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Senator Bernie Sanders basically admitted that President Biden is declining, but said he will support him anyway. In an interview with The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner, the Vermont senior senator confessed Biden “sometimes [gets] confused about names.” “You’re right—sometimes he doesn’t put three sentences together. It is true,” Sanders told Chotiner, before adding a big caveat. “But the reality of the moment is, in my view, he is the best candidate the Democrats have for a variety of reasons, and trying, in an unprecedented way, to take him off the ticket would do a lot more harm than good,” Sanders...

In a question from Reuters on the future of his candidacy, President Biden stumbled in his response by calling Vice President Kamala Harris "Vice President Trump."

For weeks, the White House press corps has been boiling – and not from the Washington, DC, heat. They’re frustrated. Some feel the White House misled the press before President Joe Biden’s stumbling performance at last month’s CNN presidential debate. Others have been exasperated by the White House’s response since then to questions about the president’s health, often leading to follow-ups and clarifications from the administration on otherwise straightforward questions. And nearly all of the White House correspondents who spoke to CNN for this report felt the president should have held a press conference with reporters in the immediate aftermath...

Senator Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, is reportedly open to a new presidential candidate to lead the Democratic Party ticket. This comes as the fallout from Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance just keeps getting worse. Schumer had indicated prior to the debate, as well, that he was open to a new nominee should Biden fail to deliver. Axios reports that "Over the last twelve days, Schumer has been listening to donors' ideas and suggestions about the best way forward for the party, according to three people familiar with the matter." Even as Schumer has been saying he's all in "for...

President Biden is slated to hold a press conference Thursday evening at the NATO summit in Washington, D.C. The high-stakes moment comes as Biden faces mounting calls from fellow Democrats to step aside in the presidential race and amid scrutiny from the news media over his past health disclosures. The rare solo press conference from Biden will close out the NATO summit, where the president has hosted world leaders this week. Biden’s standing in the presidential race against former President Trump has largely overshadowed this week’s summit. The event is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. EDT.

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...

This is really starting to become fun. Today Vermont's Peter Welch (D) became the first US Senator to call for Joe Biden to end his bid for reelection. Welch joins a growing democrat cacophony calling for Biden to get out of the way. democrats are deeply divided about Biden's future. Pelosi, Schumer and Nadler are behind Biden while many others have joined the call for his departure. Schumer is now apparently leaning the other way. But that wasn't even close to the best of the news. George Clooney penned an opinion piece in the NY Times calling for Biden to...

George Stephanopoulos was threatened with being taken off air if he didn't clarify his position on Joe Biden's ability to serve another four years. The ABC host gave his blunt assessment of the president's performance in a brief interview when he was ambushed on Tuesday. The former Bill Clinton aide was asked on the street in Manhattan if Biden should step down and responded: 'I don't think he can serve four more years'. Biden's interview with the former White House press secretary on Friday followed a disastrous debate performance on June 27. Stephanopoulos, 63, appeared to quickly regret his off-the-cuff...

Joe Biden on Wednesday dropped by a meeting of national union leaders at the AFL-CIO headquarters in DC. There was no enthusiasm for Biden at the union meeting (even though they were paid to be there). It had a ‘funeral-like’ atmosphere. “I think of you as my domestic NATO — not a joke,” Biden said. “I said I’m going to be the most pro-union president in American history,” Biden said. “Well guess what? I am.” As usual, Biden was incoherently rambling about a bunch of different topics. At one point Biden went off-script in an attempt to be relatable and...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” former DNC Chair Howard Dean said that he thinks President Joe Biden can be President for another four years and “There have been people who have been much more seriously disabled than this, and they’ve been able to run the country. He has a great staff. His list of real achievements, turning around a lot of the damage that Trump did is extraordinary in the last four years.” Dean said, “[I]s Biden qualified, and could he run the country for another four years? I think the answer to that is absolutely yes. There’s...

The New York Times chief White House Correspondent has admitted to using “translation headsets” to help understand what Joe Biden is saying during public speeches, even when he is 20 feet away from the president, according to the Times. This raises other questions. How does the sign language interpreter interpret what Biden says when he gives official speeches? According to The New York Times, Biden recently told Democrat governors that his ‘health is fine,’ “it’s just my brain.” The Democrats are in disarray over Biden’s mental fitness, with many top officials calling on him to drop out of the race...

“Most of our caucus is still with him … meaning he’ll stay in,” a House Democrat told the outlet. “Which sucks for our country.” Another lawmaker told Axios that anti-Biden Democrats were “folding all over the place” and “becoming resigned to Biden holding all the cards here, and us having no real say in the matter.” “As someone who wanted the reckoning and is really disappointed that it’s over, trust me: It’s over,” the lawmaker said.

WASHINGTON—The White House once hoped the NATO summit that opens Tuesday would showcase President Biden’s leadership of the trans-Atlantic alliance and his differences with Donald Trump. Instead, it has become a pivotal test of his fitness for a second term. * * * Biden will open the summit with remarks Tuesday, followed by a day of meetings and a dinner at the White House for NATO leaders on Wednesday and a press conference with reporters on Thursday. He will also hold bilateral meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Something amazing has happened in the 10 days since [the] debate: Biden has come in for the kind of coordinated onslaught from the mainstream media and Democratic power brokers that is usually reserved for Republicans. [snip] The American people have since been treated to a deluge of negative Biden coverage: not just of the president’s cognitive impairments, but also the Shakespearean power struggles in his inner orbit and his White House’s breaking of norms by feeding journalists questions ahead of interviews. You could say Biden is getting the Trump treatment. [snip] The same Democratic elites who, in the name of...

Joe Biden did his much talked about interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News tonight and it was a worst-case scenario for Democrats.

Joe Biden sat down with George Stephanopoulos on Friday for an in depth interview following his predictable mental collapse during the first 2024 presidential debate against President Donald Trump. * * * On Saturday, The New York Times reported that a Wisconsin fundraiser for Joe Biden has been cancelled.

Today, 'Washington Free Beacon' Editor, Peter J. Hasson, took readers for a walk down memory lane in terms of Joe Biden coverage. Interestingly, he found reports in corporate media all the way back to 2019 detailing Biden's worsening mental condition. It all came to a screeching halt, however, when Biden became the official Democratic nominee. The key to understanding the narrative collapse we all witnessed in real time over the last 9 days: before Biden had the Dem nomination locked down in 2019, the media were far more willing to discuss his apparent fragility. But only until he locked down...

Whore (def): Whore is a noun that refers to a person who engages in sexual intercourse for money or for pleasure123. It is usually used to describe a woman, but it can also apply to a man3. It is a somewhat old-fashioned and offensive term13. It can also mean a person who is venal or unscrupulous3.Joe Biden had a disaster of a debate with Trump. He blamed his miserable performance on a growing number of reasons - a cold (he went to a Waffle House after the debate), jet lag, too much preparation and Trump's shouting distracting him (false). Sen...

If the Republicans were a true opposition party then leadership of the party would have exposed President Biden's dementia long before now. Yet they did not so we know they are mere controlled opposition. The leadership of the GOP is supine, flaccid, and useless. What did McConnell, McCarthy and Johnson know and when did they know it?

Instead of reassuring Democrats, Biden's ABC News interview may have accelerated the revolt against his nomination. President Joe Biden’s make-or-break interview with ABC News on Friday night did little to convince alarmed Democrats that he is capable of winning the election and serving another four years in the White House. But among the more jarring moments in the interview was when Biden framed his insistence on running in this critically important election — and his potential defeat — as a personal endeavor. “And if you stay in and Trump is elected, and everything you’re warning about comes to pass, how...