JD Vance’s big night and Trump foreign policy in the spotlight

[Pelican Press 0]

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

JD Vance’s big night and Trump foreign policy in the spotlight

President Biden tests positive for Covid, cancels speech in Las Vegas

U.S. President Joe Biden walks toward Air Force One, at Harry Reid international airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., July 17, 2024.

Tom Brenner | Reuters

President Biden has tested positive for Covid, the White House said in a statement.

“He is vaccinated and boosted and he is experiencing mild symptoms,” the statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “He will be returning to Delaware where he will self-isolate and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time.”

The White House statement also included a note from the President’s doctor.

“He felt okay for his first event of the day, but given that he was not feeling better, point of care testing for COVID-19 was conducted, and the results were positive for the COVID-19 virus,” the doctor said.

“His symptoms remain mild, his respiratory rate is normal at 16, his temperature is normal at 97.8 and his pulse oximetry is normal at 97%,” the physician said, adding that Biden has already received his first dose of Paxlovid.

Biden was set to speak at the UnidosUS Annual Conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday afternoon, but UnidosUS President Janet Murguía took the stage shortly after 3:00 p.m. PT to announce that Biden would not be speaking.

“Regrettably, I was just on the phone with President Biden,” Murgia said to the audience. “And he shared his deep disappointment at not being able to join us this afternoon. The President has been at many events as we all know. And he just tested positive for COVID.”

– Josephine Rozzelle

Trump campaign won’t agree to VP debate before DNC

Former President Donald Trump, the *********** presidential nominee, is pictured with his running mate Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, in Fiserv Forum on the second day of *********** National Convention in Milwaukee, Wis., on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. 

Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images

The Trump campaign said Wednesday it will not agree to a Vice-Presidential debate before the Democratic National Convention, pointing to the calls for President Joe Biden to drop out of the race as its reason.

“We don’t know who the Democrat nominee for Vice President is going to be, so we can’t lock in a date before their convention,” Trump campaign aide Brian Hughes said in a statement. “To do so would be unfair to Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, or whoever Kamala Harris picks as her running mate.”

Biden has insisted that he does not plan to drop out of the race.

In an interview on Newsmax Tuesday night, Trump’s running mate JD Vance indicated that he’d be willing to a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, who previously agreed to an invitation from CBS to debate on July 23 or Aug. 13.

“We want to debate Vice President Harris because it’s important for the ********* people to see the contrast,” he said.

– Josephine Rozzelle

Biden says he might drop out if a ‘medical condition’ emerged

U.S. President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at ****** Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., July 15, 2024. 

Tom Brenner | Reuters

President Joe Biden said he might reconsider whether to stay in the race against GOP nominee Donald Trump if his doctors told him that he was suffering from a “medical condition.”

“Is there anything that you would look to you, personally…to say, ‘if I see that, I will reevaluate?'” BET host Ed Gordon asked Biden in an interview set to air in full on Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET.

“If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, ‘you got this problem, that problem,'” Biden replied, according to a video clip shared ahead of the broadcast.

Biden, 81, has resolutely rejected calls from within his own party to withdraw from the race after his abysmal performance in last month’s presidential debate.

— Kevin Breuninger

Rep. Adam Schiff asks Biden to drop out of race

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, talks with President Joe Biden after the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 7, 2024. 

Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images

Rep. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat heavily favored to win a U.S. Senate seat in November, called on Biden to exit the presidential race and let the party nominate another candidate.

Schiff said had “serious concerns about whether the President can defeat Donald Trump in November.”

“While the choice to withdraw from the campaign is President Biden’s alone, I believe it is time for him to pass the torch,” Schiff said.

– Dan Mangan

‘********* is never acceptable’: Harris breaks silence on Trump *********, digs in on reelection appeal

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a political event at the Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Experience in Portage, Michigan, on July 17, 2024. 

Jeff Kowalsky | AFP | Getty Images

Vice President Kamala Harris made her first on-camera public comment about the attempted ************** of Donald Trump at his Pennsylvania rally where one crowd member was ******* and two others were critically injured.

