36 call for Biden resignation as Dem says president failed to recognize him: Latest

Donald Trump is speaking at his first rally since last Saturday, when Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at his Butler, Pennsylvania campaign event.

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The Trump campaign is reportedly already planning for a potential battle with Kamala Harris if Joe Biden decides to drop out of the 2024 race.

That’s included drawing up attack ads, poll-testing Harris’s vulnerabilities on various issues, and compiling opposition research, two individuals briefed on the matter told The New York Times.

The Trump camp’s thinking is that if Biden drops out, Harris will be the most likely replacement, given that the Democrats wouldn’t want to alienate the Black voters in their base by sidelining the nation’s first Black vice-president, the individuals told the paper.

A group of Democrats held a ‘pass the torch’ rally outside the White House today, calling on President Joe Biden to drop out of the race.

“We only have less than 4 months to figure out how to win this election together,” one speaker said at the rally on Saturday afternoon. “And we can do it — matter of fact, we have to do it.”

Organizers called on attendees to make signs and posts with the slogans “#PassTheTorch” and “#DontRushLosing.”

“Pass the Torch is a newly formed network of activists, organizers, and voters committed to the belief that nothing matters as much as making sure Democrats have a ticket that can beat Donald Trump,” the organizers said.

Representative Ronny Jackosn, a Texas Republican who formerly served as Donald Trump’s physician, shared a letter on the former president’s injured ear.

“The bullet passed, coming less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear,” Jackson wrote. “The bullet track produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear.”

“Based on the highly vascular nature of the ear, there is still intermittent bleeding requiring a dressing to be in place,” he continued. “Given the broad and blunt nature of the wound itself, no sutured were required.”

“It is an absolute miracle he wasn’t killed.”

Joe Biden’s doctor has released an update on the president’s condition after being diagnosed with COVID-19 this week.

“President Biden completed his sixth dose of Paxlovid this morning,” Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician, wrote on Saturday. “He is still experiencing a loose, non­productive cough and hoarseness, but his symptoms continue to improve steadily. His pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and temperature remain absolutely normal. His oxygen saturation continues to be excellent on room air. His lungs remain clear.”

“Genomic sequencing has determined that the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) variant which the President has encountered is the KP .2.3 variant,” he continued. “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the KP .2.3 variant accounts for approximately 33.3% of new infections in the United States.”

“The President continues to tolerate treatment well and will continue Paxlovid as planned. He continues to perform all of his presidential duties.”

36 Democratic lawmakers have called on President Joe Biden to bow out of the 2024 race as of Saturday afternoon.

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Moulton was with the president at a D-Day event in Normandy, France last month. There, Biden “didn’t seem to recognize” him, the lawmaker wrote in a Friday op-ed for The Boston Globe.

Hundreds of thousands of transgender people could lose access to medical treatment or be forced to detransition under a little-known Republican effort to defund trans healthcare for both adults and children.

Since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives last January, GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill have quietly added a wave of amendments to “must-pass” government funding bills that would ban federal money from being used for gender transition procedures such as hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery.

These riders vary widely in their scope and effect. Some target government health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Others would revoke insurance coverage for transgender government employees. Still others would bar federal funding for any institution that “promotes transgenderism.”