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Former President Barack Obama and ex-speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke privately this week about their growing concerns for President Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign — as a growing number of “very-connected Democrats” plot to get him to drop out quickly, according to reports. Obama and Pelosi are said to have discussed how much harder they think it has now become for the embattled 81-year-old president to beat his GOP rival, former President Donald Trump, but neither are sure what to do, sources told CNN. A slew of Democrats have also been begging Obama and Pelosi behind the scenes to help quickly end...

The coup to replace President Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee appears to be sputtering as prominent Democrats are publicly lining up behind the presumptive nominee despite deep private concerns documented within the party. From vulnerable Democrat senators trying to win reelection in red and purple states, to squad members from deep blue districts, to the chairs of the Congressional Black and Hispanic Caucuses, the party is publicly rallying behind an extremely vulnerable Biden to be at the top of the ticket this fall. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Jon Tester (D-MT), who face extremely competitive Senate...

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver is set to open a micro-community in the Overland Park neighborhood off South Santa Fe Drive on Monday. It’s part of Mayor Mike Johnston’s House1000 initiative. “The micro-community is going to provide opportunity to people to survive,” Denver District 7 Council Member Flor Alvidrez said. People from an encampment off Colfax Avenue and Umatilla Street will be moved to the community, which is made up of 60 tiny homes. The community will offer wraparound services, including medical care and employment services. “We have worked so hard to get to this point,” Alvidrez

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll expressed “very serious concerns” Thursday that she won’t be able to collect the $83 million from former President Trump that a jury awarded in Carroll’s defamation lawsuit last month, citing Trump’s various legal woes. “He simply asks the Court to ‘trust me’ and offers, in a case with an $83.3 million judgment against him, the court filing equivalent of a paper napkin; signed by the least trustworthy of borrowers,” Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s lawyer, wrote in court papers. The new filing responds to Trump’s demand that his trial judge delay enforcing the eight-figure sum as the...

A whopping 89 percent of Americans have concerns, to varying degrees, that President Joe Biden lacks the physical and mental health for a second term, according to an NBC News poll. The poll published Tuesday — ahead of Biden’s press conference Thursday where he was grilled about his age and mental acuity — found that 62 percent of registered voters nationally have “major concerns” that he does not have “the necessary mental and physical health to be president for a second term.” Another 14 percent have “moderate” worries, while 13 percent expressed “minor concerns.” Conversely just over one in ten...

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel downplayed donor concerns following reporting on the GOP finances, saying the situation is not unusual. On Monday, the Washington Post reported that concerns over the national party’s finances were growing as donations to the RNC appear to drop ahead of next year’s presidential election. The Post noted that the RNC reported having $9.1 million in the bank in October, which is significantly less than the $20 million the party reported having on hand at the same point in the 2016 presidential campaign cycle. Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee reported having $17.7 million cash-on-hand in...

Three in 10 Americans believe the COVID-19 pandemic is worsening, while more than one in four worry about being infected, according to a new Gallup poll. The new poll, published Thursday, found that 30 percent of respondents said the ongoing pandemic is worsening, while 41 percent think its getting better and 30 percent said it has stayed the same. That marks a 25 percent increase from a similar poll published in May, where 5 percent of respondents said they believe the pandemic is getting worse. Along political party lines, 44 percent of Democrat respondents believe the ongoing pandemic is getting...

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) refuses to step down as Senate minority leader after recently suffering a concussion and two subsequent incidences where he appeared to freeze. “I have no announcements to make on that subject,” McConnell said during a press conference on Wednesday.

President Biden said he is not concerned about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) ability to serve, one day after McConnell froze up during a public event in Kentucky. “I spoke to him today,” Biden told reporters during a visit to Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters. “He was his old self on the telephone.” Biden suggested McConnell’s issues were not unusual given the senator had a concussion earlier this year. Asked if he had any concerns about McConnell’s ability to do his job, Biden said, “No, I don’t.”

A new poll found the economy and preserving democracy top the list of registered voters’ most important concerns when deciding who to vote for in the 2024 presidential election. The new Quinnipiac poll found that 30 percent of respondents said the economy was the most important issue to them when deciding who to vote for. This was closely followed by the 27 percent of respondents who said preserving democracy was their top issue. Nine percent said abortion was their top issue, while gun violence and immigration were both listed as such by seven percent of respondents. Health care and racial...

