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Biden: If God Tells Me to Ditch Race, I Will
Biden: If God
Tells Me to Ditch
Race, I Will
INTERVIEW
Jul 6, 2024 7:00 AM CDT

Biden: If God Tells Me to Ditch Race, I Will

In ABC News interview, president tries to salvage 2024 campaign after disastrous debate with Trump

(Newser) - President Biden's much-anticipated interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, his first since his weak debate performance against former President Trump, aired Friday night, with the 81-year-old commander in chief showing no sign of stepping down from his post or away from his reelection run. "Look, I mean, if...

As Biden Fights to Stay, Kamala Harris&#39; Name Rises
As Biden Fights to Stay,
a Loyalist's Name Rises
the rundown
Jul 5, 2024 11:05 AM CDT

As Biden Fights to Stay, a Loyalist's Name Rises

VP Kamala Harris is the subject of increasingly serious chatter as the replacement nominee

(Newser) - President Biden's bid to prove he should not withdraw from the 2024 race gets a major test Friday night when his interview with George Stephanopoulos airs on ABC. Simply put, it's "the biggest interview of Joe Biden's life," as laid out by the Politico Playbook...

Disney Heir: No More Donations Until Biden Goes

Abigail Disney says she'll halt funds out of 'realism, not disrespect'

(Newser) - As fallout continues over President Biden's weak debate performance against former President Trump, the turmoil has spread to top Democratic donors, including one particularly high-profile name who now says she'll halt the money flow until Biden is replaced. "I intend to stop any contributions to the party...

Biden Told Governors He&#39;ll Change His Schedule
Biden Told Governors
He'll Change His Schedule
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Jul 4, 2024 8:03 PM CDT

Biden Told Governors He'll Change His Schedule

President makes brief remarks at holiday barbecue

(Newser) - Trying to demonstrate he's sharper mentally than he showed during his debate against Donald Trump, President Biden spoke at a public event on Thursday. He hosted a holiday barbecue at the White House in the late afternoon for military members and their families and made brief, prepared remarks. It...

Leaked Clip Reveals Trump's Thoughts on Biden, Harris

Former president calls Biden a 'broken-down pile of crap' from his golf cart

(Newser) - In the days since President Biden's alarming debate performance, former President Trump has "kept a low profile, leaving the focus on the drama engulfing the Democratic Party," per the AP . But on the golf course, where he apparently didn't realize he was being filmed, his thoughts...

Abortion Rights Could Be on Ballot in 2 More States

Arizona, Nebraska organizers say they have collected more than enough signatures

(Newser) - Organizers in Arizona and Nebraska said Wednesday that they turned in far more signatures than required to get ballot measures on abortion rights before voters in November's election. In Nebraska, there could be two competing questions. One, like the Arizona proposal, would add a right to abortion to the...

ABC Is Airing Biden Interview Early

It will be broadcast in full in primetime special Friday

(Newser) - With President Biden fighting to shore up his candidacy amid increasingly vocal doubts from fellow Democrats, ABC has decided to air the president's interview with George Stephanopoulos earlier than planned. Deadline reports that the network had originally planned to air the interview "in dribs and drabs through the...

Another House Democrat Calls on Biden to Withdraw

Rep. Raul Grijalva says it's time for president 'to get out of this race'

(Newser) - Democrat governors might be standing with President Biden , but another House Democrat is calling on him to resign. Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona became the second Democrat lawmaker to do so publicly, after Lloyd Doggett, who spoke out Tuesday on Biden's questionable debate performance. "What he needs to...

Biden: &#39;No One&#39;s Pushing Me Out&#39;
Biden:
'No One's
Pushing
Me Out'
Jul 3, 2024 2:55 PM CDT

Biden: 'No One's Pushing Me Out'

But a new poll shows the post-debate damage, and the president has a crucial stretch coming up

(Newser) - A flurry of new developments on the President Biden front:
  • New poll: A well-regarded poll has bad news for the president in the wake of last week's debate, reports the Hill . The New York Times /Sienna College poll has Donald Trump up 49% to 43% among likely voters, up
...

Nate Silver: Democrats Are Sunk With Biden


Nate Silver:
Democrats
Are Sunk
With Biden
OPINION
Jul 3, 2024 12:13 PM CDT

Nate Silver: Democrats Are Sunk With Biden

'Doing nothing is the riskiest plan of all,' he writes in New York Times column

(Newser) - "You don't need another pundit telling you that [President] Biden should quit the race," writes stats guru Nate Silver in the New York Times . Instead, Silver suggests Democrats listen to what the polls are saying—and they are saying Biden should quit the race, he writes. Silver...

