Month: July 2024

Three quarters of voters believe Democrats are more likely to win the 2024 election with a different candidate than President Biden, according to a new CNN poll published Tuesday. Biden’s first debate performance raised alarms among some Democrats and supporters, with the president struggling to string ideas together or rebut Trump’s many false statements. Critics…
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Former Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) admitted Tuesday that it would be fair for voters to ask if President Biden has a condition or if last week’s debate performance was just “an episode.” Pelosi joined MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Tuesday to discuss the fallout from Biden’s lackluster debate performance and the panic among Democrats about his…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump Tower, May 31, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial to set aside his conviction…
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Experts say shielding official presidential action from prosecution undermines rule of law and enables abuse of power.Washington, DC – The Supreme Court’s ruling on the scope of presidential immunity will “transform” the United States government, experts say, warning that the decision may undermine the rule of law in the country.On Monday, the US top court weighed…
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Biden issues a warning about the power of the presidency – and Trump – after Supreme Court’s immunity ruling  CNNsource

If it wasn’t clear before Thursday night’s debate, a second Trump presidency would bring an unsanctimonious end to U.S. inclusion in the current international framework for tackling climate change. Yet for all the planning around another exit from the Paris agreement by former President Donald Trump, his campaign owes America more than prose on clean…
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Close Thank you for signing up! Subscribe to more newsletters here The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox. Sign up for the 12:30 Report newsletter Subscribe <!– {beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Tuesday, and Fourth of July festivities will be here before you know it. Here’s what’s in today’s edition: The Biden Bounce…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Biden says Supreme Court decision on immunity means ‘there are virtually no limits’ on a president’s actionsPresident Joe Biden’s reset after his disastrous debate performance is looking more like a return to business as usual.President Joe Biden’s reset after his disastrous debate performance is looking more like a…
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Trump immunity ruling leaves crowd anxious, confused outside Supreme Court  The Washington Postsource

The Supreme Court’s Stunning Gift to Trump  POLITICOsource

Seal Team Six, you have a go.  If you want one take-away from the court’s very bad opinion yesterday, that’s it.  Yes, the opinion puts the final nail in the coffin for former President Trump’s pre-November prosecution on charges that he fomented an attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021. But it’s much worse than that.…
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President Biden is seven times as popular as former President Trump among Ukrainians, according to a new poll released Tuesday. In the first-ever poll conducted by The Counteroffensive/Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, 46.7 percent of Ukrainians say Biden would be a better U.S. president for Ukraine’s war effort, while 6.5 percent say the same about…
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Donald Trump Says Fake Electors Scheme Was ‘Official Act’  Newsweeksource

Journalist Carl Bernstein is calling President Biden’s debate performance against former President Trump last week a “horror show” and said his sources close to the commander in chief say what happened is not a one-time problem. Bernstein said he’s been talking to several sources who are near Biden, those who love him, support him and…
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Manhattan prosecutors agreed to allow the former president time to argue the verdict should be tossed.

BREAKING: Prosecutors don’t oppose pushing back Trump’s sentencing due to the Supreme Court immunity ruling, likely delaying it ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeThe Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision Monday is expected to add new twists to Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis’ already stalled racketeering case against former…
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Donald Trump’s lawyers have sent a letter to the New York judge in his hush money criminal case seeking permission to file a motion to set aside his guilty verdictNEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial to set aside his conviction…
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office said Tuesday it won’t oppose delaying former President Trump’s July 11 sentencing even as they disagree with his new attempt to set aside his hush money verdict on immunity grounds.  Following the Supreme Court’s decision carving out criminal immunity for former presidents, Trump on Monday sent a letter…
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Former White House COVID-19 response lead Dr. Anthony Fauci went after independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday, recalling a prior meeting where Kennedy railed against vaccines. Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, has long pushed the disproven theory that vaccines are connected to autism and cause some diseases. Fauci shared in a podcast interview…
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HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) – Connecticut’s attorney general released a statement about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity.The nation’s highest court ruled on Monday that former presidents have some immunity from prosecution, which extended a delay in a Washington criminal case against former President Donald Trump.The case claimed Trump plotted to overturn his 2020…
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“Are you two really the best we’ve got…?”   In Wednesday’s U.K. prime ministerial, an audience questioner posed this directly to the leaders of the two major parties. The same might have been asked on Thursday night in the U.S.   Wednesday’s U.K. debate came toward the end of the July 4 general election campaign. The ruling…
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Trump seeks to set aside hush money verdict after immunity ruling: source  The Hillsource

Former Trump Attorney Tells CNN Immunity Ruling ‘Really Protects President Biden’  Daily Callersource

Nearly 70 percent of progressive voters say President Biden should suspend his campaign after last week’s debate performance, a new survey found. The poll, conducted by Our Revolution, surveyed more than 17,000 progressive Democratic voters and found 67 percent of them say it’s time for Biden to step aside. The calls for a new candidate…
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Honig says this is why Trump’s trial won’t happen before the election  CNNsource