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Critics claim Biden remains president ‘in name only’ despite DNC vow to finish next 5 months of term strong

Critics claim Biden remains president ‘in name only’ despite DNC vow to finish next 5 months of term strong

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, claimed Monday that President Biden at this point is “basically president in name only.”  “Tonight, we are going to hear from President Joe Biden, who at this point is basically president in name only,” Shanahan said in a video shared to X.  “You know, no matter what your opinion is of Joe Biden, if you love him or if you hate him or don’t really care, you have to realize that something feels very wrong about how the Democratic Party ran a full core pressure campaign to get him out of office after he won 14-15 million votes in the primaries,” she said.  “Isn’t it strange how he bowed out because he didn’t feel like he could serve another four years, but somehow he’s OK to serve four more months as we face historic inflation, debt and war? Any impartial observer can look at that and realize the DNC machine did what they always do. They pushed someone out they couldn’t successfully puppeteer,” Shanahan said. “So much for defending democracy.”  At the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, Biden said he had “a lot to do” in the remaining five months of his presidential term.  Comparing himself to Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden said, “Like many of our best presidents, she was also vice president. That’s a joke…”  BIDEN SPEECH DELAYED UNTIL AFTER PRIMETIME Biden appeared to be referencing how he served as former President Barack Obama’s vice president. “But she’ll be a president our children could look up to,” Biden continued. “She’ll be a president respected by world leaders because she already is. She’ll be a president we can all be proud of. And she will be a historic president who puts her stamp on America’s future. This will be the first presidential election since January 6th.”   “Selecting Kamala was the very first decision I made before I became, when I became our nominee, and it was the best decision I made my whole career,” Biden said.  X users on Monday questioned whether Biden is truly in charge.  “Are we just forgetting that Joe Biden is still in office?” wrote Jerry Wayne, a Michigan autoworker who went viral for confronting Biden about gun control on the 2020 campaign trail. “Joe Biden is still the President for 154 more days. Pray for America,” Fox News contributor and former Trump campaign operative Steve Cortes wrote on X.  At the DNC, Biden stressed that his term is not over. “Folks, I’ve got five months left in my presidency. I’ve got a lot to do. I intend to get it done,” Biden said.  Regardless of the outcome of the election in November, a new president would not, under traditional circumstances, be inaugurated until Jan. 20, 2025. As of Tuesday, that means Biden has 153 days left of his four-year term. The 25th Amendment of the Constitution stipulates that if the president dies, resigns or is removed from office, the vice president automatically becomes president. After Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Republican nominee and former President Trump in June, Democratic lawmakers and donors pressured the 81-year-old president to step aside from the race amid concern his age and mental fitness would destroy the party’s chances of holding onto the White House and Senate, as well as reclaiming the House in November.  In a clip shared by RNC Research, Biden stood at the podium during a stage test earlier Monday afternoon at the United Center while reporters shouted questions.  One reporter asked, “Donald Trump claims that you were pushed out, put from the top of the ticket, and this amounts to a coup from your party. What do you make of these claims?”  Biden started to answer, but his response was quiet and barely audible, so the reporter pressed, “his what?” The president then went silent, waved her off and other reporters began asking different questions.  BIDEN SAYS DNC ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS ‘HAVE A POINT,’ RIPS TRUMP AS ‘NOT WORTHY’ OF OVAL OFFICE Biden ended his re-election campaign on July 21 and immediately endorsed Harris’ presidential candidacy. Harris secured enough delegates to become the presidential nominee on Aug. 1 during a virtual roll call conducted by the Democratic National Committee two weeks before the start of the party’s convention at the United Center in Chicago. The RNC, by contrast, did their roll call in person in Milwaukee.  In his DNC speech Monday night, Biden insisted there was no bad blood and that he made the decision to back out of the race for the good of the country.  “It’s been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job, but I love my country more. I love my country more. Now, all this talk about how I’m angry. All those people said I should step down. That’s not true. I love my country more,” Biden said. “And we need to preserve our democracy in 2024. We need you to vote, I need you to keep the Senate. We need you to win back the House of Representatives. And above all, we need you to beat Donald Trump.”  Harris isn’t expected to formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination until Thursday. But Biden left the DNC immediately after what some mainstream media billed his “farewell address” Monday night.  The speech concluded in the dead of night, and the president and first lady Jill Biden touched down in California early Tuesday morning.  Listing priorities for the remainder of his presidency, Biden told the DNC that he would continue working with Harris to bring all Americans wrongfully detained around the world home.  Biden said Monday night that his administration, namely Secretary of State Antony Blinken, is “working around the clock” to prevent a wider war in the Middle East, bring back the remaining hostages held by Hamas after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, surge humanitarian assistance into Gaza to “end the civilian suffering of the Palestinian people” and

