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
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
evening. tonight, president biden is reportedly fuming over the deluge of democrats calling on him to exit the race. is he any closer to passing the torch? also tonight, promises made, promises kept. trump says he wants unity, so why didn t his rnc deliver any of it. strike while the country is fixated on presidential politics it s been one of the deadliest weeks in gaza despite claims by israel that the war is winding down. this week was supposed to be a bounce back week for joe biden s presidential campaign. that is not how things are playing out. now sick with covid at his delaware beach house, the president is seeing more and more democratic lawmakers calling for him to exit the race. at this hour, there are 36 democrats defecting, including senators and tough re-election races such as in ohio and montana. prior to his covid diagnosis, president biden tried to turn the tide with more tv interviews , but they have actually only raised more concerns and questions. how cou