Pollster, author, and communication strategist Frank Luntz discusses Campaign 2024 and political news of the day and SCOTUSblog co-founder and reporter Amy Howe discusses key Supreme Court decisions this term.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump participated in their first general election debate of 2024, hosted by CNN in Atlanta. Anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash served as moderators to ask questions about abortion, immigration, foreign policy, climate change, and other topics. This was the first presidential debate between a sitting president and a former president.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Republicans would file a lawsuit against Attorney General Merrick Garland over his refusal to hand over the audio of special counsel Robert Hur's interview with President Biden. Speaker Johnson also weighed in on the previous night's presidential debate between President Biden and 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump, calling Mr. Biden "feeble" and praising Mr. Trump's performance. Moreover, he discussed the possibility of invoking the 25th amendment against President Biden, touted the House's progress in passing appropriations bills, and celebrated the Supreme Court's recent decisions, including one that declared the Justice Department improperly charged hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters.
"I don't walk as easy as I use to, I don't speak a smooth as I use to but I know how to tell the truth", President Biden told supporters at a campaign event in Raleigh, North Carolina. His remarks came during his first campaign event following the first general election debate of 2024 in Atlanta. He called the former president out for what President Biden says were lies throughout the debate, including on the events leading up to and during the 2021, January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. He went on to tell supporters, "When you get knocked down you get back up."
2024 presumptive Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump spoke to supporters at a rally in Chesapeake, Virginia. It was his first public appearance following the CNN presidential debate in Atlanta, the first of the cycle.
Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and John Boozman (R-AR) reflected on the 80th anniversary of D-Day during a conversation hosted by the McCain Institute in Washington, DC. The senators were part of a congressional delegation to Normandy, France, to commemorate the anniversary of Allied troops invading German-occupied territory during World War II. They drew parallels between this historical event and the NATO alliance, especially amid the current Russia-Ukraine war and an upcoming NATO summit in Washington, DC to mark the alliance's 75th anniversary. This conversation took place at the Russell Senate office building on Capitol Hill.
New York Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni, author of "The Age of Grievance," argues that we are living in a cultural and political era defined by victimhood and perceived injustice.
Policy researchers discussed the state of Russia's defense industrial base amid the Russia-Ukraine War. They also discussed a change in Russia's defense leadership, domestic public opinion of the war, Russia's relationships with China and North Korea, and the impact of the war on the U.S. and Ukrainian defense industrial bases. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted this event.
New York Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni, author of "The Age of Grievance," argues that we are living in a cultural and political era defined by victimhood and perceived injustice.
New York Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni, author of "The Age of Grievance," argues that we are living in a cultural and political era defined by victimhood and perceived injustice.
