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President Joe Biden is visiting DC’s Emergency Operations Center on Tuesday to talk about extreme weather – a topic that comes as he faces his own political storm.

Clouds are rolling over Biden as he’s under pressure to exit the presidential race after his disastrous debate last week.

He is standing firm but also hasn’t addressed the issue. He spent the weekend at Camp David with his family.

When he returned to the White House on Monday he spoke for less than five minutes on the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity but did not take any questions from the press.

A post-debate poll released by CNN Tuesday afternoon shows former President Donald Trump up six points ahead of President Joe Biden.

The poll also gives an interesting insight into how Trump may matchup against other Democrat candidates should Biden bow out of the race.

• Trump 49 percent – Biden 43 percent
• Trump 47 percent – Vice President Kamala Harris 45 percent
• Trump 48 percent – California Gov. Gavin Newsom 43 percent
• Trump 47 percent – Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg 43 percent
• Trump 47 percent – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer 42 percent

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced additional funding for Ukraine’s war with Russia during a meeting with Ukraine’s Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.

Austin’s pledge came during a meeting between the two at the Pentagon Tuesday.

The money will be used on anti-tank weapons, air defense systems, interceptors and other munitions.

The aid will come from President Joe Biden’s drawdown authority, which allows the commander-in-chief to pull resources from US military stockpiles.

The U.S. has so far committed over $53 billion to the war in Ukraine.

President Joe Biden will meet with Democratic governors at the White House on Wednesday to reassure them after his terrible debate performance.

Some will attend in person, while others will attend virtually, CBS News reported.

Several governors held a conference call on Monday to discuss the situation. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz organized the call, CNN reported.

Talk continues about replacing Biden as the Democratic nominee.

It’s unclear if some of the Democratic governors considered potential presidential replacements – Gavin Newsom of California; Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan or J.B. Pritzker of Illinois – will be at the meeting.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was disbarred in that state after an appeals court found that he lied when arguing that former President Donald Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 race.

In a decision released Tuesday, the court found that Giuliani ‘baselessly attacked and undermined the integrity of this country’s electoral process.’

Giuliani was serving as one of Trump’s personal attorneys.

The former mayor also ‘actively contributed to the national strife that has followed the 2020 presidential election, for which he is entirely unrepentant,’ the ruling said.

His law license was already suspended in New York and in Washington, D.C.

Liberal Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski audibly sighed when a guest panelist floated Vice President Kamala Harris step in for Joe Biden as presidential candidate in 2024.

Sam Stein, Deputy Managing Editor for Politics at Politico, said Tuesday that Harris might be a good middle ground amid calls for Biden to step aside after his disasterous debate performance against Donald Trump.

Brzezinski was visibly annoyed with the suggestion:

Exactly then, what happens? Do we go with someone completely untested? Completely inexperienced because they seem cool? Because they’re younger? Because they have less experience? Like, what does that look like?

Well, there is sort of a semi-middle ground here, right? Kamala Harris. She’s been vetted. She’s the vice president. She would inherit the campaign infrastructure. She’d inherit the money, whereas anyone else in this hypothetical universe could not. She would be the logical person to take on the mantle. On top of that, she has some experience debating Republicans at this level, including making the case against Donald Trump, right? That would be the logical extension here. I agree with you, the other ones, they’re untested.

Brzezinski exhaled loudly and Stein noted:

Former President Donald Trump’s July 11 sentencing after 34-count conviction in Manhattan will be delayed.

The Manhattan DA’s office just said it will not oppose delaying his sentencing date.

It’s a move that makes his sentencing likely to be pushed back by at least two weeks.

Trump’s attorney on Monday sent a letter asking to set aside his conviction and delay his sentencing.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump is in no rush to reveal his vice presidential pick after a dominating debate win last week because there is no need to shift the narrative away from a news cycle very critical of President Joe Biden.

Senior campaign adviser Chris LaCivita said in response to a NBC News report on the former president slowing down his timeline for announcing who will join him on the 2024 ticket:

This is what you do when the prediction of a VP being picked last week …doesnt happen

President Joe Biden terrible debate performance has altered Trump’s unveiling of his No. 2 amid a flurry of speculation over who he will pick.

