Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday doubled down on her support of President Biden amid calls for him to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race after his poor debate performance last week against former President Trump. “Look, Joe Biden is our nominee. We beat Trump once
Nearly a third of Democrats believe President Biden should end his reelection bid following his lackluster debate performance against former President Trump last week, according to a new poll. A Reuters/Ipsos poll, published Tuesday, found 32 percent of Democrats think Biden
CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Tuesday rebuked Rep. Bennie Thompson's (D-Miss.) defense of President Biden's poor debate performance, arguing it was more than "just a bad debate." When Tapper asked how concerned he was about Biden's standing in the wake of his disastrous debate
Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said in an interview that aired Tuesday he plans to talk to President Biden soon to give him an assessment of his "standing" with Americans in the wake of the president's rough debate performance. “I did plan to … talk with him later today or …
President Biden on Tuesday blamed foreign travel for his poor debate performance, saying that he almost fell asleep on the stage last week. “I wasn’t very smart. I decided to travel around the world a couple of times … shortly before the debate,” he said while talking to donors
Cracks are beginning to emerge in President Biden’s backing within the Democratic Party, fueling questions about whether he will remain at the top of the ticket in the final stretch to Election Day. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), a nearly 30-year veteran in the House, shattered
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House Democrats are calling on five major pharmacy chains to commit to dispensing mifepristone in states where it remains legal, following the recent Supreme Court decision that preserved the current accessibility of the drug. In letters sent to Walmart, Safeway, Kroger,
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A handful of President Biden’s 2020 White House rivals are calling for him to step down from the 2024 race. As Biden advisers scramble to contain the fallout from last week’s debate against former President Trump, Democrats are assessing whether they think the embattled
President Biden’s reelection campaign is attacking the media, saying it is overplaying coverage of Biden’s bad debate performance while not covering positive news for the president. On a Zoom call with donors Monday evening, Biden’s deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks derided
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A pair of scholars at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) warned that the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity poses a “direct threat” to democracy and the rule of law and raised concerns about what a second term under former President Trump could look
Leading Black voices commemorated the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act on Tuesday by highlighting the ongoing fight to achieve equality and urging Black Americans to vote in the upcoming election. “History is a relay race. The leaders of the Civil Rights
President Joe Biden’s performance at last week’s debate has induced a maelstrom among aides and officials in the White House and on his campaign, with several administration figures reportedly “freaking the fuck out,” according to Axios . “It’s the first topic of every
A new leaked poll shows support for President Joe Biden plummeting in key battleground states around the country in the wake of his disastrous debate performance on Thursday. Puck News gained access to an internal Democratic polling memo conducted 72 hours after the debate, and
A new report by The New York Times paints a damning picture of Joe Biden’s mental and physical state in the weeks leading up to last week’s debate. Times reporters who spoke with insiders close to the administration and the campaign revealed that Biden has appeared “confused
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a strange reaction to a phenomenally dark set of accusations that emerged Tuesday, seemingly lending credibility to a sexual assault allegation against him by a former employee, while attempting to shoo off the idea that he had chowed down on a dead
Representative Jim Clyburn, whose 2020 primary endorsement paved the way for Joe Biden to lock up the Democratic nomination for president, says he would support Vice President Kamala Harris if Biden were to step aside in November’s election. Clyburn, a 2024 Biden-Harris
The judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money case on Tuesday postponed his sentencing until September 18, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to grant sweeping immunity to the former president. “The Court’s decision will be rendered off calendar on September 6, 2024, and the
Concern over Joe Biden’s ability to defeat Donald Trump in November amid questions about his age and mental fitness have already reached a fever pitch across the liberal media, with columnists and editors with the campaign’s ear exhorting the president to step aside. But now
NBC News’s Vaughn Hillyard and ABC News’s Jonathan Karl recently made a journalistic misstep by interviewing Steve Bannon right before he reported to prison . This move, which might seem innocuous at first glance, actually elevates Bannon’s “political prisoner” narrative, a
It’s official: Representative Lloyd Doggett is the first Democratic lawmaker to call for President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, after his disastrous appearance at a CNN debate last week. In a statement Tuesday, the Texas Democrat lauded Biden for
Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former lawyer and New York City’s former mayor, is now a former practicing attorney. He was disbarred by the state of New York Tuesday. Giuliani is “disbarred from the practice of law, effective immediately, and until the further order of this
The bar taps at Donald Trump’s New Jersey clubs are running dry, and it’s not clear when the booze will start flowing again. Liquor licenses for two of the former president’s clubs in the Garden State expired Sunday as state officials weigh whether Trump’s criminal conviction
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. allegedly sexually assaulted a babysitter more than two decades ago, according to an exclusive story from Vanity Fair. In 1998, Kennedy and his second wife, Mary Richardson, hired a 23-year-old babysitter named Eliza Cooney, who moved into their family
The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to take up a challenge to Illinois’s ban on assault weapons, though not every justice on the high court agreed with the decision to do so. In a separate opinion , Justice Clarence Thomas appeared keen to uproot future bans, urging the court to