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Donald Trump's voice cracked with emotion on Thursday night as he described the way an assassin's bullet sliced through his ear. His family, aides and lawmakers say he is a changed man after surviving the attack last weekend. 'As you already know, the assassin's bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life,' he said. 'So many people have asked me what happened, and therefore, I'll tell you what happened, and you'll never hear it from me a second time, because it's too painful to tell.'
Melania Trump, in a bright red skirt suit, made a dramatic entrance into the Republican National Convention on Thursday night, walking into the arena to cheers and the music from Beethoven's symphony no. 9. She was introduced as the future first lady. She walked into the Trump family box to take a seat by J.D. Vance, her husband's vice presidential nominee. But Donald Trump had already exited the box to prepare to address the delegates.
Donald Trump touted the chart that 'saved my life' by causing him to turn his head at the moment would-be assassin reigned down bullets at his Pennsylvania rally on Saturday. Speaking at the conclusion of the Republican Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Thursday, the former president was able to crack a joke about the assassination attempt after getting emotional earlier in his remarks when recounting the attack. Trump gave a moment-by-moment retelling of the events he experienced at his last rally and said he would never talk about it again because it's 'too painful.'
President Joe Biden arrived back in Delaware Wednesday night after testing positive for COVID-19 while on the campaign trail in Las Vegas. The maskless 81-year-old - whose political future is in jeopardy due to age-related concerns - walked very slowly off of Air Force One, pausing multiple times, before putting a mask on inside the black SUV that is carting him off to Rehoboth.
Wednesday is Veep day and the moment when J.D. Vance is launched into primetime as Donald Trump's running mate with the keynote speech at the Republican Convention. He was unveiled as the former president's pick on Monday but most of the country knows little about the former Marine-turned-bestselling author who could be the next vice president.
Kai Trump made her debut campaign trail speech on the massive national stage of the Republican Convention on Wednesday where she hinted at a future in politics. Donald Trump Jr. gave up his microphone time to allow his 17-year-old daughter to take over for a few minutes, claiming she called Monday to ask him to speak after the assassination attempt on her grandfather's life. Former President Donald Trump's eldest grandchild made her first foray into the campaign trail with her remarks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she 'shared a side of my grandpa that people don't often see.'
The 81-year-old president was forced to cancel a speech in Las Vegas during a campaign trip after a taking a test when he started getting a runny nose and coughing. As he slowly boarded Air Force One maskless for the flight back to the East Coast to begin isolation, he gave a thumbs' up and said: 'I feel good'. The White House physician said Biden was feeling 'general malaise' and will now self-isolate in Delaware . The West Wing added that the president is vaccinated and boosted, and took a dose of Paxlovid on Wednesday afternoon. Earlier on Wednesday he was speaking to supporters at a restaurant while Democrats reignited calls for him to step down from the 2024 presidential race. In an interview this week he said he would only drop out if doctors told him to and he had a medical that made it necessary.
J.D. Vance slammed the 'dishonest' media on Wednesday when he held his first campaign fundraising event since joining the Trump ticket. He demonstrated the attack credentials that impressed Donald Trump in front of about 200 supporters gathered at a science center on the shores of Lake Michigan. 'The media keeps on saying they want somebody to tone down the temperature,' he said. 'Well, Donald Trump got shot and he toned down the temperature. That's what a real leader does.'
The footage shot by a member of the crowd appears to show the 20-year-old gunman walking near the building he climbed on 60 minutes later to open fire at the former president in Butler, Pennsylvania. In the harrowing clip obtained by WTAE , the shooter doesn't appear to be holding the AR-style rifle he later used to shoot Trump through the ear. The cameraman revealed he was trying to capture the huge crowd waiting to watch the Republican nominee speak, but quickly realized he had caught more terrifying detail. It follows a series of stunning developments that raise more questions about the massive security failure that led to the attempt on Trump's life.
Joe Biden revealed the one reason he would exit the presidential race as more and more Democrats call for him to step aside. He said it would take his doctor telling him directly that he had a medical condition that made that necessary. 'If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that problem,' Biden said in an interview with BET news.
If Monday was the resurrection, with talk of miracles and divine intervention when a bandaged Trump made his first public appearance after being shot, then Tuesday was the healing. At the second day of the Republican convention in Milwaukee, the former president was lauded by former opponents who months ago called him unhinged or rubbished his election prospects. 'America has an amazing ability to self-correct,' said Nikki Haley , Trump's last primary opponent. 'In this moment, we have a chance to put aside our differences and focus on what unites us and strengthens our country.'
For those that know about Sen. J.D. Vance , Donald Trump 's new running mate, think he is 'strong' and 'smart, according to a snap survey of voters for DailyMail.com. But for many he is a new name. 'Don't' and 'know' were the two most common terms in a wordcloud of results when 300 likely voters were asked to describe their view of the 39-year-old senator from Ohio. Strip those out and the results trend towards the favorable: 'Good' and 'leader' edge out 'idiot' or 'asshole.'
The long-time lawmaker sat for over eight weeks in a New York federal courtroom as witnesses and prosecutors revealed the scintillating details of his alleged plan to reward multiple New Jersey businessmen with favors in exchange for payment, prosecutors alleged. Menendez allegedly used his high-profile position as the former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman to help one man negotiate a contract with Egyptian officials. And he used his influence as the New Jersey's senior senator to quash a state investigation into another accomplice's state insurance fraud case, prosecutors said. Menendez's defense, meanwhile, argued the Democrat had a fear of going without and his Cuban heritage as the reason he stored gold and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash at his home.
