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☆ Meet the Press – December 15, 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-15 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +53 min

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM:Yeah, I'm in a good place with Pete, unless something I don't know about comes out. Unless somebody is willing to come forward, I think he's going to get through. If he's, if he’s called to do something, he's going to do it, all the way. So I – I think he's going to have a hard time doing this. He was very clear, “no,” when I asked him should President-elect Trump, his administration, jail the January 6th committee members.

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☆ Biden grants clemency for nearly 1,500 people, the biggest single-day act of clemency in modern history
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Mj Lee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

White House officials are billing Thursday’s move as the biggest single-day act of clemency in modern history. “America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,” Biden said in a statement released shortly after CNN reported early Thursday morning on the coming announcement. With less than six weeks left until the end of Biden’s term, the president is expected to provide further relief. “I will take more steps in the weeks ahead,” Biden said. The White House counsel’s office has also been in consultation with the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney.

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☆ Former top Biden aide slams Hunter Biden pardon rollout strategy
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Samantha Waldenberg | Betsy Klein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Washington CNN —One of President Joe Biden’s former top communications advisers ravaged the president’s messaging rollout strategy around his decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, lambasting the situation as “exceptionally poor timing” in a major public rebuke of her former boss. Dunn was a deeply loyal aide with a big-picture view of Biden’s strategy – with a hand in nearly all aspects of his political life. The president has said he made the decision over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend while with family in Nantucket. A new CNN/SSRS poll released on Wednesday shows that just one-third of Americans (32%) approve of the president’s decision to pardon his son, while 68% disapprove. The White House has defended Biden’s decision, with press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre arguing that President-elect Donald Trump would not slow down in pursuit of bringing charges against Hunter Biden in the future.

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☆ Harris braces for the most critical moment of her political career at debate with Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Kamala Harris’ joyful campaign will Tuesday be hit by the blunt force of reality — a debate with Donald Trump — the most menacing political foe of modern times. The vice president transformed the 2024 election after President Joe Biden’s abject debate showing against Trump on CNN in June led him to end his reelection bid. Haris will be ‘fully prepared’But to succeed in the debate, the vice president faces three difficult tasks. The conceit, however, allowed the Trump campaign to argue she’d return to her original stance if she won power. “I believe the vice president will be fully prepared to do that.”

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CNN —Longtime Biden aide Anita Dunn is leaving the White House next week, according to a source familiar, and joining a super PAC supporting Vice President Kamala Harris. This marks the first big departure from the White House in the wake of President Joe Biden’s decision to step down from the 2024 Democratic ticket. Biden thanked Dunn for her work at the White House in a statement Tuesday, calling her “an invaluable part of our White House.”Dunn is departing the White House to serve as a senior adviser to Future Forward and Future Forward USA Action. “She’s tough and tested, and her experience and intellect have helped us deliver historic results for the American people,” Biden said. “I am grateful to President Biden and Vice President Harris for their leadership and giving me the opportunity to be part of what they have accomplished for the American people.”Dunn spent much of the Biden administration as one of the president’s closest advisers.

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☆ Top Biden advisor Anita Dunn will join pro-Harris super PAC
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Anita Dunn, senior advisor to U.S. President Joe Biden, departs the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23, 2024. Senior White House advisor Anita Dunn is leaving her post next week to guide a massive political action committee that is supporting Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign against former President Donald Trump, according to a senior White House official. In a statement, Biden praised Dunn as "tough and tested." "It's been an honor and privilege to serve in this White House, with this President and this team, during this transformational term. I am grateful to President Biden and Vice President Harris for their leadership and giving me the opportunity to be part of what they have accomplished for the American people," said Dunn in a statement to NBC News.

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☆ Anita Dunn to Leave White House in First Departure Since Biden’s Withdrawal
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Peter Baker | Katie Rogers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Anita Dunn, President Biden’s senior adviser, is leaving her White House post next week to move over to a super PAC supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s fledgling campaign, the first major personnel move in the West Wing since the president dropped his bid for re-election. Ms. Dunn, who coordinated communications strategy for Mr. Biden and has been one of his closest aides, will consult for Future Forward, the largest Democratic-leaning super PAC, which last week announced a $50 million advertising campaign to promote Ms. Harris in six critical battleground states. “It’s been an honor and privilege to serve in this White House, with this president and this team, during this transformational term,” Ms. Dunn said in a statement. “I am grateful to President Biden and Vice President Harris for their leadership and giving me the opportunity to be part of what they have accomplished for the American people.”In a brief telephone call, Ms. Dunn said she would be leaving the White House next Tuesday and not returning to her own consulting firm but would take on Future Forward as an independent consultant. Ms. Dunn has been part of Mr. Biden’s orbit for years and was credited with helping to turn around his campaign for the Democratic nomination in 2020 after early defeats and stabilizing his White House communications strategy.

