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Biden fails to quiet calls to step aside in 2024 race

WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden got a boost on Friday from an influential Democrat in Congress, Representative James Clyburn, who said the 81-year-old incumbent should not drop his reelection bid following a high-profile press conference."I am all in. I'm riding with Biden no matter which direction he goes," Clyburn said on NBC's...

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Kamala Harris scores double poll boost over Donald Trump

Two recent polls show Vice President Kamala Harris beating Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 matchup.On Friday, an NPR/PBS News/Marist poll of 1,174 registered voters suggests Harris, considered the best-placed person to replace President Joe Biden as the Democrat's 2024 nominee should he drop out of the race, would narrowly beat Trump in November's...

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After Biden’s News Conference, Doubters and Defenders Weigh In

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTMore representatives called for the president to end his re-election bid after a session with reporters, while others highlighted his firm grasp of foreign policy after a NATO summit.Representative Jim Himes, a moderate Democrat from Connecticut, called for President Biden to drop out of his re-election campaign.Credit...Haiyun Jiang...

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Key takeaways from Biden's news conference: Insistence on staying in the race and flubbed names

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden faced a test Thursday that he had avoided so far this year — a solo news conference with questions from the White House press corps.The news conference was meant to reassure a disheartened group of Democratic lawmakers, allies and persuadable voters in this year’s election that Biden still has the strength and stamina to...

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Team Biden suspects that Obama is behind the revolt to push him out: report

Former president Barack Obama may be quietly supporting — or at least not objecting to — the Democratic push to oust Joe Biden, according to multiple reports.On the Thursday morning broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" — a personal favorite show of Biden's — host Joe Scarborough said that the Biden team believes Obama is supporting the Democratic revolt...

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Live Election Updates: Embattled Biden to Face Questions on High-Pressure Day

Skip to contentSkip to site indexPresident Biden will speak at a closely watched news conference Thursday as he faces mounting pressuring over the future of his candidacy. The news conference, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in Washington after a day of meetings with NATO leaders, comes as the president faced a fresh wave of calls for him to end his re-election...

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News conference looms large in Biden’s bid to save his candidacy

President Biden, who in the past has batted away questions about his advanced age by telling skeptics to “watch me,” will have one of the most consequential audiences of his political career as he steps to the lectern in Washington and faces a horde of journalists on Thursday. Members of Congress, Democratic donors, party strategists, voters, foreign...

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Biden to hold news conference today amid debate over his 2024 campaign. Here's what to know before he speaks.

President Biden is holding a solo press conference today — his first since November — to conclude the NATO summit in Washington, D.C., Thursday evening. It will be one of his biggest public tests since last month's unsteady debate performance, which caused alarm among Democrats on Capitol Hill and raised questions about whether he should be the party's...

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Biden's NATO press conference will be major cognitive test

Prominent figures, including actor George Clooney and Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), are calling for President Joe Biden to step aside in the upcoming presidential race, advocating for a new Democratic nominee. These calls for change come as Biden concludes a three-day NATO summit, following what many perceived as a lackluster performance in his debate...

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Biden is holding a rare solo news conference to try to show he’s up for this campaign

President Biden faces yet another high-profile public test of whether he’s sharp enough to campaign for a second term when he takes questions from reporters on Thursday. It comes as Biden wraps up a summit of NATO leaders in Washington, D.C.,...

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Vinay Menon: Did a directed-energy weapon cause Joe Biden’s debate disaster or is it time to drop out?

President Joe Biden in Washington on Tuesday. During last week’s debate, Biden looked like a child lost in the mall in a city that did not speak his language, writes Vinay Menon. Evan Vucci/AP

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Opinion | Donald Trump Is Unfit to Lead

Republican presidents and presidential candidates have used their leadership at critical moments to set a tone for society to live up to. Mr. Reagan faced down totalitarianism in the 1980s, appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court and worked with Democrats on bipartisan tax and immigration reforms. George H.W. Bush signed the Americans With Disabilities...

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NYT editorial board calls Trump 'unfit to lead'

Not only does the Times denounce Trump as an individual, it places Trump and the Republican Party as one in the same ahead of the upcoming convention. “A once great political party now serves the interests of one man, a man as demonstrably unsuited for the office of president as any to run in the long history of the Republic, a man whose values, temperament,...

posted 1d ago via politico.com

 

Opinion | The Nomination Crisis Is Far From Over

U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticSKIP ADVERTISEMENTJuly 11, 2024, 5:04 a.m. ETCredit...Damon Winter/The New York TimesBy Ezra KleinWhat I am hearing from congressional Democrats about President Biden is this: He has done little to nothing to allay their fears. But his defiance — and his fury — has been enough...

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Carlos Slim: who is the Mexican billionaire who has invested £400m in BT?

Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who this week paid £400m for a 3% stake in BT, has traversed some of life’s highest peaks and lowest ebbs.He claims that in 1997, aged 57, he was briefly declared dead after suffering a massive haemorrhage on the operating table at the Texas Heart Institute during surgery to replace a faulty heart valve.Thirteen...

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Russia aims to undermine support for Ukraine during US election, intelligence warns

This audio is created with AI assistance Support independent journalism in Ukraine. Join us in this fight. Russia plans information campaigns to sow division in the U.S. society and undermine support for Ukraine in swing states during the upcoming presidential race, American intelligence officials told journalists on July 9.When asked whether Moscow...

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US intelligence official indicates Russia prefers Trump as election victor

WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. has not seen Russia shift on its preference from previous U.S. presidential elections on who it prefers to win this year, a U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday, indicating that Moscow again favors Republican Donald Trump.The official, briefing reporters on U.S. election security, did not name the former...

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Ukraine will stop Putin, Biden tells NATO in forceful speech

WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden pledged to forcefully defend Ukraine against Russia's invasion at the NATO summit in Washington on Tuesday, using the global stage to try to show allies at home and abroad that he can still lead.Biden, 81, has endured 12 days of withering questions about his fitness for office as some of his fellow...

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How US strike curbs for Ukraine morphed from caveats to ‘common sense’

BRUSSELS — In late May, the Biden administration announced a major policy change: Washington would now let Ukrainian forces fire American-provided weapons into Russia — though only around one region in the northeast.This had long been a bright red line in the administration’s support for Kyiv, fearing an expanded war.It took only a few days for Ukraine...

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US teams up with NATO to seize control of Kremlin-backed bot farm

Published: 13:12 BST, 10 July 2024 | Updated: 14:46 BST, 10 July 2024 The Justice Department is claiming a win after announcing the shutting down of a Kremlin-backed bot farm that was set up in order to spread discord across the US regarding Russia's foreign policy. According to a press release from the DOJ, the bot farm ran close 1,000 accounts...

posted 2d ago via dailymail.co.uk

 

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