US president Joe Biden’s train-wreck debate with Republican opponent Donald Trump followed a series of decisions by his most senior advisers that critics now point to as wrong-headed, interviews with Democratic allies, donors and former and current aides show. Mr Trump, 78, repeated a series of well-worn, glaring falsehoods during the 90-minute debate on Thursday, […]
By Trevor Hunnicutt, Nandita Bose, Jarrett Renshaw and Steve Holland (Reuters) – President Joe Biden‘s train-wreck debate with Republican opponent Donald Trump followed a series of decisions by his most senior advisers that critics now point to as wrong-headed, interviews with Democratic allies, donors and former and current aides show. Trump, 78, repeated a series […]
Rishi Sunak has said he is “proud” of his disastrous election campaign – and claimed he would win Thursday’s general election. The prime minister has come under fire in recent weeks for a series of calamities that included a rain-soaked announcement of polling day, leaving D-Day commemorations early and a gambling scandal. But in a […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is expected to discuss the future of his re-election campaign with family at Camp David on Sunday, following a nationally televised debate Thursday that left many fellow Democrats worried about his ability to beat former President Donald Trump in November, according to five people familiar with the matter. Biden’s trip […]
Many tech figures were less than impressed with Joe Biden after his debate with Trump. Venture capitalists queried Biden’s fitness for office, while joking the country was in danger. Other responses ranged from sharp criticism to mockery and despair. Several Silicon Valley figures have offered their thoughts on President Joe Biden’s performance in Thursday’s presidential […]
A local political expert called Thursday night’s presidential debate “disastrous.” Mark Caleb Smith, director of the Center for Political Studies at Cedarville University, told News Center 7 that President Joe Biden’s performance in the debate could damage his chances for reelection. “This was a really disastrous debate. I think for Joe Biden probably the worst […]
Well, the idea that President Joe Biden would be pumped up with performance-enhancing drugs was soundly debunked during Thursday’s presidential debate. It was, for an 81-year-old incumbent president who needed to show people his age is not a factor, an unmitigated disaster. Biden seemed to lose his train of thought at one point early in […]
By Tim Reid and Gram Slattery (Reuters) – A group of U.S. voters who were unable to choose between Joe Biden and Donald Trump before Thursday’s presidential debate delivered their verdicts after the contest and it was almost universally bad news for Biden. Of the 13 “undecideds” who spoke to Reuters, 10 described the 81-year-old […]
ATLANTA — President Joe Biden’s top campaign surrogates had the unenviable task of spinning his weak debate performance against Donald Trump to the media immediately after Thursday night’s event. They argued that Biden’s debate showing should be judged by the substance of his message and not the style of its messenger. But it was a […]
A study of sea ice showed that low coverage in 2023 was a rare event, and models suggest it would have been “extremely unlikely” to have occurred without human-caused warming of Earth. What’s happening? Last year marked another nadir for sea ice in the Antarctic. The region had reached a record winter low in 2017, […]
Last week’s Consensus crypto conference in Austin was billed to be a triumphant celebration of the budding bull market, but it really felt like an extended campaign rally gloating over the blockchain industry’s recent wins in D.C. At the annual CoinCenter dinner, the libertarian-minded think tank invited House Majority Whip and crypto crusader Tom Emmer […]
Two Yakovlev Yak-52 planes collided in mid-air during a demonstration at Portugal’s Beja Air Show on Sunday, resulting in a deadly crash that killed one pilot, the country’s air force said. “The air force regrets to announce that at 4:05 pm (1505 GMT), at the Beja Air Show, two planes were the victim of an […]