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Biden 'Robocall' to NH Dems: Stay Home

Fake robocall tells them that their vote is needed in November, not Tuesday

(Newser) - Imagine your level of surprise if you answered the phone in an election year and the presidential candidate from your party was asking for money or support: As surprising as when the Buffalo Bills fail to win a clutch game again . Now imagine your level of surprise if that candidate...

White House Expands Access to Contraception on Roe Anniversary

Kamala Harris is Democrats' main voice as they hope to highlight abortion, contraception in 2024 election

(Newser) - Vice President Kamala Harris is taking center stage in the Democrats' renewed push for abortion rights during this year's election, and she'll mark the 51st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling on Monday in Wisconsin. It will be the first in a series of events hosted by...

Biden Campaign Calls Its Current Haul 'Historic'

It shares latest figures on day of Iowa caucuses

(Newser) - President Biden's re-election campaign released its latest fundraising numbers Monday, more than two weeks before it had to do so, in what the New York Times sees as "a clear attempt to distract attention from the Iowa caucuses." It touted $97 million raised by his campaign and...

Democratic Senators: Maybe Biden Should Skip Debates

High-ranking Dick Durbin says Biden should 'think twice' before getting on stage with Trump

(Newser) - Donald Trump hasn't attended a single GOP primary debate this election season. At least two Democratic senators suggest President Biden should return the favor when it comes to debates for the general election. "I would think twice about it," Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois tells the Hill...

Obama Takes Concerns About Campaign to Biden

Former president raises structure, aggressiveness, and Donald Trump

(Newser) - President Biden now has heard concerns about his campaign from a person who knows something about being reelected to the White House. Former President Barack Obama suggested changes to Biden and his aides, the Washington Post reports. Among the recommendations, some of which were made at a recent lunch, were...

Biden Forcefully Slams Trump as Enemy of Democracy

Democracy is at stake, president says near Valley Forge

(Newser) - President Biden kicked off the election year with his harshest denunciation yet of his likely opponent on Friday, casting Donald Trump as a liar, a loser, and a dangerous opponent of democracy. "There's no confusion about who Trump is or what he intends to do ," Biden said...

Internet's Hitler 'Law' Creator Weighs In on Trump-Biden

Mike Godwin suggests Trump knows exactly what he's doing with migrant rhetoric

(Newser) - Donald Trump over the weekend escalated his attacks on migrants trying to cross the border, asserting that they were "poisoning the blood of our country," reports the AP . That prompted a rebuke from the campaign of President Biden, with a spokesman saying that Trump "parroted Adolf Hitler,...

Nikki Haley&#39;s Blunt New Ad: &#39;Biden&#39;s Too Old&#39;
Obama
Reportedly
Antsy About
2024
the rundown
Dec 19, 2023 7:55 AM CST

Obama Reportedly Antsy About 2024

Nikki Haley's new ad takes a direct shot at President Biden's age

(Newser) - The latest ad from Nikki Haley begins in blunt fashion: "I'll just say it—Biden's too old," she says of the 81-year-old president. Politico calls the spot dubbed "New Generation" by the 51-year-old Republican "one of the most direct attacks on Biden's age...

Cornel West: Biden May Have 'LBJ Moment'

Independent candidate suggests president will drop out of the race

(Newser) - Cornel West is sure he'll be on the ballot for the 2024 presidential election as an independent candidate . But the Harvard prof isn't sure that President Biden will be one of his opponents. "I think he's going to have an LBJ moment [and] pull back,"...

'If Trump Wasn't Running, I'm Not Sure I'd Be Running'

President Biden speaks out against Trump at Boston campaign events

(Newser) - President Biden offered up an attention-grabbing line at a campaign event in Boston on Tuesday night: "If Trump wasn't running, I'm not sure I'd be running," Biden said. ( ABC News notes that earlier this year, Biden said the opposite, telling ABC he thought he'...

Trump Threatens ObamaCare, and Team Biden Loves It

Democrats see the Affordable Care Act as a winning issue

(Newser) - ObamaCare has suddenly emerged as a 2024 election issue—at least in regard to the general election. Former President Trump threatened over the weekend to reopen the contentious fight over the Affordable Care Act after failing to repeal it while in the White House, saying he is "seriously looking...