Donald Trump has given his first in-depth interview after miraculously surviving an assassination attempt at his Pennsylvania rally Saturday, insisting 'I'm supposed to be dead'. Trump revealed how turning his head away from the crowd to look at a video screen may have saved his life at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally and how he wanted to keep talking after gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks struck him in the right ear.
Yearbook images have surfaced of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman who opened fire on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania. Crooks is a 20-year-old registered Republican who has donated to Joe Biden in the past. He fired at least eight bullets from a rooftop just 130 yards from where Trump, 78, was on stage in Butler speaking to thousands of fans at 6:15pm on Saturday. Bethel Park School District verified his 2022 graduation and vowed full cooperation with investigators.
Donald Trump said he was shot in the right ear at his rally on Saturday and realized something was wrong when he heard 'whizzing sound.' 'I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening,' the former president wrote on his Truth Social account. Trump was rushed to a hospital after shots were heard at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Blake Marnell was in his usual brick-patterned suit and his usual position in the front row on Saturday evening to hear Donald Trump speak. It meant he was only about 10 yards from the former president when he heard what he thought were firecrackers at the back of the crowd. His close-up eye witness account, told exclusively to DailyMail.com, reveals the terror, anger and then finally relief that coursed through the Pennsylvania crowd as a gunman tried to assassinate the 45th president of the United States.
The rebellion against Joe Biden's presidential candidacy is growing and now Hillary Clinton is joining the behind-the-scenes plotting with Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. Well-connected aides for Obama and Clinton are commissioning polls and lobbying Democratic donors to hold onto their dollars in an effort to pressure Biden out of the competition. But the president's allies are fighting back, joining their boss in digging in their heels about staying in the competition. Biden, his White House and his re-election team have said repeatedly he is in the race to stay.
President Joe Biden's meeting with a PAC associated with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus featured one member calling him to step back followed by a public call that he do so. It came hours after his press conference and a meeting with Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, whose own statement reflected splits in the caucus about Biden.
This is what a 'big boy' press conference looks like: Two teleprompt screens, a list of vetted journalists and press aides with microphones, ready to silence tricky questions. The White House had leaned into the term, first used by a reporter, to signify that President Joe Biden would offer a no-holds-barred demonstration of his ability to parry tough questions. Yet even with the guard rails of screens, fussing aides and an opening statement, Biden struggled at times with a raspy throat, flubbed lines and meandering answers.
President Joe Biden introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as 'President Putin ' in a brutal gaffe at the NATO summit with his political future hanging by a thread. The 81-year-old facing mounting calls to drop out of the presidential race said: 'Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin.' The major flub in front of world leaders sparked gasps and those in the room had to shout the correct name. 'No, we're going to beat Putin,' Biden said, and blamed the blunder on being 'so focused' on defeating the Russian tyrant who invaded Ukraine two-and-a-half years ago. His gaffe came in front of global allies and shortly before his pivotal 'big boy' press conference that could be the final nail in the coffin for his hopes of remaining as the Democratic candidate. The latest bungled comments will add fuel to the fire for critics who say he isn't capable of being in office for another four years, yet alone winning in November.
Barack Obama's friend George Clooney became the biggest celebrity yet to call for President Joe Biden to abandon his reelection campaign on Wednesday. It followed days of sniping by alumni of Obama's White House, with his former advisers supplying some of the loudest voices demanding Biden get out of the race. Although Team Biden has been reluctant to go public on the obvious tensions, his friend and confidant Joe Scarborough let rip on his 'Morning Joe' TV show on Monday morning.
If looks are the key to Donald Trump 's vice presidential pick then there is only one winner. J.D. Vance 's blue eyes and thick beard first caught the attention of the former president two years ago, when the author and former Marine was competing for the Republican nomination in Ohio 's Senate race. 'He's one handsome son of a bitch,' Trump told his inner circle. Since then Vance has emerged as one of his most formidable promoters on cable news channels.
Lifelong Democrat George Clooney has turned on President Joe Biden and demanded he step aside from the 2024 race after his disastrous debate and widespread concerns about whether he can serve four more years. The Hollywood megastar, who has hosted fundraisers for the 81-year-old, said Biden can't win the 'battle against time' in a scathing op-ed for the New York Times on Wednesday morning. The actor also condemned Democratic party leaders for ignoring 'every warning sign' of Biden's declining physical and mental health and for trying to defend his car-crash performance against Donald Trump.
Top Democrat Adam Smith told DailyMail.com Tuesday that he'd had concerns about Biden's cognitive ability based on personal interactions before the debate. But last month's 90-minute face-off with Donald Trump 'crystallized' his belief that Biden was no longer suited for the office. 'Ultimately this is Joe Biden 's decision,' Smith said. 'Joe Biden is the presumptive nominee. He's not the nominee.I'm going to keep making this case because of how strongly I feel about it. long as that is the case.'
President Joe Biden avoided a near disastrous slip-up during his welcome speech to NATO leaders on Tuesday as the eyes of the world watched him to judge his fitness to serve four more years in the White House. The president, visibly reading from the teleprompter, almost read the instructions on it as he awarded outgoing NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. 'Ask the military aide,' Biden said and then caught himself.
Barron Trump, 18, made his campaign rally debut Tuesday night as former President Donald Trump hosted thousands of supporters to his golf club in Doral, Florida. But Trump led the rally with a new challenge for President Joe Biden, whose reelection campaign has been imperiled by his poor debate performance late last month.
Donald Trump thinks President Joe Biden won't step aside in November because he has too much of an ego to end his reelection bid and that First Lady Jill Biden is having too much of a 'good time' in the White House to want to leave. Amid rising calls from lawmakers, donors, strategists and members within the Democratic Party for Biden to withdraw from the race, the president has doubled-down that he won't drop out. Now the former president is weighing-in on the future of his competitor's campaign and claiming he won't cave to the pressure to withdraw.
