PALO ALTO, Calif. — President Biden was in a multimillion-dollar home here, standing in an open kitchen as donors sat on couches and chairs arranged around the adjacent living room. Everything about the scene spoke to the kind of intimate setting that donors pay thousands of dollars to attend, with a chance to have a small interaction with the world’s ...
Amid calls for him to end his candidacy, President Biden faces twin challenges: He must publicly show that he has the physical stamina and mental sharpness that were visibly lacking in the Atlanta debate. He must also demonstrate to alarmed Democrats that he has a viable path to victory. In the week since his disastrous debate performance, he has done ...
Obviously, President Biden did not do a good job pressing his case against Donald Trump in the first presidential debate last week. That said, there was one argument that was surprisingly absent: that a second Trump presidency would put American democracy itself at risk. The subject did come up, once the moderators from CNN broached it. Given his past comments, ...
Donald Trump and his campaign hope President Biden stays in the race, according to four people familiar with private discussions, believing they can beat him even with Trump’s felony conviction and other charges. But they are also ramping up attacks on Vice President Harris. Publicly, Trump and his allies have dismissed suggestions that Biden could withdraw from the race, insisting ...
As of early Wednesday morning, President Biden had called just one congressional leader personally in the wake of his faltering debate performance: Hakeem Jeffries. That the president chose Jeffries is perhaps not surprising. The New York Democrat may be the only thing standing between Biden and a flood of panicked House Democrats — few of whom have so far gone ...
Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) said Wednesday that he’s unsure what Democratic candidate could prevail over Donald Trump in November. In his first interview since penning an op-ed in the Bangor Daily News, Golden stopped short of calling on President Biden to exit the presidential contest after his faltering debate performance. But he did predict that Biden would lose to Donald ...
As President Biden continues to face questions about whether he should end his bid to seek a second term, there are growing signs that many in the Democratic Party are willing to accept the notion of Vice President Harris at the top of their presidential ticket, a potentially significant shift. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is signaling to members ...
There are an enormous number of questions lingering around the presidential race at the moment, nearly all centered on President Biden and nearly all of them downstream from his remarkably poor performance in last week’s debate. The most obvious is whether Biden will drop out, allowing his party to nominate someone else as its candidate to run against Donald Trump ...
President Biden found himself in a growing political crisis Wednesday as Democrats on Capitol Hill, the high-dollar donor community and even members of his own senior team became increasingly vocal about his muted response to concerns about his viability as the party’s standard-bearer after Thursday’s shaky debate. The growing worry comes as Biden has told allies in recent days that ...
Two U.S. soldiers, executed 162 years ago for their role in a daring Civil War mission to hijack a locomotive and sabotage a rail line vital to the Confederacy, were recognized Wednesday with the nation’s highest military decoration, joining several comrades whose audacious battlefield exploits were recognized generations ago. Descendants of Pvts. Philip G. Shadrach and George D. Wilson, members ...