Greater Noida: 3 children dead, 5 injured after under-construction wall collapses following heavy rainfall
Eight children from the extended family were playing when the ‘under-construction wall of the house suddenly gave way, burying the children underneath,’ a spokesperson said.
Weather update: IMD issues orange alert for Delhi, UP, Maharashtra amid heavy rainfall; check details
Isolated very heavy rainfall is anticipated in Konkan and Goa, and Madhya Maharashtra over the next five days, according to the IMD.
AAP to hold nationwide protest against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest by CBI today
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will hold a protest across the country on June 29 against the arrest of party national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the CBI.
Trump says ‘biggest problem’ not Biden’s age, ‘decline,’ but his policies in first appearance since debate
At former President Trump’s first rally since the presidential debate, he argued the nation’s “biggest problem” is not President Biden’s age and “decline,” but his destructive policies. Speaking to a crowd of more than 1,000 at Historic Greenbrier Farms in Chesapeake, Virginia, Friday, Trump took a victory lap after the first 2024 presidential debate. Trump told supporters every voter should ask one question before heading to the polls Nov. 5. “The question every voter should be asking themselves today is not whether Joe Biden can survive a 90-minute debate performance, but whether America can survive four more years of crooked Joe Biden in the White House,” he said. TRUMP, BIDEN SPAR OVER GOLF HANDICAPS AS THEY TRY TO CONVINCE VOTERS THEY ARE NOT TOO OLD FOR THE PRESIDENCY “Remember, the biggest problem for our country is not Joe Biden’s personal decline,” Trump said. “It’s that Joe Biden’s policies are causing America’s decline at a level that we’ve never seen before. “That’s why this November, the people of Virginia and the people of America are going to tell crooked Joe Biden, ‘You’re fired.’” President Biden addressed his campaign performance at a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, saying, “I don’t debate as well as I used to. BIDEN’S INNER CIRCLE SILENT AS PARTY REELS FOLLOWING ‘EMBARRASSING’ DEBATE PERFORMANCE “I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done,” he told a roaring crowd that chanted “Four more years.” “The choice in this election is simple,” Biden said. “Donald Trump will destroy our democracy. I will defend it.” Biden’s age and mental acuity have been at the forefront as voters inch closer to Election Day. Biden, 81, is the oldest president in history and has faced skepticism from voters and Republican lawmakers about his ability to do the job. Biden would be 86 at the end of a second term, while Trump would be 82.
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Presidential debates changed television. “You want to put a lot of new Supreme Court justices – radical left!” hollered former President Trump at President Biden during the 2020 debate. “Will you shut up man?” implored Mr. Biden. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: WHO NEEDS WHO? And television changed politics. “It’s easy to say, ‘Oh, you’ve got to look good on television. Therefore, if you don’t, you’re doomed.’ It’s not quite that easy,” said Walter Podrazik, television curator at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. “You have to learn how to speak directly through the medium that most people understand. They know television as well as any politician does because they watch it all the time.” That was the problem facing President Biden in Thursday night’s debate with former President Trump. Mr. Trump fared better because he appeared engaged. Vigorous. President Biden looked pasty and out of it. It doesn’t matter what Mr. Biden represents or what his policies are. When it comes to the debate, you must excel at television. Debates imprinted the importance of live performance onto the debate genre. That mixed reality TV with politics – long before reality TV was a thing. “I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience,” quipped a 73-year-old President Ronald Reagan during a 1984 debate with former Vice President Walter Mondale, then a youthful 56. “They brought us whole binders full of women,” said 2012 Republican nominee and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) at one of that year’s debates with former President Obama. 