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President Joe Biden is defying all rumors he may step down from the nomination following his faltering debate performance and intraparty frenzy of speculation over his health. But former President Donald Trump's team privately worries if it ultimately happens, it could backfire on them, reported The Washington Post.

According to the report, the Trump campaign's message to surrogates "was that Biden is the Democratic nominee and Democrats are stuck with him, according to a Republican close to the campaign, who like others interviewed for this article spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Biden struggled through the 90-minute faceoff, setting off widespread alarm in his party" — but in reality, behind the scenes, they believe it's a real possibility Biden could be swapped out for someone else, and they fear it could complicate their campaign and force a change of tactics from the campaign they wanted to run.

“I’m going to show up and I’m going to campaign whether it’s him or somebody else,” Trump stated in a recent interview. On the other side, former Democratic strategist David Axelrod told the Post, "It sure seems they want Biden to stay on the ticket. They think he’s vulnerable, and they like where they’re at. You can see they are not excited at all about the prospect of him leaving the race."...

President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance was made much worse by another catastrophic decision he made years ago, according to a scathing rebuke from the Wall Street Journal Monday.

The conservative newspaper first hit out at media coverage, accusing the columnists now demanding Biden step aside of shrugging off the president’s problems for months.

But it then took aim at Biden’s own judgment, which it claimed has left the Democratic Party in a much deeper hole if the decision is made that Biden step down....

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are scheduled to have their first televised general election debate in Atlanta, Georgia this Thursday, but one columnist thinks Trump may not even be on the stage.

In his latest op-ed for USA TODAY, columnist Rex Huppke argued that despite there being just 48 hours before the highly anticipated debate, the former president is giving signals that he may not show up. Instead, Huppke believes Trump will blow off the Atlanta debate for a campaign rally elsewhere.

"Until we see him set foot on the debate stage Thursday night in Atlanta, there’s a strong chance the former president chickens out and runs to the safety of a rally where he can comfortably air his myriad grievances and extract money from his gullible fans," Huppke wrote. "It wouldn’t be the first time he has blown off a debate. He refused to attend the second of three scheduled presidential debates in 2020 because it would be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And this year, he blew off all the GOP presidential primary debates."...

When the Wall Street Journal published a report earlier this month claiming to include conversation with Democrats regarding President Joe Biden's mental decline, the paper faced backlash from The White House, veteran journalists like Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough, and others.

According to Deadline, Biden spokespersons slammed the WSJ for including only "one on-the-record Republican source, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, to claim that the president is slipping."

During the latest episode of MSNBC's Deadline: White House Monday, host Nicolle Wallace spoke with former FBI counsel and legal analyst Andrew Weissmann discussed the conservative, billionaire Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper's clear bias towards former President Donald Trump....

Former President Donald Trump has been working hard to control damage done by his criticism of Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and praise of the Lebanese terrorism group Hezbollah as "very smart," according to a new report.

Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman reports Trump's appearance at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas last weekend, where he presented himself as the most pro-appearance pro-Israel candidate in the 2024, was a prime example of such "damage control."

The appearance came on the heels of Trump's comments, which made national headlines in the wake of Hamas's deadly surprise attack on Oct. 7, and spurred a bipartisan outcry. ...