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☆ Harris eyes changes at campaign headquarters while wary of drama
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

But now it has to retool to elect Kamala Harris, who’s a Black and South Asian woman in the year 2024,” said one aide at campaign headquarters. Never have the people on what was, until Sunday afternoon, the very small core team around Harris felt so popular. That, they know, has to change immediately, but will happen as Harris’ staff is asked to step in. Retaining hard fought Harris equilibriumLike Biden, Harris doesn’t have a history of running great or well-functioning campaigns, whether that was her Senate race in 2016 or her 2020 presidential run that didn’t even survive until December of 2019. So at least for now, the campaign staff are trying to hold to a line that deputy campaign manager and digital outreach specialist Rob Flaherty used on a call Monday afternoon that senior staff held.

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Instead, Biden’s campaign unraveled over the course of the next 24 days. It’s a high-risk, high-reward gamble for Democrats, resetting a campaign Biden was losing with a new nominee just 107 days before the election. Dunn and her husband, Bob Bauer, were among Biden’s debate prep team and had faced the ire of the president’s family in the aftermath of the debate. Several news outlets, including CNN, reported that Pelosi and former President Barack Obama had privately expressed concerns about the future of Biden’s campaign. That same day, ABC News reported that Schumer told Biden in their Saturday meeting that it would be best if he bowed out of the presidential race.

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Deputy White House chief of staff Annie Tomasini, a longtime aide to the Bidens, joins Donilon and Ricchetti in forming a protective bubble around the president. “The phones just kind of stopped ringing,” is how one senior Democrat put it. “Staff in general are just over the leadership here,” one White House official said. Inside the White House, senior administration officials are bracing for Republicans to call for Biden to resign the presidency if he doesn’t seek reelection. With Biden’s political future on the brink, the White House is fielding a steady stream of letters, telephone calls and message from Americans, too, from Democratic voters like Terri and John Hale.

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☆ One of Biden's most faithful allies appears ready to break
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementAccording to The Washington Post, top union leaders have privately expressed concerns about Biden's ability to beat Trump in November. AdvertisementLosing support from laborAccording to Politico's Jonathan Martin, support from the unions is likely Biden's only path to survival against Trump. The AFL-CIO told the Associated Press on Thursday that Biden's "fighting spirit" was on full display during his meeting with union leaders this week. He "wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020," said Clooney. AdvertisementIf union leaders join the chorus of voices asking Biden to step down, other key supporters may quickly follow.

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Even so, four sources close to the Biden family said there is no active effort to shake up staffing right now. Hunter Biden's appearance in White House meetings this week was just one instance of what is expected to be the deeper Biden family involvement. From the view of some Biden aides, the family is seizing on an opportunity to try to settle old scores. President Joe Biden's family is attempting to become more involved over his campaign and White House affairs as their anger with his staff spills into public view. Hunter Biden's stepped-up involvement has confounded some White House staff members and revived a longtime sore spot.

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☆ Biden has a new plan: Stop doing events at night
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. He told the governors he just needs to get more sleep and stop holding events after 8 p.m., according to the outlets. Biden's campaign didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider about the reports. Biden's campaign had previously chalked up the poor performance to a cold and jet lag from international trips he had taken days earlier. One representative told CNN anonymously that House lawmakers are giving Biden space to decide what to do next.

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☆ Biden and the Democrats can't decide what to blame the disastrous debate on
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewPresident Joe Biden has offered a new explanation for his disastrous debate performance: jet lag. On debate night, a Biden campaign source told The Wall Street Journal that Biden had a cold going into the event. The Biden blame gamePost-debate, Biden critics and supporters alike have been speculating whether his age might kill the Democratic ticket's chances of winning in 2024. A House Democratic aide told Reuters that 25 Democrats are preparing to call Biden to quit the race. AdvertisementRepresentatives for Biden didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ An influential Democratic donor says Biden has 'misplaced trust' in a 'cabal' of 3 top aides
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewDemocratic megadonor John Morgan has joined the camp of people pointing fingers at President Joe Biden's top aides for his poor debate performance. That group includes Biden's senior advisor, Anita Dunn; her husband, Bob Bauer, Biden's personal attorney; and Biden's former chief of staff, Ron Klain. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. AdvertisementAnother longtime Democratic donor, Whitney Tilson, said in a Saturday post on X that he felt "deceived" by Biden's performance. Morgan and representatives for Biden didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Biden is isolated and insulated by a team of top aides who strictly control the advice he's given, per Politico
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A senior administration official told Politico: "He doesn't take advice from anyone other than those few top aides, and it becomes a perfect storm because he just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it." One source close to Biden's campaign told Politico: "If I'm talking to Anita, and I say, 'what about X?' Related storiesA senior administration official Politico spoke to also accused Biden of being unpleasant to be around when he's being briefed. Advertisement"It's like, 'You can't include that, that will set him off,' or 'Put that in, he likes that,'" the official told Politico. "I think he has misplaced trust in these three people, and I believe he has from the inception," Morgan told Politico.

