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US presidential elections: Trump has six point lead over Biden, says poll

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has developed a six per cent lead over his Democratic rival incumbent Joe Biden with 80 percent saying that the current White House occupant is too old to run for a second term, according to a latest poll by The Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal said Trump's lead over Biden in a two-person matchup, 48 per cent to 42 per cent is the widest in Journal surveys dating to late 2021 and compares with a 2-point lead in February. The new survey began interviewing voters two days after the debate with Trump that left Democrats panicked about the 81-year-old president's possible cognitive decline and their party's weakening election prospects in November, the daily reported. According to the survey, Democrats show significant discontent with Biden as their nominee. Some 76 per cent say he is too old to run this year, or about the same share as Republicans who hold that view. Two-thirds of Democrats would replace Biden on the ballot with .

US polls: Trump keeps low profile while Biden faces doubts over candidacy

Publicly, Trump has commented little on the calls for Biden to drop out of the race and the growing uncertainty within Democratic ranks

Global markets on alert for Biden's exit as Trump-victory trades mount

The recalibration of portfolios kicked off at the end of last week after Biden's disastrous debate with Trump heightened concerns the 81-year-old Democrat is too old to serve another term

News updates: Lal Krishna Advani admitted to Apollo Hospital; under observation, stable

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Here's why Joe Biden almost 'fell asleep on stage' during debate with Trump

White House officials had earlier attributed Joe Biden's disjointed debate performance to a cold. However, Biden himself has provided a different explanation

US Prez debate disaster: Why there's a call for Biden to exit the race?

Biden stumbles, Trump lies: All you need to know about the first US presidential debate disaster and why there are calls for Biden to step down and who will replace him

Indian-origin attorney elected alternate delegate to Republican Convention

Indian-American community leader and attorney Hardam Tripathi has been elected as an official alternate delegate for the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin later this month that would formally nominate former US president Donald Trump as the party's presidential candidate. Trump, 78, is the presumptive Republican Party candidate for the presidential election and is pitched against 81-year-old incumbent President Joe Biden from the Democratic Party. The Republican National Party (RNP) convention in Milwaukee from July 14 to 18 would formally nominate Trump as its nominee for the November 5 presidential elections. A lifelong member of the Republican Party, Tripathi, said, This will be my first time serving as a National Delegate at the RNC and it is a distinct honour to represent Florida's 15th Congressional District in a historic election that is forthcoming in these great United States of America. Tripathi is a US Immigration Attorney and Managing Attorney at Trip Law, a .

Biden's favourability numbers fall in leaked Democratic polling memo: Puck

Biden's debate performance against Republican Donald Trump last week cemented concerns about the oldest US president in history at 81 seeking a second term

Pressure on Biden to step aside, Democrats feel powerless to replace him

Bernie Sanders describes President Joe Biden's recent debate performance as painful. In an interview, he says he's not confident that Biden can win this fall. But the progressive senator from Vermont does not want Biden to step aside. Instead, Sanders, who served as Biden's chief rival in the Democratic Party's 2020 nomination fight, is calling on voters to adopt a maturity as they view their options this fall. A presidential election is not a Grammy Award contest for the best singer or entertainer. It's about who has the best policies that impact our lives," Sanders said. I'm going to do everything I can to see that Biden gets reelected. That's putting the best face on it. Nearly a week after Biden's disastrous debate performance, questions about his ability to remain in the race are intensifying among concerned Democrats. But there is also a growing sense that the party has trapped itself in a bad situation with no clear solution, caught in a primary process set up to protect Bid

VP Harris has better chance of retaining WH than Prez Biden: CNN poll

Vice President Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and African heritage, has a better chance of retaining the White House in the November presidential polls than her boss President Joe Biden has, according to a latest CNN poll. The approval rating of Biden, 81, has plummeted after his dismal debate performance in Atlanta last week against his predecessor Donald Trump. Since the debate, there has been increasing voices in the ruling Democratic party for Biden to step down and let someone else run the race for the crucial November 5 presidential elections. According to the CNN poll conducted by SRS, Trump is ahead of Biden by six points. The poll also finds Harris within striking distance of Trump in a hypothetical matchup: 47 per cent of registered voters support Trump, 45 per cent Harris, a result within the margin of error that suggests there is no clear leader under such a scenario. Harris' slightly stronger showing against Trump rests at least in part on broader support from women

Trump's campaign raises $331 mn in 2nd quarter, beating Biden's haul

Donald Trump's campaign says it outraised President Joe Biden in the year's second quarter, with a reported haul of $331 million. That number bests the $264 million that Biden's reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee reported raising over the same period earlier Tuesday, eliminating Biden's cash advantage and potentially undercutting Biden's efforts to calm fears within his party after last week's disastrous debate performance, which has prompted calls for him to step aside. Trump's total includes $111.8 million that the campaign says it raised in June. That sum is less than the $127 million Biden reported raising last month, which includes more than $33 million on the day of the debate and in its aftermath. But Trump's campaign reports that it ended the quarter with $284.9 million cash on hand, compared with $240 million reported by Biden. President Trump's campaign fundraising operation is thriving day after day and month after month," Trump campaign senior ...

