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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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☆ Pelosi spoke to Biden the day before he dropped out of 2024 presidential race
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

U.S. President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to U.S. Representative and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during a ceremony at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 3, 2024. A day later, Biden announced on social media that he was dropping out of the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., spoke this afternoon with Biden, according to NBC News. Pelosi praised Biden in a statement after he dropped out of the race. "With love and gratitude to President Biden for always believing in the promise of America and giving people the opportunity to reach their fulfillment."

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☆ Biden just made the hardest decision any politician can make
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —President Joe Biden ran for reelection to save democracy. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” Biden said in a letter he posted to X on Sunday afternoon. His struggles validated concerns of majorities of voters that he would be too old for a second term that would have ended when he is 86. But in the end, Biden could not find a way to make voters unsee the poignant picture of an 81-year-old commander in chief who appeared to have seriously declined and was stumbling in the debate. Years earlier, in March 1952, Harry S. Truman, another Democratic president, had decided not to seek his own second term.

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This source said the sentiment only grew Friday when Lofgren, Pelosi’s longtime close lieutenant, released her letter urging Biden to step aside. CNN has reached out to Pelosi’s camp and the Biden campaign for comment on this reporting. And Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon went on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Friday morning to say Biden was “absolutely” in the race. “Joe Biden is more committed than ever to beat Donald Trump.”Instead, there was a stream of new statements from House Democrats. A Democratic lawmaker told CNN that House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his team are not discouraging members from continuing to speak out against Biden’s candidacy.

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☆ Biden's authority is draining away in real time
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewAs former President Donald Trump was delivering his marathon speech at the RNC Thursday night, President Joe Biden was holed up in isolation, having been diagnosed with COVID-19. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, per reports, told Biden on a call Saturday that it'd be best if he dropped out, too. AdvertisementThe support of his party that sustains his position leading the country is draining away — with some congressional Democrats now prepared to make their calls in public. An advisor told media outlets: "Joe Biden is his party's nominee. As the weekend approaches, it appears likely that Joe Biden's attempts to rescue his reelection bid have reached a crunch point.

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☆ Top Democrats believe they may be close to convincing Biden to drop out
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Schumer's spokesperson told the Journal that many have approached the senator about their ideas but he has not acted upon any of them. Related storiesFour unnamed sources close to Biden told The New York Times that the president has started to accept the idea of his waning electoral chances. AdvertisementMeanwhile, a source close to Biden told CNN that the president remains unconvinced about dropping out. White House spokesperson Andrew Bates declined to comment and referred BI's inquiry to the Biden campaign. He's running for reelection, and that will not change until he wins reelection," TJ Ducklo, a Biden campaign spokesperson, said in a statement to BI.

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☆ President Biden's reelection campaign is on its last legs as Democrats' fears extend beyond losing just the White House
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, President Biden's comeback plan isn't working , and Democratic leaders are ready to move on . President Joe Biden's reelection campaign appears to be on its last legs as calls within his party have grown from whispers to shouts since his disastrous debate last month. AdvertisementBut perhaps the biggest blow to Biden's reelection campaign came with the news that his former running mate has doubts. But for some Democrats, the risk of Biden continuing his reelection campaign could extend from the White House to Capitol Hill. Still, despite mounting pressure, Biden's campaign has remained steadfast about his reelection bid.

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☆ Sheila Jackson Lee, long-serving Democratic congresswoman and advocate for Black Americans, dies at 74
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Michelle Shen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Sheila Jackson Lee, a longtime Democratic congresswoman from Texas who was an outspoken advocate for Black Americans for decades, has died. Jackson Lee announced in June that she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty ImagesDuring her congressional tenure, Jackson Lee was an outspoken advocate for progressive interests and Black Americans. “Congresswoman Jackson Lee was a patriot and a fighter to the very end. She will be deeply missed by all who knew her,” Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Steven Horsford and members of the Congressional Black Caucus said in a statement following her death.

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☆ Trump's unity message lasted just over 26 minutes
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Unity, after all, has been a key message espoused by President Joe Biden. "I had all prepared an extremely tough speech, really good, all about the corrupt, horrible administration," Trump told the Post. Just over 26 minutes into his speech, Trump was praising his supporters and family when he veered abruptly back into attacks on his opponents. Trump portrays unity — while insulting his opponentsTrump, now officially the Republican nominee, began his speech in line with the unity message. "I look at unity, and it's obviously an opportunity to bring the country together," said Chris LaCivita, a senior campaign aide.

