Politics

(WASHINGTON) — Democratic donors remain torn as the Biden campaign continues to try to calm worries from supporters and party members about the future of President Joe Biden’s reelection bid in the wake of Thursday’s debate performance. On Monday evening, the Biden campaign held a call with more than 500 regional and national finance chairs […]

(WASHINGTON) — At a campaign fundraiser in McLean, Virginia, on Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden — for the first time — attributed his poor debate performance last week to the amount of foreign travel he did in June, according to notes from a small group of reporters permitted in the event. “I decided to travel […]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Texas Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett broke with President Joe Biden on Tuesday, calling on him to withdraw as Democratic nominee following the president’s debate performance. “President Biden has continued to run substantially behind Democratic senators in key states and in most polls has trailed Donald Trump. […]

(WASHINGTON) — Unless President Joe Biden removes himself from the 2024 presidential race, it’s essentially impossible for any other candidate to earn the Democratic nomination, according to party rules. And even if he does leave, it would be challenging to confirm a replacement. Following Biden’s debate performance on Thursday, a groundswell of panic from political […]

Allison Joyce/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and his allied groups registered their largest fundraising month of the campaign in June, his campaign announced, as his team seeks to spotlight good news amid a torrent of questions about the president’s capabilities to run the country after his debate performance last week. The Biden operation […]

(WASHINGTON) — The White House said Tuesday it wants to “turn the page” on President Joe Biden’s debate performance last Thursday, which stoked renewed concerns about his age and mental fitness and set off alarm bells among some Democrats about his ability to carry on as the party’s nominee. Biden has yet to take any […]

Cornell Watson/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will sit down with ABC News on Friday for his first television interview since last week’s presidential debate. The president’s poor performance in the debate has garnered calls for him to drop out of the race by politicians on both sides of the aisle. Biden […]

(WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Donald Trump’s sweeping claim of “absolute” immunity from criminal prosecution in his federal election subversion case, but said former presidents are entitled to some protections for “official” acts taken while in the White House. The ruling affects whether Trump faces a federal trial this year on four […]

(WASHINGTON) — Handing the Biden administration an unexpected win amidst a legal back-and-forth, a court over the weekend agreed to let the Education Department continue implementing the final phases of a student loan repayment plan that will lower people’s monthly bills. This comes after the department had already begun the process to put three million […]

(WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court’s ruling that former President Donald Trump is presumptively immune from criminal prosecution for official acts carried out while in office is likely to have a ripple effect on each of his four criminal cases, potentially resulting in delays and complications that will further bog them down, experts told ABC News. […]