Democrats are continuing to wrestle Sunday over whether President Biden should remain atop their presidential ticket. More than 35 congressional Democrats have called for Biden to step aside, according to a Washington Post tally. At a rally Saturday in Michigan, former president Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), reveled in the turmoil that has roiled Democrats since Biden’s halting debate performance last month.
As remarkable as the past weeks have been in the wider political universe, they have been equally turbulent inside the Biden family, the latest chapter in a long story of resolve. Family members have flashed through a range of emotions, people close to them say, and are frustrated by what they see as the betrayal of a man who has spent a half-century as a Democratic leader.
GOP’s June fundraising surges as Trump surpasses Biden in cash
The GOP posted another strong fundraising month in June, with the Republican National Committee reporting its best fundraising month in years, as Donald Trump surpassed President Biden’s once enormous campaign cash advantage.
The RNC raised more than $66 million in June, according to filings submitted Saturday night to the Federal Election Commission.
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As Democrats warn that former president Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, he tried to cast his opponents’ wrangling over President Biden’s future as undemocratic at a Michigan rally Saturday. The man who tried to overthrow his 2020 loss said Democratic “bosses” are trying to “overthrow the results of their own party’s primaries,” adding that “last week, I took a bullet for democracy” — a reference to his assassination attempt.
How Democrats would pick a new candidate if Biden drops out, step by step
If President Biden decides to end his campaign for reelection, as dozens of members of his party have demanded, there are two paths for replacing him at the top of the Democratic ticket.
One is a virtual vote that would lock in a new nominee in early August, and the other is an “open” convention, a scenario the party hasn’t experienced since 1968.
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Democratic donors funding an effort to vet potential VP candidates
Major Democratic donors are funding a preliminary vetting process for potential vice-presidential nominees should President Biden exit the race, according to four people familiar with the process, suggesting that influential figures in the party are growing increasingly restless and concerned about the time remaining to mount a national campaign.
