Economic Growth in Q1 Was Milder Than Reported (2024)

The Biden campaign has raised $27 million starting from the day of the first presidential debate through Friday evening, CNBC reports. Bloomberg: Biden seeks to reassure anxious donors. Save to…

Susan Glasser: “Biden struggled so much that even several scathing pre-planned lines failed to land with any force, as when he brought up Trump’s hush-money conviction and said, ‘You have…

Tom Nichols: “I have been harshly critical of calls for President Joe Biden to step down. I have argued with people across the political spectrum about this, including friends and…

Nick Catoggio: “The race will now be a referendum not just on his first term but on his ability to remain lucid during a second, and there’s no way to…

George Will: “Perhaps the nation is by now in a torpor, resigned to the spectacle of, as the phrase goes, two bald men fighting over a comb. Perhaps, however, Thursday…

Brian Klaas: “Republican fealty to Donald Trump—no matter his crimes, no matter his moral transgressions—is the hallmark of authoritarian devotion to a man, regardless of policies or ideas. It’s the…

Axios: “The only way President Biden steps aside, despite his debate debacle, is if the same small group of lifelong loyalists who enabled his run suddenly — and shockingly —…

“Donald Trump’s top advisers are planning to drastically scale back and simplify the official platform of the Republican Party, according to a memo sent to the party’s platform committee,” the…

New York Times: “In those first stricken moments after a raspy, rambling and at times incoherent performance, he turned to his wife, Jill Biden… The first lady’s message to him…

“Amid all of the Democratic panic-texting prompted by President Joe Biden’s shaky debate performance Thursday, one name was curiously absent from many of those conversations: Vice President Kamala Harris,” Politico…

Dan Balz: “More than half a century ago, an embattled Democratic president decided unexpectedly not to run for reelection. The month was March, the year was 1968 and the president…

Sidney Blumenthal: “I saw western civilization pass before my eyes as Joe Biden drowned.” Save to Favorites

“I have to also be very honest with you and tell you that I think the president was not terribly articulate to say the least, and he was not focused….

“Nikki Haley, the runner-up to Donald Trump in this year’s GOP nomination race, said Democrats need to dump President Biden as their presumptive nominee following his halting debate performance as…

“The Democratic Party’s perennially nervous donor class descended into deep unease on Friday, as some of the wealthiest people in America commiserated over President Biden’s weak debate performance and puzzled…

Washington Post: “Much of the focus of Thursday’s debate focused on Biden’s confusing and meandering answers, and the ensuing panic his weak performance caused among Democratic officeholders, donors and operatives….

“Before President Emmanuel Macron of France went on national television to announce his call for snap parliamentary elections, he privately alerted President Joe Biden, who was wrapping up a five-day…

“Before Thursday night’s debate, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had signaled to political allies that he was open to options other than President Biden if his debate performance was…

New York Times: “At times, Mr. Trump — who during the debate agreed to accept the results of the 2024 election only if he found them to be fair —…

“Millions of Americans saw one Joe Biden on Thursday night: halting, hesitant, meandering and looking burdened by every one of his 81 years. Democrats were aghast,” the New York Times…