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President Joe Biden's aides are growing nervous at the prospect of a rematch with former President Donald Trump, reported CNN on Thursday — and while many are confident they can secure the president a second term, they are plotting out a strategy, not taking for granted that the former president would be beaten the same way he was in 2020.

"Several Biden aides themselves tell CNN that looking at Trump’s wide lead in every primary poll – and no clear leader in a hypothetical Biden-Trump rematch – leaves them with a particular kind of existential stress," reported Edward-Isaac Dovere. "The former president may seem like the easier Republican candidate to beat, as a known quantity who is toxic to many voters, but they’re terrified that if he is the nominee, any fumbles by the campaign or the president himself would enable the return of a candidate they see as a singular threat to American democracy."

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) all but dared Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to oust him during a defiant speech on Thursday morning.

As reported by Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman, McCarthy expressed frustration at members of his conference for being unwilling to pass a must-pass bill to fund the military, as well as the willingness of some members to push for shutting down the federal government.

House Republicans are launching an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, but individual lawmakers are divided over how long that should take and whether a full vote on impeachment was inevitable.

While some Republicans seem ready to vote on impeachment immediately, many GOP lawmakers are also skeptical that an inquiry was justified by evidence that's already been turned up by the House Oversight Committee, reported CNN.

The prosecutors involved in the Hunter Biden case have been on the receiving end of violent threats -- but not from supporters of President Joe Biden.

Rather, reports NBC News, the threats have come from right-wingers who believe that the prosecutors have not been tough enough on Biden.

A US judge on Wednesday ruled against a program offering deportation relief and work permits to immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, known as "Dreamers," despite an attempt by President Joe Biden's administration to bolster the program's standing with a new regulation.

The decision by Texas-based US District Court Judge Andrew Hanen deals a fresh setback to the program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and its 579,000 enrollees and other immigrants who might have hoped to be approved.

US President Joe Biden said Wednesday he was "not focused" on an impeachment inquiry announced a day earlier by Republican lawmakers, as his White House blasted "baseless" allegations of wrongdoing.

"I don't know quite why, but they just knew they wanted to impeach me," Biden said of the Republican effort.

A Fox News host asking a House Republican if he has any evidence President Joe Biden benefitted from his son Hunter's business contracts got the brush off and was forced to remind the congressman "everybody" has seen a video he claimed no one is talking about.

That video is of then-Vice President Joe Biden talking about how he followed official U.S. foreign policy that was also supported by European nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), requiring the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Viktor Shokin, to be relieved of his duties over his record of not prosecuting corruption.

Many House Republicans dread what they believe will be an inevitable vote to impeach President Joe Biden at the conclusion of the just-announced inquiry.

House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) insisted the inquiry would go "wherever the evidence takes us," but skeptical GOP lawmakers believe politics will make a full vote unavoidable, reported The Daily Beast.