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A private call of top Democrats fuels more insider anger about Biden's debate performance

Jun. 29, 2024 23:56 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A sense of concern is growing inside the top ranks of the Democratic Party that leaders of Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee are not taking seriously enough the impact of the president’s troubling debate performance earlier in the week. ...

Biden makes appeals to donors as concerns persist over his presidential debate performance

Jun. 29, 2024 21:49 PM EDT

RED BANK, N.J. (AP) — President Joe Biden looked to recapture his mojo and reassured donors at a Saturday fundraiser that he is fully up to the challenge of beating Donald Trump. “I didn’t have a great night, but I’m going to be fighting harder,” Biden told attendees at the...

After president's debate debacle, Jill Biden delivering the message that they're still all in

Jun. 29, 2024 19:33 PM EDT

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Jill Biden was right at her husband's side Saturday as they exited Air Force One to head for a pair of campaign stops at luxurious vacation homes on Long Island. And she got straight to the point when it was her turn to introduce the president at a tony fundraiser. ...

Despair in the air: For many voters, the Biden-Trump debate means a tough choice just got tougher

Jun. 29, 2024 12:22 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The sound you might have heard after the presidential debate this past week was of voters falling between a rock and a hard place. Apart from the sizable and pumped-up universe of Donald Trump's supporters, the debate suddenly crystalized the worries of many...

Jan. 6 shadows the 2024 campaign, but not on the debate stage. That alarms democracy advocates

Jun. 29, 2024 10:48 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the first presidential debate, Republican Donald Trump skimmed over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol, shifted blame for the violent mob siege and declined repeatedly to state unequivocally that he will accept the results of this year’s White House election. ...

Biden concedes debate fumbles but declares he will defend democracy. Dems stick by him — for now

Jun. 29, 2024 00:01 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden worked forcefully Friday to quell Democratic anxieties over his unsteady showing in his debate with former President Donald Trump, as elected members of his party closed ranks around him in an effort to shut down talk of replacing him atop the ticket. ...

Biden's debate performance leaves down-ballot Democrats anxious — and quiet

Jun. 28, 2024 18:50 PM EDT

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s unsteady debate performance reverberated among candidates up and down the November ballot on Friday, but nervous Democratic candidates mostly kept their discomfort to themselves or downplayed it, even as gleeful Republicans looked to seize the...

Trump's debate references to 'Black jobs' and 'Hispanic jobs' stir Democratic anger

Jun. 28, 2024 18:04 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump warned during his debate with Joe Biden and again at a Friday rally that migrants were taking “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs” from Americans, angering critics who called it a racist and insulting attempt to expand his appeal beyond his white conservative...

Harris acknowledges Biden had a 'slow start' in debate and tries to calm Democratic fears

Jun. 28, 2024 17:19 PM EDT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday dismissed the “punditry” criticizing President Joe Biden's halting and uneven debate performance, saying at a rally in Las Vegas that “this race will not be decided by one night in June.” Speaking to an energetic...

Shares of Trump Media swing wildly after first US presidential debate, fall 10%

Jun. 28, 2024 16:45 PM EDT

Trump Media fell more than 10% Friday after the first U.S. presidential debate, demonstrating another of the wild swings that have made its stock one of the more volatile on Wall Street. Shares in the owner of social networking site Truth Social jumped 5% at the opening bell and...