2016 Democratic nominee and former Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., was in the middle of saying something about the Social Security Trust Fund in a debate with Mr. Trump when he fired off this volley. “Such a nasty woman,” sneered the former President. Debates also amplify on-screen gaffes. “There is no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe,” said President Gerald Ford in a debate with future President Jimmy Carter in 1976. The remark shocked the press corps. And Cold War Eastern Europe. However, debates sometimes deliver unexpected humor. “I’m all ears!” bragged 1992 independent Presidential candidate Ross Perot at a debate with future President Bill Clinton and former President George H.W. Bush. Perot drew attention to his own features – which stuck out like two taxicab doors, attached to a crew cut. UNDER THE DOME AND ON THE DIAMOND Sometimes what’s said isn’t even what most people remember. People easily recall the visual of former President Trump, lurking and then creeping onto the screen behind Hillary Clinton in 2016. Sometimes viewers recall what a candidate does during the debate. Former Vice President and 2000 Democratic Presidential nominee Al Gore is remembered for his theatrical sighs of exasperation at various orations from future President George W. Bush. And then there was Bush 41 in 1992 with Bill Clinton and Perot. All three candidates briefly rested against stools as ABC News Anchor and debate moderator Carole Simpson addressed the audience. The elder Bush slipped a glance at his wristwatch. Viewers interpreted that presidential peek as a subliminal cue that Mr. Bush’s time in office was up after one term. The debate between President Biden and former President Trump marked a sea change in the way American voters experience the forum. Both campaigns worked directly with CNN to develop the debate. It’s the first major alteration to debates since 1988. The campaigns cut the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) out of the action this time. Otherwise, each of the 33 Presidential or Vice-Presidential debates since 1988 has been under the aegis of the Commission. The CPD created the town hall format where average citizens could pose questions directly to the candidates. That’s how Illinois power plant worker Ken Bone and his red sweater rose to prominence for a hot second after the 2016 town hall debate. The CPD also hosted the debates at universities. Such was the case with the first debate on September 25, 1988, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., between then Vice President Bush and then Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis (D). How they conduct the debates is almost as important as the debates themselves. “We want free and fair debates. This commission has shown bias,” argued former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Fox Business in early 2022. The RNC urged GOP Presidential candidates to refuse to participate in any debate not sanctioned by the GOP. But the Biden campaign also rejected the Commission on Presidential Debates. It pushed for a June debate and another one in September. The Biden camp also demanded certain rules – including an option for moderators to mute the microphone of a candidate. In short, both President Biden and former President Trump took their feud outside. As in outside the Commission on Presidential debates. Mr. Trump offered a dare to the President. “I’m calling on crooked Joe to debate any time, any place,” said former President Trump. President Biden called the bluff of his rival. Even chiding Mr. Trump about what day court was out of session in the defamation trial in New York. “Make my day, pal. I’ll even do it twice,” said President Biden in a message posted to X. “I hear you’re free on Wednesdays.” SENATE STUMPED OVER COVID ORIGINS: WHAT WE KNOW – AND DON’T KNOW And so the gamesmanship squeezed out the Commission on Presidential Debates. “What they wanted to do was what they thought was in the best interests of their candidate,” said Frank Fahrenkopf, who led the CPD since its inception in 1987. “You’ve got two candidates who are unique.” Fahrenkopf is upset the debates aren’t staged at universities. “You’ve lost that being on campus. Kids being involved. A Focus on civics,” said Fahrenkopf. Fahrenkopf also lamented the loss of the town hall meeting. “The most popular format,” observed Fahrenkopf. “That’s gone.” What would Ken Bone say? The first modern Presidential debate unfolded in 1960. The first debate between future President John F. Kennedy and
Cornell Law professor calls to invoke 25th Amendment after Biden’s debate performance
A Cornell University law professor has called on President Biden’s Cabinet to invoke the Constitution’s 25th Amendment to have him removed from office after his weak debate performance Thursday night, claiming his “cognitive decline” is a “national security threat.” “This debate displayed Biden’s severely declined cognitive ability for all the world to see for an hour and a half,” Professor William Jacobson wrote Friday for Legalinsurrection.com. “The media cannot claim the live video feed from CNN was a manipulated ‘cheap fake’ — the smear campaign used against those of us who have been pointing out the obvious for over a year, but particularly recently with Biden visibly freezing and zoning out in public appearances.” He said while Democrats are focused on whether a “mentally diminished Biden” can beat former President Trump in the election, “no honest person who watched last night’s debate can think that Biden mentally is up to the job of being President.” CAN BIDEN BE REPLACED AS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE? He