El debate presidencial entre Trump y Biden termina con chispas sobre inmigración, inflación y aptitud mental
El ex presidente Donald Trump y el presidente Joe Biden se enfrentan en el primer debate presidencial de 2024.
La cobertura de este evento ha finalizado.
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ABC acogerá el segundo debate presidencial entre el presidente Biden y el ex presidente Trump el 10 de septiembre. Aún no se han hecho públicos los detalles sobre el lugar del acto, pero la cadena ha dicho que estará moderado por los presentadores David Muir y Linsey Davis.
Tanto la CNN como la ABC anunciaron el mismo umbral de cualificación, diciendo que los candidatos tendrán que alcanzar al menos el 15% en cuatro encuestas nacionales distintas de votantes registrados o probables que cumplan sus normas.
El debate del 10 de septiembre tendrá lugar poco menos de dos meses antes de las elecciones presidenciales del martes 5 de noviembre.
Recientes encuestas deFox News muestran a Biden con una ligera ventaja sobre Trump a nivel nacional, mientras que el ex presidente lidera las encuestas en los principales estados disputados.
La rapidez con la que se han producido los enfrentamientos refleja cómo cada uno de los dos candidatos cree que puede superar a su oponente en un cara a cara. Trump y su equipo están convencidos de que los debates exacerbarán la preocupación de los votantes por la edad y la competencia de Biden, mientras que el equipo de Biden cree que la retórica a menudo incendiaria de Trump recordará a los votantes por qué le expulsaron de la Casa Blanca hace cuatro años.
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El presidente Biden interviene en el primer debate presidencial de las elecciones de 2024 con el ex presidente de EE.UU. y candidato presidencial del Partido Republicano, Donald Trump, en Atlanta, el 27 de junio de 2024. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP vía Getty Images)
El presidente Biden dijo a los periodistas el jueves por la noche, tras el debate presidencial de la CNN, que sentía que había actuado bien frente al ex presidente Trump.
"Creo que lo hemos hecho bien", dijo Biden a los periodistas en un Waffle House de la zona de Atlanta.
Cuando se le preguntó si le preocupaba su actuación, el presidente dijo: "No, es difícil debatir sobre un mentiroso, el New York Times señaló cómo mintió 26 veces. Grandes mentiras".
A continuación se preguntó a Biden si estaba resfriado, algo que la campaña reveló tras la actuación en el debate, donde muchos expresaron su preocupación por el sonido de la voz del presidente.
"Yo am enfermo", dijo Biden.
Sus comentarios se producen después de que una encuesta realizada por la CNN revelara que los espectadores del debate creen que Trump derrotó ampliamente a Biden.
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El Consejo Nacional de la Patrulla de Fronteras, el sindicato de la Patrulla de Fronteras de EE.UU., se pronunció en contra de la afirmación del presidente Biden durante el debate presidencial del jueves por la noche de que le respaldaban.
"Para que quede claro, nunca hemos apoyado ni apoyaremos a Biden", publicó el sindicato en X durante el debate.
Biden aclaró entonces que se refería a los agentes fronterizos que apoyaron el proyecto de ley de fronteras que él respaldó y no al sindicato real.
Debates presidenciales en 2004 entre George W. Bush y John Kerry
30 de septiembre de 2004, en la Universidad de Miami
8 de octubre de 2004, en la Universidad Washington de St.
13 de octubre de 2004, en la Universidad Estatal de Arizona
Debates presidenciales de 2008 entre John McCain y Barack Obama
28 de septiembre de 2008, en la Universidad de Mississippi
7 de octubre de 2008, en la Universidad de Belmont
15 de octubre de 2008, en la Universidad de Hofstra
Debates presidenciales en 2012 entre Obama y Mitt Romney
3 de octubre de 2012, en la Universidad de Denver
16 de octubre de 2012, en la Universidad de Hofstra
22 de octubre de 2012, en la Universidad de Lynn
Debates presidenciales de 2016 entre Donald Trump y Hillary Clinton
26 de septiembre de 2016, en la Universidad de Hofstra
9 de octubre de 2016, en la Universidad Washington de St.
19 de octubre de 2016, en la UNLV
Debates presidenciales en 2020 entre Trump y Joe Biden
29 de septiembre de 2020, en la Universidad Case Western Reserve
22 de octubre de 2020, en la Universidad de Belmont
Un grupo de discusión de Fox News Digital formado por republicanos, demócratas e independientes utilizó diales para reaccionar en directo a las críticas del ex presidente Trump al historial económico del presidente Biden durante el Debate Presidencial de la CNN del jueves por la noche.
El moderador Jake Tapper pidió a Trump que explicara su propuesta de imponer un arancel del 10% a todos los bienes que entren en EE.UU. sobre cómo garantizaría que no empeoraría la inflación.
Trump dijo que no haría subir los precios, sino que obligaría a países como China "que nos han estado estafando durante años" a pagar mucho dinero a EE.UU., lo que suscitó una respuesta positiva de republicanos e independientes, como indican los diales. La recepción de los demócratas fue moderadamente negativa.
Trump admitió el argumento de su oponente de que heredó "el mayor recorte de impuestos [y regulaciones] de la historia".
"Por eso teníamos todos los empleos, y los empleos bajaron y luego se recuperaron. Por eso se atribuye el mérito de que los puestos de trabajo se recuperaran. No se puede hacer eso", dijo Trump, con los republicanos y los independientes mayoritariamente de acuerdo y las reacciones de los demócratas entre neutras y negativas.
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Los votantes republicanos e independientes reaccionaron favorablemente cuando el ex presidente Donald Trump rebatió la narrativa del presidente Biden sobre los disturbios de Charlottesville de 2017, según una reacción en directo segundo a segundo entre los votantes.
"Ambos sabéis que esa historia ha sido totalmente aniquilada, porque cuando veis la sentencia, ahí ponía exoneración al 100%. Así que sigue con ello", dijo Trump el jueves por la noche durante su primer debate contra Biden esta temporada electoral. Los votantes republicanos reaccionaron favorablemente a los comentarios.
"Es, sin duda, el peor presidente, la peor presidencia de la historia de nuestro país. No deberíamos debatir sobre ello. No hay nada que debatir", dijo Trump, mientras los votantes independientes y republicanos mostraban notablemente su apoyo al comentario.
Las reacciones en directo se basaron en un número igual de votantes independientes, republicanos y demócratas que respondieron al debate desde un estudio de la Fox.
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El debate presidencial de anoche entre el ex presidente Donald Trump y el presidente Biden se celebró en Atlanta, Georgia.
El Estado del Melocotón -un estado indeciso- votó a los republicanos desde los años 90 hasta 2020, cuando los votantes de Georgia eligieron a Biden como presidente.
Aunque la CNN tiene su sede en Atlanta, Georgia es también uno de los estados más disputados del país, aunque ésta es la primera vez que se celebra en él un debate presidencial de las elecciones generales.
Missouri y Nueva York lideran EE.UU. con cinco debates presidenciales celebrados en cada estado. Misuri acogió un debate en 1984, 1992, 2000, 2004 y 2016. En Nueva York se celebraron dos debates presidenciales en 1960, y uno al año en 2008, 2012 y 2016.
California ha acogido tres debates presidenciales en su historia, mientras que Carolina del Norte, Tennessee, Ohio y Virginia han acogido dos debates presidenciales.
Por último, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia, Maryland, Pensilvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts y Washington D.C. han acogido una cada uno.
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Los posibles debates vicepresidenciales penden actualmente de un hilo antes de que el ex presidente Donald Trump anuncie oficialmente a su compañero de fórmula para 2024.
La Comisión de Debates Presidenciales ha patrocinado debates presidenciales y vicepresidenciales desde 1988. Este ciclo electoral, sin embargo, las campañas de Trump y Biden han pasado por alto a la comisión, y la CNN organizará el primer debate presidencial el jueves, y la ABC otro debate presidencial el 10 de septiembre.
La comisión ofreció el 25 de septiembre como fecha para celebrar un debate vicepresidencial, pero no está claro si las campañas de Trump y Biden aceptarán el evento.
Por su parte, la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris aceptó a principios de año debatir con el posible compañero de fórmula de Trump en la CBS el 23 de julio o el 13 de agosto.
Trump también aceptó que su eventual compañero de fórmula se subiera al escenario del debate contra Harris. Aceptó la oferta de Fox News Media de celebrar un debate vicepresidencial el 23 de julio o el 13 de agosto, o en otras fechas "tras ambas convenciones de nominación".
Se prevé que Trump anuncie oficialmente a su compañero de fórmula en algún momento del próximo mes, en torno a la Convención Nacional Republicana que se celebrará en Milwaukee del 15 al 18 de julio. Trump dijo este mes que ya ha tomado una decisión sobre quién será su compañero de fórmula, pero que no se lo ha dicho a nadie, y que "lo más probable" es que esa persona asista al debate del jueves.
El ex presidente Donald Trump, durante la retransmisión del debate presidencial de la CNN el jueves por la noche, machacó repetidamente al presidente Biden por la actual crisis en la frontera sur, diciendo que Biden había destrozado una frontera segura y convertido a EE.UU. en un "nido de ratas".
"Él es quien ha matado a la gente con la mala frontera, incluyendo la muerte de cientos de miles de personas, y también matando a nuestros ciudadanos cuando entran. Ahora mismo vivimos en un nido de ratas", dijo Trump.
Estados Unidos se enfrenta a una crisis fronteriza histórica, con cifras de encuentros con inmigrantes que han batido repetidamente récords. Aunque las cifras han descendido bruscamente en los últimos meses desde el récord alcanzado en diciembre, la crisis ha desbordado a comunidades de todo el país y se han producido varios delitos de alto perfil cometidos por inmigrantes ilegales. Los republicanos han culpado a las políticas de la era Biden, mientras que la administración ha dicho que necesita más financiación y reformas del Congreso para arreglar un sistema "roto".
Trump volvió repetidamente sobre la crisis en el debate, mencionando crímenes como el asesinato de Jocelyn Nungaray, de 12 años, presuntamente a manos de dos inmigrantes ilegales venezolanos en Texas.
El presidente Joe Biden esperaba que el debate del jueves por la noche acabara con la preocupación de que no está mental ni físicamente capacitado para el cargo de presidente. En lugar de eso, su actuación fue una cacofonía de señales de alarma que anunciaban que su tiempo había llegado a su fin.
El enfrentamiento en el debate presidencial entre Biden y Donald Trump fue un festival de lo inaudito, desde el inquietante silencio de la sala sin público, hasta la manipulación de los micrófonos al estilo de los concursos, pasando por el hecho de que sólo estamos en junio.
Seamos claros en una cosa, hay cuevas en las profundidades del Océano Pacífico que están por debajo de las expectativas de Biden cuando se dirigía a Atlanta. Básicamente, si pudiera parecer normal, literalmente, sólo exponer claramente sus argumentos, pasaría la prueba y seguiría seguro en la nominación.
Fracasó en esa prueba, y fracasó estrepitosamente.
Para Trump, el reto era totalmente distinto. ¿Podría comportarse? ¿Se le meterían en la piel las reglas de Rube Goldberg y los moderadores potencialmente hostiles? ¿Podría seguir siendo, al menos en su versión presidencial, y mitigar el ataque de Biden sobre su supuesto peligro para la democracia?
En esto, Trump lo consiguió en gran medida.
Los críticos del presidente Biden están publicando imágenes tras el debate del jueves por la noche en las que se ve a la primera dama, Jill Biden, que parece conducir al 46º presidente fuera del escenario.
"Mira a la DOCTORA Jill Biden teniendo que conducir a Joe Biden fuera del escenario después del debate. Es culpable de abuso extremo de ancianos. Fue vergonzoso permitirlo y defenderlo", publicó en X el fundador de OutKick, Clay Travis.
"Vídeo ampliado de Jill Biden sacando a Joe del escenario del debate. Esto es una locura", decía otra publicación en las redes sociales.
La escena siguió al debate de 90 minutos de Biden contra el ex presidente Donald Trump.
Biden, de 81 años, se ha enfrentado en repetidas ocasiones a críticas por meteduras de pata y por no dar en el clavo, incluyendo a aliados, familiares y líderes mundiales a los que se ha visto ayudando al presidente durante actos públicos en las últimas semanas.
El ex presidente Trump arremetió contra el presidente Biden en el debate presidencial de la CNN del jueves por no despedir a ninguno de los generales que supervisaron la caótica retirada de Afganistán que dejó 13 soldados estadounidenses muertos.
"Estuvo tan mal con Afganistán", dijo Trump durante el debate presidencial de la CNN el jueves por la noche. "Fue una vergüenza tan horrible. El momento más vergonzoso de la historia de nuestro país fue cuando Putin lo vio y vio la incompetencia".
"Debería haber despedido a esos generales como yo despedí al que mencionaste y por eso no tiene ningún amor perdido, pero debería haber despedido a esos generales", continuó Trump. "No despidieron a ningún general por el momento más vergonzoso de la historia de nuestro país, Afganistán, donde dejamos miles de millones de dólares en equipamiento. Perdimos a 13 hermosos soldados y 38 soldados fueron aniquilados".
Trump continuó diciendo que el mundo está "explotando" bajo la presidencia de Biden.
"¿Habías oído tantas tonterías en toda mi vida?". respondió Biden.
A continuación, Biden defendió su retirada de Afganistán y criticó a Trump por sus posturas sobre la guerra en Ucrania y sus comentarios sobre el presidente ruso Vladimir Putin.
El presidente Joe Biden repitió la afirmación de que el ex presidente Donald Trump dijo que había gente buena en "ambos bandos" durante la mortífera manifestación de Charlottesville en 2017, a pesar de que Snopes reconoció recientemente que la afirmación es falsa.
"Dije que no volvería a presentarme hasta que vi lo que ocurrió en Charlottesville, Virginia", dijo Biden en el escenario del debate de la CNN el jueves por la noche.
"Gente saliendo de los bosques portando esvásticas en antorchas, antorchas y cantando la misma bilis antisemita que cantaban cuando en Alemania mataron a una joven. Hablé con la madre y le preguntaron qué piensas de esa gente... y dijo que creo que una buena gente de ambos bandos".
Los críticos de Trump llevan años afirmando que equiparó a los neonazis con los contramanifestantes tras el suceso, mientras que los conservadores han contraatacado y han señalado la transcripción en la que Trump dice que había gente buena en ambos bandos, pero aclara que no se refería a los neonazis ni a los supremacistas blancos y dice que hay que "condenarlos totalmente."
El ex presidente Trump dijo que el presidente Biden "podría ser un delincuente convicto en cuanto deje el cargo".
Trump hizo estos comentarios durante el debate presidencial de la CNN del jueves por la noche.
Biden acusó al presunto candidato republicano de ser un "delincuente convicto", después de que el mes pasado un jurado declarara a Trump culpable de todos los cargos de falsificación de registros comerciales en primer grado en el caso Nueva York contra Trump.
Pero Trump se defendió.
"Cuando habla de un delincuente convicto, su hijo es un delincuente convicto de muy alto nivel", dijo Trump refiriéndose al hijo de Biden, Hunter Biden.
El presidente Biden y el ex presidente Trump se enfrentaron en el escenario del debate presidencial de la CNN el jueves por la noche, pero sugirieron otro enfrentamiento... esta vez, en un escenario improbable. El campo de golf.
Durante el Debate Presidencial de la CNN, la moderadora Dana Bash presentó la edad que tendrían Biden y Trump al final de un posible segundo mandato.
Biden tendría 86 años. Trump tendría 82.
Biden defendió su edad, diciendo que "me he pasado la mitad de mi carrera recibiendo críticas por ser la persona más joven de la política. Fui la segunda persona más joven elegida al Senado de los Estados Unidos, y ahora soy la más vieja. Este tipo es tres años más joven y mucho menos competente".
Pero Trump recordó que se ha sometido a dos pruebas cognitivas.
"Aprobé los dos, como sabes, lo hicimos público. Él no hizo ninguna. Me gustaría verle hacer una. Sólo quiero uno muy fácil, como pasar por las cinco primeras preguntas: no podría hacerlo. Pero me hice dos pruebas cognitivas, me hice exámenes físicos todos los años y ya sabes, toquemos madera donde tengamos madera, que gozo de muy buena salud", dijo Trump.
Trump, ávido golfista, dijo el jueves por la noche que recientemente "ganó dos campeonatos de club -ni siquiera senior-, dos campeonatos de club normales".
"Para hacer eso, tienes que ser muy listo y tienes que ser capaz de golpear la pelota muy lejos y yo lo hago", dijo Trump. "Él no lo hace. No puede golpear una pelota a 50 metros. Me retó a un partido de golf: no puede golpear una pelota 50 yardas".
Miembros de los medios de comunicación expresaron su sorpresa y horror ante la actuación del Presidente Biden en el debate nada más empezar el jueves".
Mira. Este debate fue un desastre total y completo para Biden. Parecía viejo. Sus respuestas se desviaron repetidamente. Era difícil entenderle. Se paraba a mitad de frase y pasaba a otra cosa", escribió Chris Cilizza, antiguo comentarista de la CNN. "NUNCA pensé que sería tan malo. Impresionante. De verdad".
