Trump VP contenders flock to his side while Biden campaign does damage control after debate fallout: Live
Biden and Trump squared-off at a CNN-moderated debate this week
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Donald Trump’s potential vice presidential contenders are boosting his image by coming to his defense over lies he told during the presidential debate on Thursday.
Senator JD Vance and Governor Doug Burgum joined political news over the weekend to shift the blame off of Trump for spreading lies about abortion, his record in office, current statistics and more.
Meanwhile, Senators Marco Rubio and Tim Scott re-directed questions about Trump’s “Black jobs” comments when confronted with it by members of the media.
It is a different tactic than the one the Biden campaign is taking to cool voter concerns about the president’s ability to serve in office. Over the weekend, Biden appeared strong and confident in front of potential voters in North Carolina and met with donors in New York.
The Biden campaign also said the president raised $33 million since the debate and pushed back on calls for him to drop out of the 2024 race.
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How many people watched the debate?
CNN said on Friday that the debate drew the highest audience on its network but the number of people watching dropped more than 30 percent from 2020.
Gustaf Kilander reports:
51 million viewers tune in for Biden’s debate debacle against Trump
Number of people tuning in dropped more than 30 percent from 2020’s opening presidential debate
Key takeaways from the first Biden-Trump debate
It was a night of misinformation, abortion, and Democratic panic, as Katie Hawkinson reports.
Misinformation and Democratic ‘panic’: Key takeaways from the Biden-Trump debate
Democrats are now in a ‘deep panic’ following Biden’s weak performance
Biden freezes mid-answer during presidential election debate
Joe Biden appeared to freeze and stumble over his words during the first presidential debate on Thursday night (27 June). At times, the US president struggled to stem a barrage of attacks and false claims from his Republican rival Donald Trump. The Biden campaign had hoped that a strong debate would quell concerns among voters that the 81-year-old Democratic incumbent is too old to serve a second four-year term. Instead, a hoarse-sounding Biden stumbled over his words, especially in the early stages of the debate. Two White House officials said mid-debate that the president had a cold, but that only further reflected anxiety about his performance.
‘Panic mode’ as Democrats begin calling for Biden to step aside
Ahead of the first presidential debate in Atlanta, Democrats had one piece of advice for President Joe Biden: Be yourself.
Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi said it. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester, who is running for Senate in Biden’s home state of Delaware said it. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told The Independent that people should ask what former president Donald Trump needed to do to have “half a chance” at sounding “barely cogent.”
But Democrats began to sound the alarm after Biden’s performance in Atlanta on Thursday evening.
Eric Garcia reports.
Panicked Democrats call for Biden to step aside after ‘horrible’ debate against Trump
‘Need to have Harris take over. Cleanest option,’ one Democrat strategist told The Independent
US allies fear a new Trump presidency may be one step closer
Joe Biden’s rocky performance against Donald Trump at the first televised presidential debate of the 2024 US election cycle has left some of America’s foreign allies bracing for a belated second Trump presidency.
Joe Sommerlad reports.
US allies fear new Trump presidency after Biden ‘implodes’ at debate
‘If you weren’t preparing for a Trump 2.0 then that is the smart play and the smart move now’
How late-night TV hosts reacted to Trump vs Biden debate
Joe Biden and Donald Trump went head to head on Thursday night (27 June) in the first presidential debate of 2024. Live on CNN, the two oldest presidential candidates ever exchanged personal insults ahead of the November election, while also clashing on major issues like abortion and tax policy. Biden delivered a shaky, halting performance while his Republican rival battered him with a series of often false attacks. Unsurprisingly, there has been a massive fallout from the debate, both on social media and on television. Here, The Independent takes a look at how late-night TV hosts reacted to Biden vs Trump.
Democratic lawmakers are urging Biden to skip next debate
Democrats are now openly urging President Joe Biden to skip the next debate set to take place in September.
Biden’s performance on Thursday night was quickly slammed as disastrous as he appeared frail, at times losing his train of thought and making several gaffes.
Democrats began to share their concerns while the debate was still live and questioned whether Biden should remain on the ballot. Several said anonymously that he should step aside.
Gustaf Kilander reports.
Dems lawmakers are openly urging Biden to skip out on next debate
Elected Democrats urge Biden to either not take part in next debate or make sure the format is changed
Trump will ‘undo’ progress on tackling climate crisis, Biden says
Joe Biden warned that Donald Trump would undo all of his work on the climate crisis if he won the US presidential election even as the former president claimed to have the best “environmental numbers” when he was in office.
Stuti Mishra reports.
Joe Biden says Donald Trump will ‘undo’ progress on tackling climate crisis
Trump claims his presidency saw ‘best environmental numbers ever’
Rep Chip Roy puts forward legislation that would use the 25th amendment to remove Biden
A Republican congressman from Texas is proposing legislation that would call on Vice President Kamala Harris to convene President Joe Biden’s cabinet and invoke the 25th amendment of the US Constitution.
Representative Chip Roy of Texas proposed the legislation after Biden’s lackluster debate performance against former president Donald Trump in Atlanta on Thursday.
Under the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution, the vice president and the majority of cabinet officers can declare “that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” and that the vice president may assume the duties of the presidency.
Eric Garcia reports from Capitol Hill.
Republican congressman will try to remove Biden using the 25th amendment
The legislation would call on Vice President Kamala Harris to take charge
‘I’m still processing what happened’: Democrats still reeling from Biden debate performance
Eric Garcia reports from Capitol Hill:
The shockwaves from President Joe Biden’s palid, painful and piecemeal debate performance in Atlanta on Thursday could still be felt on Capitol Hill on Friday morning.
While members of Congress are usually anxious to dart out the door on a Friday to make their flights home, Democrats seemed especially unwilling to speak about Biden’s stumbles in the face of former president Donald Trump’s repeated lies.
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‘I’m still processing what happened’: Democrats on Biden’s debate performance
Some members of Congress tried to avoid my questions on the Friday after the debate; others were happy to talk, and they didn’t mince their words
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