Biden drops a hint on whether he will attend Trump's inauguration if he defeats Kamala Harris

President Joe Biden on Tuesday declined to say if Kamala Harris was more progressive than he is.

‘The issues we’ve worked on together have made great progress economically. No one called what we did on infrastructure “progressive.” It’s a good policy,’ he said.

Biden made his comments to reporters on the South Lawn ahead of his trip to New Orleans.

Republicans have charged Harris is a liberal who will bring her ‘California-ness’ to the nation.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Joe Biden indicated he would attend Donald Trump’s inauguration if the former president wins a second term in November.

‘I have good manners - not like him,’ Biden told reporters on the South Lawn before he left for New Orleans.

Trump did not attend Biden’s inauguration in January 2021.

Biden also was asked about calling Trump a danger to American security, to which he responded: ‘That’s just a statement. That’s a factual statement.’

But he declined to discuss Ukraine’s incursion into Russia, noting: ‘I'd rather not comment on that publicly.’

Biden and First Lady Jill Biden are headed to New Orleans for an event tied to their Cancer Moonshot initiative.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden announced $150 million in funding to help surgeons more successfully remove tumors for people facing cancer.

‘The funding we announced today will help get these tools into the operating room to visualize tumors right away, instead of having to wait for days and weeks, maybe reopen the patient to go back in. It's a promising step to reduce the need for follow up surgeries and improve treatments,’ President Biden said.

The Bidens are promoting their ‘moonshot’ initiative to reduce cancer deaths in a visit to Tulane University in New Orleans. It is one of eight universities getting some of Tuesday’s funding.

It’s a cause close to Bidens’ hearts. Their son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015.

‘When Joe and I lost our son to brain cancer, we decided to turn our pain into purpose. We wanted to help families like ours so that they won't have to experience this terrible loss,’ Jill Biden told the crowd.

Before he leaves office in January, Biden hopes to move the U.S. closer to the goal he set in 2022 to cut cancer deaths by 50% over the next 25 years, and to improve the lives of caregivers and those suffering from cancer.

Cancer is the second-highest killer of people in the U.S. after heart disease.

Longtime Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer, 85, suffered a stroke on Sunday but is now recovering with 'no lingering symptoms,' spokesperson Margaret Mulkerrin said.

"On Sunday night, August 11, Rep. Steny Hoyer experienced a mild ischemic stroke and sought medical treatment. Mr. Hoyer has responded well to treatment and has no lingering symptoms. He expects to resume his normal schedule next week. Mr. Hoyer’s wife and family extend their deepest thanks to his medical team."

Hoyer, D-Md., has served as majority leader, whip, chair, and vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus since he joined the House in 1981.

Thousands of migrants who entered the U.S. illegally with their families and were put into a deportation program have been allowed to stay by the Biden administration.

According to a shocking new report, Biden has allowed 90 percent of migrants put into the Family Expedited Removal Management (FERM) program to remain in the U.S. instead of being deported.

Only 2,600 out of a total of 24,000 migrants enrolled in the program have actually been deported, according to a New York Post report. That leaves over 21,000 who were allowed to stay in the U.S.

And since FERM began in May 2023, over 840,000 migrants traveling in family units have been apprehended by authorities at the border, according to ICE data reviewed by the House Homeland Security Committee.

This means just a fraction of illegal migrants coming into the U.S. with their families were removed via the FERM program.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz made his first solo appearance since joining Kamala Harris as her running mate.

The Democratic vice presidential nominee spoke at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union convention in Los Angeles where he touted Harris pro-union record and blasted Donald Trump and so-called right to work laws.

Walz pointed out that he was a dues-paying member of a teachers union for years.

'I happen to be the first union member on a presidential ticket since Ronald Reagan,' he said. 'But rest assured, I won't lose my way.'

The union is the largest trade union for public service employees in the country.

President Joe Biden has issued his first public comments on Ukraine’s stunning incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.

‘I have spoken with my staff on a regular basis, probably every four or five hours the last six or eight days,’ Biden told reporters in New Orleans.

