Biden's reelection bid slips deeper into crisis |
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US President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the DC Emergency Operations Center in Washington, DC, on Tuesday. | |
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US President Joe Biden's reelection race is beginning to spin out of control. The slow-boiling panic that followed Biden's terrible performance in last week's presidential debate is now cresting into controversy, posing a real threat to his hopes of staying in the race to take on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. From dawn to dusk on Tuesday, things kept getting worse for the president. As the sun came up, Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley – a strong supporter of Biden's plan to save Ukraine – suggested the president needed to think about what would happen if he started to drag down Democrats in the House and the Senate. "We have to be honest with ourselves that it wasn't just a horrible night," the Illinois lawmaker said. Then, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – who has been supportive of the president – said that any decisions lay in Biden's hands but that the White House needed to do more to answer voters' concerns about his health. "I think it's a legitimate question to say, is this an episode or is this a condition?" Pelosi told MSNBC. |
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Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks to MSNBC on Tuesday. |
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The hits kept coming. Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas was the first Democratic lawmaker to say on the record that the president should step aside and allow a younger colleague to take on Trump. "I represent the heart of a congressional district once represented by Lyndon Johnson. Under very different circumstances, he made the painful decision to withdraw. President Biden should do the same," Doggett said in a statement. Doggett is not a major player in national politics, but he's undoubtably speaking for many fellow lawmakers who are not as lucky to have the same huge majority that he enjoys in his district. A new CNN poll released Tuesday – one of the first since the debate – had more bad news for Biden. It found that three-quarters of US voters think Democrats would have a better chance of holding the presidency with someone else on the ticket. Biden trailed Trump by 49% to 43%. Even unpopular Vice President Kamala Harris did better than Biden in the survey, trailing Trump 47% to 45% within the margin of error. In the afternoon, things got even worse for Biden. His White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, endured a briefing that was almost as hard to watch as last week's debate – as she failed to answer volleys of questions about the president's health, mental acuity and staying power. During the briefing, The New York Times popped out a story that said Biden appeared confused and listless in front of several current and former officials in recent months. The Times said the president was often alert and in command but was having more frequent lapses. In a bid to stem the accelerating controversy, the White House announced that Biden would sit for a major one-on-one television interview with an ABC News anchor on Friday and would hold a news conference at the NATO summit in Washington next week. But increasingly, it's struggling to outrun a gathering storm. |
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Former US President Donald Trump and current US President Joe Biden during their first debate on June 27 in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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It's no wonder that people already worried about Donald Trump's autocratic aspirations reacted badly to a Supreme Court ruling Monday that could give him even more power if he's elected president in November. The presumptive Republican nominee has been amplifying posts on social media calling for a televised military tribunal for former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who broke with her party to condemn his refusal to accept the 2020 election results. "ELIZABETH LYNNE CHENEY IS GUILTY OF TREASON," one post created by another user that Trump amplified on his social media website Truth Social on Sunday read. "RETRUTH IF YOU WANT TELEVISED MILITARY TRIBUNALS." Cheney responded on X, saying, "Donald – This is the type of thing that demonstrates yet again that you are not a stable adult — and are not fit for office." A separate post Trump amplified on Truth Social on Sunday includes photos of 15 former and current elected officials. The former president said that "THEY SHOULD BE GOING TO JAIL ON MONDAY NOT STEVE BANNON!" referring to his former White House aide who started a four-month prison term on Monday. Trump, who has been convicted of 34 felony counts and faces an additional 54 charges, has long suggested he would try to prosecute his political opponents if he's elected to a second term. |
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Thanks for reading. On Wednesday, Biden is expected to meet with Democratic governors in Washington, DC, to discuss his debate performance. In the afternoon, the president is expected to deliver remarks at a Medal of Honor Ceremony at the White House. World leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, gather in Astana, Kazakhstan, at the 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). |
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