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Joe Biden slams SC on immunity ruling, asks Americans to reject Trump

The United States Supreme Court recently ruled to grant broad immunity to presidents that could exempt Donald Trump from facing trial for the January 6 Capitol attack

US deepening relationship with India in several key areas: Official

The US is deepening its relationship with India in several key areas, including economic and security cooperation, a senior official has said, emphasising that Washington will continue to cultivate this relationship. State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel made the remarks on Monday at his daily news conference in response to a question on US-India relations and the recent conversation between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the recent G7 Summit in Italy. "India is a country in which we are deepening our relations within a number of key spaces, especially as it relates to deepening our economic ties, deepening our security cooperation," Patel told reporters. President Biden "had the opportunity to briefly see Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi in the margins of the G7 a couple of weeks ago," he added. So this is an area where we will continue to cultivate this relationship," he said. Noting that the US hosted Prime Minister Modi for a

Hunter Biden sues Fox News over explicit images in streaming series

Hunter Biden has accused Fox News in a lawsuit of unlawfully publishing explicit images of him as part of a streaming series. The president's son filed the lawsuit Sunday in state court in Manhattan over images in The Trial of Hunter Biden, which debuted on the streaming service Fox Nation in 2022. The series features a mock trial of Hunter Biden on charges he has not faced and it includes images of Biden in the nude and engaged in sex acts, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit claims the dissemination of intimate images without his consent violated New York's so-called revenge porn law. Fox published and disseminated these Intimate Images to its vast audience of millions as part of an entertainment program in order to humiliate, harass, annoy and alarm Mr. Biden and to tarnish his reputation, according to the lawsuit. A Fox News spokesperson called it an entirely politically motivated lawsuit" that was "devoid of merit" in an emailed statement. The statement noted that attorneys

Biden slams Supreme Court's decision on Trump in effort to shift age focus

The American people must decide whether Donald Trump's assault on our democracy on Jan. 6 makes him unfit for public office, Biden said

Biden campaign's reset after debate looks a lot like business as usual

President Joe Biden's reset after his disastrous debate performance is looking more like a return to business as usual. Even as his campaign works to quell Democratic anxiety and reassure spooked donors, Biden has been putting the focus on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump as a threat to the nation, and trying to get back to doing the job of president. The president's schedule this week includes a briefing on extreme weather, a campaign reception, a Medal of Honor ceremony and the traditional July 4th White House barbecue. Then he's off for a weekend at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. Nothing out of the ordinary, it all telegraphed. But Vice President Kamala Harris, in a Sunday night fundraiser, gave a nod to what she called the elephant in the room. The debate, she allowed, wasn't Biden's finest hour. Still, "if we put aside the style points, there was a clear contrast, she argued, going on to call out Trump as a threat to our democracy and a liar. For all of the pub

Could Democrats replace Biden as their nominee? All you need to know

As President Joe Biden attempts to reassure supporters following his widely panned debate performance on Thursday, Democrats still worried about having him at the top of the ticket in November have few realistic options at their disposal, at least as far as party rules and historical precedent are concerned. Those fretting over Biden as the Democratic nominee have some alternative, albeit unlikely, scenarios to consider: One involves Biden stepping aside voluntarily, the other, and by far the least likely, involves an 11th-hour effort to defeat him at the convention by winning over pledged delegates he has won in the nominations contests, who are technically obligated to support him only by good conscience in the party's rules. Challenges to the presumptive nominee can occur, but there are significant hurdles, according to Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an expert in the party's nominating process. It has been tried, and it usually fails, said Kamarc

Donald Trump's immunity ruling may push election trial to 2025 or beyond

Now Chutkan will have to reassess each allegation in the indictment based on the Supreme Court's finding, and determine point-by-point which action by Trump was official conduct and which was private

Biden admin to fight labour shortage with new Chips Act Worker Programme

The programme, described as a workforce partner alliance, will use some of the $5 billion in federal funding set aside for a new National Semiconductor Technology Center.