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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has joined other Democrats in attempting to goad former President Trump into debating Vice President Harris, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, in the coming weeks, suggesting Trump is “afraid” of his new rival. Trump’s team has said the 78-year-old former president will not agree to debate at this time because of the rapidly evolving campaign landscape. President Biden, 81, dropped his reelection bid less than a week ago and quickly endorsed Harris, 59, to take his spot at the top of the Democratic ticket. Buttigieg, during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday, suggested there...

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign team backed out of a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, saying it wouldn’t commit to debate details until the Democratic Party chooses its nominee. “Given the continued political chaos surrounding Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, general election debate details cannot be finalized until Democrats formally decide on their nominee,” the former president’s campaign spokesman, Steven Cheung, said in a statement on Thursday.

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was open to debating Vice President Kamala Harris, committing for the first time to at least one debate with the new presumptive Democratic nominee for president as he attacked her record on immigration and border security. As Harris held her first official campaign event, Trump dialed into a press call alongside former and current border patrol union representatives, calling out the VP for her role as "border czar". At the same time, Republicans in Congress sought to introduce a resolution condemning Harris for her work on the border during the Biden administration,...

Conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly tells NewsNation's "On Balance" that he expects Vice President Kamala Harris to run a "vile" campaign against former President Donald Trump as she seeks to be the Democratic nominee.

As my wife and son and I awaited the start of the debate, before Biden tottered up to the podium to his mumblecore destiny, I said to my son: “I’m telling you my suspicion now, rather than after. I think the date of this debate is the most important thing about it.” My son asked why. OK, how’s this? ... Think outside the box, Joe.-Why wait till October, with everything on the line? Cut it back to just two debates. And here’s the beauty part, Joe: Do the first debate six weeks before the convention! It’ll be radical, three months...

We may have just witnessed THE most incredible eight consecutive days in contemporary America from a political standpoint. Since July 13 the Nation - nay, World, has seen: - assassination attempt on Trump,-Biden asks for calm, then calls Trump a threat to democracy, -Judge tosses out the “documents” case, declaring Jack Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional,-RNC convention with Trump appearance with bandaged ear, -Secret Service under fire, -Biden rambles thru a Lester Holt interview that digs a deeper hole,-Dems from Pelosi on down demand Biden steps aside from the nomination, -Vance selected as VP candidate, -Biden comes down with Covid, retreats...

Donald Trump may be laying the groundwork for scrambling plans for another presidential debate, suggesting that Fox News, and not ABC News, should be the host. ABC News had been slated to host the debate between Trump and President Joe Biden on Sept. 10. But now that Biden has dropped out of the race, it is unclear whether those plans will happen. Biden has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, but if she wins the nomination, it will be her campaign operation to decide. Trump, meanwhile, posted on Truth Social, “My debate with Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the...

Anita Dunn, senior adviser to President Joe Biden, is the reported “fall guy” among the president’s closest advisers for his infamous debate performance. Democrats are in disarray, and many appear ready to cast Biden aside as the party’s nominee. Biden, whom Special Counsel Robert Hur described as “an elderly man with a poor memory,” took ownership of his poor debate performance and vowed to do better next time. Convicted felon Hunter Biden, however, accused Dunn of “setting Mr. Biden up for failure in the debate and for curbing his public appearances,” the New York Times reported:

UPDATE: The Trump campaign has not agreed to a date for a vice presidential debate, even though the Biden campaign has said that Kamala Harris has agreed to three different times. Brian Hughes, Trump campaign senior adviser, said in a statement, “We don’t know who the Democrat nominee for Vice President is going to be, so we can’t lock in a date before their convention. To do so would be unfair to Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, or whoever Kamala Harris picks as her running mate.”

MILWAUKEE — The Trump campaign on Wednesday said it would not commit to a date for a vice presidential debate, suggesting it was still uncertain who would be on the Democratic ticket. “We don’t know who the Democrat nominee for Vice President is going to be, so we can’t lock in a date before their convention,” senior Trump campaign adviser Brian Hughes said in a statement. “To do so would be unfair to Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, or whoever Kamala Harris picks as her running mate.”——— snip———-…. the Trump campaign is seizing on the hand-wringing among Democrats about...

