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President Joe Biden said Friday he was both "not surprised" and "outraged" by reports of the death of Alexei Navalny, the longtime Russian opposition politician and critic of Vladimir Putin. Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service announced Navalny died in prison. The service claimed Navalny, 47, lost consciousness after a walk but gave no official cause of death. "Russian authorities are going to tell their own story," Biden said in remarks delivered from the Roosevelt Room. "Make no mistake: Putin is responsible for Navalny's death."

A member of the corporate media accidentally reported that His Fraudulency Joe Biden’s obvious mental decline is so pronounced he’s probably adopted the strategy of hiding from the media. During a segment on doomed CNN’s doomed CNN This Morning, someone named Salena Mohsin, who identifies as Bloomberg’s senior Washington correspondent, was asked about President Roomba skipping what has become a traditional presidential interview prior to the Super Bowl. “[H]im saying no to something that he’s expected to do, a serious interview, he can really get his message out to an audience, just sitting, waiting for him, waiting for his message,...

A group of Black men left MSNBC stunned on Friday after they explained why former President Trump appeals to them over President Joe Biden. MSNBC correspondent Trymaine Lee met with the voters at a barbershop in Charleston, South Carolina, asking them what “appeal” Trump has among their demographic over Biden. “Money,” they said. “Donald Trump has a reputation of being the money man,” voter Anthony Freeman said. “I just think that Donald Trump, in spite of all the craziness he may have in his head, reading some of the things that he talks about what business I can kind of...

Women voters are giving President Biden’s reelection campaign hope ahead of an expected rematch against former President Trump. Support for Biden from women is on the rise, a survey published this week found, giving the campaign some optimism amid otherwise tough polling and a challenging 10 months ahead. The president has put extra attention on appealing to women voters, especially around the anniversary of Roe v. Wade last month. That has dovetailed with stepped-up campaign travel and focus on pivotal states where he needs to win again in 2024, such as South Carolina, Michigan and Nevada.

the hypothetical matchup between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is too close to call

A majority of Americans don't believe Joe Biden will live through another term in office — but experts say it is actually Donald Trump who is less likely to survive the next four years. That is the conclusion of professors at the University of Chicago and the University of Hawaii, who said that while gaffe-prone President Biden, 81, is older than Trump, 77, he has a better diet, exercise routine and genetics, which are three drivers of longevity. The researchers were responsible for a controversial report during the 2020 presidential campaign in which they gave Biden a 95 percent chance...

President Biden has opened up a 6 point lead in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up with former President Trump, new polling shows, amid signs of a growing gender gap in support for the two party front-runners. A new Quinnipiac University national poll found Biden with 50 percent support among registered voters, ahead of Trump’s 44 percent. That’s a shift in the incumbent’s favor from December, when Quinnipiac found the same Biden-Trump hypothetical “too close to call,” with Biden at 47 percent support and Trump at 46 percent. Biden also scored majority support among independents in the latest findings, with 52 percent...

President Joe Biden is only showing up to East Palestine, Ohio — one year after the devastating train derailment rocked the community — “because it is an election year,” DJ Yokley, a local business owner, pointed out. “I think it boils down to the American people have awakened to realize that the leader of our country did not show up to the greatest catastrophe of 2023,” he said during an appearance on Fox News. “And now he’s going to show up because it is an election year…President Trump came and supported us when he didn’t have to, and I think...

One in five Democrats disapprove of President Joe Biden’s job performance, a recent Harvard/Harris survey found. Overall, the survey showed that Biden’s approval remains low, at 42 percent. Of those, just 20 percent “strongly approve” of him. Most, 57 percent, disapprove of his job performance. His ratings are even worse among independent voters, as 62 percent disapprove of him compared to 35 percent who approve. Further, one in five — 22 percent — of Democrats disapprove of Biden’s job performance.

The Biden administration’s War on Things That Work ran into a significant setback in the courts recently. At the start of Biden’s second year in office, he directed the Department of Energy to issue new “efficiency standards” for a variety of home appliances and plumbing fixtures. They went after everything from gas stoves and toasters to shower heads and toilets. They were seeking to undo regulations regarding “short-cycle appliances” put in place by the Trump administration which offered more flexibility to manufacturers and consumers in terms of water and energy conservation standards. But now, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals...