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☆ At Camp David, Biden's family is blaming his top aides and urging him to not end his run after a bad debate: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewIn the privacy of Camp David, members of President Joe Biden's family have criticized his top aides for his poor debate showing on Thursday, Politico reports. There, his family members blamed his political advisors and argued they should be demoted or fired, three anonymous sources told Politico. AdvertisementBauer played the role of Trump during mock debates at Camp David, while Klain led the debate prep, Politico reported. Increasing pressure to step asideFollowing Thursday's debate, Biden has faced increasingly urgent calls to step down. Related storiesDavid Axelrod, an Obama-era White House senior advisor, said on CNN after the debate that there was a "sense of shock" around Biden's debate performance.

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☆ The only way Biden would reverse course is if he's offered a 'dignified' way out: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewSome Democrats working for President Joe Biden believe he would only step aside for another candidate if he was afforded a "dignified way out," according to The New York Times. Related storiesAnother anonymous source told The Times that Biden's son, Hunter Biden, recently convicted of three felony charges, was among the strongest voices encouraging his father to stay in the race. Klain, however, told The Times that it was certain that Biden would stay in the race.

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☆ Biden’s family encourages him to stay in the race as they discuss whether top advisers should be fired
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Mj Lee | Jeff Zeleny | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Joe Biden’s family on Sunday encouraged the president to stay in the 2024 race and privately discussed whether top aides should be fired on the heels of Biden’s stunningly poor debate performance, which has thrown his campaign into turmoil. Biden’s family, including first lady Jill Biden, son Hunter Biden and their grandchildren, convened at Camp David for a previously scheduled get-together and implored the president to keep fighting in his bid for reelection, Biden advisers told CNN. Biden, however, is known for being loyal to and protective of his close advisers, and does not like to fire aides. The admiration and support that Biden’s family showed the president Sunday mirrored the first lady’s effusive public praise for her husband in recent days. The opinion of Biden’s family would be crucial in determining his political future – even more so than the president’s famously insular inner circle of top advisers.

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Asked whether Biden would exit the race, Biden campaign spokesperson Seth Schuster responded: “No.”“There’s no basis for that,” one Biden adviser also told CNN Friday morning. The Biden campaign will hold an all-staff meeting Friday afternoon, two Biden campaign officials told CNN, part of what they said is a routine pattern of Friday meetings. “It’s hard to debate a liar,” Biden told patrons at an Atlanta-area Waffle House following the debate. Big lies.”Pro-Biden political world fretsIn the broader pro-Biden and anti-Trump political universe, the panic over Biden’s debate performance was much clearer on Friday morning. God.”The veterans of Obama’s administration who launched the “Pod Save America” series of podcasts popular with liberal listeners also lamented Biden’s performance.

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☆ Why Trump is suddenly talking up Biden after months of slamming his cognitive capacity
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Doug Burgum, a possible Trump vice presidential pick, tried to reset the balance on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. Fewer voters worry about the cognitive health of Trump, who is only three years younger at 78. “He beat Paul Ryan,” Trump said, referring to the vice presidential debate in 2012 when Biden dispatched Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s running mate. There is growing speculation about Trump’s approach after his hyper-aggressive and angry performance in the first debate against Biden in 2020 backfired. Unlike Trump, who spent the weekend creating headlines, Biden hunkered down at the presidential retreat in Catoctin Mountain Park north of Washington.

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“The president has gotten increasingly punchier in recent remarks about Trump and plans to carry that theme through to the debate,” one Biden campaign official said. (CNN debate rules stipulate that each candidate will have a pen, writing pad and a bottle of water at the podium.) Biden’s former chief of staff, Ron Klain, is taking the lead to help the president get ready to debate Trump, a Biden campaign official told CNN. In the last cycle, Biden aides were particularly sensitive to Trump attacking members of Biden’s family on the debate stage. But that doesn’t mean Trump shouldn’t, or isn’t preparing,” said a person close to Trump, who requested anonymity to speak candidly.

