A handful of President Biden’s 2020 White House rivals are calling for him to step down from the 2024 race. As Biden advisers scramble to contain the fallout from last week’s debate against former President Trump, Democrats are assessing whether they think the embattled incumbent should stay in the running just a few months from...
President Biden’s reelection campaign is attacking the media, saying it is overplaying coverage of Biden’s bad debate performance while not covering positive news for the president. On a Zoom call with donors Monday evening, Biden’s deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks derided the press directly, saying “the media has spent a ton of time blowing this out...
A pair of scholars at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) warned that the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity poses a “direct threat” to democracy and the rule of law and raised concerns about what a second term under former President Trump could look like. The Supreme Court handed down the 6-3 decision Monday, ruling...
Leading Black voices commemorated the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act on Tuesday by highlighting the ongoing fight to achieve equality and urging Black Americans to vote in the upcoming election. “History is a relay race. The leaders of the Civil Rights Movement carried the baton, and through their organizing, the...
PBMs The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), the trade association representing pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), hired Emergent Strategies to lobby on issues related to the industry. PBMs have been under tremendous pressure from lawmakers, pharmaceutical groups and others who argue they drive up prescription drug prices and demand transparency into their opaque operations. The PCMA...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned a soda additive starting next month over health concerns. The FDA said Tuesday that it revoked its regulation that allowed brominated vegetable oil (BVO) to be used in food because it "is no longer considered safe." The agency pointed to studies conducted with the National Institutes of...
Democratic congressional candidate Adam Frisch is joining calls for President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race following his poor showing at the debate last week, arguing Tuesday that it would be "best for the country." Frisch, who is running for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, said Biden's performance "only reinforced" the argument that neither...
House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good (R) is projected to narrowly lose his primary in Virginia to Trump-backed challenger John McGuire, delivering the former president a victory in one of the cycle's most tumultuous nominating contests, according to Decision Desk HQ. McGuire, a state senator, defeated Good, a two-term House Republican, in the GOP primary...
A coalition of immigrant and Latino advocacy groups is reviving a bilingual campaign drawing connections between moderate Republicans in the House and former President Trump’s closest ideological orbit. The campaign, “Dime Con Quién Andas/Show Me Your Friends” — or “Dime” for short — first ran in 2022, targeting six Republican House candidates. Dime is a product of...
Global confidence in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to do the right thing has declined across a broad grouping of countries, including in Europe, according to a Pew survey published Tuesday. The findings contrast with a slight improvement in global opinion toward Russian President Vladimir Putin, in particular among young people, although overall confidence in the...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is slated the hold the first press briefing since President Biden's poor debate performance last week sparked panic among Democrats about the incumbent's ability to continue in the presidential race. While experts and Biden's allies have attempted to quell the criticism, the shaky debate against former President Trump —...
House Democratic leadership endorsed Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) on Tuesday in her competitive primary race against Democratic challenger and St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Wesley Bell. “Cori has shown up for the people of St. Louis in the fight for reproductive freedom, gun violence prevention and affordable housing,” a joint statement from House Minority Leader...