ICE lost track of tens of thousands of migrant kids, DHS inspector general finds

ICE lost track of tens of thousands of migrant kids, DHS inspector general finds

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors over the last five years. An internal watchdog within the Department of Homeland Security sent a report to Congress on Tuesday titled “Management Alert – ICE Cannot Monitor All Unaccompanied Migrant Children Released from DHS and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Custody.” The interim report warns that over the past five years, more than 32,000 unaccompanied migrant children [UCs] are no longer accounted for by ICE.  TRUMP TO VISIT SOUTHERN BORDER IN ARIZONA, BLAMES CRISIS ON ‘CZAR’ KAMALA HARRIS “During our ongoing audit to assess ICE’s ability to monitor the location and status of UCs who were released or transferred from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), we learned ICE transferred more than 448,000 UCs to HHS from fiscal years 2019 to 2023,” the internal watchdog reported. “However, ICE was not able to account for the location of all UCs who were released by HHS and did not appear as scheduled in immigration court. ICE reported more than 32,000 UCs failed to appear for their immigration court hearings from FYs 2019 to 2023.” A large portion of these unaccounted migrant children is a consequence of individuals failing to appear at immigration court hearings after being released from government custody. FLORIDA AG DEMANDS ANSWERS AFTER REPORT FOUND NEARLY 100 POTENTIAL TERRORIST MIGRANTS RELEASED BY BIDEN ADMIN “Despite its responsibilities for overseeing UCs [unaccompanied migrant children] through the immigration process, we found ICE cannot always monitor the location and status of UCs once they were released from DHS and HHS custody,” the report states. READ THE INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT – APP USERS, CLICK HERE: “Even though OPLA issued new guidance to verify the location of UCs who failed to appear for their court hearings and improve coordination with HHS, we found ICE often neither followed this guidance nor issued corresponding guidance for its officers in the field,” the report continued. The report was issued by Inspector General Joseph Cuffari and addressed to Patrick Lechleitner, ICE Deputy Director and Senior Official. The numbers could be even worse than documented — according to the watchdog’s findings, approximately 291,000 unaccompanied migrant children have not yet been marked for removal proceedings because ICE has routinely failed to schedule immigration court dates and serve notices. The DHS and ICE have come under intense scrutiny in recent years as inability to manage the influx of migrants from South America has led to individuals slipping through the cracks.

Gov Newsom says ‘everybody’s…jumping over each other’ to campaign for Kamala Harris

Gov Newsom says ‘everybody’s…jumping over each other’ to campaign for Kamala Harris

CHICAGO – Gov. Gavin Newsom said in the four weeks since Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Biden at the top of the Democratic Party’s 2024 ticket, “everyone and their mother is jumping on to help.” Harris has been riding a wave of momentum as she has enjoyed a surge in polling and fundraising after Biden’s blockbuster announcement that he was ending his re-election bid for a second term in the White House. Biden’s disastrous performance against former President Trump in their late June debate fueled questions over whether the 81-year-old president had the physical and mental abilities to handle another four years in the White House and sparked a chorus of calls from within his own party to end his 2024 campaign. BIDEN PASSES TORCH TO HARRIS ON FIRST NIGHT OF DEMOCRATS’ CONVENTION Biden eventually caved to the pressure, announcing the suspension of his re-election campaign three days after the Republican National Convention ended with a solidified GOP ticket of Trump and running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance.  Until Biden dropped out of the race, Newsom had been one of the president’s top surrogates. HARRIS PROPOSES MAJOR CORPORATE TAX HIKE, TO REVERSE TRUMP ERA TAX CUTS When asked if he would be as voracious for Harris on the campaign trail as he was for Biden, the two-term California governor pointed to his longtime friendship and working relationship with the vice president, who also hails from the Golden State. “We knew each other a decade before we both got into politics. One of my oldest friends. So it’s a no brainier,” Newsom told Fox News Digital on Monday during the first night of the Democratic National Convention at Chicago’s United Center arena. “But here’s the difference,” Newsom said. “I’m a solution in search of a problem. Everyone and their mother is jumping on to help. So, I’m as needed. But obviously all in.” However, Newsom, who is thought to have long harbored national ambitions of his own, added that he may not be asked by the Harris campaign to hit the trail on behalf of the vice president. “We’ll see. Because everybody’s out there. Everybody’s doing everything,” the governor said. Pointing to his campaign travels across the country on behalf of Biden this summer before the president ended his 2024 bid, Newsom told this reporter “you were with me in New Hampshire. There wasn’t many of us. Everything about that was very different. Right now, everybody is out there for Kamala.” “Everybody’s sort of jumping over each other to be out there on the campaign trail.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