"La voz ronca de Biden y su rostro descansado abruman el ida y vuelta real, pero aún es pronto", reaccionó el columnista de Politico Jonathan Martin a la presentación del presidente.
"El equipo de Biden odia las historias sobre la edad de Biden. Están a punto de recibir muchas más", advirtió Alex Thompson, periodista de Axios.
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El ex presidente Donald Trump apuntó el jueves contra el presidente Biden por la cantidad de drogas, como el fentanilo, y de migrantes que cruzan la frontera sur.
Trump afirmó que las cifras habían bajado durante su presidencia, pero todo cambió cuando Biden asumió el cargo.
"Entonces llegó, Las cifras, ¿has visto las cifras? Ahora no son solo los 18 millones de personas que creo que es incluso bajo porque las fugas, ni siquiera hablan de fugas. Pero las cifras de la cantidad de drogas y de tráfico humano de mujeres que cruzan nuestra frontera, lo peor que he visto nunca... en cifras que nadie ha visto nunca, bajo su mandato, porque la frontera está muy mal", dijo en la transmisión simultánea del debate presidencial de CNN en Fox News.
"Pero el número de drogas que cruzan ahora nuestra frontera es, con diferencia, el mayor que hemos tenido nunca", dijo.
El presidente Joe Biden habla mientras participa en el primer debate presidencial de las elecciones de 2024 con el ex presidente estadounidense y candidato presidencial republicano Donald Trump en los estudios de la CNN en Atlanta, Georgia, el 27 de junio de 2024. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP vía Getty Images)
El presidente Joe Biden está resfriado, según ha declarado el equipo del presidente a los periodistas, después de sonar ronco y congestionado durante el Debate Presidencial de la CNN.
La corresponsal principal de NBC News en la Casa Blanca , Kelly O'Donnell, ha informado de que el equipo del presidente Biden está diciendo a los periodistas que Biden "está resfriado".
El presidente fue examinado por su médico, Kevin O'Connor, en Camp David antes del debate.
O'Connor determinó que se trataba de un resfriado y el presidente dio negativo en la prueba de COVID-19.
La edad y la agudeza mental de Biden han estado en el punto de mira de la elección presidencial.
Con 81 años, Biden es tres años mayor que Trump, que cumplió 78 este mes.
El ex presidente Trump arremetió contra el presidente Biden por su gestión de la guerra entre Israel y Hamás durante el Debate Presidencial de la CNN del jueves, insistiendo en que "se ha convertido en un palestino".
Insistiendo en que Biden debe dejar que Israel "termine el trabajo" en su lucha contra Hamás, Trump dijo: "No quiere hacerlo. Se ha convertido en un palestino, pero no les gusta porque es un palestino muy malo. Es un débil".
Al parecer, el médico de la Casa Blanca examinó al presidente Biden mientras se encontraba en Camp David antes del debate, y determinó que el presidente estaba resfriado.
"Funcionario de la Casa Blanca dice que POTUS fue examinado por su médico, Kevin O'Connor, en Camp David en los últimos días, y O'Connor determinó que era un resfriado. POTUS dio negativo en la prueba de COVID", tuiteó el jueves por la noche Nancy Cordes, corresponsal jefe de la CBS en la Casa Blanca.
El informe llega cuando los críticos en las redes sociales criticaron a Biden por parecer tener una voz "débil" y áspera.
El ex candidato presidencial para 2020 , Andrew Yang, dio la voz de alarma de que el presidente Biden es un "tipo diferente en 2024".
"Mira, debatí con Joe 7 veces en 2020", escribió Yang en un post X. "Es un tipo diferente en 2024. #swapJoeout"
Yang criticó anteriormente a Biden, apoyando al representante Dean Phillips, demócrata de Minnesota, en las elecciones de 2020.
"Es un presidente sustancial y consumado. Hice campaña por él en 2020. Le apoyé", dijo Yang sobre Biden en un mitin de campaña para Phillips en 2024. "Es un buen hombre, un verdadero servidor público y un gran estadounidense. Era el candidato adecuado hace cuatro años. No es el candidato adecuado para 2024".
Fox News Greg Wehner, de Digital, ha contribuido a este informe.
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Tras la transmisión simultánea del debate presidencial de CNN de esta noche en Fox News, Fox habló con varias fuentes demócratas sobre cómo pensaban que había actuado el presidente Biden.
Una fuente demócrata dice a Fox News: "Nada bueno".
Otra fuente demócrata dijo: "Estoy en estado de shock".
Otra fuente demócrata bien conectada dice que la Cámara de Representantes y el Senado son republicanos por ahora, "todo el mundo está flipando", que Biden "tiene que irse" pero que "no hay forma de que lo sustituyan a menos que él esté de acuerdo".
Biden se enfrentó al ex presidente Donald Trump en Atlanta, Georgia.
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El presidente Biden intentó presentar al ex presidente Trump como un "quejica" que no podía aceptar la derrota en 2020.
Durante el debate del jueves, ambos debatieron sobre si aceptarían los resultados de las elecciones de noviembre.
"Por supuesto. No hay nada que prefiera hacer", dijo Trump. "Sería mucho más fácil para mí hacerlo que volver a presentarme. Realmente no iba a presentarme hasta que vi el horrible trabajo que hizo. Está destruyendo nuestro país. Me alegraría mucho estar en otro sitio, en un lugar agradable".
Biden respondió llamando a Trump "quejica".
"Cuando perdiste la primera vez, continuaste, apelaste y apelaste en tribunales de todo el país", dijo Biden. "¿Ni un solo tribunal de América ha dicho nada a ninguno de tus clientes en ningún momento, ni estatal ni local? Pero sigues provocando esta mentira de que de alguna manera hay toda esta tergiversación, todo este robo. No hay ninguna prueba de ello en absoluto. Y te diré una cosa, dudo que lo aceptes porque eres un quejica".
"La idea de que si vuelves a perder, aceptas cualquier cosa. No puedes soportar la pérdida", añadió. "Algo se rompió cuando perdiste la última vez".
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El jueves, el presidente Biden se refirió a los inmigrantes ilegales como "extranjeros ilegales", arriesgándose a provocar la ira de los liberales que se han opuesto al uso de la palabra "ilegal" en otras ocasiones.
"Habla de que los extranjeros ilegales están entrando en el país y quitándonos nuestros puestos de trabajo", dijo Biden en la retransmisión simultánea del debate presidencial de la CNN en Fox News, refiriéndose al ex presidente Donald Trump.
Biden utilizó la expresión "ilegal" para referirse a un inmigrante ilegal en el discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión de este año, lo que suscitó las críticas de los activistas de la inmigración.
Muchos en la izquierda han instado durante años a no utilizar el término "ilegal" para referirse a los inmigrantes ilegales, alegando que es deshumanizante, prefiriendo términos como "indocumentado" o simplemente llamándoles inmigrantes.
También es un término que el propio gobierno de Biden ha advertido que no se utilice. En 2021, un memorándum del Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración (USCIS) instó a los funcionarios a referirse a "individuo indocumentado" o "no ciudadano indocumentado" en lugar de "extranjero ilegal".
El columnista del New York Times Nicholas Kristof publicó en las redes sociales durante el Debate Presidencial de la CNN que espera que el presidente Biden reflexione sobre el debate y se retire de la carrera.
"Desearía que Biden reflexionara sobre su actuación en el debate y anunciara su decisión de retirarse de la carrera, dejando la elección del candidato demócrata en manos de la convención", publicó Kristof en X.
Y añadió: "Alguien como @gretchenwhitmer o @SherrodBrown o @SecRaimondo aún podría saltar y vencer a Trump".
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El ex presidente Trump acusó el jueves al presidente Biden de alojar a inmigrantes ilegales en hoteles mientras los veteranos están en la calle.
Trump was asked about benefit systems, including social security, and said that millions of people "are pouring into our country."
"They're putting them onto Medicare, Medicaid. They're putting him in our hospitals. They're taking the place of our citizens," Trump said on the CNN Presidential Debate Simulcast on Fox News.
"What they're doing to the VA to our veterans is unbelievable and veterans are living in the street. And these people are living in luxury hotels. He doesn't know what he's doing, and it's really coming back. I've never seen such anger in our country before."
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Former President Donald Trump slammed President Biden for "lies" he's allegedly spread about the 45th president.
"Everything he does is a lie. It's misinformation and disinformation," Trump said during the CNN Presidential Debate in Atlanta.
"I've dealt with politicians all my life. I've been on this side of the equation for the last eight years. I've never seen anybody lie like this guy. He lies. I've never seen that, he can look you in the face," Trump continued. "So many other things too. And we mentioned the laptop. We mentioned Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine."
Trump's comment came after Biden argued that Trump wants to cut Social Security and Medicare.
"Social Security, he's destroying it," Trump fired back. "Because millions of people are pouring into our country, and they're putting them onto Social Security. They're putting them onto Medicare, Medicaid. They're putting them in our hospitals. They're taking the place of our citizens there. What they're doing to the VA to our veterans. It's unbelievable."
Former President Trump said he "will not block" abortion pills or abortion medication should he be elected president.
During CNN’s Presidential Debate Simulcast, Trump was asked about his stance on abortion, and whether or not he would block abortion medication for women.
"En primer lugar, el Tribunal Supremo acaba de aprobar la píldora abortiva y estoy de acuerdo con su decisión de haberlo hecho, y no la bloquearé", dijo Trump.
Trump aplaudió la decisión del Tribunal Supremo de anular el caso Roe contra Wade y devolver a los estados la decisión sobre el acceso al aborto.
"Puse a tres grandes jueces del Tribunal Supremo en el tribunal y resultó que votaron a favor de anular Roe contra Wade y devolverlo a los estados. Esto es algo que todo el mundo quería", dijo. "Ahora los estados lo están resolviendo".
Trump dijo que cada estado está "tomando sus propias decisiones ahora mismo".
"Ahora mismo todos toman sus propias decisiones y ahora mismo los estados lo controlan", dijo Trump. "Ése es el voto del pueblo".
Pero Trump mantuvo que, como el ex presidente Ronald Reagan, cree en las "excepciones".
Esto es un extracto de un artículo de Fox News' Brooke Singman.
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Former President Donald Trump said President Biden should have fired "every military man" involved with the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
"He should have fired every military man that was involved with ... the Afghanistan horror show, the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country," Trump said during the CNN Presidential Debate.
"Did you fire anybody? Did you fire anybody that's on the border, that's allowed us to have the worst border of the history of the world? Did anybody get fired? 18 million people, many from prisons, many from from mental institutions. Did you fire anybody that allowed our country to be destroyed?" Trump continued.
The U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan in 2021. The withdrawal included 13 U.S. military members dying.
President Biden, during the CNN Presidential Debate, said he doesn’t blame Black voters for being disappointed with the progress of his administration.
“I don’t blame them for being disappointed,” Biden told the moderator. “Inflation is still hurting badly.”
The president said he had proposed a $10,000 tax credit for Black families buying a home for the first time. After seeming to stumble over his words, he mentioned another proposal whereby “Black families and Black individuals” will have their student loans forgiven after 10 years if they’ve been paying their bills on time.
“And we’re going to do a whole lot more for Black families,” Biden said.
There was no inflation when former President Trump was in office because the economy had been “decimated" by his policies, President Biden said Thursday night.
“He decimated the economy, absolutely decimated the economy. That's why there's no inflation,” Biden said. “At the time, there were no jobs which provided thousands and millions of jobs, regardless of who were involved, communities, including minority communities."
“We made sure that they have health insurance,” he added.
Trump said Biden handling of the economy has had devastating impacts on Black and Hispanic communities.
“He caused the inflation," Trump said “And it's killing black families and Hispanic families and just about everybody. It's killing people. They can't buy groceries anymore. They can't.”
“You look at the cost of food where it's doubled and tripled and quadrupled,” he added. "They can't live.”
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President Biden on Thursday tore into former President Trump over what he said were the "morals of an alleycat" as he listed off some of the accusations made about Trump's personal life.
Biden referenced the court case that found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, a pornographic performer, in the lead-up to the 2016 election to silence her about an alleged affair with Trump in 2006.
"How many billions of dollars do you owe in civil penalties for molesting a woman in public, for doing a whole range of things, for having sex with a porn star... while your wife is pregnant. What are you talking about?" he said at the CNN Presidential Debate Simulcast on Fox News.
"You have the morals of an alleycat," he added.
Trump then responded:
"I didn't have sex with a porn star number one. Number two, that was a case that was started and they moved a high ranking official at DOJ into the Manhattan DA's office to start that case. That case is going to be appealed and won."
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Former President Donald Trump called for an apology from President Biden during Thursday night's CNN Presidential Debate after he claimed Trump wouldn't visit a military cemetery because it was full of a "bunch of losers and suckers."
"I was recently in France for D-Day, and I spoke all about those heroes that died. I went to the World War II cemetery, World War I cemetery, he refused to go to. He was standing with a four-star general and he told him, he said, 'I don't want to go in there because they're a bunch of losers and suckers.' My son was not a loser, he's not a sucker. You're the sucker. You're the loser."
Biden remarks appeared to be referencing a 2020 report from The Atlantic that claimed Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in 2018 and questioned, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.”
Hitting back at Biden, Trump said, "First of all, that was a made up quote. Suckers and losers, they made it up. It was in a third-rate magazine that's failing like many of these magazines. He made that up. He put it in commercials."
"We had 19 people that said I didn't say it," Trump continued. "There's nobody that's taking better care of our soldiers than I have. To think that I would, in front of generals and others, say, suckers and losers. ... We have 19 people that said it was never said by me."
He added, "He made up the suckers and losers, so he should apologize to me right now."
Responding, Biden said, "A four star general standing to your side who was on your staff who said you said it, period. That's number one. And number two, the idea, the idea that I have to apologize to you for anything along the line. ... We've done more for veterans, [than] any president has in American history."
President Biden claimed during the CNN Presidential Debate Simulcast Thursday night that he is "the only president this century" and "this decade" that did not have any troops "dying anywhere in the world"—failing to acknowledge the 13 fallen service members who were killed during his administration’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.
Biden answered a question from CNN debate moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash related to the economy. He went through former President Trump’s tax cuts and the economy under his predecessor’s administration.
"¿La mayor economía del mundo? Es el único que piensa eso", dijo Biden refiriéndose a Trump. "No conozco a nadie más que piense que tiene la mejor economía del mundo".
"Realizó la mayor rebaja fiscal de la historia: 2 billones de dólares; elevó el déficit más que ningún otro presidente en ningún momento", continuó Biden.
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Former President Donald Trump pushed back that some voters are concerned he violated his oath on Jan. 6, 2021, when supporters breached the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
"Let me tell you about January 6," Trump said to Jake Tapper during the CNN Presidential Debate.
Tapper had asked: "What do you say to voters who believe that you violated that oath through your actions and inaction on January 6 and are worried that you'll do it again?"
"On January 6, we had a great border. Nobody coming through, very few. On January 6, we were energy independent. On January 6, we had the lowest taxes ever. We had the lowest regulations ever. On January 6, we were respected all over the world. All over the world. We're respected."
"And then he comes in," Trump said, referring to President Biden. "...The United States's reputation under this man's leadership is horrible, including weaponization, which I'm sure at some point you'll be talking about, where he goes after his political opponent, because he can't beat him fair and square."
Former President Trump declared during a debate segment on foreign policy that "the whole world is blowing up" under President Biden's leadership.
Trump's statement came after he was asked if he'd accept Russian President Vladimir Putin's terms for a peace deal in Ukraine, when the former president instead railed against Biden's handling of America's military.
"Our veterans and our soldiers can't stand this guy. They can't stand him. They think he's the worst commander in chief, if that's what you call him, that we've ever had. And they like me more than just about any of them, and that's based on every single bit of information," Trump said.
Trump said that if the U.S. had a "real president" who was "respected by Putin," then the war would have never happened, and that he "did nothing to stop it."
He went on to call Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan "the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country," and argued there was "no terror" under his administration.
"The whole world is blowing up under him," he added
Former President Trump heavily criticized President Biden's border policies, citing violent crimes involving illegal immigrants and the surge of illegal migrants into the United States.
“There have been many young women murdered by the same people. He allowed us to come across our border,” Trump said. “We have a border. That's the most dangerous place anywhere in the world. Consider the most dangerous place anywhere in the world. And he opened it up. And these killers are coming into our country, and they are raping and killing women.”
Biden was asked about the surge of migrants that have flowed into the United States since he took office and reversed dozens of Trump-era executive orders regarding border security.
“When he was president, he was separating babies from their mother and putting them in cages,” Biden said. “Its better than when he left off.”
He argued that the border has been more secure than under Trump.
“We have the safest border in the history of our country,” Trump replied. "All he had to do was leave it."
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Former President Donald Trump on Thursday tore into President Biden on Thursday over the ongoing crisis at the southern border , accusing Biden of opening up the border and turning the U.S. into a "rat's nest."