Harris opened her remarks at a Michigan ********* rights panel by sending her condolences to the family of Corey Comperatore, the former Pennsylvania firefighter who was *******. She also said she was “thankful” that Trump was not more seriously hurt at the Saturday *********.

“********* is never acceptable,” Harris said. “One of the questions we now confront is about the way we should engage with one another in this campaign.”

Harris then dovetailed her message of sympathy into political talking points, making the case for hers and President Biden’s reelection.

“Just as we must ******* political *********, we must also embrace a robust discussion about what is at stake in this election,” she said. “One of the ideas and one of the principles that is at stake in this election is the issue of reproductive freedom, and that is why I am here today.”

— Rebecca Picciotto

Two out of three Democrats want Biden to exit race, new polls find

US President Joe Biden departs from the White House for Las Vegas on July 15, 2024, in Washington, DC. ******* States.

Celal Gunes | Anadolu | Getty Images

Roughly two-thirds of Democrats think President Biden should bow out of the presidential race and let someone else take the top of the ticket, according to new polling from the past several days.

A new

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

published Wednesday found that 65% of Democrats believe Biden should step aside. From July 11 to July 15, the poll surveyed 1,253 adults. It had a margin of error of +/- 3.8 percentage points.

That result aligned with a similar finding from an

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

released Sunday, which showed that 62% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning registered voters also thought Biden should drop out. The poll surveyed 800 registered voters from July 7 to July 9. It had a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percentage points.

Biden has repeatedly rejected polling data that has shown drop-out pressure escalating in the weeks since his debate flop against Donald Trump. Rather, he maintains that the media and political pundits has been disproportionately covering his political vulnerabilities rather than Trump’s.

As of Wednesday, at least 20

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

had publicly called on Biden to drop out of the race, including most recently California Rep. Adam Schiff.

The Democratic rifts present a split screen with day three of the *********** National Convention where the GOP has vigorously rallied around the Trump-Vance ticket, especially in the wake of the Pennsylvania rally ********* where the former president came within an inch of a deadly bullet.

— Rebecca Picciotto

DNC says Biden nomination won’t be ‘rushed’ after Democratic lawmakers air concerns

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks as he visits Garage Grill and Fuel Bar in Northville, Michigan, U.S., July 12, 2024. 

Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters

The Democratic National Committee pledged that its virtual roll call process to designate President Biden the party’s official presidential nominee will not start before Aug. 1, according to a letter to delegates obtained by NBC News.

The virtual roll call process could have begun as soon as next week, which some Biden allies were pushing for. But other Democrats wanted the

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

to delay its early voting process to give the party time to lock down a new nominee as concerns mount about Biden’s age.

“Our goal is not to fast-track,” wrote Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Bishop Leah Daughtry, co-chairs of the DNC’s rules committee. “None of this will be rushed.”

The DNC’s letter eased some concerns on Capitol Hill.

Shortly after the letter was released, House Democrats called off their own effort to collect signatures on a drafted letter that would have called on the DNC to hold the nomination process in person at the Democratic convention, as is typical.

“We’re glad to see that the pressure worked, and the DNC will not be moving forward with the rushed process, so we won’t be sending a letter at this time,” a spokesperson for California Rep. Jared Huffman, one of the Democratic lawmakers leading the push, told CNBC.

Though the DNC promised that the virtual voting process will not kick off before August, Walz and Daughtry noted, it will be finished before the Democratic convention starts on Aug. 19.

Read the full story here.

— Rebecca Picciotto

Peter Navarro, fresh out of jail, is set to speak

Former Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro is scheduled to speak in Milwaukee just hours after he completed a

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

in Miami.

A federal jury convicted Navarro in September on two counts of contempt of Congress for his refusal to comply with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

The U.S. Supreme Court had rejected Navarro’s requests to get out of jail early while he appealed his sentence.

— Kevin Breuninger

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

#Vances #big #night #Trump #foreign #policy #spotlight

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up