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Joe Biden reportedly told a group of Democratic governors that he needs to work fewer hours and get more sleep as his the president and the White House fight off suggestions that he should end his re-election campaign.
The president also reportedly told the governors that he’s staying in the race, as he outlined his recent foreign travel in the weeks ahead of his dismal debate performance, during which he lost his train of thought, his voice was raspy, and he made several gaffes.
Meanwhile, a gloating Donald Trump posted a video to Truth Social in which he falsely claimed that the embattled president has already quit the race for the White House, referring to him as a “broken down pile of c***” and ridiculing his Vice President Kamala Harris as “pathetic.”
President Biden insisted “I’m not going anywhere” to a crowd at the White House during a Fourth of July event, during which he laid out the stakes of the 2024 election: “We must look at ourselves and ask the question, will we stand for freedom again? Will we stand for democracy?”
Disney heiress vows to stop Democratic donations until Biden stands aside
Disney heiress Abigail Disneyhas threatened to stop all donations to the Democratic Party unless Preside Joe Biden is replaced as its candidate to face Donald Trump this November.
Biden introduces July 4 concert to crowd outside the White House
Vice President Kamala Harris introduced Joe Biden to a crowd outside a Fourth of July concert hosted by the White House.
She called him an “extraordinary” president.
“We gotta do what our founders did. We’re a nation of dignity, honor and devotion to one another,” Biden said in extremely brief remarks.
“Folks, it’s all about democracy. It’s all about freedom. It’s all about who we are.”
He walked off stage telling the crowd to “enjoy the fireworks” as they chanted “four more years.”
Biden: ‘I’m not going anywhere’
As President Biden gave remarks outside the White House for a Fourth of July event on Thursday night, a supporter called out “keep up the fight” and “we need you.”
“You got me man,” he replied. “I’m not going anywhere.”
Biden takes a shot at Trump during White House Fourth of July event
During a brief speech to military families outside the White House on Thursday, President Biden spoke up for democracy at home and broad, referencing his recent visit to Normandy to commemorate the D-Day anniversary.
At one point, he took a dig at Trump: “I was in a World War I cemetery in France, and … the former president, didn’t want to go and be up there — which I probably shouldn’t have said.”
“Anyway,” he continued. “We gotta just remember who the hell we are. We’re the United States of America.”
Biden asks Americans to ‘stand up for democracy’ at Fourth of July event
In scripted remarks outside the White House for a Fourth of July event for military families on Thursday night, the president said: “We must look at ourselves and ask the question, will we stand for freedom again? Will we stand for democracy? Will we stand together as Americans?”
“I believe we will, and we can,” he added.
Biden warns against Trump’s ‘monarchy’ on July 4
The aftermath of Biden’s debate performance has been an apparently welcome diversion for Donald Trump and his campaign, keeping media attention away from his own streak of unintelligible public statements, questions about his mental fitness, and an off-the-rails agenda that just a few days ago called for “televised military tribunals” for a former congresswoman.
He’s kept a relatively low profile, for him, and appears content to let his Democratic rivals duke out their political future.
Now, Biden is hoping to use the Fourth of July holiday to turn the conversation around:
VIDEO: Biden’s political future being questioned
Does Kamala Harris have what it takes to beat Trump if Biden bows out?
Harris — the first woman, the first African-American and the first person of Asian descent to serve in the nation’s second-highest office — has been dogged by dismal approval ratings and a policy portfolio that has seen her take on politically tricky issues, like the root causes of an immigration crisis that’s brought hundreds of thousands to the US in recent years.
But she has also spent the last three years building a profile on the world stage, most recently at last month’s Ukraine peace talks in Switzerland. She’s also become the administration’s most prominent messenger on reproductive freedom in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, which marked the end of a half-century-old federal right to an abortion. Harris’ “reproductive freedom tour” has taken her to events across the country where she has barnstormed events packed with female and minority voters.
Full story: Biden warns against Trump’s ‘monarchy’ on July 4 while ex-president gleefully watches the chaos
The aftermath of Biden’s debate performance has been an apparently welcome diversion for Donald Trump and his campaign, keeping media attention away from his own streak of unintelligible public statements, questions about his mental fitness, and an off-the-rails agenda that just a few days ago called for “televised military tribunals” for a former congresswoman.
He’s kept a relatively low profile, for him, and appears content to let his Democratic rivals duke out their political future.
Now, Biden is hoping to use the Fourth of July to turn the conversation around:
Fan cams and coconut trees: Kamala Harris memes are resurrecting the KHive
The internet has fallen out of the coconut tree.
The “KHive” — the online grassroots stan-culture army of earnest supporters who fueled online rage and enthusiastic support for Harris when she launched her 2020 run for the presidency — was resurrected overnight. Now Americans are quickly become coconut-pilled, Kamala maxxing, “existing in context” and “unburdened by what has been.”
Source: independent.co.uk
