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Joe Biden's argument that his disastrous debate performance last week was a one-off is seemingly falling apart. In his latest verbal slipup, the president said he was "proud" to be the "first Black woman to serve with a Black president." .... "By the way, I'm proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first Black woman, to serve with a Black president," he said.

A post-debate poll has found that a massive 68 percent majority of independent voters want Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. Just 32 percent of independents told the Daily Mail/JL Partners snap poll that they want him to remain in the race. According to the Daily Mail, “30 percent of people who voted for Biden in 2020 concluded that Trump won the debate.” “And the poll found that even among Biden 2020 voters some 41 percent said it was time to find a new nominee,” the report added.

Pollster Richard Baris on DeSantis: "He is falling in the polls already!" "Scott Walker. That's what he did to himself today." "He had been falling in the polls already. So after today today this is BAD." "That's why he flip flopped on Ukraine. He was already falling."

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 26, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After several weeks of speculation, Senator Marco Rubio, R-FL, confirmed this week that he wants to introduce a bill banning abortions nationwide after 20 weeks, when experts say unborn children can feel pain. “I feel very strongly about this issue,” Rubio said. “And I’d like to be the lead sponsor on it if we can find language that we can unify people behind.” Congressman Trent Franks, R-AZ, who authored the House version of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, told LifeSiteNews.com earlier this month that Rubio planned to introduce the Senate version...

Iowa voter butters up ObamaThu Dec 27, 2007 10:03pm ET By Carey Gillam A bust of Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Barack Obama made of butter is on display at a campaign stop at South Tama County Middle School in Toledo, Iowa December 27, 2007 TOLEDO, Iowa (Reuters) - While presidential hopefuls were trying to butter up supporters ahead of the January 3 Iowa caucus, one would-be voter was literally buttering up her favorite candidate, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Norma Lyon, 78, a dairy farmer from Toledo, Iowa, used 23 pounds of butter to sculpt a life-sized bust...

WASHINGTON: On the eve of what appeared likely to be an ugly showdown between Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank, and the bank's board of directors, both sides were increasingly talking about trying to avert a confrontation that could cripple the bank and its mission of aiding poor countries. For a week at least, the bank's board has seemed determined to force Wolfowitz out on grounds that he showed favoritism to his companion, a bank employee, in giving her a raise and promotion when he became bank president in 2005. More recently, however, there has been talk at the...

<p>He was the eldest of five children, driven to meet a mother's high expectations and distinguish himself from a father who abandoned the family.</p> <p>The product of a Catholic upbringing and the Vietnam War who served as straight man to California's "Governor Moonbeam" in the 1970s, he's long felt others were quick to blame him for what went wrong and slow to appreciate what he'd done right.</p>