George Clooney, a Biden fund-raiser, and Representatives Pat Ryan of New York and Earl Blumenauer of Oregon said President Biden should step aside. Peter Welch of Vermont became the first Democratic senator to publicly make the call. Representative Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker and a longtime ally, said he must decide soon.
After largely disappearing from view to let Democratic infighting play out, Donald Trump held a rally that was at times boastful and mercilessly cruel.
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Donald J. Trump’s monthslong search for a running mate, orchestrated to feed speculation and attention, is nearing an end, but questions of who, and when, remain.
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Only four seats separate Democrats from the House majority, making the chamber a potential bulwark against complete Republican control. But gaining even a handful of seats will be difficult.
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Pelosi Suggests That Biden Could Reconsider Decision to Stay in the Race
Representative Nancy Pelosi, a longtime Biden ally and the former speaker, is the most senior member of his party so far to suggest his status at the top of the ticket is uncertain.
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In TMZ Video, George Stephanopoulos Says Biden Can’t Serve Another Term
The ABC anchor, in a surreptitious recording, said, “I don’t think he can serve four more years.”
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A Late Play by the Biden Campaign: Running Out the Clock
Time is on President Biden’s side. Every day that he defies pressure to end his re-election campaign, replacing him becomes harder for Democrats.
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On Capitol Hill, Democrats Panic About Biden but Do Nothing
The president has yet to do what many Democrats said he must to show he is up to remaining in the race. But so far, they have thrown up their hands, doing nothing to nudge him aside.
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Who Might Replace Biden on the Top of the Ticket?
President Biden is said to be weighing his political future after his halting debate performance. Here’s a roster of some possible backup candidates.
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‘It’s a catastrophe,’ said the senator from Vermont, becoming the first Democrat from that chamber to publicly say the president should step aside.
By Robert Jimison
A federal judge in Tennessee said that it was unconstitutional for the City of Lakeland, Tenn., to fine Julie Pereira for the sign she posted expressing disapproval of President Biden and Donald J. Trump.
By Jesus Jiménez
A defiant and angry president says he is not going anywhere. Some Democrats are trying to appeal to another side of the politician, who has been a realist about his political fortunes before.
By Katie Rogers
The vice president told a crowd of roughly 20,000 in Dallas that former President Donald J. Trump had said he would terminate the Constitution in a second term.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs
For decades, the court has been reluctant to allow lawsuits against individual federal officials. Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-nemesis believes he has found an exception.
By Ben Protess and Maggie Haberman
The dam has mostly held on Capitol Hill for President Biden, but cracks continued to open as more donors and elected officials publicly called on President Biden to drop out.
By Annie Karni
The interview will air in prime-time on NBC on Monday, the first night of the Republican National Convention.
By Michael M. Grynbaum
Donald J. Trump has not generally offered explicit evaluations of his top contenders, but he acknowledged on Wednesday that Doug Burgum’s abortion ban and Marco Rubio’s Florida residency complicate his choice.
By Michael Gold
Representative Elissa Slotkin, the leading Democrat seeking her state’s open Senate seat, said private polling showed former President Donald J. Trump leading President Biden.
By Michael C. Bender
President Biden is pushing back against those who say he is not up to the job.
By Peter Baker
Mr. Ryan, the eighth member of Congress to publicly call on President Biden to drop out of the race, said Mr. Biden seemed incapable of making a case against Donald Trump.
By Nicholas Fandos
Mr. Clooney, who co-hosted a lavish fund-raiser for President Biden last month, wrote in a guest essay in The New York Times that Democrats “are not going to win in November with this president.”
By Reid J. Epstein
Bennet of Colorado expressed more serious concern about President Biden’s campaign than any Senate Democrat has so far, saying that he was on track to lose and that it was up to Democrats to change that.
By Maggie Astor
Many seem to be falling in line behind President Biden even as polling showed his campaign to be in trouble.
By David Leonhardt and Ian Prasad Philbrick
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President Donald J. Trump’s residence and private club has become an oasis for the MAGA wing of the Republican party, according to a Times analysis — and its transformation has been tremendously profitable for Mr. Trump.
By Karen Yourish, Charlie Smart and David A. Fahrenthold
The race against Trump doesn’t seem as if it will get easier.
By Nate Cohn
“America doesn’t shy away from its friends,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in a speech in Washington as leaders gathered in the city for a NATO summit.
By Julian E. Barnes
Speaking to nearly 200 Democratic mayors, the president again acknowledged he had a poor first debate and took softball questions about his campaign and second-term agenda.
By Reid J. Epstein and Shawn Hubler
Republicans are seeking information about a venture that Dr. Kevin O’Connor discussed with James Biden before the president was elected.
By Kenneth P. Vogel
Intelligence officials from three countries flagged a Russian influence campaign that used artificial intelligence to create nearly 1,000 fake accounts on the social media platform X.
By Steven Lee Myers and Julian E. Barnes
The sailor searched the name “Joseph Biden” in a government database three times in late February, according to the Navy.
By Neil Vigdor
Lawmakers in the House and Senate met privately to hash out their concerns about President Biden’s viability, but leaders emerged from two separate meetings pledging allegiance to their candidate.
By Catie Edmondson, Maya C. Miller, Robert Jimison and Annie Karni
Jennifer O’Malley Dillon is driving the president’s campaign forward as he fends off Democratic critics. “She doesn’t have any doubt,” said Ron Klain, the former White House chief of staff.
By Reid J. Epstein
The relationship between Ms. Haley, who was United Nations ambassador under Mr. Trump, and the former president soured toward the end of the primary campaign.
By Jazmine Ulloa
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The president’s weakness with younger voters is evident in the survey, as is former President Donald J. Trump’s benefiting from positive views of his White House term.
By Ruth Igielnik
Donald Trump stayed out of the spotlight as President Biden was besieged by Democratic doubts, but he returned to the trail Tuesday to revel in the chaos with an insult- and falsehood-laden speech.
By Michael Gold
The California governor is holding firm as a fierce defender of the president on the 2024 trail. Left unspoken are his own White House ambitions.
By Rebecca Davis O’Brien
All eyes are on President Biden, but looming over the meeting is the possibility that Vladimir Putin might pull a stunt to disrupt the gathering.
By Michael Crowley, Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt and John Ismay
Leaders of the Democratic Party’s most loyal voting bloc have expressed frustration with the calls for President Biden to step aside, mindful of undermining Vice President Kamala Harris.
By Maya King and Jazmine Ulloa
Clint Keaveny, an outspoken volunteer, was removed from a Democratic congressional campaign for holding up a protest sign at a Biden rally.
By Simon J. Levien
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