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Donald Trump said that he did not expect Joe Biden to drop out of the race for the White House despite growing calls for him to do so, blasting the president and his “ego”.
Speaking to Fox News in his first interview since his now-infamous debate with Joe Biden on June 27, Trump said that he was “prepared” to face Biden in November, but that it “wasn’t going to matter. “They cover for him, and they still are sort of covering, but now it’s getting very difficult to do that,” he told Hannity.
“I think Jill [Biden] would like to see him stay, she’s having a good time. I noticed she seems to be having a good time, and I’m hearing that Hunter is calling the shots.”
It comes as Biden remained defiant that he will remain in the race for the White House after more members of the party added their voices to calls for him to step aside on Sunday – an unwelcome distraction as the president prepares to host a major Nato summit in Washington, DC this week.
The president doubled down on that in a call to MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday morning after spending the weekend on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania.
Key Points
- Biden refuses to exit race in letter to Congress: ‘Voters have spoken’
- More Democrats call for Biden to step aside from 2024 race in private ‘crisis talks’
- Fifth House Democrat calls publicly for president to drop out
- Schiff says Harris would be a ‘phenomenal’ president
White House denies President Biden has Parkinson’s disease
During the daily press briefing on 8 July, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shut down questions about whether or not President Joe Biden is being treated for, or has been diagnosed with, Parkinson’s disease. The questions were in response to reports that a Parkinson’s specialist has visited the White House multiple times. “Has the president been treated for Parkinson’s? No,” the press secretary said. “Is he being treated for Parkinson’s? No, he’s not. Is he taking medication for Parkinson’s? No.”
Oliver O'Connell9 July 2024 07:30 1720503000Kamala Harris avoids all mention of Biden campaign crisis
Vice President Kamala Harris barely mentioned her own running mate on Saturday as she spoke to Black voters and talked about the 2024 race at the annual Essence Festival in New Orleans.
The nation’s first Black vice president has been seen by many Democrats as the obvious choice to pick up the mantle of the party’s 2024 nomination should Joe Biden step aside in the coming days — a proposition the president has firmly denied will take place.
But, on Saturday, she clearly appeared ready to take on that role regardless as she hammered former president Donald Trump and sought to lay out the stakes of the election.
John Bowden reports.
Kamala Harris avoids all mention of Biden’s flubs at Essence Festival
The nation’s first Black vice president has been seen by many Democrats as the obvious choice to pick up the mantle of the party’s 2024 nomination should Joe Biden step aside in the coming days
Oliver O'Connell9 July 2024 06:30 1720495836Who are the 11 House Democrats who say Biden needs to step aside?
Despite attempting to dig himself out of the political crisis that has engulfed him since his debate debacle, Joe Biden appears to become more entrenched with every swipe of the shovel.
Eleven House Democrats – five publicly, six privately – have so far called on the president to drop out of the race for the White House.
At least 18 current and former senior party members have publicly raised doubts over whether the 81-year-old could defeat Donald Trump come November due to his perceived cognitive decline.
James Liddell looks at the list.
The eleven House Democrats who say Biden needs to step aside
Five lawmakers have publicly called on Biden to drop out, while at least six have privately urged the president to stand down
Oliver O'Connell9 July 2024 04:30 1720491520White House shoots down Parkinson’s speculation with explanation of specialist doctor visits
The former US Army doctor with a specialty in movement disorders who has visited the White House multiple times did so to conduct neurological exams on President Biden as part of his annual physical, Physician to the President Dr Kevin O’Connor has said.
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White House shoots down Parkinson’s speculation with explanation of doctor visits
President Biden’s physician released a memorandum confirming that a prominent neurologist had seen the president as part of his annual physical
Mike Bedigan9 July 2024 03:18 1720489475Trump predicts Kamala Harris would take over from Biden if he stood aside
“Well, I think that it will be her. I think they are very concerned about the vote. If it’s not her, they are very, very, I mean, they’re gun shy. They don’t want to do it any other way.
“She didn’t do a good job, and she hasn’t done a job on a lot of things so but it would seem to me that from a political standpoint, that’s who they’re going with. They’re not even talking about alternatives. And it seems that if, if he gets out for whatever reason, and I don’t think he wants to get out, but if he gets out, it will be her.
“Interestingly, he’s got a lot of power, because he’s got the delegates. You know, when you have the delegates, unless he says, I’m getting out, they can’t do anything to get him out, other than the 25th amendment.
“Would be the 25th amendment, but let’s assume, with not very much time left, you know, there’s not much time left, and then we can straighten out our country...But there’s not a lot of time left. But I think unless they use the 25th Amendment, which they’d use in a different sense, he has all the power. He has the delegates. He doesn’t have to get out. There’s nothing they can do to get him out. So he’ll get the nomination.”
Graeme Massie9 July 2024 02:44 1720489174Trump says he is ‘prepared' to face Biden
“Well, we prepared for him, but I don’t think it’s going to matter,” said Trump before listing off his supposed successes during his time in office.
Graeme Massie9 July 2024 02:39 1720489100Trump describes ‘strange' debate with Biden
“It was a strange evening. I will tell you it was a strange debate, because within a couple of minutes, the answers given by him were they didn’t they, they didn’t make a lot of sense,” Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
“And I don’t know, maybe it was a good makeup job, or maybe it wasn’t, but he was a very pale looking man, and when he started to speak, I don’t know, I thought his voice was weak
Trump told Hannity that he could not really understand what Biden was saying.
“They weren’t even answers. They were just words put together that had no meaning, or sense. But for the most part, I didn’t really look over.”
Graeme Massie9 July 2024 02:38 1720488895Trump claims there will ‘100%’ be a terrorist attack in US
Graeme Massie9 July 2024 02:34 1720488810"It's 100 percent certain that we're gonna have a terror attack" -- Trump pic.twitter.com/7oWyQSuNhc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 9, 2024
Trump praised CNN debate hosts
Graeme Massie9 July 2024 02:33 1720488636“Jake and Dana were really pretty good” — Trump on Hannity praises the CNN debate moderators pic.twitter.com/KlzV0Bq1K0
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 9, 2024
Biden says ‘voters have spoken’ and refuses to consider standing down
President Joe Biden is attempting to head off calls for him to step aside with a defiant letter to congressional Democrats, in which he says exiting the race would be an affront to democracy.
Biden’s missive, which he released publicly on his X account on Monday ahead of Congress’s return to Washington, opens with a declaration that he is “firmly committed” to remaining a candidate in this year’s presidential election and to “running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump”.
Andrew Feinberg reports from the White House.
Biden refuses to stand down in letter to Congress: ‘Voters have spoken’
‘I have heard the concerns that people have — their good faith fears and worries about what is at stake in this election. I am not blind to them,’ he said
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