The Hill

Speculation is swirling around President Biden’s political fate — and over who might replace him on the Democratic ticket this fall should he decide to drop out of the race. Biden has insisted he’s in it to win it, and Vice President Harris would have the inside track on becoming the party’s standard-bearer, but Democratic…

Here are the Democrats who could replace Biden on the ticket

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 Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Democrats churn over whether President Joe Biden should stay in the 2024 race, the party turmoil is deepening over whether his Vice President Kamala Harris is next in line for the job or if a “mini primary” should be quickly launched to choose a new nominee before the party’s August convention. Harris hit the campaign fundraising circuit Saturday in breezy Provincetown, Massachusetts, and picked up a nod from the state’s prominent Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who said before the visit that if Biden were to step aside, his vice president is “ready to step up.”  At the event, which organizers said raised $2 million and was attended by 1,000 guests, Harris did not mention the calls for Biden to leave the race or for her to replace him, instead repeating one of her regular campaign lines: “We’re going to win this election,” she said. “Do we believe in freedom? Do we believe in equality? Do we believe in the promise of America? Then are we ready to fight for it?” she called to a cheering crowd. “When we fight, we win.”

Beyond Biden, Democrats are split over who would be next —VP Harris or launch a 'mini primary'

Fox News

Some Democratic lawmakers are urging Biden to step aside for Kamala Harris in 2024, but uncertainty lingers over its impact on his base and Harris' candidacy.

Biden exiting race but serving out term would leave Harris in dilemma: expert

As President Biden faces calls to withdraw from the presidential race, a Democrat who is third in line to the presidency has asked him to consider his legacy.

Third in line to presidency calls on Biden to 'seriously consider' the future

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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

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

Humorist Shalom Auslander has written for decades about growing up in a dysfunctional household within an ultra-orthodox Jewish community. Feh, title of his latest memoir, comes from the Yiddish word for "yuck." He talks about self-hatred, changing the narrative and his friendship with late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Also, Justin...

Waking Up And Feeling 'Yuck'

Democrats on Capitol Hill are coalescing — comfortably or not — behind the idea of keeping President Biden as their 2024 nominee despite a disastrous debate performance last month that prompted calls for him to bow out.  At a private meeting of the House Democratic Caucus on Tuesday, an overwhelming majority of lawmakers voiced their support…

Tide beginning to turn in Biden’s favor — for now

Fox Business

President Biden is facing growing calls from business leaders and Democrat megadonors to pass the baton to another Democrat in the 2024 presidential race.

These business leaders have called on Biden to drop out of presidential race

Midday on the Fourth of July, I received a call from a government official with regular access to the West Wing, who said they had reached a breaking point and wanted to sound the alarm. The person insisted on careful ground rules: No details on the specific policy area they’d...

A ‘scared’ Biden aide sounds an alarm

CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers explains why the first fifteen minutes of the CNN debate between President Biden and former President Trump will be the most important for Biden. 

‘The bar is in hell for Joe Biden’: Bakari Sellers says this moment in debate will be most important for Biden

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Bucks County Beacon

“[I]nvoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God,” the Constitution of the Confederate States of America composed by southern slaveholders in 1861 sought to “establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” The authors of Project 2025, the latest playbook for restructuring the federal government in order to accomplish the policy goals of Christian Nationalists, similarly declare their manifesto will “decide America’s future” by securing their “God-given individual rights to live freely” and exercise dominion over others.

Legislating Inequality: The Christian Confederate Roots of Project 2025

Former President Donald Trump opened his presidential nomination speech with an emotional recounting of the shooting at his rally last week that left him injured and killed another. For more than 10 minutes, Trump recounted to the Republican National Convention in vivid details his observations of the attack on the...

Trump recounts assassination attempt: 'I'm not supposed to be here'

USA TODAY

Warnings from well-known Democrats and celebs are coming just when it looked like Biden was starting to unite lawmakers around his embattled 2024 bid.

President Biden's dam begins to crack after new Democratic detractors speak out

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Town Talks

LawnStarter ranked the dirtiest cities in America for 2024, including several cities in North Carolina. The study evaluated over 300 of the largest U.S. cities based on air pollution, water quality, waste management, and resident dissatisfaction across 21 metrics.

These North Carolina Cities Have Been Named in America's Most Filthiest Cities List

As climate change supercharges severe weather, home insurance prices are going way up. In some markets, insurers are pulling out entirely, where companies have decided that the risk of fires or storms is just too steep to keep doing business. Well, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is trying to address the problem with a summit this week, and acting HUD secretary Adrianne Todman is here to talk about it. Thanks for joining us.

As climate disasters go up, so do home insurance costs. HUD wants to break the cycle

President Biden's performance during the Presidential Debate on Thursday has opened the discussion and possibility of replacing the President as the Democratic nominee.

Can Joe Biden be replaced as the sitting president?

Michigan State

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer reportedly warned President Biden's campaign that Michigan is no longer winnable following Biden's debate performance.

Michigan governor warned Biden campaign her state is no longer winnable: report

American Airlines, United and Delta have all grounded flights over a technology outage that has taken services offline around the world. Companies, banks, hospitals and emergency services have also been disrupted as there is a race to fix the issues behind it. For more, we're joined by NPR's Bobby Allyn. Now, Bobby, so what happened?

Major Microsoft outage disrupts flights and banking around the world

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'We can't catch a break.' How the Biden crisis looks from the inside

Hit by a rolling series of punches — the turmoil after President Biden's disastrous debate, the drip-drip-drip of damaging leaks from congressional allies, and now a...

'We can't catch a break.' How the Biden crisis looks from the inside

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