The Biden-Harris reelection campaign announced on Monday it has $117 million on hand, in what aides claim is the largest sum for any Democratic candidate in history at this point in the race. The president and vice president’s team said it raised more than $97 million in the fourth quarter of 2023. The total includes fundraising efforts by the campaign, joint fundraising committees and the Democratic National Committee. In the third quarter of 2023, the Biden-Harris campaign announced it raised more than $71 million, and had nearly $91 million cash on hand. The team raised more than $72 million in...

This interview contains a lot of information. Jim Rickards discusses how he sees a clear path to a Republican victory despite the possibility of a Trump conviction. One important point Rickards makes. Trump was excellent in foreign policy. The Abraham Accords, Peace in the Middle East etc. But domestically, Trump screwed up. He had no idea how the appointment process worked and he put in place a lot of disloyal people who turned on him. However, Trump is now working with conservative think tanks and Rickards believes that if elected, Trump will follow their recommendations and appoint people absolutely loyal...

Yes, it’s Biden’s fiscal inferno! And getting worse as the Presidential election approaches! Remember when I showed that the “stealth” secret sauce behind Bidenomics was nothing more than a massive, multi-trillion debt-fueled spending spree, which led to the biggest peactime, non-crisis budget deficit in US history, with the total deficit for fiscal 2023 ending just over $2 trillion, or double the prior year, something which BofA’s Michael Hartnett called the “era of fiscal excess”? Well, we have news for you: if 2023 was bad, 2024 – an election year of course – is shaping up to be far worse. Moments...

Lots of high-level Democrats are warning that President Biden and his reelection team are too complacent — and unimaginative — about the threat of losing to Donald Trump, sources tell us. The latest alarm was sounded Saturday in a leak to The Washington Post about a private meeting in which former President Obama pointed Biden to a different way to attack this campaign. We're told it was a lunch just before the holidays. Obama pushed Biden to consider moving his political operation outside of — and beyond — his White House advisers, as the former president had done with his...

I think deep down all intellectually honest political researchers knew The Lightbringer could not possibly permit: (a) Joe Biden to try winning an election on his own without fraud; and (b) the scale of risk that Donald Trump represents. There is far too much personal risk to the Obama embeds who have weaponized the systems of government.The media are now reporting that Chicago Jesus has stepped back into the arena.There was a report in the Washington Post outlining the Obama concerns, and NBC has confirmed some of the details. [Short Video then article]:After reviewing the WaPo article, I’ll show you...

President Joe Biden likened former President Donald Trump to Nazi Germany during a speech on Friday. Biden’s dark rhetoric is a recent escalation after establishment media outlets questioned whether he would put greater emphasis on bashing his 2024 political rival. Speaking at Valley Forge to commemorate the January 6 protest, Biden equated Trump to one of the worst historical regimes.

A furious Joe Biden called Donald Trump 'sick' and a 'loser' in his first campaign speech of 2024 saying 'we nearly lost America' on January 6. The president, 80, launched an incensed attack on his predecessor and potential 2024 general election rival at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, where George Washington organized an army to fight the British in 1777. Biden condemned the Republican frontrunner for his 'lies' and for making his White House campaign about 'himself' in the remarks marking the third anniversary of the Capitol Riot. At his first public event since a Caribbean vacation, Biden said 'democracy is...

President Biden is heading into 2024 with a large coalition of voters leaving him behind, a poll released Monday shows. The USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll indicates the president is trailing former President Donald Trump 37% to 39% due to his inability to hold down the coalition of voters that propelled him to victory in 2020. The 81-year-old incumbent is hemorrhaging support from black voters, young voters and Hispanic voters. Among black voters, Biden’s support has declined to 63%, down from 87% in 2020. He still leads Trump’s 12% support by a yawning margin. Voters under 35 and Hispanic voters have...

The Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider has called for the public execution of President Joe Biden, saying the commander in chief should to be “publicly hung” for treason. The actor also called for Hunter Biden to be executed. John Schneider posted the X message in reply to Biden’s recent post in which he called former President Donald Trump a “threat” to democracy.