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Dem congresswoman to force vote on censure of GOP colleague for conflating Hamas, Palestinian civilians
Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., moved on Monday to force a vote on a resolution to censure Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., over his “incredibly dangerous and dehumanizing” comments conflating Palestinian civilians in Gaza with Hamas terrorists.
Jacobs filed her censure measure as a privileged resolution Monday, forcing House leadership to either bring the resolution to the floor for a vote or to table the resolution within two legislative days.
“Innocent civilians shouldn’t be punished for the actions of their governments – and they’re certainly not responsible for the actions of terrorists. That applies to Palestinians in Gaza and civilians around the world,” Jacobs said in a statement. “Rep. Brian Mast’s comments are incredibly dangerous and dehumanizing as we continue to push for humanitarian aid to reach Palestinians in harm’s way in Gaza and as Islamophobic hate crimes rise.”
In moving to file her privileged resolution, Jacobs said on the House floor that Mast had been “conflating innocent Palestinian civilians with Hamas,” citing several statements from Mast in which she says the Florida Republican has failed to differentiate Palestinian civilians from Hamas in the wake of the terror group’s attack against Israel.
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Mast “has repeatedly made inflammatory statements regarding innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza who are in harm’s way through no fault of their own as a result of horrific terrorist attacks conducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023,” Jacobs said in her resolution’s introduction.
Jacobs also said Mast’s “refusal to distinguish innocent Palestinians from Hamas terrorists is false, misleading, dehumanizing, dangerous and unbecoming of a member of Congress.”
More than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza and Israel since Hamas launched its largest attack against Israel in decades on Oct. 7, prompting military response from Israeli forces. Thousands more have been wounded, and many others have been taken hostage by Hamas and raped, tortured and murdered.
Mast, a staunch supporter of Israel who previously wore his Israeli military uniform at the Capitol last month following Hamas’ attack, said in a House floor speech last week that “there are very few innocent Palestinian citizens,” according to a statement Jacobs cited in her resolution. The Republican congressman previously served as a volunteer with the Israel Defense Forces.
“I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of innocent Palestinian civilians, as frequently said,” Mast said at the time. “I don’t think we would so lightly throw around the term ‘innocent Nazi civilians’ during World War II.”
Jacobs’ effort to censure Mast comes as Georgia Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rich McCormick filed competing privileged resolutions to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., over her numerous comments criticizing Israel since the war began. This is Greene’s second effort to censure Tlaib after a vote on her initial resolution failed last week on the House floor.
Jacobs claimed in her resolution that Mast’s comments come as incidents of Islamophobia are on the rise in the U.S.
“The United States stands for the rule of law both here at home and abroad — and these comments denigrate those values and cause real, tangible harm,” she said in her statement. “That’s why I moved to censure Rep. Brian Mast to condemn this rhetoric and ensure this hate, fear, and violence stops here.”
When speaking to reporters on Monday, Mast described the attempt to censure him as “idiotic” and defended his comments on the House floor comparing Palestinian civilians to Nazis.
“I would challenge anybody [to] find me a better single word that you could use to describe the Palestinian relationship to Jews than Nazi,” Mast said. “I would say Nazi is the singular word that you could use to describe how they feel about Jews.”
“I think anybody that says it’s just Hamas is lying. And they know they’re lying,” he added.
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The Memo: Democratic divisions rise amid grim Biden polls
Democratic divisions over President Biden are bursting out into the open amid rising panic about his reelection chances.
The most recent catalyst for anxiety was a series of battleground state polls from The New York Times and Siena College, published Sunday to mark one year before Election Day.
The polls showed Biden losing five of the six states polled — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania — in a hypothetical rematch with former President Trump. Biden prevailed in only Wisconsin, and by just 2 percentage points.
The president won all six states in 2020.
A CBS News/YouGov poll released on the same day showed Biden losing nationwide to Trump by 3 percentage points.