"He's the one that killed people with the bad border including hundreds of thousands of people dying, and also killing our citizens when they come in. We are living right now in a rat's nest," Trump said at the CNN Presidential Debate Simulcast on Fox News.
The U.S. has been facing a historic border crisis at the southern border, and there has been a number of high profile crimes committed by illegal immigrants. Trump noted crimes including a murder of a 12-year-old girl allegedly by two Venezuelan illegal immigrants in Texas.
"Están matando a nuestra gente en Nueva York y California y en todos los estados de la unión porque ya no tenemos fronteras. Cada estado es ahora una frontera", dijo Trump. "Y debido a sus políticas ridículas, dementes y muy estúpidas, la gente está entrando y están matando a nuestros ciudadanos a un nivel que nunca hemos visto".
"We call it migrant crime. I call it Biden migrant crime they're killing our citizens at a level that we've never seen before."
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Former President Donald Trump took a shot at President Biden for trailing off while responding to a CNN Presidential Debate prompt.
"I really don't know what he said at the end of this. I don't think he knows what he said," Trump said, aimed at Biden.
Biden had been responding to a question about his immigration policies, and why he should be trusted with fixing the crisis at the border. Biden responded before appearing to trail off as Trump's mic was unmuted to respond.
President Biden claimed Friday during the CNN Presidential Debate that he inherited an "economy that was in freefall" from President Donald Trump when he took office in January 2021.
"Take a look at what I was left when I became president and what Mr. Trump left me," Biden said. "We had an economy that was in freefall. Pandemic was so badly handled. Many people were dying."
"What we had to do is try to put things back together again. And that's exactly what we began to do," he added.
Biden also claimed Trump had "the largest tax cut, most in history," and "raised the deficit larger than any president has at any one time."
Hitting back at Biden, Trump said, "The only thing he was right about is I gave you the largest tax cut in history. I also gave you the largest regulation cut in history. That's why we had all the jobs ... and then they bounced back. And he's taking credit for bounce back jobs. You can't do that."
"He also said he inherited 9% inflation," Trump added. "He inherited almost no inflation. And it stayed that way for 14 months. And then it blew up under his leadership because they spent money like a bunch of people that didn't know what they were doing."
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Former President Donald Trump hammered President Biden on the withdrawal from Afghanistan, calling it "the most embarrassing day in the history of our country's life."
"As far as Afghanistan is concerned. I was getting out of Afghanistan, but we're getting out with dignity with strength, with power," he said at the CNN Presidential Debate Simulcast on Fox News.
"He got out it was the most embarrassing day in the history of our country's life," he said referring to Biden.
The U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, leaving it to the Taliban in 2021 with a frantic withdrawal in the final days of the U.S. presence there.
Former President Trump slammed President Biden for claiming during the CNN Presidential Debate that he created more jobs than under his administration.
Biden claimed during his opening response on a question about the economy that he was left with "chaos" to deal with from the Trump administration, including 15% unemployment.
"The only jobs he created are for illegal immigrants and bounce-back jobs, the bounce back from COVID. He has not done a good job. He's done a poor job inflation is killing our country," Trump responded.
Biden has frequently claimed he "created" the jobs that returned following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Former President Donald Trump said the U.S. is "no longer respected" on the world stage under President Biden's administration during the CNN Presidential Debate.
"We're no longer respected as a country. They don't respect our leadership. They don't respect the United States anymore," Trump said from the debate stage in Atlanta.
"We're like a third world ... between weaponization of his election, trying to go after his political opponent, all of the things he's done, we've become like a third world nation, and it's a shame the damage he's done to our country."
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Former President Donald Trump and President Biden did not shake hands as they took the stage Thursday evening for the CNN Presidential Debate.
Biden took the stage first at 9 p.m., following by Trump. The pair did not shake hands, instead taking their spots at their podiums before the debate kicked off.
Trump and Biden also did not shake hands during 2020's cycle due to pandemic protocols.
The debate will last 90 minutes, including two commercial breaks.
Thursday marks the first presidential debate for the 2024 election cycle.
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The CNN Presidential Debate begins Thursday at 9 p.m., with President Biden and former President Donald Trump taking the stage in Atlanta, Georgia.
The encore face-off between Trump and Biden after the 2020 election will last 90 minutes, including two commercial breaks.
Only Biden and Trump will be on the stage. Third party and independent candidates running for the White House — including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — failed to reach the qualifying thresholds.
The Commission on Presidential Debates has sponsored both presidential and vice presidential debates since 1988. This election cycle, however, the Trump and Biden campaigns have bypassed the commission, with CNN hosting the first presidential debate Thursday.
This is the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle, with another schedule in September.
Fox News' Sean Hannity said former President Donald Trump "knows" President Biden will "try to bait him" during the CNN Presidential Debate.
"I know a lot of people that have been around him have been very, very clear that he really has to be measured. If I were to talk about what I think we're going to expect tonight, tone, pitch, Cadence, humor, intelligence and a real focus on the future from him," Hannity said ahead of the debate.
"He knows that Joe is going to try and bait him, call him an insurrection. He is going to say, democracy is in peril, January, 6 convicted felon. All of that. You know, they have all anticipated that. All the people around him that I have spoken to. But I think all of that is going to lead to Donald Trump having a few lines of his own, and there are a lot of vulnerabilities that we expect," he added.
President Biden is joking about speculation he may take performance enhancers ahead of tonight's CNN presidential debate, touting campaign merchandise as he says he's feeling "pretty jacked up."
"I don't know what they've got in these performance enhancers, but I'm feeling pretty jacked up. Try it yourselves, folks," Biden said on X.
Biden is pictured with a can of water called "Dark Brandon's Secret Sauce" which is advertised on his campaign website for $4.60 a can.
"The secret to a good debate performance? Staying hydrated. Get yourself the same performance enhancers Joe Biden took before going on stage. 100% water, zero malarkey," it says.
A former press secretary to first lady Jill Biden acknowledged shortly before the CNN Presidential Debate that he believes Democrats are not content with the state of the Biden campaign so far.
"I don't think anybody is satisfied right now," Michael LaRosa told Fox News host Jesse Watters in the run-up to the Thursday night debate when asked if he was "satisfied" with the state of the Biden campaign today.
"Look, after the first debate four years ago, we knew, we saw the data move, we saw it change we knew we won the debate we knew we were probably going to win but the mood of the country is very different now and there's a lot riding on tonight. There's a lot of pressure on the president. He does have to pull away at some point."
LaRosa added, "I don't think anybody is comfortable. It's a coin flip."
Earlier this week, LaRosa vocally expressed his frustration with Team Biden's ongoing strategy.
"Everything looks and feels so choreographed, scripted and controlled that it doesn’t afford him the opportunities to show off his strengths — humor, empathy and compassion," LaRosa told the New York Times.
"La relacionabilidad es su superpoder, pero sólo puedes relacionarte con alguien cuando su humanidad queda al descubierto. Eso significa defectos, errores y todo lo que conlleva la imperfección", añadió.
Esto es un extracto de un artículo de Fox News' Andrew Mark Miller.
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Trump on gas prices
Former President Donald Trump has been a frequent critic of President Biden's handling of the economy, especially rising gas prices seen under his watch.
During an interview with Fox News earlier this year, the former president bragged that "you had gasoline selling for less than $2" when he was in office, a price that has since skyrocketed.
"By contrast, under the Trump leadership, my leadership, inflation was nonexistent, and we had gasoline down to $1.87 a gallon," Trump said.
Biden on gas prices
With prices remaining stubbornly high, Biden has sought to tackle the issue ahead of the election. Earlier this year, the Biden administration announced it would release 1 million barrels of reserve gas ahead of the summer in a bid to alleviate the pain at the pump.
“By strategically releasing this reserve in between Memorial Day and July 4th, we are ensuring sufficient supply flows to the tri-state [region] and northeast at a time hardworking Americans need it the most,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said of the move.
President Biden and former President Donald Trump will likely spar on foreign policy at tonight's CNN presidential debate.
Both candidates will face questions about their role in foreign wars, including Israel-Hamas and Ukraine, as well as the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
On Ukraine, Biden has promised to stump up as much funding as needed for Ukraine, but Trump insists all the money in the world isn't enough.
Elsewhere, Iran has expanded its move to chase uranium to get a nuclear weapon. The State Dept. announced new sanctions today targeting the Iranian petroleum trade, giving Biden aa potential talking point in case he gets accused of being soft on Iran by Trump.
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Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy reported ahead of Thursday's CNN Presidential Debate about the Trump and Biden campaigns uniting behind an effort by the White House Correspondents Association for more access to the debate hall.
The group sent a letter to CNN ahead of the debate demanding a pool reporter be allowed in the venue through the entire debate, and not just during commercial breaks.
The group's leader, Kelly O'Donnell, cited a lack of clarity on how the debate will play out in real time considering the new rules governing microphones being cut off.
CNN rejected the request.
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Neither President Biden nor former President Trump will know what questions will be asked of them ahead of tonight's debate.
Both candidates are, in fact, abiding by a stringent set of rules, including that they will only be allowed a blank notepad, pen and bottled water on the stage, and won't be able to confer with their respective campaigns during the two planned commercial breaks.
The campaigns have reportedly been engaging in various “policy discussions,” in Trump's case, and mock debates, in Biden's, to prep for the various topics that could arise.
One CNN report last week hinted at “inevitable” questions concerning the Jan. 6, 2021 protests at the U.S. Capitol, where throngs of Trump supporters sought to upend the certification of the 2020 presidential election results, but no other specific topics or questions have been revealed as a certainty.
People will tune into the CNN Presidential Debate to watch "the spectacular wreck," according to a Democratic South Carolina state senator.
"Most people will be watching this debate tonight for the same reason people here go to NASCAR races. They're going to watch for the spectacular wreck,"Democratic state Sen. Dick Harpootlian said on Fox News.
Harpootlian also serves on President Biden's national finance committee.
"This is going to be blood sport tonight, and that's why people are watching. ... And by the way, I like our odds, because, you know, Donald Trump at a NASCAR race is obviously going to smash into the wall several times. As erratic as he is. We're going to hear about sharks, we're going to hear about electric cars. We're going to hear about all kinds of stuff that's not relevant to what people really want to hear about," he added.
Ahead of the CNN Presidential Debate on Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom called former President Donald Trump is "unhinged" and "delusional."
"He's unhinged, he's delusional," Newsom told reporters from the debate spin room.
Newsom also said he was "worried" about Trump's "mental capacity" and "ability to control himself."
He went on to fume over voters still undecided on who they'll support in the race, arguing Trump is "functionally authoritarian."
"Are you kidding me?" he asked.
The governor's remarks came ahead of Trump's first debate of the 2024 election cycle against President Biden in Atlanta, Georgia.
As for Biden's performance on the debate stage tonight, Newsom said he believes Americans are "going to see a strong and vigorous president, defending a strong and vigorous record."
The California Democrat also suggested that Biden will lay out a "compelling vision for the future."
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Doug Burgum is the 33rd governor of North Dakota and a potential vice presidential candidate for former President Donald Trump in his 2024 campaign for the White House.
Burgum is a former business owner who saw success when he grew his small business, Great Plains Software, into a $1 billion company, which was later acquired by Microsoft.
In 2016, Burgum won a gubernatorial general election by a landslide when he beat Republican Jack Dalrymple in the Peace Garden State.
Last year in June, Burgum announced his bid for the 2024 presidential election and in December he released a video suspending his campaign. He said he and his wife "are deeply grateful for each and every person who supported us with their ideas, prayers, advocacy, encouragement and enthusiasm. Kathryn and I will always remain committed to fighting for the people who make our nation so exceptional."
In mid-January, Burgum threw his support behind Trump stating, "Today, I am here to do something that none of the other presidential primary candidates have done and that's endorse Donald J. Trump for the President of the United States of America."
Trump has yet to announce his VP pick but told reporters over the weekend he knows who he will choose and included that the person will be in attendance in Atlanta, Georgia, tonight.
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Tempers flared several times between then President Trump and candidate Biden in the 2020 debate matchups between the two leaders.
“‘Will you shut up, man?’” Biden told Trump during their first debate in September 2020 in a tense debate where the two routinely talked over each other.
"This is so un-presidential,” he added.
“He said he went to Delaware State, but you forgot the name of your college. You didn’t go to Delaware State,” Trump told Biden as the two debated over their intelligence in the first debate. “He graduated the lowest or almost the lowest in your class. Don’t ever use the word ‘smart’ with me."
"Proud boys: stand back and stand by," Trump famously said during a Fox News Debate before blaming Biden for the political violence in America. "But I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, somebody's got to do something about antifa and the left because this is not a right-wing problem."
“We’re about to go into a dark winter… but he has no clear plan,” Biden said about Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic in a debate between the two in October 2020.
Experts expect another contentious debate on Thursday night although debate rules have changed to where the two leaders will have their mics muted while the other is speaking in an attempt to limit interruptions.
The stock market could tick up after the CNN Presidential Debate Thursday evening, when former President Donald Trump and President Biden face-off on stage.
"Historically, debates don't seem to make that much difference to the market, you know, the day after, but do you think this one might be different?" Fox Business host Stuart Varney asked.
"I think it might be, Stuart. I think it might solidify some things. People out there are already thinking about either candidate, and they can vote their minds, consciences and hearts clearly after tonight," Woodshaw Financial Group principal D.R. Barton said Thursday on Fox Business.
"We've looked back at the data - all the way back to ... Nixon-Kennedy debates, and looked at what happened one day, five days, 10 days after. You're right, not much difference. After 10 days, a little bit of a pop. But the day after about a 58% chance the market being up," he added.
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South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott is a former GOP presidential contender for the 2024 election. Scott announced his bid to run for president last year in May and in November, he announced his exit from the race.
"I think the voters, who are the most remarkable people on the planet, have been really clear that they’re telling me, ‘Not now, Tim,’" Scott said on Fox News' "Sunday Night in America" with Trey Gowdy.
It wasn't until January that Scott endorses former President Donald Trump in his 2024 presidential campaign.
"The best way for us to get rid of Joe Biden as our president is to unite our party now behind Donald Trump," Scott said at a Trump rally in Concord, New Hampshire. The following day, Scott proposed to his girlfriend, Mindy Noce, in Kiawah Island, South Carolina.
Scott has served in the Senate since 2013 and reported nearly $22 million cash on hand at the end of last year — funds left over from the senator’s convincing 25-point re-election victory in November in reliably red South Carolina.
Scott is considered a top ally and GOP contender of Trump.
Political analysts say that Scott, as a Black evangelical, could help the former president make a sizable dent in President Biden's lead with minority voters. Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
Fox News' Aishah Hasnie reported ahead of Thursday's CNN Presidential Debate that all eyes are going to be on the spin room floor for former President Trump's possible VP pick considering the president revealed this week his mystery selection would be attending the debate in support of him.
"Everyone is going to be on the lookout for who is here to support the former president, and that's because Trump has said previously that his VP choice, his pick, will be here in Atlanta at the debate tonight, although I don't know how much that helps us in our search for this VP candidate if every single person on that short list is here tonight," Hasnie told Fox News' Brett Baier.
Those believed to be on the shortlist who will be in Atlanta for the debate or the nearby watch party include Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and New York Rep. Elise Stefanik.
Trump has suggested he will announce his pick at the Republican National Convention in July.
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Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds expressed concern over President Biden taking eight days to prepare for the CNN Presidential Debate.
"I think you have a lot of my colleagues who have also said that we expect [Biden] to come out like he's come out at the State of the Union, so he'll be good for about 90 minutes or so. But I think the bigger issue is, I mean, why did it take eight days to do this?" Donalds said from the debate spin room Thursday.
"I've not remembered any modern president who took eight days away to just prepare for debates, that's concerning to me as an American. Because the world, the issues don't stop when you're in that job. And so to be in Camp David hunkered down for eight days is a little concerning to me. I think the bigger thing—this is really for all of you guys here."
"When's the last time Joe Biden actually had a press conference where he just took questions ad-lib from reporters, not knowing the script, not knowing the names, not knowing who was going to ask what, would he even do this kind of a gaggle with you guys right now? He would not. I think when it comes to Donald Trump, he's focused on the American people. He has an agenda for our country that's going to make our country great," Donalds added.
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Trump on campus unrest
Former President Donald Trump has been a frequent critic of the anti-Israel demonstrations that recently swept U.S. college campuses, arguing the demonstrators are "radical-left lunatics, and they’ve got to be stopped."
“Remove the encampments immediately. Vanquish the radicals, and take back our campuses for all of the normal students who want a safe place for which to learn,” Trump said at a Wisconsin rally. "The radical extremists and far-left agitators are terrorizing college campuses, as you possibly noticed, and Biden’s nowhere to be found.”
Biden on campus unrest
President Biden, meanwhile, has taken a softer stance on the issue, condemning any violence during the demonstrations while stressing the value of the demonstrators’ First Amendment rights.
"We are not an authoritarian nation where we silence people or squash dissent. The American people are heard, the president said during a speech last month. “In fact, peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential issues.”
The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) called out CNN on Thursday for limiting in-person press pool access to the CNN Presidential Debate in Atlanta.
