A Republican rails against Trump. Bill and Hillary Clinton are said to continue to support Biden. All information in the news blog.
16:36: “Blitz Primary” – a document with this title has been circulating among the Democrats for days. It is an emergency plan that is to be implemented if something happens that has never happened before in the party’s history. “If President Biden decides not to run for another term, the Democratic Party must quickly and decisively establish a fair process for selecting its new candidate,” are the introductory words of the document, which t-online has obtained. Read more about it here.
15:57: US Senator Joe Manchin is calling on Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. It is with a “heavy heart” that he joins the growing calls for Biden to withdraw after his disastrous TV debate. He said this in an interview for the television channel “ABC News”. Manchin is an independent governor for the state of West Virginia. He left the Democratic Party in May 2024. If Biden withdraws now, he could “go down in history as one of the best and most patriotic Americans,” he said.
13:05: In his first campaign appearance since the assassination, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made harsh accusations against Democrat Nancy Pelosi. Trump called the former Speaker of the House of Representatives “Crazy Nancy.” He also accused her of “selling out” incumbent US President Joe Biden. Trump continued: “She pounced on him like a dog.”
On Thursday, CNN reported that Pelosi had privately expressed fears that Biden could not win the election. However, she has not officially called for Biden to withdraw from the presidential race. In recent weeks, several Democrats have publicly or privately expressed similar doubts, US media reported.
8.51 am: The US Secret Service is under criticism because of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Now an agency spokesman has to retract earlier denials. Read more about it here.
3.30 am: In his first campaign appearance since the attempted assassination against him, Donald Trump mocked the Democrats. “They have a few problems. No. 1: They have no idea who their candidate is,” the Republican presidential candidate shouted to cheering supporters in Grand Rapids. Referring to the debate about Joe Biden’s candidacy in the Democratic Party, he said: “This guy goes out and gets the votes, and now they want to take them away from him.”
2.10 am: US presidential candidate Donald Trump dismissed concerns that he was a threat to democracy in his first campaign appearance since the assassination attempt on him. “Last week I took a bullet for democracy,” Trump told supporters in the US state of Michigan on Saturday. “I am not an extremist at all,” the former president added.