At this point, bad polls for the president are no surprise. His approval rating hovers around 40 percent in most surveys.
James Carville, the Democratic strategist who was a pivotal figure in President Clinton’s 1992 win, had a straightforward explanation.
“People think he’s too old. It’s pretty clear. There’s not a mystery here,” Carville told this column.
On Sunday, David Axelrod, who guided President Obama’s rise to the White House, ignited an instant furor by suggesting that Biden should stand aside.
“It’s very late to change horses … [but] this will send tremors of doubt thru the party,” Axelrod wrote on social media, referring to the New York Times poll.
Axelrod added that, while Biden will be the Democratic nominee if he wants to be, “what he needs to decide is whether that is wise; whether it’s in HIS best interest or the country’s.”
A respected, mainstream voice calling for an incumbent president to cede the stage was inherently big news.
It also drew pushback from Biden loyalists, including former White House chief of staff Ron Klain who posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that Axelrod had referred to Biden as “Mr. Magoo” during the 2020 primary cycle and was “still at it.”
Symone Sanders, who worked as a senior adviser to Biden in 2020, described Axelrod as a “detractor of the 2020 Biden campaign” and said he was being “disingenuous” during an appearance on NBC News Now’s “Meet the Press Now” on Monday.
The back-and-forth is more evidence of the tensions that have long simmered between the Biden and Obama camps.
In 2008, then-candidate Obama chose Biden as his running mate more as a reassuring figure than an inspiring one, and his aides would roll their eyes when Biden’s verbosity caused campaign trail kerfuffles.
Later, Obama and his aides were widely reported to have pressed Biden not to run for the presidency in 2016, clearing the way for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Even in the early days of the 2020 primary campaign, Obama associates were not exactly climbing eagerly onto the Biden bandwagon.
Biden’s loyalists, in turn, continue to bristle at what they deem to be a lack of the respect toward their boss.
The pushback on Axelrod’s remarks from the Biden campaign noted that Obama’s poll ratings were poor at the equivalent point of his first term, yet he won reelection handily.
Beyond all the squabbling, however, there are hard facts staring Democrats in the face.
Biden scores poorly on a range of issues, from inflation to immigration. Efforts to turn around public perception of his economic record have not been successful so far. And, above all, there is the age issue.
Biden will turn 81 later this month. He is the oldest president in history.
The New York Times poll found 71 percent of registered voters in the battleground states believe Biden is “just too old” to be an effective president. This included 74 percent of independents, 51 percent of Democrats and 54 percent of people who said they voted for Biden in 2020.
As Carville among others noted, those findings are in line with several other polls.
Asked what he thought of Axelrod’s suggestion that Biden should consider standing aside, Carville responded, “David’s observation is like, ‘water is wet.’”
Carville said he himself was “as worried as you can be” about next year’s election given the possibility of Trump returning to power.
“Right now, the chances are decent that we return a criminal and a buffoon to the Oval Office,” he said.
Trump is facing four separate criminal indictments encompassing 91 charges but protests his innocence in all of them.
Andrew Yang, the businessman who ran a long-shot campaign for the Democratic nomination in 2020 but later left the party, wrote on social media Sunday evening that Biden would be seen as an “accomplished statesman” if he stepped aside. But, Yang added, a quest for reelection “may go down as one of the great overreaches of all time that delivers us to a disastrous Trump second term.”
Biden can take comfort, of a kind, from the fact that barely any elected officials — with the exception of Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), who recently launched a quixotic primary challenge against him — are calling for the president to retire after one term.
“So if the nominee isn’t Joe Biden, who’s it going to be?” Dick Harpootlian, a Democratic South Carolina state senator, shot back when Axelrod’s comments were put to him.
“Politics is the art of reality,” added Harpootlian, who sits on the finance committee for Biden’s reelection campaign. “Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee because he is an incumbent president with no serious opposition.”
Harpootlian acknowledged that Biden has “some pluses and some minuses” but contended that the president will, in the end, “do exactly what he did in 2020. It may not be a landslide but he will win because: Trump? People just want him to go away.”
