'Must not deliver us to Trump': First sitting Democrat demands Biden drops out of race

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'Must not deliver us to Trump': First sitting Democrat demands Biden drops out of race
U.S .President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in Raleigh, North Carolina, on June 28, 2024 (Mandel NGAN/AFP)

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) became the first Democratic member of Congress to call on President Joe Biden to drop out of the race.

Doggett cited poor debate performance and disappointing polling.

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"President Biden saved our democracy by delivering us from Trump in 2020. He must not deliver us to Trump in 2024," the lawmaker said in a statement.

"Recognizing that, unlike Trump, President Biden's first commitment has always been to our country, not himself, I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw. I respectfully call on him to do so."

Earlier in the day, Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) also expressed skepticism about the presumptive Democratic nominee, though he stopped short of asking Biden to quit.

"But I think he has to be honest with himself," he said on CNN. "This decision he's going to have to make, he clearly has to understand, I think what you're getting to hear is that his decision not only impacts who's going to serve in the White House the next four years but who's going to serve in the Senate, who's going to serve in the House, and it will have implications for decades to come."


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Republicans turn on Trump over his 'Greenland gambit': 'I'm sick of stupid'

Republican Party representatives are turning on Donald Trump over the president's ongoing push to claim Greenland as US territory.

Trump has refused to rule out military action in the area, telling reporters "you'll see" when prompted to answer whether there could be a boots on the ground invasion. GOP reps are now airing their concern over Trump's rhetoric on the area, with one Republican pollster warning the public mood is very different to what the president wants.

Whit Ayres, speaking to The Hill, said, "Based on the polling I’ve seen on the Greenland gambit, Sen. Tillis succinctly summed up public opinion when he said, ‘I’m sick of stupid.’ The support for aggressively going after Denmark to take control of Greenland has the support of maybe half of Trump’s base, at best.

"You can get 4 percent of Americans in a survey to say they believe little green men live on the moon. Rarely does the public so widely agree on a foreign policy question as they agree on this Greenland gambit."

A recent Reutuers/Ipsos poll cited by Ayres found just 4% of Americans think it would be a "good idea" to use the military in Greenland.

Former Sen. Judd Gregg says there needs to be more of a vocal response and resistance to Trump's talk of taking Greenland.

Gregg said, "A lot of them appear to be hiding under their desks, which is inexcusable. They should be speaking up aggressively and saying this is a terrible idea and it undermines our position with key allies.

"The fact is over the years we’ve gotten whatever we want in the way of military cooperation from Denmark and from Greenland. In fact, for years we had many bases there. It's not a military issue."

GOP opposition to the push for Greenland comes as Sabrina Haake suggests Trump's actions will be exactly what foreign dictators want to hear.

She wrote, "Russia is hyperventilating with excitement. Breathlessly describing a scenario in which 'one NATO member is going to attack another NATO member,' Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted earlier this week that, 'It was hard to imagine before that such a thing could happen.'"

"Lavrov said Trump’s threats against Greenland 'have upended' the Western concept of the 'rule-based global order,' a concept Putin has long loathed."

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Trump's 'little too long' Tuesday address called a 'sign of something' wrong with him

Donald Trump’s rambling White House address on Tuesday gave rise to more speculation on MS NOW that all is not well with the 79-year-old president.

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of his second term, that president gave a talk that clocked in at an hour and twenty minutes, where he meandered from topic to topic with no discernible logical links, at one point talking about his potential to have played professional baseball when he was younger before moving on to talk about insane asylums.

That caught the attention of “Morning Joe“ co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.

Talking over each other, the two co-hosts sarcastically called his talk “a little too long."

“Just a little too long.” Brzezinski repeated, “He just talked a little too long. Going down these paths that were way off target and just a little too long.”

“That's like saying a 4.5-hour movie is a little too long,” Scarborough bantered back.

“It’s was a sign,” she responded.

“It's a sign of something, I'll tell you that,” he added.

Noting false claims the president made about NATO that are being easily fact-checked, Scarborough asked, “Don't you think there could have been one person in the White House that would have checked that out and told the president?”

"You would think so, but it's a question you could ask ten times a day about the things the president says,” co-host Willie Geist replied. “Wouldn't somebody check him on that? Wouldn't somebody point out to him that it's not a good idea to do this? There's nobody in the White House to do that.”

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Critics keeping eyes peeled for 'extra-long blinks' ahead of address by 'tired' Trump

The President arrived in Davos, Switzerland Wednesday morning ahead of his address to the World Economic Forum, but his busy schedule over the past several days, coupled with a three-hour delay due to a mechanical issue with Air Force One, has fueled speculation among critics that he may struggle to stay alert during the speech, Politico reported Wednesday.

“How the president’s feeling: Tired, you’d imagine. He didn’t get home from the college football national championship game on Monday night until well after 2 a.m., and then did that 104-minute press briefing at the White House yesterday,” reads Politico's report.

“Now he’s prepared for a busy day of diplomacy with a very extended, back-and-forth overnight flight to Switzerland. Trump’s critics will be watching the video feeds today for any extra-long ‘blinks.’”

Trump has increasingly been accused of having dozed off during cabinet meetings and press conferences, so much so that the president’s apparent sleep deprivation is “emerging as a concern within his inner circle.”

To address the optics of Trump falling asleep or appearing to fall asleep during public appearances, his staff has “counseled him to try to keep his eyes open during public events,” The Wall Street Journal reported. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has also reportedly urged cabinet members to shorten presentations to avoid future public sleeping spells – or the appearance of sleeping spells – from the president.

At 79, Trump is the oldest sitting U.S. president in history, and has increasingly shown signs of aging, both physically and mentally. Mentally, critics have noted Trump’s Trump’s increasingly frequent "incoherent" speeches. Physically, critics have noted the White House’s efforts to hide Trump’s swollen ankles and dark bruises on his hands. The president’s MRI scan last year has also raised further questions as to the state of his health.

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