Biden Wants to Serve Until 2029 – White House
US President Joe Biden is determined to stay in office for a full second term if reelected, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Biden did so poorly in the TV debate with Republican challenger Donald Trump two weeks ago that dozens of media outlets, prominent Democrats, and major party donors urged him to step aside. The 81-year-old has refused, insisting that he can beat Trump in November.
“Does President Biden commit to serving a full second term if reelected?” Jean-Pierre was asked during the White House briefing on Tuesday.
“Yes,” she replied.
Biden himself told MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on Monday that he was “firmly committed” to winning a second term and that he was “not going anywhere.”
Meanwhile, major donors to the Democrats have been discussing “elegant” ways for Biden to drop out of the race, according to the New York Times, while Nobel Prize winner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman urged him to give way to Vice President Kamala Harris.
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On Tuesday, Politico published a poll showing that Biden would lose the election to Trump, but Hillary Clinton might win. The pollster even said that a Clinton-Harris ticket would be the strongest against Trump, beating the Republican by three percentage points. Clinton has blamed everyone from the FBI to Russia for her loss to Trump in 2016.
Meanwhile, investigative journalist Alex Berenson discovered that a neurologist specializing in Parkinson’s Disease has visited the White House at least eight times since January, pointing to visitor logs as evidence.
Weighing in on the controversy, Trump speculated that Biden would withstand his party’s pressure to drop out.
“It looks to me like he may very well stay in,” Trump said in a phone interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night. “He’s got an ego and he doesn’t want to quit. This isn’t necessarily a very positive thing for our country, but I think he might very well stay in.”
Biden declined to run in 2016, after serving two terms as Barack Obama’s vice president. The Democrats settled on him in 2020 as the best choice to challenge Trump. In return, Biden agreed to make Harris his running mate and reportedly told people he would not run again in 2024.
Four sources told Politico in December 2019 that it was “virtually inconceivable” that Biden would run again at 82, while one prominent party strategist said it was “a bit crazy” for him to run at all.
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NATO Makes ‘Historic’ Ukraine Air Defense Pledge
NATO countries said they will provide five additional strategic air defense systems to Ukraine in response to Kiev’s pleas to help fend off persistent Russian airstrikes. US President Joe Biden announced the “historic donation” during the summit in Washington, DC, where NATO leaders gathered on Tuesday to mark the 75th anniversary of the Western alliance.
According to the statement signed by several NATO members and Ukraine, the US, Germany and Romania will donate a new Patriot battery each, while the Netherlands “and other partners” will supply components to “enable the operation of an additional Patriot battery.” Italy has pledged to deliver a new SAMP-T system.
“In addition, in the coming months, the United States and partners intend to provide Ukraine with dozens of tactical air defense systems, including NASAMS, HAWKs, IRIS T-SLM, IRIS T-SLS, and Gepard systems,” the statement read.
Overall, Washington promised to provide Ukraine with “hundreds of additional air defense interceptors over the next year.”
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Addressing the attendees of the summit in Washington, Biden said that the US will prioritize Ukraine in terms of weapons deliveries. “The United States will make sure that when we export critical defense interceptors, Ukraine goes to the front of the line. They will get this assistance before anyone else gets it,” the president said.
Biden reaffirmed the commitment to back Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. “Today NATO is stronger than it’s ever been in its history,” he added.
Kiev has been warning for many months that the number of anti-air systems provided so far is not nearly enough to effectively deter Russian airstrikes, with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky telling NATO in April that Ukraine needs at least seven additional Patriot batteries or similar weapons. Moscow has reported destroying several Patriot launchers since 2023.
Russia has maintained that the deliveries of Western weapons will lead to more escalation but will ultimately fail to stop the Russian army in Ukraine.
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Trump Announces Plans to Reject CBDCs, Promote Free Speech in AI, Ban Government Censorship & Defund Censorship Institutions
As the US presidential election draws closer, Republicans and Donald Trump have come out with some key policy pledges, with the big picture message described as “a return to common sense” when it comes to tech.
Among problems like the economy in general, geopolitics, and a variety of trends influencing society, the platform mentions central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), cryptocurrencies, freedom of speech, government involvement in censorship, and AI development.
This party platform was adopted by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and offers promises of reversing some of the most controversial policies endorsed and executed by the current White House.
One is the effort to push for the introduction of a digital dollar (CBDC) – a centralized digital currency that opponents have for a long time rejected as yet another tool to further limit and weaken people’s financial independence and privacy while adding more building blocks into the foundations of mass surveillance.
The way the platform frames this is as Republicans being dedicated to finding future economic progress for their country by becoming a leader in what the document calls emerging industries – but clearly stating that a CBDC does not qualify.
What does, according to the platform, are decentralized cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and here the RNC vows to at once end Democrats’ “unlawful and unAmerican crypto crackdown” and, at the same time, oppose a (US) CBDC.
Supporting Bitcoin, the GOP platform states means defending the right to mine the cryptocurrency. Addressing the issue of government meddling in people’s economic sovereignty, the document declares that the party will defend “the right to self-custody of their digital assets, and transact free from government surveillance and control.”
The Biden administration’s AI Executive Order is dismissed as “dangerous,” while a pledge is made that Republicans will back AI development that is based in free speech, and “human flourishing.”
By contrast, the Biden order is seen as putting roadblocks in the path of AI innovation, while at the same time imposing “radical left-wing ideas on the development of this technology.”
And then there’s what some Republicans have shown as a “weaponized government” under the current White House – specifically, one striving to impose ideology and allow for the government to join forces with private tech giants to stifle lawful speech, using this as a political weapon against opponents.
“We will declassify government records, root out wrongdoers, and fire corrupt employees. We will ban the Federal Government from colluding with anyone to censor lawful speech, defund institutions engaged in censorship, and hold accountable all bureaucrats involved with illegal censoring. We will protect free speech online,” the GOP platform states.
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George Stephanopoulos Says, ‘I Don’t Think Biden Can Serve Four More Years’ Following ABC News Interview
Joe Biden is unfit to serve another term, according to ABC News’s George Stephanopolous, who recently conducted a sit-down interview with the 81-year-old US president.
The mainstream media operative revealed his sentiments in an unusually candid off-hand comment to a passerby, video of which was obtained by TMZ.
In the video, the passerby asks Stephanopolous, “Do you think Biden should step down? You’ve talked to him more than anybody else has lately.”
“I don’t think he can serve four more years,” Stephanopolous states bluntly.
Following the exchange Stephanopolous informed TMZ he made the comment in error, saying, “Earlier today, I responded to a question from a passerby. I shouldn’t have.”
A representative for ABC noted his comment was not representative of the network, saying, “George expressed his own point of view and not the position of ABC News.”
Stephanopolous’ assessment follows last Friday’s 22-minute interview with Biden, where the president addressed his abysmal debate performance and remained defiant on dropping out of the presidential race.
The former Clinton crony’s comments are reflective of the wider discontent swelling in the Democrat party, where skeptical Democrats in imperiled swing state districts are growing more anxious with Biden leading the ticket.
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