called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked to have Biden removed from office. “If I’m China, I’m taking off the shelf the war plans to invade Taiwan,”Jacobson said. “If I’m Iran, I’m breaking out towards a nuclear weapon. If I’m Putin, I’m doubling down on Ukraine and possibly other former Soviet satellites. Can you imagine an emergency situation where immediate military decisions that only a president can make need to be made in seconds or minutes, and the military having to go to diminished Joe for a decision?” He added Biden’s “cognitive decline is a national security threat of the highest order.” House Speaker Mike Johnson said something similar Friday. “There’s a lot of people asking about the 25th Amendment, invoking the 25th Amendment right now, because this is an alarming situation,” Johnson said. “Our adversaries see the weakness in this White House as we all do. I take no pleasure in saying that. I think this is a very dangerous situation.” MEDIA CALLS FOR BIDEN TO WITHDRAW FROM 2024 RACE AFTER ‘DISASTER’ CNN DEBATE PERFORMANCE: ‘IT’S OVER’ Under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, the vice president could assume the presidency if the president is declared unfit for office by the vice president and a majority of the president’s Cabinet or Congress. The 25th Amendment was briefly floated near the end of Trump’s presidency following the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, which Jacobson called “in bad faith.” “Only Democrats can act, and they should before it’s too late,” he added. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Biden’s debate performance Thursday evening has worried Democrats, and some have even called for him to drop out of the race.
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WATCH: Dem. Rep. snatches phone in testy airport exchange over Biden’s mental clarity: ‘Who owns you?’
FIRST ON FOX: Longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur was captured on video Friday losing her patience with a man who asked her whether President Biden should step down following his widely panned CNN debate performance. “Excuse me congresswoman, should Joe Biden step down?” A man in the Detroit airport asks Kaptur in video obtained by Fox News Digital. The 78-year-old congresswoman ignores the question as she is going up the escalator through the airport, which prompts the man to repeat the question. After Kaptur doesn’t respond for a second time, she is asked, “Why has the White House been lying about Joe Bidens’ cognitive abilities?” ‘MUST APOLOGIZE’: VULNERABLE HOUSE DEM FACES RENEWED BACKLASH OVER COMPARISON INVOLVING 9/11 TERRORIST Kaptur, who appears to be adjusting her luggage, then stares into the camera before grabbing the phone in the man’s hands as the video cuts out. “Congresswoman why did you take my phone like that?” Kaptur is asked in a follow-up video as she walks through the airport. DEMOCRATIC STAFFER GOES VIRAL FOR BOASTING ABOUT BIDEN CANCELING HIS STUDENT DEBT: ‘WHY ELECTIONS MATTER’ “What is your name? Kaptur responds looking directly into the camera. “Where do you live?” “Why are you asking me all these personal questions, congresswoman?” The man responds. “Because you’re asking me questions,” Kaptur says. VULNERABLE HOUSE DEM UNDER FIRE FOR INTRODUCING ONLY 5 BILLS THAT BECAME LAW IN 41 YEARS: ‘HASN’T DONE SQUAT’ As the two slowly spin in a circle, Kaptur asks, “Where do you live? Where do you live? What town?” “I don’t have to tell you that information,” the man says, which causes Kaptur to say, “Then I’m not answering you.” As Kaptur again starts walking away, the man again asks, “I just want to know, congresswoman, should Joe Biden step down?” “No,” Kaptur responds before continuing to walk away. The two continued to go back and forth with Kaptur asking the man why he is “reading questions off that sheet” and “who owns you?” “Nobody owns me,” the man responds. “I’m just curious on some questions.” “They own you,” she says as she walks out of the airport doors. In a statement to Fox News Digital, Kaptur campaign spokesperson Alexandra Wilcox said, “It’s one thing to ask a question but an unknown man refusing to identify himself, forcing a camera in the Congresswoman’s personal space is another thing entirely.” “The man has still not identified himself or the organization for which he works.” Wilcox continued, “All these politics aside, Congresswoman Kaptur remains fully focused on delivering further transformational federal investment to Northwest Ohio.” Democrats, particularly those in competitive elections this November, have been facing questions about Biden’s debate performance and specifically where he should step aside in the 2024 race. Many Democrats have acknowledged that Biden did not have a good night, including former President Barack Obama who said on Friday, “bad debate nights happen.” Kaptur, who has served in Congress for 21 terms, is facing a tough re-election race in Ohio’s 9th Congressional District that Cook Political Report ranks as a “Democrat Toss Up.”