‘It’s creating a real dilemma for Putin and we’ve been in direct contact, constant contact, with the Ukrainians,’ Biden told reporters.

Biden did not criticize the incursion, on a day when Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky said the cross-border assault that began last week had put 74 settlements under Ukrainian control and Russian POWs for an ‘exchange fund.’

Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas ridiculed a claim from Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign that she would work to secure the Southern border.

'Kamala Harris promising to secure the border is like O.J. Simpson promising to find the real killer,' Cotton wrote on social media.

Cotton's post drew attention online as former President Donald Trump and other Republicans continue hammering the record of former President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on immigration.

Harris served as a point person for the Biden adminstration on the immigration issue as they tried to address the crowds of migrants crossing the border into the United States.

‘Do not come. Do not come,’ she said during a press conference in Guatemala. ‘The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border. I believe if you come to our border, you will be turned back.'

Nearly 10 million migrants have have crossed into the United States under the Biden adminstration, according to estimates.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed his trip to the Middle East and won't travel to the region Tuesday night as planned due to the uncertainty about the situation, Axios reported.

There are fears of Iran retaliatory military action against Israel, although an attack is not expected tonight.

Blinken was supposed to travel to Qatar, Egypt, Israel.

Biden administration officials Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein are already in the region. McGurk is in Cairo and Hochstein is in Lebanon.

The administration is trying to divert an Iran attack.

After 'luck' saved Donald Trump from being 'murdered,' a top Democrat is demanding sweeping reforms to the Secret Service due to conspicuous failures.

Since the near-assassination of Donald Trump and the murder of retired firefighter Corey Comperatore at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally exactly one month ago, lawmakers are cracking the whip on the agency.

Putting forward a tranche of Secret Service-related bills Tuesday on the one-month anniversary of the shooting, Rep. Richie Torres, D-N.Y., wants to avoid another tragedy.

Speaking exclusively with DailyMail.com, Torres torched the agency's performance, saying Trump was saved by 'luck' and 'not the skill of the Secret Service.'

'We cannot leave the security of a president or a presidential candidate the chance,' the Democrat said.

The United Auto Workers said it has filed a federal labor action against Donald Trump and Elon Musk after the former president complimented the billionaire for allegedly crushing a strike.

Trump complimented Musk during an X Spaces interview filled with mutual back-scratching Monday night.

‘I mean, I look at what you do. You walk in, you say, You want to quit? They go on strike, I won’t mention the name of the company, but they go on strike and you say, That’s OK, you’re all gone. You’re all gone. So, every one of you is gone,’ Trump said.

Whether the line was bravado or not, the UAW, which has endorsed VP Kamala Harris, blasted Trump.

‘Under federal law, workers cannot be fired for going on strike, and threatening to do so is illegal under the National Labor Relations Act.

‘When we say Donald Trump is a scab, this is what we mean. When we say Trump stands against everything our union stands for, this is what we mean,’ said UAW President Shawn Fain.

It was not immediately clear which labor action Trump was referring to. Last year, Musk branded a strike by Tesla mechanics as well as strikes by sympathetic unions ‘insane.’

DailyMail.com sought additional clarification from the Trump campaign.

Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

The Arizona Secretary of State announced that a ballot measure to protect the right to an abortion in the state will be directly on the ballot in November after activists collected enough signatures.

The office of Secretary Adrian Fontes said there were a record 577,971 valid signatures to get the Arizona For Abortion Access Act on the ballot as 'proposition 139.'

The constitutional amendment would protect the right to an abortion in the state. Earlier this year, Arizona made national headlines when the state's Supreme Court ruled an 1864 abortion ban could go into effect. The law has since been repealed,  but the repeal is not effective until the fall.

Abortion amendments on the ballot since Roe v Wade fell has boosted turnout in elections. Voters to date have voted to protect abortion rights in ever state where it has been on the ballot to date.

Some Democratic officials believe the measure on the ballot in a battleground state could also help Democrats up and down the ballot this fall.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Democrat Beto O'Rourke was surprised by Vice President Kamala Harris picking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.