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☆ Biden won't drop out, campaign insists in a new memo
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

U.S. President Joe Biden looks on at the 115th NAACP National Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., July 16, 2024. "Joe Biden has made it more than clear: he's in this race and he's in it to win it. Moreover, he's the presumptive nominee, there is no plan for an alternative nominee," the memo said. "In a few short weeks, Joe Biden will be the official nominee. Biden campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Friday that the president will be back on the campaign trail next week.

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☆ Pelosi Told Colleagues She Would Favor ‘Open’ Nomination Process if Biden Drops Out
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Annie Karni | Robert Jimison | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ms. Pelosi, who arrived late to the meeting, spoke up in response to questions from members. Lawmakers in attendance then pressed her on what the landscape would look like if Mr. Biden ultimately decided to step aside under pressure. Ms Pelosi told them she favored a competitive process. Ms. Pelosi, according to a source familiar with her thinking, is a friend and fan of Ms. Harris, a former senator from California. But she believes even Ms. Harris would be strengthened to win the general election by going through a competitive process at the convention.

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Sick with Covid and abandoned by allies, President Biden has been fuming at his Delaware beach house, increasingly resentful about what he sees as an orchestrated campaign to drive him out of the race and bitter toward some of those he once considered close, including his onetime running mate Barack Obama. Mr. Biden has been around politics long enough to assume that the leaks appearing in the media in recent days are being coordinated to raise the pressure on him to step aside, according to people close to him. He considers Representative Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker, the main instigator, but is irritated at Mr. Obama as well, seeing him as a puppet master behind the scenes. It was Mr. Obama who elevated Mr. Biden from a presidential also-ran to the vice presidency, setting him up to win the White House in 2020, and it was Ms. Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, who pushed through his landmark legislative achievements. But several people close to Mr. Biden, who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal matters, described an under-the-weather president coughing and hacking hundreds of miles from the corridors of power as his presidency meets its most perilous moment.

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☆ Election Live Updates: Republicans Leave Convention Unified Around Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Jim Rutenberg | Adam Nagourney | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +74 min

And there was great, great sorrow. They’re going to be OK. They’re going to be doing very well. Now he’s going to get on the plane in a little while and he’s going to go back home to his wife. Great, great student at Yale. So many — just so many heroes, so many great, great people.

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☆ Inside the ‘doom loop’ of Joe Biden’s campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

“His last act will not be getting knocked down,” said one longtime Biden 2020 campaign aide of the family and the inner circle. They loved saying in 2020 that Joe Biden won because the party, and not the pundits. Some have already “quiet quit,” going through the motions until Joe Biden gets to the end that many of them now believe is inevitable. It feels like if he could go to Congress and make a rousing speech, he would,” said one Democratic operative involved with the campaign. “Here in HQ, we’re working really hard because on winning campaigns, you work really hard,” said Biden campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz.

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☆ Schumer, Jeffries told Biden staying in the race would hurt Democrats in November: reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Sarah Gray | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

I am told Chuck Schumer had a blunt one-on-one conversation with Biden Saturday afternoon in Rehoboth. Schumer forcefully made the case that it would be best if Biden bowed out of the race. "Leader Schumer conveyed the views of his caucus directly to President Biden on Saturday." AdvertisementThe Post and ABC also report that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had a similar conversation with Biden on Thursday of last week. AdvertisementRep. Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker Emerita, has been working behind the scenes, according to reports, to get Biden to drop out.

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☆ Political assassinations are on the rise. It's a symptom of growing global instability.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementA wave of violence against political leadersAround the world, politics has been rocked by a wave of assassinations of political leaders, dissidents, and other high-profile figures. In the UK, political assassinations were once rare, but two members of parliament were assassinated in five years. Political violence is on the riseA 2018 protest in Turkey against the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident. Bruce Hoffman, an expert on terrorism at the Council on Foreign Relations, told Business Insider that rising political violence is the outcome of increasing global instability. - Getty ImagesAnother factor behind the spike in assassinations is the increasing instability of the global political order.

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☆ Biden has botched his comeback plan. Now the calls to replace him are growing.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

President Joe Biden has not quieted the doubters in his party. A sprint of post-debate activity hasn't been the fix Biden hoped it would be. A new series of reports say top Democratic leaders privately told Biden that he's toast. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementPresident Joe Biden has desperately tried to convince his fellow Democrats that he's still their best hope in a furious three-week sprint after his disastrous debate.

