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The White House faces many questions about Biden’s health and medical history. Here are some answers
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s terrible performance at the June 27 presidential debate has raised concerns about his age, health and ability to lead the federal government. Administration officials have blamed his confused and at times indecipherable answers at the debate with Republican Donald Trump on a head cold, jet...
Republicans move at Trump’s behest to change how they will oppose abortion
MILWAUKEE — The Republican National Committee moved Monday to adopt a party platform that reflects former President Donald Trump’s position opposing a federal abortion ban and ceding limits to states, omitting the explicit basis for a national ban for the first time in 40 years. Trump imposed his priorities on...
Read the letter President Biden sent to House Democrats telling them to support him in the election
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden wants Democrats in Congress to know he has no intention of exiting this year’s election, sending them a letter on Monday on his personal letterhead. Here is Biden’s letter to the congressional Democrats whose backing he likely needs: Fellow Democrats, Now that you have returned...
Biden tells Hill Democrats he won’t step aside amid party drama: ‘It’s time for it to end’Video
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, in a letter to congressional Democrats, stood firm against calls for him to drop his candidacy and called for an end to the intraparty drama that has torn apart Democrats since his dismal public debate performance. Biden’s efforts to shore up a deeply anxious Democratic...
The plane is ready, the fundraisers are booked: Trump’s VP search comes down to its final days
NEW YORK — The future Republican vice presidential candidate’s plane is currently parked in an undisclosed hangar, an empty spot on its fuselage where a decal featuring his or her name will soon be placed. Fundraisers have been planned. All that’s left: an announcement from former President Donald Trump unveiling...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer shuts down 2024 presidential talk but doesn’t hide ambitions in timely book launch
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is releasing a new memoir at a particularly fraught moment, both for herself and for the Democratic Party. Set for release Tuesday amid the frenzy over President Joe Biden’s recent debate performance, “True Gretch” won’t do much to dispel questions about her national...
Biden, Shapiro talk it over at Harrisburg coffee shop after stressful campaign day
As the number of Democratic elected officials calling for President Joe Biden to end his run for a second term continues to slowly grow, one key swing-state governor sometimes named as part of a potential replacement ticket - Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro - stayed in the beleaguered incumbent’s corner Sunday....
Biden’s uncertain political future divides Democrats as they return to Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON — Deeply torn over President Joe Biden’s candidacy, Democratic lawmakers return to Washington at a pivotal moment as they decide whether to work to revive his campaign or edge out the party leader, a make-or-break time for his reelection and their own political futures. Anxiety is running high as...
While Biden campaigns in Pennsylvania, some Democratic leaders in the House say he should step aside
HARRISBURG, Pa. — President Joe Biden urged his supporters to stay unified during a series of stops in critical Pennsylvania on Sunday, even as some leading congressional Democrats privately suggested it was time for him to abandon his reelection bid because of intensifying questions about whether he’s fit for another...
To a defiant Biden, the 2024 race is up to the voters, not to Democrats on Capitol Hill
WILMINGTON, Del. — To a defiant President Joe Biden, the 2024 election is up to the public — not the Democrats on Capitol Hill. But the chorus of Democratic voices calling for him to step aside is growing, from donors, strategists, lawmakers and their constituents who say he should bow...
Biden faced a low bar in his first post-debate interview. It’s not certain he cleared it
NEW YORK — With the survival of his candidacy in question, Joe Biden sat down with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Friday for one of the most important interviews of the Democratic president’s decades-long political career. The 22-minute sit-down came a full eight days after Biden’s disastrous debate performance, in which...
Republicans turn their focus to Harris as talk of replacing Biden on Democratic ticket intensifies
NEW YORK — For years it’s been a Republican scare tactic. A vote to reelect President Joe Biden, the GOP often charges, is really a vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. It’s an attack line sometimes tinged with racist and misogynist undertones and often macabre imagery. But after Biden’s dismal...
