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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...

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

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...

The polls are in: President Joe Biden’s debate face-plant has put him in his worst electoral shape of the 2024 election. More voters now than ever say they have an unfavorable opinion of the president, think he’s too old for the job and want someone else leading the Democratic ticket this fall. No incumbent president has had an approval rating this low at this stage of the election since George H.W. Bush more than three decades ago — and, other than Biden’s 2024 opponent, former President Donald Trump, no incumbent has trailed this far behind in the horse race polling...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden's fitness to serve a second term in office has been a top story since his halting performance in last week's debate against Donald Trump, where the president at times appeared unable to complete or articulate some thoughts in the pressure of the moment. To some press critics who are now reading these stories, there's another question: What took you so long? “It is simply astounding for the entire country, including its most seasoned reporters, to be as shocked as everyone was by the ugly and painful reality of Biden's debate performance,” Jill Abramson,...

House Democratic leadership is set to hold a call this afternoon, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill, as anxiety rises over President Biden’s standing as the party’s presumptive nominee. The call — scheduled for 5 p.m. EDT — will include Democratic leadership and members of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, one of the sources said. The discussion comes as questions — and concerns — are rising about Biden’s ability to remain at the top of the Democratic Party’s ticket after his lackluster debate performance last week. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (Texas) on Tuesday became the first...

Joe Biden Says He 'Almost Fell Asleep' on Debate Stage Published at 7:24 PM EDT President Joe Biden on Tuesday offered an "explanation" for his poor debate performance during a fundraiser in McLean, Virginia. While addressing supporters alongside Virginia Representative Don Beyer, the president said that he "wasn't very smart" to travel in the weeks leading up to the first presidential debate against former President Donald Trump. "I decided to travel around the world a couple of times ... shortly before the debate ... I didn't listen to my staff ... and then I almost fell asleep on stage," Biden...

Biden's mental state is perfectly fine. The entire debate was a "cheap fake" created by "right wing conspiracy theorists." The claim that he is not 100% mentally sound is nothing but "fake news."

Calling it “the greatest mismatch in the history of Presidential debates,” U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson declares Donald Trump the winner of Thursday’s faceoff and says “November cannot get here soon enough.” Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joins THIS WEEK to warn that President Biden is “living in a fantasyland” if he thinks he can blame Donald Trump for what’s unfolding in Ukraine. Host Tony Perkins rallies audience members to support the Right to Life at next month’s RNC in Milwaukee. And Speaker Johnson adds his perspective on how America’s enemies like Iran and China are viewing Joe Biden’s...

Earlier today there was a story that my governor, Tim Walz, has been talking to other governors who are deeply concerned about Biden's debate performance. The consensus was that nothing would calm the waters save, perhaps, a meeting with the president to discuss the path forward. Replacing rest of this thread with the story we wrote on the topic, since story is developing: https://t.co/XSLqiNKsgC— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 2, 2024WashingtonCNN—Some Democratic governors are seeking a meeting with the White House to discuss their concerns about President Joe Biden in the aftermath of his poor debate performance, multiple sources with knowledge...

President Joe Biden will sit down with ABC News on Friday for his first television interview since last week's presidential debate. The president's poor performance in the debate has garnered calls for him to drop out of the race by politicians on both sides of the aisle. Biden will speak to "Good Morning America" and "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos for the interview. A first look will air on the Friday, July 5, edition of "World News Tonight with David Muir" with portions airing on Saturday and Sunday on "Good Morning America." The extended interview will air Sunday, July 7,...

new report suggests that presidential debate affected director Rob Reiner and actress Jane Fonda so immensely that the latter was reduced to tears while the former screamed at the TV. According to CNN, people in attendance at the Hollywood debate watch party this past Thursday said that Reiner and Fonda were emotionally swept up in seeing President Joe Biden perform poorly against former President Trump. A debate watch party in Los Angeles on Thursday night happened to feature Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff, Pritzker, Whitmer and Beshear. There were other high-profile attendees – by a few answers in, Rob Reiner was...

President Biden’s campaign is intensely trying to quell speculation that he may drop out of the 2024 race following his lackluster debate performance last week. Most top Democrats have voiced support for Biden continuing in the race, while members of his family, including first lady Jill Biden, have declared they also want him to remain a candidate, casting doubt on the potential for replacing Biden. But if Biden were to step aside, several prominent Democrats could be waiting in the wings as possible successors. Here are the top possible Biden replacements: Kamala Harris Gavin Newsom Gretchen Whitmer Pete Buttigieg Josh...

MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki, who once served as President Biden’s press secretary, defended his campaign amid criticism of the president’s debate performance last week, instead pinning the blame on the president. Psaki said it is “absurd” to blame Biden’s prep team for his poor performance. “It was a bad debate. I have no doubt they were tough, strategic and direct. (Believe me I have seen them in action) but prep does not always determine the outcome,” she said on social platform X. “Biden was bad. Important convos about what happens next. But if you are directing your ire at ‘prep’...

A presidential historian who has accurately predicted the result of nine of the last 10 elections implored Democratic Party leaders once again Monday not to dump President Biden after his catastrophic debate performance — and chastised members of the media for harping on his diminished cognitive acuity. “They could not be more misguided,” American University history professor Allan Lichtman said on “CNN News Central” after having made the same assessment Friday night on the cable network. “Remember, all the pundits, you know, watched Hillary Clinton win three debates in 2016,” Lichtman added. “They all said Trump was finished after ‘Access...

Old Joe Biden may be a poor debater, but at least he tells the truth, unlike Bad Orange Man. As improbable as it is, that’s the line the left has decided upon to explain away Biden’s appalling performance in last Thursday’s debate. But this excuse appears even more appalling in light of the fact that Biden lied his way through that debate.Old Joe himself said it at a Friday rally: “Well, folks, I don’t walk as easily as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debah — debate as well as I used...

The fallout from last week’s presidential debate has thrust the Democratic Party into a spiraling crisis. Yet many in the party view the current reckoning as sadly inevitable—the product of years of defensive refusal by the president and his protective inner circle to acknowledge the decline in Biden’s public presentation that has long been obvious to voters. Now, insiders admit, the party is reaping the consequences of its long failure to confront an issue that was only ever fated to get worse. “This was all predictable, and it pisses me off that everyone is acting shocked now,” one longtime Democratic...

Chamath Palihapitiya & David Sacks react to Biden's performance at the Thursday CNN presidential debate .. My honest takeaway is that that person is no longer really in charge. ... DAVID SACKS: Let's just put it plainly. The Democratic Party is a collection of interests who want to remain in power. The Democratic Party is the party of government. Its goal is to allocate money and power from the government to the collection of interest who backed the Democratic Party. In other words, it's basically a collection of, of interests who want to loot the Republic. Well, obviously, no one's...

I know this is not the site for the question, but I'm hoping someone who can, will reach out and get some democrat replies besides . . ." . . . there was so much lying by former President Trump"

Don’t miss Savage’s EPIC commentary on the most important debate of our lifetime! Peppered with his classic humor and clever analysis, Savage delivers an unrivaled breakdown of the gaffe-filled broadcast. Savage takes “Fake Crapper” and CNN to task for their unprecedented bias. He blasts Biden for the nonstop lies and unparalleled corruption. Was this all a scheme to dump President Biden? Who might replace him? What challenges lie ahead for Trump? Sit back and savor this hilarious and striking broadcast from the one and only Michael Savage!