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President Biden may soon face increased pressure from Democrats in Congress to drop out of the 2024 race, according to a report. At least 25 House Democrats are preparing to call for the 81-year-president to end his re-election bid in the wake of his disastrous debate against former President Donald Trump, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing a House Democratic aide. Centrist House Democrats in competitive districts – the lawmakers most at risk of losing their seats in November – were so alarmed by Biden’s infirmed appearance in last week’s showdown with the 78-year-old presumptive Republican nominee that they are considering writing...

Some of the country’s largest media outlets have called on President Biden to step aside and allow another Democrat to take on former President Trump in November, following the president’s concerning debate performance last week. Biden’s first debate performance raised alarms among some Democrats and supporters, with the president struggling to string ideas together or rebut Trump’s many false statements. Almost half of Democrats in a new poll say Biden should allow a different candidate to take the party’s nomination. Here are the major outlets that have called on Biden to drop out of the race. The New York Times...

Democratic strategist David Axelrod on Saturday called discussions about replacing President Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket “irrelevant,” as the party continues to face the fallout from the Thursday night debate. The former Obama White House senior adviser said the appropriate time to have the discussion would have been last year. “Reality check: @JoeBiden is the nominee of the Democratic Party, nominated by voters in primaries across the country,” Axelrod wrote on the social platform X. “Unless the @POTUS, himself, decides to quit — which he won’t — that issue is settled.” “The discussion that is going on...

resident Biden is now threatened by the sentiment that brought him to the White House. Democrats came into 2020 traumatized by their party’s 2016 loss and by four years of Donald Trump’s hard-right presidency. The party internalized the idea that the key to beating Trump was doing better with blue-collar Midwestern Whites, and Biden was the natural guy to fill that gap. When you asked Democrats that year whom they planned to support, they would often indicate that they preferred a non-Biden candidate to be the nominee — but that Biden seemed like the best bet to win. And he...

Politics typically comes with plenty of spin. Even something seemingly unyielding or absolute like a number can get squished and twisted like putty. As such, flashy economic data points extolled by candidates always come with plenty of asterisks, caveats and “yes, buts.” In this election cycle, those qualifiers have multiplied in part due to quirks in the numbers themselves: A once-in-a-lifetime pandemic and a once-in-a-generation inflation event sent shockwaves through the economy, distorting data and presidential economic records in the process. “Interpreting economic data is like interpreting a Monet painting in the best of times,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she isn’t calling for President Biden to step down when asked about calls from Democrats for the president to do so in the wake of his negatively-reviewed presidential debate performance. “I don’t know who’s doing that,” Pelosi said of the calls for Biden to step aside and make room for someone new to enter the race against former President Trump, according to MSNBC, in an audio clip played on anchor Ali Velshi’s show Saturday. “I’m not doing it,” Pelosi said in the clip. Biden’s debate performance, during which he had a raspy voice...

Jill Biden revealed that she comforted Joe after his disastrous debate performance as even she admitted it was 'on the minds' of their campaign donors. The First Lady has come under scrutiny in recent days amid growing fears over President Biden's age deterioration, with some speculating that she is a driving force behind his insistence of remaining in the 2024 race. At a fundraiser on Friday in New York City, Jill told supporters that her husband is 'not a young man', but said she only offered words of reassurance following his 90-minute debate ordeal. 'After last night's debate, he said,...

A plane toting a streamer reading “BI-DONE!” soared over a star-studded fundraiser in the Hamptons Saturday where the President was rubbing elbows with big-time Democratic donors. The opinionated aircraft flew from Montauk to Sag Harbor — made famous last week by Justin Timberlake’s DWI arrest — making sure to sweep past the ritzy event at the home of hedge-fund billionaire Barry Rosenstein and his wife Lizanne. Sources told The Post that a local Republican donor paid for the banner. Whether Biden himself saw the message is another story — he and First Lady Jill Biden spent the afternoon schmoozing with...

President Biden likely suffers from a “cognitive disease” and should not only drop out of the presidential race but resign immediately, according to the former White House physician and current Republican Congressman who served former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump. “This is a national security issue,” Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson told The Post after Biden’s disastrous debate performance. “As an American, I think he needs to step down and he needs to be immediately removed from office.” Before entering politics, Jackson served as Obama’s personal physician between 2013 and 2016. He served as Trump’s between 2016 and 2018. Trump...