"WHCA is deeply concerned that CNN has rejected our repeated requests to include the White House travel pool inside the studio. Through conversations and advocacy, we urged CNN to grant access to at least one print pool reporter for the duration of the debate," WHCA president Kelly O'Donnell wrote in a statement on Thursday.
Former President Trump and President Biden will face off Thursday at 9PM in the first debate, which will be simulcast on the Fox News Channel, between the two candidates in the 2024 cycle.
"Tonight’s debate will have no audience present and includes format rules that can silence candidates’ microphones. We don’t know how this will play out in real time. A pool reporter is there to observe what is said and done when microphones are off or when either candidate is not seen on camera but may speak, gesture, move, or engage in some way," the WHCA president's statement continued.
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James David “J.D.” Vance is an author and venture capitalist serving as a junior Republican senator from Ohio since 2023.
Graduating from Yale Law School in 2013, Vance worked for Peter Thiel’s firm, Mithril Capital, as a venture capitalist. In 2016, Vance published his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” to critical acclaim and reception. The memoir was on The New York Times’ Bestseller List for two years in a row and The Washington Post dubbed Vance the “voice of the rustbelt.”
In 2021, Vance expressed interest in running for the Ohio Senate seat vacated by Rob Portman. After receiving a $10 million PAC donation from Thiel, Vance launched an exploratory committee and, shortly after, announced his candidacy. Vance won his primary handedly and proceeded to beat his Democratic opponent, Tim Ryan, and he began his tenure as a senator in 2023.
Vance has received increased attention in recent years as a potential candidate for former President Donald Trump’s second vice president. Vance was initially intensely critical of Trump in 2016, describing him as “America’s Hitler” before changing his tune and becoming one of Trump’s fiercest defenders during his Senate tenure. Vance has been a major proponent of the “Make America Great Again” movement and has echoed Trump’s claims of election fraud in 2020.
Judge Jeanine Pirro is warning that President Biden could be over-prepared ahead of tonight's CNN presidential debate, after the president has been locked in preparation for days.
Pirro said on "The Five" that Biden has more at stake than former President Donald Trump, because he is behind in many polls, but warned that there is a risk of having prepared too much.
"The truth is that Joe Biden risks being overprepared," she said.
"You got 16 people coming at you, who is in your head right now. You're so overprepared that when you're there, it's a split moment, the camera's on you, you've got to be able to respond instinctively."
The two will face off this evening in what will be the first presidential debate of this election cycle.
When President Biden and former President Donald Trump meet on the debate stage Thursday evening for the first time in four years, both candidates are expected to tout their vision for tax policy in coming years.
Las próximas elecciones son especialmente importantes porque el partido que elijan los votantes para controlar la Casa Blanca y el Congreso el año que viene determinará el destino de la Ley de recortes fiscales y empleo.
Promulgada en 2017 por los legisladores republicanos y Trump, la ley revisó drásticamente el código fiscal del país, incluyendo la reducción del tramo superior del impuesto sobre la renta de las personas físicas del 39,6% al 37% y casi duplicando el tamaño de la deducción estándar. Sin embargo, esos cambios en la sección individual del código tributario están a punto de expirar en 2025, lo que significa que muchos contribuyentes -incluidos los que ganan menos de 400.000 dólares- se enfrentarán a gravámenes más elevados si no se prorroga la ley.
More than $3.4 trillion in individual income and estate tax cuts are set to expire next year if Congress does not act.
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President Biden has said he is not going to issue a pardon to his son Hunter Biden, who has been convicted on federal firearms charges.
"I'm extremely proud of my son, Hunter. He has overcome an addiction. He has. He's one of the brightest, most decent men I know. And I am satisfied that I'm not going to do anything,” he told reporters earlier this month. “I said I’d abide by the jury decision. I will do that, and I will not pardon him."
Directly following the guilty verdict, Biden reiterated that he would respect the decision. However, he noted that the case could go on, adding that he “will continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal.”
Hunter Biden is also facing several federal tax charges and is expected to face trial in September.
Some elections experts have predicted "political blowback" for Biden if he were to go back on his promise to respect the verdict and pardon his son.
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An optimistic vision of growth, prosperity and opportunity is always a winner and that's the subject of the riff. It seems like the entire liberal media are rooting for mudslinging and mudwrestling at tonight's CNN Presidential Debate, but voters completely disagree. They want issues and no one seems to be listening to former President Trump , who keeps telling people that successful policies will unify the country and, so, I'm going to buck the media tide and suggest while there's going to be some jabbing and counter punching in the 90-minute debate, Trump's overarching theme of success to build unity across the country will be on display at tonight's debate.
Biden can do what he's going do, but I think Mr. Trump will come out of this as the optimist. and optimists always win. Trump has a strong record of low inflation, significant growth, rising real wages for all working Americans, closing the border, cutting taxes, overturning an overregulated business sector, of course "drill, baby, drill," and seeking peace through strength in foreign affairs.
On every one of these issues, Mr. Biden has a very poor record. On every one of these issues, Mr. Trump's successful first term shows what can be done and gives him much to build on in a second term. I'd love to see Trump start early by asking Biden if he agrees on tax-exempt tipping for waitresses, golf caddies, uber drivers and the tens of millions in the gig economy.
Former President Donald Trump has landed in Atlanta, Georgia, ahead of the CNN Presidential Debate, where he will face off against President Biden.
The Trump War Room X account posted footage of Trump exiting his plane Thursday evening.
"PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ARRIVED IN ATLANTA. MAGA!" the message on X reads.
The debate will kick off at 9 pm EST and last 90 minutes, including two commercial breaks.
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Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia, where the CNN Presidential Debate is being held, are understood to be swing states going into the 2024 presidential election in November.
Several of the battleground states have gone for both Trump and Biden in previous elections, including Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia. The Trump campaign is making significant moves in some of those states that flipped in an effort to flip them back in 2024.
North Carolina is a state Trump has won twice, but the Democratic Party sees the close margin of those victories as an opportunity to turn the state blue. Similarly, Nevada has supported the Democratic candidate in each of Trump’s elections, but Republicans and Trump’s campaign see promise in close polls going into the election.
While each of the states has the potential to swing for one candidate or the other, a state like Nevada, which has voted against Trump twice, could be predisposed to opposing him again. By the same token, North Carolina could be considered an uphill battle for Biden to win.
Former President Trump and President Biden have spent weeks in preparation leading up to their center stage appearances tonight for the highly anticipated CNN Presidential Debate.
The debate is the first of the 2024 presidential election cycle to include both men, and millions of Americans across the country are seeking answers to questions about critical issues important to voters.
Sin embargo, los estadounidenses también esperan momentos virales provocados tanto por los comentarios como por las expresiones faciales de cada candidato presidencial, sobre todo porque ninguno de los dos nominados es ajeno a la viralidad de las redes sociales.
Desde que Biden comenzó su presidencia, ha atraído cientos de miles de clics por varias meteduras de pata al hablar y algunas caídas.
Voters in multiple battleground states, including Arizona, Georgia and Michigan, voiced concerns about both former President Trump and President Biden in interviews that aired Thursday with CNN's John King.
"Simplemente no me siento cómoda con la edad de Biden, y no me siento cómoda con la boca de Trump", dijo a King Kim Cavaliere, votante de Georgia.
Biden and Trump are battling for dominance in key battleground states that will likely decide the 2024 presidential election as issues that inflame both parties — like the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Hamas war — further divide voters.
"Me gustó lo que ocurrió en nuestra economía cuando Donald Trump era presidente", dijo a King Chris Mudd, votante de Iowa. "Me gustó esa mentalidad de 'América primero'".
"En esta coyuntura, ambos han tenido cuatro años, y yo estoy ocho años más frustrado de lo que estaba antes", dijo Ray Flores, votante de Arizona, refiriéndose tanto a Biden como a Trump. "Desearía que tuviéramos un candidato que tuviera una perspectiva más de centro de la vida y de centro del camino".
"Ahora mismo me siento muy incómodo con cualquiera de las dos opciones", dijo Flores.
"Aquí en Georgia todo es muy caro", dijo a la CNN Carey Fulks, votante de Georgia. "No puedo permitirme mucho con cualquier trabajo que encuentre".
This is an excerpt of an article by Fox News' Jeffrey Clark.
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First Lady Jill Biden on Thursday declared that her husband is "ready to go" ahead of tonight's CNN presidential debate.
I know Joe is ready to go. He's prepared. He's confident. You've all seen him debate. You know what a great debater he is. And good is on his side," she said in Atlanta.
Biden will face off with former President Donald Trump on Thursday evening in Atlanta in the first presidential debate of the year.
The Biden campaign has been telling voters they have a choice to defend U.S. democracy when they vote in November, and the First Lady emphasized that point to supporters.
"There's two clear choices in this election," she said.
"We can't stop now. We can't get complacent. We got to keep working. We got to keep working harder than we've ever worked before. And I know you're all ready to do that," she told supporters.
President Biden landed in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday ahead of the CNN Presidential Debate, where he will face-off against former President Donald Trump.
Footage posted Thursday afternoon shows Biden exiting Air Force One.
Biden and Trump will take the debate stage at 9 pm EST. The debate will last 90 minutes, including two commercial breaks.
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Kristi Lynn Noem , a Republican, currently serves as the 33rd governor of South Dakota and is the first woman to serve in that position. First elected to the South Dakota House of Representatives in 2006, she served until her election to South Dakota’s at-large district in the House of Representatives in 2010. During her tenure, she completed her college education and was elected as the second female member of Republican leadership.
In 2018, Noem ran for governor of South Dakota, received former President Donald Trump’s endorsement, and won the election by four percentage points. Her term went along relatively normally until the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic arrived on the scene.
Noem took a hardline stance against pandemic restrictions, earning continued praise from Trump and other members of the anti-lockdown movement. She was selected to speak at the 2020 Republican National Convention and, ever since, has been considered a frontrunner for Trump’s vice presidency.
Bob Barnett, who helped 10 campaigns with debate preparation weighed in with his thoughts about what to expect during tonight's CNN Presidential Debate between former President Donald Trump and President Biden.
Barnett told Fox News' Neil Cavuto that there are opportunities for both victory and defeat for both candidates. He noted that both have records to compare with each other since they have both served as president of the United States.
But ultimately he said he hopes to see discussion about the next four years.
"I hope what we'll see is they'll talk about the future, because elections are about the future and not the past, and I think the more that either candidate can talk about what they plan, the better off they are," he said.
He also said moderators will have to make "interesting choices" about how to allow the debate to proceed.
America's national debt is on track to set a record compared to the size of the economy in 2027. (FOX Business/Fox News)
The U.S. national debt has surged in recent years under the leadership of President Biden and former President Trump, who are set to face off on the debate stage on Thursday for the first time in this presidential election cycle.
A new report by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) examines the impact of policies implemented during the Biden and Trump administrations on the national debt, finding that each added trillions to the debt through a mix of partisan and bipartisan policies.
The report comes as the national debt held by the public relative to the size of the U.S. economy is set to reach a record high level during the next four-year presidential term.
The Trump and Biden administrations were confronted with the COVID pandemic and enacted legislation aimed at addressing its economic impact, in addition to other partisan legislative and regulatory actions.
They also both enacted significant bipartisan spending bills, given that each had their respective party hold narrow majorities during the first two years of their terms before the opposing party gained a narrow House majority in the second two years.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox Business' Eric Revell.
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Trump on student loans
Former President Donald Trump has slammed President Biden's attempts to forgive student loans, calling the plan "vile" during a rally in Wisconsin last week.
“He did that with the tuition and that didn’t work out too well, he got rebuked,” Trump said, referring to how the Supreme Court struck down Biden's original student loan forgiveness plan. "Then he did it again, it’s going to get rebuked again, even more so, it’s an even more vile attack, but he did that with tuition just to get publicity with the election."
Biden on student loans
Biden has made forgiving at least some student loans a priority throughout his presidency, though multiple attempts to do so have been hung up in the courts. His most recent bid, the SAVE plan, has run into similar issues, with parts of the initiative being blocked by a federal judge on Monday.
"We strongly disagree with today’s rulings on our SAVE Plan and the Department of Justice will continue to vigorously defend the SAVE Plan," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement after the ruling.
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Former President Trump and President Biden have track records of rapidly filling the federal judiciary with judges that have the potential to reshape the judicial system in the coming years.
The Senate confirmed the 200th federal judge of President Joe Biden’s tenure in May, about a month earlier than when Donald Trump hit that mark in his term, though Trump still holds the edge when it comes to the most impactful confirmations — those to the Supreme Court and the country’s 13 appellate courts.
“Reaching 200 judges is a major milestone,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in May. “Simply put, our 200 judges comprise the most diverse slate of judicial nominations under any president in American history.”
Biden has appointed more judges since hitting the 200 mark but it remains unclear whether he will surpass Trump’s mark of 234 judge’s before the year ends.
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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., an Army veteran who has served in the Senate for nearly a decade, is on former President Donald Trump's shortlist for vice president.
Before jumping into the political scene, Cotton was an attorney, getting his law degree from Harvard Law School. After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, Cotton enlisted in the Army where he would serve as an Infantry Officer for nearly five years.
Cotton was elected as a senator to Arkansas in 2015, currently serving on the Judiciary Committee, the Intelligence Committee, and the Armed Services Committee. In recent months, the Republican Senator has focused on the migrant crisis, protecting America's borders, combating antisemitism, and supporting Israel following the deadly October 7, 2023 Hamas attack.
Cotton was reportedly considering jumping into the 2024 presidential race, but in 2022 announced he would not be running, citing "family" as "the only consideration."
"My boys are age 7 and 5. They’re old enough to know that dad’s gone and be sad about it, but not old enough to understand the purpose and why it all matters and why the sacrifice is worth it," Cotton said. "I am pretty sure Republican voters can find another nominee, but I know that my sons can’t find another dad for the next two years."
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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., is a Republican congressman from Florida and rising GOP political figure, representing Florida's 19th Congressional District since 2016.
Donalds rose to prominence in the fall of 2023 after launching a bid for Speaker of the House after voting to oust then-Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy. Donalds received several votes from his fellow GOP members, but did not win the speakership.
The Florida Republican is a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, joining him on the campaign trial as he seeks re-election.
"Byron Donalds is an incredible guy. Incredible," Trump said during a recent campaign event in Detroit. "And I notice he happens to be on the list for potential vice presidents. Would anyone like to see him as a vice president? I notice your name is very high on the list, that's good. You should be on the list."
When asked by Fox News' Lawrence Jones if he has talked to Trump about being vice president, Donalds said "I'm going to keep that to myself."
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CNN responded to the White House press corps' accusation the network hosting tonight's presidential debate between President Biden and former President Donald Trump is limiting access to the debate hall.
"As proud members of the White House Correspondents Association, we respect the role the organization plays and their support for press freedom and access," CNN said in a statement. "CNN's Presidential Debate is being held without an audience in a CNN studio and is closed to press."
"The feed was made available to Washington Pool members, Washington Pool subscribers and CNN affiliates, and is also available to embed via CNN's YouTube channel without charge for digital outlets and is available on CNN.com. Following our traditional approach, CNN is providing access to the debate studio for a tight pool of photographers for the duration of the event and a larger group of photographers during a commercial break."
"In addition, CNN is providing access to the debate hall for the designated print pool reporter during the first commercial break to allow them to provide a pool report from inside the debate studio."
The White House Correspondents' Association said earlier that it had advocated for the inclusion of the press pool in the studio, and it appreciated actions CNN has taken -- including providing a television feed to other networks and granting access to photographers.
"However, WHCA is deeply concerned that CNN has rejected our repeated requests to include the White House travel pool inside the studio," Kelly O'Donnell, president of the WHCA said.
O'Donnell said that WHCA has been informed that one print reporter will be allowed to enter during a commercial break to observe the setting. "That is not sufficient in our view and diminishes a core principle of presidential coverage."
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President Biden and former President Donald Trump enter the CNN Presidential debate with divergent views on the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Trump on Israel and Hamas
Trump has in recent months taken aim at Biden for what he says is the president’s softening stance on the U.S. alliance with Israel, accusing Biden last month of “taking the side of these terrorists, just like he has sided with the Radical Mobs taking over our college campuses." That comment came after Biden hinted at a possible halt to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel if the Jewish state did not stop its ground offensive.
Biden on Israel and Hamas
Biden, meanwhile, has tried to thread the needle between maintaining longtime support for the U.S. ally and growing dissatisfaction from within his own party on the country's handling of the current conflict.
While the president has maintained public support for Israel, he has also begun putting stipulations on U.S. assistance if Israel does not improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is on former President Donald Trump's shortlist for vice president, but the Constitution could prevent the pair from running on a ticket together.
Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, served as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives before being elected as Florida's senator in 2010. The Republican senator launched his own presidential bid in 2016, running almost a years-long campaign before dropping out of the race following the Florida primary where he lost to then-presidential candidate Trump.
Trump, who used to call the Senator "Little Marco," named Rubio as one of the candidates being vetted for vice president. Most recently, Rubio was one of only three candidates in the pool that Trump's campaign initially requested documents amid the search.
