A number of Saturday's front pages reflect on the US presidential TV debate including the Daily Telegraph which says Joe Biden is facing calls from Democrat strategists, donors and politicians to suspend his campaign and make way for a younger candidate, at the party's convention in August.
The Guardian calls President Biden's debate performance "a 90 minute horror show" and on its front page describes his showing as "shaky".
"Sleepy" Biden was savaged by Donald Trump, according to the Daily Star which also echoes calls for the president being urged to step down.
Switching to British politics and the polling day run in - Tory Cabinet Minister Kemi Badenoch speaks to the Times where she fiercely criticises Reform candidates and goes on to say the Reform leader, Nigel Farage, is in politics for the "limelight".
The Daily Express leads with Rishi Sunak who says a racial slur against him by a Reform UK campaigner "hurts and it makes me angry".
Former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson makes what the Daily Mail calls his biggest intervention in the election campaign. He urges voters to support the Conservatives, writing, "it is by no means too late to tilt the steering wheel in the direction of common sense, avert Starmergeddon, and prevent the country from going in completely the wrong direction."
Finally, the Daily Mirror leads with Jay Slater's best friend who says he heard the missing teenager "slipping on rocks" in final phone conversation earlier this month.
NEW YORK (AP) — A sense of concern is growing inside the top ranks of the Democratic Party that leaders of Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee are not taking seriously enough the impact of the president’s troubling debate performance earlier in the week.
While many are focused on President Biden’s debate performance, Dean Obeidallah says it was former President Trump’s statements during the event that gave offense.
The editorial comes the day after the New York Times called on Joe Biden to drop out The post The Philadelphia Inquirer Calls on Trump to Drop Out of Presidential Race: ‘He Mainly Spews Raw Sewage’ appeared first on TheWrap.
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said President Biden does not have advisers telling him what to do, he has employees, in comments after his poor debate showing on Thursday night. Since the debate between Biden and former President Trump, the conversation has been centered on whether Biden should step aside and allow another Democrat to…
Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday to gloat about Thursday night’s presidential debate—his only gripe being that people aren’t giving him enough praise for winning the debate.“During my debate on Thursday night with Crooked Joe Biden, the worst President in the history of our Country, and the person that is illegally, and for strictly political gain, trying to put me in jail, I watched a man, first hand, “CHOKE” under tremendous pressure,” Trump wrote in a Truth Socia
Arzo survived a suicide attempt but now faces a new threat that could send her family – and millions like them – back to Afghanistan and a life that has become so intolerable for women and girls that some would rather die.
At ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day in France a month ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a warning about the state of democracy.
The 2024 election is heating up and if former President Donald Trump manages to retake the White House, it's bound to shake things up big time for American workers and the larger economy. What kind of...
President Joe Biden's train-wreck debate with Republican opponent Donald Trump followed a series of decisions by his most senior advisers that critics now point to as wrong-headed, interviews with Democratic allies, donors and former and current aides show. Trump, 78, repeated a series of well-worn, glaring falsehoods during the 90-minute debate on Thursday, including claims that he actually won the 2020 election. Biden, 81, failed to refute them and his fumbling, halting performance has sparked calls from Democrats for him to end his quest for a second term and for "soul-searching" or resignations among top aides.
Several U.S. military bases across Europe are now operating under a heightened state of alert, ABC News has confirmed. The alert level of Force Protection Condition (FPCON) "Charlie" was put in place over the weekend, according to two U.S. officials. According to the U.S. Army, Charlie is the second highest state of alert that "applies when an incident occurs or intelligence is received indicating some form of terrorist action or targeting against personnel or facilities is likely."
When The New Yorker’s editor David Remnick watched Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, it was the culmination of long-held doubts. On Saturday, he published a column headlined “The Reckoning of Joe Biden,” calling for the president to end a re-election campaign that Remnick called “a national endangerment.”Remnick told the Daily Beast, “It’s just become more and more evident, and the debate was just the kind of breakthrough moment.”The column is the latest salvo from
Slowly but steadily this summer, Russian troops are forging through Ukraine's outgunned and undermanned defenses in a relentless onslaught, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv. Russia took advantage of its edge in firepower amid delays in U.S. aid to scale up attacks in several areas along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front.