The White House denied that President Joe Biden was being treated for Parkinson's disease during a bad-tempered press briefing when officials were accused of hiding his medical details. Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at times struggled to be heard amid a cacophony of questions about the president's health. She confirmed he had been examined three times by a neurologist but refused to say why a specialist in Parkinson's disease visited the White House eight times in eight months, citing privacy and security concerns.
Aides have let it be known that Doug Burgum, North Dakota governor, Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. J.D. Vance are on a short-list of three as they tease his announcement ahead of the Republican Party convention in two weeks time. But a poll of 1,000 likely voters will offer more food for thought, adding extra names into the mix. Speculation about Trump's choice reached fever pitch at the end of June when Trump claimed he had made up his mind and his choice would most likely be in Atlanta, Georgia, for the first presidential debate.
President Joe Biden , 81, pulled a Trump trick on Monday, dialing into a sympathetic TV show to defend himself amid calls to step aside and to dare critics to run against him at his party's convention next month. He laughed off suggestions that he be tested to explain his stumbling debate performance and insisted he was not going to drop out of the election. Instead he listed his administration's achievements and painted his critics as an out-of-touch elite.
The latest plan to replace Joe Biden (right) is the brainchild of Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor who served in both the Obama and Clinton administrations and as a volunteer policy adviser to the 2020 Biden campaign, as well as Ted Dintersmith, a venture capitalist and education philanthropist who has donated to a number of Democratic campaigns. Taylor Swift (left) and Oprah Winfrey (inset with Biden) are involved in their plot. The 'well connected' Democrats have already circulated the plan to party donors, as well as officials within the Biden campaign and administration - and say they have widespread support.
A Pennsylvania 'election judge' has major concerns about interference in the upcoming November election. Emily Carr, who has only been old enough to vote in one general election in her lifetime, tells DailyMail.com that electronic voting machines and outdated laws and bad actors could sway the outcome in the battleground state. Carr, 24, has been an election volunteer for years, steadily climbing the ranks from clerk to minority inspector and later onto majority inspector before being appointed as a judge of elections in her home county. Americans are sworn in as election officials with no experience and no background checks - something she says is cause for concern. She expressed concern over just how chaotic and unorganized election day can be - and the many mistakes that could lead to improperly counted ballots.
First came the donors raising concerns at the weekend about President Joe Biden's fitness to run for reelection. Then this week, elected Democrats began wondering aloud whether the 81-year-old should step aside. Now an exclusive poll for DailyMail.com reveals that half of all voters believe he should give up while there is still time to find a replacement candidate, including more than a third of Democratic voters, after his disastrous debate performance.
New York magazine's Intelligencer reporter Olivia Nuzzi revealed in a deep dive into the embattled president's mental decline what some Democrats actually believe is going on behind the scenes. She explained that a theory long dismissed as right-wing propaganda is now being considered by elite Democrats, highlighting the levels of panic within even liberal circles about Biden's wellbeing.
Democratic governors said Wednesday night that they expressed 'concerns' with President Joe Biden at a White House meeting with several of the party's rising stars, but the 81-year-old's heels were dug in. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the current head of the Democratic Governors Association, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul were tasked with addressing the press after the meeting.
President Joe Biden privately told a key ally he is weighing whether or not to drop out of the presidential race, a shocking admission that points to the dismal state of his candidacy. Biden, coming off of last week's disastrous debate performance, acknowledged he only has through this weekend to convince voters he is mentally up for the job. He'll be in Madison, Wisconsin, on Friday, where he will sit for an interview with ABC News. He travels to Pennsylvania on Sunday.
Joe Biden made the concession during a fundraiser in the ritzy D.C. suburb of McLean, Virginia Tuesday night. The 81-year-old president told the crowd he 'wasn't very smart' and that he 'didn't listen to my staff. 'It's not an excuse but an explanation,' he said. The under siege leader had an entire week holed up at Camp David to prep for the debate after spending the Juneteenth holiday at Rehoboth Beach. Before that he did back-to-back trips to France (top inset with Emmanuel Macron) to mark the D-Day anniversary and then to Italy (bottom inset with Giorgia Meloni) for the G7.
Welcome to the U.S. politics live blog where a blistering new poll for one of the presidential candidates shows him slipping behind in nearly every battleground state. And a new Democrat frontrunner replacement for Biden has emerged - Michelle Obama, the former First Lady of the United States, currently polls with a massive 50-39 lead over former President Trump.
The White House on Tuesday tried to explain away 81-year-old President Joe Biden 's disastrous debate performance as just 'a bad night' and the result of a 'cold.' But in her first briefing since Biden struggled to hold his train of thought during a 90-minute showdown with former President Donald Trump, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had to answer extraordinary questions about whether her boss was suffering from dementia or another debilitating condition. The tense exchanges show how the issue of a declining president will overshadow the rest of this year's election, as nervous Democrats begin openly calling for Biden to step aside.
Welcome to DailyMail.com's live blog where it's another day of the Biden campaign scrambling to stay alive. Growing Democratic uproar over President Joe Biden's shockingly feeble debate performance on Thursday night appears to be turning into a full-blown party revolt. And now donors are floating putting money behind Kamala Harris if Biden ends up throwing in the towel.
Growing Democratic uproar over President Joe Biden 's shockingly feeble debate performance on Thursday night appears to be turning into a full-blown party revolt. 'For Biden's own good and the good of the country, he should step aside immediately,' major Democratic donor and former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson told DailyMail.com. 'The fact that it has now been three days and Biden has done nothing to reassure us confirms my worst fears.' Tilson has given the party more than $300,000 in recent years. Days after the President struggled to hold his train of thought and tailed off mid-answer into incomprehensible gibberish during the CNN debate, left-wing benefactors are still up in arms.