To be sure, the former president has political burdens in addition to his legal woes.
The stench from the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, still lingers on him. He lost the popular vote in both 2016 and 2020, and he was widely blamed for a disappointing GOP performance in last year’s midterms. His favorability ratings are roughly as bad as Biden’s.
The New York Times poll indicated 56 percent of registered voters in the battleground states view Trump unfavorably compared with 42 precent who view him favorably.
And yet, none of it seems to be disqualifying.
In the CBS News poll, when respondents were asked whether a second term for Biden or Trump would make them personally better off, Trump scored vastly better. Forty-five percent of respondents said a second Trump term would make them better off, while only 18 percent said the same about Biden.
That’s one reason why some Democrats are so worried — and so unconvinced by colleagues who take heart from their belief Trump is unelectable.
“Every ‘smart’ person says it is going to be Biden and Trump, and at the end of the day voters will say, ‘You can’t go back to Trump.’” Carville said.
“I’m glad people are so certain,” he added drily. “But I don’t share that certainty.”
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Internal debates in Biden world over whether to go harder at Trump
In late August, Joe Biden’s reelection campaign announced a massive ad buy to run on television and online in key battleground states.
The spots focused on everything from the president’s roots in Scranton, Pa., to his bipartisan achievements in office. The one subject rarely mentioned is former President Donald Trump.
All told, Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee spent roughly $7 million on positive TV ads this year, according to the ad tracking firm AdImpact, along with less than $100,000 on contrast ads that name Trump. Those numbers did not capture all ads, including digital and Spanish-language ones that attack Trump or Republicans in general. But the larger trend was indisputable.
The president’s team made a calculation earlier this year to prioritize bolstering Biden’s image versus attacking Trump’s in paid advertising, according to White House aides, a number of Democratic strategists and a top Biden campaign donor. Among the reasons: They figured the ex-president’s GOP primary rivals would do much of the work of roughing him up for them.
That bet has so far not paid off. Trump has largely skated through the primary without being attacked by his opponents. And Biden’s numbers have not budged.
Recently, some on the president’s team have begun revisiting the strategy. Several prominent Democrats close to the campaign, granted anonymity to speak more freely about internal operations, said discussions are taking place among Biden brass about how much to prioritize positive campaigning over negative. And allies are calling directly for a more aggressive approach.
“This is not a regular election,” said Rev. Al Sharpton, an MSNBC host who is close to officials in Biden’s orbit. “This is not just about a candidate’s record. It is about a former president who has four criminal indictments and a civil case against him who has said he would terminate the Constitution. This is about what is acceptable to our norms, this is about protecting our democracy itself. It has to be made clear what a threat Trump poses.”
Sharpton said he shared that sentiment with Biden’s team and the DNC.
Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said that there has been no shift in their advertising plans: “There is no change in strategy.” He added that “if folks are confused” about their approach, they should read a recent memo released by their team.
Biden campaign officials added that their advertising roadmap has always been to start by reintroducing the president to voters, touting his accomplishments, and laying the groundwork to turn their firepower on the GOP nominee next year. They stressed that they have attacked Trump in other arenas, such as through earned media and surrogate operations.
“We still believe in the strategy of highlighting the president’s accomplishments,” said a Biden campaign official.
The campaign officials said that their approach allows them to test their ads to see which are the most effective, experiment to determine the best platforms, and fine-tune their paid messages. And they said that the GOP primary is demonstrating that Trump and other Republican candidates are extreme and support unpopular positions.
Concerns about the Biden campaign’s approach escalated this week among Democrats after a series of polls showed Biden trailing Trump in critical battleground states. Former Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod questioned whether the president is the right person to head the ticket at all. Others said the campaign needs to focus on contrasting Biden with Trump.
But the idea of making the election more about Biden’s predecessor than Biden himself remains hotly debated. One national Democratic strategist close to the campaign said it’s imperative that the campaign do everything in its power to make voters aware of what Biden’s done in office.
