President Joe Biden's campaign has already suffered a major slowdown in donations and officials are bracing for a seismic fundraising hit, with the fallout from a debate nearly two weeks ago taking a sizable toll on operations, according to four sources close to the re-election effort. "It's already disastrous," one of the sources close to Biden's re-election said of fundraising. "The money has absolutely shut off," another source close to the re-election said.
On Friday, she was mocked for saying he did extremely well at the debate and "answered all the questions" at an ensuing rally. In private, the school teacher believes that Mr Biden's debate performance, in which he stumbled over words and repeatedly lost his train of thought, was just a "bad night", the New York Times reported. On Saturday, several Silicon Valley "megadonors" were trying to reach the first lady in an attempt to persuade her to convince Mr Biden to end his campaign in favour of a younger candidate, the paper said. Mr Biden admitted he does not walk as smoothly or debate as well as he "used to" on Friday, but insisted he was still the best candidate to defeat Trump. His aides have since repeated that line. read more
The president made a poor showing in Thursday's presidential debate with Donald Trump, with Biden tripping over his words several times while also declaring, "We finally beat Medicare." Biden's performance was so bad, that liberal cable news pundits suggested he be replaced. The New York Times even called for him to drop out.
Progressive Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., suffered a primary defeat Tuesday to a moderate challenger who was backed by pro-Israel groups, NBC News projected, following a bitter and expensive race that exposed the party's divisions over the war in Gaza.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) " Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday. The GOP-drafted legislation mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in "large, easily readable font" be required in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities. Although the bill did not receive final approval from Landry, the time for gubernatorial action " to sign or veto the bill " has lapsed.
Greatest Show on Earth!
#290 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-07-13 09:58 PM | Reply | Flag:
The bigtop tent from the Biden crowd