Biden tells governors he’ll stop hosting events after 8pm as Trump mocks him: live

Disney heiress Abigail Disneyhas threatened to stop all donations to the Democratic Party unless Preside Joe Biden is replaced as its candidate to face Donald Trump this November.

Vice President Kamala Harris introduced Joe Biden to a crowd outside a Fourth of July concert hosted by the White House.

She called him an “extraordinary” president.

“We gotta do what our founders did. We’re a nation of dignity, honor and devotion to one another,” Biden said in extremely brief remarks.

“Folks, it’s all about democracy. It’s all about freedom. It’s all about who we are.”

He walked off stage telling the crowd to “enjoy the fireworks” as they chanted “four more years.”

As President Biden gave remarks outside the White House for a Fourth of July event on Thursday night, a supporter called out “keep up the fight” and “we need you.”

“You got me man,” he replied. “I’m not going anywhere.”

During a brief speech to military families outside the White House on Thursday, President Biden spoke up for democracy at home and broad, referencing his recent visit to Normandy to commemorate the D-Day anniversary.

At one point, he took a dig at Trump: “I was in a World War I cemetery in France, and ... the former president, didn’t want to go and be up there — which I probably shouldn’t have said.”

“Anyway,” he continued. “We gotta just remember who the hell we are. We’re the United States of America.”

In scripted remarks outside the White House for a Fourth of July event for military families on Thursday night, the president said: “We must look at ourselves and ask the question, will we stand for freedom again? Will we stand for democracy? Will we stand together as Americans?”

“I believe we will, and we can,” he added.

The aftermath of Biden’s debate performance has been an apparently welcome diversion for Donald Trump and his campaign, keeping media attention away from his own streak of unintelligible public statements, questions about his mental fitness, and an off-the-rails agenda that just a few days ago called for “televised military tribunals” for a former congresswoman.

He’s kept a relatively low profile, for him, and appears content to let his Democratic rivals duke out their political future.

Now, Biden is hoping to use the Fourth of July holiday to turn the conversation around:

With pressure mounting for President Joe Biden to stand aside after his troubling debate performance against Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged as a surprisingly strong potential challenger to the ex-president.

Harris — the first woman, the first African-American and the first person of Asian descent to serve in the nation’s second-highest office — has been dogged by dismal approval ratings and a policy portfolio that has seen her take on politically tricky issues, like the root causes of an immigration crisis that’s brought hundreds of thousands to the US in recent years.

But she has also spent the last three years building a profile on the world stage, most recently at last month’s Ukraine peace talks in Switzerland. She’s also become the administration’s most prominent messenger on reproductive freedom in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, which marked the end of a half-century-old federal right to an abortion. Harris’ “reproductive freedom tour” has taken her to events across the country where she has barnstormed events packed with female and minority voters.

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The aftermath of Biden’s debate performance has been an apparently welcome diversion for Donald Trump and his campaign, keeping media attention away from his own streak of unintelligible public statements, questions about his mental fitness, and an off-the-rails agenda that just a few days ago called for “televised military tribunals” for a former congresswoman.

He’s kept a relatively low profile, for him, and appears content to let his Democratic rivals duke out their political future.

Now, Biden is hoping to use the Fourth of July to turn the conversation around: