Biden Faces Fresh Calls to Withdraw as Democrats Fear Electoral Rout
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.
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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.
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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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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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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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Election Updates: Biden Faces More Calls to Drop Out as Allies Remain Uneasy
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.
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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What to Watch for at the NATO Summit This Week
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
She’s Keeping Biden on Track as Democrats Try to Derail Him
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.
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After Propelling Biden in 2020, Black Women Aren’t Eager to Abandon Him Now
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
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Fact-Checking Biden’s ABC Interview
The president defended his debate performance with exaggerations about polling, his recent appearances and his opponent.
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Student Loan Borrowers Owe $1.6 Trillion. Nearly Half Aren’t Paying.
Millions of people are overdue on their federal loans or still have them paused — and court rulings keep upending collection efforts.
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This Is the First Presidential Debate Without an In-Person Audience Since 1960
John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon were the last presidential candidates to debate with no live audience during a general election.
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Biden’s Stimulus Juiced the Economy, but Its Political Effects Are Muddled
Some voters blame the American Rescue Plan for fueling price increases. But the growth it unleashed may be helping the president stay more popular than counterparts in Europe.
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The One Thing Voters Remember About Trump
We asked voters for the one thing they remembered most about the Trump era. Few of them cited major events like the pandemic and Jan. 6.
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The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris has spent the past year trying to quiet her doubters. Now, with President Biden’s candidacy on the line, Democrats are assessing whether she is up to being the nominee.
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Kamala Harris Jabs at Trump and Avoids Talk of Biden Dropping Out
On Saturday, in an appearance in New Orleans, Vice President Harris spoke of her biography and the Biden administration’s achievements, while jabbing at former President Donald J. Trump.
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In Her Crisp Defense of Biden, Harris Builds a Case for Herself
Vice President Kamala Harris tried to calm Democratic fears as her allies wondered what could be next for her.
By Erica L. Green, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and
Kamala Harris Courts Union Members, an Up-for-Grabs Group of Voters
Speaking in Philadelphia to supportive members of a major labor union, the vice president sought to draw a sharp contrast with Donald Trump and build support with a bloc of crucial voters.
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In Florida, Trump Teases V.P. Pick and Steps Up Attacks on Kamala Harris
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.
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Biden Nears Pick for Next F.D.I.C. Chair
The front-runner for the bank regulatory job is Christy Goldsmith Romero, a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Biden Will Choose a New Leader for Bank Regulator With ‘Toxic’ Culture
Martin Gruenberg, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, said he would step down once the Senate confirmed a successor.
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How Biden Adopted Trump’s Trade War With China
The president has proposed new barriers to electric vehicles, steel and other goods.
By Sabrina Tavernise, Nina Feldman, Carlos Prieto, Sydney Harper, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Brendan Klinkenberg, Lisa Chow, Diane Wong, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell and
Leader of Federal Student Aid Office Steps Down After College Admissions Crisis
During Richard Cordray’s tenure at the agency, the botched rollout of the new FAFSA upended the college admissions process.
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Opposition to Muslim Judicial Nominee Leaves Biden With a Tough Choice
Adeel Mangi would be the first Muslim American to be a federal appeals court judge, but has faced vitriolic attacks from the G.O.P. The president could run out of time to fill the seat.
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Vi a Biden hace tres semanas en mi recaudación de fondos para él. Es devastador decirlo, pero ya no es el mismo hombre que era, y no ganará en las elecciones de noviembre.
By George Clooney
‘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
Election results in Britain and France show that voters can get behind liberal candidates as long as they’re fresh faces.
By Nicholas Kristof
A president who long delighted in public speech is now sometimes hard to understand. Does it matter?
By Jess Bidgood
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
The statement was a major departure for the alliance, which until 2019 never officially mentioned China as a concern.
By David E. Sanger
After largely disappearing from view to let Democratic infighting play out, Donald Trump held a rally that was at times boastful and mercilessly cruel.
By Shawn McCreesh
The interview will air in prime-time on NBC on Monday, the first night of the Republican National Convention.
By Michael M. Grynbaum
El tiempo corre a favor del presidente Joe Biden. Cada día que desafía la presión para poner fin a su campaña por la reelección, sustituirlo se vuelve más difícil para los demócratas.
By Adam Nagourney and Jim Rutenberg
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
Readers react to an editorial urging party leaders to do so. Also: The debate over sex testing at the Olympics.
President Biden is pushing back against those who say he is not up to the job.
By Peter Baker
The specter of a second Donald J. Trump presidency injects new urgency into the NATO summit this week. President Biden and other leaders agree Ukraine should have an “irreversible” path to membership.
By Edward Wong, Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper
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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
I saw Biden three weeks ago at my fund-raiser for him. It’s devastating to say it, but he is not the same man he was, and he won’t win this fall.
By George Clooney
The ABC anchor, in a surreptitious recording, said, “I don’t think he can serve four more years.”
By Michael M. Grynbaum
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
The measure aims to close a loophole that officials said allowed metals made partly in China to come into the United States duty free.
By Ana Swanson
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
Plus, Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” trial begins.
By Michael Simon Johnson, Catie Edmondson, Julia Jacobs, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger
The race against Trump doesn’t seem as if it will get easier.
By Nate Cohn
It isn’t too late to start a constructive conversation about aging and leadership.
By Clark Hoyt
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In the case of the former president, it is far more dangerous to underestimate than to overestimate his capacity to wreak havoc.
By Thomas B. Edsall
Amos Hochstein, an energy policy official who was born in Israel, is playing diplomatic firefighter along the Israel-Lebanon border.
By Michael Crowley
“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
Los demócratas necesitan un nuevo candidato a la presidencia de Estados Unidos, y no pueden decantarse por algún aspirante tras bambalinas. Este es el modo en el que deben hacerlo.
