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Ignoring mounting calls from political allies, President Joe Biden doubled-down on his plans to run for re-election Thursday evening, telling reporters he is not worried about his legacy but rather is committed to finishing the job he started. “We’ve got more to do. We’ve got to finish the job,” Biden said during a rare solo press conference. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The moment of defiance comes as Democrats are overwhelmingly despondent about his candidacy.

President Biden on Thursday accidentally used Russian President Vladimir Putin’s name when introducing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the NATO Summit, a flub that comes at a vulnerable moment in his campaign. The mistake is likely to turn up the volume on calls for him to drop out of the race after his disastrous debate performance raised questions about his mental acuity. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “Now I want to hand it over to the President of Ukraine who has as much courage as he has determination.

On Monday, Speaker Mike Johnson spoke to the conservative Hudson Institute. “President Trump has said we want to start the largest deportation effort in history,” Johnson said. “It’s needed. We need to find all these dangerous people, criminals. They’ve emptied out prisons in Central America and sent them all over the border.” Johnson is not talking about a boost in immigration enforcement but a Hitler-like plan for immigrants. In November 2023, top Trump adviser Stephen Miller spoke openly about a second Trump administation’s plan to, as The New York Times put it, “scour the country for unauthorized immigrants and deport people by the millions per year.” While they await deportation, “Mr.

Republican-led legislation was humiliated on Thursday after killing its ambitious plan to pass all 12 annual funding bills by the August recess. As CBS's Scott MacFarlane notes, "This is typically low-hanging fruit." However, the GOP somehow "failed to pass a spending bill to fund Congress itself." In addition, the legislation would have boosted funding for Capitol Police and helped pay for Capitol operations. Democrats weren't too happy about the bill due to specific provisions targeting DEI and the LGBT+ community.

Joy Reid discusses the latest must-read article to come out from ProPublica, in partnership with Wisconsin Watch. The article by Phoebe Petrovic looks at the latest superstar of the MAGA crowd, psycho pastor Matthew Trewhella. Just how psycho is Trewhella? Well, he was too psycho for other right to lifers: TREWELLA: I'm 62 now, and, you know, in the time that I've lived, our country's been on this trajectory downhill.

Despite Felon Trump's denial that he has ever heard of the Heritage Foundation or of Project 2025, the evidence is clear as the giant banner hung up by the Heritage Foundation welcoming convention goers to the Trumplican National Convention: Spotted at the RNC in Milwaukee: The Heritage Foundation, the organization behind Trump’s Project 2025, is welcoming attendees to Trump’s Republican Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.