Welcome to DailyMail.com's live blog where President Joe Biden is scrambling to save his 2024 reelection campaign after his disastrous debate last week as top donors are weighing whether to pull out. A new poll revealed that Donald Trump is up over Biden in a critical state to winning in November, that the GOP hasn't captured since 2000. Trump celebrated his 'big win' at the Supreme Court after justices determined he has immunity from federal prosecution for actions taken while in office - while Democrats, including AOC, melted down.
Democrat donors and insiders are growing furious that First Lady Jill Biden won't advise her husband to drop out of the race. In recent days after President Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance, it seems the person pushing most for him to continue running is his wife. A chorus of Democrats are openly calling for the presumed Democratic nominee to be replace after stumbling over his words and losing his train of thought multiple times during his Thurday's night debate with Donald Trump.
Despite mounting pressure from the Democrats to consider his political future after a car-crash debate performance, Joe Biden seems to be staying firmly in the race with Jill Biden stubbornly standing by his side. And her actions over the past 48 hours are clear that she is the one firmly pulling the strings over her husband's decision to stay in the race. The CNN performance where he meandered through answers and lost his train of thought sparked an unprecedented panic in the party.
'Did anyone last night watch a thing called the debate? Man, that was a big one,' he told the a crowd in the crucial swing state of Virginia. 'Biden spent the entire week at Camp David resting, working, studying-he studied so hard he didn't know what the hell he was doing.' 'He got the debate rules he wanted, he got the date he wanted, at the network he wanted with the [moderators] he wanted. Trump added that the question is not if Biden can survive a 90-minute debate, but whether the country can survive another four years of him in the White House.
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon promised that his MAGA media empire would keep broadcasting even as he prepared to report to prison for a four-month sentence on Monday. He sent a message to DailyMail.com on Friday, soon after the Supreme Court rejected his attempt to delay his sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the January 6 attack. 'I'm a political prisoner. And I won't be the last until we rid ourselves of the Biden regime's lawfare,' he said. 'The rancid nature of this regime was on display for the world to see in all its glory last night.
As some Democrats sound the alarms and call for President Biden to be removed from the top of the ticket, Democratic voters in Georgia expressed disappointment in the president's debate performance but not surprise. Amid the bed-wetting by some party officials, voters in the crucial battleground state question who could actually replace Biden at this late stage and are mixed on even attempting to.
An exclusive poll for DailyMail.com found that a clear majority of independent voters believe President Joe Biden should no longer be the Democratic nominee after a car-crash debate with Donald Trump. Some 62 percent said he should be dumped from the ticket. Biden looked all of his 81 years on Thursday night as he repeatedly lost his train of thought and meandered into silence. Trump, 78, was able to land his punches while his Democratic opponent struggled to push back on some of his more outlandish claims.
President Joe Biden started the first debate with Donald Trump sounding hoarse. It quickly got worse as he lost his train of thought and meandered into silence. For three and a half years the White House has protected Biden, 81, from questions about his frailty, reducing his schedule ahead of arduous foreign trips, keeping reporters at bay, and even swapping out the steps on Air Force One for the shorter, easier stairs. But there is no hiding place during a 90-minute debate in front of the live television cameras.
President Joe Biden suffered repeated senior moments in Thursday night's debate, struggling to find his words as he talked about various policy issues and giving Donald Trump an opening to go straight on the attack. His first mistake came within 12 minutes of his showdown with Trump and then they continued throughout the night as he fumbled when talking about the number of billionaires in America and the situation on the border. Trump didn't wait long to slam Biden, 81, on the fumbles.
President Joe Biden broke cover Thursday afternoon after spending seven days holed up at Camp David preparing for tonight's debate against former President Donald Trump. Biden took Marine One from the presidential retreat in the Catoctin mountains to Joint Base Andrews, where he boarded Air Force One en route to Atlanta, Georgia.
Jim Jordan said he plans to brief Donald Trump on how ex-intel officials who signed on to the letter deeming the Hunter Biden laptop misinformation were being actively paid by the CIA. The Judiciary chairman told DailyMail.com exclusively that he speaks with the former president about once a week, and he expects the Hunter Biden laptop and the letter signed by 51 former officials to come up in Thursday night's debate. 'I talked to him just about every week ... he called me out of the blue the other day to say he was having dinner with a colleague of ours,' Jordan said. 'I'll probably talk to him at some point here this week about the latest report we just released on the 51 former Intel officials.'
Voters in a majority black Georgia county are almost evenly split in their support for Joe Biden and Donald Trump for president, but some wish other surprising candidates would hop in the race. DeKalb County, a majority black county in Atlanta that broke for Biden by a whopping 67 points in 2020, is expected to be a Democrat stronghold in the upcoming 2024 election. Ahead of the first presidential debate hosted by CNN this Thursday in Atlanta, DailyMail.com spoke exclusively with black voters from the area about which candidate they are backing and their thoughts ahead of the first political prize fight.
It's a political whodunnit that cuts across the nation's culture wars just as the veepstakes reach fever pitch. J.D. Vance 's Wikipedia change was edited on Tuesday to bring his views on abortion more in line with those of former President Donald Trump, according to an online log of changes. But who was behind it? The Ohio senator is one of the frontrunners to be named as Trump's veep.
Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing a new ethics complaint alleging she did not report tens of thousands of dollars in assets from her husband's weed and alcohol business. The complaint comes after a Minnesota Reformer report about Omar's husband being sued for failing to properly pay back his business investors. It calls on the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to launch a 'preliminary inquiry' before referring the matter to the House Ethics Committee. In the fall of 2021, Tim Mynett, a Democratic operative and husband of Omar as of 2020, his longtime business partner, Will Hailer secured a $300,000 investment from D.C. restaurateur Naeem Mohd to start a wine business, eStCru.