The failed 2016 presidential candidate and former Texas congressman still lauded the pick.

Speaking with MSNBC host and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, O'Rourke said:

I was actually really surprised that he was in contention to be nominated for vice president of the United States and surprised that he got picked, only because it is so rare that someone who is so genuinely kind and nice and isn’t a blowhard and a grandstander and a self-promoter ever reaches these levels of political attainment in this country.

He’s just that rare person, who’s just truly a good guy, who’s gotten ahead by getting the job done.

Republican strategists have a stark warning for Donald Trump and his campaign as the GOP presidential nominee has struggled to find his bearing since the shake-up at the top of the Democratic presidential ticket with Kamala Harris taking over as the Democratic presidential nominee.

The former president joined X's Elon Musk for a rambling interview on Monday night where the pair discussed a variety of topics, but strategists believe it did little to change minds in a close race with just months to go before Election Day.

'Every day that Trump doesn't spend in a battleground state, defining Kamala Harris on issues like the economy and border security, is a lost day,' said Republican strategist Kevin Madden.

Former President Donald Trump ridiculed Joe Biden's mental and physical state during a meandering interview with Elon Musk on X Spaces.

Speaking Monday night after technical glitches delayed the start of the event, Trump lobbed many of his harshest comments at his former opponent, as he has done at some of his campaign rallies since Biden dropped out of the race for the White House.

He blasted Biden's appearance during the president's weekend visit to his Rehoboth Beach home, where Biden lounged on the beach for a few hours with wife Jill and granddaughter Naomi, and went for a bike ride near his Delaware getaway spot.

Sarah Ewal-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Vice President Kamala Harris will be delivering a policy address on Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina focused on the economy.

It is the first address Harris will give focused on policy since President Biden's exit from the race and she became the Democratic presidential nominee.

According to a campaign official, her speech will be 'focused on her plan to lower costs for middle-class families and take on corporate price-gouging.'

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump is trying to get the heat off his glitchy X event with Elon Musk.

Instead, the former president is touting the number of people who tuned in for the conversation Monday night – and slamming legacy media for refusing to report on it favorably.

Trump referenced Musk's post claiming 1 billion accounts either tuned in or discussed the chat he had with Trump.

On his Truth Social account on Tuesday morning, Trump wrote:

An all-time record, but the media refuses to write about it because they are FAKE NEWS!

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Vice President Kamala Harris has still not done an interview since becoming the Democratic presidential candidate.

It's been 23 since Harris took over as the presumed nominee, but she has not taken a single question from press in that time.

The VP has barnstormed early primary states and held campaign events across the country, but many are concerned how she will perform off-script following weeks of heightened enthusiasm for the 2024 Democratic ticket.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will visit New Orleans on Tuesday to promote their ‘moonshot’ initiative to reduce cancer deaths.

It’s a cause close to their hearts. Their son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015.

The Bidens will announce $150 million in awards from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. Those funds will support eight teams of researchers around the country working on ways to help surgeons more successfully remove tumors for people facing cancer.

Before he leaves office in January, Biden hopes to move the U.S. closer to the goal he set in 2022 to cut cancer deaths by 50% over the next 25 years, and to improve the lives of caregivers and those suffering from cancer.

Cancer is the second-highest killer of people in the U.S. after heart disease.

Kamala Harris has slammed Donald Trump's 'extremism and dangerous agenda' after his rambling two-hour interview with Elon Musk.

The Republican nominee returned to X Monday for an interview with the Tesla billionaire that was riddled with technical delays and saw Trump 'slur', talk with a 'lisp' and claim that Harris looks like his wife Melania.

Trump, 78, during the conversation insulted Harris several times, referring to her as 'third rate', 'incompetent' and 'a radical left lunatic', and expressed anger that she had been swapped in for President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket.

He also praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un - all authoritarian strongmen - as at the 'top of their game'.

The Vice President's campaign, after the interview concluded, issued a fiery response on X, mocking the pair's technical challenges and slamming Trump for only aiming to serve 'self-obsessed rich guys like himself'.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Lara Trump is blaming X glitches during her father-in-law’s event Monday on Iranian hackers and a coordinated attack from the ‘deep state.’

