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President Joe Biden waged an intense weekend battle to avoid wasting his reelection bid following his disastrous debate efficiency however has been unable to dismiss existential questions on his candidacy which can be extra evident than ever.

Biden is secluded together with his household at Camp David following a number of occasions at which he tried to ease panic amongst Democratic voters, officers and donors after the controversy multiplied issues that he’s too outdated to beat former President Donald Trump or to serve a second time period. His weak and incoherent demeanor throughout Thursday night time’s occasion on CNN created a rare twist within the marketing campaign and left him dealing with calls to cede the stage to a youthful candidate simply over 4 months from Election Day.

Biden’s allies spent the weekend lashing out at critics within the media calling for him to step apart and insisting that early information confirmed that Biden’s calamitous displaying had not altered the basic form of the race. Democratic Celebration grandees, in the meantime, crowded onto Sunday discuss exhibits to attempt to put the highlight again on Trump.

“Allow us to not make a judgment a few presidency on one debate,” former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi advised CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.” “Let’s discuss what it means to individuals of their lives … the distinction between Joe Biden and the previous president is so clear.” South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, a longtime Biden supporter, admitted to Bash that his pal had a “unhealthy” debate however put the blame on Biden being overloaded with info by staffers.

The president’s household, who can be vital in any choices on the marketing campaign’s future, at the moment believes Biden ought to keep within the race and hold combating as they await polling information whereas braced for some erosion of his place, CNN’s MJ Lee and Jeff Zeleny reported Sunday. Nonetheless, that view may shift if there’s a downward spiral, and the president have been to be satisfied that leaving the race can be the most effective choice.

One of many president’s confidants, Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, stated on “CNN This Morning” on Monday that Biden’s clean, open-mouthed stares through the debate mirrored “a president who’s frankly thunderstruck by simply how aggressively Donald Trump is mendacity about every little thing.”

“I feel everybody’s entitled to have a foul night time,” Coons advised Kasie Hunt, however added that Biden now must display “extra unscripted and off the file moments.”

Nevertheless, the Democratic harm management technique of arguing that one unhealthy night time doesn’t detract from Biden’s previous successes ignores the vital query with which many citizens have wrestled for months: Is Biden just too bodily and cognitively diminished to serve one other 4 years?

Republicans are doubling down on the problem. “All of America noticed it. And you realize who else noticed it? Our adversaries noticed it. Putin noticed it, Xi noticed it, the Ayatollah noticed it,” North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a possible Trump vice presidential decide stated on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” referring to the leaders of Russia, China and Iran.

There’s up to now no signal that the 81-year-old president is considering abandoning his marketing campaign to make manner for a hurried try by the celebration to search out one other candidate.

“Joe Biden shouldn’t be going to take himself out of this race, nor ought to he,” Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore stated on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Since Biden is the presumptive nominee after dominating Democratic primaries, there’s no reasonable manner for the celebration to maneuver on except the president decides it’s time. Some celebration leaders worry a brand new nominating contest at this level would run the chance of setting off an inner civil struggle that might successfully hand Trump the presidency. Biden has in the meantime repeatedly insisted he’s match to serve. And any rising-star Democrat who did step up can be accused of betrayal by many within the celebration and would danger their very own future careers.

The president stated at a fundraising occasion in New Jersey on Saturday night time that he understood the priority, admitting he “didn’t have an important night time” in Atlanta and walks extra slowly and talks much less easily than he used to. However he vowed to battle on.

For now, Biden’s staff seems to have staved off the fast hazard to his marketing campaign. His fundraising remains to be sturdy with greater than $33 million raised within the days following the controversy, based on his staff. The heavy hitters prepared to go on TV to defend him confirmed he’s not but misplaced his celebration — even when there’s a full-grade meltdown occurring behind the scenes.

However any set of unhealthy polls displaying an already-tough reelection bid was significantly broken by the controversy may set off panic once more. And no fashionable president or presumptive nominee has confronted something similar to the calls from usually-friendly media commentators who are actually urging Biden to announce he received’t settle for the Democratic nomination in Chicago in August.