Trump, Vance hit battleground states as they counter-program Harris, Walz at DNC

Trump, Vance hit battleground states as they counter-program Harris, Walz at DNC

CHICAGO – As day two of the Democratic National Convention gets underway Tuesday in blue state Illinois’ largest city, former President Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, will be in nearby battleground states. It is part of the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee’s plan to offer a full week of counter-programming to the Democrats’ national nominating convention. “Donald Trump is barnstorming all across the country over the course of this next week,” RNC Chair Michael Whatley emphasized in a Sunday interview on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.” “We are going to be out directly talking to every American family across the country the way that only Donald Trump can. And we are absolutely asking for their votes. We’re asking for their support,” Whatley highlighted. KAMALA HARRIS PROPOSES ROLL BACK OF KEY PORTION OF TRUMP’S 2017 TAX CUTS The move is partially to try and blunt the momentum of Vice President Kamala Harris heading into the Democrats’ convention. Harris has been riding a wave of energy and enthusiasm – both in polling and in fundraising – since replacing President Biden at the top of the Democrats’ 2024 ticket four weeks ago. However, it also appears to be another move to try and put pressure on Harris for not holding a news conference or a major interview since Biden bowed out and backed his vice president. HARRIS AND TRUMP HOLD DUELING RALLIES IN THE BIGGEST OF THE BATTLEGROUNDS “At the DNC, Kamala Harris will hide behind celebrities because everyday families know that she has been an absolute disaster for our nation, and real Americans are worse off now than four years ago,” Trump campaign co-chairs Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita charged in a statement on the eve of the convention. They argued that the vice president “has failed to answer media questions for 28 days because she can’t explain away her record of supporting policies that cause inflation, bans on private health insurance, destroying American energy, and higher taxes.” As Fox News first reported last week, both Trump and Vance are on the campaign trail during the Democrats’ convention, headlining “messaging events” in the states that will likely decide the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. Additionally, as a Trump adviser revealed last week, “a whole cadre of people” – including top surrogates – will also be making the GOP’s case throughout the week. Trump’s schedule is packed with more events than he has done in months. On Monday, he was in York, Pennsylvania, taking aim at Harris over the economy, while Vance was also talking about pocketbook issues during a stop in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, with 19 electoral votes up for grabs, is the largest prize among the crucial swing states. At his event at a factory in York, Trump reiterated his pledge to cut taxes if he returns to the White House. “Our plan will massively cut taxes,” Trump said. “I gave you the best tax cut in history.” TRUMP RUNNING MATE VANCE AIMS TO TURN BLUE WALL STATES RED Harris campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chikita took aim at Trump, charging that “Americans should be clear on what he will do: He will raise costs on middle class families by $3,900 a year. He will ship American jobs overseas. He will cut Social Security and Medicare and repeal the Affordable Care Act — just like he tried to do last time he was in the White House.” On Tuesday, Trump will be in Michigan while Vance spotlights the issue of crime during a news conference in southeastern Wisconsin, close to the Democrats’ convention in Chicago. On Thursday, Trump will visit the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona while Vance highlights the issue of immigration during a stop in Georgia. On Friday, the former president stumps in Arizona and Nevada on his “no tax on tips” pledge. “As they meet Americans where they are in battleground states across the country, President Trump and Senator Vance will remind voters that under their leadership, we can end inflation, protect our communities from violent criminals, secure the border, and Make America Great Again,” LaCivita and Wiles said. On Monday, as the convention kicked off, top Trump allies in the Senate – Sens. Rick Scott of Florida and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin – were also making the case for the former president and slammed Harris and Walz at a news conference in downtown Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower.  Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, a top House ally of Trump, fills the role on Tuesday, and the campaign plans Wednesday and Thursday news conferences as well.  The Biden campaign counter-programmed with news conferences that included top surrogates in Milwaukee during the Republican National Convention last month. Meanwhile, Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will travel Tuesday from Chicago to nearby Milwaukee to headline a rally in the key Midwestern battleground. In years past, it was traditional for a presidential candidate to lie low while the other party held its national nominating convention.  However, last month, as the Republicans held their convention in Milwaukee, Biden briefly campaigned in the key swing state of Nevada before cutting his trip short after catching COVID. Days later, Biden’s blockbuster announcement that he was ending his re-election campaign following his disastrous late June debate performance against Trump upended the 2024 election. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