Donald Trump has taken a three-point lead over Joe Biden in the latest presidential poll.

The USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll shows the former president beating the current president 41 percent to 38 percent.

The previous survey from the pollsters in May showed the candidates tied at 37 percent.

Vice President Kamala Harris has changed her schedule for the week so she can have lunch with President Joe Biden and cozy up to him at this week’s Fourth of July festivities.

The move comes as talking of removing Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee continues as part of the fallout from his disasterous debate with Donald Trump.

Harris and Biden will have lunch together at the White House on Wednesday, as they occassionally do.

Then she and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will join both President Biden and first lady Jill Biden at the White House on Thursday evening a Fourth of July celebration for military and veteran families, caregivers, and survivors.

Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) penned an op/ed Monday insisting Vice President Kamala Harris should step in as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.

The failed 2020 presidential candidate wrote on X: ‘We have to rip the band aid off! Too much is at stake. VP⁩ has significantly grown into her job, she will destroy Trump in debate.’

It comes after President Joe Biden’s car crash debate performance and a chorus of calls for the incumbent to step aside ahead of the nominating convention in August.

Ryan, who lost his seat to Republican Sen. J.D. Vance in 2022 midterms, wrote in his Newsweek op/ed:

I ran for President in 2020. I was the first Presidential candidate to endorse Joe Biden in 2020. I love America. I love our Party. I love Joe Biden.

The Democratic Nominee in 2024 should be Kamala Harris.

The House Oversight Committee wants to know how many tax-payer funded federal government employees are still working from home years after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Many federal offices remain empty more than four years after the onset of the coronavirus crisis and there is nearly no structure for work schedules and no plans for the entire workforce to come back to the office.

Oversight Chairman James Comer told DailyMail.com:

Biden’s main objective with the federal workforce, in my opinion is to to keep them happy at all costs so they’ll go vote for him.

It’s all crap. Every caseworker here whether they’re Democrat or Republican, every office we have caseworkers, they will all tell you it is impossible to get someone on the phone now in any governance, push Social Security, whether it’s the VA you know, trying to get passport, it doesn’t matter.

Comer says the Biden administration is refusing to hand over figures on what percentages of the federal workforce are teleworking and who is coming to the office.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

President Richard Nixon wouldn’t have resigned if Monday’s Supreme Court ruling were in place when Watergate happened, claims former White House Counsel John Dean.

The Supreme Court ruled along the 6-3, liberal-conservative lines that presidents have ‘absolute’ immunity for clearly official acts – although they did say there is no immunity for unofficial acts.

The case was brought up to the highest court by former President Donald Trump amid multiple cases against him, including his actions on January 6, 2021 when he was still president.

Dean told CNN that ‘Nixon would have survived’ Watergate had it happened now.

He would have been immunized.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign claims it brought in $38 million in the four days following his car crash debate performance against Donald Trump.

In reporting its second quarter fundraising figures, the Biden-Harris campaign reports that it raised $264 million between April and June.

The haul, it says, includes the largest-yet fundraising month of the campaign with $127 million raised in June.

Biden campaign manager Juylie Chavez Rodriguez said:

This election will be close and the stakes couldn’t be higher – which is why today’s fundraising haul matters so much. It will ensure that we reach and mobilize the voters who will decide this election every single day.

According to reports, the Biden campaign has told donors that their stacks of cash would go to Kamala Harris if the president ends up dropping out of the race.

That would give a major boost to Kamala – who didn’t clearly rise to the top of the pack to replace the president, despite being second in line.

She has struggled with low approval ratings for months and voters are not enthusiastic about her at the top of the ticket.

Growing Democratic uproar over President Joe Biden‘s shockingly feeble debate performance on Thursday night appears to be turning into a full-blown party revolt.

‘For Biden’s own good and the good of the country, he should step aside immediately,’ major Democratic donor and former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson told DailyMail.com. ‘The fact that it has now been three days and Biden has done nothing to reassure us confirms my worst fears.’

Tilson has given the party more than $300,000 in recent years.

Days after the President struggled to hold his train of thought and tailed off mid-answer into incomprehensible gibberish during the CNN debate, left-wing benefactors are still up in arms.