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Politics tamfitronics Biden to meet with Democratic governors to shore up support

Joe Biden has invited Democratic governors to meet with him on Wednesday, as he attempts to shore up support among his party’s leaders after his disastrous debate performance last week.

The meeting with governors is likely to be mostly virtual, according to Associated Press, and marks the strongest indication yet that Biden is attempting to reassure those in his own party that he is capable of continuing his reelection campaign.

Here’s a recap of the latest developments:

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The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York postponed his sentencing to 18 September, agreeing to pause proceedings to weigh whether the supreme court’s recent ruling on immunity could imperil the conviction.

The first congressional Democrat broke ranks and called on Joe Biden to withdraw his presidential candidacy following last week’s calamitous debate performance. Lloyd Doggett, a House member for Texas, became the first Democrat in the House of Representative to urge the president to step aside.

Biden’s medical team said a cognitive test “is not warranted” and “not necessary”, the White House has said. The comments came after Nancy Pelosi, the former Democratic House speaker, admitted that questions over whether Biden’s debate performance were “an episode” or “a condition” were legitimate.

Biden has invited Democratic governors to meet with him on Wednesday, as he attempts to shore up support among his party’s leaders.

Biden will sit down for his first TV interview since his debate performance. The interview with ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos will air on Friday.

The former New York City mayor and legal adviser to Donald TrumpRudy Giuliani, was disbarred in New York after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss.

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People who have spent time with Joe Biden over recent months have said that the 81-year-old president’s lapses appear to have grown “more frequent, more pronounced and more worrisome”, according to a New York Times report.

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Several current and former officials have noticed that Biden has increasingly appeared “confused or listless”, with recent moments of disorientation generating concern among advisers and allies, the report said. According to the report:

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Last week’s debate prompted some around him to express concern that the decline had accelerated lately. Several advisers and current and former administration officials who see Mr. Biden regularly but not every day or week said they were stunned by his debate performance because it was the worst they had ever seen him.
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Joe Biden’s medical team said a cognitive test “is not warranted” and “not necessary”, the White House has said, after the president’s disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump last week.

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The White House’s press secretary Karine Jean-Pierrein a briefing with reporters today, said Biden had a cold and a “hoarse voice” during the debate, as she admitted “it was a bad night”.

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Asked if there was any consideration given to releasing a more robust set of medical records, Jean-Pierre replied:

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We have been transparent. We have released thorough reports from his medical team every year since he’s been in office.
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KJP on the debate: “We are not taking away from what you all saw, or what the American people saw. We understand. it was a bad night. It is not uncommon for incumbents to have a bad night on their first debate.” pic.twitter.com/FnBvOmo96W
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 2, 2024

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Asked about former House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comments earlier today in which she said both Biden and Trump should provide the public with test results regarding physical and mental health, the White House spokesperson said:

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His medical team have said it is not warranted. In this case, we have put forward a thorough, transparent annual report on his health. They have said that is not warranted. It is not necessary.
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Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush-money case has been postponed to September after the presiding judge, Juan Merchan, agreed to consider the possible impact of Monday’s supreme court ruling on presidential immunity.

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Trump became the first US president to be criminally convicted last month when a Manhattan jury found him guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an illicit hush-money scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The sentencing had previously been set for 11 July.

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The postponement sets the sentencing for 18 September, well after the Republican National Convention, where Trump will formally to accept the party’s presidential nomination.

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Nancy Pelosi, the former Democratic House speaker, has said that questions over Joe Biden’s ability to serve after his debate performance were “legitimate”.

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Pelosi, in an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday, backed Biden’s achievements and said the president “has a vision. He has knowledge. He has judgment. He has a strategic thinking and the rest.”

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But she conceded there was “mixed” feedback from Democratic donors about whether Biden was able to run for another term in office, adding that Donald Trump should be given the same scrutiny. She said:

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I think it’s a legitimate question to say, ‘is this an episode or is this a condition?’ And so when people ask that question, it’s legitimate, of both candidates.
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi says “both candidates” deserve scrutiny over their age, but says it’s fair to question Biden’s health:
“I think it’s a legitimate question to say, ‘Is this an episode or is this a condition?’ And so, when people ask that question, it’s legitimate.” pic.twitter.com/Y5OJCgtgmG
— The Recount (@therecount) July 2, 2024

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Joe Biden has just given a straightforward, short speech on weather and climate at an event in Washington, DC.

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It’s not a press conference or anything where, so far, there has been any scope for journalists to question the US president, he is at the city’s emergency operations center, with the DC mayor, Muriel Bowser.

