The former Democrat cited Ukraine, free speech and a “war on children” as his reasons | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced he would back Republican candidate Donald Trump and end his independent run for president, but only in swing US states. The son of Senator Robert Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy first tried to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination last April. Faced with obstruction within the party, he announced a third-party bid last October.

■ Trump accepts Kennedy endorsement (RT.com)
■ Democrats’ Lack of Outreach to RFK Jr Shows Party’s Arrogance, Elitism - Analyst (Ted Rall/John Miles)

"I want no disappointment or failure," he said in an interview for the News of the Week program on the Rossiya-1 TV channel | Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that he is preparing the republic’s citizens for his stepping down. 💬 "All think as follows: ’30 years is a lot, with only a few people working [as president] for 30 years’. And people have become used to him and no one else. This is wrong. I’m preparing people to it [stepping down], I want no disappointment or failure," he said in an interview for the News of the Week program on the Rossiya-1 TV channel. ● "Not long ago we adjusted the constitution [of Belarus] to changes. But we do not want changes as a revolution. I am a supporter of evolutionary, but not revolutionary changes. And we have done much to build what you now see, in recent years," the president added.

Biden announced his intention to drop out of the race July 21 and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the party's nominee. | Former President Barack Obama threatened Joe Biden with removal from office under the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution if he did not withdraw from the presidential race, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed. ● Obama told Biden he had gotten the approval of Vice President Kamala Harris to invoke the safeguard against presidential incapacity, Hersh wrote in a blog post on Substack. ● The journalist noted that, in accordance with the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, the US president may be removed from power in the event they are judged to no longer be able to carry out their duties, with the vice president stepping into the role. Hersh claimed that by the time Obama called Biden, it was already clear Harris would receive Democratic leaders' approval to run as the party's candidate.

US president says it is time to ‘pass the torch’ to younger voices that ‘defence of democracy’ is more important than personal ambition. | United States President Joe Biden has made his first public address since dropping his re-election bid, saying he pulled out of the race against Republican challenger Donald Trump to unite his party and save the country’s democracy. ● The 81-year-old politician struck a sombre tone on Wednesday as he sat behind the Resolute Desk at the Oval Office of the White House, and announced that it was “time to pass the torch” to younger voices. [bla...bla...bla...]

■ Biden is done for, what’s next? (RT.com)
■ Extraordinary Events Taking Place in America (Simplicius)

Only four of the US vice president’s 47 original employees are still with her team, NGO OpenTheBooks says | US Vice President Kamala Harris has a staggering staff turnover rate of 91.5%, transparency watchdog OpenTheBooks reported on Monday, citing disclosures from the Senate. The revelation came days after President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed Harris as his replacement. ● OpenTheBooks, an NGO that monitors government spending, has analyzed the list of titles and names of the staffers at the Office of the Vice President, which it took from the semi-annual report of the Secretary of the Senate.

■ Same as the Old Boss: Harris Expected to Continue Neoconservative Foreign Policy (Sputnik News)
■ Extraordinary Events Taking Place in America (Simplicius)

🚨ASSASINATION INFO DROP🚨

We found the assassin’s connections through our in-depth analysis of mobile ad data to track movements of Crooks and his associates.

To do this, we tracked devices that regularly visited both Crooks’s home and place of work and followed them.🧵 https://t.co/T5HETLhkgM pic.twitter.com/hMsI9dFwNk

— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) July 22, 2024

Investigators have found that an unknown person who made regular visits to would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crook’s home and workplace also visited the site of an FBI office in Washington D.C. before the assassination attempt at the Butler Park rally. | Newly acquired cell phone data allowed investigators to “follow” the location of other devices deemed potential co-conspirators, allowing them to focus on the geolocation data and trace their movements. The cell phone data raises the question of whether Crooks had been contacted by the FBI or other intelligence agencies prior the the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Additionally, a device linked to Crooks’ workplace traveled to Butler, PA, on July 4th and July 8th but stopped all activity on July 12th. The FBI has been caught red-handed on numerous occasions grooming vulnerable young men and adolescents into becoming terrorists tasked with committing politically opportunistic attacks against fellow Americans.