Biden dismisses age questions in interview as he tries to salvage reelection effort
MADISON, Wis. — President Joe Biden, fighting to save his endangered reelection effort, used a highly anticipated TV interview Friday to repeatedly reject taking an independent medical evaluation that would show voters he is up for serving another term in office while blaming his disastrous debate performance on a “bad...
Why Butler County is so crucial to Trump’s election chances
Southwestern Pennsylvania is one of the most important political regions in the country for Republicans this election cycle, and the Trump campaign appears to be well aware. Former President Donald Trump next weekend will hold his first Western Pennsylvania rally of the campaign season in Butler County, signaling the region’s...
Trump denies knowing about Project 2025, his allies’ sweeping plan to transform the government
MIAMI — Donald Trump distanced himself Friday from Project 2025, a massive proposed overhaul of the federal government drafted by longtime allies and former officials in his administration, days after the head of the think tank responsible for the program suggested there would be a second American Revolution. “I know...
Biden heads into a make-or-break stretch for his imperiled presidential campaign
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday opened a critical stretch in his effort to salvage his imperiled reelection campaign, facing a growing sense that he may have just days to make a persuasive case that he is fit for office before Democratic support for him completely evaporates. In the...
House Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment to reverse Supreme Court’s immunity decision
WASHINGTON — A leading House Democrat is preparing a constitutional amendment in response to the Supreme Court’s landmark immunity ruling, seeking to reverse the decision “and ensure that no president is above the law.” Rep. Joseph Morelle of New York, the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee, sent a...
The questions about Biden’s age and fitness are reminiscent of another campaign: Reagan’s in 1984
The age question for presidential candidates is more than four decades old. President Ronald Reagan answered it with a pledge to resign if he became impaired, and later with a clever joke that reset his campaign from a stumbling debate performance to a 49-state landslide and a second term. “I...
Biden heads into a make-or-break stretch for his imperiled presidential campaign
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden opened a critical stretch on Thursday in his effort to salvage his imperiled reelection campaign, arguing the stakes extend far beyond his own political prospects to the future of the country’s economy and democracy itself. There is a growing sense that Biden may have just...
Trump to make Butler County stop shortly before Republican convention
Donald Trump will make a campaign stop in Butler County on Saturday, July 13, according to the former president’s website. Trump will host a 5 p.m. event at the Butler Farm Show grounds, 625 Evans City Road. The farm show, itself, does not take place until August. It will be...
Biden vows to keep running as signs point to rapidly eroding support for him on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON — A defiant President Joe Biden vowed Wednesday to keep running for reelection, rejecting growing pressure from Democrats to withdraw after a disastrous debate performance raised questions about his readiness to keep campaigning, much less win in November. But increasingly ominous signs were mounting for the president. Two Democratic...
Democrats in Congress are torn between backing Biden for president and sounding the alarm
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance has reverberated across the Democratic Party, forcing lawmakers to grapple with a crisis that could upend the presidential election and change the course of American history. The Democratic president has signaled he’s trying to stay in the race against Republican Donald Trump...
Paging Kamala? Summer Lee says VP Harris is ‘obvious choice’ if Biden steps down
U.S. Rep. Summer Lee has joined a growing chorus of elected Democrats weighing in on the fallout from President Joe Biden’s lackluster debate performance, emphasizing the gravity of the presidential race and suggesting that if Biden were to step aside, Vice President Kamala Harris is the “obvious choice” to replace...
Harris tries to hold the line for Biden as Democrats panic over election
WASHINGTON — By the time Vice President Kamala Harris stepped into her third fundraiser since President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate last week, she had her routine down. Yes, she conceded to a few dozen donors in San Francisco, the president’s performance was “not his finest hour.” However, she said, “the...
Virginia certifies John McGuire as primary winner over Rep. Bob Good, who says he’ll seek a recount
RICHMOND — The Virginia State Board of Elections on Tuesday certified the apparent narrow defeat of Republican Rep. Bob Good, one of America’s most conservative congressmen, to a challenger endorsed by former President Donald Trump in the state’s primaries on June 18. The board’s unanimous vote to certify the results...