Senior Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are raising concerns about what role Trump-appointed federal judge Aileen Cannon will have in handling the case the Department of Justice is bringing against former President Trump. Cannon, a member of the conservative Federalist Society who was confirmed to sit on the district court for the Southern District of Florida shortly after the 2020 election, made headlines last year when she ruled that an independent arbiter must review the 13,000 government records seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in August. Her decision was later struck down by a three-judge panel made up from members...

After reading the title of this article you may be thinking this is a Babylon Bee article but the answer is no.A recent report commissioned by the Corps raises “concerns” over Marines using the terms “Sir” or “Ma’am” while addressing drill instructors due to Gender Neutrality worries.https://twitter.com/Marinetimes/status/1605075524249853952Per the Marine Corps Times:A new academic report on efforts to integrate Marine Corps boot camp recommends dropping gender-specific salutations for drill instructors, but service leaders are not convinced they want to take that step.The lengthy report, commissioned by the Corps from the University of Pittsburgh in 2020 and completed in 2022, points out...

President Joe Biden said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” that his age was a “legitimate” concern for voters in 2024. Anchor Jonathan Capehart said, “I cannot be with you and not ask you a question concerning my Aunt Gloria, who you may recall was your biggest fan in 2020, because she said we need an old white duty to take on an old white dude. When I asked her if you should run for election, still, she loves you, but she said she is not sure that you should, given your age. Her one caveat, if...

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm called for “everyone to step up, whether it’s gas station owners, whether it’s oil companies” to increase energy supply and said there is “concern about whether there is profiteering happening at the gas station level, as well as at the oil company level.”

Princeton University in New Jersey will forbid students from leaving the school’s host county once the new semester starts due to rising COVID-19 concerns. Barring “extraordinary circumstances,” students can’t venture beyond Mercer County and Plainsboro Township beginning on Jan. 8 through at least Feb. 15.

As President Biden addressed Americans Tuesday about his administration’s response to the recent surge of COVID-19 cases, many social media users raised questions about the president’s own health due to his persistent coughing throughout his remarks. Biden’s address — in which he announced that the federal government will ship 500 million at-home rapid tests for COVID-19 starting next month, set up federally run testing sites in New York and other hot-spot areas and mobilize 1,000 military medical personnel to deploy to overwhelmed hospitals as needed — came as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus rapidly spreads across the US ahead...

As we examine our experience with the COVID vaccines, treatments, and mandates now (December 2021), there are several things that are disturbing, but becoming clear: (a) We have been misled, if not lied to, about the effectiveness and safety of the vaccines. (b) Treatments for COVID, such as ventilators and Remdesivir, have actually killed thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people. (c) The afflicted have often not been treated early enough to save lives. (d) Government agencies such as the CDC and NIH have financial interests in the vaccine, so they have shunned more effective and much cheaper treatments...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is sending a warning shot to President Biden and congressional leaders, saying he has "serious concerns" about spending $3.5 trillion on a massive package that Democrats want to pass later this year. Manchin said in a statement early Wednesday that he has "serious concerns about the grave consequences ... if Congress decides to spend another $3.5 trillion." “Given the current state of the economic recovery, it is simply irresponsible to continue spending at levels more suited to respond to a Great Depression or Great Recession — not an economy that is on the verge of overheating,"...

Government ethics watchdogs and art critics alike are voicing their concerns as first son Hunter Biden prepares for his first solo art exhibition this fall — where paintings from the former lawyer and lobbyist are expected to fetch between $75,000 and $500,000 and buyers will remain anonymous. “The whole thing is a really bad idea,” Richard Painter, chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, told the Washington Post. “The initial reaction a lot of people are going to have is that he’s capitalizing on being the son of a president and wants people to give him a lot of...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was unable to answer a question Wednesday about how long gas would be at three dollars a gallon but stressed he understood American’s feelings on the matter. EPA Administrator Michael Regan and the transportation secretary spoke about the crisis at the daily press briefing at the White House. When asked directly by a reporter about his message to Americans who were facing the high cost of gasoline, Buttigieg replied, “My message is that we understand these concerns that we’ve seen in a lot of the impacted geographies, that this is a real issue.” The average cost...