House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) met with President Joe Biden after his NATO press conference Thursday night amid the dissension about Biden within his caucus — but didn’t reveal whether he advised Biden to stay in the presidential race. In a letter Friday morning, Jeffries said he expressed to Biden the views of House … Read more
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced Thursday that the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a September hearing to look at “the immediate legal and policy ramifications” of the Supreme Court’s decision last month that grants Donald Trump full immunity for “official acts” he took as president. “During this upcoming hearing, we will examine the … Read more
This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. Will President Joe Biden stay on the Democratic Party’s 2024 ticket or step aside? Or, as everybody in politics seems to be putting it, is the dam holding? Breaking? The answers are unclear as this newsletter hits your inboxes. A volatile political … Read more
Actor George Clooney, a stalwart Democratic fundraiser who most recently helped raise a whopping $30 million for President Joe Biden, is now calling on him to end his campaign for reelection due to his advancing age. Clooney went out of his way to stress his feelings about the president in his opinion piece for The … 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
WASHINGTON ― Hours after President Joe Biden urged his party to unify around his candidacy, one House Democrat called on him to step aside and more than a dozen Democratic senators raised concerns about whether he is the best candidate to lead the presidential ticket. “I think it’s become clear that he’s not the best … Read more
Skeptics of President Joe Biden and his ability to weather a tough presidential campaign ahead may be getting the spotlight, but the president on Monday retained the trust of many House Democrats, including in key parts of the party. House Democrats are set to have their weekly party meeting Tuesday morning, their first since the … Read more
President Joe Biden reiterated to congressional Democrats he has no intention of stepping aside as their presumptive presidential nominee, urging them to unify to defeat Donald Trump in November. “Despite all the speculation in the press and elsewhere, I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and … Read more
Two Democrats are reportedly eyeing a number of celebrities ― including Taylor Swift ― to lend their support in a “blitz primary” process if President Joe Biden were to drop his reelection bid before November. The plan ― which Semafor first reported and CNBC detailed Sunday ― involves Biden exiting the race in mid-July and … Read more
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) on Thursday said President Joe Biden should drop his reelection bid, making him the third elected Democrat to say the president should step aside. “President Biden has done enormous service to our country, but now is the time for him to follow in one of our founding father, George Washington’s, footsteps … Read more
