US elections

With the Democrats worried that Joe Biden’s campaign troubles could ruin their chances of winning the November 5 election, Biden insists he will stay on, but many want him to step down. So who could replace him?

All eyes will be on Joe Biden this evening – not so much the substance of what he says but how he says it and how he appears, at a press conference at the end of the Nato summit. 

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is at the table with Nato leaders at their summit in Washington DC this evening.

As Keir Starmer meets an embattled President Biden at the NATO summit, Krishnan Guru-Murthy discusses the decline of the West and the ascent of President Trump with some of the new intake of MPs.

Even one of his biggest Hollywood backers has penned an article saying Biden is not the man he used to be. 

Earlier today Democrats met for the first time to discuss the ‘Biden crisis’ since the debate in Atlanta. 

Tomorrow both Sir Keir Starmer and President Macron of France will travel to Washington for a Nato summit, where there is still uncertainty about who will be the Democratic Party candidate for president.

The president has rejected calls for him to drop out of the US presidential race.

We spoke to John Scardino, from Democrats Abroad, the official Democratic Party arm for the millions of Americans living outside the United States.

As millions of Americans celebrate their Independence Day, Joe Biden is battling for his political future.

In the coming days, what everyone in US politics is watching for is how Biden polls against Trump, specifically in the battleground swing states that decide presidential elections.

“Absolutely not!” That was the emphatic answer from Joe Biden’s press secretary in the White House in the last hour, when asked if the president is considering stepping aside as the Democratic candidate.

We spoke to the historian Professor Allan Lichtman, whose 1981 book, The Keys to the White House, attempted to create a system to predict presidential election winners.

We spoke to the American pollster and political consultant Frank Luntz.

‘I know what millions of Americans know, when you get down, you get back up’ – President Biden told supporters last night, amid growing calls for him to stand aside.