Biden&#39;s Slips Reportedly Growing More Frequent
Obama Said to Be 'Privately'
Worried After Debate
the rundown
Jul 3, 2024 9:40 AM CDT

Obama Said to Be 'Privately' Worried After Debate

Meanwhile, New York Times reports the president's lapses appear to be growing more frequent

(Newser) - President Biden meets with Democratic governors at the White House on Wednesday evening as he tries to show supporters that his debate performance was an aberration, reports CBS News . In the meantime, the drumbeat of negative assessments and coverage continues:
  • Getting worse? The New York Times reports that his "
...

Democrat: Trump Will Win, 'and I'm OK With That'

Democracy will prevail, says Maine Rep. Jared Golden, who's taking no small amount of flak

(Newser) - While some on the left are warning that a second Trump presidency will mean critics are imprisoned and insurrectionists are pardoned, one moderate Democrat doesn't see the need to panic. "Donald Trump is going to win" the November election "and I'm OK with that," Rep....

Biden Has an Explanation for Poor Debate Performance

President cites jet lag as the reason he 'nearly fell asleep on stage'

(Newser) - President Biden's explanation for his near universally-panned debate performance against Donald Trump? Jet lag. "I didn't have my best night," Biden said Tuesday while speaking to supporters at a Virginia fundraiser. "I wasn't very smart. I decided to travel around the world a couple...

RFK Jr. After Sexual Assault Allegation: I'm No 'Church Boy'

Presidential candidate brushes off Vanity Fair article

(Newser) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is responding to allegations of sexual harassment and assault from a former nanny, and the third-party presidential candidate doesn't sound too concerned. The details:
  • The allegations: Eliza Cooney, who worked as a live-in nanny for RFK Jr. and his then-wife in 1998 when she was
...

Poll: 72% Think Biden Shouldn't Be Running

He blames debate performance on jet lag

(Newser) - After last week's disastrous debate performance, almost three-quarters of Americans, including a growing number of Democrats, think President Biden shouldn't be running for a second term, according to a CBS News poll. The poll found that 72% of registered voters think he shouldn't be running, up from...

First House Democrat Asks Biden to Step Aside

Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas says the president should let someone else be the 2024 nominee

(Newser) - Lloyd Doggett on Tuesday said what a lot of other people have been saying—President Biden should bow out of the 2024 race. The difference is that Doggett happens to be a Democratic congressman, and he is the first such member of his party to make his request on the...

Gretchen Whitmer&#39;s Name Emerges in the Biden Chatter
Gretchen Whitmer's Name
Emerges in the Biden Chatter
the rundown
Jul 2, 2024 9:17 AM CDT

Gretchen Whitmer's Name Emerges in the Biden Chatter

She officially disavows it, but the political intrigue is growing

(Newser) - President Biden's brutal debate performance has Democrats talking up potential replacements, and one name in particular has been popping up with frequency: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. So much so that Whitmer spoke directly to a top Biden campaign official to disown the "Draft Gretch" speculation, reports Jonathan Martin...

For Democrats, the Big Question: Now What?


For Democrats,
the Big Question:
Now What?
the rundown
Jun 28, 2024 1:06 PM CDT

For Democrats, the Big Question: Now What?

President Biden not signaling he is considering a withdrawal from race after debate

(Newser) - President Biden sought to ease concerns about his universally panned debate performance in remarks to supporters at a North Carolina rally on Friday. "I know I'm not a young man, to state the obvious," he said, per Axios . "I don't walk as easy as I...

Moderation Was Strict in RFK Jr.'s Solo Debate

He was kept to same time limit as Biden, Trump

(Newser) - Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wasn't on the stage when President Biden and Donald Trump debated in Atlanta on Thursday night—though given the very poor reviews of his performance, Biden might have welcomed the distraction. Instead, Kennedy was on the other side of the country, taking part...

Jon Stewart: Debate Could&#39;ve Used More Drugs
Jon Stewart: 'This
Cannot Be Real Life'
VIDEO
Jun 28, 2024 7:41 AM CDT

Jon Stewart: 'This Cannot Be Real Life'

'Daily Show' host calls out Biden's stumbles, Trump's lies at debate

(Newser) - If there were performance-enhancing drugs in use at Thursday's presidential debate, there weren't enough, according to Jon Stewart. President Biden's stumbles and former President Trump's blatant lies showed "both of these men should be using performance-enhancing drugs"—"as much of it as they...

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