Publicly, President Biden’s allies have spent the past several days aggressively downplaying his missteps in Thursday’s debate by assailing the “bedwetting brigade” of nervous Democrats, highlighting a record influx of campaign donations and noting the long history of incumbents who stumbled during their first debates. Privately, they have worked the phones to reassure nervous donors, pleaded with concerned lawmakers to ...
Former president Donald Trump’s campaign advisers are pushing to significantly simplify and streamline the official platform of the Republican Party, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post. Trump campaign advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, the authors of the memo, criticized the “textbook-long platforms” the party has published for decades, which they said should be free from “special ...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (Calif.) struck the biggest moment of his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on June 27, 2019. He did it by quoting from a Joe Biden speech in 1987 about passing “the torch” to a younger generation. “Joe Biden was right when he said it was time to pass the torch to a new generation of ...
CNN moderator Dana Bash wanted to know how Donald Trump would fight climate change — the existence of which Trump has repeatedly questioned over decades in business and as president despite the voluminous scientific evidence to the contrary. But Trump had a few other things on his mind. “Well, let me just go back to what he said about the ...
In the moments after President Biden’s halting debate performance Thursday, Vice President Harris went on a pair of television networks to praise him. She spent Friday crisscrossing the western United States, challenging those who worried he seemed old and ineffective. And she took to social media on his behalf. “In a real leader, character matters more than style, and Donald ...
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that cities may ban homeless residents from sleeping outside, rejecting a constitutional challenge to a set of anti-camping laws in a decision that will have a sweeping impact on how local officials address the nation’s escalating housing crisis. In a 6-3 decision, which broke along ideological lines, the court’s conservative majority said that regulations ...
Federal prosecutors improperly charged a Jan. 6 defendant with obstruction, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday, a decision that will likely upend many cases against rioters who disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election and one which Donald Trump’s legal team may use to try to whittle down one of his criminal cases. After the Jan. 6, 2021, attack ...
In the banquet hall of an Atlanta-area gun store, Republicans cheered as President Biden stumbled at times and halted through some answers in Thursday’s debate. At one point, organizers of the Cobb County Republican gathering turned on closed captioning to better understand what he was saying, and they laughed when former president Donald Trump said he couldn’t understand Biden either. ...
The New York Times editorial board on Friday called on President Biden to abandon his reelection campaign after his widely criticized performance in the first 2024 debate against former president Donald Trump. The editorial board described Biden as appearing to be “the shadow of a great public servant” in the debate, during which he repeatedly misspoke and struggled to complete ...
The victory lap began before the debate was over. Donald Trump’s aides had prepared for him to face the fiery President Biden who showed up to the State of the Union earlier this year. Instead, the former president faced a shaky opponent whose stumbles sent Democrats into a full-blown panic — and Trump largely held back from interrupting to let ...