While Rubio is reportedly being considered as Trump's running mate, this pick would face a roadblock under the 12th Amendment of the Constitution which states that the electors "shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves."
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A member of the Trump family known to be no fan of her former president uncle is expected to join President Biden's campaign in the spin room following tonight's debate.
Mary Trump, a left-wing personality and frequent Trump critic whose public profile has benefited heavily from her criticism of him, released a statement prior to the debate in conjunction with the Biden campaign.
"For my whole life I have witnessed my uncle’s narcissism and cruelty. His sense of inferiority has always driven his jealousy and his pathological need to dominate others and this is information that is crucially important for the American people to have in advance of the most important election of our lifetimes," she said.
"I’m in Atlanta tonight to remind everyone who Donald is as a person and how he would rule as a president because the stakes are far too high for us to get this wrong: We cannot afford to allow Donald Trump anywhere near the levers of power again."
She claimed Trump could not be trusted, and that "his last administration was simply a warm-up for much worse to come just as January 6th was a dress rehearsal for a man who will stop at nothing to ascend, once again, to this country’s highest office."
She also claimed Trump was "desperate for power," and the he was "obsessed with regaining it purely for his own benefit."
"I am not alone in this assessment. People in his own inner circle are warning us that he is unfit for office. Think about the countless former aides who have been brave enough to recount their stories," she said.
"They describe a man so deeply unhinged, so insecure that he would do anything – including inciting a violent mob to storm our nation’s Capitol. If the worst happens and Donald gets back into the White House, none of us who ever criticized him will be safe because revenge and retribution are what he traffics in. I’m here tonight because only President Biden can stop Donald and save our country," she added.
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Elise Stefanik is currently serving as a representative for New York’s 21st congressional district and is the fourth ranking House Republican. Stefanik started in the Bush Administration on his Domestic Policy Council before transferring to the White House chief of staff’s staff.
In 2012, Stefanik helped write the Republican platform and handled then-Rep. Paul Ryan’s debate preparation against then-Vice President Joe Biden. In 2014, Stefanik ran for the House of Representatives, becoming the youngest women ever elected to Congress at the time. While Stefanik initially ran as a moderate Republican, and was opposed to former President Donald Trump, she slowly began to drift rightwards over the succeeding years.
In 2021, after then-House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney supported Trump’s second impeachment, she was ousted and replaced by Stefanik, who received Trump’s endorsement. In 2023, Stefanik rose to increased prominence due to her intense questioning of the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania regarding increased antisemitism on their campus. The questioning directly led to the resignation of UPenn President Lizz McGill and indirectly to the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay.
Trump was reportedly so pleased by Stefanik’s performance that she has risen to become a potential vice presidential pick.
CNN political commentator Van Jones said President Biden cannot afford to have a "senior moment" during the CNN Presidential Debate on Thursday night.
"[Biden] podría tener un momento senior", dijo Jones el jueves por la mañana en la CNN. "No se lo perdonarán".
El debate de Biden y el ex presidente Trump será su primera aparición juntos en el escenario desde 2020. Se emitirá en la CNN y se retransmitirá simultáneamente en Fox News.
Jones, who previously warned that Biden is losing support among young voters, said the worst debate outcome for the president was a major slip-up on stage.
"La gente tiene momentos senior todo el tiempo", dijo Jones. "Yo digo tonterías todo el tiempo. Pero si [Biden] hace algo más de lo habitual, eso podría ser muy malo para él".
"Trump también tiene problemas esta noche", añadió Jones. "Trump está en una caja en la que nunca ha estado antes. No hay público. Así que ese oxígeno que obtiene soltando sus insultos, cosas cómicas... no hay nadie que se vaya a reír de sus chistes".
"No está acostumbrado a eso", continuó Jones. "Número dos: que le corten el micrófono le va a fastidiar. Porque le encanta atropellar a la gente. Eso es lo que más le gusta. No podrá hacerlo. Número tres: tiene que fingir ser alguien que no es. Tiene que fingir ser presidencial".
"Así que va a desempeñar un papel al que no está acostumbrado, en un formato al que no está acostumbrado, con su principal arma, ser un matón, arrebatada", dijo Jones.
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The Trump campaign on Thursday claimed President Biden "has blood on his hands" after the deaths of Americans at the hands of illegal immigrants.
Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt reacted to a Biden surrogate arguing that the border crisis is "more complicated than a bumper sticker" when asked about a slew of recent deaths at the hands of illegal immigrants.
"And to hear that man refer to the deaths of American citizens at the hands of illegal immigrants as a bumper sticker slogan, is honestly infuriating. Tell that to the family of Laken Riler, her mourning mother, who President Trump embraced at his rally in Georgia," Leavitt said.
"Tell that to the mourning mother of Jocelyn [Nungaray], the 12 year old in Texas who was just found strangled in a creek. Her mother is at her funeral today. Or the father of the 13 year old in New York, who was brutally raped in broad daylight and said on the record that it is because of Joe Biden's open border policies."
"Joe Biden has blood on his hands and he needs to answer for that tonight," she said.
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Former President Donald Trump on Thursday posted his debate preparation on the issue of climate change, just hours before the CNN Presidential Debate with President Biden.
The post on Truth Social shows a message purportedly from adviser Andrew Wheeler highlighting that CO2 emissions went down during the Trump administration, and claiming that America became more reliant on American energy rather than foreign sources.
"We can do both. Biden just increased the energy costs for everyone," the talking points say.
He also hits Biden for rejoining the Paris Climate Accord and of benefiting China with his energy policies.
"Under my administration we will continue to reduce CO2 and focus on American made energy."
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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump differ strongly on abortion.
Trump on abortion
Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Trump came out in favor of allowing states to decide whether women should be criminally charged for obtaining abortions, while Biden has called for federal action to expand abortion rights nationally.
“You don’t need a federal ban,” the former president said in a Time Magazine interview in April. “Roe v. Wade ... wasn’t about abortion so much as bringing it back to the states. So the states would negotiate deals. Florida is going to be different from Georgia and Georgia is going to be different from other places.”
Biden on abortion
For his part, Biden has blasted the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization as disruptive to women’s rights and has condemned several states that have passed abortion bans since the Supreme Court decision.
A practicing Catholic, Biden’s stand on the issue has frequently been a flashpoint in his political career, even as it has evolved over time. In a 1974 Washintgonian article, then-Senator Biden said he believed Roe v. Wade “went too far, adding “I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.”
Biden’s stance since then moved leftward over time, particularly in the wake of Roe’s reversal. If re-elected, Biden has vowed to enshrine Roe’s protections into law.
“We can stop it, when you vote,” Biden said in April at a pro-abortion right rally in Florida just after the state passed a six-week abortion ban. “Florida is one of the 21 states in America where you can’t get access you need for care.”
Biden campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond said that he would not shake former President Trump's hand on stage in a conversation about decorum between the two presidential candidates in the CNN Presidential Debate scheduled for Thursday night.
"I don‘t think I would [shake Trump's hand], but President Biden consistently rises above pettiness, unlike Donald Trump," Richmond said Thursday morning on CNN. "So I would leave that up to him, but with what I‘ve been through with the former president, I certainly would not."
Trump and Biden met for two presidential debates during the 2020 election cycle, with the third being canceled. On Thursday night, they will face off on the same stage in a debate hosted by CNN and simulcast on Fox News.
"Should President Biden shake Donald Trump's hand?" CNN's Kasie Hunt asked Richmond. "Does he deserve that?"
"That's up to President Biden. I'm sure there's no love lost there," he said. "I wouldn't shake his hand."
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President Biden’s age is viewed as much more of a liability than former President Donald Trump’s, according to a new poll conducted ahead of the CNN presidential debate on Thursday.
Aunque Biden, de 81 años, es sólo tres años mayor que Trump, que cumplió 78 este mes, cerca del 67% de los estadounidenses opinan que Biden es demasiado viejo para ser presidente, casi el doble que el 37% que dijo lo mismo de Trump, según una encuesta de Gallup publicada el miércoles.
The results of the poll, conducted June 2-23, following Trump’s conviction in the Manhattan hush money trial, are in line with prior Gallup polling showing that 31% of Americans are willing to vote for a presidential candidate over age 80, and 63% are willing to vote for a candidate over age 70.
In the June survey, Gallup said that half of respondents were asked whether each candidate is too old to be president, while the other half of respondents were asked whether they are concerned that each candidate is too old to be president. It showed that 59% were "very concerned" about Biden’s age, versus 18% about Trump’s. "When factoring in those who are ‘somewhat concerned,’ a combined 76% are concerned Biden is too old for the job, while 38% are concerned about Trump," Gallup said.
Fox News host Trey Gowdy addressed the approaches being taken by former President Trump and President Biden ahead of tonight's debate.
"You have to know who your jury is, what your audience is. I mean, if these two candidates are still working on their bases, then they have problems," Gowdy said.
"I think they ought to be working on undecided to voters to the extent their are any, or moderates. When Joe Biden accuses Donald Trump of being a convicted felon, my response would be, 'You're right. So is your son. And, Joe, you're an uncovicted felon. You're unconvicted because special counsel said you're not even competent to stand trial,'" he added.
Gowdy said he would then pivot to how crime and immigration have led to suffering for everyday Americans under Biden's policies.
He went on to say Trump has "good facts," and doesn't have to "throw tantrums" as the Biden campaign reportedly hopes they can entice him to do.
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The White House press corps is accusing CNN, the network hosting tonight's presidential debate between President Biden and former President Donald Trump, of limiting access to the debate hall.
The statement by the White House Correspondents' Association says that it has advocated for the inclusion of the press pool in the studio, and it appreciated actions CNN has taken -- including providing a television feed to other networks and granting access to photographers.
"However, WHCA is deeply concerned that CNN has rejected our repeated requests to include the White House travel pool inside the studio," Kelly O'Donnell, president of the WHCA said.
O'Donnell said that WHCA has been informed that one print reporter will be allowed to enter during a commercial break to observe the setting. "That is not sufficient in our view and diminishes a core principle of presidential coverage."
"The White House pool has a duty to document, report and witness the president’s events and his movements on behalf of the American people," she said. "The pool is there for the 'what ifs?' in a world where the unexpected does happen. A pool reporter is present to provide context and insight by direct observation and not through the lens of the television production. A pool reporter is an independent observer whose duties are separate from the production of the debate as a news event. The pool reporter works on behalf of the entire White House press corps. Print pool reports are an important part of the historical record. Further, the pool is screened by the US Secret Service and travels with the president on Air Force One so there is no security issue."
She said that there was no opposition from the Biden and Trump campaigns to the inclusion of the pool reporter.
"The White House travel pool has been included in past presidential debates and we believe that standard of access is essential," she said. "Precedent matters for future debates."
O'Donnell finished by urging CNN to "adjust its plan and welcome the White House travel pool print representative to witness the debate in full for the sake of the news cycle, for history and mostly importantly for the American people."
Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich contributed reporting.
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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees respectively, have agreed to two debates ahead of the November general election.
The first debate hosted by Cable News Network (CNN) in an Atlanta studio on June 27 will be the first time both candidates have taken the debate stage this election cycle. Trump did not participate in any of the Republican primary debates, while the Democratic National Committee endorsed Biden and did not hold any primary debates among his challengers.
Thursday’s debate will not have a live audience. On Sept. 10, the second debate to be hosted by ABC and moderated by anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis will likewise proceed without a live audience.
To qualify for the CNN and ABC debates, candidates must meet specific criteria: they must appear on enough state ballots to potentially secure 270 electoral votes, and they need to achieve a minimum of 15% support in four separate national presidential polls of registered or likely voters.
The last time Biden and Trump faced off on television was during the 2020 election race, where they debated twice.
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Following Thursday night’s debate between President Biden and former President Donald Trump, the pair will meet again for a presidential debate in September.
That debate, which will be hosted by ABC News, is slated to take place on Thursday, Sept. 10.
The primetime debate, according to ABC News, will air on ABC, the 24/7 streaming network ABC News Live, and Hulu.
In order to participate in the September debate, ABC News noted that candidates “must fulfill the requirements outlined in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States; file a Statement of Candidacy with the Federal Election Commission; appear on a sufficient number of state ballots to reach the 270 electoral vote threshold to win the presidency prior to the eligibility deadline; agree to accept the rules and format of the debate; and receive at least 15% in four separate national polls of registered or likely voters that meet ABC's standards for reporting.”
Both Biden and Trump agreed to participate in the ABC News debate on May 15. It is not clear if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have an opportunity to participate in September but given the criterion to make the debate stage it would appear unlikely.
Like the CNN debate, the ABC News debate will not be hosted by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). The 2024 election cycle marks the first time since 1987, when the CPD was founded, that major party presidential candidates both declined to participate in debates hosted by the CPD.
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Since February 2022, the U.S. has poured billions of dollars into Ukrainian aid in its defense against the Russia invasion.
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If elected, former President Donald Trump has vowed to end the war within 24 hours, but didn’t outline exactly how it would unfold.
On Tuesday, Reuters exclusively reported that two prominent Trump advisers presented him a Ukraine-Russia plan that, if elected, would require Ukraine to enter into peace talks with Russia prior to any additional military aid. Moscow would have to cooperate in the negotiations, otherwise the U.S. would double down on its support for Ukraine.
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Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has cemented his continued support for Ukraine’s victory in the contentious war, and has urged Congress to finalize an aid package to deliver more military resources to Ukraine. Biden also held a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in December in which Zelenskyy made a final plea to lawmakers about the importance of continued American support. In late December, Biden authorized the U.S. Department of State to send $250 million in aid to Ukraine and said the package would mark the final distribution of assistance to the Eastern European nation without lawmakers' approval.
In April, Biden signed into law the House and Senate’s finalized $95 billion war aid package to assist Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and other U.S. allies.
President Biden's campaign repeatedly dodged answering a point-blank question about whether Biden plans to take any drugs to enhance his performance during the CNN Presidential Debate on Thursday evening.
Biden's opponent at the debate, former President Trump, has led a rising chorus – that has come to include lawmakers – demanding that Biden take a drug test before the showdown. Those advocating a screening suggest that Biden may be motivated by a desire to quell mounting concerns about his mental acuity.
Given the controversy, Fox News Digital reached out to the Biden campaign, White House and Trump campaign asking if the respective candidates have any plans to use performance-enhancing drugs for the debate.
The Biden campaign twice avoided a direct answer to the question.
"Donald Trump is so scared of being held accountable for his toxic agenda of attacking reproductive freedom and cutting Social Security that he and his allies are resorting to desperate, obviously false lies," Biden campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt told Fox News Digital on Wednesday evening.
When asked in a follow-up email for a "yes" or "no" response, Hitt said her original statement answered the question.
"The accusation from Trump on drugs is a ‘desperate, obviously false lie,'" Hitt added.
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During the 2020 and 2016 presidential debates, former President Donald Trump made a slew of facial expressions that showed his responses to what was being said by his opponents.
Notable incidents came as he faced off with President Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. That could be a characteristic he takes into the 2024 debates with Biden tonight.
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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 20: An exterior view of the Supreme Court on June 20, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court is about to issue rulings on a variety of high profile cases dealing with abortion rights, gun rights, and former President Donald Trump's immunity claim, putting the court at the center of many hot political topics during an election year. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
One possible topic for the CNN Presidential Debate is the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in a case where plaintiffs accused the Biden administration of censorship.
On Wednesday, the court ruled 6-3 that the plaintiffs, a group of conservative states and social media users, had no standing to sue the federal government over its attempts to influence the censorship policies of social media giants. Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored the opinion of the court, but Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented.
Barrett, en nombre del tribunal, argumentó que ninguno de los demandantes había demostrado que estuvieran amenazados en el caso.
"Para establecer la legitimación, los demandantes deben demostrar que existe un riesgo sustancial de que, en un futuro próximo, sufran un perjuicio que pueda atribuirse a un Gobierno demandado y que pueda ser reparado por la medida cautelar que solicitan. Dado que ningún demandante ha soportado esa carga, ninguno está legitimado para solicitar una medida cautelar", escribió Barrett.
Alito arremetió contra la opinión mayoritaria en su voto particular, al que se sumaron Thomas y Gorsuch. Dijo que la opinión del Tribunal "se niega injustificadamente" a intervenir en nombre de las "víctimas" de la censura de la era COVID.
"Durante meses de 2021 y 2022, una camarilla de funcionarios de los más altos niveles del Gobierno Federal acosó continuamente y amenazó implícitamente a Facebook con consecuencias potencialmente paralizantes si no cumplía sus deseos sobre la supresión de cierto discurso relacionado con la COVID-19", escribió Alito.
"I assume that a fair portion of what social media users had to say about COVID–19 and the pandemic was of little lasting value. Some was undoubtedly untrue or misleading, and some may have been downright dangerous. But we now know that valuable speech was also suppressed. That is what inevitably happens when entry to the marketplace of ideas is restricted."
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Earlier this month, first son Hunter Biden was found guilty on all charges in his historic criminal case focused on his purchase of a handgun in 2018.
