Biden turns to mayors for support as other Dems question his viability
Joe Biden labored to reassure almost 200 mayors Tuesday that he was as much as the challenges of a second time period — simply as a Colorado lawmaker turned the primary Democratic senator to publicly categorical doubts in regards to the president’s electability. Biden opened the 45 minute Zoom name with members of the Democratic Mayors Affiliation by admitting he flubbed his debate in opposition to Donald Trump almost two…
House Dems’ ‘sad’ venting session yields no clear path forward on Biden’s future
Home Democrats spent Tuesday morning privately venting to one another about President Joe Biden's future. It left them no nearer to resolving the cut up that has consumed their celebration. In a closed-door caucus assembly hosted at Democrats' marketing campaign headquarters, more and more distressed Democrats spoke candidly to one another for the primary time since Biden's unnerving debate efficiency. A number of lawmakers who've already known as for Biden…
Trump says in Hannity interview that Biden will stay in the race
Donald Trump predicted Monday {that a} beleaguered Joe Biden would stay the Democratic nominee — and speculated that Kamala Harris would change the president if he did exit the race. “It appears to be like to me like he could very effectively keep in. He’s acquired an ego, and he doesn’t need to stop. He doesn’t need to do this,” Trump stated in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox…
2 new post-debate polls have bad news for Biden
Two new polls taken after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate with Donald Trump supply discouraging information for Democrats. A Suffolk University/USA TODAY poll printed Tuesday discovered Trump beating Biden by 3 % in a six-candidate presidential poll — a post-debate shift from a survey a month earlier that had the 2 candidates tied. One other ballot conducted for CNN by SSRS equally discovered Trump holding a 6 proportion level lead…
Wisconsin Supreme Court changes course, will allow expanded use of ballot drop boxes this fall
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court docket dominated Friday that officers can place poll drop containers round their communities on this fall’s elections, overturning its personal ruling two years in the past limiting their use within the presidential swing state. The courtroom restricted using drop containers in July 2022, ruling then that they might be positioned solely in native election clerks’ workplaces and nobody aside from the voter…
RFK Jr. pledges to ‘open the files’ on 9/11 attacks
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is enjoying to his conspiracy-minded base days after a disastrous response to questions on his previous. The unbiased candidate for president, who has lengthy stoked conspiracy theories about vaccines and different issues, turned Friday to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults — promising he would “open the recordsdata” to handle lingering questions in regards to the plot. Kennedy mentioned in a sequence of posts on X…
Heart surgeon who rose to power in parliament is now Iran’s president-elect
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — After the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, Iranian lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian wrote that it was “unacceptable within the Islamic Republic to arrest a woman for her hijab after which hand over her useless physique to her household.” Days later, as nationwide protests and a bloody crackdown on all dissent took maintain, he warned that these “insulting the supreme chief … will create nothing besides long-lasting…
Biden concedes he ‘screwed up’ at the debate
President Joe Biden admitted he “screwed up” and “made a mistake” ultimately week’s presidential debate, conceding that his efficiency was rocky in a few of his first interviews for the reason that meltdown. “I had a foul evening,” Biden informed Earl Ingram on WAUK, a radio station based mostly in Waukesha, Wisconsin. “I didn’t have a great debate. That’s 90 minutes on stage. Have a look at what I’ve finished…
Governors Undermine Efforts by Congressional Democrats to Nudge Biden Aside
Democratic governors to Democratic members of Congress: Drop lifeless. That could be overstating the message despatched Wednesday evening by a bunch of the nation’s governors, however not by a lot. By descending on Washington to fulfill with President Joe Biden after which rising from the West Wing to oh-so-earnestly pledge their public help to the beleaguered president, the governors difficult the efforts of congressional Democrats to ease him off the…
As challengers emerge, Eric Adams touts support from Al Sharpton
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams eagerly shared a supportive op-ed from Al Sharpton Tuesday — signaling to an rising subject of rivals that prying away his Black help won't be simple. “I actually wish to thank Reverend Sharpton,” Adams stated firstly of his weekly, wide-ranging press convention. “He actually simply laid out. Whenever you learn how this administration is roofed, you’d assume you’re dwelling in a distinct metropolis!” He…