Hunter Biden had sex with Lunden Roberts' friend after he found out she was pregnant with their child and after listening to a recording of the baby's heartbeat. In her forthcoming book, Out of the Shadows: My Life Inside the Wild World of Hunter Biden , the mother of 5-year-old Navy Joan described Biden's erratic and devastating behavior after she revealed her pregnancy to him.
Democrat George Latimer has beat out incumbent progressive Rep. Jamaal Bowman, the AP projects. Bowman is the first 'Squad' member to be unseated, putting the future of the hardcore progressive faction on shaky ground. It also does not bode well for anti-Israel voices in Congress . Bowman's district is partly affluent, white and Jewish in Westchester and partly black and brown voters in the Bronx. Bowman was one of the first to demand a ceasefire and has flirted with conspiracies about Israel, prompting even some within his own party to accuse him of antisemitism.
GOP Rep. John Curtis looks poised to be Utah's next senator after victory in a primary Tuesday night against right-wing candidate Trent Staggs. Curtis now heads to a general election in November where he should glide to victory: former President Donald Trump won the state in 2020 by over 20 points. Despite having the weight of Trump behind him, Staggs was not able capture a victory on Tuesday in a blow to the ex-president's record.
Vice Presidential frontrunner J.D. Vance has some advice for Donald Trump ahead of the first debate on Thursday: Show your heart. 'He loves families. He sort of just likes people,' the Ohio senator told Charlie Kirk on his podcast. 'And I think if we can get that to sort of shine through, then that's going to help him more than any like particular policy debating point.'
Allies of former President Donald Trump are launching 'No Tax on Tips' stickers to turn every restaurant receipt into a campaign billboard. Trump unveiled his campaign pledge during a rally in Las Vegas earlier this month as he tries to woo workers in service industries, promising that tipped workers would no long pay taxes on gratuities if he wins reelection in November. The idea has caught hold among supporters who have been writing 'no tax on tips' on their receipts.
Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman is fighting for his political survival as voters head to the polls in New York for the Democratic primary. The far-left Squad member is locked in a contentious primary against George Latimer that will test whether his support for Palestinians, his furious criticism of Israel and his progressive policies will lead to his downfall in his Bronx and Westchester district. Bowman is seeking a third term in a primary that has seen historic levels of spending. The powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has poured $15million into a campaign against him. 'We are going to show f***ing AIPAC, the power of the motherf***ing South Bronx!' Bowman yelled Saturday at a rally with fellow progressive 'Squad' member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders , I-Vt.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rounded on liberal activists in an interview published Friday, saying he was shocked by the number of young Americans who said they backed Hamas and ridiculing the 'Gays for Gaza' movement. 'The people who protest with these killers … You have Gays for Gaza,' he said. 'That's an absurdity if I've ever heard one. If you are gay in Gaza, you'll be shot in the back of the head.
More than 150,000 people dead and another nine million forced from their homes by a year of fighting. The African nation of Sudan is once again on the brink of genocide as rival generals battle for power. Yet when John Kirby, the White House national security communications adviser, was asked what the Biden administration was doing to help ease a deepening humanitarian crisis he had nothing to offer.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a staggering estimated net worth of $250 million and has traded nearly $4 million worth of stock this year, financial records show, providing insights into her and other lawmaker's lucrative political careers. Officially, lawmakers are not allowed to trade stocks using information learned on Capitol Hill. But that rule has been hard to enforce, so in 2012, the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act was passed to force politicians to disclose their trades. The act forces officials to publicly disclose their transactions valued over $1,000 within 30 days of receiving notice of the trade and 45 days of the date of the trade. However, it does not require members to disclose the exact price of a trade but rather a range. Members must report trades made by themselves, their spouse or dependents - and the transparency law has led to a wealth of information about top politicians' pricey portfolios which can reach up to the tens, if not hundreds, of millions. Pelosi, Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., Rep. Dan Mueser, D-Pa., Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., for example, have all traded over a million dollars in securities this year, according to federal data compiled by politician trade tracker Quiver Quantitative.
Welcome to DailyMail.com's US politics blog. For the first time, Donald Trump's presidential campaign reported having more cash in its main account than President Joe Biden's re-election campaign had in its account, financial disclosures showed on Thursday, as both sides built their war chests ahead of the Nov. 5 election. Trump's campaign had about $116 million in the bank at the end of May, more than double what it had a month earlier, while Biden's campaign told the Federal Election Commission it had about $91 million in the bank, just above what it had at the end of April.
Senior judges urged Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon to step back from overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case when it was assigned to her, a new report reveals. Cannon has infuriated Trump critics by issuing procedural decisions that had the effect of slowing down the case, which once had a May trial date on the books.
President Joe Biden heads to the reclusive mountain resort of Camp David on Thursday night to lock himself up with advisers to prepare for next week's debate with Donald Trump. With the showdown one week away, Biden, who prefers briefing binders and practice sessions, will be focused on holding Trump accountable on his record and coming up with punchy one-liners to throw off the former president. Trump, meanwhile, has been trying out new catch phrases and bits of rhetoric, ready to pound his rival with his words.
Doug Burgum's looks, loyalty and business success have propelled him to the top of Donald Trump's list of potential vice presidents. But does the North Dakota governor have a fatal flaw? Ever since announcing his run for the governor's residence in 2016, his public appearances have been characterized by a tendency to choke up.
