The chaos in the Democratic Party looks likely to swamp the Republican National Convention, leaving Donald Trump in an unusual situation: unable to get attention.
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"I’m not about to storm the White House the way some Republicans allowed their activists to storm the Capitol. This is not a time to do anything but to stand by the rules."
President Biden’s Democratic opponents in Congress made one thing unmistakably clear after his press conference: They don’t care how he did, it’s time to go.
Democratic leaders are giving their party plenty of space to process the fallout from President Biden’s debate. Increasingly, they’re filling it with calls for him to get out.
If not for the brutal aftermath of Joe Biden’s debate debacle, Democrats might have spent the last couple of weeks celebrating some reassuring economic news.