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FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about reproductive rights during an event in Washington, Friday, June 23, 2023. Months after the Democratic Party approved Biden's plan to overhaul its primary order to better reflect a deeply diverse voter base, implementing the revamped order has proven anything but simple. Party officials now expect the process to continue through the end of the year — even as the 2024 presidential race heats up all around it. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
The Democratic Party promised to overhaul its primaries. Doing that has been anything but simple
Nearly six months after the Democratic Party approved President Joe Biden’s plan to overhaul which states lead off its presidential primary, implementing the revamped order has proven anything but simple. New Hampshire is in open rebellion.
 
President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, June 30, 2023, in Washington. The Biden administration is moving forward on a new student debt relief plan after the Supreme Court struck down his original initiative to provide relief to 43 million borrowers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden offers alternative student debt relief plan that would remove immediate threat of default
President Joe Biden is offering an alternative student debt plan designed to ease borrowers’ threat of default if they fall behind on their payments. His announcement came hours after the Supreme Court struck down his original initiative.
 
President Joe Biden arrives at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Thursday, June 29, 2023, to attend campaign receptions. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Biden talks Supreme Court and Russia but also media and McCain in rare network interview
President Joe Biden rarely gives network interviews. When he sat down in studio with MSNBC on Thursday, it came at an especially busy time, with the Supreme Court having just overturned the use of affirmative action in college admissions and in the aftermath of a revolt in Russia.
 
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a town hall event in Hollis, N.H., Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
Rivalry between Trump and DeSantis deepens with dueling New Hampshire campaign events
The rivalry between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump deepened Tuesday as the two leading Republican White House candidates staged dueling events in the critical early voting state of New Hampshire.
 
Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak during the Faith & Freedom Coalition Policy Conference in Washington, Saturday, June 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Trump says US government has ‘vital role’ opposing abortion, won’t say if he backs national ban
Former President Donald Trump said the federal government should play a “vital role” opposing abortion but again failed to provide specifics on what national restrictions he would support if elected to the White House again.
 
Republican presidential candidate former Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the Faith and Freedom Coalition Policy Conference in Washington, Friday, June 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Pence calls for his 2024 rivals to back a 15-week federal abortion ban on eve of Dobbs anniversary
Speaking at a gathering of evangelical Christians, former Vice President Mike Pence urged his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination to support a 15-week federal abortion ban at minimum.
 
FILE - Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd speaks during the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition Spring Kick-Off Saturday, April 22, 2023, in Clive, Iowa. Hurd, a onetime CIA officer and fierce critic of Donald Trump, announced on Thursday that he's running for president, hoping to build momentum as a more moderate alternative to the Republican primary field's early front-runner. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
Ex-Texas congressman Will Hurd calls Trump a ‘failed politician’ as he launches GOP presidential run
Former Texas congressman Will Hurd says he’s running for president and calls Republican primary front-runner Donald Trump a “failed politician” who lost the House, the Senate and the White House.
 
President Joe Biden speaks at a political rally at the Philadelphia Convention Center in Philadelphia, Saturday, June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Biden strikes economic populist tone during campaign rally before exuberant union members
President Joe Biden struck an economic populist message during the first rally of his reelection campaign. The president told an exuberant crowd of union members in Philadelphia that his policies had created jobs and lifted the middle class.
 
FILE - Residents vote in the New Hampshire Primary at Bishop O'Neill Youth Center, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020, in Manchester, N.H. President Joe Biden's plan to overhaul his party's 2024 presidential primary schedule remained unsettled on Friday, June 16, 2023, after a Democratic rules committee gave New Hampshire more time to comply with new rules that leaders there fiercely oppose, but opted not to immediately offer such an extension to another battleground state, Georgia. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Georgia and New Hampshire’s places in limbo as Democrats hammer out 2024 primary order
President Joe Biden’s plan to overhaul his party’s 2024 presidential primary schedule remains unsettled.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Dec. 8, 2022, about the infusion of nearly $36 billion to shore up a financially troubled union pension plan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Biden is returning to his union roots as his 2024 campaign gears up
Joe Biden opened his 2020 presidential run at a Pittsburgh union hall. The first political rally of his reelection campaign is being held at a union gathering on the other side of Pennsylvania, punctuating just how much the president is counting on labor support to carry him to a second term.
 
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his wife, Casey, and their children attend a rodeo in Ponca, Okla., Saturday, June 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Thomas Beaumont)
DeSantis argues he’s top Trump alternative even as ex-president’s indictment overshadows 2024 race
Ron DeSantis ventured far from the usual presidential campaign trail Saturday, heading to a rodeo in reliably red Oklahoma to make the case that he’s the top alternative to Donald Trump — even as the former president’s indictment threatens to upend the 2024 Republican primary race.
 