President Joe Biden insisted Tuesday that he's not 'playing politics' with immigration policy, at the same event where he ripped into former President Donald Trump for promising to put illegal immigrants in detention camps. At an East Room event, Biden rolled out a new policy that would allow roughly 500,000 undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens a pathway to citizenship if they've lived in the country for at least 10 years.
Biden, who has struggled in the polls nationally and in key swing states, has left Democrats wondering how to jump start his floundering campaign. Questions and doubts exist over the health and ability to perform the job of Biden, at 81, the oldest president in American history. Doubts have also existed over the ability of Harris - the first female and first black vice president in American history - as second-in-command given Biden's age. Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker wrote in the Jeff Bezos-owned paper on Tuesday that Democrats should look to their recent past for a new VP.
Donald Trump for once stood up for the media after Joe Biden's campaign claimed multiple videos of the president freezing are 'deceptively edited.' The former president decried Biden, 81, for 'humiliating' the U.S. on the world stage after a series of awkward interactions and freezes during international trips and domestic events. Despite spending a good chunk of his remarks railing against Bidens' flubs, Trump made his own fumble when he used the term 'clean fakes' instead of 'deep fakes.'
The Secret Service destroyed a video that captured Commander Biden chomping down on one of its agents - an incident where White House tours had to be paused for 20 minutes so blood could be cleaned from the floor. DailyMail.com filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Secret Service in March after a video was mentioned as part of an email that detailed a June 15, 2023 biting incident with the since-banished first dog.
The House Ethics Committee in a rare public statement announced they would conduct 'further review' into Rep. Matt Gaetz on charges that include sex abuse and illicit drug use. Gaetz on Monday had said the committee was opening 'new frivolous investigations' into him which he blamed on former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The allegations the committee said it is conducting further review on include whether Gaetz 'engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.' Gaetz has denied all of the allegations and the committee said he has been 'difficult' to obtain information from. They've already spoken with more than a dozen witnesses, issued 25 subpoenas and reviewed thousands of pages of documents.
Melania Trump , 54, will hold a fundraiser at Trump Tower in Manhattan on July 8 in a rare political appearance for her husband. The former first lady has been largely absent from the 2024 campaign trail despite former President Donald Trump's de facto status as the Republican nominee in November. But the $100,000 per-head event next month with the Log Cabin Republicans will be Melania's second fundraiser appearance with this group during this campaign cycle.
Nearly every time President Joe Biden appears in public these days, he fuels the chatter: Will aging Joe bow out of the 2024 race? Will he be forced to step aside? On Saturday, video of former President Barack Obama reaching for Biden's hand and seemingly guiding the 81-year-old Commander-in-Chief off the stage at a Los Angeles fundraiser went viral. Last week, Biden stood motionless and stared blankly for a full minute at a Juneteenth celebration at the White House , as people around him sang and danced to the music. It seems no matter how much cold water the Biden campaign or Democratic consultants throw on his raging fire of speculation, Americans will not be put off the Great Joe Biden Replacement Theory.
One of Melania Trump 's former close confidants turned scathing critics made an eyebrow raising claim about the relationship between Donald Trump and Melania. Stephanie Winstom Wolkoff, who once served as a senior adviser to Melania Trump, posted a clip on X of the opening sequence of The Apprentice on Sunday that paints Trump as a family man.
Welcome to DailyMail.com's U.S. politics live blog where Donald Trump's vice presidential contenders are feeling the pressure. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden appeared to freeze on stage after giving remarks at a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles on Saturday night before Obama took him by the arm in a shocking moment. Follow along for live coverage:
Obama to the rescue! President Joe Biden appeared to freeze on stage after giving remarks at a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles on Saturday night before his old boss took him by the arm and pulled the president away. The incident captured on video is the latest in a series of episodes that have plagued 81-year-old Biden as he mounts a second bid for the White House. In the video, Biden and Obama are seen waving and smiling while receiving a standing ovation in the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
A terrorist attack on U.S. soil is a near certainty and will be even more deadly than the 9/11 tragedy, two counter-terrorism experts told DailyMail.com. That's largely due to the massive influx of illegal and unvetted foreign nationals into the country through the U.S.-Mexico border. A former high-ranking FBI official and a 25-year combat veteran specializing in terrorism and hostage rescue say the threat of an explosive or gun-operated attack is not a matter of if but when.
Outweighing the good moments at the G7 were the ones that became a PR disaster, strengthening perceptions that President Joe Biden's health and mental capabilities have gotten worse. The visuals, however, have taken root: Biden appeared to wander off during a demonstration by parachute jumpers, he's been staged managed by the Italian prime minister, and he snapped at a reporter who asked him about the war in the Middle East because he wanted to talk about Ukraine instead. Biden, 81, has had a rough 48 hours in Italy , battling the 80-degree weather and a brutal schedule of jammed-packed days. The president is also coming off a five-day trip to France and seeing his son Hunter convicted of three felonies tied to a 2018 handgun purchase, which has aides worried about the personal toll on the commander-in-chief.
A Republican running for Congress in Oregon advises voters against their push to secede the eastern portion of the state to conservative Idaho , saying residents need to seek change at the ballot box. At the end of May, 13 counties in eastern Oregon voted to begin negotiating terms on how to secede to the more conservative neighboring state of Idaho. This Greater Idaho Movement has been ongoing for years because conservatives there feel underrepresented due to Oregon's populated liberal bastions in the west such as Portland. Monique DeSpain, a retired Air Force colonel, who's running for Oregon's Fourth Congressional District - which includes the liberal college town of Eugene - is encouraging residents to stay in the state and send her to Washington so she can clean up the progressive area's problems.