“It’d be a big mistake to not lay that out because awareness of his accomplishments are low, but [their] popularity is high,” the person said. “I think what you have to do is find the right mix of positive and negative ads.”
Still, concerns are mounting among major donors and Democrats close to the White House, chiefly around Biden’s monthslong struggle to sell his economic record. One donor said the campaign erred in calculating that once voters understood the president’s accomplishments, his approval ratings would go up
“Well, we spent all this time trying to explain all the good things he did, the bipartisan stuff he did, and it hasn’t boosted his numbers. So maybe we ought to go to plan B at this point,” the person said, adding, “I know a lot of people are pissed” because the campaign hasn’t hit Trump harder.
In particular, Democrats are torn over the administration’s decision to brand the economic recovery as a result of “Bidenomics.” Officials have yet to figure out a way to allay Americans’ frustration over rising prices, even after months of evidence that inflation has cooled. And there is growing fear that the sales job may never work.
“I can never remember people being unhappy in any economy where they can get a job,” said Jeffrey Gural, a real estate developer and longtime Democratic donor. “I think the problem Biden has is there’s so much noise out there criticizing him.”
Officials in the Biden administration and on the campaign have largely dismissed the angst over Biden’s economic numbers, arguing that it’s still early in the 2024 cycle and most voters are not yet paying close attention to the presidential race. Some aides believe that once voters start listening to Trump again, they will be turned off by his incendiary rhetoric and vows of vengeance against rivals.
They also contend that the polling is misleading, citing economic measures like strong consumer spending that indicate people are confident about their own financial situation, and that Biden’s standing will improve as voters begin to weigh his policies versus Trump’s.
“First of all, I don’t think the house is on fire,” said Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.). “His thing is to continue to sell and to push his programs, the public policies that he wants. He needs to be more assertive with the Republican majority here in the House that are essentially Trump’s mouthpiece on public policy. I think that’s an area in which he can be stronger.”
But some Democrats are concerned the campaign’s current setup is not helping the president. In particular, there is simmering frustration over a perceived dearth of outside surrogates in the economic and business community that can be called on to promote Biden’s accomplishments.
“Right now, it doesn’t really have the surrogate base developed that’s needed,” said Ben Harris, a former senior Treasury Department official who helped shape Biden’s economic agenda. “The way I’ve put it is, Biden is brilliant at governing — and terrible at bragging about it.”
The White House disputed the criticism of its surrogate operation, with an official saying it’s deployed surrogates on more than 300 occasions to do over 1,000 economic interviews since July, though that figure includes both administration officials and outside supporters. The official also said top economic aides stay in regular touch with prominent economists, and that the administration frequently distributes talking points and has worked with outside groups like the progressive think tank Groundwork Collaborative.
For its part, the Biden campaign said it’s relied heavily on the 50 Democratic officials who make up its “national advisory board” to help reinforce its viewpoint in the media, highlighting recent television appearances by board members like Sen. Chris Coons, Rep. Jim Clyburn and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Biden aides concede that very little news has broken through in the last month when the headlines have been dominated by the Israel-Hamas war, though some contend that a loss of support from Muslim Americans may be offset by increased backing from Jewish voters in places like the Philadelphia and Detroit suburbs.
There have also been hints that Biden and his team are starting to recalibrate around that early internal campaign debate and shifting their focus more to Trump.
The campaign linked Trump to the chaos among House Republicans as they sought to elect a new speaker. And those tasked with securing the president a second term believe that Trump’s legal challenges, litany of scandals and MAGA positions — especially on abortion — will alienate swing voters. They’re confident the media’s focus on those legal problems will only accelerate in the months ahead, as court dates approach and especially if a possible conviction looms.
Democrats not working on the campaign but concerned about its status say a more aggressive push on this front would be welcomed.
“They need to frame the race as a choice, not as a referendum,” said Axelrod.
