Salon

President Joe Biden and his campaign, struggling to contain the fallout over his disastrous debate performance, have been nailing down Democratic support on Capitol Hill despite calls for him to step aside for a more viable nominee. But those efforts have done little to slow his tumbling poll numbers, which on Tuesday prompted the nonpartisan Cook Political Report to move three swing states — Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada — into the "Lean Republican" column.

"A landslide": Political analysts and some Democrats now say Biden is bringing down the whole party

TheDailyBeast

Former President Barack Obama has reportedly told allies that Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance has made his bid to win back the White House even tougher than it had been previously.The Washington Post reports that Obama gave a harsher private assessment of Biden’s chances of re-election following the debate despite publicly trying to ease concerns by tweeting that “bad debates happen.”The outlet reported that Obama “spoke directly with Biden by phone after last Thursday’s debate to offer his support as a sounding board and private counselor for his embattled former vice president,” according to WaPo.It remains unclear how much or...

Obama Privately Goes Shaky After Offering to Prop Up Biden

The Hill

Former President Trump’s campaign is doing something after last week’s debate that it isn’t necessarily known for: keeping quiet.  Trump, often a brash and boisterous candidate, has taken a more measured approach amid the wave of chaos and disarray that is surrounding President Biden’s political future.  “When your opponent is blowing himself up, don’t interrupt…

Shh: Trump stays quiet as Biden implodes

I met Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Donald Trump’s new choice for vice president, in the summer of 2022. I was covering a conservative conference in Israel, and Vance was the surprise VIP attraction. We chatted for a bit about the connections between right-wing movements across the world, and what American conservatives could learn from foreign peers. He was friendly, thoughtful, and smart — much smarter than the average politician I’ve interviewed.

What J.D. Vance really believes

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, has officially put his foot down against Biden’s naysayers in a New York Times op-ed published Saturday. Sanders said he has had “enough” of his party’s public infighting over Biden’s viability, and that “too many Democrats have joined that circular firing squad.” Sanders urged his fellow Democrats to “learn a lesson from the progressive and centrist forces in France who, despite profound political differences, came together this week to soundly defeat right-wing extremism.” Sanders writes that there are a number of areas in which he disagrees with President Biden, including the handling of the Israel-Gaza war and health care. But despite their disagreements, Sanders writes, Biden “has been the most effective president in the modern history of our country and is the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump.” And, yes, Sanders wrote, “Mr. Biden is old, is prone to gaffes, walks stiffly and had a disastrous debate with Mr. Trump.” Yet, he added, “A presidential election is not an entertainment contest. It does not begin or end with a 90-minute debate.”Read it at New York TimesRead more at The Daily Beast.

Bernie Sanders Warns Democrats Against Biden ‘Firing Squad’

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

Former President Donald Trump used to be persona non grata in Silicon Valley. Nearly all of the dollars spent by Silicon Valley elites in 2016 went to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. In 2020, those elites spent even more to defeat Trump. The few who supported Trump that year — such as venture capitalist Peter Thiel, the co-founder of Paypal and Palantir — did so knowing they were standing on a third rail, and many did not speak openly about it for fear of backlash that could hurt their businesses.

Why tech titans are turning toward Trump

Chicago, IL

Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

WashingtonExaminer

While former President Barack Obama has publicly supported his once right-hand man, President Joe Biden, in the fallout of Biden’s poor debate performance, he has privately expressed concerns about the Democratic ticket.  Obama privately told Democratic allies that Biden’s reelection chances are getting more worrisome following the debate, according to a report from the Washington […]

Obama warns allies Biden’s path to victory is getting steeper: Report

Business Insider

"I think he's doing okay enough to stay," former President Donald Trump's eldest son said of Biden's press conference on Thursday.

Support is coming in for an embattled Biden — from Trumpworld

Former President Barack Obama is engaging in some real talk with allies—telling them that President Joe Biden did not do himself any favors with his lackluster debate performance last week, and has made his reelection campaign significantly more difficult, The Washington Post reported Tuesday, citing several people familiar with Obama’s comments. Those remarks were markedly more forceful than those he has made in public supporting Biden despite his stumbles against Donald Trump at the debate. Obama also spoke with Biden over the phone after the debate, according to the report, “to offer his support as a sounding board and private...

Obama Is Getting Real With Allies About Biden’s Chances: Report

Virginia State

Virginia Wendy Williams fans, this is your July 2024 update on the former talk show host. Her best friend of 44 years, Regina Schell, has shared recent concerns with TV Show Aces and says she has not seen or talked to Wendy in more than a year.

Wendy Williams fans are worried after her best friend claims not to have heard from her in a year

Donald Trump is once again very mad at Fox News—this time over the conservative cable giant’s latest poll that shows him down nationally against President Joe Biden in the race for the White House.The ex-president's latest temper tantrum over Fox News comes just a day after he fumed that “nobody can ever trust” the Murdoch-owned channel because former House Speaker Paul Ryan, who recently sounded off against Trump, sits on Fox’s board.“The latest Fox News poll is TRASH! They used a biased, Democrat-leaning sample of voters, polling more Biden 2020 voters than Trump 2020 voters to skew the results in...

Trump Melts Down Over ‘Trash’ Fox News Poll That Shows Biden Ahead

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Bucks County Beacon

With an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, the U.S. experienced another violent episode in its increasingly polarized politics. Former President Trump, who’s about to formally become the GOP nominee for president in the 2024 election, survived the attempted assassination when, initial reports said, a bullet grazed his ear . But one rally attendee was killed , more spectators were injured and the suspected gunman is also dead. The Conversation’s politics editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with University of Massachusetts, Lowell, scholar Arie Perliger after the event. Perliger offered insight from his study of political violence and assassinations. Given the stark political polarization in the U.S., Perliger said, “it’s not a surprise that eventually people engage in violence.”

‘One Inch from a Potential Civil War’? Trump Shooting a Close Call for American Democracy

The Atlantic

The Rebellion Against Biden Is Over

If the president wants to protect American democracy, he should hand over his office to Kamala Harris.

Biden Must Resign

Almost as soon as photographs emerged of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, conspiracy theories wondering whether the shooting could have been fake boomeranged around the internet. The fevered thinking went like this: The images of Trump pumping his fist and apparently saying “fight” were too conveniently media-ready. The term...

The Trump assassination attempt was a window into America’s fractured reality

A former advisor to Barack Obama has claimed that President Joe Biden is trying to “run out the clock” so it winds up being too late to nominate a new candidate to replace him on the Democratic ticket. The electorate believes that Biden’s time in office is up...

Obama adviser claims Biden is trying to ‘run out the clock’ so it’s too late to change the nominee

UPI News

President Joe Biden is seeking to tie his rival Donald Trump to the controversial Project 2025 agenda in an attempt to warn voters of what is at stake in November.

Biden takes aim at Trump for disowning Project 2025

President Joe Biden shows a continuous inability to tell the truth as he talks about immigration. Biden says, “My border is better than Trump left it.” As my colleague Tiana Lowe Doescher notes in a number-heavy fact check, the very claim is ludicrous. When Biden was pressed on the issue of terrorists going over our […]

Biden lies about the border again

NewsBreak

Biden’s border record: Trump’s claims vs. reality

Unauthorized crossings at the US southern border soared higher and higher during the first three years of Joe Biden’s presidency. Now, in the first half of...

Biden’s border record: Trump’s claims vs. reality

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