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Democrat donors and insiders are growing furious that First Lady Jill Biden won't advise her husband to drop out of the race. In recent days after President Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance, it seems the person pushing most for him to continue running is his wife. A chorus of Democrats are openly calling for the presumed Democratic nominee to be replace after stumbling over his words and losing his train of thought multiple times during his Thurday's night debate with Donald Trump.

Despite mounting pressure from the Democrats to consider his political future after a car-crash debate performance, Joe Biden seems to be staying firmly in the race with Jill Biden stubbornly standing by his side.  And her actions over the past 48 hours are clear that she is the one firmly pulling the strings over her husband's decision to stay in the race.  The CNN performance where he meandered through answers and lost his train of thought sparked an unprecedented panic in the party.

'Did anyone last night watch a thing called the debate? Man, that was a big one,' he told the a crowd in the crucial swing state of Virginia. 'Biden spent the entire week at Camp David resting, working, studying-he studied so hard he didn't know what the hell he was doing.' 'He got the debate rules he wanted, he got the date he wanted, at the network he wanted with the [moderators] he wanted. Trump added that the question is not if Biden can survive a 90-minute debate, but whether the country can survive another four years of him in the White House.

The Supreme Court's decision could upend hundreds of cases stemming from the January 6 riot, including Donald Trump's election fraud trial.

President Joe Biden started the first debate with Donald Trump sounding hoarse. It quickly got worse as he lost his train of thought and meandered into silence. For three and a half years the White House has protected Biden, 81, from questions about his frailty, reducing his schedule ahead of arduous foreign trips, keeping reporters at bay, and even swapping out the steps on Air Force One for the shorter, easier stairs. But there is no hiding place during a 90-minute debate in front of the live television cameras.

President Joe Biden suffered repeated senior moments in Thursday night's debate, struggling to find his words as he talked about various policy issues and giving Donald Trump an opening to go straight on the attack. His first mistake came within 12 minutes of his showdown with Trump and then they continued throughout the night as he fumbled when talking about the number of billionaires in America and the situation on the border. Trump didn't wait long to slam Biden, 81, on the fumbles.

President Joe Biden broke cover Thursday afternoon after spending seven days holed up at Camp David preparing for tonight's debate against former President Donald Trump. Biden took Marine One from the presidential retreat in the Catoctin mountains to Joint Base Andrews, where he boarded Air Force One en route to Atlanta, Georgia.

Donald Trump and Joe Bill will meet in the same room on Thursday for the first time since their 2020 debates. In a heated rematch, Trump, 78, and Biden, 81, will go head-to-head in the first general election debate of the 2024 cycle.

For weeks, Donald Trump has fueled wild speculation that President Joe Biden may be on drugs at their 90-minute presidential debate on Thursday.

Thursday's debate organizers will mute the opposing candidate's mic while the other is speaking, following vicious debate clashes in 2020. The 2020 debates featured a memorable plea by Biden for Trump to 'shut up,' and Trump tossing out accusations linked to Hunter's laptop.

Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing a new ethics complaint alleging she did not report tens of thousands of dollars in assets from her husband's weed and alcohol business. The complaint comes after a Minnesota Reformer report about Omar's husband being sued for failing to properly pay back his business investors. It calls on the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to launch a 'preliminary inquiry' before referring the matter to the House Ethics Committee. In the fall of 2021, Tim Mynett, a Democratic operative and husband of Omar as of 2020, his longtime business partner, Will Hailer secured a $300,000 investment from D.C. restaurateur Naeem Mohd to start a wine business, eStCru.

Democrat George Latimer has beat out incumbent progressive Rep. Jamaal Bowman, the AP projects. Bowman is the first 'Squad' member to be unseated, putting the future of the hardcore progressive faction on shaky ground. It also does not bode well for anti-Israel voices in Congress .  Bowman's district is partly affluent, white and Jewish in Westchester and partly black and brown voters in the Bronx. Bowman was one of the first to demand a ceasefire and has flirted with conspiracies about Israel, prompting even some within his own party to accuse him of antisemitism.