Former President Donald Trump is celebrating turning 78 on Friday with a birthday bash in West Palm Beach, Florida. The former president will headline a 'Club 47' event near Mar-a-Lago at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, where some of his most boisterous supporters plan to don red, white and blue attire to fete the presumptive Republican nominee. The invitation showed the ex-president hugging an American flag - an homage to his Flag Day birth.
Almost half of likely voters expect President Joe Biden to make a series of embarrassing flubs when he goes to head-to-head with Donald Trump in their first debate this month. Some 49 percent think he will forget where he is and 41 percent said they expect him to walk off the wrong side of the stage, according to a new poll by J.L. Partners. Another 40 percent think he will trouble standing up during the CNN debate in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27.
In a wide-ranging speech to the House GOP on Thursday, Donald Trump insisted the Russia-Ukraine war would not have happened under his watch and urged Republicans to get better about messaging on abortion - but didn't seem to explain how. The former president told a horde of Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill that Vladimir Putin is 'more afraid of him than Biden,' Foreign Affairs Chair Mike McCaul told DailyMail.com after the meeting. 'He said he told Putin that if he invaded Ukraine , he would hit him hard,' the Texas Republican went on. Trump had a particular concern for the Russian nuclear submarines off of Cuba , and hardly if at all mentioned Israel , according to the recollection of members leaving the meeting.
Nancy Pelosi 's daughter avidly denied Donald Trump 's account that one of the former speaker's daughters had told him he and her mom would have been 'great' together in another life. 'Nancy Pelosi's daughter is a whacko, her daughter told me if things were different Nancy and I would be perfect together, there's an age difference though,' the former president said in a meeting with House Republicans on Thursday, according to Punchbowl's retelling. Multiple members confirmed to DailyMail.com that Trump had told the story of her daughter mentioning Pelosi and Trump would be 'great' together. 'Speaking for all 4 Pelosi daughters - this is a LIE. His deceitful, deranged obsession with our mother is yet another reason Donald Trump is unwell, unhinged and unfit to step foot anywhere near her - or the White House ,' Christine Pelosi shot back to the comments on Twitter .
Welcome to DailyMail.com's DAILY US POLITICS BLOG, with live coverage of Donald Trump's return to Capitol Hill and President Joe Biden's trip to the G7 in Italy. The former president, 77, is back for the first time since the January 6, 2021, Capitol Riot, and will meet with House and Senate Republicans to set out his 2025 agenda. Trump still dominates the party and is looking to lock up even more support ahead of his November general election showdown with Biden. The 81-year-old is in Italy meeting with G7 leaders, many of whom are facing elections or dwindling popularity back home.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to rule out President Joe Biden commuting son Hunter's sentence for buying a gun while addicted to crack cocaine. 'I haven't spoken to the president about this since the verdict came out. And as we all know, the sentencing hasn't even been scheduled yet,' Jean-Pierre said in a gaggle with reporters on board Air Force One Wednesday.
Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman was speeding at the time when he hit a car Sunday, and police say he is at fault. According to a recently released police report, the Democrat is 'at fault' for hitting a car while driving 'at a high rate of speed, well over the posted speed limit.' Maryland State Police told DailyMail.com the senator was driving a Chevrolet Traverse when he rear-ended a Chevrolet Impala in northern Maryland near the Pennsylvania and West Virginia border on Sunday. Following the crash both of the Fettermans were transported to War Memorial Hospital in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Sen. Fetterman was treated for a bruised shoulder.
Republicans are sounding the alarm on how 'easy' President Joe Biden 's policies have made it for terrorists to enter the U.S. - and potentially plan devastating attacks. Eight Tajikistan nationals with potential ties to ISIS were arrested in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles last week in a coordinated sting by law enforcement, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. These terrorist-affiliated individuals all entered the country through the U.S.-Mexico border, and ICE officials told the New York Post that a wiretap revealed one of the suspects had been talking about bombs, prompting concern that a horrific attack like 9/11 or the Boston Marathon bombing could occur again. This raised alarm bells on Capitol Hill among GOP members who have for years been calling for border security reforms to keep terrorists and their friends out.
A staffer for Republican Rep. Mike Collins (Ga.) is the latest victim of crime in the ritzy D.C. Navy Yard neighborhood just blocks from the U.S. Capitol. Octavian Miller detailed that he and a friend were walking through Navy Yard over the weekend when 'two masked individuals' emerged from a car and were both pointing guns at their torsos. 'One of them asked for my watch, which I wasn't ready to die for,' Miller told Fox News in an interview alongside his boss where he detailed that another friend was able to get in a punch before fleeing.
Donald Trump's 34 felony convictions are likely not to impact the 2024 election, according to a historian who correctly predicted nine of the last 10 presidential election outcomes. American University's Dr. Allan Lichtman said despite speculation the historic New York City trial against the former president will impact his chances in November one way or the other, he isn't so convinced. A lot would have to go wrong for President Joe Biden to lose to Trump as it currently stands, Lichtman claims, - but he isn't making any final projections quite yet.
President Joe Biden arrived in Wilmington, Delaware late afternoon Tuesday and immediately embraced son Hunter Biden - emotionally hugging him on the tarmac of Delaware Air National Guard - where Marine One had touched down. After their initial hug, the president tugged Hunter over again and held onto him for at least five seconds, whispering into his ear. Biden embraced Hunter's wife Melissa Cohen. He bent down and hugged Baby Beau, 4, the couple's son, kissing the little boy's blond head.
President Joe Biden honored gun violence survivors in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday just moments before jetting off to Delaware to be with his son who was just found guilty of three firearms-related charges. During his remarks, Biden repeatedly touted his record on implementing more strict gun control laws, but did not bring up his son Hunter, 54, or the irony of the event taking place the same day as the jury ruling in the federal gun case. He did, however, reference his late son Beau Biden and how he could relate to families of victims of gun violence because of the call he received informing him of his son's death.
