At a rally in North Carolina on Friday, President Joe Biden brought the energy that Democrats were hoping to see at Thursday night’s catastrophic debate with former President Donald Trump. Speaking in a clear, booming voice over a crowd of supporters, Biden acknowledged the elephant in the room: His stumble-filled debate performance alarmed voters, many … Read more
Barack Obama is sticking by his former vice president. After President Joe Biden’s floundering debate performance Thursday night threw the Democratic Party into a state of panic, Obama, who was president from 2009 to 2017, chimed in with a message of support. “Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know,” he wrote on social media. … Read more
A less-than-reassuring debate performance from President Joe Biden Thursday night sparked concern about his spot atop the 2024 Democratic ticket, from party operatives speaking in private to political pundits in high-profile publications. Friday’s New York Times opinion section was particularly brutal, with no positive spin whatsoever for Biden coming from the paper’s marquee names. “Joe … 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
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
This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. Here we go. On Thursday night, Americans will see the first televised debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump of the 2024 election cycle. It’s never easy to conduct these sorts of conversations, given how much politicians want to … Read more
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) has raised questions about his own alleged drug scandal after he accused President Joe Biden of planning to take “performance-enhancing drugs” ahead of his debate against Donald Trump this week. Jackson, a former White House physician, announced he would be requesting Biden take a drug test both before and after the … Read more
Despite claims from independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that he has qualified for enough state ballots to participate in next week’s presidential debate on CNN, a Washington Post survey of state election officials found Tuesday that that’s not the case. So far, only Delaware, Michigan, Oklahoma and Utah election officials have said Kennedy … Read more
(NewsNation) — Ten days before they meet, the current and former presidents of the United States have cut a final deal on the format, timing and rules of their first debate on June 27 in Atlanta. CNN confirms that the campaigns of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to a set of … Read more
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