Biden gives first interview since exiting 2024 race: Live updates

For months, voters have indicated in numerous surveys that they trusted Republicans—and Trump—more on the economy. A wide range of explanations was given for this, but much of it ties back to the sharp rise in consumer prices and other monumental shifts in the economy that occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

That doesn’t mean it is a guarantee to change under the next president.

The former president first pushed the idea at a rally in Las Vegas in June. The vice president did the same last night in the same city having been endorsed by the Culinary Union, which represents workers who would benefit most from such a policy.

Donald Trump has bought into a conspiracy theory that claims there was no crowd of supporters waiting to greet Kamala Harris when she got off Air Force Two in Detroit for her rally on Wednesday evening.

And here are more photos and footage of the estimated 15,000-strong crowd that greeted the vice president and Governor Tim Walz.

And here’s Andrew Feinberg with an explanation of why the former president would post something that is obviously completely false .

Bolton, who served in the Trump administration, said the former president consistently told falsehoods throughout the nearly hour-long “general news conference” but said it was not deliberate lying, rather that Trump espoused what he believes in his mind.

The 2024 presidential cycle is the first since Musk bought X, formerly Twitter. Under his ownership, the fact checkers are gone, AI-generated content is feeding false election information to millions of users, and Musk himself is responsible for misleading posts that have been viewed more than 1 billion times.

The world’s wealthiest man not only controls a platform where he can boost Donald Trump’s campaign, he also helped launch a Trump-supporting political action committee to spend and raise unlimited dollars to get him elected — a uniquely powerful combination that election analysts, civil rights groups and state prosecutors are closely watching.

Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance appeared on the Sunday morning talk shows today and was quizzed about some of his more controversial remarks and the campaign pledge to roll out the “largest deportation operation in history”.

John Bowden reports on what he had to say.

President Joe Biden talked about the pressure from his fellow Democrats to leave the race as he sat down for his first interview since becoming the first sitting president in over 50 years not to seek reelection.

Speaking to Robert Costa of CBS News, Biden said that while polling showed him neck and neck with Donald Trump, “a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races.”