interest, excuse me, my party and the country for me to stand down. moments after releasing that statement, mr. biden announced that he is endorsing vice president kamala harris to replace him, saying in the post that he is offering his full support of the current vice president. something local democratic politicians are, of course, endorsing. i fully support kamala harris. in fact, she has been trained by the best, joe biden was a vice president himself, so she probably had the best mentor to work under. the president said he will address the nation later this week. right now he is at his home in delaware after he tested positive for covid last wednesday. former president bill clinton and former secretary of state hillary clinton also endorsing vice president harris for president. in a joint statement, the clintons praise biden for his political compliments and for, quote, standing up for america time and again. but they go on to say they are honored to endorse harr
week after the attempt on his life at another rally. and president biden promises he will return to the campaign trail even as pressure mounts within his own party for him to step aside. congresswoman jennifer mcclellan is here to discuss what happens next. jd who? why the republican vice president nominee might be more radical than trump. and read the find print. what project 2025 could mean for americans. michael harriet read all 900 pages and delivers his findings. i m jonathan capehart and this is the saturday show. at this hour we are watching two major stories unfold. within the last hour, donald trump started speaking at a rally in grand rapids michigan the critical battleground state of michigan. his first campaign rally since he was wounded in an assassination attempt exactly one week ago tonight. and his first since accepting the republican party s nomination on thursday. here s what he had to say about both of those moments. let me begin this evening with
tonight, more democrats: president biden to step aside but he says he is not going anywhere. we will get to the latest inside the campaign. later trump officially accept his party s nomination but what happened to the unity theme his campaign promise? the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night . good evening once again. i am in for stephanie ruhle. we are 109 ways away from the election and the presumptive nominee is facing mounting pressure to drop his re- election bid at least 30 members of congress and four senators have now called on president biden to step aside the latest senator sherrod brown facing a tough re- election of his own in ohio present biden insists he is staying in the race but chris acknowledged this earlier today. i think our president is when what he should way. who is the best candidate to win in november and carry forward the democratic party s values and parties in the campaign. biotin is in denver as he recovers from covid-19 symptoms. ke
we are coming up on 9:00 local time in milwaukee, which will mark the start of the final hour of the first night of the republican national convention. you see the crowd going wild paris have a lot of images of donald trump onscreen over the course of the day but this is donald trump at the arena of first view we have had of him with a bandage on his ear after the assassination attempt on saturday, which injured him. it is good to see he is well and able to be participating in things unaided. we did see a shot of him coming down the stairs from his airplane, when he left pennsylvania and went back to new jersey after the shooting the first time we have seen him sense and the first time we have seen the bandage on his ear. i don t think we are expecting to hear anything from donald trump tonight but he is at the venue and you are hearing the crowd in milwaukee react to that fact the final hour of the night of the convention is typically where we see the largest speakers of the
will the real jd vance please stand up? what we are being sold about the author turned senator who is now running with trump. plus, it does not take trump running to implement project 2025. in some states, portions of the authoritarian playbook are already out for a test drive. top republicans trying to make the rnc inclusive if only the top base had an appetite for that. when donald trump won the 2016 election, many democrats and media figures are trying to understand how he was able to connect with white, rural voters and they found jd vance, whose memoir, hillbilly elegy , chronicling his hillbilly upbringing as the source. he became a translator of sorts explaining the plight of rural voters to blue america. their communities have been struggling in a lot of different ways for 20 or 30 years and nobody has really cared and trump is the first person to at least see these communities even if you think, as i do, that he does not have all the solutions. has became a