The co-chair of the Republican National Committee and wife of Eric Trump accused haters of being given a ‘free pass.’

It comes after a shaky start to the former president’s X event with Elon Musk on Monday even, which started 40 minutes late and was riddled with glitches – similar to the campaign kickoff event the billionaire CEO held for Florida Gov Ron DeSantis last year when he launched his presidential bid.

Speaking with Fox News host Sean Hannity late Monday evening, Lara Trump said:

I think it’s pretty obvious at this point, there are a lot of people out there and there’s a massive effort, of course, to keep Donald Trump out of the White House. These people are terrified. This is the deep state. This is the swamp in Washington, D.C.

These are the people who are our adversaries in many cases, they know that the jig is up, the game is over when Donald J. Trump returns to the White House and they are petrified of it.

They’ve had a free pass for three and a half years that the people who want to do nefarious activities to us here in America, to our allies around the world, they’ve gotten a free pass and a free ride and they would like another four years of that with Kamala Harris at the helm.

Iran has rejected calls from the West to refrain against a retaliatory attack against Israel amid fears of a wider war in the Middle East.

Foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Tuesday that 'Iran is determined to defend its national security' and claimed requests to de-escalate 'lacked political logic'.

He accused Israel of violating 'sovereignty and territorial integrity' with the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

The demands to hold back 'amount to open and practical support for the source of international crimes and terrorism in the region', Kanaani added.

His comments came after the U.S. and a number of European countries — the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy — issued a joint statement urging Iran and its allies to 'stand down its ongoing threats of a military attack against Israel'.

The White House warned on Monday that an Iranian attack could come in days, after the U.S. beefed up its military presence in the region by deploying a guided-missile submarine.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump’s spokesman is lashing out at Kamala Harris’ campaign for refusing to attribute their attacks to a member of the team.

Steven Cheung called the vice president’s campaign ‘f***ing cowards’ after it put out a statement mocking the ‘glitchy’ X interview with Elon musk and accusing Trump of seeking to serve ‘self-obsessed rich guys.’

The Trump attack dog lamented in an X post:

All these statements, yet nobody ever puts their name on them.

The vice president’s rapid response X account released a statement Monday evening on Trump’s highly-anticipated live-streamed event with Musk, which followed the former president’s return to the platform earlier in the day after nearly a year.

The event kicked off 40 minutes late and was laden with glitches.

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Meanwhile, Democrats were in full fundraising mode during the event, and urged donors to ‘chip in $25 now’ because Musk was trying to take ‘control.’

'Right now, Elon Musk is interviewing Donald Trump live on Twitter (we’re not calling it ‘X’),' the Harris-Walz campaign solicitation message started before asking for money.

It continued:

It’s not enough that Musk has pledged to donate millions of dollars to help reelect Trump. He’s using his purchased platform –— one of the largest social media sites in the world — to spread Trump’s unhinged and hateful agenda to millions of users.

On Saturday night, Vice President Kamala Harris promised to abolish tax on tips for service workers if she wins the election in November.

Her announcement triggered howls of outrage from Donald Trump who accused her of stealing his idea after he made the same promise in June, when a server in Nevada told him she felt the government was taking too big a share of her tips.

But an exclusive poll for DailyMail.com shows why Harris won't care about charges of theft: The policy is overwhelmingly popular with voters.

Almost two thirds of likely voters say they support the idea.

And it is popular across all demographics and groups. Trump voters, white voters, Hispanic voters, Harris voters, the young and the old, graduates and non-graduates all support the idea of abolishing tax on tips.

After his marathon two-hour X Spaces chat with Donald Trump on Monday night, Elon Musk extended a similar invitation to Kamala Harris.

The Democratic nominee has been criticized for not doing interviews since she took over from joe Biden as the party's 2024 standard bearer.

Musk said:

Happy to host Kamala on an 𝕏 Spaces too.

Before his invitation Harris' campaign said in a statement:

Trump's entire campaign is in service of people like Elon Musk and himself - self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024.