Only One Part of Polls Should Worry Democrats


Only One
Part of Polls
Should Worry
Democrats
OPINION
Nov 27, 2023 10:50 AM CST

Only One Part of Polls Should Worry Democrats

It's how Americans view the economy, writes pollster Mileah Kromer

(Newser) - Like a lot of political observers, Mileah Kromer doesn't think Democrats should be too worried about what Kromer calls "horse race polls" showing Donald Trump ahead of President Biden a year out from the election. But Kromer, who's director of the Sarah T. Hughes Center for Politics...

Biden May Need a Trump Conviction to Triumph
Biden May Need
a Trump
Conviction
to Triumph
the rundown
Nov 6, 2023 11:25 AM CST

Biden May Need a Trump Conviction to Triumph

A year out, the polls are not looking favorable for the president

(Newser) - Polls continue to deliver bad news to President Biden, most notably one from the New York Times showing predecessor Donald Trump ahead in five battleground states . A look at related coverage:
  • Risk for Trump: Yes, the takeaway numbers are bad for Biden, given that Trump is doing so well despite
...

Trump's Favorite Line of Attack on Biden May Have a Problem

Ex-president is making fair share of public blunders; critics like DeSantis are calling him out

(Newser) - One of former President Trump's favorite campaign themes is that 80-year-old President Biden is too old and prone to gaffes to win reelection. But a new theme in coverage of the 2024 election is that Trump, who's 77, is undercutting his argument by making quite a few public...

Biden Campaign Joins Truth Social
Biden Campaign
Joins Truth Social
Oct 16, 2023 7:25 PM CDT

Biden Campaign Joins Truth Social

Campaign says it joined Trump network 'mostly because we thought it would be very funny'

(Newser) - President Biden's campaign ventured into very unfriendly territory Monday, launching an account on Donald Trump's Truth Social network. "Well. Let's see how this goes. Converts welcome!" the account wrote in its first post, using the handle @BidenHQ . The account, with a "Dark Brandon" profile...

Biden Gets Another Democratic Challenger

Progressive media host Cenk Uygur is in, and says the president can't win a general election

(Newser) - The same week President Biden lost one challenger for the Democratic nomination, he gained another. Progressive Cenk Uygur announced on his Young Turks show Wednesday that he is running against the president, reports the Hill . Biden, he said, will almost certainly lose in the general election. "It should not...

During GOP Debate, Trump Downplays UAW Strike in Michigan

Former POTUS spoke at a non-unionized auto parts supplier in Michigan

(Newser) - As his Republican rivals sparred onstage in California at their second primary debate , former President Trump was in battleground Michigan on Wednesday night working to win over blue-collar voters by lambasting President Biden and his push for electric cars in the midst of an autoworkers' strike, the AP reports. "...

In Poll, One Republican Beats Biden One-on-One

It's Nikki Haley, according to new CNN poll; Trump leads but within margin of error

(Newser) - A new CNN poll has some bad but familiar news for President Biden: Most Democrats would prefer a different nominee because of his age. The poll found that 67% of Democrats or Democratic-leaning voters say they wish the party would nominate someone else. Among these voters, the concern most often...

No Labels Has No Plans to Be a Spoiler: Hogan

Former governor says he wants a 'good Republican nominee'

(Newser) - If the No Labels political movement fields a ticket in the 2024 presidential election, its goal will be to win, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Sunday, not to split the vote in a doomed effort that results in President Biden losing. "Nobody's trying to spoil anything," the...

Voters in Both Parties Say Biden Is Too Old
Democrats
Agree: Biden
Is Too Old
new poll
Aug 28, 2023 10:05 AM CDT

Democrats Agree: Biden Is Too Old

69% of Democrats agree with 89% of Republicans on that front

(Newser) - Americans actually agree on something in this time of discord: Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president in a second term. Only a few years his junior, Donald Trump raises strikingly less concern about his age. But they have plenty of other problems with Trump, who at...

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