GOP Rep. John Curtis looks poised to be Utah's next senator after victory in a primary Tuesday night against right-wing candidate Trent Staggs.  Curtis now heads to a general election in November where he should glide to victory: former President Donald Trump won the state in 2020 by over 20 points.   Despite having the weight of Trump behind him, Staggs was not able capture a victory on Tuesday in a blow to the ex-president's record.

Vice Presidential frontrunner J.D. Vance has some advice for Donald Trump ahead of the first debate on Thursday: Show your heart. 'He loves families. He sort of just likes people,' the Ohio senator told Charlie Kirk on his podcast. 'And I think if we can get that to sort of shine through, then that's going to help him more than any like particular policy debating point.'

Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman is fighting for his political survival as voters head to the polls in New York for the Democratic primary. The far-left Squad member is locked in a contentious primary against George Latimer that will test whether his support for Palestinians, his furious criticism of Israel and his progressive policies will lead to his downfall in his Bronx and Westchester district. Bowman is seeking a third term in a primary that has seen historic levels of spending. The powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has poured $15million into a campaign against him. 'We are going to show f***ing AIPAC, the power of the motherf***ing South Bronx!' Bowman yelled Saturday at a rally with fellow progressive 'Squad' member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders , I-Vt.

First Lady experts claim that if Donald Trump wins another term in 2024, his wife Melania could make a massive break it tradition.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rounded on liberal activists in an interview published Friday, saying he was shocked by the number of young Americans who said they backed Hamas and ridiculing the 'Gays for Gaza' movement. 'The people who protest with these killers … You have Gays for Gaza,' he said. 'That's an absurdity if I've ever heard one. If you are gay in Gaza, you'll be shot in the back of the head.

More than 150,000 people dead and another nine million forced from their homes by a year of fighting. The African nation of Sudan is once again on the brink of genocide as rival generals battle for power. Yet when John Kirby, the White House national security communications adviser, was asked what the Biden administration was doing to help ease a deepening humanitarian crisis he had nothing to offer.

Welcome to DailyMail.com's US politics blog. For the first time, Donald Trump's presidential campaign reported having more cash in its main account than President Joe Biden's re-election campaign had in its account, financial disclosures showed on Thursday, as both sides built their war chests ahead of the Nov. 5 election. Trump's campaign had about $116 million in the bank at the end of May, more than double what it had a month earlier, while Biden's campaign told the Federal Election Commission it had about $91 million in the bank, just above what it had at the end of April.

Senior judges urged Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon to step back from overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case when it was assigned to her, a new report reveals. Cannon has infuriated Trump critics by issuing procedural decisions that had the effect of slowing down the case, which once had a May trial date on the books.

President Joe Biden heads to the reclusive mountain resort of Camp David on Thursday night to lock himself up with advisers to prepare for next week's debate with Donald Trump. With the showdown one week away, Biden, who prefers briefing binders and practice sessions, will be focused on holding Trump accountable on his record and coming up with punchy one-liners to throw off the former president.  Trump, meanwhile, has been trying out new catch phrases and bits of rhetoric, ready to pound his rival with his words. 

President Joe Biden insisted Tuesday that he's not 'playing politics' with immigration policy, at the same event where he ripped into former President Donald Trump for promising to put illegal immigrants in detention camps. At an East Room event, Biden rolled out a new policy that would allow roughly 500,000 undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens a pathway to citizenship if they've lived in the country for at least 10 years.

Biden, who has struggled in the polls nationally and in key swing states, has left Democrats wondering how to jump start his floundering campaign. Questions and doubts exist over the health and ability to perform the job of Biden, at 81, the oldest president in American history. Doubts have also existed over the ability of Harris - the first female and first black vice president in American history - as second-in-command given Biden's age. Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker wrote in the Jeff Bezos-owned paper on Tuesday that Democrats should look to their recent past for a new VP.

Donald Trump for once stood up for the media after Joe Biden's campaign claimed multiple videos of the president freezing are 'deceptively edited.' The former president decried Biden, 81, for 'humiliating' the U.S. on the world stage after a series of awkward interactions and freezes during international trips and domestic events. Despite spending a good chunk of his remarks railing against Bidens' flubs, Trump made his own fumble when he used the term 'clean fakes' instead of 'deep fakes.'

