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Democrats on Capitol Hill appeared resigned to Joe Biden as the party's presidential nominee, despite concerns over his ability to defeat Donald Trump.
As President Biden seeks to shore up support for his decision to seek a second term, he’s embarked on a round of interviews and communications to make the case for his candidacy and against former president Donald Trump.
Even as congressional Democrats argued Tuesday over whether to stand behind Joe Biden’s candidacy, the White House and lawmakers grasped for a unified strategy: trying to change the subject from the president’s mental acuity to Donald Trump’s policy goals.
President Joe Biden’s insistence that he won't quit his 2024 re-election race seems to have stemmed Democratic calls for him to drop out.
The mood on Capitol Hill turned grimly uncertain Tuesday as Democrats wrestled over President Joe Biden’s re-election and the extraordinary question before them — whether to stand behind his candidacy or push the president to bow out amid concerns over his ability to lead them to victory.
By Makini Brice, Allende Miglietta and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. lawmakers huddled for nearly two hours on Tuesday, only to emerge without a consensus on whether to fall in line behind President Joe Biden's resolve to pursue his reelection bid.
So far, Biden’s supporters have been the most vocal emerging from the more than hour-long chat. But discontent remains behind the scenes.
President Biden should not have sent his "blatantly untrue, self-serving, not helpful" letter to Democrats, says Bob Kerrey, who feels their patriotism has been questioned.
President Joe Biden vowed to push on with his re-election bid on Monday, dismissing the concerns of some fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill and donors that his persistence could cost their party the White House and Congress in the Nov.
Lawmakers in the House and Senate met privately to hash out their concerns about President Biden’s viability, but leaders emerged from two separate meetings pledging allegiance to their candidate.
Sen. Patty Murray put pressure on Biden to prove himself in a statement on Monday after seeking to discredit a report on his decline last month.
The Democratic rift over the fate of Joe Biden’s re-election campaign widened on Tuesday after lawmakers held a tense and gloomy day of talks on whether to rally around the US president or push him to drop his bid.
An effort to seek an alternative to President Biden as the party’s nominee appeared to flag, with lawmakers seeing no clear path forward after the president made clear he was dead set against stepping aside.
In private and in public, President Biden made clear he holds all the cards when determining his political future. Can he get his Democratic critics to fold?
Biden took on the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill, friendly media figures such as MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, and angry Democratic donors who have plotted to switch horses. “We can’t waste any more time being distracted,
What the election looks like now that the press is not covering for Biden.
Congressional Democrats are growing less keen to speak out against President Joe Biden’s reelection candidacy after leadership began cracking down on leaks of private meetings. Democrats have scrambled as to how to respond following Biden’s disastrous debate performance,
Efforts to make Biden step aside seem to be fizzling. It’s not too late for Democrats to regroup and defeat Trump in November.
President Biden appears, for now, to have stalled the Democratic coup triggered by his disastrous debate performance — but at a potentially massive cost. Why it matters: If Biden remains the nominee and loses to former President Trump in November,
President Joe Biden‘s efforts to coalesce doubting Democratic officials after the first debate bear a surprising resemblance to a campaign strategy previously employed by his 2024 general election opponent,
President Biden wrote a letter saying, “the subject of how to move forward has been well-aired for over a week now. And it’s time for it to end.” His theory of the case is that, if he demonstrates a determination to hold onto the Democratic nomination,
Democrats in Congress, increasingly resigned that President Biden will be their party's nominee, are deeply divided on how he should plow through the next four months. Why it matters: After a tense, dramatic day in which Biden has at least temporarily withstood a revolt by some Democrats,
Republican lawmakers are going all in with their attacks against President Joe Biden, seizing on his vulnerabilities and hoping to weaken him further as a candidate as Democrats openly consider whether to replace him at the top of the ticket.
President Joe Biden met Wednesday with the executive council of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest federation of trade unions, in an effort to shore up support from a critical constituency as he beats back continued calls to step aside in the 2024 campaign.
But Biden’s being in bronzer is not the only Trumpy aesthetic turn the president has taken since late June’s debate disaster, which revealed his condition to be much more dire than was previously understood.
The president’s defiant letter to lawmakers declaring that he would not end his candidacy no matter what did not stop the stream of Democrats publicly expressing skepticism about his viability.
President Joe Biden believes that the American public wants him to stay in the 2024 race, even though his perspective seems to be a bit askew. The forty-sixth president told MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday that,
Even as congressional Democrats argued Tuesday over whether to stand behind Joe Biden’s candidacy, the White House and lawmakers grasped for a unified strategy: trying to change the subject from the president’s mental acuity to Donald Trump’s policy goals.
President Joe Biden says any Democratic politician who thinks they can beat him is free to challenge him at the party convention.
A New York Times congressional correspondent gave an eyebrow-raising answer when asked on CNN how "terrified" Democrats in contested areas are preparing for an election season with President Joe Biden atop the ticket this November.
President Joe Biden insisted again Monday he would not quit the US election race, as the White House denied he had Parkinson's disease following a disastrous debate performance.On Monday night the White House went so far as to release a letter from Biden’s personal doctor,
Watching Joe Biden take a daily pounding from fellow Democrats and former media co-conspirators is almost enough to make you feel sorry for him. Almost. The president’s house of cards is collapsing, and not just because he had “a bad night” at the debate.
Democrats continue to wrestle with the thorny problem of whether to press President Joe Biden to give up his bid for a second term. Discussions held by House and Senate Democrats Tuesday did little to conclusively resolve the question or settle the intraparty divisions that have emerged since Biden’s calamitous debate performance nearly two weeks ago.
Senate Democrats vented their doubts about President Biden’s ability to beat former President Trump in November at a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, but not one of them called for Biden to be replaced as the nominee,
Biden’s Lackluster Campaign Mirroring President Barack Obama’s trip to Wisconsin in 2012 “after a lousy debate performance,” President Biden flew to Madison last week “with similar hopes for a confidence-renewing moment,
P resident Joe Biden hit the campaign trail over the weekend as concerns about his ability to run for a second term continued to permeate the Democratic Party. Attending a service at a Black church in Philadelphia on Sunday,
President Biden defended his candidacy to congressional Democrats by arguing that the Democratic nomination process was open to anyone who wanted to run, despite the fact that the DNC conspired to ensure there would be no meaningful challengers or debates.
The mood among Democrats is reportedly sour as the fallout from the president’s troubling debate performance rages on, deeply dividing the party.
For his latest excuse regarding his cognitive decline and subsequent refusal to step down, President Joe Biden is attempting to portray himself as an embattled outsider scorned by Democratic Party elites.
The debate over President Biden’s future has put Democrats in turmoil, with some urging the party to stick with the 81-year-old incumbent while a growing number of officeholders call for him to step down.
Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) defended his call for President Biden to drop out of the 2024 race, arguing Monday it is not about loyalty but rather being “pragmatic” to ensure there is a “very strong” candidate at the top of the Democratic ticket.
Democratic lawmakers are returning to Washington on Monday with President Biden’s reelection troubles looming large, as the party remains split over whether the incumbent should carry on with his bid for the White House after last month’s disastrous debate.