■ Secret Service Had ‘Text Thread Going’ for Suspected Gunman Just Before Shooting Started (Conservative Roof)
■ Phone associated with would-be assassin pinged near FBI DC offices in 2023, report says (The Blaze)
■ Bombshell Investigative Report Claims to Link Would-Be Trump Assassin with FBI Office in DC (The Western Journal)

The Israeli leader will address a joint session of Congress | On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in the US, where he is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress. Netanyahu’s visit comes amid political turmoil in the US as President Biden announced on Sunday that he was dropping out of the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. [Fully vaccinated] Biden was supposed to host Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday, but an Israeli source told The Times of Israel that the meeting might not happen because the president is still sick with COVID-19.

👉 US Congress gives Benjamin Netanyahu 29 Standing Ovations (VIDEO) (2015)
■ American Surgeon Who Volunteered in Gaza Says IDF Snipers Shoot Toddlers (Antiwar.com)
■ Israel Launches New Assault on Khan Younis, Kills 70 Palestinians (Antiwar.com)

On July 21, Biden announced he is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race in a move that came amid POTUS-related calls by prominent Democrats and donors to withdraw after his disastrous performance in last month’s debate against former US President Donald Trump. | Joe Biden had to withdraw from the US presidential race late last week after threats by high-ranking Democrats to forcibly remove him from office - the New York Post (NYP) reports, citing unnamed sources.

💬 The well-orchestrated "palace coup" has been in place for weeks, with Biden fighting it "every step of the way," the sources claimed, referring to "anger, paranoia and frustration" allegedly shown by the 46th US president, as the party elite piled pressure on him.

The top Democrats had threatened to invoke the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution to stop Biden from seeking re-election, the insiders argued, recalling that the document authorizes the vice president, and members of the Biden administration, to declare the president unfit for service.

■ Biden’s exit from campaign to have serious impact on Ukrainian crisis — Russian diplomat (TASS)
■ Biden Drops-Out of Presidential Race (07/22/24)

Harold Turner | As reported on this website on July 18 (Story Here) Joe Biden has DROPPED-OUT of the Presidential race and will NOT seek re-election. | The deceitful, lying, sleazebags that make up a majority of the Democrat Party, have been in chaos since the Biden-Trump Debate, because they could no longer hide Biden's deteriorating mental condition, which they intentionally hid from the public for the past two years. ■ So craven are the Democrats to keep power, they were willing to engage in elder abuse; ganging-up on the poor old man, harassing him out the door of the campaign. It ought to be interesting to see who these power-hungry vermin try to promote as their candidate for President now that we're less than 100 days from the election. I suggest that washed-up, has-been, old hag, Hillary Clinton, with trans-gendered "Michelle" Obama. I think an old Witch and a trans-gendered freak would epitomize what the Democrat party stands for nowadays! ■ Now, of course, Biden becomes more dangerous than ever. He can implement, via Executive Order, all the radical-left-wing (Romper-room-level) ideas because he doesn't have to care at all whether anyone likes it or not.

■ Biden’s legacy is ‘genocide’: Reactions pour in as US pres. quits race (PressTV)
■ Biden's Choice to Quit US Election Not His Own, Ousted By Party - Congressional Candidate (Sputnik News)
■ Joe Biden, 81, pulls out of presidential race, will serve out term (07/21/24)

U.S. President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign on Sunday after fellow Democrats lost faith in his mental acuity and ability to beat Donald Trump, but did not immediately endorse Vice President Kamal Harris to replace him as candidate. | Biden, 81, in a post on X, said he will remain in his role as president and commander-in-chief until his term ends in January 2025 and will address the nation this week. ● "It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term," Biden wrote. ● His move could clear the way for Harris to run at the top of the ticket, the first Black woman to do so in the country's history. But Biden did not mention her in his announcement. ● It was unclear whether other senior Democrats would challenge Harris for the party's nomination, who was widely seen as the pick for many party officials - or whether the party itself would choose to open the field for nominations. ● Biden's announcement follows a wave of public and private pressure from Democratic lawmakers and party officials to quit the race after his shockingly poor performance in a June 27 televised debate last month against Republican rival Trump, 78.