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☆ Opinion | It’s Time for Democrats to Hold Hands and Jump
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Ever since President Biden’s calamitous debate last month, many Democrats who’ve lost faith in his candidacy have been frozen, fearing mutually assured destruction. The president has had a few good moments in recent weeks, including a great speech in Michigan. It’s time for Democrats who want a new nominee to hold hands and jump. There is no salvaging this campaign; Biden has lost his party’s confidence. The campaign is in a death spiral that threatens to pull down-ticket Democrats into the vortex.

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☆ Biden under intense pressure from Democrats to drop out of election against Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on April 15, 2024. As President Joe Biden isolated at his beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware, on Thursday after testing positive for Covid, he faced renewed pressure from leading Democrats to drop out of the 2024 election contest against former President Donald Trump. "We're close to the end," a person close to Biden told NBC News. Biden served two terms as Obama's vice president, and the 44th president still has unrivaled influence within the Democratic party. Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the Democratic nominee for one of the state's two Senate seats, openly called for Biden to drop out of the race Wednesday.

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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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☆ The Trump-Vance campaign says they won't agree to a VP debate date until Kamala Harris picks 'her running mate'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThe Trump-Vance campaign is seemingly operating under the assumption that President Joe Biden will quit the race soon and let his Vice President Kamala Harris run for president. "To do so would be unfair to Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, or whoever Kamala Harris picks as her running mate," Hughes added. Biden-Harris communications director Brian Fallon told Business Insider that the Trump-Vance campaign was trying to back down from having to debate Harris live. Representatives for the Trump-Vance campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours. In anticipation of a switch of candidates, Trump has already come up with nasty nicknames for Harris, including "Laffin' Kamala Harris" and "Cackling Copilot Kamala Harris."

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☆ Pelosi, Long Fixated on Winning, Is in No Mood to Lose With Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Carl Hulse | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nancy Pelosi is all about winning. And the former speaker is in no mood to start losing now, as evidence mounts that President Biden is staring at a major defeat that could drag his party down with him. And his loss, she fears, could cost her party its chance to win back the House, potentially its only firewall against a second Donald J. Trump presidency. Ms. Pelosi, according to those who have talked with her, conveyed those sentiments in phone calls with the president and with alarmed colleagues who have reached out to her for guidance on what to do. The former speaker is intimately familiar with the minutiae of campaigns from her years following House races district by district, and she has been marshaling her knowledge of the political map, polling data and fund-raising information to press her case with Mr. Biden.

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☆ Live Updates: Biden Isolates With Covid as His Campaign Crisis Deepens
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Michael D. Shear | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Joe Scarborough, the former congressman, ally of President Biden and influential host of the MSNBC show “Morning Joe,” on Thursday morning all but called on Mr. Biden’s aides to help him exit the race. On the same day, California Senate candidate and Pelosi ally Adam Schiff publicly called on Mr. Biden to leave the race. Look at the events of yesterday, the events of the last three weeks.”He added: “The anger that I hear is not at Joe Biden. Mr. Scarborough appeared to echo that point, suggesting that the people around the president are failing him. Mr. Scarborough said bluntly: “Joe Biden deserves better.

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Our campaign is not working through any scenarios where President Biden is not the top of the ticket. The delay stopped a draft letter circulating among House Democrats that, if made formal, would have exposed further cracks in the party. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer both pushed the DNC to delay the process, multiple sources told CNN. Behind the scenes, the president is not as defiant as he is in public, multiple Democratic sources told CNN. “President Biden is the nominee of the party.

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☆ Harris hits the campaign trail under spotlight as Biden faces mounting pressure to drop out
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

And more than 1,000 factories closed under his watch," Harris said in Fayetteville. "Meanwhile, President Joe Biden and I have created nearly 800,000 new manufacturing jobs — so much so it's been described as a manufacturing boom." The vice president's remarks come amid intense pressure from top Democrats for Biden to drop out of the presidential race. According to media reports, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have both told Biden that his bid for reelection could endanger the party's electoral chances in both chambers of Congress. And while Democratic megadonors pressure Biden to step aside, donor events that feature Harris have started to sell out.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Biden, Donald Trump, Harris, it's, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Barack's Obama's Organizations: Democratic, America, NBC News Locations: North Carolina, Fayetteville

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