Election 2024 live updates: Kamala Harris edges ahead of Trump and Biden in new poll

But, on Saturday, she clearly appeared ready to take on that role regardless as she hammered former president Donald Trump and sought to lay out the stakes of the election.

“Joe Biden is our nominee, he is not leaving this race, he is in this race and I support him,” Ocasio-Cortez told a group of reporters outside of the Capitol.

The New York rep’s assertion comes as Democratic lawmakers scramble to find consensus on whether or not to support Biden, 81, as the presidential nominee.

Ariana Baio has the story.

Maira Butt reports on what the big late-night talk show hosts had to say about Joe Biden’s prospects following the disastrous debate performance against “pathological liar” Donald Trump.

Project 2025’s 900-page manifesto for nearly every detail of a second Trump presidency was drawn up by more than a dozen former Trump administration officials and advisers, who have planned to “integrate” the document into the campaign’s platform in the coming months.

Alex Woodward has the details.

A new poll shows Vice President Kamala Harris has a better shot than President Joe Biden at defeating Donald Trump in the 2024 election — but someone else has the edge on both of them, as Gustaf Kilander reports.

In Monday’s White House press briefing, John Kirby, the White House’s national security communications adviser, raised eyebrows with his choice of phrase – coming at a time when the embattled president is facing growing calls to quit the 2024 race.

Joe Sommerlad reports on this completely unforced error as the world questions the physical and mental abilities of the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue…

Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a possible contender for Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, went to bat for the former president on Sunday by trying to distance the presumptive Republican nominee from Project 2025.

“Think tanks do think tank stuff they come up with ideas, they say things,” Rubio told CNN’s State of the Union when asked if he was “comfortable” with the policies outlined in the project headed by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Gustaf Kilander reports from Washington, DC.

President Joe Biden attempted to head off calls for him to step aside with a defiant letter to congressional Democrats on Monday, in which he says exiting the race would be an affront to democracy.

Andrew Feinberg filed this report from the White House.