Some Democrats began calling for President Joe Biden to step aside so the party can nominate another candidate after he stumbled badly in Thursday's debate against his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump. "This was like a champion boxer who gets in the ring past his prime and needs his corner to throw in the towel," said a Democratic lawmaker, adding that he meant Biden should exit the race. The options for a switch are limited: If the president doesn't choose to leave of his own volition, there would have to be a revolt among Democratic National Convention delegates, the...

President Joe Biden's halting debate performance has led some in his own party to begin questioning whether he should be replaced on the ballot before November. There is no evidence Biden is willing to end his campaign. And it would be nearly impossible for Democrats to replace him unless he chooses to step aside. Here's why: Delegates Biden won in the primaries are obligated to support him *SNIP* VP Kamala Harris couldn't automatically replace Biden *SNIP* Other potential Democratic candidates would also face challenges In addition to the vice president, others that had endorsed Biden in 2024 while harboring their...

President Joe Biden isn’t known for telling the truth. So, it came as no surprise when the Delaware Democrat got up on stage to tell some pretty tall tales during Thursday’s debate with former President Donald Trump. From the crisis he created at the U.S.-Mexico border to manufactured hoaxes about his opponent, there was almost no subject Biden didn’t lie about. Here are the 20 biggest whoppers he told during Thursday night’s matchup with the Orange Man

Celebrities have lashed out at Donald Trump, the debate moderators, and the state of US politics - but none were willing to claim Joe Biden won. The president and his predecessor faced off in the first of two debates in Atlanta on Thursday night on topics from the economy to immigration and foreign affairs. Biden, suffering from a cold, spoke hoarsely and appeared confused and sometimes incoherent at the start of the debate, but improved as it went along.

After a full week of debate prep, and with CNN’s thumb on the scales, Joe Biden’s debate performance was abysmal and has been universally panned as a ‘catastrophe’ for Democrats. “OPERATION REPLACE BIDEN,” the Drudge headline screamed Thursday night. “DEMS SCRAMBLE WITH 130 DAYS TO GO. DEBATE CATASTROPHE.” CNN morning host Kasie Hunt wrote on X before the debate was over that Biden’s weak demeanor had all her Democrat friends “nearly beside themselves.” “The voice, open-mouthed look, and visual contrast between President Biden and former President Trump all have Democrats I’m talking to nearly beside themselves watching this debate,” she...

Jill Biden has been accused of treating her husband like a toddler after she praised him for 'answering all the questions' during his disastrous CNN debate with Donald Trump last night. The 81-year-old US President's wife helped him on to stage at a 'Let's Go Joe' event in Atlanta where she then appeared to baby him about how well he had performed against his rival. Experts are calling for him to stand aside and let someone else fight Trump in November - with some friends and supporters claiming that it is Jill Biden who should tell her husband to throw...

CNN host Chris Wallace said Thursday on CNN’s post-presidential debate that President Joe Biden could not recover from his debate performance. Host Erin Burnett said, “Chris, he goes through six days of preparation at Camp David, and they know the rules. He practices with the mics. He knows every one of these questions is coming. And yet he couldn’t fill the time. Now, I just want to, let’s see what the White House is saying: Sources close to the White House are saying he had a cold, wasn’t feeling well. I mean, as you would expect, that came out early...

resident Biden repeatedly froze and misspoke during his first — and possibly only — debate against former President Donald Trump Thursday night, prompting anguish and alarm in the Democratic Party fewer than four months before the general election. In what will be the most-replayed political moment of the night, the week, the month, and maybe the year, the 81-year-old incumbent lost his train of thought for about nine seconds, looking down at his lectern before popping up again to say that he “finally beat Medicare.” Biden, who would be 86 if he finishes a second term in January 2029, did...

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned Friday that President Biden's poor showing at Thursday night's CNN Presidential Debate calls into question who's really running the country. "He does not seem to be the person who's making the decisions in the White House," RFK Jr. told Lawrence Jones on "Fox & Friends" Friday. "I think our government is being run by anonymous men in lanyards, and it's scary." Biden's performance against former President Trump in the first debate of the 2024 election cycle in Atlanta sent shockwaves across the Democratic Party as voters grow increasingly concerned about Biden's fitness for...

resident Joe Biden defended his debate performance, saying he did 'well' and inisisted he was not dropping out of the race when pressed during a post-debate food run. Biden, along with wife Jill, stopped at a Waffle House in Atlanta to pick up some chow for the plane ride to Raleigh, North Carolina where they have a campaign event on Friday. 'I think we did well,' Biden told the press traveling with him. When asked about the mounting calls among Democrats for him to drop out, and whether he has any concerns about his performance, Biden said: 'No. It’s hard...

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