Columbus, OH

The Associated Press

Democrats at the highest levels are making a critical push for President Joe Biden to reevaluate his election bid, with former President Barack Obama expressing private concerns to allies and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi privately telling Biden the party could lose the ability to seize control of the House if he doesn’t step aside. Follow AP’s live coverage of the investigation into the assassination attempt on Trump, the RNC and more Democrats expressing concerns about President Biden’s candidacy. WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats at the highest levels are making a critical push for President Joe Biden to rethink his election bid, with former President Barack Obama expressing concerns to allies and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi privately telling Biden the party could lose the ability to seize control of the House if he doesn’t step away from the 2024 race. Biden’s orbit, already small before his debate fumbling, has grown even smaller in recent days. Isolated as he battles a COVID infection at home in Delaware, the president is relying on a few longtime aides as he weighs whether to bow to the mounting pressure to drop out.

Biden is isolated at home as Obama, Pelosi and other Democrats push for him to reconsider 2024 race

The New Republic

While the dam might not yet be breaking, there sure are plenty of leaks: Some Biden aides and operatives overseeing his reelection campaign now see his chances of winning against Trump at zero.“No one involved in the effort thinks he has a path,” one person working to reelect Biden told NBC News.Concerns of Biden’s viability have grown following his shockingly bad debate performance in late June. Biden’s campaign at the time brushed aside widespread concerns from Democrats as ephemeral angst from “the bedwetting brigade.” Now it seems even some on his campaign see the writing on the wall, with some...

“He Will Never Recover From This”: Biden Aides Turn Against Him

(The Center Square) – U.S. Rep. Ronnie Jackson, R-Texas, the former White House physician, said neither President Joe Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris were fit to serve as president. Jackson for three years has repeatedly questioned Biden’s mental and physical health and called for him to be removed...

Former White House physician: Biden, Harris unfit for office

Rehoboth Beach, DE

As the walls closed in on Joe Biden’s hopes of being re-elected as leader of the free world, aides and advisors ushered in and out of his Rehoboth beach house in Delaware. After weeks of standing firm on his ability to run for a second term, the present finally gave way to pressure from Democrat insiders and plummeting poll numbers as he pulled out of the race on Sunday.

Inside Biden’s secluded Rehoboth Beach House where president finally decided to call time on campaign

WashingtonExaminer

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said the Biden campaign and Democrats think former President Barack Obama is orchestrating an effort to derail President Joe Biden. Scarborough, one of Biden’s most vocal supporters in the media, threw jabs at the former president and his circle, accusing them of secretly undermining Biden. “I will say, one thing we […]

Joe Scarborough says Biden campaign and Democrats think Obama is working ‘behind the scenes’ to sink Biden

Joe Biden’s presidency has been falling to pieces before our eyes for months, but recent events have made it clear that his Humpty Dumpty moment has finally arrived. Few will weep. If you’re looking for a rundown of how awful Biden’s presidency has been, Victor Davis Hanson offers a pretty good summary. Yet for me, […]

Biden’s presidency is finished

Salon

Biden staffers have reportedly come to believe that Barack Obama is playing a central part in the plot to create further obstacles in the president's uphill battle for reelection. Despite Biden and Obama's buddy-buddy public image, there have allegedly been seeds of tension between the pair, with MSNBC host Joe...

Biden campaign suspects Obama of secretly undermining president's reelection bid

NBC News

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s political world is collapsing. Top allies have either publicly or privately called on him to step aside. Major donations have fallen off a cliff. Grassroots fundraising is not keeping up with the demands of a campaign that needs to aggressively scale up three months before the presidential election. Members of his own re-election effort have already declared he has no path to victory.

'We're close to the end': Biden world braces for the possibility that the president will step aside

The Independent

America’s 46th president marked the decision with a simple, solemn letter – an announcement to the world that he would no longer seek a White House second term. Joe Biden’s Sunday missive may have sent Democrats into practical and hypothetical planning overdrive, but it followed fervent, growing concern from all sides about the 81-year-old’s health.Donald Trump and his new running mate, for example, have even called for investigations into the medical team who’ve been tending to President Biden to date. So just where, and who, is the Commander-in-Chief’s doctor?The answer is Kevin O’Connor, a jovial 58-year-old military physician who’s been...

