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Mon Jul 8, 2024, 06:39 AM Jul 2024

'It's about to get wild': Congress returns for pivotal week as Democrats sweat over Biden

(USA Today) WASHINGTON - Capitol Hill is headed for a historic and pivotal week with the trajectory of the 2024 presidential campaign very much on the line.

Lawmakers return from their Fourth of July holiday recess with Democrats facing mounting questions about whether they will band together and urge President Joe Biden to nix his reelection campaign amid serious concerns the 81-year-old incumbent is not up to the job of serving four more years.

Time is short. Biden continues to blame a minor illness for his poor performance in the recent debate with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and says that he has no intention of giving up his spot atop the Democratic ticket with a little more than a month to go before accepting his party’s nomination in Chicago.

The politics are expected to change come Monday when congressional Democrats who so far have been hedging in public over what they think Biden should do will be seeing their own colleagues face to face in the nation's capital. Over the last two weeks, everyone has been hearing directly from voters in their districts and states about the president’s mental fitness and capacity to keep doing his job.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/seminal-moment-lawmakers-return-dc-195105214.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO&ncid=crm_19908-1202929-20240708-0&bt_user_id=PyF%2BoC%2FTd0PUoPCvmn8ZgC7VSt9uqkivgb8G9ENTB8Y4jzc8oEwFtC%2B%2FMHXhugxY&bt_ts=1720438280142

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'It's about to get wild': Congress returns for pivotal week as Democrats sweat over Biden (Original Post) Dulcinea Jul 2024 OP
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That's the way you do it. Hit 'em in their wallets. shrike3 Jul 2024 #2
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