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And he did not make any reference in his remarks to the political heat he’s getting after his feeble debate performance last week that only topped off months of concern about his advanced age and ability to campaign for and execute the job of president for a second term.

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Reading from a teleprompter and sounding assertive, though with the odd verbal stumble, Biden spelled out initiatives his administration is taking to deal with extreme weather in the US, especially heat and flooding, that is exacerbated by the human-driven climate crisis.

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And he criticized “my predecessor and the MAGA Republicans” for undermining action on climate change and planning to undo Biden’s actions if Donald Trump regains the White House this November.

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“They still deny climate change even exists – they must be living in a hold somewhere – at the expense of the safety of their constituents,” Biden said, adding: “It’s not only outrageous, it’s also willfully stupid…dumb.”

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Hello, US blog readers, it’s been a very newsy morning and there’s more to come. Joe Biden is (over)due to speak about extreme weather (not the political weather, although that may come up and is stormy) at an official event in Washington, DC, and the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, will brief in the west wing soon after.

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Here’s where things stand:

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Joe Biden has invited Democratic governors to meet with him on Wednesday, ie tomorrow, as he attempts to shore up support among his party’s leaders after his disastrous debate performance last week. It’s likely to be a virtual meeting.

Texas congressman Lloyd Doggett has become the first sitting Democratic lawmaker to officially call on Biden to step aside following last week’s dismal debate performance.

Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Arthur Aidalahas said he is “obviously disappointed” but not surprised after he was disbarred in the state of New York after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.

Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been stripped of his law license in the state of New York for his efforts to subvert the former president’s 2020 election loss, according to a court filing, which noted that he “flagrantly misused his prominent position as the personal attorney for former President Trump and his campaign, through which respondent repeatedly and intentionally made false statements … concerning the 2020 Presidential election, in which he baselessly attacked and undermined the integrity of this country’s electoral process.”

Prosecutors in the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragghas said it will not oppose a request by Donald Trump’s lawyers to file a motion arguing that his conviction should be set aside, following Monday’s supreme court immunity ruling. Prosecutors told the New York judge presiding over Trump’s hush-money trial, Juan Merchantthat they received a request from the former president to postpone the sentencing hearing, which is scheduled for 11 July.

Former congressman from Ohio Tim Ryan has become one of the first figures in the Democratic party to publicly call for Joe Biden to leave the presidential race, arguing that the party must “forge a new path forward” with Kamala Harris as the presidential nominee in November’s election.

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Joe Biden has invited Democratic governors to meet with him on Wednesday, as he attempts to shore up support among his party’s leaders after his disastrous debate performance last week.

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Texas congressman Lloyd Doggett has become the first sitting Democratic lawmaker to officially call on Joe Biden to step aside following last week’s dismal debate performance.

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In a statement on Tuesday, Doggett said Biden had “failed to effectively defend his many accomplishments and expose Trump’s many lies” on the debate stage.

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Doggett said he represented a congressional district once represented by Lyndon Johnson, who had made the painful decision to withdraw. “President Biden should do the same,” he said.

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While much of his work has been transformational, he pledged to be transitional. He has the opportunity to encourage a new generation of leaders from whom a nominee can be chosen to unite our country through an open, democratic process.
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He added that his decision was “not done lightly” and that his respect for all that Biden has achieved has not been diminished, but

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Recognizing that, unlike Trump, President Biden’s first commitment has always been to our country, not himself, I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw. I respectfully call on him to do so.
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Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer has said he is “obviously disappointed” but not surprised after he was disbarred in the state of New York after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.

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Giuliani’s attorney Arthur Aidala said they “put up a valiant effort” to prevent the disbarment but “we saw the writing on the wall”, according to Associated Press.

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A New York appeals court in Manhattan ruled on Tuesday that Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and Trump legal adviser, be “disbarred from the practice of law, effective immediately, and until the further order of this Court, and his name stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law in the State of New York”.

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Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been stripped of his law license in the state of New York for his efforts to subvert the former president’s 2020 election loss, according to a court filing.

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According to the court filing, Giuliani “flagrantly misused his prominent position as the personal attorney for former President Trump and his campaign, through which respondent repeatedly and intentionally made false statements … concerning the 2020 Presidential election, in which he baselessly attacked and undermined the integrity of this country’s electoral process.”

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The seriousness of his misconduct “cannot be overstated”, it states, adding that Giuliani “not only deliberately violated some of the most fundamental tenets of the legal profession, but he also actively contributed to the national strife that has followed the 2020 Presidential election, for which he is entirely unrepentant”.

