By Steve Holland, Jarrett Renshaw and Bianca Flowers WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden gave most of his aides a mere moment’s notice of his decision to quit the race for reelection on Sunday after an agonizing 48 hours poring over polling data which showed his path to victory was closing, two sources said. Only …
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By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – The western part of the United States is sweating through another round of record-breaking heat as a wave is forecast to produce triple-digit temperatures in cities from Southern California to northern Idaho through the middle of the week. Some 30 million people are under heat advisories or excessive heat warnings …
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By Leah Douglas and Douglas Gillison (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday ended his reelection campaign. He said in a letter posted on social media platform X that he would remain in office until the end of his term and address the country later this week on his decision. Below are reactions from …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign on Sunday after fellow Democrats lost faith in his mental acuity and ability to beat Donald Trump. He announced his decision in a letter posted on social media, and in a subsequent post he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump said on Saturday nobody forewarned him of a problem in the lead-up to the former president’s rally in Pennsylvania last week, when a would-be assassin shot him in the ear. “Nobody mentioned it, nobody said there was a problem. I would’ve waited for 15, they could’ve said let’s wait for …
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By Jason Lange (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s election campaign last month outraised and outspent his challenger Donald Trump, according to disclosures published on Saturday that showed the president’s coffers initially swelling even after a disastrous debate performance. The main campaign account for Biden, a Democrat, took in $64 million in June and spent $59 …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Secret Service said it had turned down requests from Donald Trump’s security detail for additional resources in the two years leading up to his attempted assassination last week, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing a spokesman. This is a reversal from earlier statements by the agency denying that such …
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason PROVINCETOWN, Massachusetts/REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris pressed the case for the re-election of President Joe Biden at a fundraiser in Massachusetts on Saturday despite continued pressure from fellow Democrats and big-money donors seeking an end to his bruised campaign. “We are going to win this …
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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Thirty-five congressional Democrats have publicly called on Democratic President Joe Biden to end his re-election bid after the 81-year-old incumbent’s halting debate performance against Republican rival Donald Trump. They represent more than one in eight Democrats in Congress, where Biden’s party controls 213 seats in the House of Representatives and …
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By Surbhi Misra (Reuters) -U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a prominent progressive voice in the Democratic Party who was outspoken on African American and women’s rights, has died, her family said late on Friday. Jackson Lee of Texas announced last month she had pancreatic cancer and was undergoing treatment. She was 74. “The road ahead …
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