Steve Shepard, Shia Kapos and Nicholas Wu contributed to this report.
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House Judiciary investigators to question Special Counsel David Weiss on Hunter Biden probe
House Judiciary Committee investigators are set to question Special Counsel David Weiss Tuesday morning amid whistleblower allegations that politics influenced or hampered prosecutorial decisions in his years-long investigation into Hunter Biden.
Weiss, who has been leading the investigation into the president’s son since 2018, back when he served as U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware, will voluntarily testify behind closed doors at the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday morning at 10:00 a.m.
His interview comes after a number of current and former Justice Department officials related to the Hunter Biden probe have testified behind closed-doors at the committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on the matter.
IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler alleged that politics impacted prosecutorial decisions throughout the probe with regard to search warrants, decisions regarding lines of questioning during interviews of specific individuals, and more. Shapley also alleged that Weiss did not have “ultimate authority” to pursue charges against the president’s son, and instead needed approval from Main Justice in Washington–something DOJ officials have confirmed in their voluntary transcribed interviews before the committee.
Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ Tax Division Stuart Goldberg participated in a transcribed interview before the House Judiciary Committee last month. Fox News Digital reviewed a copy of the transcript of Goldberg’s interview, in which he said Weiss needed approval from his unit at the Justice Department before bringing charges in the Hunter Biden probe.
Shapley also alleged that Weiss was considering bringing charges against Hunter Biden in California but said the U.S. attorney there chose not to partner with him for prosecution. The charges were never filed.
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Martin Estrada, the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, told the House Judiciary Committee during his transcribed interview last month that he did, in fact, decline to partner with Weiss in bringing charges against Hunter Biden in his district.
Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped Weiss in August to serve as special counsel with jurisdiction over the Biden investigation and any other issues that have come up, or may come up, related to that probe.
Weiss has been leading the Biden investigation since 2018.
In his first move as special counsel, Weiss charged Biden with making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm; making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federal firearms licensed dealer; and one count of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.
The president’s son pleaded not guilty to all charges last month.
Weiss has said the investigation into the president’s son is ongoing.
Weiss’ interview comes amid House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry against President Biden. The impeachment inquiry is being led by Jordan, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo.
“Special Counsel Weiss is appearing voluntarily to testify before the House Judiciary Committee about the scope of his authority,” Weiss spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle told Fox News. “Mr. Weiss is prepared to take this unprecedented step of testifying before the conclusion of his investigation to make clear that he’s had and continues to have full authority over his investigation and to bring charges in any jurisdiction.”
“Consistent with department policy and the law, he will be unable to address the specifics of his investigation,” Hornbuckle said. “At the close of this matter, Special Counsel Weiss will prepare a report, which the Attorney General has committed to making public to the greatest extent possible, consistent with the law, department policy and the public interest.”
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Support for Biden crumbling as unfavorable poll numbers continue to roll in
Devastating new polls that grabbed outsized attention this weekend appear to be fueling fear among some Democrats over President Biden’s ability to win re-election next year.
That has led some top political pundits to ring the alarm bell as they urge the 80-year-old president to drop out of the 2024 race and pass the baton to a new generation.
The poll grabbing the most headlines — a survey from Siena College and the New York Times — indicated former President Trump edging Biden in hypothetical matchups in five of the six crucial battleground states that Biden narrowly carried in 2020 on his way to capturing the White House.
“This will send tremors of doubt thru the party — not ‘bed-wetting,’ but legitimate concern,” veteran Democratic strategist David Axelrod wrote on X as he pointed to the poll.
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Axelrod, the top political adviser to then-President Obama, who in recent years has made headlines with high-profile critiques of Biden, wrote, “Only @JoeBiden can make this decision. If he continues to run, he will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. What he needs to decide is whether that is wise; whether it’s in HIS best interest or the country’s?”
The survey suggests Biden losing support among Black and Hispanic voters, as well as younger voters who have long been key parts of the Democratic Party’s base of support.