Hunter Biden fue declarado culpable de hacer una declaración falsa en la compra de un arma, de hacer una declaración falsa relacionada con la información que debe conservar un vendedor de armas con licencia federal y de posesión de un arma por una persona que es consumidora ilegal o adicta a una sustancia controlada.
While it isn’t immediately clear whether the result of Hunter Biden’s gun trial will have an impact on his father’s presidential campaign, it has caused President Biden’s re-election campaign to face new questions.
A Monmouth University poll released this month found that nearly half of respondents believed the charges against Hunter Biden, the president's sole surviving son, were politically motivated.
The Monmouth poll, which was conducted prior to a verdict being reached in Hunter Biden’s trial, noted that both candidates continue "to draw almost identical levels of support, although voter enthusiasm for this rematch has increased among both Republicans and Democrats."
According to the survey, just over four in 10 registered voters say they'll either definitely or probably vote for the Democratic incumbent and in a separate question, a nearly identical number say they'll definitely or probably vote for his Republican predecessor in the White House.
"I am the President, but I am also a Dad. Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today," Biden said this month, just minutes after Hunter Biden was found guilty by the federal jury.
Biden has said he will not pardon or commute the sentence of his son.
Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this update.
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Ahead of the CNN presidential debate, former Republican presidential candidates have largely lined up behind former President Trump -- despite some significant divisions between them in the past.
Nikki Haley, who ran for the 2024 nomination but dropped out earlier this year, said she will vote for Trump in November.
Haley, who served as U.N. ambassador under Trump, said last month that Trump has “not been perfect” on a number of policy issues. However, she said he would be significantly better than former President Joe Biden, who she described as a “catastrophe.”
Former candidate and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum said on Monday he believes that the debate is going to be a chance for Trump to show his strength “versus Joe Biden’s weakness.”
“Democrats have lowered expectations so low, if this is supposed to be Super Bowl week, it’s like Joe Biden will get a participation medal if he walks on the field and takes a few snaps or even if he is still standing on the sidelines at the end of the fourth quarter,” he said on The Ingraham Angle.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has also thrown his hat in the ring with Trump, and has urged donors to back the 2024 presidential nominee as part of a broader reconciliation between the two.
DeSantis had endorsed Trump when he dropped out of the race in January, stating that Trump was the clear frontrunner and is “superior” to Biden.
Other candidates have even stayed out of the limelight since dropping out, including some who have been eyed as potential VP picks for Trump. Trump has said his vice presidential pick will be in the audience on Thursday.
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Former President Donald Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records in a New York criminal court last month, but can still run for president.
A Manhattan jury convicted the 45th president on May 30 of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to payments to a former pornographic actress amid the 2016 election cycle.
Trump can still run for the White House, as the Constitution does not place restrictions on presidential candidates based on criminal record. It stipulates that those pursuing the White House be natural-born citizens who are at least 35 years old and who have resided in the U.S. for at least 14 years.
Trump has not yet been sentenced in the case, and prison time remains a potential, though unlikely, option. He is the first former president in U.S. history found guilty of committing felony crimes. Trump has maintained his innocence in the case, calling it a “witch hunt” and “sham” promoted by the Biden administration ahead of the 2024 election.
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One of the most anticipated aspects of the CNN Presidential Debate is likely to be whether President Biden will bring up any of the criminal prosecutions or the recent conviction against former President Trump.
The president has said little thus far about his predecessor’s indictments, and his White House has dutifully followed suit.
Trump’s criminal conviction in New York City is a different matter, however.
“It’s reckless, it’s dangerous, it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don’t like the verdict,” Biden said at the White House regarding Trump and his allies’ accusations of a two-tiered justice system.
At a fundraising event earlier this month in Connecticut, Biden called Trump a “convicted felon” and said it was “disturbing” he was seeking the presidency again.
Mitch Landrieu, a top Biden campaign official, signaled on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” earlier this week that Trump’s legal woes will come up during the debate.
“People are going to know that he’s a twice-impeached, convicted felon who’s been found to have defamed somebody, sexually abused somebody and gone bankrupt six times,” Landrieu said.
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Former President Donald Trump's conviction in his historic trial in New York City last month sent his 2024 election rematch with President Biden into uncharted waters.
Trump was the first former or current president to stand trial in a criminal case.
While it has yet to be determined how much the jury’s verdict of guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records could impact the trajectory of the presidential race, Trump continues to hammer his points about the need for a stronger, safer, and more prosperous America.
Trump currently holds a slight edge, both in national polling and in public opinion surveys, in most of the crucial battleground states that will likely decide the election.
A Monmouth University poll that was released this month spotlighted that the impact on the presidential election of the Trump verdict is minimal, with both candidates continuing "to draw almost identical levels of support, although voter enthusiasm for this rematch has increased among both Republicans and Democrats."
Fifty-seven percent of those questioned in the Monmouth poll said that they thought the decision to bring Trump to trial was politically motivated.
The verdict in Trump’s trial quickly sparked a donation frenzy, with the former president raising millions for his campaign in the immediate hours afterward.
Following the verdict being made public in Trump’s trial, his campaign announced that it had hauled in $34.8 million in fundraising from 6 p.m. ET to midnight on May 30, immediately after Trump was found guilty.
On the evening of May 31, the day after Trump was found guilty by the jury, the Trump campaign announced it had raised nearly $53 million in the 24 hours following the verdict through their online digital fundraising platform.
Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this update.
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Illegal immigration is a top issue on voters minds this election cycle, with the U.S. seeing record numbers of illegal migrant crossings at the border. There were more than 2.4 million in federal fiscal year 2023 alone on top of three years of the highest crossings ever seen. Republicans have hammered Biden over the crisis, arguing that it is his policies — and the rolling back of Trump-era ones — that have fueled the crisis.
Trump on immigration
Former President Trump has promised to authorize the largest domestic deportation operation in U.S. history if elected, as well as reversing "every Open Border policy of the Biden administration." He has also promised to deploy special forces to the border and reinstate his 2017 travel ban.
In Thursday’s CNN Presidential Debate, it is likely Trump will point out alarming incidents of rape and murder allegedly committed by illegal migrants to help make his case.
Biden on immigration
Biden, meanwhile, has argued that the underlying problem is a “broken” immigration system that only Congress can fix with legislative reform. Early in his presidency, Biden introduced a reform bill in Congress, but Republicans object to a provision to including a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants already here.
The president also backed a separate bipartisan Senate bill introduced this year, but it has failed to pick up steam. Biden has blamed Trump for stifling the bill, which includes additional funding for border operations as well as heightened asylum restrictions.
Biden has made two major immigration moves in recent weeks as congressional action stalls. One was a move to further limit asylum claims by migrants once average border encounters exceed 2,500 a day. Last week he also announced a deportation shield for some illegal immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens.
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Americans on both sides of the aisle will be on edge Thursday night as they watch both President Biden and former President Trump carefully for overt signs of aging – including their mental acuity.
The 81-year-old president is facing off against his 78-year-old rival in the CNN Presidential Debate.
Much has been made about Biden’s mental fitness for office, particularly as critics point out viral video clips that appear to show public gaffes or lapses from the President in thought. Former White House doctor-turned-House GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson has even made several demands that Biden take a cognitive test.
But Trump’s foes on the left have also accused the ex-president of losing his sharpness. Progressive X influencers seized on Trump after a speech in Nashville over the weekend, accusing him of going on rambling and sometimes incoherent tangents.
Unlike Biden, however, Trump took a cognitive test while in office to try to dispel rumors about his mental fitness at the time.
The election board of North Carolina has denied two political parties' bids to nominate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Cornel West as their candidates.
Los funcionarios electorales del estado han confirmado que el Partido Nosotros, el Pueblo presentó más de las 13.865 firmas válidas necesarias para registrarse como partido político de cara a las elecciones de 2024. El Partido Justicia para Todos también presentó más firmas de las necesarias.
Republican members of the election board on Wednesday backed the two parties' push for formal recognition, which would allow them to select candidates for the ballot.
Three Democrats on the election board blocked the motion, citing concerns about how the third parties presented themselves during the signature gathering process and how voters understood their goals.
Se ha instituido un aplazamiento mientras los funcionarios siguen investigando si los dos partidos se presentaron como organizaciones políticas coherentes o sólo como vehículo para Kennedy y West como candidatos "independientes".
Los candidatos independientes de Carolina del Norte están sujetos a un umbral de 83.188 firmas mucho más elevado para poder presentarse a las elecciones.
El presidente de la Junta, Alan Hirsch, dijo a los líderes de Nosotros El Pueblo que la impugnación "no pretende negar vuestra condición de partido".
"Es sólo para hacer nuestro trabajo y asegurarnos de que [...] las personas que firmaron la petición conocen el propósito y la intención", explicó.
The elections board will reconvene on July 9 to revisit the parties' demand for formal recognition.
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Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., endorsed Democratic President Biden on the eve of Thursday's CNN Presidential Debate.
The former military pilot and Iraq War veteran transformed into a major Republican Trump critic after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, led by Trump supporters who aimed to upend the congressional certification of Biden's 2020 election victory. On Wednesday, he charged that former President Trump is "a direct threat to every fundamental American value" in a video announcing his endorsement.
Hours later, standing in the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Kinzinger said that "if you’d have told me three years ago that ‘You’re going to be endorsing a Democrat for president in three years,’ I probably wouldn’t have believed you."
"But I got to tell you, the stakes of this moment are way too high," Kinzinger added.
Another vocal GOP Trump critic, former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, joined Kinzinger at the news conference, along with former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and Georgia Senate Democrat Leader Gloria Butler.
"Going against the grain as a Republican and supporting Democrat Joe Biden for president is not easy, but I'm not looking at this election through the lens of being a Republican," Duncan explained. "I’m looking through the lens of being an American. An American that cares more about the future of my country than the [morally] bankrupt nominee of my party."
Polling and data guru Nate Silver revealed former President Trump was solidly favored to win the White House in his first presidential election forecast on Wednesday.
"The candidate who I honest-to-God think has a better chance (Trump) isn’t the candidate I’d rather have win (Biden)," Silver, who formerly ran polling analysis website FiveThirtyEight, wrote in his "Silver Bulletin" substack.
El modelo de previsión de Silver, basado en 40.000 simulaciones, determinó que Trump tenía un 65,7% de posibilidades de ganar el colegio electoral, frente a Biden, que tenía un 33,7%. Sin embargo, Biden es ligeramente favorito para ganar el voto popular. Trump perdió el voto popular en 2016, pero ganó la presidencia con una serie de estrechas victorias en estados indecisos.
"If the Electoral College/popular vote gap looks anything like it did in 2016 or 2020, you’d expect Biden to be in deep trouble if the popular vote is roughly tied," Silver wrote.
Silver señaló que su modelo ajusta "si las encuestas se realizan entre votantes registrados o probables, la presencia o ausencia de [Robert F. Kennedy] Jr. y los efectos de la casa", y añadió que sus promedios de encuestas "ponderan más las encuestas más fiables".
El experto en datos escribió que aún había tiempo para que Biden diera la vuelta a las cosas y sugirió que el presidente diera la nominación al vicepresidente Harris o a otra persona en la convención demócrata. Sin embargo, escribió: "Descargo de responsabilidad: eso también podría ser una idea terrible".
"Y en realidad no está tan lejos", escribió Silver sobre Biden. "Pero la carrera no es un cara o cruz. Eso es, en el mejor de los casos, una mentira piadosa, una ficción cómoda que permite a todos eludir la responsabilidad por sus previsiones y sus decisiones."
Fox News Digital's Hanna Panreck contributed to this update.
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Biden on natural disasters
President Biden has spearheaded significant spending on climate infrastructure, which his administration believes will mitigate some of the effects of natural disasters.
The president has pushed an environmental agenda that includes decreasing carbon output over several years, often attributing “unprecedented wildfires, … extreme flooding, … [and] record breaking hurricanes” to “the climate crisis.” He has also pushed for additional funding for disaster relief in spending bills.
Trump on natural disasters
Mientras tanto, el ex presidente Trump ha criticado el gasto de Biden en iniciativas climáticas y ha sugerido que intentará poner fin a varias subvenciones concedidas por la legislación que Biden defendió. En algunos casos de catástrofe, Trump ha llamado la atención a los estados por no tomar las debidas precauciones. En 2020, el ex presidente arremetió contra California por la supuesta mala gestión de sus tierras y por no realizar el mantenimiento necesario para evitar desastrosos incendios forestales.
"Quizá tengamos que hacérselo pagar porque no nos escuchan", dijo entonces. "Llevo tres años diciéndoselo, pero no quieren escuchar... 'El medio ambiente, el medio ambiente', pero vuelven a tener incendios masivos".
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Biden sobre la sanidad
El enfoque del Presidente Biden sobre la asistencia sanitaria se ha centrado en el acceso y la asequibilidad. Su administración se ha comprometido a continuar y desarrollar la Ley de Asistencia Sanitaria Asequible, u Obamacare, aprobada durante el mandato del presidente Obama. Considera que limitar el precio de la insulina a 35 dólares mediante la Ley de Reducción de la Inflación es uno de los mayores logros de su administración, y a menudo se lo recuerda a los estadounidenses tanto oficialmente como en campaña.
Trump sobre la sanidad
El ex presidente Trump también trabajó para abordar la asequibilidad y bajar los precios de los los servicios sanitarios y los medicamentos en todo el país durante su mandato. Para ello, su administración se centró en la transparencia de los precios, exigiendo a los proveedores de asistencia sanitaria que pusieran a disposición de los pacientes la facturación detallada. A pesar de no haber podido derogar la Ley de Asistencia Sanitaria Asequible durante su mandato, Trump ha sugerido que intentaría reformar la Obamacare si es reelegido en 2024, afirmando que está "estudiando seriamente alternativas" a la misma.
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Biden sobre la economía
El presidente Biden ha señalado distintos indicadores económicos positivos a lo largo de su presidencia, como el mercado de valores y las mejoras graduales de la inflación. Ha reconocido los problemas económicos a los que todavía se enfrentan muchos, prometiendo aliviar las cargas fiscales de las familias de clase media, pero también prometiendo subir los impuestos a quienes ganan más de 400.000 dólares al año y a las grandes empresas.
Trump sobre la economía
El ex presidente Trump ha criticado la economía bajo Biden, concretamente la presión que han sentido los estadounidenses durante la inflación. Ha prometido poner fin al gasto en "subvenciones y regalos en virtud de los descomunales proyectos de ley socialistas de Joe Biden, como la llamada Ley de Reducción de la Inflación".
Además, Trump ha prometido utilizar el poder de incautación para recortar el despilfarro y la burocracia, con lo que pretende ahorrar dinero a los contribuyentes. También es de esperar que Trump intente renovar los recortes fiscales que consiguió en la Ley de Recortes y Empleos Fiscales de 2017, que empezarán a expirar a finales de 2025.
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"Cultura Woke " es un término que ha ganado popularidad en los últimos años para describir una conciencia social y cultural de cuestiones relacionadas con la justicia social, la desigualdad y la opresión sistémica. El término "woke" significa estar despierto o ser consciente, especialmente en el contexto de cuestiones sociales y políticas.
En el uso contemporáneo, la "cultura woke" se refiere a una mayor conciencia sobre cuestiones como el racismo, el sexismo, los derechos LGBTQ+, la justicia medioambiental, la desigualdad económica y otras formas de discriminación sistémica. el sexismo, los derechos LGBTQ+, la justicia medioambiental, la desigualdad económica y otras formas de discriminación sistémica. Abarca la comprensión de cómo las injusticias sociales históricas y actuales afectan a las comunidades marginadas. Se considera que las personas "despiertas" están comprometidas con la defensa y el apoyo de estas causas.
Aunque la "cultura woke" es acogida por muchos como un medio de concienciar y promover la justicia social, también puede ser objeto de debate. Algunos críticos sostienen que puede conducir a una excesiva corrección política o "cultura de la cancelación", en la que se excluye a las personas por sus opiniones. Por lo general, las perspectivas "woke" se asocian a movimientos políticos y sociales de izquierdas.
A principios de junio, el ex presidente Trump lanzó una dura advertencia sobre un ejército estadounidense "woke" durante una entrevista exclusiva con "Fox & Friends Weekend", prometiendo despedir a los líderes militares de extrema izquierda mientras el Pentágono se enfrenta a una reacción violenta por honrar el Mes del Orgullo.
"Llegué a conocer a los verdaderos generales combatientes. No hay 'woke' en el ejército. Hay 'woke' en la cúpula", dijo Trump durante la entrevista con los presentadores Pete Hegseth, Will Cain y Rachel Campos-Duffy.
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Los moderadores del debate de la CNN, Jake Tapper y Dana Bash, serán las únicas personas que formularán preguntas en el debate de esta noche, ya que por primera vez en décadas no habrá público en directo en el estudio.
Las respectivas campañas del presidente Biden y del ex presidente Trump acordaron la norma de no tener público a principios de este mes. También acordaron que los micrófonos de los candidatos se silenciarán fuera de sus tiempos de respuesta designados, así como que sólo tendrán acceso a una botella de agua, un bolígrafo y un bloc de papel mientras estén en el podio.
