Category: Politics

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President Biden had planned to use his first televised interview since his poor debate performance to reassure supporters and quiet the voices within the Democratic Party calling for him to drop out. But many Democrats who spoke out after the interview, which aired on ABC News on Friday night, signaled that it had done little […]

President Biden on Friday dismissed concerns about his age, his mental acuity and polls showing him losing his re-election bid, saying in a prime-time interview that his sharpness is tested every day while he is “running the world.” He vowed to drop out only if “the Lord Almighty” tells him to. During a 22-minute interview […]

Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, has scheduled a virtual meeting on Sunday with senior House Democrats to discuss President Biden’s candidacy and the path forward, according to a senior official familiar with the plan. The session, which is to include the ranking members of congressional committees who make up […]

Some of President Biden’s fund-raising events in the coming weeks are in jeopardy, with one potential Wisconsin event failing to materialize and a Texas event up in the air after his poor debate performance against Donald J. Trump. Mr. Biden’s fund-raising schedule is often fluid, as the White House and the campaign juggle the complicated […]

Things should have been settled. The weary delegates should have already chosen a presidential nominee, packed up their Welcome to New York souvenirs and returned home in time for the nation’s celebration of what it stood for. Instead, the study in indecision that was the Democratic National Convention of 1924 staggered through the Fourth of […]

President Biden on Friday will sit down with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News for his first television interview since his poor debate performance last week sent his campaign into damage control mode and raised concerns about his ability to stay in the race. Here’s how to watch it: The first clip from the interview, which […]

Abortions rights supporters in three states this week said they had secured enough signatures to put measures on the November ballot that would enshrine some abortion access in their state constitutions. Organizers in Arkansas on Friday became the final group this election year to say they had submitted enough signatures to put the question to […]

Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts called for President Biden to end his re-election campaign, as Mr. Biden and his allies try to prevent a trickle of defections from turning into a flood after his debate performance a week ago. “President Biden has done enormous service to our country, but now is the time for him […]

President Biden arrives in Madison, Wis., on Friday for a campaign rally that, coupled with an interview airing in prime time, could be among his last, best hopes of saving his teetering presidential campaign. The state is an appropriate venue for the high-stakes moment as Mr. Biden, 81, tries to stem the tide of defections […]