The House Ethics Committee in a rare public statement announced they would conduct 'further review' into Rep. Matt Gaetz on charges that include sex abuse and illicit drug use. Gaetz on Monday had said the committee was opening 'new frivolous investigations' into him which he blamed on former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The allegations the committee said it is conducting further review on include whether Gaetz 'engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.' Gaetz has denied all of the allegations and the committee said he has been 'difficult' to obtain information from. They've already spoken with more than a dozen witnesses, issued 25 subpoenas and reviewed thousands of pages of documents.

Melania Trump , 54, will hold a fundraiser at Trump Tower in Manhattan on July 8 in a rare political appearance for her husband. The former first lady has been largely absent from the 2024 campaign trail despite former President Donald Trump's de facto status as the Republican nominee in November.   But the $100,000 per-head event next month with the Log Cabin Republicans will be Melania's second fundraiser appearance with this group during this campaign cycle.

One of Melania Trump 's former close confidants turned scathing critics made an eyebrow raising claim about the relationship between Donald Trump and Melania. Stephanie Winstom Wolkoff, who once served as a senior adviser to Melania Trump, posted a clip on X of the opening sequence of The Apprentice on Sunday that paints Trump as a family man.

Lawyers immediately filed a new motion withdrawing their early motion seeking a new trial on the Hunter Biden gun case in Delaware. Hunter's team has vowed to 'vigorously' fight the verdict.

Welcome to DailyMail.com's U.S. politics live blog where Donald Trump's vice presidential contenders are feeling the pressure.  Meanwhile, President Joe Biden appeared to freeze on stage after giving remarks at a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles on Saturday night before Obama took him by the arm in a shocking moment.  Follow along for live coverage: 

Obama to the rescue! President Joe Biden appeared to freeze on stage after giving remarks at a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles on Saturday night before his old boss took him by the arm and pulled the president away. The incident captured on video is the latest in a series of episodes that have plagued 81-year-old Biden as he mounts a second bid for the White House. In the video, Biden and Obama are seen waving and smiling while receiving a standing ovation in the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

Outweighing the good moments at the G7 were the ones that became a PR disaster, strengthening perceptions that President Joe Biden's health and mental capabilities have gotten worse. The visuals, however, have taken root: Biden appeared to wander off during a demonstration by parachute jumpers, he's been staged managed by the Italian prime minister, and he snapped at a reporter who asked him about the war in the Middle East because he wanted to talk about Ukraine instead. Biden, 81, has had a rough 48 hours in Italy , battling the 80-degree weather and a brutal schedule of jammed-packed days. The president is also coming off a five-day trip to France and seeing his son Hunter convicted of three felonies tied to a 2018 handgun purchase, which has aides worried about the personal toll on the commander-in-chief.

Live updates from Italy where Joe Biden is at the G7 summit and the latest from Washington.

Former President Donald Trump is celebrating turning 78 on Friday with a birthday bash in West Palm Beach, Florida. The former president will headline a 'Club 47' event near Mar-a-Lago at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, where some of his most boisterous supporters plan to don red, white and blue attire to fete the presumptive Republican nominee. The invitation showed the ex-president hugging an American flag - an homage to his Flag Day birth.

Secret Service agents involved in Kamala Harris detail brawl where supervisor was punched will face questioning by Congress.

Almost half of likely voters expect President Joe Biden to make a series of embarrassing flubs when he goes to head-to-head with Donald Trump in their first debate this month. Some 49 percent think he will forget where he is and 41 percent said they expect him to walk off the wrong side of the stage, according to a new poll by J.L. Partners. Another 40 percent think he will trouble standing up during the CNN debate in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27.

In a wide-ranging speech to the House GOP on Thursday, Donald Trump insisted the Russia-Ukraine war would not have happened under his watch and urged Republicans to get better about messaging on abortion - but didn't seem to explain how. The former president told a horde of Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill that Vladimir Putin is 'more afraid of him than Biden,' Foreign Affairs Chair Mike McCaul told DailyMail.com after the meeting. 'He said he told Putin that if he invaded Ukraine , he would hit him hard,' the Texas Republican went on. Trump had a particular concern for the Russian nuclear submarines off of Cuba , and hardly if at all mentioned Israel , according to the recollection of members leaving the meeting.

