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Former President Donald Trump, in his first rally since the presidential debate on Thursday, continued to go after Joe Biden as a bit of a master political manipulator even as much of the post-event focus has been on the president’s feeble performance. “Despite the fact that crooked Joe Biden has…

Former President Barack Obama weighed in Friday on President Joe Biden’s dismal debate performance the night before, offering a bit of perspective on the anxieties following his own listless showing in 2012. Obama wrote on X/Twitter, “Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is…

UPDATE: Elton John joined President Joe Biden in New York later today at the opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center. The Pride month celebration was part of a series of post-debate stops Biden has planned today and over the weekend. John decried the “misinformation” and…

EXCLUSIVE: "I hope the folks at Sundance have the clarity of perspective to recognize that it would be in their best interest to bring the festival to Georgia," Sen. Raphael Warnock says of the Peach State's unique triple bids for the Robert Redford-founded film festival to move to Hollywood South…

UPDATED, 1:48 PM: Final figures showed that the CNN presidential debate drew an estimated 51.3 million viewers across 16 networks, according to Nielsen. That is a drop of almost 30% from the 73.1 million who watched the first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in 2020. The…

During an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Vice President Kamala Harris ackowledged that President Joe Biden had a “slow start” during Thursday night’s debate but insisted that it was a “strong finish.” Cooper repeatedly pressed Harris on Democratic concerns over Biden’s performance, in which…

"This cannot be real life. It just can’t," said an animated and live Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. The Comedy Central show was airing live Thursday after the presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, and Stewart didn't hold back his disappointment about the…

UPDATED, 7:53 PM: “It was a game-changing debate in the sense that right now, as we speak, there is a deep, a wide and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party,” CNN’s John King said immediately after the the first debate of the 2024 presidential election season between Joe Biden and Donald Trump…

Supporters of Joe Biden and Donald Trump planned to hold watch parties across the country for CNN’s presidential debate, seizing on the event to energize their bases. In Los Angeles, three Democratic governors — Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Andy Beshear of Kentucky and JB Pritzker of Illinois — were…

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have each arrived in Atlanta for this evening’s CNN debate, an event that many predicted would unravel when it was first announced last month. Biden arrived at about 3:15 p.m. ET, and greeted an entourage that included former UN ambassador Andrew…

Editor's note: It’s Debate Night in America and the Deadline ElectionLine podcast is kicking off our dawn-to dusk-coverage today of what will be the first face-off this year between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump. Stay tuned; later today we will be following the debate with breaking…

When asked recently what he thought should be the first question at CNN’s Joe Biden-Donald Trump presidential debate on Thursday, ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos had a succinct answer: “Who won the last election?” The moment speaks to how unusual this debate will be — and the challenge for moderators…