Nancy Mace seemingly overcharged taxpayers by $12,000 for a Washington, D.C. home last year for a home she also listed as a short-term rental. She's now the subject of a complaint with the Ethics Committee: lawmakers are being asked to probe whether Mace overcharged taxpayers for thousands of dollars in costs related to her Capitol Hill row home, the New York Times first reported. Mace has the Capitol Hill property listed for rent, DailyMail.com can reveal. A website active as of this writing lists it as open to event rentals for 10-24 guests and touts the property as 'perfectly situated a block from the Capitol. Perfect for short events where proximity to the capitol is ideal.' The home was also listed on VRBO as of April under a host name of 'Ruth M.' Ruth is Mace's middle name. It's not clear when it was posted on the site or for how long - but it's since been taken down.
Joe Biden (left) sparked concerns Monday night when he appeared to freeze (footage right) for the better part of a minute during a lively Juneteenth celebration at the White House. Philonise Floyd, brother of the late George Floyd, flanked Biden on his left and eventually noticed the concerning pause he was taking and wrapped his arm around him in an apparent effort to help. Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, grooved along to the lively band. Biden then delivered an incoherent speech, his latest concerning behavior after more than 45 Republican and Democratic lawmakers and staffers revealed a spate of recent mistakes by the commander-in-chief.
Stormy Daniels shares that she was sexually abused by her best friend'sneighbor when she was just nine and her love of horses was likely how she survived a tumultuous childhood. Daniels talks about her early years in the first episode of DailyMail.com's Everything I Know About Me: Stormy Daniels, which was released Tuesday.
Taxpayers will pick up the majority of cost for Jill Biden's whirlwind flights between Wilmington, Delaware, and France so she could be at son Hunter's side during his federal gun trial although the Democratic Party will chip in some funds. The first lady racked up $345,400 in flight costs, the National Taxpayers Union Foundation estimated, as she boomeranged between the United States and France last week, traveling separately from husband Joe Biden so she could support her family at home while also representing the United States abroad. Her political party will repay the government for what it would cost for her to fly commercially with taxpayers footing the rest of the bill.
Vice President Kamala Harris lashed out at a pro-Gaza protestor on Saturday even after mourning the loss of civilian lives in Gaza during the war with Israel .
President Joe Biden told the story of Army Rangers scaling a 100ft cliff under Nazi gunfire 80 years ago and urged Americans to follow their example in vanquishing hateful ideologies at home and abroad in a major set-piece speech Friday. Standing above the beaches where Allied forces poured into occupied France on D-Day, he invoked their spirit to set out his own vision for America's place in the world. 'Does anyone doubt they would want America to stand up against Putin's aggression here in Europe today,' he said.
Welcome to DailyMail.com's daily politics blog, with live coverage of the biggest stories from the corridors of power. Prosecutors are expected to wrap up their case against Hunter Biden in his gun trial, after his ex Hallie Biden detailed how they used crack cocaine together. The court was also shown surveillance footage of the moment she threw the gun at the center of the case in the trash can outside a Delaware grocery store.
President Joe Biden on Friday apologized to Volodymyr Zelensky for the way hardline Republicans delayed a huge package of funding earlier this year and promised that the U.S. would continue to stand with Ukraine in its time of need. 'We're still in ... completely, thoroughly,' Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart during their meeting at a Paris hotel. Both leaders are in the French capital after Thursday's 80th anniversary of D-Day, which proved a chance to underline international alliances against totalitarianism.
Eleven supporters of former President Donald Trump have been hospitalized for heat-related symptoms after waiting in line to hear the presumptive GOP nominee speak at an event Thursday in Arizona. Trump is headlining a Turning Point USA event at Dream City Church in Phoenix, where temperatures soared to 110 degrees around 1:30 p.m. as droves of his supporters waited outside.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden had an emotional meeting with D-Day veterans ahead of the ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, saluting their service and making jokes with them. The veterans are all older than the 81-year-old Biden. Many of them are even in their 100s. 'Don't get old,' one veteran told the president.
Welcome to DailyMail.com's daily politics blog, with live coverage of the biggest stories on the people in power. Hunter Biden will return to a Delaware federal court for the second day of testimony in his gun trial, after his infamous laptop was dramatically revealed to the jury . His wife Melissa Cohen was also at the center of drama when she called a Trump aide a 'Nazi piece of s***' . President Joe Biden landed in Paris on Wednesday morning to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day on the beaches of Normandy . He will try and invoke Ronald Reagan with a speech on Pointe du Hoc - the clifftop that saw one of the heroic missions from American troops .
Donalds, R-Fla., at a black voter outreach event in Philadelphia on Tuesday, said he is starting to see a 'reinvigoration of the black family' that is 'helping to breathe the revival of a Black middle class in America.' He went on to say that Black voters had become loyal to Democrats due to their leadership in civil rights movement but Democratic policies went on to erode their family values. 'You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together. During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative - Black people have always been conservative-minded - but more Black people voted conservatively,' Donalds, R-Fla., had said during an event to reach out to black voters on Tuesday.
A bombshell new report alleges that just days before the GOP took over the House majority in 2022, over 100 encrypted files relating to the January 6th Capitol riot probe were mysteriously deleted. In a new interview with Fox News, the chairman of the House Administration Committee's Oversight Subcommittee, Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, described the revelation as bringing the investigation into a 'new phase.'...read
The first lady's attempts at bringing some life into the White House's Christmas celebrations have been met with criticism.
Jill Biden's White House Christmas video is slammed as 'bizarre'Published by Associated Newspapers Ltd
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