By James Carville
Both men running for president are unfit for the job. One is a danger to our country.
By Thomas L. Friedman
President Biden welcomed NATO allies to a summit in Washington with a speech highlighting the alliance’s history and its unity in modern times.
By The Associated Press
The president is starting to act like the predecessor he fought against.
By Bret Stephens
Inside the MSNBC safe space that President Biden turned to this week.
By Michael M. Grynbaum
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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
The July 9, 2024, episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”
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
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
Readers lament and support the president’s refusal to heed calls to step aside. Also: Televised therapy; Supreme Court rulings.
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
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
Her continued support gives President Biden the backing of an influential member of the party’s progressive wing.
By Maggie Astor
The president is still seeking money from wealthy contributors even as he casts them as part of an unelected political elite trying to subvert the will of voters.
By Kenneth P. Vogel
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If Kamala Harris took his place, she could easily tap into their campaign’s cash. Someone like Gretchen Whitmer or Gavin Newsom? It would get trickier.
By Theodore Schleifer
The vice president has made certain to demonstrate complete loyalty to President Biden.
By Peter Baker and Katie Rogers
The president’s joined a call intended to soothe wealthy backers’ worries and tried to shift the focus to attacking Donald Trump.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni
In her sixth visit to Las Vegas this year, Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the stakes of President Biden’s fight against Donald J. Trump.
By Kellen Browning, Katie Glueck and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
It’s getting harder to ignore the charismatic politicians who have been trying to support Biden.
By Mara Gay
Russian forces continue to inflict pain, but NATO leaders gathering in Washington can say that their efforts to strengthen Ukraine are working.
By Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt
The Times Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie walks through the risks of a brokered convention.
By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’
El país no tiene una cultura de negociar concesiones para formar coaliciones. La división de la Asamblea Nacional en tres grandes bloques de izquierda, centro y derecha, agrava la situación.
By Roger Cohen
Politically aligned, Joe Biden and the new U.K. prime minister agree on climate change, Ukraine and Northern Ireland. Donald Trump would be a different story.
By Mark Landler
A summit meant to convey confidence in the newly expanded alliance opened with a dazzling celebration and no mention of President Biden’s political peril.
By David E. Sanger and Lara Jakes
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In private and in public, President Biden made clear he holds all the cards when determining his political future. Can he get his Democratic critics to fold?
By Shane Goldmacher
Eleven days after his disastrous debate performance, the president’s strategy is coming into focus.
By Jess Bidgood
Karine Jean-Pierre, the press secretary, refused to answer questions about whether visits to the White House by a Parkinson’s doctor were about the president.
By Michael D. Shear
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, refused to speak about several visits to the White House by a neurologist from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
By The New York Times
The longer Democrats delay in getting Biden to stand down, the harder it will be to replace him.
By The Editorial Board
The president’s defiant letter to lawmakers declaring that he would not end his candidacy no matter what did not stop the stream of Democrats publicly expressing skepticism about his viability.
By Catie Edmondson
Biden has done a great job. Now he can serve America by stepping aside.
By Paul Krugman
During a speech in North Carolina, Jill Biden said that she supports President Biden.
By The Associated Press
El esfuerzo de la campaña de Joe Biden por cuestionar la capacidad de Donald Trump para gobernar se ha convertido en una evaluación sobre la propia competencia del presidente.
By Reid J. Epstein
The Michigan governor made the remarks to The Associated Press and called the speculation “a distraction more than anything.”
By Maggie Astor
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As the president stared down his own party back in Washington, the first lady, a popular campaign-trail surrogate, got to work trying to convince voters that the president was staying in the race.
By Katie Rogers
Senators have had plenty of practice watching colleagues hold stubbornly onto their positions of power as they grow old. None wants to lead a public call for President Biden to withdraw.
By Annie Karni
Over 18 minutes, the president repeated his assertion that he was staying in the race and suggested it was time to turn the focus back to Donald Trump.
By Theodore Schleifer, Reid J. Epstein, Lauren Hirsch and Shane Goldmacher
Far from producing a “clarification,” President Emmanuel Macron’s snap election has yielded a muddle that could take months to sort out.
By Roger Cohen
The party needs a new presidential nominee and can’t rig things for any one candidate.
By James Carville
The White House said President Biden had met with a neurologist only three times in more than three years in office, and implied that the doctor’s visits were related to treating other people.
By Emily Baumgaertner and Peter Baker
Readers discuss a column by Pamela Paul. Also: Criticism of The Times’s Biden-Trump coverage; why voting matters; helping migrants in New York.
The Biden administration is trying to get foreign companies to invest in chip-making in the United States and more countries to set up factories to do final assembly and packaging.
By Edward Wong and Ana Swanson
President Biden defied his critics in a letter to Democratic members of Congress and in fiery remarks on MSNBC.
By Michael D. Shear
Plus, a firestorm over Mexico City’s salsas.
By Michael Simon Johnson, Roger Cohen, James Wagner, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger
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After President Biden’s rocky answer on abortion at the debate, his campaign has ramped up its messaging on Donald Trump’s role in overturning Roe v. Wade and his policy stances.
By Simon J. Levien
This time with actual presidents.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
The Biden campaign’s effort to raise questions about Donald J. Trump’s ability to be president has boomeranged into a referendum on the president’s own competence.
By Reid J. Epstein
After we survived one round of economic Russian roulette, Donald Trump is asking us to take another spin, only this time with many more bullets in the chamber.
By Robert E. Rubin and Kenneth I. Chenault
The White House desperately tries to take word salad off the menu.
By Maureen Dowd
WURD said that the interview with President Biden was not up to its standards and that the host, Andrea Lawful-Sanders, had resigned in a mutual decision.
By Simon J. Levien
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