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Additionally, while the survey indicates Biden losing to Trump, it also suggests that an unnamed generic Democratic nominee tops Trump by eight points in the 2024 presidential election.
The Siena College/New York Times survey did not live in a vacuum. A CBS News poll also released over the weekend pointed to Trump edging Biden in a likely 2024 showdown.
People supporting the president in the survey said they are nervous and frustrated by the prospect of a Biden-Trump rematch.
Trump is the commanding frontrunner in the race for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination as he makes his third straight White House run. He saw his lead expand over his numerous rivals during the spring and summer as he made history as the first former or current president in American history to be indicted for a crime. Trump’s four indictments — including in federal court in Washington, D.C., and in Fulton County court in Georgia on charges he tried to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss — have only fueled his support among Republican voters.
The CBS News poll also reiterates what plenty of other surveys this year have spotlighted — that a majority of Americans do not want to see a Biden-Trump rematch.
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The president’s re-election campaign took aim at the latest surveys, pointing to the Democrats’ poll-defying success in last year’s midterms and to Obama’s 2012 re-election despite polls a year earlier predicting defeat for the incumbent.
“Predictions more than a year out tend to look a little different a year later,” Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said.
“Don’t take our word for it: Gallup predicted an eight point loss for President Obama only for him to win handedly a year later,” Munoz added. “Or a year out from the 2022 midterms when every major outlet similarly predicted a grim forecast for President Biden.”
Axelrod is not the only well-known Democratic strategist hitting the panic button.
Longtime Democratic consultant James Carville — who helped boost former President Clinton to the White House in 1992 — has been warning for a couple of months that Biden could lose to Trump next year.
“Somebody better wake the f‑‑‑ up,” Carville emphasized earlier this autumn in a podcast with well-known political commentator and host Bill Maher
Carville also claimed in a recent interview with The Atlantic that “leading Democrats” have been telling him to keep quiet about Biden’s 2024 prospect.
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A veteran Democratic strategist, who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely, acknowledged that the latest polling was “devastating” for the president and told Fox News that it would likely “raise more questions” about Biden’s durability and a possible 2024 alternative.
It is not just Democrats urging Biden to bow out.
Bill Kristol, the longtime conservative writer and commentator and a top “never-Trumper,” argued on social media that “President Biden has served our country well. I’m confident he’ll do so for the next year. But it’s time for an act of personal sacrifice and public spirit. It’s time to pass the torch to the next generation. It’s time for Biden to announce he won’t run in 2024.”
The president is currently facing long shot primary challenges from a pair of Democratic rivals.
Three-term Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who launched a primary challenge against the president a week and a half ago, has been arguing that Biden cannot beat Trump in 2024. The new polls gave Phillips plenty of fresh ammunition.
“I’m saying the quiet part out loud. Biden/Harris isn’t viable against Trump,” he said in a social media post.
“I could offer no statement more powerful than the one made by suffering Americans in today’s NY Times poll,” Phillips added. “That’s why Trump beats Biden 48-44 in the battleground states, while a ‘generic’ Democrat beats Trump 48-40.”
Both Phillips and bestselling author and spiritual adviser Marianne Williamson, who is making her second straight White House run, face steep uphill climbs to defeat Biden for the Democratic nomination.
However, with poll after poll indicating Biden faces rising concerns from Democrats over his age and that many Americans, including plenty of Democrats, do not want the president to seek a second term in the White House, the question going forward is whether party leaders will begin pressuring the president to reconsider his re-election bid.
Then, there is the constant speculation that well-known Democrats who may seek the White House in 2028 could jump into the 2024 race should Biden hang up his re-election campaign, even with Vice President Kamala Harris as the logical next-in-line.
A growing number of stories in recent months characterize high-profile trips and moves by Govs. Gavin Newsom of California, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, and Rep. Ro Khanna of California as potential shadow campaigns should Biden bow out.
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