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☆ ‘Coup’ and ‘Cover-Up’: How the G.O.P. Is Reacting to the Harris Candidacy
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Karen Yourish | Lazaro Gamio | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Recent polling suggests nearly 9 in 10 Americans believe Mr. Biden’s decision to step aside was the right one. 65 called Mr. Biden’s withdrawal a coup or said it amounted to election interference. These statements have tended to argue that Mr. Biden’s decision to end his candidacy was not his own, was not democratic or both. Some of this language began to bubble up among Republicans even before Mr. Biden announced that he would drop out. One common line of attack, positing that Ms. Harris failed as a “border czar,” is misleading.

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☆ Analysis: The 2024 campaign gets grimmer, with Trump’s extremism on full display alongside concerns over Biden’s age
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

Trump is giving every impression that his second term would be even more aberrant than his first, as he vows to use presidential power to exact retribution against his enemies. While a Biden vs. Trump race would be a rematch of 2020, it would not necessarily be the same. In Trump, voters can pick an ex-president facing 91 criminal charges who has been found liable for fraud, sexual battery and defamation in court. It also offered a potential roadmap to the substance and character of his possible second term. Why the 2020 election lineup may be locked inThe renewed focus on Biden’s age is likely to open another round of speculation about whether he could be replaced on the Democratic ticket.

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☆ Fact Check-Biden repeated language on oil in speeches given days, not months, apart
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

In December 2021 speeches delivered two days apart, U.S. President Joe Biden recycled language in one passage about the release of oil from strategic reserves, but the speeches were not given three months apart as claimed on social media. However, in the speeches given on Dec. 1 and Dec. 3, Biden repeated a roughly 60-second portion of text about oil. The speeches were, respectively, about 18 minutes and 14 minutes long overall and differed from each other apart from the passage about oil. That passage referred to a measure that Biden announced days earlier, on Nov. 23, to release oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (here). These clips of Joe Biden correspond to speeches made within days of each other in 2021, not speeches given months apart.

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☆ Opinion | The ‘Woke Mind Virus’ Is Eating Away at Republicans’ Brains
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There’s the Electoral College, which could still favor the Republican Party just enough to give Trump 270 electoral votes, even if he doesn’t win a popular majority. There’s Biden’s overall standing — around 43 percent of Americans approve of his job performance — which doesn’t compare favorably with past incumbents who did win re-election. And even if it doesn’t, Biden will still have presided over the highest inflation rate since the 1980s. Lastly, there’s Biden himself. But Biden’s biggest advantage has to do with the opposition — the Republican Party has gotten weird.

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