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Ohio Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown urges Biden to end campaign

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, joined Democrats calling on President Biden to drop out of the 2024 race on Friday evening. “At this critical time, our full attention must return to these important issues. I think the President should end his campaign,” he said in a statement on X. 3RD DEMOCRAT SENATOR CALLS ON BIDEN TO...

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Secret Service ‘check-the-box’ Senate briefing leaves questions: ‘Infuriating’

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., detailed a Secret Service briefing given to senators on Wednesday about the recent assassination attempt against former President Trump, saying there was “virtually no information” provided. “It’s infuriating,” he told Fox News Digital in an interview. “The director of the Secret Service did admit there were mistakes and gaffes,” he added,...

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Biding Time: Trump assassination attempt overshadows calls for Biden to step aside

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had just completed a quasi-clandestine meeting with President Biden at Rehoboth Beach, Del., late Saturday afternoon. An alarming number of House and Senate Democrats were growing increasingly uneasy with Mr. Biden as the prospective Democratic standard-bearer this fall. No one knew that Schumer made the pilgrimage to Rehoboth to...

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Vance's 'America First' foreign policy in spotlight ahead of highly anticipated RNC speech

MILWAUKEE — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s “America First” foreign policy positions are taking the spotlight as he prepares to deliver his first major prime time speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night. Vance was announced as former President Trump’s running mate on Monday, and since, numerous politicians and media outlets, especially...

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Sen. John Barrasso calls Secret Service conference call a '100% cover-your-a–' briefing

Senate lawmakers were left with more questions than answers on Wednesday following a conference call with the U.S. Secret Service on the attempted assassination of former President Trump, with one senator calling it “100% cover-your-a– briefing.” The Secret Service privately briefed the senators as questions still remain about how the gunman who shot Trump was...