The claims of President Joe Biden and his 2024 rival, former President Donald Trump, have been called into question following a presidential debate on Thursday in which the two candidates returned repeatedly to immigration. Biden falsely told viewers he lowered illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border to levels below those experienced when Trump left office […]
Democrats are slamming CNN for not fact-checking former President Donald Trump during Thursday’s first presidential debate, with Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) adding fuel to the fire on Friday. “Frankly, I think CNN could have a done a better job in calling [Trump’s] lies out,” the Pennsylvania governor told CNN on Friday. Following the first presidential […]
Former President Donald Trump traveled to Virginia for a celebratory rally Friday afternoon, taking what amounted to a victory lap following the first debate of the 2024 presidential election. Trump won Thursday night’s debate with President Joe Biden, according to flash polls, largely by not losing it. On the debate stage, Trump delivered his answers […]
President Joe Biden‘s reelection campaign forcefully pushed back against speculation Friday that Democratic operatives and power brokers might urge the president to bow out of the 2024 election. Biden delivered a debate performance against former President Donald Trump on Thursday night that prompted panic within the party and could solidify voters’ concerns about his age. Biden, who […]
Prosecutors on Friday rested their case against Sen. Bob Menendez, the New Jersey senator accused of trading his political influence for gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz, and cash. They spent the past six weeks painting the longtime Democratic senator as a greedy politician who held court in his New Jersey home, rang a tiny silver bell to […]
President Joe Biden’s struggling debate performance Thursday night sent shock waves of anxiety across the Democratic Party, but it also served as a vindicating moment for former special counsel Robert Hur. As Biden, 81, stumbled over his words, speaking incoherently at times or staring blankly as his opponent spoke, viewers pointed out that his mental […]
Fifty percent of independents think the Democratic Party should nominate someone other than President Joe Biden to have the best chance of winning in November, according to a Friday YouGov survey that was conducted after the first presidential debate. Just 21% of independents said Biden was the best option, while 29% said they were not […]
For Vice President Kamala Harris, the first general election debate of 2024 turned up the intensity of an already glaring spotlight. Within minutes of the end of the debate, during which President Joe Biden fumbled to the point of driving open debate among Democrats over whether he should be replaced at the top of the […]
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump’s Thursday presidential debate on CNN was the network’s “highest rated CNN program in history,” as about 48 million people tuned in across CNN digital properties. About 11.4 million people watched on CNN, CNN.com, CNNe, and HLN, while 8.8 million tuned in on Fox News, along with 8.7 […]
As Democrats grapple with President Joe Biden’s poor performance on the debate stage Thursday night, some are wondering if and how he could be replaced, but campaign finance laws might stand in the way of that. The campaign to reelect Biden has fundraised no small amount of money — it has $195 million on hand […]
