lago documents, NBC reports: Mulvaney said many Republicans “and even some independents” are asking, “Where’s the harm?” “Put another way: Do we really want to throw an ex-president in jail for a ‘technical’ violation of the law?” he continued. “But if they have evidence that, say, he gave stuff to the Saudis, or even if a foreign operative had access to the records, that might cause even some hard-core MAGA people to stop and say, ‘Hang on … that’s a problem.’” Donald Trump, Jack Smith, Joe Biden and Merrick Garland – to those following the former president’s legal troubles, these are all familiar names. But one name less known is Aileen Cannon, the federal judge assigned to Trump’s case who will play a major role in determining, among other things, whether the proceedings are resolved before next year’s presidential election. The Guardian’s Richard Luscombe has taken a close look at Cannon, who was appointed by Trump and has a history some say indicates partiality to the former president: With Donald Trump’s arraignment concluded, scrutiny of the legal proceedings in the former president’s classified documents case switches to the status of its assigned judge – his own appointee to the federal court bench, Aileen Cannon. Analysts have already raised concerns about the impartiality of the inexperienced jurist, seemingly plucked by random to handle arguably the most explosive case ever to be tried in the southern district of Florida. Her favorable rulings for Trump last year in an earlier stage, including a subsequently overturned decision to appoint a special master to review the documents and flawed assertion he enjoyed special treatment under the law, would appear to give justice department (DoJ) prosecutors grounds for filing a motion for Cannon to recuse herself. Indictment has no impact on Trump popularity, poll finds A newly released poll by Quinnipiac University confirms that, for Republican voters, Donald Trump’s federal indictment over the Mar-a-Lago documents changes little. He remains the most popular GOP candidate for president, with 53% support, against runner-up Ron DeSantis’s 23%. Crucially, the survey was taken between 8 and 12 June – the period of time when Americans were learning that special counsel Jack Smith planned to unveil dozens of felony charges against the former president for hoarding secret materials at his south Florida resort, and conspiring to keep them from the federal government. Despite the unprecedented nature of the allegations, the survey says there has been no meaningful impact on his popularity. “A federal indictment. A court date on a litany of charges. A blizzard of critical media coverage. The negative impact on the former President’s standing with voters? Not much at all,” Tim Malloy, a polling analyst at the Connecticut-based university, said in a statement. Among all registered voters, the poll finds Joe Biden with a slight edge, at 48% support against Trump’s 44%. As for all the other Republicans in the race, none besides Trump and DeSantis polled above single-digits among GOP and GOP-leaning voters. Asa Hutchinson, a former Arkansas governor who is among the most anti-Donald Trump candidates standing for the Republican presidential nomination, said he would not vote for the former president if he is convicted of a felony. “I’m not going to vote for him if he’s a convicted felon,” Hutchinson told Politico. “If he’s convicted of espionage, I’m not going to vote for him.” His statement is one of the biggest breaks with Trump yet by a Republican candidate, but nonetheless not much of a surprise. Hutchinson began his campaign by calling for Trump to drop out of the race, but it appears to have cost him: poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight reports Hutchinson has less than 1% support, against Trump’s 53.4%.