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The Manhattan district attorney’s office has said it will not oppose a request by Donald Trump’s lawyers to file a motion arguing that his conviction should be set aside, following Monday’s supreme court immunity ruling.

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In a letter addressed to the New York judge presiding over Trump’s hush-money trial, Juan Merchan, prosecutors said they received a request from the former president to postpone the sentencing hearing, which is scheduled for 11 July, while Merchan weighs how Monday’s court ruling affects the case.

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Prosecutors wrote:

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Although we believe the defendant’s arguments to be without merit, we do not oppose his request for leave to file and putative request to adjourn sentencing pending determination of his motion.
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NEW – The Manhattan DA’s office said Tuesday it would not oppose Trump’s request to file a motion arguing his conviction should be tossed, a move that will almost certainly delay Trump’s sentencing, which is currently set for July 11. Reporting w/ @AaronKatersky & @PCCharalambous pic.twitter.com/z6VzU8L2ug
— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) July 2, 2024

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Mike Quigley, the longtime Democrat congressman from Illinois, has signaled his openness to replacing Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, saying that the president’s poor debate performance last week was not an aberration.

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“We have to be honest with ourselves. It wasn’t just a horrible night,” Quigley told CNN today.

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But I won’t go beyond that out of my respect and understanding for President Joe Biden, a very proud person who has served us extraordinarily for 50 years. I just want him to appreciate at this time just how much this impacts not just his race but all the other races coming in November.
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Quigley said Biden “has to be honest with himself” and warned that his decision “will have implications for decades to come”.

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.@RepMikeQuigley on @JoeBiden‘s possible replacement: “It’s his decision. I just want him to appreciate at this time just how much it impacts not just his race, but all of the other races coming in November … it wasn’t just a horrible night.” pic.twitter.com/nHHKHKBYyq
— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) July 2, 2024

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Former congressman from Ohio Tim Ryan has become one of the first figures in the Democratic party to publicly call for Joe Biden to leave the presidential race, arguing that the party must “forge a new path forward” with Kamala Harris as the presidential nominee in November’s election.

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“We have to rip the band aid off! Too much is at stake,” Ryan posted to X, adding that Harris would “energize our base, bring back young voters and give us generational change.”

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We have to rip the band aid off! Too much is at stake. ⁦@VP⁩ has significantly grown into her job, she will destroy Trump in debate, highlight choice issue, energize our base, bring back young voters and give us generational change. It’s time! https://t.co/izPypeSmDL
— Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) July 2, 2024

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In an op-ed in Newsweek, Ryan described Biden’s Thursday debate performance as “deeply troubling” and “heartbreaking”. “After deep reflection over these past few days, I strongly believe that our best path forward is Kamala Harris,” he wrote.

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Kamala Harris should be the Democratic nominee because she can energize the electorate and govern effectively as our next president. She has honed her raw talent and intelligence through a tough national campaign and three and a half years of experience that have her steeped in the knowledge of domestic and international issues. All of this while joyfully operating in our toxic and complicated political environment. In short, she is ready for the job.
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In a Monday evening address, Joe Biden issued a full-throated denunciation of the supreme court’s decision to grant his predecessor, Donald Trump, broad immunity from criminal charges of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, calling it a “dangerous precedent” that overturned the basic principle of equality before the law.

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In a 5-minute speech from the White House, Biden said the 6-3 ruling “undermined the rule of law” and rendered a “terrible disservice to the people of this nation” because it means Trump is much less likely to be held legally accountable for inciting a mob to launch a deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

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Citing and echoing the words of the liberal and dissenting supreme court justice, Sonia Sotomayor – who criticized the ruling – the president said: “I dissent.”

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“This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America,” said Biden.

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Each, each of us is equal before the law. No one, no one is above the law, not even the president of the United States.
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With today’s supreme court decision on presidential immunity that fundamentally changed for all practical purposes. Today’s decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits to what the president can do. This is a fundamentally new principle. It’s a dangerous precedent, because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law, even including the supreme court in the United States, the only limits will be self-imposed by the president alone.
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Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked the New York judge who presided over his hush-money trial to set aside his conviction and delay his sentencing, scheduled for later this month, following the supreme court’s ruling this week on presidential immunity.

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The letter asks judge Juan Merchant to delay the former president’s sentencing while he weighs the high court’s decision and how it could influence the New York case, AP reported.

