President Biden would have total control over the millions of dollars raised by his presidential campaign if he chooses to drop out of the race against former President Trump, campaign finance experts told The Hill. Biden is facing growing pressure to step back after a poor debate performance last week, during which he appeared to stare blankly into space and struggled to string together sentences at times. |
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The White House was engaged in a furious round of damage control on Wednesday as the crisis around President Biden deepened. Biden's aides, both at the White House and on his campaign, are seeking to bat down damaging stories almost by the hour — before they draw fresh blood from a president who has been badly wounded since his disastrous debate performance in Atlanta last Thursday. |
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BY JULIA MANCHESTER AND ALEX GANGITANO |
A small group of Democratic governors affirmed their support for President Biden following a White House meeting with the president on Wednesday amid growing Democratic calls for him to drop out of the race. "The feedback was, we are all looking for the path to win. All the governors agree with that, President Biden agreed with that," said Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, speaking outside of the White House with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore. |
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BY AMIE PARNES AND ALEX GANGITANO |
The White House and Biden campaign sought to stop the bleeding Wednesday, forcefully saying the president will not be dropping out of the race after a disastrous debate underscored concerns about his age and ability to serve. Allies and staff spent the day Wednesday in cleanup mode, making it known that Biden will be the Democratic nominee despite the panic within the Democratic Party and new polls showing him losing ground to former President Trump. |
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| Former President Trump has expanded his lead over President Biden in the aftermath of last week's debate to 6 points, up from 3 just a week prior, according to a much-anticipated New York Times/Siena College poll. The poll showed Trump leading Biden with 49 percent to the incumbent's 43 percent among likely voters, holding the largest lead he has had in a Times/Siena poll since 2015, when he first ran for president. Among registered voters, Trump's lead expands to 8 points, 49 percent to 41 percent. |
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Former Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer said that a leaked polling memo "shook Democrats in their boots" in a Wednesday Substack post. The polling memo from Open Labs, leaked to Puck News, showed how President Biden's support was sliding following his panic-inducing debate performance Thursday. |
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Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) is calling on President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race, becoming the second sitting Democratic lawmaker to publicly urge the incumbent to step aside after his lackluster performance in last week's debate. Grijalva — who has served in Congress since 2003 — told The New York Times in an interview that he will support Biden should he remain at the top of the ticket, but said he thinks it is time for the Democratic Party to select a new nominee. |
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Former President Trump and his top foreign policy advisers are putting Chinese President Xi Jinping on notice, threatening to enact a more aggressive U.S. policy toward China as Trump looks increasingly likely to return to the White House.
There's bipartisan support in Washington for a tough U.S. approach to China, but Trump's former top officials, who are likely to serve in a second administration, are advocating for a larger U.S. military buildup in Asia and punishing tariffs on Chinese imports. |
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| Officials in red states are increasingly using schools to test the wall between church and state. Oklahoma joined Louisiana last week in insisting that biblical teachings have a place in the classroom, alarming civil liberties groups who say lawmakers are trying to evangelize students in taxpayer-funded schools. |
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| OPINION | We all remember the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. It was obvious that what happened that day was wrong, and it was equally obvious what it implied about Donald Trump. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that Trump's behavior was "a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty." Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) recognized that Jan. 6 crossed a line and that Trump was responsible: "All I can say is, count me out. Enough is enough." |
OPINION | The Supreme Court's decision in Murthy v. Missouri disappointed many Americans concerned about federal bureaucrats secretly coercing social media companies to censor free speech online. A 6-3 court held that the challengers lacked standing to bring their First Amendment claims because they had not shown a direct link between the government's pressure and the platforms' actions. But the decision should refocus attention on one solution for this and other bureaucratic overreach: We must reform the administrative state. |
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BY THEODORE SCHLEIFER, KENNETH P. VOGEL, SHANE GOLDMACHER AND KATE KELLY |
Wealthy Democratic donors who believe a different nominee would be the party's best chance to hold the White House are increasingly gritting their teeth in silence about President Biden, fearful that any move against him could backfire. |
BY PRISCILLA ALVAREZ AND JEFF ZELENY |
Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris' camp is digging in and dismissing calls for her to replace President Joe Biden on the ticket amid escalating calls for the president to step aside and new polling showing the vice president outpacing Biden in a hypothetical race against Donald Trump. |
BY NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, MOHAMMAD SALEM AND MAAYAN LUBELL |
CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM, July 3 (Reuters) - Signs of renewed activity emerged on Wednesday in the quest for a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in the nine-month-old war in the Gaza Strip while Israel launched more strikes on the devastated enclave. |
BY NOEMIE BISSERBE AND STACY MEICHTRY |
SAINT-DENIS, France—Six years ago, a media specialist was called to the headquarters of National Rally to groom the party's new spokesman: a clean-cut 22-year-old by the name of Jordan Bardella. |
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