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☆ The Quiet Voice in R.F.K. Jr.’s Ear: A Former Aide to the Clintons
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Rebecca Davis O Brien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In his outsider bid for the White House, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is flanked by a team of unlikely political characters: new age health gurus, anti-vaccine activists, social media influencers, veterans of fringe third-party campaigns, cryptocurrency evangelists and militant environmentalists. Now a Hollywood screenwriter, Mr. Carson, 47, has the résumé of a Democratic insider. He was the press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. He worked for Bill Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Tom Daschle, Howard Dean and Michael Bloomberg. But over the past year, he has become a quiet, steadying force behind a candidate who is at war with the Democratic Party.

Persons: Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Jay Carson, Carson, Hillary Clinton’s, Bill Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Tom Daschle, Howard Dean, Michael Bloomberg, Anita Dunn, Biden, “, Kennedy, — Organizations: White, Democratic, “, Democratic Party Locations: Hollywood, Topanga Canyon, Calif

☆ Biden makes his play for anti-Trump Republicans he hopes can give him a second term
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Washington CNN —Donald Trump hasn’t shown much interest in reaching out to Republicans who hate him. Or, he argued, “they’re likely to stay home.”Hutchinson told CNN he won’t stay home himself, but he won’t vote for Biden or Trump. “This swath of Republican strategist types are literally begging the Biden campaign to give them a reason to support him,” a former House Republican leadership aide told CNN. “You can hold your nose and vote for Biden and not be in public screaming about it. But Purcell has also not yet heard from the Biden campaign this time.

Persons: Washington CNN — Donald Trump hasn’t, Joe Biden, Adam Kinzinger’s, Austin Weatherford, Nikki Haley, Haley, Biden, Anita Dunn, Cassidy Hutchinson, Anthony Scaramucci, Liz Cheney, John Kasich, Trump, Cindy McCain, shouldn’t, –, ”, Jen O’Malley Dillon, they’ve, mattering, Denver Riggleman, Kinzinger, Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, Mike Pence, Mark Cuban, doesn’t, he’s, Joe, “, Larry Hogan, I’m, ’ ” Hogan, ” Hogan, they’re, Carolina Sen, Lindsey Graham, it’s Biden, Asa Hutchinson, Daisy Bates, Hutchinson, “ You’ve, you’re, ” Hutchinson, “ they’re, won’t, Indiana Sen, Todd Young –, Biden –, ” Young, Young, Christine Todd Whitman, George W, Bush, ” Whitman, Whitman, Joe Walsh, don’t, MAGA, Claudine Schneider, Schneider, Geoff Duncan, Donald Trump, ’ ” Duncan, ” Duncan, “ ‘ Will, Biden George H.W, Hillary Clinton, “ he’s, He’s, Howard Stern, “ Where’s Jeb Bush, Where’s George Bush, ’ ” Biden, Jeb Bush, Hogan, Kristopher Purcell, Purcell Organizations: Washington CNN, Republican, White, Trump, Democratic, Ohio Gov, CNN, Republicans, Trump Republican, Virginia Rep, Denver, Trump Republicans, Former New Jersey Gov, Tech, Biden, Senate, South, Capitol, New, Environmental Protection Agency, Independents, Illinois, Republican Party, MAGA Republicans, Congress, Trump ., Bush Republicans, Maryland Senate Locations: Biden’s, Wilmington, Israel, Ukraine, Former, Dallas, Maryland, Baltimore, York, South Carolina, Carolina, Arkansas, New Jersey, Trump, Rhode Island, Georgia

Washington CNN —President Joe Biden on Saturday night will attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, giving the president a stage and primetime slot to needle the media and his rival former President Donald Trump. “I haven’t had a chance to watch the court proceedings because I’ve been campaigning,” Biden told supporters at a campaign reception in New York Thursday, according to pool reports. While Biden has delivered many of these speeches before, the stakes for what could be his last White House Correspondents’ Dinner are high. “He’s the entertainer.”Administration officials said Katzenberg led daily strategy sessions in the White House residence this week to tweak Biden’s comedy set drafted by longtime speechwriter Vinay Reddy. Biden administration officials said they sought to share that concern with Kelly O’Donnell, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association and senior White House correspondent for NBC News, and with Jost’s team in NBC’s entertainment division as well.

Persons: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Biden, Calvin Coolidge, Trump, “, I’ve, ” Biden, he’d, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Katzenberg, punchlines, Vinay Reddy, Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Anita Dunn, Karine Jean, Pierre, Annie Tomasini, Live’s Colin Jost, Kelly O’Donnell, ” O’Donnell, –, “ He’s, ”, Rob Flaherty, Dan Cluchey, Jon Macks, Jay Leno ”, Seth Meyers, – Biden, Barack Obama, Lil Jon, Gary Busey, ” Obama, Osama bin Laden Organizations: Washington CNN, White, Trump, Biden, Dreamworks, CNN, New York City –, Republican, ’ Association, White House, NBC News, Gridiron Locations: New York, Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, White, New York City, Washington

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