Right-wing radio host Sebastian Gorka drew ire on Tuesday when he described Kamala Harris — the first Black, Asian American vice president — as a “DEI hire” and “colored.” The former Donald Trump White House aide’s shocking comments came as he predicted on Newsmax that donors will eventually force Joe Biden to quit his 2024 … Read more
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats met Tuesday for the first time since President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last month, and they emerged with a clear consensus: there is no consensus on whether they think Biden is still their best shot at defeating Donald Trump. One after another, Democrats trickled out of their private hour-and-a-half lunch … Read more
Faced with an internal split over whether to keep Joe Biden as the party’s presidential nominee, House Democrats did something unusual Tuesday. They kept their mouths shut. Leaving a weekly party meeting, most Democrats opted to keep quiet or simply say it had been a good meeting when asked how the discussion went, trying to … Read more
Amid ongoing debate about President Joe Biden’s cognition and what that means for his candidacy, it may seem like Donald Trump has embraced the decidedly non-Trump strategy of being quiet and avoiding attention. But for the first time in a long time, the media has eased up on scrutinizing the antics of the twice-impeached, coup-attempting, … Read more
Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) wondered on Fox News why Democrats are the only ones having a “public and painful conversation” about their party’s presidential nominee amid concerns about their candidate’s fitness for office. Fox News host John Roberts asked Auchincloss on Monday whether President Joe Biden can win the November election, following intensified scrutiny after … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — The future Republican vice presidential candidate’s plane is currently parked in an undisclosed hangar, an empty spot on its fuselage where a decal featuring his or her name will soon be placed. Fundraisers have been planned. All that’s left: an announcement from former President Donald Trump unveiling his pick. Senior advisers … Read more
Seth Meyers on Monday joked that he was now living in the “wrong timeline” after returning to host NBC’s “Late Night” following his Fourth of July holiday hiatus. Meyers aired a supercut of just some of the wild things that have happened since he was last on the air ― including President Joe Biden’s disastrous … Read more
The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman on Monday told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins how a longtime fear of Donald Trump’s aides now appears to be raising its head before the 2024 election. The former president has in recent weeks been increasingly linked to the right-wing Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a playbook containing extreme policy proposals that … Read more
Veteran broadcast journalist Dan Rather pointed out the “dangerous double standard” he said is being applied to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump following Biden’s disastrous debate performance that heightened calls for him to quit his 2024 campaign. If Biden remains in the race then “every step, every word, every gesture will be … Read more
The right-wing Heritage Foundation’s playbook is widely expected to be the bedrock of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Trump’s agenda if he wins back the White House. Its extreme policy proposals are now coming under increasing scrutiny and Trump has attempted to distance himself from it. Biden’s team shared a meme on X, formerly Twitter, referring … Read more
