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Joe Biden has given his first interview since withdrawing from the 2024 presidential election in favor of Kamala Harris.
The president told Robert Costa of CBS News that it had been a great honor to serve as commander-in-chief but he had an obligation to the country to maintain democracy and defeat Donald Trump.
Biden also said he was not confident there would be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025 if Trump loses the election, noting about the former president: “You can’t love your country only when you win.”
Harris has surged in the polls, both nationally and in key battleground states since taking over the Democratic Party ticket.
She has a five-point lead over Trump in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, putting her at 42% to the Republican’s 37% nationally. In a New York Times/Siena College poll Harris is leading by four points in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
The vice president wrapped up her tour of swing states this week with another enthusiastic rally in Las Vegas at which she pledged to end taxes on tips to service industry workers, echoing a Trump promise.
Enraged, he took to Truth Social, angrily posting: “This was a TRUMP idea — She has no ideas, she can only steal from me.”
More Americans trust Harris to handle economy than Trump
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.
Oliver O’Connell11 August 2024 21:15
Oliver O’Connell11 August 2024 21:04
Trump and Harris now both advocate no tax on tips — but is it good policy?
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.
Oliver O’Connell11 August 2024 20:45
ICYMI: Three battleground states move from Trump column into ‘toss ups’
Oliver O’Connell11 August 2024 20:15
Trump falsely claims crowd at Kamala Harris rally is fake or was generated by AI
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 .
Oliver O’Connell11 August 2024 20:00
Trump can’t even tell when he’s lying, says former adviser
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.
Oliver O’Connell11 August 2024 19:45
Will Dunkin’ get the Bud Lite treatment?
Oliver O’Connell11 August 2024 19:15
In depth: How Elon Musk is disrupting US elections to boost Trump
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.
Oliver O’Connell11 August 2024 18:45
Vance refuses to back down from ‘childless cat lady’ comments
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.
Oliver O’Connell11 August 2024 18:15
Full story: Biden gives first interview since leaving presidential race
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.”
Oliver O’Connell11 August 2024 17:25