Meet the White House doctor who greets Joe Biden every morning — and who Trump wants to investigate

For more on the 2024 election, head to the NPR Network's live updates page. A confident young girl. A tough boss. An empathetic prosecutor. At times, slow to make decisions. A “consummate college student” with a wry sense of humor. These are some of the ways the people...

We spoke to 5 people who knew Kamala Harris before she was VP. Here's what we learned

Joe Biden's senior White House and campaign staff had spent the past week insisting the president planned to stay in the 2024 race despite an onslaught of calls within the Democratic Party for him to step aside. As recently as Saturday, the president's aides were putting together a campaign schedule...

Isolating at a beach house, Biden gave aides one minute notice of exit

Jack Black has weighed in on the future of Tenacious D after his band partner, Kyle Gass, made a controversial remark about Donald Trump’s attempted assassination in July, which prompted Black to cancel the duo’s latest tour. “We need to take a break. Everybody needs a break sometime,”...

Jack Black addresses future of Tenacious D after Kyle Gass' Trump assassination attempt remark

Pennsylvania State

Newly released police body cam video shows the chaotic moments just before the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania last month, with local police blaming the Secret Service for the security lapse. NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez reports.

Body cam video reveals more about the attempted assassination of Trump

Regular heavy marijuana use may increase a person’s risk of developing some head and neck cancers, a study published Thursday in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery found. The study found that heavy cannabis users were between 3.5 and 5 times more likely to develop head and neck cancers than...

Heavy cannabis use may increase risk of certain cancers, new study finds

HuffPost

Regardless of how inevitable Biden’s decision to withdraw from the November election appeared to be, his choice to pass the proverbial torch was his and his alone.

Opinion: President Biden Did What Donald Trump Never Has: Put America First

Minnesota State

Donald Trump and his allies moved quickly Tuesday to define Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, casting Vice President Kamala Harris’ new running mate as an agent of the far left. Walz, the Trump campaign posited in a list of talking points obtained by NBC News, rounds out a “team of radicals.” Dave McCormick, the Trump-backed Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, branded Harris-Walz as “the most liberal presidential ticket in history.” Others took similar tacks.

'Kamala caved': Trump and his allies cast the Walz pick as liberal overload

In an opinion piece published Saturday in The New York Times, Sen. Bernie Sanders defended President Joe Biden’s decision to remain the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, writing that “I will do all that I can to see that President Biden is re-elected” and calling on party members to stop “bickering and nit-picking” over his candidacy.

Bernie Sanders says Biden will be the Democratic nominee and it’s time to stop ‘bickering and nit-picking’

POLITICO

The Saturday night decision that ended Biden’s reelection campaign.

Why Biden finally quit

A popular influencer apologized this week for her past racist posts on social media, prompting outrage from some Black creators who say they are tired of white creators constantly having their previous racist behavior unearthed without significant repercussions. Brooke Schofield, who has built a following of 2.2 million on TikTok...

Brooke Schofield apologized for her racist tweets. Black creators say it’s not enough.

The Hill

A senior adviser to President Biden is departing the White House to take on a top role advising a major Democratic super PAC ahead of November’s election. Anita Dunn, who has been a member of Biden’s inner circle of aides since he took office, is leaving to work with Future Forward, a group that has committed to spending at least $300 million in support of Vice President Harris, the likely Democratic nominee after Biden ended his candidacy, a source familiar with her plans told The Hill.

Biden adviser Anita Dunn leaving White House to join major Democratic super PAC

NewsBreak

Biden says he'd re-evaluate staying in the race if diagnosed with a medical condition

President Joe Biden would re-evaluate his decision to continue his campaign if a doctors told him he has a medical condition, he said in an interview...

Biden says he'd re-evaluate staying in the race if diagnosed with a medical condition

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