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President Joe Biden is going to fight, and he told a welcoming crowd in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin that he's not backing down. It's too close to the election to discuss replacing the President after a disastrous debate performance. Well, he's back, and he's not abandoning the race.

Does Kevin McCarthy have a job? Kevin McCarthy weighed in on the important issues of the day this weekend, and noted what he finds "depressing" and it's pretty weird. McCarthy, who was House Speaker for a minute, explained on Fox News that President Joe Biden offers cookies to guests in the Oval Office, which depresses him.

On Tuesday, Wisconsin held a special election Democratic primary to fill a seat in the state senate. The winner of the primary will go on to become the state senator, at least until the end of the year because no Republicans are running for the seat. However, even though it was a Republican-free primary election, that didn't stop the MAGA cultists and election deniers from doing a trial run for their plans for November's election.

Donald Trump lied about Project 2025 and his media sycophants immediately backed him up. Whenever Trump backpedals, he gets amnesia, like he's never heard of a policy or person. On July 5, the former president posted on social media, "I know nothing about Project 2025," the horrible Christian Nationalist plan to crush American democracy.

After 14 long years, the UK Conservative Party was crushed in its worst electoral defeat in 200 years. When the polls closed and Sky News were able to release the results of the exit poll (usually a strikingly accurate indicator of how the election will go), election coverage took an X-rated turn. Source: BBC Sir Keir Starmer is the UK's new prime minister, after his Labour Party swept to power in a landslide general election victory. The Conservative Party suffered a huge collapse after a tumultuous 14 years in power, which saw five different prime ministers run the country. Rishi Sunak - the outgoing PM - accepted responsibility for the result and apologised to defeated colleagues during a brief statement outside a rainy 10 Downing Street.

Washington — President Joe Biden is fighting to save his endangered reelection effort Friday as he holds a rally and sits down for a network television interview in a pivotal battleground state, with his every answer sure to be scrutinized for evidence of his competency and fitness to run for office. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] It could be a watershed moment for Biden, who is under pressure to bow out of the campaign after his disastrous debate performance against Republican Donald Trump ignited concern that the 81-year-old Democrat is not up for the job for another four years. The interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, being taped after a campaign rally in Madison, Wisconsin, is expected to be intensive and probing, and two people familiar with the president’s efforts said he had been preparing aggressively.