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In the letter, Trump’s lawyers ask for permission to formally argue that the conviction should be overturned. The former president was convicted in New York of 34 counts of falsifying business records, arising from what prosecutors said was an attempt to cover up a hush-money payment just before the 2016 presidential election.

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Good morning US politics readers. Joe Biden’s reelection team held difficult phone calls on Sunday and Monday with top campaign funders in an attempt to reassure them that the 81-year-old president should stay in the race following his car crash debate performance last week.

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Senior campaign officials held a call on Monday evening with hundreds of top Democratic donors and fundraisers to tamp down the panic that has gripped the party since the CNN debate, multiple outlets reported. “Can the president make it through a campaign and another term?” One donor asked during the call, according to Reuters.

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The Biden campaign has been engaged in full-on damage control, while many Democratic officials and strategists are privately mulling whether Biden should remain on the ticket of step aside in favor of a younger candidate who might stand a better chance of defeating Donald Trump.

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Amid calls for the campaign to make Biden more visible, the president added public remarks to his schedule on Monday evening where he issued a full-throated denunciation of the supreme court’s decision to grant Trump broad immunity from criminal charges of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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Here’s what else we’re watching:

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Biden will receive an operational briefing and deliver remarks at the DC emergency operations center. In the evening, he’ll attend a campaign reception in McLean, Virginia.

The White House’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, will brief at 2.30pm ET.

Kamala Harris will speak at an event in San Francisco.

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Politics tamfitronics Closing summary

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The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York postponed his sentencing to 18 September, agreeing to pause proceedings to weigh whether the supreme court’s recent ruling on immunity could imperil the conviction.
The first congressional Democrat broke ranks and called on Joe Biden to withdraw his presi dential candidacy following last week’s calamitous debate performance. Lloyd Doggett, a House member for Texas, became the first Democrat in the House of Representative to urge the president to step aside.
Biden’s medical team said a cognitive test “is not warranted” and “not necessary”, the White House has said. The comments came after Nancy Pelosi, the former Democratic House speaker, admitted that questions over whether Biden’s debate performance were “an episode” or “a condition” were legitimate.
Biden has invited Democratic governors to meet with him on Wednesday, as he attempts to shore up support among his party’s leaders.
Biden will sit down for his first TV interview since his debate performance. The interview with ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos will air on Friday.
The former New York City mayor and legal adviser to Donald TrumpRudy Giuliani, was disbarred in New York after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss.

Politics tamfitronics Biden’s lapses increasingly common – report

Last week’s debate prompted some around him to express concern that the decline had accelerated lately. Several advisers and current and former administration officials who see Mr. Biden regularly but not every day or week said they were stunned by his debate performance because it was the worst they had ever seen him.

The Democratic congressional candidate for Colorado, Adam Frisch, has called on Joe Biden to step aside.

Frisch, who is running for Colorado’s 3rd congressional district, said in a statement on Tuesday that neither Biden nor Donald Trump is “fit for office”.

“We need a President that can unite America to realize our nation’s unlimited potential,” Frisch said, adding:

We deserve better. President Biden should do what’s best for the country and withdraw from the race.

For some time, I’ve been worried about the state of the presidential race. Neither candidate is fit for office, but only Joe Biden has the power and decency to move us forward by stepping aside and passing the baton to the next generation of leadership. pic.twitter.com/G2CijTSVnF

— Adam Frisch for CD-3 (@AdamForColorado) July 2, 2024nn”}}”>

For some time, I’ve been worried about the state of the presidential race. Neither candidate is fit for office, but only Joe Biden has the power and decency to move us forward by stepping aside and passing the baton to the next generation of leadership. pic.twitter.com/G2CijTSVnF
— Adam Frisch for CD-3 (@AdamForColorado) July 2, 2024

Politics tamfitronics White House says Biden cognitive test ‘not warranted’

Asked if there was any consideration given to releasing a more robust set of medical records, Jean-Pierre replied:

We have been transparent. We have released thorough reports from his medical team every year since he’s been in office.

KJP on the debate: “We are not taking away from what you all saw, or what the American people saw. We understand. it was a bad night. It is not uncommon for incumbents to have a bad night on their first debate.” pic.twitter.com/FnBvOmo96W

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 2, 2024nn”}}”>

KJP on the debate: “We are not taking away from what you all saw, or what the American people saw. We understand. it was a bad night. It is not uncommon for incumbents to have a bad night on their first debate.” pic.twitter.com/FnBvOmo96W
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 2, 2024

His medical team have said it is not warranted. In this case, we have put forward a thorough, transparent annual report on his health. They have said that is not warranted. It is not necessary.

