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WASHINGTON, July 21, 2024 (AFP) – The following is the letter from US President Joe Biden, announcing he will no longer run for reelection in November: My Fellow Americans, Over the past three and a half years, we have made great progress as a Nation. Today, America has the strongest economy in the world. We’ve made historic investments in rebuilding our Nation, in lowering prescription drug costs for seniors, and in expanding affordable health care […]
By Danny Kemp REHOBOTH BEACH, United States, July 21, 2024 (AFP) – WASHINGTON, July 22, 2024 (AFP) – Joe Biden on Sunday dropped out of the US presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s new nominee, in a political earthquake that upends the already extraordinary race for the White House. Biden, 81, said he was acting in the “best interest of my party and the country” by bowing to weeks […]
By Saul Loeb with Danny Kemp in Washington REHOBOTH BEACH, United States, July 19, 2024 (AFP) – US President Joe Biden pledged to stay in the White House race Friday, defying a growing Democratic party revolt that raised speculation he could bow out as soon as this weekend. “The stakes are high, and the choice is clear. Together, we will win,” the 81-year-old said in a statement from the Delaware beach home where he is […]
By Michael Mathes MILWAUKEE, July 19, 2024 (AFP) – Donald Trump predicted an “incredible victory” Thursday in accepting the Republican presidential nomination from a party euphoric over his escape from assassination and buoyed by the apparent implosion of Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. “We will have an incredible victory, and we will begin the four greatest years in the history of our country,” Trump, 78, said at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. It was his […]
By Frankie TAGGART MILWAUKEE, July 18, 2024 (AFP) – Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick J.D. Vance lit up the Republican National Convention Wednesday with a speech leaning heavily on his personal story as he sought to connect his turbulent upbringing with the hardships faced by millions of Americans. In his first speech since being tapped as Trump’s vice presidential nominee on Monday, Vance offered a powerful account of growing up poor in Ohio, with no […]
By Paula Ramon with Danny Kemp in Washington LAS VEGAS, July 17, 2024 (AFP) – US President Joe Biden said he could drop his reelection bid if doctors found he had a medical condition, as a top Democrat on Wednesday urged the 81-year-old to step aside. Biden’s comments were the first time he has even slightly opened the door to abandoning the White House race, and came as Representative Adam Schiff, a key ally from […]
By Paula Ramon with Danny Kemp in Washington LAS VEGAS, July 18, 2024 (AFP) – US President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid with mild symptoms Wednesday, shortly after conceding he would consider dropping his reelection bid if doctors diagnosed him with a serious medical condition. The 81-year-old Democrat gave reporters the thumbs up and said “I feel good” as he cut short a campaign trip to Las Vegas and flew to his beach home […]
By Danny KEMP WASHINGTON, July 16, 2024 (AFP) – US President Joe Biden defended both his “mental acuity” and his rhetoric about Donald Trump Monday, in a second TV interview aimed at ending calls for him to quit his reelection bid following a disastrous debate. The 81-year-old delivered an often combative defense of his mental and physical fitness for office during the one-on-one with broadcaster NBC, which nevertheless featured some of the word salads that […]
By Frankie TAGGART and Michael MATHES MILWAUKEE, July 16, 2024 (AFP) – Donald Trump received a hero’s welcome Monday as he entered the Republican National Convention arena with a bandaged right ear in his first public appearance since being wounded in a weekend assassination attempt. Hours after winning the formal nomination to be the Republican presidential candidate and announcing right-wing Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate, Trump marched into Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum flanked by […]
By Michael Mathes MILWAUKEE, July 16, 2024 (AFP) – Donald Trump has put a youthful, loyal gladiator for his Make America Great Again movement on the Republican ticket, hoping J.D. Vance’s transformation from blue-collar Rust Belter to senator can help him secure victory. A White House candidate often chooses a vice presidential running mate who can appeal to new categories of voters or compensate for acknowledged weaknesses in terms of image or policy. Trump, though, […]
WASHINGTON, July 14, 2024 (AFP) – Former first lady Melania Trump said Sunday that a gunman who opened fire at a Donald Trump rally was a “monster,” as she condemned the assassination attempt in which the Republican presidential candidate was injured. “A monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine attempted to ring out Donald’s passion — his laughter, ingenuity, love of music, and inspiration,” Melania Trump said in a statement shared on […]
By Danny Kemp with Frankie Taggart in Milwaukee WASHINGTON, July 15, 2024 (AFP) – President Joe Biden sought to calm a divided nation after his rival Donald Trump survived an assassination bid, saying in a rare Oval Office address Sunday it was time to lower the temperature of America’s hostile politics. “You know, the political record in this country has gotten very heated. It’s time to cool it down,” Biden said in the televised speech, […]
