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To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race — President Biden has repeatedly and rightfully described the stakes in this November's presidential election as nothing less than the future of American democracy. — Donald Trump has proved himself to be a significant jeopardy …
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The Sum of All Fears — No Secret podcast today. This stuff is as serious as a heart attack, so Sarah and I sat down with Tim and did an emergency pod for the flagship instead. We didn't want it hidden behind a paywall. The moment is too important. — That conversation …


Joe Biden Is a Good Man and a Good President. He Must Bow Out of the Race. — I watched the Biden-Trump debate alone in a Lisbon hotel room, and it made me weep. I cannot remember a more heartbreaking moment in American presidential campaign politics in my lifetime …
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Biden acknowledges bad debate performance and age … - The president appeared to address some of those criticisms head-on Friday in an attempt to assuage Democrats' concerns. … - “I don't walk as easy as I used to, I don't speak as smoothly as I used to, I don't debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know.


CNN Flash Poll: Majority of debate watchers say Trump outperformed Biden — Registered voters who watched CNN's presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump largely think Trump outperformed Biden, according to a CNN poll of debate watchers conducted by SSRS, with most saying …


A Newly Energized Joe Biden Addresses The Elephant In The Room — “I don't debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know: I know how to tell the truth,” Biden said at a North Carolina rally. — LOADING — At a rally in North Carolina on Friday, President Joe Biden brought …
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10 options if Democrats actually try to replace Biden — It remains a fraught and seemingly unlikely happening, even as Democrats fret about Biden's debate performance. But here's who has surfaced before — and could again. — The Democratic Party has spent much of the 2024 campaign burying …


Biden's debate is a “DEFCON 1” moment for Democrats … - With breathtaking speed, private discussions about Biden's expected performance against Donald Trump went from optimism to shock and even questions about whether Biden could continue his campaign. … - A “disaster,” one former Biden administration official called it.
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How To Process Biden's Debate Disaster — A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. — Say It Ain't So, Joe — I loathe theater criticism-style debate coverage, but by any standard it was a disastrous performance by President Biden.


‘You get back up’: Biden parlays disappointing debate into rallying cry for supporters
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47.9 million viewers tuned in to CNN's presidential debate with Biden and Trump
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Biden Team Hits Back After Debate With Whopping ‘50 Lies Trump Told On The Debate Stage’
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Panicked Emails, Gallows Humor: The Aftermath of Biden's Debate Disaster
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Democrats openly admit “sense of doom” over Biden debate
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Trump's debate references to ‘Black jobs’ and ‘Hispanic jobs’ stir Democratic anger
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Gavin Newsom Is Ready for the Biden Emergency
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Some Democrats start calling for Biden to step aside and ‘throw in the towel’ on 2024

‘Chill The F**k Out’: John Fetterman Urges Democrats To Stick With Joe Biden
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Playbook: Democrats wake up to a nightmare
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Biden acknowledges shaky debate performance and vows to stay in race: ‘when you get knocked down, you get back up’ - as it happened

The true losers of this presidential debate were the American people
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‘WTF’: Panicked Dems start looking for alternatives to Biden
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‘Every Democrat Needs to Do Soul-Searching’: Biden's House Allies Are Stressed About His Future
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Thoughts on a Very Scary Debate
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Supreme Court makes it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, charge Trump faces — The Supreme Court on Friday limited a federal obstruction law that has been used to charge hundreds of Capitol riot defendants as well as former President Donald Trump.
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Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Statement on the Supreme Court's Decision in Fischer v. United States — For Immediate Release — The Justice Department issued the following statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on the Supreme Court's decision in Fischer v. United States:
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Donald Trump could be in for a ‘huge windfall’ after the Supreme Court narrowed charges against January 6 rioters
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Supreme Court Narrows Which Charges Can Be Brought Against Jan. 6 Rioters
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Supreme Court says prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters
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The Supreme Court weakens federal regulators, overturning decades-old Chevron decision — The Supreme Court on Friday upended a 40-year-old decision that made it easier for the federal government to regulate the environment, public health, workplace safety and consumer protections …
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Supreme Court Executes Massive Power Grab From Executive Branch In New Ruling
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What it means for the Supreme Court to throw out Chevron decision, undercutting federal regulators

Supreme Court Imperils an Array of Federal Rules
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CNN fails the nation — The signal failure of the American media during the Trump era has been the refusal to hold Donald Trump accountable for his behavior - and, in particular, his endless lies. — That has never been more obvious than it was at Thursday night's presidential debate.
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Steve Bannon must report to prison by Monday after Supreme Court rejects last-minute appeal — Bannon, a former Trump adviser, was convicted of contempt of Congress in July 2022 for defying subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 committee and sentenced to four months.
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Bannon Is ‘Quite Concerned’ About His New Prison Digs
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Who do you think the Democratic Party should nominate as its presidential candidate, if it wants to have the best chance of winning? — EXPLORE MORE DATA & ARTICLES — See results
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Supreme Court allows Oregon city policy targeting homeless people — The justices ruled that ordinances in Grants Pass do not violate the Constitution's Eighth Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a constitutional challenge …
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Johnson says Biden's Cabinet should discuss invoking 25th Amendment — Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that President Joe Biden's Cabinet should discuss invoking the 25th Amendment in the wake of a politically disastrous debate that compounded age and acuity questions.
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Final thoughts on tonight's debate — Thanks for joining Heather and me tonight. It was a painful evening. — Let me leave you with these quotes: — “The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.” — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf