Month: June 2024

Biden, Trump Meet in Georgia for Historic Debate  The Wall Street Journalsource

President Biden and former President Trump took jabs at each other Thursday night in a debate that raised fresh fears for Democrats over the Biden’s mental fitness. The two men tried to make their appeals to voters as concerns swirled over both of them. But it was Biden’s faltering answers in the first 30 minutes…
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There is much to be criticised about the debates, but voters can still learn a lot from formal Trump-Biden face-offs.President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump recently came to a surprising, though possibly tenuous, agreement to revamp the presidential debate cycle this year. Breaking away from the Commission on Presidential Debates, Biden and Trump will…
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Forgot Your Password? New to The Nation? SubscribePrint subscriber? Activate your online accessBiden has a perfect chance to look past Trump’s ranting and hammer home one key proposal: taxing the rich to protect our social services.Can Joe Biden win Thursday night’s CNN presidential debate? Absolutely. But that will only happen if Biden puts his face-off…
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The former president spoke about one simple, “immaculate” truth about his first term in the White House.

If Thursday night’s presidential debate was a sign of the race to come, I don’t blame the record number of American voters who say they’ve checked out of the political process entirely.   This isn’t the column I expected to write. Prior to Thursday’s debate, Joe Biden’s team raised expectations that the president would clarify his…
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“Let’s not act like children,” Trump said. “You are a child,” Biden replied.

Trump lied nearly non-stop, on everything from tariffs to the VA Choice Act to his role on Jan. 6 — and got away with it thanks to a tired and fumbling performance by Biden

SEARCHSexism lets men age in public while women are scorned, but ageism comes for everyone eventually.Jill Filipovic is the author of The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness.Thursday’s presidential debate will pit the two oldest-ever candidates for president against each other. Despite being nearly the same age, Donald Trump has tried to paint Joe Biden…
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The president took off the gloves before the first ad break in the high stakes presidential debate.

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After President Joe Biden brought up the former president’s alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump got in one last denial.

By William Earl Donald Trump offered his unfiltered thoughts on pop superstar Taylor Swift in the new book “Apprentice in Wonderland,” written by Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh. Variety has the extended audio clip between Setoodeh and Trump, conducted during an interview between the author and the former president for the book. “Apprentice in Wonderland” details…
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Donald Trump’s Gag Order Upends Debate  Newsweeksource

Former President Trump and President Biden both accused each other of lying during the first presidential debate in which they faced each other on Thursday.  The exchange came after Biden accused Trump of wanting to cut benefits that Americans receive from Social Security and Medicare, which Trump has denied.  “I’ve dealt with politicians all my…
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Here’s what could actually move the 2024 needle during tonight’s debate  POLITICOsource

Ex-Trump impeachment lawyer urges judge to uphold gag order: ‘There are wingnuts out there’  The Hillsource

President Biden lost his patience with former President Trump’s falsehoods on immigration in Thursday’s debate, after trying to direct the topic toward the failed bipartisan Senate border deal. “Everything he says is a lie,” Biden said during the event held by CNN in Atlanta. “Every single one.” Biden’s pivot came as Trump repeated a litany…
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If Aileen Cannon excludes even some of Trump’s former lawyer’s memos, it could gut some of the most incriminating evidence against himThe federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s prosecution for retaining classified documents on Thursday ruled that she would schedule a hearing to weigh excluding key evidence that forms the backbone of the obstruction-of-justice part of…
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President Biden has a cold, a White House official told The Hill amid the first presidential debate. “He has a cold, started slow but obviously had started to hit his stride,” another source, who is familiar with Biden’s campaign, told The Hill. Biden started the debate speaking very quietly, and the campaign was hit with…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timePresident Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off Thursday night for their first debate of the 2024 presidential election, but the two will be well familiar with each other’s tactics and styles. In the 2020 election, the two men twice debated each…
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President Biden hit Donald Trump as a “sucker” and “loser” during CNN’s presidential debate Thursday, in reference to remarks the former president reportedly made about dead U.S. soldiers.   “I was recently in France for D-Day, and I spoke to all about those heroes that died. I went to the World War II cemetery — World…
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AdvertisementMary Trump, Donald J. Trump’s estranged niece, is among the half-dozen representatives that the Biden campaign is deploying to the spin room on Thursday.By Shane Goldmacher, Katie Rogers and Michael GoldShane Goldmacher, Katie Rogers and Michael Gold reported from Atlanta.President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump will be alone in the CNN studio, standing eight…
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(NEXSTAR) — During Thursday night’s first presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, several accusations came to the fore. But one exchange between the president and the former president caused one of the night’s most tense moments. Near the end of the first 30 minutes, Biden claimed Trump previously verbally attacked…
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“Everybody” wanted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the former president insisted in his debate with Joe Biden.