FILE - Then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden plays music on a phone as he arrives to speak at a Hispanic Heritage Month event, Sept. 15, 2020, at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Fla. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)
After missteps with some Hispanic voters in 2020, Biden faces pressure to get 2024 outreach right
President Joe Biden’s small but notable past missteps when courting Hispanic voters have some activists worried that his reelection campaign won’t get crucial details right ahead of the 2024 election.
 
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis talks with his wife Casey, left, during a campaign event at Port Neal Welding, Wednesday, May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
DeSantis plays up his personal side — and swipes at Trump — during campaign blitz across Iowa
Ron DeSantis has made a four-stop blitz through Iowa during his first full day of presidential campaigning. He’s aiming for a personal connection with voters even as he intensifies his criticism of former President Donald Trump.
 
Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott delivers his speech announcing his candidacy for president of the United States on the campus of Charleston Southern University in North Charleston, S.C., Monday, May 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Tim Scott launches 2024 presidential bid seeking optimistic contrast with other top rivals
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has launched his presidential campaign
 
President Joe Biden gestures as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, May 17, 2023, as he heads to Hiroshima, Japan to attend the G-7. (AP Photo/Jess Rapfogel)
Biden campaign sees multiple ‘viable pathways’ to 2024 election win
 
FILE - Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden smiles as he puts on his face mask after speaking to media in Wilmington, Del., on Sept. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
2024 race won’t be like 2020. That’s good and bad for Biden
As President Joe Biden seeks a second term, he won’t have to endure glitchy Zoom connections, or stage forgettable, socially distanced rallies.
 
President Joe Biden speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, April 24, 2023, in Washington, as he and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with the three Tennessee state lawmakers who faced expulsion for participating in gun control protests at their statehouse. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Why is Biden announcing 2024 bid now, and what will change?
With Tuesday’s campaign video release, Biden is following through on months of saying he intended to seek reelection. Top Democrats have remained solidly unified behind the president, despite his low approval ratings and many Americans saying they’d rather not see the 80-year-old Biden try for four
 
Dems vote to give states more time on new primary calendar
A Democratic National Committee panel has voted to give New Hampshire and Georgia more time to make changes that would allow both to be part of a revamped group of five states leading off the party’s presidential primary starting next year.
 
Asian Americans seek greater political power after shootings
Asian Americans are pushing anew for greater political influence in the U.S. in the wake of last week’s shootings in the Atlanta area. President Joe Biden is being pressed again to include Asian Americans in his administration.
 
Will voters remember? Cruz trip tests durability of scandal
Ted Cruz has been one of Donald Trump’s staunchest allies and fiercest critics, personifying both sides of the bind the larger Republican Party now finds itself in.
 
Why Biden’s immigration plan may be risky for Democrats
As one of his first acts, President Joe Biden offered a sweeping immigration overhaul that would provide a pathway to U.S. citizenship for the estimated 11 million people who are in the country illegally.
 
Democratic wins could strengthen Biden’s legislative push
President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in November was tempered by concerns that he’d face Republican opposition in the Senate that could stymie him at every turn.
 
Progressives look to make early mark on Biden White House
Progressives are pressuring President-elect Joe Biden to embrace their policy solutions to major issues.
 
Biden aims to expand map as Trump recovers from coronavirus
As President Donald Trump recovers from the coronavirus, Joe Biden is trying to capitalize on having the campaign trail all to himself.
 
Trump spurns science on climate: ‘Don’t think science knows’
With the smell of California wildfires in the air, President Donald Trump on Monday ignored the scientific consensus that climate change is playing a central role in West Coast infernos.
 
Biden, aiming at Trump, says he won’t use military as ‘prop’
Joe Biden says that as president, he’d never use the military “as a prop or private militia.” And he’s accusing President Donald Trump of employing U.S. forces to settle “personal vendettas” and violate citizens’ rights.
 
Biden picks Kamala Harris as running mate, first Black woman
Joe Biden has chosen California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, making history by selecting a Black woman for a major party’s presidential ticket for the first time in history.
 
Delayed election results? Maybe, but not because of fraud
Delays caused by an increase in voting by mail may contribute to public doubts about the results. The public might not know the winner of the presidential race on Election Day because of a massive shift to voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic.
 
Biden unveils caregiver plan, says Trump ‘quit’ on country
Joe Biden is accusing President Donald Trump of quitting on the country amid the coronavirus and says the White House has no real plans to rebuild the post-pandemic economy.
 
Dueling Trump-Biden events offer contrasting virus responses
The presidential campaign is starting to take on a more traditional look. The campaign has largely been frozen for several months because of the coronavirus.
 
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