MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Friday responded to President Joe Biden’s much-maligned debate performance by predicting that former President Donald Trump will win the 2024 election “unless things change.” The “Morning Joe” cohost began his analysis of Thursday’s debate by expressing his love and respect for Biden, praising the president as “the most effective president in … Read more
Former President Donald Trump took aim at Democrats for not having “any clue” before dropping confusing remarks about “electric planes” at a rally in Chesapeake, Virginia on Friday. “All they know is electric. They want electric army tanks, they want electric planes. What happens if the sun isn’t shining while you’re up in the air?” … Read more
Faced with an unsteady debate performance by Joe Biden, House Democrats rallied around their presidential nominee Friday, citing everything from a cold to overpreparation to the debate setting itself as possible explanations. Biden sometimes appeared to lose his train of thought and missed obvious openings to go on the attack in the CNN debate Thursday … Read more
Joe Biden’s addled, halting debate performance on Thursday night is getting a lot of media attention today. That’s fine, given the profound questions it raises about his abilities to conduct a successful campaign. But a Supreme Court decision Friday morning gutting federal regulatory power isn’t getting nearly as much attention. That’s not fine, given the … Read more
Just hours after a disastrous debate performance that led to immediate calls to abandon his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden on Friday made clear that he had no intention of dropping out. Biden held to a schedule that had been planned ahead of time, delivering a high-energy speech at a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, … Read more
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) urged Democrats panicking about President Joe Biden’s rough debate performance against Donald Trump to chill out. “I refuse to join the Democratic vultures on Biden’s shoulder after the debate. No one knows more than me that a rough debate is not the sum total of the person and their record,” Fetterman … Read more
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale offered a breathless breakdown of the misleading claims and false statements that Donald Trump made during his first 2024 presidential debate with President Joe Biden, which the network hosted in Atlanta on Thursday. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s list of false claims is “way, way longer” than the president’s, Dale noted … Read more
Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager David Plouffe described President Joe Biden’s performance at the first 2024 presidential debate against Donald Trump on Thursday as “kind of a DEFCON 1 moment” for Democrats. Biden is only three years younger than Trump but appeared to be “30 years apart” in age from the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, … Read more
Palestinians in Gaza are living through historic suffering. Experts say they are enduring the most destructive military campaign of the 21st century and one of the most devastating offensives in modern history. The U.S.-backed Israeli operation in their region has killed upwards of 37,000 people, left more than 2 million with desperately low quantities of … Read more
Former President Donald Trump lied and twisted facts repeatedly throughout the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle. But more than an hour into his head-to-head against President Joe Biden, Trump spoke one simple truth about his first term in the White House. “We had H2O,” he said. The declaration came in response to … Read more
