The question on many Democrats' minds: Now what?
Democrats were reeling from the presidential debate where they saw President Biden not only do poorly but bomb what was supposed to be a narrative-defining moment. And with the threat of a second Donald Trump presidency looming, they spent Friday trying to figure out if the current president could still somehow be the right person to defeat the former president. |
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Former President Trump is ramping up his efforts in Virginia in a sign that Republicans are viewing the state as winnable in November. While President Biden headed to battleground North Carolina for his post-debate rally, Trump traveled to Chesapeake, Va., to share the stage for the first time with Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R). The governor notably avoided appearing with Trump when he ran in 2021 due to the political implications. |
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Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he thinks President Biden won't step aside and let the Democratic Party find a new nominee because "you can't negotiate with him."
Biden's shaky debate performance Thursday sparked widespread fear among liberals, leaving pundits to indicate during post-debate analysis that discussions would be had about whether Biden would step down and allow someone else to take on former President Trump in the election. |
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BY MIKE LILLIS AND MYCHAEL SCHNELL |
A growing chorus of alarmed House Democrats say President Biden's faltering performance in the debate the night before raises immediate questions about whether he should remain at the top of the ticket in this year's presidential contest. Such criticisms were unthinkable heading into the high-stakes Thursday night event, as Democrats have rallied fiercely behind their White House ally throughout the campaign. |
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| The New York Times editorial board called on President Biden to suspend his campaign after his shaky debate performance against former President Trump on Thursday. "Mr. Biden has said that he is the candidate with the best chance of taking on this threat of tyranny and defeating it. His argument rests largely on the fact that he beat Mr. Trump in 2020," the board wrote. "That is no longer a sufficient rationale for why Mr. Biden should be the Democratic nominee this year." |
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday that members of President Biden's Cabinet should consider using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office in light of his weak debate performance Thursday night. "There's a lot of people asking about the 25th Amendment, invoking the 25th Amendment right now because this is an alarming situation," Johnson said. "Our adversaries see the weakness in this White House as we all do. I take no pleasure in saying that. I think this is a very dangerous situation." |
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The Supreme Court has broadly expanded the power of judges at the expense of federal agencies with a pair of decisions this week, and it could be poised to do so again next week.
Altogether, its actions to transfer authority from agencies to the judiciary could curtail a wide range of financial, environmental, workplace and consumer protections. |
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Just hours after the Supreme Court narrowed an obstruction charge used to prosecute scores of Jan. 6 rioters, trial-level judges have started to reopen some cases tied to the 2021 Capitol attack. The federal judge who oversaw the case against Guy Reffitt — the first rioter convicted by a jury — ordered Reffitt's attorneys and the Justice Department (DOJ) to propose a schedule for "further proceedings" in light of the justices' decision by July 5, signaling a resentencing is imminent. |
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An asteroid the size of a football stadium will thread the needle between Earth and the moon Saturday morning — the second of two astronomical near misses in three days.
Near miss, in this case, is a relative term: Saturday's asteroid, 2024 MK, will come within 180,000 miles of Earth. On Thursday, meanwhile, asteroid 2011 UL21 flew within 4 million miles. Here's what to know. |
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BY REPS. BRIAN FITZPATRICK (R-PA.), JARED GOLDEN (D-MAINE), DON BACON (R-NEB.), AND MARIE GLUESENKAMP PEREZ (D-WASH.) |
OPINION | At the start of every Congress, members of the House of Representatives gather in the House chamber and, in unison, are sworn in for two-year terms. We all swear that we will "support and defend the Constitution of the United States." It is a rare moment of unity in a body that often breaks down along party lines. But the reason we can engage in those fiery debates about how to govern is that we have all agreed at the outset to operate by the same set of rules in service to the Constitution and the American people. |
OPINION | In a trio of decisions issued this month, the right-leaning Supreme Court — including a handful of the justices who joined the disastrous ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization — gave American women some half-hearted wins. Dobbs reversed Roe v. Wade, a decades-old precedent that had established a right to abortion. For the first time in its history, a 5-4 majority of the court wiped out an individual constitutional right, enabling state legislatures to legally force women to carry fetuses to term, including unviable ones. |
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President Biden knew immediately after stepping off the stage in Atlanta on Thursday night that the debate had gone wrong. In those first stricken moments after a raspy, rambling and at times incoherent performance, he turned to his wife, Jill Biden. Whatever was going to happen next in Mr. Biden's last presidential race, after perhaps the worst moment of his long political life, was always going to come down to her. His wife of 47 years had entered his life all those decades ago, reluctant to get into politics but fully embracing his dreams and his belief that he would one day reach the White House. |
BY RORY JONES, ANAT PELED AND DOV LIEBER |
As Israel prepares to wind down major military operations in Gaza, one question looms large: What happens next? A plan that is gaining currency in the government and military envisions creating geographical "islands" or "bubbles" where Palestinians who are unconnected to Hamas can live in temporary shelter while the Israeli military mops up remaining insurgents. |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Two indictments against former Uvalde, Texas, schools police officers are the first charges brought against law enforcement for the botched response that saw hundreds of officers wait more than an hour to confront an 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 fourth-grade students and two teachers at Robb Elementary. For some Uvalde families, who have spent the last two years demanding police accountability, the indictments brought a mix of relief and frustration. Several wonder why more officers have not been charged for waiting to go into the classroom, where some victims lay dying or begging for assistance, to help bring a quicker end to one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history. |
In a fiery exchange during last night's presidential debate, former president Donald Trump claimed that an influx of immigrants from the U.S.-Mexico border were "taking Black jobs." "His big kill on the Black people is the millions of people that he's allowed to come in through the border," Trump said. "They're taking Black jobs now and it could be 18, it could be 19 and even 20 million people. They're taking Black jobs and they're taking Hispanic jobs and you haven't seen it yet, but you're going to see something that's going to be the worst in our history." |
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