All posts tagged "Mark Warner"

An analyst on Wednesday described a significant moment at the Senate confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence nominee, Jay Clayton.

CNN correspondent Brian Todd told CNN anchor Jake Tapper about Clayton's refusal to answer questions about who won the 2020 election and his response to former DNI Tulsi Gabbard at the FBI raids at the Fulton County election offices.

"They pressed him, Jake, on Tulsi Gabbard's visit to Georgia this past January that was just so controversial, widely reported," Todd said. "But in a pretty extraordinary exchange, Jay Clayton claimed to know little or nothing about that trip."...

Joe Biden’s presidential reelection bid hung in the balance Saturday, after his latest efforts to put a disastrous debate showing behind him failed to silence voices urging him to quit the White House race.

Murmurs of dissent within his own Democratic Party have — in the case of five individual House representatives — morphed into direct calls for him to drop out. And a number of key donors have threatened to cut off funding if Biden insists on staying the course.

“I do not believe that the President can effectively campaign and win against Donald Trump,” Angie Craig, the latest House Democrat to break ranks, said Saturday....

Social media critics ripped into a Virginia Democratic senator on Friday following reports he is trying to gather a group of colleagues to ask President Joe Biden to end his campaign.

Sen. Mark Warner, chair of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, has told fellow Democratic senators that Biden can't remain atop the ticket following his disastrous debate performance last week, The Washington Post reported, citing two people with direct knowledge of the effort.

Warner reportedly feels deeply concerned that Biden can't put together a campaign that can defeat former President Donald Trump.
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