Here’s a look at the announcement by judge Juan Merchant in which he postpone Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush-money case to 18 September, as shared by Law360’s Frank G. Runyeon.

NEW: Justice Merchan delays Trump’s NY sentencing until September. pic.twitter.com/CRg6nnE0qN

— Frank G. Runyeon (@frankrunyeon) July 2, 2024nn”}}”>

Merchan’s announcement comes after Manhattan prosecutors earlier today said they did not oppose a request by Trump’s lawyers to postpone his sentencing, originally set for 11 July.

Trump’s lawyers asked to have the case re-evaluated, and the sentencing postponed, in light of the supreme court’s decision on Monday that conferred broad immunity on former presidents for official acts undertaken in office.

Judges typically grant motions when they are unopposed. The postponement marks an unexpected setback for prosecutors and for the prospect of criminal accountability for Trump before the 2024 election, given that the other cases are indefinitely delayed.

Politics tamfitronics Trump hush-money sentencing delayed until September

The postponement sets the sentencing for 18 September, well after the Republican National Convention, where Trump will formally to accept the party’s presidential nomination.

Politics tamfitronics Pelosi says concerns about Biden’s health ‘legitimate’

Nancy Pelosi, the former Democratic House speaker, has said that questions over Joe Biden’s ability to serve after his debate performance were “legitimate”.

Pelosi, in an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday, backed Biden’s achievements and said the president “has a vision. He has knowledge. He has judgment. He has a strategic thinking and the rest.”

I think it’s a legitimate question to say, ‘is this an episode or is this a condition?’ And so when people ask that question, it’s legitimate, of both candidates.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi says “both candidates” deserve scrutiny over their age, but says it’s fair to question Biden’s health:

“I think it’s a legitimate question to say, ‘Is this an episode or is this a condition?’ And so, when people ask that question, it’s legitimate.” pic.twitter.com/Y5OJCgtgmG

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi says “both candidates” deserve scrutiny over their age, but says it’s fair to question Biden’s health:
“I think it’s a legitimate question to say, ‘Is this an episode or is this a condition?’ And so, when people ask that question, it’s legitimate.” pic.twitter.com/Y5OJCgtgmG
— The Recount (@therecount) July 2, 2024

Julian Castro, the former housing s ecretary and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, has suggested that Joe Biden should step aside, and that he believes there are stronger options out there for Democratsincluding Kamala Harris.

Castro, in an interview with MSNBC today, said:

I believe that another Democrat would have a better shot at beating Trump and because, as Congressman Doggett said in his statement that it’s too risky to let Donald Trump walk into this in November, … I think the Democrats would do well to find a different candidate.

Castro, who ran against Biden for the 2020 Democratic nomination, criticized Biden shortly after the president’s debate performance last week.

“Tonight was completely predictable,” Castro told reporters after the debate. Biden “had a very low bar going into the debate and failed to clear even that”, he said, adding that the president had “seemed unprepared, lost, and not strong enough to parry effectively with Trump”.

Politics tamfitronics Joanna Walters

Joanna Walters

Joe Biden said in his remarks in Washington DC, moments ago that extreme weather is affecting everyone across the US “and beyond”.

He noted the heat records that have been being “shattered” in the west and south-west in the early summer, in places such as Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada, and said that extreme heat is the primary weather-related killer in the US.

He also mentioned deadly Hurricane Beryl that’s roaring across the Caribbean right now as the earliest category 5 hurricane on record to brew out of the Atlantic.

“Ignoring climate change is deadly, dangerous and irresponsible,” he said.

The US president spelled out further action his administration plans to take in five areas: federal safety standards for excessive heat in the workplace; greater resilience to withstand flooding; more funding for communities to take action to protect against extreme weather; an Environmental Protection Agency report to be prepared showing “the continued impacts of climate change on the health of the American people” and a White House summit later this summer on the issue of extreme heat.

Politics tamfitronics Joe Biden delivers remarks on extreme weather at the D.C. Emergency Operations Center in Washington today. — Joe Biden delivers remarks on extreme weather at the Emergency Operations Center in Washington today. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

Politics tamfitronics Trump, GOP’s approach to climate change ‘willfully stupid’ – Biden

Politics tamfitronics Joanna Walters

Joanna Walters

Joe Biden has just given a straightforward, short speech on weather and climate at an event in Washington, DC.

And he criticized “my predecessor and the MAGA Republicans” for undermining action on climate change and planning to undo Biden’s actions if Donald Trump regains the White House this November.