Nancy Pelosi 's daughter avidly denied Donald Trump 's account that one of the former speaker's daughters had told him he and her mom would have been 'great' together in another life. 'Nancy Pelosi's daughter is a whacko, her daughter told me if things were different Nancy and I would be perfect together, there's an age difference though,' the former president said in a meeting with House Republicans on Thursday, according to Punchbowl's retelling. Multiple members confirmed to DailyMail.com that Trump had told the story of her daughter mentioning Pelosi and Trump would be 'great' together. 'Speaking for all 4 Pelosi daughters - this is a LIE. His deceitful, deranged obsession with our mother is yet another reason Donald Trump is unwell, unhinged and unfit to step foot anywhere near her - or the White House ,' Christine Pelosi shot back to the comments on Twitter .

Welcome to DailyMail.com's DAILY US POLITICS BLOG, with live coverage of Donald Trump's return to Capitol Hill and President Joe Biden's trip to the G7 in Italy. The former president, 77, is back for the first time since the January 6, 2021, Capitol Riot, and will meet with House and Senate Republicans to set out his 2025 agenda. Trump still dominates the party and is looking to lock up even more support ahead of his November general election showdown with Biden. The 81-year-old is in Italy meeting with G7 leaders, many of whom are facing elections or dwindling popularity back home.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to rule out President Joe Biden commuting son Hunter's sentence for buying a gun while addicted to crack cocaine. 'I haven't spoken to the president about this since the verdict came out. And as we all know, the sentencing hasn't even been scheduled yet,' Jean-Pierre said in a gaggle with reporters on board Air Force One Wednesday.

Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman was speeding at the time when he hit a car Sunday, and police say he is at fault. According to a recently released police report, the Democrat is 'at fault' for hitting a car while driving 'at a high rate of speed, well over the posted speed limit.' Maryland State Police told DailyMail.com the senator was driving a Chevrolet Traverse when he rear-ended a Chevrolet Impala in northern Maryland near the Pennsylvania and West Virginia border on Sunday. Following the crash both of the Fettermans were transported to War Memorial Hospital in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Sen. Fetterman was treated for a bruised shoulder.

A staffer for Republican Rep. Mike Collins (Ga.) is the latest victim of crime in the ritzy D.C. Navy Yard neighborhood just blocks from the U.S. Capitol. Octavian Miller detailed that he and a friend were walking through Navy Yard over the weekend when 'two masked individuals' emerged from a car and were both pointing guns at their torsos. 'One of them asked for my watch, which I wasn't ready to die for,' Miller told Fox News in an interview alongside his boss where he detailed that another friend was able to get in a punch before fleeing.

Donald Trump's 34 felony convictions are likely not to impact the 2024 election, according to a historian who correctly predicted nine of the last 10 presidential election outcomes. American University's Dr. Allan Lichtman said despite speculation the historic New York City trial against the former president will impact his chances in November one way or the other, he isn't so convinced. A lot would have to go wrong for President Joe Biden to lose to Trump as it currently stands, Lichtman claims, - but he isn't making any final projections quite yet.

President Joe Biden arrived in Wilmington, Delaware late afternoon Tuesday and immediately embraced son Hunter Biden - emotionally hugging him on the tarmac of Delaware Air National Guard - where Marine One had touched down. After their initial hug, the president tugged Hunter over again and held onto him for at least five seconds, whispering into his ear. Biden embraced Hunter's wife Melissa Cohen. He bent down and hugged Baby Beau, 4, the couple's son, kissing the little boy's blond head.

President Joe Biden honored gun violence survivors in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday just moments before jetting off to Delaware to be with his son who was just found guilty of three firearms-related charges. During his remarks, Biden repeatedly touted his record on implementing more strict gun control laws, but did not bring up his son Hunter, 54, or the irony of the event taking place the same day as the jury ruling in the federal gun case. He did, however, reference his late son Beau Biden and how he could relate to families of victims of gun violence because of the call he received informing him of his son's death.