Biden’s inner circle silent as party reels following ’embarrassing’ debate performance
President Biden’s inner circle is nowhere to be found following what has been described as an “embarrassing” and “disastrous” performance by the incumbent Democrat during Thursday’s presidential debate. Biden was widely panned by media figures and politicians immediately after the debate for his “weak” sounding voice and “old” appearance, as well as for “failing” to convince Americans he has the stamina and ability to serve another four years in the White House. Fox News Digital reached out to some of Biden’s closest confidants for their response to calls for him to be replaced as the party’s presidential candidate, but none stepped up to defend the president or offer any reaction to the debate. BATTLEGROUND DEMOCRATS LEAVE BIDEN HIGH AND DRY AFTER ‘DISASTROUS’ DEBATE PERFORMANCE The list of Biden’s inner circle that has so far also not made any public comment following the debate includes, former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, who led debate preparations, his successor, Jeff Zients, senior campaign advisor Anita Dunn, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Counselor to the President Steven Richetti, and a number of others. Each were part of the group of at least 16 current and former aides assisting with Biden’s debate preparations, which took place over a period of a week at Camp David in Maryland. Vulnerable Democrats running in tight Senate and House races across the country also stayed silent concerning the debate, and largely didn’t respond to Fox News Digital’s questions surrounding calls for Biden to step aside. REPUBLICANS DECLARE BIDEN ‘UNFIT FOR OFFICE’ FOLLOWING ‘DISASTROUS’ DEBATE PERFORMANCE Biden did, however, get some support from former President Obama, who still admitted he had a “bad” debate. In a message on X, Obama conceded that his former vice president failed to deliver a strong showing for the Democratic Party and the American people. “Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself,” Obama wrote. He continued to deride former President Trump and prop up Biden, writing, “Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit. Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
WATCH: Fox News Digital focus group reacts to Trump saying his retribution will be success
Independent voters in Fox News Digital’s focus group appeared to overwhelmingly approve of former President Trump’s response to a question about his “retribution” — and his description of President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, as “a convicted felon” — during Thursday night’s CNN Presidential Debate. “My retribution is going to be success,” Trump said. “But when [President Biden] talks about a convicted felon — his son is a convicted felon. At a very high level, his son is convicted, gonna be convicted probably numerous other times, should have been convicted before.” Approvals from Democrats trended downward during the answer. Meanwhile, Republican approval continued to increase throughout Trump’s comments. FIRST 2024 TRUMP-BIDEN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: TOP CLASHES OVER ISSUES FROM THE BORDER TO UKRAINE “As soon as he gets out of office, Joe could be a convicted felon with all of the things that he’s done,” Trump said. He later added: “This man is a criminal. This man, you’re lucky, you’re lucky. I did nothing wrong. We have a system that was rigged and disgusting.” Meanwhile, Biden pushed back, saying the idea that he has committed any wrongdoing is “outrageous.” CNN FLASH POLL SHOWS TRUMP AS CLEAR WINNER OF FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: ‘STUNNING NUMBER’ “It’s simply a lie,” Biden said. “Number two, the idea that you have a right to seek retribution against any American just because you’re president is wrong. No president has ever spoken like that before. No president in our history has spoken like that before.” Democrat approval saw an uptick during Biden’s comments, but the approvals of independent and Republican voters trended downward. A RASPY BIDEN GETS OFF TO A HALTING START AGAINST TRUMP IN THE FIRST 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DEBATE Focus group participants reacted in real time to Biden and Trump, turning dials to indicate approval or disapproval. In the video embedded in this story, Republican participant sentiment is graphed in red, Democrat sentiment in blue and independents are represented in yellow.