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President Biden on call with staff just now: “Let me say this as clearly as I possibly can, as simply and straightforward as I can: I am running." "No one is pushing me out.” "I'm not leaving. I'm in this race to the end and we're going to win." ..... Snip..... In the same call, vice-president Kamala Harris – whose name has been increasingly floated around as Biden’s replacement – continued to voice her support for Biden, with reports of her saying: We will not back down. We will follow our president’s lead. We will fight and we will win....

The SuperPac supporting Ron DeSantis called Never Back Down, has taken hundreds of millions of dollars from the Wall Street, billionaire, Sea Island, multinational corporation and hedge fund donors. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is injecting another $85 million from his leadership pac in Florida. All told it is the largest single assembly of political cash in the history of presidential campaigning, estimated value well north of $500 million.With all of that in mind, this is the best the communications team can come up with:Now, please do not misconstrue what I am saying. I am not saying these people are just...

Today, as ABC's perceptive Rick Klein notes, Romney's PAC -- Free and Strong America -- donated $1,000 each to 11 Republican congressmen targeted in a retaliatory ad campaign by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for voting against President Obama's economic stimulus bill. Romney praised the Republicans as "standing up for fiscal responsibility and saying no to spending abuse."

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has always been tightfisted with a dollar - and that hasn't changed she began raising cash for her 2008 presidential campaign. The New York Post reports that so far this year, just 8 percent of spending by Hillary's political action committee, HillPAC - a meager $75,000 - has gone to support other Democrats currently running for office. Two years ago, Hillary's fundraising chief Patti Solis Doyle told The Post: "HillPAC was founded to elect other Democrats." But instead the former first lady seems to be hoarding the rest of the cash for herself - pouring...

<p>RAPID CITY, S.D. — Republican Rep. John Thune says even the support of President Bush in his Senate race doesn't neutralize what he calls the heavy-handed tactics of fellow South Dakotan Tom Daschle, the Democratic Senate majority leader fighting to stay in power.</p>