Biden’s Charlottesville moment? POTUS torched for telling DNC anti-Israel mob outside ‘has a point’

Biden’s Charlottesville moment? POTUS torched for telling DNC anti-Israel mob outside ‘has a point’

President Biden was lambasted overnight after critics drew comparisons between his comments on anti-Israel protesters and comments by former President Trump he has long criticized. “Those, those protesters out in the street, they have a point,” Biden said Monday at the Democratic National Committee – referring to anti-Israel protesters who converged on police fencing outside the United Center in Chicago throughout the day. “A lot of innocent people are being killed on both sides.” Biden has repeatedly invoked 2017 antisemitic violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, when criticizing Trump – which the latter has dubbed the “very fine people hoax.” BIDEN SAYS DNC ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS ‘HAVE A POINT’ After torch-bearing bigots descended upon Thomas Jefferson’s hometown that year, and a paralegal was killed in the melee, Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides.” He has since maintained he was comparing a local group opposed to the destruction of the city’s Gen. Robert E. Lee statue and those seeking its removal.  Trump and others have suggested the antisemitic gang co-opted the position of the peaceful locals opposed to the desecration of their home-state Confederate general. The statue was ultimately melted down. “Biden just gave the Hamas/Israeli conflict a very fine people on ‘both sides’-type line. Disgraceful,” said former McConnell adviser Scott Jennings in response. Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote on X, “And just like that, Joe Biden legitimizes Nazis.” “[That’s s]omething he falsely accused Trump of doing earlier in his speech.” TRUMP CONDEMNS ‘BRAINWASHED’ ANTI-ISRAEL MOB, QUESTIONS SCHUMER’S SILENCE Fox News contributor Mark Thiessen pointed out that Biden’s defense of the anti-Israel mob and the latest condemnation of Trump regarding Charlottesville were almost simultaneous. During Biden’s only debate appearance prior to backing out of the Democratic nomination, Trump said, “that story has been totally wiped out – he says he ran because of Charlottesville – he didn’t run because of Charlottesville: He ran because it was his last chance [to be president].” On X, the New Mexico Republican Party flagged Biden’s comments against a backdrop of photos and videos of protesters, including a throng chanting “DNC, go home – Or we’ll bring the war home.” Meanwhile, former Trump speechwriter Stephen Miller said it showed Biden is “leaning fully into the Charlottesville Hoax,” going on to call it the most “debunked, disproven and discredited hoax in existence.” Miller, now the president of America First Legal, said the president is deliberately “stirring up hatred” only weeks after Trump was nearly assassinated. “[It] is beyond vile, it’s psychotic,” he said. “It’s their pretext for authoritarianism.” British American conservative writer Ian Haworth also expressed incredulity at Biden’s comment, writing on X how the president said protesters “have a point.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “The ones wearing Hamas headbands, waving Hezbollah flags, and screaming ‘intifada’? This from a man who claims to be a Zionist.” “This should be Biden’s ‘fine people on both sides’ moment with one difference: he actually said it,” Haworth added, noting Trump’s characterization was to that of the Lee statuary proponents. New York City radio host Mark Simone distilled Biden’s contrasting statements further. “So the only one saying there were fine people on the Nazi side was Joe Biden,” Simone said.