Politics update

 Former New York mayor and former Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said that American politics should "get rid" of the Democratic Party because it's "too corrupt" at the top.In an interview with journalist Dan Ball on Wednesday for his show Real America, which airs on far-right, pro-Trump channel One America News, Giuliani praised the Republican Party as "a patriotic conservative movement" and blasted the Democratic Party as a self-serving organization.

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, days removed from announcing he won’t seek reelection, said Wednesday that if the nation’s voters give former President Donald Trump another term in the White House, “he will destroy democracy in America.” Manchin, whose home state voters overwhelmingly backed Trump in the last two presidential elections, made the comment on a press call with West Virginia-based reporters amid speculation that Manchin himself might be weighing a third-party run for president. The moderate West Virginia Democrat said Wednesday that he would never want to be a “spoiler” who contributed to getting any other candidate elected. But he said he would do what he had to in order to save the country.

A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that 54 percent of Democrats and independents who leaned Democratic answered yes when asked if they'd like to see another challenger enter the race. 

Santos says he won’t seek reelection after release of ethics report

House Ethics Committee Finds Evidence George Santos Broke Federal Law

In 2020, young voters helped propel Joe Biden to the White House, believing the oldest person ever elected to the presidency could usher in a new era of action on issues important to them. Four years later, however, there are flashing warning signs that those same voters could help boot Biden from the White House. Less than a year out from the 2024 election, polls show the president neck-and-neck with Donald Trump in the eyes of young voters, with Biden’s biggest slippage coming among young Black and Latino voters. It’s a huge departure from 2020, when voters under 30 favored Biden over Trump by a 26-point margin. There’s a multitude of factors that could explain the trend, from young Americans’ attitudes on Biden’s handling of everything from climate change to student debt. But the most potent factor souring young voters’ relationship with Biden at the moment may be the brutal Israel-Hamas war, which has galvanized a new generation toward the cause of the Palestinians and against leaders like Biden who have unequivocally backed Israel.