President Biden gave the most important TV interview of his career on Friday. Biden spoke to George Stephanopoulos of ABC News for 22 minutes during a campaign trip to Wisconsin. The conversation came with his presidency in real peril. Here are the biggest takeaways. |
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President Biden defended his health and insisted he can beat former President Trump in November in a high-stakes interview Friday that came after his dismal debate performance in Atlanta last week. "I don't think there's anybody more qualified to be president or win this race than me," Biden told ABC's George Stephanopoulos. |
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Amid rising pressure for President Biden to withdraw from the race, questions are looming over the mechanics of getting another Democrat on the ballot ahead of November. Democrats do have a path forward: The filing deadline for the party to get their presidential candidate on the ballot in most states hasn't been met yet, and there are avenues within the party over how to choose a new candidate if need be. |
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Democratic strategist David Axelrod warned that President Biden is "dangerously out of touch" with voters on the issue of his age and health following Biden's highly anticipated sit-down interview on ABC News. "The president is rightfully proud of his record. But he is dangerously out-of-touch with the concerns people have about his capacities moving forward and his standing in this race," Axelrod wrote in a post on the social platform X. "Years ago at this time, he was 10 points ahead of Trump. Today, he is six points behind." |
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Pollster Nate Silver, the founder of ABC's FiveThirtyEight, called for President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 White House race after making "incoherent comments" in his first post-debate interview Friday. Earlier Friday, Silver wrote a column about whether a model could appropriately determine Biden's chances of winning the election, as voters remain skeptical of his abilities more than a week after his poor debate performance. |
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The Heritage Foundation and its president, Kevin Roberts, are facing blowback in the wake of his comment about an ongoing second American revolution that will "remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
President Biden's campaign jumped on the comment, with a spokesperson saying it shows that former President Trump's allies are "dreaming of a violent revolution to destroy the very idea of America." Commentators ranging from former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) to MSNBC hosts and guests reacted with alarm. |
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BY ALEXANDER BOLTON AND AMIE PARNES |
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), an influential centrist who is close with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), is working to gather support among Democratic senators to ask President Biden to drop his reelection bid, according to two sources familiar with the effort. Warner is concerned Biden could perform so badly in November that he risks taking down Democratic senators who were thought to be in relatively safe seats, such as fellow Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine. |
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BY MIKE LILLIS AND MYCHAEL SCHNELL |
Democrats are aiming their fire at the Supreme Court after this week's monumental ruling that granted former President Trump broad immunity from criminal prosecution, hoping that a messaging blitz focused on the bench could turbocharge campaigns up and down the ballot in the lead-up to the November elections. The Democrats are floating a host of reform proposals, some more aggressive than others, that they're hoping to adopt if voters deliver them the House majority at the polls. |
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The Supreme Court isn't making it easy to be a law professor these days. After overturning the 40-year-old Chevron deference last week, the justices threw law curricula for another major loop on Monday with their earth-shaking ruling on presidential immunity — all this just two years after Roe v. Wade was struck down after 50 years on the books. |
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OPINION | In addition to President Biden's disqualifying mental decline and horrific approval ratings, Democrats have another problem: They are losing their advantage on the issue of abortion. |
OPINION | In April, around 700 veterans, active-duty troops and Gold Star families made the trip to Camp Pendleton in California for the 20th reunion of those who participated in the Battle of Ramadi. As I looked out over the crowd of men I had commanded in Iraq, I saw the faces of people I am proud to have served alongside, mentored and built lasting relationships with. |
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Hours after a battle in eastern Ukraine in August, a wounded and unarmed Russian soldier crawled through a nearly destroyed trench, seeking help from his captors, a unit of international volunteers led by an American. Caspar Grosse, a German medic in that unit, said he saw the soldier plead for medical attention in a mix of broken English and Russian. It was dusk. A team member looked for bandages. |
BY JUSTIN LAHART AND NICK TIMIRAOS |
The Labor Department reported on Friday that the U.S. added a solid 206,000 jobs last month, slightly beating expectations and continuing a remarkably strong run. But the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.1%, a sign of slack in a labor market that has already shown some hints of gradually slowing down. There were other indications as well that the job market is continuing to cool. Average hourly earnings were up 3.9% in June from a year earlier, marking their smallest gain since 2021. The counts for both April and May were revised lower by a combined 111,000 jobs. The labor-force participation rate, the share of working-age people who were employed or seeking work, ticked up to 62.6%—an indication that more people entered the labor market. |
LONDON (AP) — New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer doesn't get to take a breather. After a draining six-week election campaign, the center-left politician must get straight to work assembling his government, tackling a mountain of domestic problems and putting his stamp on the U.K.'s relations with the rest of the world. It's a daunting list for a new leader who has never served in, much less led, a government. But Starmer, who was officially appointed prime minister Friday, insisted that he is up to the challenge of heading the U.K. in a world that is "a more volatile place" than it has been for many years. |
Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, who advocates moderate policies at home and limited engagement with the West, has won Iran's presidential election, defeating prominent ultraconservative Saeed Jalili. Pezeshkian won after the vote went to a runoff Friday in a contest that has been defined by low turnout figures. Iranian state media announced the results early Saturday morning. Turnout on Friday stood at 50 percent, just slightly higher than last week's historic low of 40 percent. |
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