El acuerdo de renunciar a la audiencia en directo es un retroceso a los primeros debates presidenciales televisados de 1960 entre el entonces senador demócrata John F. Kennedy, Jr. y el entonces vicepresidente Richard Nixon.
Hubo menos audiencia durante los debates presidenciales de 2020 debido a la entonces pandemia de COVID-19.
La campaña de Trump anunció el jueves por la mañana que lanzaría dos anuncios para el día del debate sus dos primeros anuncios desde el final de las primarias del Partido Republicano, hace más de tres meses.
Un anuncio titulado "Promesas" arremete contra lo que acusa de ser "el desastroso historial de Biden, que ha destruido la floreciente economía de Trump, [importando] más de 11 millones de ilegales no examinados de todo el mundo a nuestro país".
Y un anuncio titulado "¿Quién se ríe ahora?" apunta a las capacidades físicas del presidente de 81 años, ya que argumenta que"Biden no puede montar en bicicleta, subir un tramo de escaleras o encontrar el camino fuera de un escenario".
El anuncio sugiere que el presidente no duraría otros cuatro años en la Casa Blanca y que "esperando entre bastidores" está a quien llaman despectivamente "Cacareante Kamala Harris".
La campaña de Trump no quiso decir cuánto dinero está poniendo detrás de la compra de anuncios de un día. Pero AdImpact dijo que estaba rastreando sólo 100.000 dólares en reservas del equipo de Trump.
La campaña de Biden anunció el jueves por la mañana lo que dijo que sería un "bombardeo mediático" de siete cifras lanzado antes del Debate Presidencial de la CNN.
La campaña dijo que incluye anuncios en los sitios web de Buzzfeed, USA Today, CNN, El Tiempo Latino, Telemundo, theGrio y el Atlanta Journal-Constitution, donde destacarán lo que argumentan son "los peligros de elegir a Trump para un segundo mandato".
El equipo de Biden también publicó anuncios a toda página en las ediciones impresas del USA Today.
"La demostración de fuerza de hoy en Atlanta y en todos los campos de batalla pone de relieve las dos visiones opuestas que el pueblo estadounidense verá esta noche en el escenario del debate: entre el presidente Biden, que lucha por el pueblo estadounidense, y Donald Trump, cuya campaña se centra en beneficiar a una sola persona: él mismo", argumentó en un comunicado el portavoz principal de la campaña de Biden, Kevin Muñoz.
La campaña de Biden, que ha estado dominando la guerra de anuncios televisivos desde que Trump dejó de emitir tras conseguir la candidatura presidencial republicana a mediados de marzo, ha estado lanzando nuevos anuncios cada día de esta semana en vísperas del debate.
El último anuncio, compartido primero con Fox News, muestra al sheriff del condado de Genesee, Michigan, Chris Swanson, hablando de cómo vio horrorizado cómo los partidarios de Trump irrumpían en el Capitolio de EE.UU. y atacaban a los agentes de policía del Capitolio el 6 de enero de 2021.
AdImpact, una importante empresa nacional de seguimiento de anuncios, informó de que la campaña de Biden reservó 2 millones de dólares en reservas de anuncios sólo para el jueves.
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En los debates presidenciales de 2020 entre Biden y Trump se vivieron varios momentos memorables, incluidos tensos ataques y enfrentamientos sobre Hunter Biden y la pandemia del COVID-19.
En el primer debate, celebrado en septiembre de 2020, ambos hombres hablaron habitualmente por encima del otro, culminando en un arrebato de Biden.
"¿Quieres callarte, tío?", dijo. "Esto es tan poco presidencial".
El tema de Hunter surgió durante el último debate, obligando a Biden a ponerse a la defensiva ante las acusaciones de que se benefició de los negocios de su hijo en el extranjero.
"Creo que le debes una explicación al pueblo estadounidense", dijo Trump a Biden.
Biden respondió: "No he recibido ni un céntimo de ninguna fuente extranjera en toda mi vida". Pasando a atacar a Trump, añadió: "Nos enteramos de que este presidente pagó 50 veces más impuestos en China, tiene una cuenta bancaria secreta en China. Hace negocios en China".
"He publicado todas mis declaraciones de la renta... 22 años de declaraciones de la renta", dijo Biden. "Tú no has publicado ni un solo año de tus declaraciones de la renta... ¿qué ocultas?".
En relación con el COVID-19, Biden dijo sobre la gestión de Trump de la pandemia: "Cualquiera que sea responsable de tantas muertes no debería seguir siendo presidente de los Estados Unidos de América."
"No podemos encerrarnos en un sótano como hace él. ... Tiene esa manía de vivir en un sótano", dijo Trump, haciéndose eco de sus anteriores exhortaciones a los estadounidenses a no tener miedo del virus.
Los dos se enfrentaron también por la inmigración, y Biden repitió el argumento demócrata, muy utilizado entonces, de que Trump era responsable de meter a los niños inmigrantes ilegales en "jaulas".
"A los padres... les arrancaron a los niños de los brazos y los separaron... esos niños están solos, no tienen adónde ir", dijo Biden sobre la política de la administración Trump relativa a la separación familiar, que, antes de que terminara en 2018, fue muy controvertida.
Trump replicó señalando que la infraestructura de muchas de las controversias en la frontera de los últimos cuatro años se arrastraba de la administración Obama-Biden.
"¿Quién construyó las jaulas, Joe?" dijo Trump.
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El ex presidente Trump está adoptando un enfoque de la preparación del debate muy diferente al del presidente Biden.
Mientras que Biden ha optado por refugiarse con sus asesores en Camp David, Trump ha evitado hasta ahora cualquier simulacro de debate con su equipo y se está centrando sobre todo en reunirse con sus aliados más cercanos y hacer campaña.
En las últimas semanas, Trump se ha reunido en privado con sus aliados republicanos de cara al debate, incluidos algunos de los candidatos a la vicepresidencia, senadores y otros expertos en política, según informan fuentes a Fox News Digital. Su campaña ha caracterizado las reuniones como "discusiones políticas".
Uno de los aspirantes a candidato a vicepresidente, el senador JD Vance, de Ohio, se reunió con Trump y miembros de su equipo a principios de mes en el club y residencia Mar-a-Lago del ex presidente, en Palm Beach (Florida). Fuentes familiarizadas con la reunión confirmaron el encuentro y que la sesión se centró en los mensajes del debate sobre la economía y en cómo apuntar a Biden sobre la inflación.
Trump también participó en otro debate político la semana pasada durante su viaje de un día a la capital de la nación, donde se reunió a puerta cerrada con el senador Marco Rubio, de Florida, otro posible compañero de candidatura, así como con el senador Eric Schmitt, de Misuri, en su primer mandato.
Los co-directores de campaña de Trump, Susie Wiles y Chris LaCivita, veteranos en el mundo de la política, también asistieron a la sesión, que incluyó discusiones sobre cómo abordar las probables preguntas del debate sobre las protestas del 6 de enero de 2021 en el Capitolio de EE.UU. por parte de partidarios del ex presidente, que pretenden interrumpir la certificación por parte del Congreso de la victoria electoral de Biden en 2020.
Trump también ha mantenido debates políticos con los asesores principales Kellyanne Conway y Stephen Miller, y con el ex director en funciones de la Inteligencia Nacional Richard Grenell. Hasta la fecha, sin embargo, ninguna de las sesiones ha incluido simulacros de debate, lo que supone un cambio respecto a 2020, cuando el ex gobernador de Nueva Jersey Chris Christie interpretó a Biden para preparar a Trump para los debates de las elecciones generales.
"El presidente Trump se enfrenta a numerosas entrevistas duras cada semana y pronuncia largos discursos de pie, demostrando una resistencia de élite. No necesita que su personal le programe ni que le inyecten productos químicos, como hace Joe Biden", dijo Jason Miller, asesor principal, a Fox News Digital, en relación con la razón por la que Trump aún no ha hecho ningún simulacro de debate tradicional.
Trump ha exigido que ambos candidatos se sometan a pruebas de drogas antes del debate.
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Los candidatos presidenciales suelen prepararse para los debates haciendo que su personal y sus aliados les ayuden a repasar las políticas y celebrando debates simulados, durante los cuales suponen lo que podría decir el adversario e idean réplicas.
Al prepararse para el debate, el ex presidente Trump habría prescindido de esta práctica tradicional, optando en su lugar por lo que se caracterizó como discusiones políticas con sus asesores políticos antes del encuentro, según el New York Post.
Por otra parte, el Presidente Biden se retiró a Camp David para prepararse para el debate. Su equipo creó un escenario de debate simulado con luces para reproducir la experiencia, informó The New York Times.
Al parecer, también cuenta con la ayuda de al menos 16 miembros actuales y antiguos de su personal para desarrollar la estrategia y dar forma a sus respuestas. El abogado personal de Biden, Bob Bauer, desempeñó el papel de Trump años atrás en la preparación del debate, y se espera que vuelva a encargarse del proyecto, según Politico.
En una entrevista reciente, Bauer recordó que no temía enfrentarse a Biden con argumentos y afirmaciones que podían no gustarle para prepararle plenamente para su oponente.
Los enfoques tan diferentes adoptados por el presidente Biden y el ex presidente Trump en la preparación del debate presidencial del jueves han seguido divergiendo, con el primero esperando poder "desencadenar" el segundo en el calor del momento, y el segundo confiando en gran medida en su experiencia de campaña, según muestran múltiples informes.
Biden ha pasado los últimos cinco días en Camp David, en la zona rural de Maryland, reunido con al menos 16 asesores actuales y anteriores, según The New York Times, mientras que Trump, que habló con Fox News durante el fin de semana, ha mantenido "conversaciones políticas" con aliados para prepararse para lo que se espera que sea un enfrentamiento épico en el escenario del debate en los estudios de la CNN en Atlanta.
Se ha acondicionado un viejo cine y un hangar de aviones como escenario de un debate simulado, en el que Biden, a pesar de tener horarios variables y una agenda poco rígida, se prepara para pasar a la ofensiva contra Trump en cuestiones como la inmigración y el aborto, así como para rebatir las afirmaciones -que parecen estar respaldadas por varios vídeos- de que está confuso y frágil", informó The Times.
Los debates simulados de Biden han incluido a su abogado personal, Bob Bauer El equipo que le ayuda a prepararse está dirigido por el ex jefe de gabinete de la Casa Blanca Ron Klain, e incluye al consejero de Seguridad Nacional Jake Sullivan, al actual jefe de gabinete de la Casa Blanca Jeff Zients, al consejero de la Casa Blanca Steve Richetti, así como a funcionarios de la campaña Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon, Ben LaBolt, Jen O'Malley Dillon, Cedric Richmond, Julie Chavez Rodriquez, Quentin Fulks, Michael Tyler y Rob Flaherty.
También se espera que colabore el ex funcionario de la Casa Blanca Brian Deese, según el informe.
Tres fuentes familiarizadas con la preparación del debate dijeron a NBC News que los asesores de Biden están estudiando los comentarios recientes del ex presidente para ver qué temas podrían tocarle más la fibra sensible, todo ello en un esfuerzo por despistar a lo que parece ser un Trump más disciplinado últimamente.
Una fuente dijo al medio que el objetivo es conseguir que "rally Trump" salga, y otra apuntó específicamente a que Biden podría atacar la pérdida electoral del ex presidente en 2020 y las acciones posteriores que llevaron a la protesta del 6 de enero como forma de enfadarle haciéndole sentir que le llaman "perdedor".
Esas fuentes dijeron a la NBC que creen que atacar las acciones de Trump posteriores a las elecciones de 2020 podría ayudar a impulsar a Biden entre los votantes independientes que podrían desanimarse ante las continuas afirmaciones de que realmente ganó las elecciones.
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Durante uno de los tres debates presidenciales de 1976 entre el ex presidente Gerald Ford y Jimmy Carter, se produjeron dificultades técnicas que provocaron un silencio total durante casi 30 minutos.
De los 90 minutos previstos para el debatepresidencial 27 minutos del evento emitido por ABC transcurrieron en silencio, mientras los candidatos republicano y demócrata permanecían en el escenario a la espera de que se arreglara su audio.
Mientras Carter respondía a una pregunta formulada por un miembro del público, un miembro del equipo de la ABC se acercó por el sonido para transmitir las dificultades técnicas y dijo: "No es una conspiración contra el gobernador Carter ni contra el presidente Ford y lo arreglarán lo antes posible."
Cuando se restableció el audio, Carter y Ford pasaron a discutir el futuro de América.
"Nuestra nación en los últimos ocho años ha estado dividida", dijo Carter. "Es el momento de la unidad. Es hora de unirnos, de tener un presidente y un congreso que puedan trabajar juntos con respeto mutuo para cambiar las cosas."
Ford siguió los comentarios finales de Carter y dijo: "Un presidente nunca debe prometer más de lo que puede cumplir. Y un presidente siempre debe cumplir todo lo que ha prometido. Un presidente no puede ser todo para todo el mundo. Un presidente debe ser lo mismo para todas las personas".
Carter derrotó a Ford en noviembre.
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Desde el primer debate presidencial televisado entre el ex presidente John F. Kennedy y el ex presidente Richard Nixon en 1960, no siempre ha habido un flujo constante de enfrentamientos cara a cara entre los aspirantes a la Casa Blanca.
De hecho, tras el debate televisivo inaugural de 1960, pasarían 16 años y tres ciclos electorales presidenciales antes de que se celebrara otro.
En 1964, el entonces presidente Lyndon Johnson se negó a participar en un debate contra el entonces candidato republicano y senador por Arizona Barry Goldwater, alegando su ventaja en las encuestas.
Cuatro años después, en 1968, Nixon, aún conmocionado por su actuación no tan estelar en el debate de 1960, se negó a debatir con el entonces candidato demócrata Hubert Humphrey.
Luego, en 1972, Nixon continuó esa tendencia, negándose a debatir con el candidato demócrata George McGovern, alegando su ventaja en las encuestas.
Sin embargo, desde 1976 se han celebrado debates en cada ciclo electoral presidencial.
En 2020, el presidente Joe Biden y el ex presidente Donald Trump debatieron ante una audiencia televisada de 73,1 millones de espectadores. Fue el tercer debate más visto de la historia, según Statista.
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Es la mayor pregunta que rodea al Debate Presidencial de la CNN del jueves por la noche, que es el primero de los dos enfrentamientos en el escenario entre el Presidente Biden y el ex Presidente Trump en la revancha de las elecciones de 2024.
¿Qué versión del ex presidente aparecerá en el debate en horario de máxima audiencia en Atlanta, la capital y mayor ciudad del campo de batalla del sureste de Georgia?
¿Será el candidato indisciplinado que interrumpió continuamente a Biden y al moderador del debate, Chris Wallace, docenas y docenas de veces en su primer debate en las elecciones de 2020?
Trump pareció perder la calma, no condenó a los supremacistas blancos y su actuación fue muy criticada tanto por los expertos políticos como por los espectadores.
El entonces presidente reelaboró su estrategia y su actuación disciplinada y comedida en el segundo debate de las elecciones generales de 2020 supuso una gran mejora. Pero ya era demasiado tarde, pues Biden acabó ganando las elecciones presidenciales.
"Si repite esa actuación, Donald Trump va a tener una noche muy buena", dijo a Fox News Brett O'Donnell, veterano asesor republicano y entrenador de debates.
O'Donnell dijo que su consejo a Trump es "mira el segundo debate que tuviste con Joe Biden en 2020 y repite esa actuación. Míralo una y otra vez y reproduce esa actuación en este debate".
"Fue comedido pero firme", dijo O'Donnell sobre Trump. "Puede ser agresivo y apasionado sin ser ofensivo".
Mientras el presidente Biden y el ex presidente Trump se preparan para enfrentarse en el escenario del debate el jueves en Atlanta, los votantes de todo el país compartieron sus principales prioridades electorales con Fox News Digital.
Dos temas dominaron: la economía y la inmigración.
"La economía está paralizando a la gente", dijo Vince, de Maryland. "Si vas a un restaurante a comer algo, antes costaba 40 dólares el almuerzo. Ahora son 65, 70 dólares sólo por comer".
Una mujer de Tennessee preocupada por "todos los millones que han cruzado la frontera".
"¿Qué vas a hacer con ellos?", preguntó. "¿Dónde están los puestos de trabajo para ellos? ¿Dónde está la vivienda para ellos?"
Estas preocupaciones difieren ligeramente de los resultados de una encuesta nacional de Fox News , realizada a principios de este mes. El futuro de la democracia estadounidense encabezaba la lista, con un 68% de votantes registrados que afirmaban que será extremadamente importante a la hora de decidir a qué candidato apoyarán en noviembre.
La economía le seguía por dos puntos porcentuales (66%), seguida de la estabilidad y la normalidad (58%). Más abajo en la lista estaba la inmigración, con un 52% que decía que sería muy importante para ellos, empatado con la sanidad.
Sin embargo, los votantes de todo el país, incluso de estados como Oregón y Nueva York que están lejos de la frontera sur, dijeron que la inmigración era una de sus principales preocupaciones.
"Hay mucho favoritismo hacia los inmigrantes por alguna razón", dijo Jason, de Queens, a Fox News Digital. "Los neoyorquinos nos lo callamos, sobre todo, pero me encantaría que [Trump y Biden] hablaran de... cómo van a avanzar, porque están haciendo muchas locuras. Golpear a la policía. Acosar a mujeres. Están haciendo muchas locuras".
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Cada cuatro años, los debates presidenciales atraen a millones de espectadores en todo Estados Unidos. Los estadounidenses se acomodan para ver a los candidatos republicano y demócrata batirse en un escenario ante el país con la esperanza de ganarse la aprobación de los votantes en noviembre.
Históricamente, el tercer debate presidencial más visto fue entre el presidente Joe Biden y el ex presidente Donald Trump en 2020. El debate, de 90 minutos de duración, acumuló 73,1 espectadores, según Statista.
Esta noche, el presidente en funciones y el candidato del Partido Republicano, Trump, se enfrentarán una vez más durante el Debate Presidencial de la CNN, con programación especial en todas las plataformas clave de FOX News Media, incluidos FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio y FOX Nation.
El segundo debate presidencial más visto fue en 1980, cuando Ronald Reagan y Jimmy Carter aparecieron en el escenario del debate en Cleveland, Ohio, en el Convention Center Music Hall, uno frente al otro, y 80,6 millones de estadounidenses lo sintonizaron. Se respondieron preguntas sobre política exterior y cuestiones de seguridad nacional, entre otras.
"He tenido que tomar miles de decisiones desde que soy Presidente, sirviendo en el Despacho Oval", dijo Carter, según el sitio web de la Biblioteca y Museo Presidencial Ronald Reagan. "Y con cada una de esas decisiones que afectan al futuro de mi país, he aprendido en el proceso. Creo que soy un hombre mucho más sabio y experimentado de lo que era cuando debatí hace 4 años contra el Presidente Ford".
En 2016, 84,4 millones de espectadores vieron cómo Trump y Hillary Clinton se enfrentaban en un debate presidencial.
Un miembro del público preguntó a los dos candidatos presidenciales: "¿Podríais alguno de vosotros nombrar una cosa positiva que respetéis en el otro?".
Clinton respondió: "Respeto a sus hijos. Sus hijos son increíblemente capaces y devotos, y creo que eso dice mucho de Donald. No estoy de acuerdo con casi nada de lo que dice o hace, pero lo respeto".
Trump dijo de Clinton Voy a decir una cosa sobre Hillary: no se rinde. No se rinde. Yo respeto eso. Digo las cosas como son. Es una luchadora".
Trump ganó las elecciones.
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El primer debate presidencial del ciclo 2024, que enfrentará al presidente Biden y al ex presidente Donald Trump en una revancha de 2020, está tomando forma.
El debate será presentado por la CNN el jueves 27 de junio a las 9 pm EST en Atlanta, con los presentadores de la CNN Jake Tapper y Dana Bash como comoderadores del evento.
El debate, de 90 minutos de duración, se retransmitirá en Fox News a través de un Simulcast del Debate Presidencial de CNN que estará disponible en todas las plataformas clave de FOX News Media, incluidos FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio y FOX Nation.
Los candidatos de ambos partidos han aceptado las reglas del debate. A diferencia de los debates presidenciales de 2020, el micrófono del candidato que no tenga la palabra se silenciará mientras hable el otro. Además, no habrá público en directo en el debate y los podios y posiciones de los candidatos se determinarán mediante el lanzamiento de una moneda al aire.
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El debate presidencial de la CNN se celebrará el jueves en Atlanta, Georgia, y la dinámica electoral de la ciudad y del propio estado difieren significativamente.
Georgia es un estado indeciso clave, ya que ha sido republicano desde los años 90 hasta 2020, donde se decantó por un estrecho margen por el presidente Biden. Ahora es un objetivo clave tanto para Biden como para el ex presidente Trump y podría ser uno de los estados que decidan las elecciones.
La propia Atlanta es significativamente más demócrata, ya que la ciudad y sus condados, Fulton County y DeKalb, se inclinan fuertemente por los demócratas. Si Biden quiere ganar el estado y sus 16 votos electorales, su camino hacia la victoria pasará probablemente por una gran participación en esta zona.
Ambos bandos han invertido dinero en Georgia, y quienquiera que gane la Casa Blanca querrá que este estado clave aparezca en su columna el día de las elecciones, dada la proximidad de la votación en 2020.
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Cuando el presidente Biden y el ex presidente Donald Trump se enfrenten en el debate presidencial de la CNN, el lugar desempeñará un papel importante.
El debate tendrá lugar en Atlanta, Georgia. Esto se debe en parte a que la sede de la CNN está en Atlanta, lo que la convierte en la mejor opción para que la cadena de noticias organice un debate que incluye importantes retos logísticos.
Sin embargo, Georgia es también uno de los principales estados disputados del país. Habitualmente un estado de tendencia republicana en las contiendas presidenciales, Biden apenas ganó el estado en 2020, y fue una victoria crucial para su camino hacia los 270 votos electorales.
Ahora bien, quienquiera que se haga con la Casa Blanca querrá sellar Georgia, y como en 2020 podría reducirse a un pequeño número de votantes.
Además, en 2021 el control del Senado pasó a los demócratas por Georgia, después de que los candidatos demócratas ganaran dos segundas vueltas. Sin embargo, el gobernador republicano Brian Kemp ganó un segundo mandato en 2022, lo que indica que el estado sigue en juego para ambos bandos. Ambos aspirantes presidenciales han gastado mucho en el estado.
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El Debate Presidencial de la CNN comenzará el jueves a las 21.00 horas.
Se prevé que el debate dure 90 minutos.
El presidente Biden y el ex presidente Trump se enfrentarán en la confrontación y responderán a las preguntas de los votantes sobre los temas más importantes, desde la inmigración ilegal a la economía y otros.
Los dos candidatos se enfrentarán en Atlanta en un debate organizado por la CNN, la primera vez que se verán cara a cara desde su último debate antes de las elecciones presidenciales de 2020, hace casi cuatro años.
Los estadounidenses de todo el país pueden sintonizar el Canal Fox News de 21:00 h ET a 23:00 h ET para ver la retransmisión simultánea del Debate Presidencial de la CNN. Los espectadores también pueden sintonizar la cobertura en directo de Fox antes y después del debate para ver el análisis de los expertos.
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Hillary Clinton, en un debate de 2016 en el que se comprometió a subir los impuestos a los ricos, dijo: "Mi cotización a la Seguridad Social subirá, igual que la de Donald, suponiendo que no se le ocurra cómo librarse". Donald Trump respondió: "Qué mujer tan desagradable".
Durante un debate de 2012, Mitt Romney dijo que la Armada estadounidense era la más pequeña desde 1917. Barack Obama respondió: "Tenemos menos barcos que en 1916. Bueno, Gobernador, también tenemos menos caballos y bayonetas, porque la naturaleza de nuestro ejército ha cambiado".
Durante un debate presidencial en 1992, cuando un miembro del público le hizo una pregunta, Bush padre consultó su reloj antes de responder y pareció tropezar con la respuesta.
En un debate de 1988, el ex vicepresidente Dan Quayle declaró que su experiencia era comparable a la de Jack Kennedy. El demócrata Lloyd Bentsen respondió al republicano: "Senador, yo serví con Jack Kennedy. Conocí a Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy era amigo mío. Senador, usted no es Jack Kennedy".
El moderador Bernard Shaw preguntó a Michael Dukakis una hipótesis gráfica en un debate de 1988: si estaría a favor de la pena de muerte si su mujer fuera violada y asesinada. Dukakis respondió: "No, no lo estoy, Bernard, y creo que sabes que me he opuesto a la pena de muerte durante toda mi vida".
La candidatura Bush-Quayle ganó la presidencia y este último fue vicepresidente de Bush padre de 1989 a 1993.
En 1984, durante un debate, Reagan dijo: "No haré de la edad un tema de esta campaña. Yo am no voy a explotar, con fines políticos, la juventud e inexperiencia de mi oponente", del ex vicepresidente de Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale. El contundente comentario de Reagan le valió vítores y risas tanto del público como de Mondale.
En 1980, durante un debate de las elecciones primarias, Ronald Reagan dijo al moderador y editor ejecutivo de The Telegraph de Nashua, Jon Breen: "Yo am pagando este micrófono, Sr. Green", cuando Breen pidió que se apagara el micrófono de Reagan.
Durante un debate presidencial de 1960 entre Richard Nixon y John F. Kennedy , Nixon parecía tembloroso y sudaba en exceso, mientras que JFK permanecía tranquilo. Todavía hoy se cuestiona si Nixon perdió las elecciones frente a JFK debido a su lenguaje corporal.
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Se espera que el presidente Biden y el ex presidente Trump suban al escenario el jueves por la noche para el Debate Presidencial de la CNN en Atlanta, Georgia. y discutirán los temas principales que ayudarán a los votantes a tomar sus decisiones en las urnas.
Se espera que Biden y Trump respondan a preguntas sobre economía, seguridad nacional, seguridad fronteriza, la guerra entre Israel y Hamás, la posición de Estados Unidos en el escenario mundial, estilos de liderazgo y otras cuestiones.
Se espera que Trump critique las políticas de Biden y destaque su historial durante la administración Trump, concretamente en relación con la frontera sur y la economía.
Se espera que Biden arremeta contra Trump y diga que el país está en mejor situación que bajo el liderazgo del ex presidente.
Es probable que Biden destaque su postura sobre el aborto y subraye que protegerá los derechos de las mujeres, frente a la postura provida de Trump. Trump ha dicho que apoya la sentencia del Tribunal Supremo que devuelve la cuestión del aborto a los estados.
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Los debates se remontan a 1858, aunque el primero no fue entre dos candidatos presidenciales. El ex presidente Abraham Lincoln y Stephen A. Douglas se enfrentaron en una serie de debates por un escaño en el Senado, según el Servicio de Parques Nacionales.
Durante el ciclo electoral, los contrincantes se enfrentaron formal y políticamente en siete debates en Illinois. El primer candidato habló durante 60 minutos. Después, el candidato contrario habló durante 90 minutos. Por último, el primer candidato volvía a hablar, y refutaba, durante 30 minutos para concluir el debate.
Douglas inició los debates en cuatro de los siete argumentos.
El primer debate presidencial televisado de la historia de EEUU entre candidatos no tuvo lugar hasta el 26 de septiembre de 1960 e incluyó al candidato demócrata, John F. Kennedy, y al oponente republicano, Richard Nixon.
El debate presidencial emitido por la CBS fue visto por el público en blanco y negro. Durante el debate, Kennedy dijo: "No creo en un gran gobierno, pero creo en una acción gubernamental eficaz" y ambos candidatos abordaron cuestiones como la Guerra Fría, la educación, la sanidad y la economía, entre otros temas.
Sin embargo, en 1956, el ex gobernador de Illinois Adlai Stevenson retó a un debate al ex presidente estadounidense Dwight Eisenhower. La ex primera dama Eleanor Roosevelt y la política estadounidense Margaret Chase Smith sustituyeron a los hombres y debatieron sobre cuestiones políticas, según el sitio web del Senado de Estados Unidos.
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La participación en los debates presidenciales no es obligatoria para los candidatos. Sin embargo, es estratégico que los candidatos participen, se presenten y comparezcan ante el pueblo estadounidense.
Los candidatos que no obtienen buenos resultados en las encuestas se aseguran más atención en un gran escenario. El enfrentamiento entre candidatos en horario de máxima audiencia es una oportunidad para debatir y argumentar a favor o en contra de temas y cuestiones que preocupan a los votantes estadounidenses.
Los candidatos presidenciales, tanto republicanos como demócratas, aprovechan los escenarios de debate para definirse a sí mismos, recaudar fondos de campaña y expresar posturas sobre cuestiones políticas, económicas y sociales.
Aunque los debates pueden ser intrascendentes para algunos votantes estadounidenses, sin duda pueden ser influyentes para otros. Para ganarse el apoyo de los votantes estadounidenses, los candidatos utilizan anuncios políticos, apariciones en estados indecisos y mítines como paradas alternativas a lo largo de la campaña.
Maniobras como éstas, combinadas con los debates, influyen en los nombres finales de una candidatura presidencial.
El ex presidente Donald Trump y el actual presidente Joe Biden serán abordados por los moderadores durante el Debate Presidencial de la CNN por primera vez en el ciclo electoral de 2024.
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El primer debate presidencial del ciclo 2024 tendrá lugar el jueves por la noche y permitirá al ex presidente Donald Trump y al presidente Joe Biden redoblar sus esfuerzos por ganarse a los votantes estadounidenses.
El debate presidencial de la CNN del jueves por la noche -con una programación especial disponible en todas las plataformas clave de FOX News Media, incluidos FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio y FOX Nation - dará a los candidatos la oportunidad de exponer sus argumentos a los votantes.
También permitirá a los candidatos enfrentarse entre sí, cuestionando las posturas y la trayectoria de los demás y contrastándolas con las suyas propias. Se esperan temas como la inmigración y la seguridad fronteriza, entre otros, el jueves por la noche.
Trump aún no ha revelado quién será su compañero de fórmula para las elecciones presidenciales de 2024, aunque dijo a Fox News' Alexis McAdams que lo anunciará justo cuando se celebre el RNC, previsto para el lunes 15 de julio en Milwaukee.
"Estarán ahí", dijoel ex presidente sobre su compañero de fórmula antes del Debate Presidencial de la CNN. "Creo que vendrá mucha gente". Fox News' Adam Shaw colaboró en este reportaje.
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Los candidatos a un debate presidencial no reciben las preguntas con antelación. Aunque seguramente se esperan acontecimientos de actualidad como temas de debate, las preguntas precisas se mantienen completamente en secreto para los candidatos.
En ocasiones se ha especulado con la posibilidad de que algunos candidatos presidenciales se hayan enterado de preguntas antes del inicio de un debate, pero los moderadores del debate, las organizaciones de noticias anfitrionas y los políticos lo han negado en todos los casos.
Entonces, ¿cómo se prepara un candidato para responder a preguntas desconocidas?
El aborto, la inmigración, la seguridad fronteriza, las guerras entre Israel y Hamás y entre Rusia y Ucrania, la inflación y los préstamos estudiantiles, entre otros temas, son cuestiones a las que los estadounidenses dan prioridad en las narices de la carrera presidencial de 2024.
Los espectadores deberían esperar que algunas de estas cuestiones, si no todas, asomen la cabeza durante el Debate Presidencial de la CNN.
Dado que estas cuestiones políticas son esenciales, es probable que los candidatos calienten las respuestas durante los debates simulados. Sin embargo, la forma en que un candidato decida responder a una pregunta depende exclusivamente de él.
Los calificadores pueden apuntar respuestas vagas a los moderadores de la CNN para las preguntas que prefieren eludir.
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El Debate Presidencial de la CNN del jueves es un acontecimiento fundamental para que los estadounidenses vean cómo piensa cada uno de los principales candidatos a la presidencia sobre los retos reales a los que se enfrenta el país.
También es la primera vez desde septiembre de 2020 que el presidente Biden y el ex presidente Trump van a estar cara a cara, después de que participaran en un solo debate sobre la Casa Blanca en el anterior ciclo electoral.
No es probable que el cara a cara influya en los votantes indecisos: este ciclo electoral es único en el sentido de que los votantes saben lo que es vivir tanto en la América de Biden como en la de Trump.
Pero en una carrera en la que la participación de los votantes será decisiva, sobre todo en varios estados indecisos clave, una actuación ganadora en el debate podría convencer a los espectadores, de otro modo poco entusiastas, para que acudan a las urnas en noviembre. A la inversa, una mala actuación también podría motivar a los votantes a movilizarse por la alternativa.
Los estadounidenses también vigilarán tanto a Trump, de 78 años, como a Biden, de 81, para detectar cualquier signo evidente de envejecimiento, después de que surgiera la preocupación de que ambos estuvieran preparados para la agotadora tarea de dirigir el mundo libre a una edad avanzada.
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El jueves 27 de junio, el presidente Joe Biden y el ex presidente Donald Trump se enfrentarán en el primer debate de 2024 y su primera revancha desde las elecciones de 2020. Presentado por la CNN, el debate se emitirá en la cadena, así como en sus correspondientes canales de streaming y en su sitio web. USA Today emitirá el debate en su canal de Youtube y ABC lo hará en su cadena.
Fox News retransmitirá el debate de 9 a 11 EST. Jesse Waters iniciará la cobertura previa del Debate Presidencial de la CNN a las 7:00 PM con el presentador político jefe Bret Baier, y la presentadora Martha MacCallum tomará las riendas a las 8:00 pm EST. Inmediatamente después del debate, Sean Hannity presentará en directo desde la sala de prensa de Atlanta un análisis de la cobertura del evento y medirá la reacción del público al debate. A partir de las 8:30, Foxnews.com retransmitirá en directo el debate desde la emisión simultánea de la cadena Fox.
La cobertura en directo comienza aquí