■ My Fellow Americans (Joe Biden)(Twitter)
■ Biden ends his presidential re-election campaign (UPI)
■ BREAKING: Joe Biden Drops Out of 2024 Race (Townhall)

Joe Biden is ‘more receptive to standing down’ after a series of senior Democrats called on him to pull out of the presidential race. | The US President’s tone has closed behind closed doors and he is more ‘willing to listen’ to those who are calling for his resignation, the New York Times reports. Those who have called on Mr Biden to pull out of the race include the former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, as well as Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. ● New polling suggests Donald Trump may have experience a slight boost in the polls after he survived an assassination attempt over the weekend. Mr Biden is now trailing the former US President in a number of the key swing states, which may impact his decision to stand down.

■ President Biden tests positive for COVID-19 during Las Vegas visit (Shafaq News)

Exclusive: Labour’s top team has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Israel funders. | Pro-Israel lobbyists have donated to 13 out of Labour’s 25 cabinet members since they were first elected to parliament, Declassified can reveal. ● The list of recipients includes prime minister Keir Starmer, his deputy Angela Rayner, chancellor Rachel Reeves, foreign secretary David Lammy and home secretary Yvette Cooper. Jonathan Reynolds, who will oversee arms exports to Israel as UK trade secretary, is another beneficiary, alongside Labour’s election mastermind Pat McFadden, whose responsibilities now include national security. ● Some of the donations were provided by Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), a lobby group which takes MPs on “fact-finding” missions to the region. Reeves, McFadden, Reynolds and technology secretary Peter Kyle were recently listed as vice-chairs of LFI. Other major funders include pro-Israel businessmen Trevor Chinn and Stuart Roden. The total value of the donations amounts to over £300,000.

President Donald J Trump has selected Ohio Senator JD Vance to be his Vice-Presidential running mate. | Cliff Notes – On the upside JD Vance brings with him the full support of Silicon Valley and unites the various social media clans and venture capitalists (Musk, Ackerman, Thiel, etc.). This means a big boost to the financial position of the Trump campaign, support from half the banking community, and also the absence of internet protocols that would restrict or oppose his 2024 campaign platform.

■ JD Vance says UK an ‘Islamist country’ in bizarre nuclear weapons comment (The Independent)
■ President Trump Enters RNC Convention Arena to Thunderous Applause and Shouts of “Fight, Fight, Fight” (TLR)
■ ‘A Corporate CEO’s Dream’: Labor Unions Blast Trump-Vance Ticket (Scheerpost editorial)
■ The Globalists’ Desperate Move To Kill Trump (Alexander Dugin)

Hal Turner Opinion: Bear in mind these were comments from members of the most tolerant group that wants equity and inclusion for all . . . . but not liberty for all. Have you ever seen such a collection of vile, physically ugly, people? Leftists are literally ugly, inside and out; miserable ghouls. ■ In my view, there is no common ground to share with the majority of the leftists. I am convinced there is not going to be any reconciling, nor should there be. These people are a cancer on normalcy. If you are aligned with the vile, corrupt intelligence community, the complete destruction of the rule of law, the targeting of your political enemies, etc., we have nothing more to say to each other. It is exactly that simple. There is no common ground. There are no shared values. Let Moloch take them all. Normal people should help where we can.

■ ‘Eliminate Him’: A look at the violent rhetoric against Donald Trump (RT.com)
■ Whoopi Goldberg said, "Somebody needs to take him out” (Editor thepeoplesvoice.org)

According to the politician, the assassination attempt would have been successful had he not "turned his head slightly to the right to read a chart on illegal immigrants" | Ex-US President Donald Trump said that he could have been killed in an attempt on his life during a speech in Pennsylvania but a miracle happened.