Joe Biden (left) sparked concerns Monday night when he appeared to freeze (footage right) for the better part of a minute during a lively Juneteenth celebration at the White House.  Philonise Floyd, brother of the late George Floyd, flanked Biden on his left and eventually noticed the concerning pause he was taking and wrapped his arm around him in an apparent effort to help. Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, grooved along to the lively band. Biden then delivered an incoherent speech, his latest concerning behavior after more than 45 Republican and Democratic lawmakers and staffers revealed a spate of recent mistakes by the commander-in-chief.

In his closing statement defense lawyer Abbe Lowell accused prosecutors of asking Hunter's daughter if she used drugs to fill 'gaping holes' in their case. He banged his fist on the lectern and glared at the opposing side as he delivered the stark message.

Vice President Kamala Harris lashed out at a pro-Gaza protestor on Saturday even after mourning the loss of civilian lives in Gaza during the war with Israel .

President Joe Biden told the story of Army Rangers scaling a 100ft cliff under Nazi gunfire 80 years ago and urged Americans to follow their example in vanquishing hateful ideologies at home and abroad in a major set-piece speech Friday. Standing above the beaches where Allied forces poured into occupied France on D-Day, he invoked their spirit to set out his own vision for America's place in the world. 'Does anyone doubt they would want America to stand up against Putin's aggression here in Europe today,' he said.

Welcome to DailyMail.com's daily politics blog, with live coverage of the biggest stories from the corridors of power. Prosecutors are expected to wrap up their case against Hunter Biden in his gun trial, after his ex Hallie Biden detailed how they used crack cocaine together. The court was also shown surveillance footage of the moment she threw the gun at the center of the case in the trash can outside a Delaware grocery store.

President Joe Biden on Friday apologized to Volodymyr Zelensky for the way hardline Republicans delayed a huge package of funding earlier this year and promised that the U.S. would continue to stand with Ukraine in its time of need. 'We're still in ... completely, thoroughly,' Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart during their meeting at a Paris hotel. Both leaders are in the French capital after Thursday's 80th anniversary of D-Day, which proved a chance to underline international alliances against totalitarianism.

Welcome to DailyMail.com's daily politics blog with live coverage of the biggest stories from across the U.S. and the world. President Joe Biden is marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day in France while his son Hunter is back in court for the third day of testimony in his federal gun trial.

Eleven supporters of former President Donald Trump have been hospitalized for heat-related symptoms after waiting in line to hear the presumptive GOP nominee speak at an event Thursday in Arizona. Trump is headlining a Turning Point USA event at Dream City Church in Phoenix, where temperatures soared to 110 degrees around 1:30 p.m. as droves of his supporters waited outside.

Stepping out of Trump Tower on Tuesday, Melania, 54, wore a $1,345 beige Max Mara belted jumpsuit with Roger Vivier ballet flats and carried a cognac-colored ostrich Hermés Kelly handbag, which is priced on the resale market between $15,000 and $17,000.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden had an emotional meeting with D-Day veterans ahead of the ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, saluting their service and making jokes with them. The veterans are all older than the 81-year-old Biden. Many of them are even in their 100s.  'Don't get old,' one veteran told the president.

Welcome to DailyMail.com's daily politics blog, with live coverage of the biggest stories on the people in power. Hunter Biden will return to a Delaware federal court for the second day of testimony in his gun trial, after his infamous laptop was dramatically revealed to the jury . His wife Melissa Cohen was also at the center of drama when she called a Trump aide a 'Nazi piece of s***' . President Joe Biden landed in Paris on Wednesday morning to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day on the beaches of Normandy . He will try and invoke Ronald Reagan with a speech on Pointe du Hoc - the clifftop that saw one of the heroic missions from American troops .

Donalds, R-Fla., at a black voter outreach event in Philadelphia on Tuesday, said he is starting to see a 'reinvigoration of the black family' that is 'helping to breathe the revival of a Black middle class in America.' He went on to say that Black voters had become loyal to Democrats due to their leadership in civil rights movement but Democratic policies went on to erode their family values. 'You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together. During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative - Black people have always been conservative-minded - but more Black people voted conservatively,' Donalds, R-Fla., had said during an event to reach out to black voters on Tuesday.