Thursday, July 11, 2024

*I* haven’t seen such polling

1 min ago
National reporter covering campaigns and breaking politics news.

President Biden said polling in the presidential race is “premature because the campaign really hasn’t even started. I mean, hadn’t started in earnest yet most of the time at, start till after September, after Labor Day.”

2 min ago
National politics reporter

Asked if he would reconsider his decision to stay in the race if his team presented him with data that showed Vice President Harris would fare better against Donald Trump, President Biden said, flatly, that he would not.

“Unless they came back and said, there’s no way you can win,” he added, before whispering: “No poll says that.”

2 min ago
National political reporter covering campaigns, Congress and the White House

Biden just set the standard his Democratic opponents have to meet to get him out of the race: They need to show him data that he can’t win it.