💬 "The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle. <...> I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead," Trump said in an interview with the New York Post.

According to Trump, the doctor told him that he had never seen anyone survive getting hit by an AR-15-style rifle. "I just wanted to keep speaking, but I just got shot," he noted. According to the politician, the assassination attempt would have been successful had he not "turned his head slightly to the right to read a chart on illegal immigrants." ● An attempt on Trump’s life took place on July 13 at an election rally in Pennsylvania. The former president was wounded but his life is not in danger: the bullet tore off a small piece of his ear. One of his supporters was killed in the shooting. The attacker was killed by the Secret Service personnel.

■ Watch: Witness tells BBC he saw gunman on roof (BBC)
■ Citing his recent comments, Republicans blame Joe Biden for Donald Trump rally shooting (USA Today)
■ FBI Identifies Trump's Would-Be Assassin (Townhall)
■ Trump hit by bullet at election rally (VIDEO) (RT.com)
■ PRESIDENT TRUMP *** SHOT **** IN PENNSYLVANIA (Hal Turner Show)
■ Newspaper Reports "Thomas Matthew Crooks" as Trump Shooter (Hal Turner Show)
■ Shooter Dead, Rally Attendee Killed, Trump 'Lucky to Be Alive' After 'Attempted Assassination' (Townhall)
👉 Biden Days Before Trump Was Shot: 'It's Time to Put Trump in a Bullseye' (Townhall)
■ Musk Endorses Trump, Slams Lack of Secret Service Protection at Rally (Sputnik News)

Several major Democratic Party donors have begun financing Democratic congress members urging the current US President Joe Biden to withdraw from the upcoming election, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. | According to the report, Michael Novogratz, founder of financial company Galaxy Digital, and film director Andrew Jarecki, have donated $2 million to Democrats in the US House of Representatives who were among the first to call for Biden to exit the presidential race publicly. ● The agency also reported that a significant number of donors stopped funding Biden's campaign after his poor performance in the televised debate with former President Donald Trump on June 27. Many influential sponsors, including Hollywood actor George Clooney, have urged Biden to make way for a younger candidate.

■ Major donors blackmailing US Democrats over Biden – NYT (RT.com)

Peter Koenig | It looks and feels like this past Sunday, 7 July 2024, second round French election is one of the biggest election frauds in French history, maybe even in European history. | The vote engineers have been at it in the same way they have been at it in the 2020 US elections, when by all appearance, President Trump, the Republican, but much more important, the anti-Globalist, won with a landslide. However, the Democrat, Joe Biden, an easily bought Globalist, suddenly emerged as the winner. ● Similarly in France, Madame Le Pen’s Party, the National Rally (NR), is called unfairly by all mainstream as the Populist far-right, when in reality, Madame Le Pen is primarily an anti-Globalist wanting a new sovereign France, not one submissive to the European Union and by proxy to the United States, as are most members of the EU. These two-tier elections, with a second round when no first-round absolute majority winner emerges, are tailor-made for fraud.

The presidential Ensemble coalition comes second, with 168 mandates | The left New Popular Front alliance wins the snap parliamentary election in France with 182 mandates, Le Monde reported citing the Ministry of the Interior’s count. The presidential Ensemble coalition comes second, with 168 mandates. The right National Rally party takes the third place with 143 mandates. ● According to the newspaper, the new parliament will also include the conservative Republicans, who won 45 seats. In addition, the new National Assembly will include 39 representatives of various smaller right and left associations. Thus, neither main political force gains an absolute majority of mandates, which complicates the formation of a new government. French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced that he will resign on Monday.

