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Welcome to DailyMail.com’s U.S. politics blog with two days until the highly-anticipated first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Biden has been holed up at Camp David preparing while Trump has called for his rival to take a drug test before their primetime showdown on CNN at 9pm on Thursday.
A new poll in Georgia, where the debate is being held, has good news for Trump.
Meanwhile, there are also crucial congressional primaries in New York and Colorado, where ‘Squad’ member Rep. Jamaal Bowman and scandal-plagued Republican Lauren Boebert are fighting for their political survival.
And ex-President Barack Obama’s half-sister Auma Obama told CNN she was tear-gassed at a tax protest in Kenya.
Follow all the updates from our reporters in Washington D.C. and around the country.
Donald Trump may announce VP pick this week. Or he could wait for closer to the convention
As President Trump has said himself, the top criteria in selecting a vice president is a strong leader who will make a great president for eight years after his next four-year term concludes. But anyone telling you they know who or when President Trump will choose his VP is lying unless that person is named Donald J. Trump.
Breaking: Trump can now talk about witnesses and jury after gag order in hush money case partially lifted
Breaking: Some ex-intel officials who signed letter calling Hunter laptop ‘disinfo’ were on active CIA contracts
Drag queen Brigitte Bandit takes over Capitol Hill
Now Trump’s camp compares Biden to Captain America: Says Joe will be ‘filled with Adderall’ on debate night… but won’t reveal if Melania will show
Joe Biden’s approval rating at 37 percent
Gavin Newsom compares 2024 to 1939
When they speak of immigrants poisoning American blood, and of mass deportations and detention camps, this is the language of destruction – of 1939.
Charlamagne tha God suggests Democrats could pull Biden out of race if he flops in debate
I would say yes. The reason I would say yes is, you know, the base is going to show up, but it’s about those independents and those hypothetical swing voters, those people who may be undecided, it’s about them.
Republicans target Biden’s ghostwriter for failing to hand over documents
House Republicans will NOT try to defund Trump special counsel Jack Smith
Michael Cohen responds to partial lifting of Trump gag order
For the past 6 years, Donald and acolytes have been making constant negative statements about me. Donald’s failed strategy of discrediting me so that he can avoid accountability didn’t work then and won’t work now.
Monica Lewinsky calls for Trump judge to be impeached
Exclusive: Authors of books on vaccines, Big Pharma censored by the Biden admin working with Amazon speak out against ‘modern-day book burning
Biden welcomes arrival of Kenyan police in Haiti
With strong support from the United States, Kenyan forces arrived in Haiti, beginning an effort that will bring much needed relief to Haitians.
Paris Hilton to testify in Congress about abuse in youth residential treatment facilities
Sixteen Nobel prize-winning economists back Biden
We believe that a second Trump term would have a negative impact on the U.S.’s economic standing in the world, and a destabilizing effect on the U.S.’s domestic economy.
Many Americans are concerned about inflation, which has come down remarkably fast. There is rightly a worry that Donald Trump will reignite this inflation, with his fiscally irresponsible budgets.
Trump advisers hand him plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine
Hunter Biden’s law license is suspended in D.C. following his felony conviction
Ron DeSantis warns Biden’s immigration policies will ‘inevitably’ lead to terrorist attack
You have an administration who won’t faithfully execute the law. How could you have that many people and not have some people that are hostile?
And when you talk about 10 million, you’re saying if only 0.1 percent are bad that’s going to cause havoc. And we know there’s obviously more problems than that. So I think from a security perspective, it’s a big deal.
Andrew Cuomo: Bowman should pull the fire alarm again because he is going to be smoked
When a previous president was asked about his age in a debate…
What will Trump and Biden do after the debate?
A reminder of ‘Squad’ congressman Jamaal Bowman’s expletive-ridden speech at the weekend
Julian Assange’s flight cost of $500,000 covered by crowd funding
Julian Assange’s plane takes off from Bangkok
Regardless of the views that people have about Mr. Assange’s activities, the case has dragged on for too long.
Pressure grows on Justin Trudeau after Canada’s Liberals suffer major upset in Toronto
Justin’s position is seriously weakened inside the party.
Obama’s half-sister shockingly discloses she was tear-gassed during tax protest in Nairobi: ‘I can’t even see anymore’
Iranian Ayatollah rails against America
Some politicians in our country believe they must kowtow to this power or that power, and it’s impossible to progress without sticking to famous countries and powers.
Some think like that. Or they think that all ways to progress pass through America.
Biden accused by GOP hardliners of ‘desperate gambit to get votes’ by freeing Julian Assange
Ilhan Omar calls Jamaal Bowman the ‘people’s champion’
Kamala Harris reveals ‘how she does it’ at event with actress Francia Raisa in Arizona
No donations to Trump from Fortune 100 CEOs
The top corporate leaders working today, like many Americans, aren’t entirely comfortable with either Mr. Trump or President Biden.
Trump group rolls out ‘No Tax on Tips stickers’ as it steps up effort to woo working class voters
Hillary Clinton claims Donald Trump will unleash ‘blizzard of lies’ on debate stage
In our three debates in 2016, he unleashed a blizzard of interruptions, insults and lies that overwhelmed the moderators and did a disservice to the voters…
It is a waste of time to try to refute Mr. Trump’s arguments like in a normal debate. It’s nearly impossible to identify what his arguments even are. He starts with nonsense and then digresses into blather. This has gotten only worse in the years since we debated
…expectations for him are so low that if he doesn’t literally light himself on fire on Thursday evening, some will say he was downright presidential.
How racy Republican Lauren Boebert could win her Colorado primary despite messy divorce, son’s legal drama, groping and vaping on a date and other antics
Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan suffers huge blow
Trump claims he was ‘tortured’ in Fulton County Jail
Squad member Jamaal Bowman faces disaster in New York
Donald Trump leads Joe by Biden by five points in Georgia ahead of debate