Harris and Biden campaign together as Trump demands sentencing delay: Latest updates

Maryland Governor Wes Moore is introducing Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and tells the crowd: “In a few minutes, you’re going to hear not just from the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, but from the 47th president.”

This prompts chants of “48! 48!” from the audience as Moore is largely seen as a possible future presidential candidate for the Democratic Party.

A landmark price negotiation between pharmaceutical companies and Medicare will result in price slashes for 10 common medications taken by older Americans ultimately saving taxpayers an estimated $6 billion next year, the Biden administration announced on Thursday.

Medications widely used to treat diabetes, Crohn’s disease, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and more will see significant price reductions.

Ariana Baio has the details.

Donald Trump announced Wednesday morning that he would host a press conference this week — his second in seven days, after a previous one said little of substance.

The Republican nominee for president has called to meet the press on Thursday at his Bedminster club in New Jersey, hoping to avoid a slew of negative headlines that followed last week’s, where he repeated previous lies and offered nothing new.

John Bowden reports from Washington, DC.

The folks over at the Harris campaign are gleefully skewering Donald Trump over his upcoming press conference this afternoon at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, following on from last week’s lie-filled tirade at his Palm Beach home, Mar-a-Lago.

Written in the form of a media advisory, the campaign sent out an email “for planning purposes reluctantly” noting “Donald Trump to Ramble Incoherently and Spread Dangerous Lies in Public, but at Different Home”.

Not so fresh off NABJ, Florida, and Twitter glitches, Donald Trump intends to deliver another self-obsessed rant full of his own personal grievances to distract from his toxic Project 2025 agenda, unpopular running mate, and increasing detachment from the reality of the voters who will decide this election.

These remarks will not be artificial intelligence, but they certainly will lack intelligence.

Banning abortion, raising costs on families, confusing basic facts, cutting Social Security and Medicare, blocking border security, and being publicly unstable, unfit, and unwell will not help his struggling campaign for president.

Tune in for the same old thing.

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Michael Tyler, communications director for Harris-Walz 2024, gave the following statement on the upcoming presidential and vice presidential debates:

The debate about debates is over. Donald Trump’s campaign accepted our proposal for three debates — two presidential and a vice presidential debate. Assuming Donald Trump actually shows up on September 10 to debate Vice President Harris, then Governor Walz will see JD Vance on October 1 and the American people will have another opportunity to see the vice president and Donald Trump on the debate stage in October. Voters deserve to see the candidates for the highest office in the land share their competing visions for our future. The more they play games, the more insecure and unserious Trump and Vance reveal themselves to be to the American people. Those games end now.

CNN’s Harry Enten breaks down what happened to the “double-hater” voters who disliked both Joe Biden and Donald Trump since Biden dropped out of the race.

The Biden administration is taking a victory lap after federal officials inked deals with drug companies to lower the price for 10 of Medicare’s most popular and costliest drugs, but shared few immediate details about the new price older Americans will pay when they fill those prescriptions.

White House officials said Wednesday night they expect U.S. taxpayers to save $6 billion on the new prices, while older Americans could save roughly $1.5 billion on their medications. Those projections, however, were based on dated estimates and the administration shared no details as to how they arrived at the figures.