■ Le Pen assessed her party's unexpected failure in the second round of elections (Reporter)
■ French election results trigger riots (VIDEOS) (RT.com)
■ Le Pen’s party falls short of historic milestone in French election (RT.com)
■ New French Governing Coalition Will Likely Be ‘Fragile’ (Sputnik)
■ The two Frances of July 7: The 'relief' of the left, the disillusionment of RN supporters (Le Monde)
■ Macron opts not to address nation on July 7 after parliament elections (TASS)
■ François Hollande, l’ancien président élu simple député de Corrèze (Le Monde)
■ « Le Nouveau Front populaire n’a pas les moyens de gouverner seul. S’il veut diriger le pays, il devra trouver des alliés et faire des concessions » (Le Monde)

Slightly higher rate than 1st round last week, which was 25.9% at midday, according to Interior Ministry | The turnout in the second round of legislative elections in France on Sunday was 26.63% at midday, according to the Interior Ministry. This turnout is much higher than that in the 2022 elections at the same hour, which was 18.99%, and in the first round last week, which was 25.9% at midday. More than 43 million registered voters headed to the polling stations as of 8 a.m. (0600GMT) to elect the remaining 501 members of the National Assembly, the lower chamber of parliament, for a five-year term as the country finds itself at a crucial political crossroads. ● The first round of the elections took place on June 30 with a turnout of over 65% and over 49 million voters cast ballots. ● Some 76 candidates were elected in the first round for the National Assembly which has a total of 577 seats. The second round is not organized in those constituencies. The far-right National Rally (RN) got 29.26% of the vote by itself (37 seats), a rate that rises to over 33% when combined with its allies, according to official election results.

■ [En Direct] La gauche en tête selon les premières estimations, devant les macronistes puis le RN (RFI)
■ Vote projections show French left on course to defeat far right (RTL)
■ French legislative elections: 5pm turnout at 61.4%, highest since 1981 (France24)
■ French elections 2024: live coverage of crucial final round (Mediapart)
■ Явка во втором туре на выборах во Франции к полудню достигла рекордных 26% (Ведомости)

Moon of Alabama | Jeremy Corby, no longer in Labour, has been reelected. So have been five MPs who campaigned on a pro-Gaza position. | The Tories have lost the election in Britain. Labour, under Keir Stamer, did not win the election. It received less votes than it had received under Jeremy Corbyn in 2017 and 2019. The turnout was low. The overwhelming voter sentiment was 'anything but Tory'. There was no enthusiasms for Labour and Stamer's program. Labour, under Corbyn, had been a real worker party with socialist tendencies. ■ The deep state, with the help of the Israeli embassy, had launched a media campaign against Labour alleging that it was hiding anti-semitic tendencies. Corbyn made the huge mistake of not fighting back against it. In the end he was kicked out despite Labour's healthy election results. [...] Stamer is a controversial figure. He seems to have been placed in his position by the deep state. His previous position was the Chief of the Crown Prosecution Service. He had a major role in indicting and incarcerating Julian Assange. After being installed he has moved Labour to the right. It is now occupying a pro-capitalism center-right position.

■ June 02, 2024: “We have to Deal with the Anti-Vaxxers” says Keir Starmer. (Global Research)
■ Israel’s Mossad: Yinon Agenda, Terrorism, & Global Dominion (Helena Glass)

Kier Starmer, likely the next UK PM: "We have to deal with the anti-vax campaigns, because they will cost lives."

"And if we need to pass emergency legislation to deal with them, I'll be quite prepared to work with the government on that... And the sooner we do that, frankly,… pic.twitter.com/GejVND0nTu

— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) May 25, 2024

Heart surgeon-turned-politician Masoud Pezeshkian will succeed the late Ebrahim Raisi | Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran's presidential election, securing 53.3% of the vote and defeating his conservative rival Saeed Jalili, the national election authority announced on Saturday. ● With all ballots counted, Pezeshkian secured 16.4 million votes, while Jalili received 13.5 million votes, Press TV reports. Turnout was 30.5 million, or 49.8% of the 61 million eligible voters, according to a final update at 6:45 am local time (3:15 GMT). ● The snap election was called after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province on May 19. According to Iranian law, a candidate needs to garner at least 50% plus one vote; thus, after no candidate achieved this in the first round on June 28, the election headed into a runoff between the top two candidates.

■ Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian Wins Iran Presidential Election (South Front)

Key moments from 14 years of Conservative rule | The Labour Party won a parliamentary election that brought an end to 14 years of Conservative Party-led government that saw the country weather one of the more turbulent periods in its post-World War Two political history.

■ General election: Uneasy voters hand Labour a 'loveless landslide' shattering traditional voting patterns (Sky)
■ Starmer will become new PM as Labour landslide wipes out Tories (Telegraph)
■ Nigel Farage wins Clacton seat as Reform UK makes huge gains (The Independent)
■ UK election results live: Liz Truss loses seat to Labour (Telegraph)
■ Conservative Party suffers historic defeat, results of UK Parliament elections (TASS)
■ Keir Starmer: The man who would be prime minister (Oscar Rickett)

■ Labour's [Amanda] Hack wins the North West Leicestershire seat ahead of the Conservatives (Ashby Nub News) | It means Andrew Bridgen, the constituency's MP since 2010, lost his seat in what was technically a Labour gain from the Conservatives. Mr Bridgen won the seat as a Conservative but he was thrown out of the party for likening the Government's Covid vaccine policies to the Holocaust. He stood here as an independent candidate but was never likely to win the seat - polling just 1,568 votes this time around. In the 2019 election, Mr Bridgen won the seat with a majority of 20,400 ahead of Labour.

My election address to the people of North West Leicestershire and the nation. If you can share, please do. If you can vote, you must. Low turnouts benefit nobody but tyrants. Please share widely. Vote Bridgen on July 4th. pic.twitter.com/aCOnu8Jm5o

— Andrew Bridgen (@ABridgen) June 27, 2024

■ UK election 2024: Millions head to the polls in high-stakes vote (MEE)
■ Keir Starmer: The man who would be prime minister (Oscar Rickett)

Resolution in House of Representatives to Invoke 25th Amendment; Declare Biden "Unable to discharge duties of Office" | Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) filed a resolution (H.Res.1336) calling on Vice President Kamala Harris to convene the Cabinet and declare President Joe Biden as unable to carry out his duties as Commander-in-Chief. ● Representative Roy said, “I put forth a resolution calling upon the Vice President to immediately use her powers under section 4 of the 25th Amendment to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the Cabinet to declare the President of the United States is unable to successfully discharge the duties and powers of his office.” (PDF HERE)

■ Panicky White House Hits Post-Debate Damage Control Button As 80% of Voters Say Biden 'Too Old' (Sputnik)
■ Dozens of Democrat lawmakers want Biden out – Bloomberg (RT.com)
■ Trump caught on camera insulting Biden – media (RT.com)
■ The First Time Joe Dropped Out (Seymour Hersh)

Texas Democrat Lloyd Doggett is the first Domino to fall; he has publicly called on Joe Biden to Withdraw from the Presidential Campaign.

💬 “I represent the heart of a congressional district once represented by Lyndon Johnson. Under very different circumstances, he made the painful decision to withdraw,” Doggett said in his statement. “President Biden should do the same.” “My decision to make these strong reservations public is not done lightly nor does it in any way diminish my respect for all that President Biden has achieved. Recognizing that, unlike Trump, President Biden’s first commitment has always been to our country, not himself, I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw. I respectfully call on him to do so.”

Hal Turner Analysis | This is where it begins. I suspect this singular call for Biden to Withdraw, will rapidly become a Chorus. We've been waiting since debate night to see who was brave enough to say he has to step down first. Now that someone said it, others will follow. It's too late to replace him on the ballots. Only way they can do that is if he dies or MAYBE if they invoke the 25th Amendment, but that may not work in all states. If Biden steps down, he stays on the ballots but none of the votes he receives will be counted. The Dems screwed themselves.

Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally (RN) has topped the 1st round of France's parliamentary elections, winning 33.4% of the votes on Sunday. The New Popular Front leftist coalition came in second, securing 27.99%, while President Emmanuel Macron's center-right alliance Ensemble took third place with 20.04%. | President Emmanuel Macron’s center-right alliance Ensemble has been “practically wiped out” by Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally (RN) in the first round of the snap elections to the National Assembly in France. That is how the leader of the French right-wing National Rally party's parliamentary faction referred to the results of the first round of the parliamentary elections. After the second round, the RN could clinch between 230 and 280 seats - a relative majority - in the 577-seat lower house, according to national TV calculations. It had but 88 seats in the outgoing parliament. Macron's coalition is projected to lose over 160 seats, potentially winning only between 70 - 100 seats.

US President Joe Biden will not drop out of the race for US president unless his closest circle decides so, the Axios news portal reported following a poor performance of the American leader in the first presidential debate. | The report noted on Saturday that a call for Biden to drop out of the race from his inner circle would be shocking and sudden. ● The inner circle reportedly includes Biden’s wife, Jill Biden, his younger sister Valerie, adviser Ted Kaufman and a small group of White House advisers. ● Later on Saturday, NBC reported that Joe Biden will be meeting with his family at Camp David to discuss the future of his campaign, citing "five people familiar with the matter." Those sources said First Lady Jill Biden will be most influential in steering Joe.

■ Biden campaign’s future hinges on his wife – NBC (RT.com)
■ Biden not to drop out of presidential race over performance at debates (06/29/24)

The media also noted that members of Joe Biden’s campaign say that the current US president has no intention to drop out of the second round of debates with Donald Trump on September 10 | US President Joe Biden has no intention to leave the presidential race over the unsuccessful, from the standpoint of other party members and experts, performance at the televised debates, Biden campaign spokesperson Seth Schuster told The Hill. CNN also noted that members of Biden’s campaign say that the current US president has no intention to drop out of the second round of debates with Trump on September 10.

■ New York Times editorial board urges Biden to quit the 2024 race (RT.com)
■ Kamala to Be ‘Leapfrogged’ in Quest to Find Biden Replacement (Sputnik)
■ US House Speaker Johnson says Biden’s cabinet should remove him from office (TASS)
■ Poll shows 60% of Americans want Biden replaced as presidential candidate (TASS)
■ US Congressman Gosar Says Biden Debate Performance Shows He's Unfit to Be President (06/28/24)
■ Advanced Dementia Patient, Enduring Symbol of Sclerotic Late-stage Liberal Democracy (eugyppius)
■ Implications of Trump-Biden "Debate" Are Staggering - for both the USA and the World (Hal Turner)

Numerous Democrats have expressed concerns about Biden’s poor performance and its implications for the future of his candidacy, according to CNN, which hosted the debate. Trump and Biden are set to debate again on September 10 in an ABC-moderated event. | US Congressman Paul Gosar in a statement to Sputnik said US President Joe Biden's debate performance demonstrated he was mentally unfit to be US president. 💬 "With tonight's debate, Joe Biden stammered the quiet part out loud: he is mentally unfit to be President of the United States," Gosar said. President Joe Biden's claim that the US southern border is more secure under his administration compared to former President Donald Trump's is nonsense, former acting US Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitiello told Sputnik.

■ Dems freak out over Biden’s debate performance: ‘Biden is toast’ (politico)
■ Biden stumbles amid fierce attacks from Trump (Los Angeles Times)
■ Trump and Biden accuse each other of ‘encouraging’ Putin (RT.com)

■ Implications of Trump-Biden "Debate" Are Staggering - for both the USA and the World (Hal Turner) | I did not get to watch the Trump-Biden Debate last night because I was doing my live radio show while the debate took place. From what I have seen in video snippets, it was an unmitigated DISASTER - for both the United States, and for the world. What everyone got to see last night is what many of us have known from the beginning: Biden is not running the country because he is incapable of doing so. His lack of mental faculties, likely from Dementia, is unquestionable. This begs the question "Who is it that's actually running the country?" It's a fair question.