<p>President Biden held a “tense” Zoom call with dozens of moderate Democrats that was “even worse than the debate” — less than an hour before the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.</p><p>In one particularly testy exchange, sources recalled Biden ripping into Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) after the congressman had asked him about the importance of national security to voters.</p>

Joe Biden got angry and combative when NBC News host Lester Holt brought up his performance in the debate. Biden is clearly tired of hearing about it and accused Holt of not covering all of “Trump’s lies”, even after Holt said they had covered it. Biden told him “no you haven’t, no you haven’t” and then tried to recover with one of his “God love ya” mannerisms. Biden is so used to the Democrat media kissing his butt that he can’t stand it when actually ask him tough questions. I can just imagine what he said to his staffers after...

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) said that no one knows why President Joe Biden had such a bad debate performance and it’s “speculation” to wonder if it was a condition or if it could happen again, but Biden has been honest and people saw “the real President Joe Biden” during his speech in Detroit earlier in the day. While the Detroit speech, Lee said, “I believe that people really are seeing the real President Joe Biden. He did not sugarcoat the debate. He was very clear about the problems and the difficulties with that debate....

President Joe Biden, facing a political crisis as Democrats question the viability of his campaign and mental fitness, will be put to the test on Thursday when he holds his first solo news conference of the year. The high-stakes moment is an opportunity for Biden to change the narrative after his poor debate performance triggered a drumbeat of concerns in his own party that he might be too weakened to win against Donald Trump this November. But any stumbles in the unscripted setting could add fuel to the fire, despite Biden's repeated attempts to rebuff his critics and his insistence...

Former President Donald Trump challenged President Joe Biden to take part in a debate this week, along with a golf match, where the former president would donate $1 million to “any charity” if Biden won. During the rally from Doral, Florida, Trump told the crowd that he was “offering” Biden the opportunity to “redeem himself” after his lackluster performance at the presidential debate on June 27. ... “Tonight, I’m officially offering Joe the chance to redeem himself in front of the entire world,” Trump told the crowd...let’s do another debate this week so that Sleepy Joe Biden can prove to...

Speaking at a campaign rally, former President Donald Trump says that Democrats are having a "full-scale breakdown" and challenged US President Joe Biden to another debate without moderators Biden and his campaign have faced growing pressure to step aside after a widely-panned debate performance against Trump last month

After reports surfaced on Monday that a neurologist specializing in Parkinson's disease made repeated visits to the White House in recent months, the Biden administration offered an explanation late Monday. The explanation comes as President Joe Biden faces continued questions on his mental acuity as several Democratic lawmakers have called on the president to exit the 2024 presidential race. In a letter from Dr. Kevin O'Connor, who serves as the physician to the president, he said neurologist Dr. Kevin Cannard made numerous visits to the White House campus in his capacity in the White House Medical Unit. O'Connor said many...

Joe Biden’s disastrous June 27 debate has sparked an ongoing meltdown within the Democratic Party that has yet to subside. His ABC News interview didn’t quell any concerns about his mental health. He might have accentuated them with the gross poll denialism exhibited by the president. There have been so many stories about discord, anger, anxiety, and Joe losing his mental faculties that the primary one of concern is getting lost in the noise: who is running the country? The tales of pervasive senility are not new or lost on conservatives; we’ve seen Joe and know he’s half-dead. But an...

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell has called for allowing Joe Biden to have aides with him on stage to speak for him and help him sound coherent.Yes, really. This is where we are now.O’Donnell said that it would be good to “Allow the candidates to have as many staff as they want, join them on the stage throughout the debate, and make sure that all of them have microphones.”He added that “the candidates should be allowed to turn to their staff and confer with them about anything at any time in the debate.”“And we should be able to hear everything they...

In the latest poll, Trump led by four points, 46% to 42%, in Arizona; one point, 45% to 44%, in Michigan; and three points, 47% to 44%, in Wisconsin, matching his leads in the pre-debate Emerson poll. His lead in Nevada increased from three points to six points, 47% to 41%, in the post-debate poll. In Pennsylvania, his lead grew from two points to five points, 48% to 43%, and in Georgia, his lead expanded from four points to five points, 47% to 42%