CNN reported on Saturday that Democratic donors are cut up over whether or not to stay with Biden or to hunt one other nominee, nonetheless sophisticated that may be. Any signal that the president may additionally take down Democratic hopes of holding the Senate and successful again the Home may bolster the case of these wanting change, particularly after per week wherein the Supreme Courtroom has demonstrated simply how essentially unchecked conservative rule can reshape the nation.

The highest bench is because of rule Monday on Trump’s declare that he loved immunity for actions as president — in a case that factors to his perception that he may have nearly limitless powers if he wins a second time period. Biden has put claims that Trump would destroy democracy on the middle of his reelection bid, however his debate debacle is simply elevating contemporary questions on whether or not the risk is so grave that Democrats ought to flip to a safer wager.

Whereas prime celebration figures are publicly standing with Biden — to do anything can be seen as treachery — many Democrats have been deeply shaken by Thursday night time’s debate. Many individuals within the celebration spent the weekend bemoaning the scenario privately, a number of sources stated, and are actually viewing November’s election with dread.

Just one senior determine, nonetheless, has as a lot as hinted at motion towards Biden behind the scenes. Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin advised MSNBC the celebration was having “a really severe dialog about what to do.” Raskin added: “No matter what President Biden decides, our celebration goes to be unified, and our celebration additionally wants him on the very middle of our deliberations in our marketing campaign.”

Raskin continued, “Whether or not (Biden) is a candidate or another person is the candidate, he’s going to be the keynote speaker at our conference.”

Biden’s marketing campaign despatched out a stream of memos, fundraising appeals and statements over the weekend, insisting he wouldn’t stop. “Joe Biden goes to be the Democratic nominee, interval. Finish of story,” the marketing campaign wrote to supporters in a single e-mail. “Voters voted. He received overwhelmingly. And if he have been to drop out, it will result in weeks of chaos, inner meals combating, and a bunch of candidates who limp right into a brutal flooring battle on the conference, all whereas Donald Trump has time to talk to American voters uncontested.”

But Biden’s efficiency was so poor on Thursday night time that he allowed Trump loads of time to talk to voters uncontested, because the ex-president obtained away with a torrent of lies. Usually, Biden missed possibilities to hammer Trump on key Democratic points resembling abortion, and turned the main target again to his personal vulnerabilities, resembling immigration.

The ferocious counterattack by Biden’s marketing campaign, nonetheless, shouldn’t be answering basic questions posed within the aftermath of a debate that shattered confidence in Biden’s capability to beat Trump for a lot of of his fellow Democrats.

The president was below excessive strain heading into the showdown as a result of polls have lengthy proven majorities of voters consider he’s too outdated to serve a second time period that will finish when he’s 86. Biden has noticeably develop into extra fragile in recent times and seems a much-changed determine even from when he took workplace in 2021.

However as an alternative of placing such fears to relaxation, he exacerbated them at a pivotal second within the marketing campaign with over 50 million viewers watching. And whereas Biden bounced again with a powerful efficiency at a scripted marketing campaign occasion in North Carolina on Friday, it will likely be inconceivable to erase the painful image of a president falling prey to the ravages of time in his televised conflict with Trump. Voters noticed Biden’s decreased and poignant state with their very own eyes.

Biden’s marketing campaign has lengthy denied that the president’s age is disqualifying, despite the fact that it’s one of many first points voters elevate exterior of the Washington political bubble. Efforts to protect Biden from public scrutiny now danger coming throughout as an try to cover his true situation from the general public. The talk has shattered the credibility of frequent makes an attempt by these round Biden to argue that whereas he’s usually shaky in public, behind closed doorways he’s a dynamic pressure who runs mental rings round younger aides.

Biden marketing campaign supervisor Jennifer O’Malley Dillon even blamed any poor forthcoming polls on the media and never the president. “If we do see modifications in polling within the coming weeks, it is not going to be the primary time that overblown media narratives have pushed non permanent dips within the polls,” she wrote, referring to former President Barack Obama’s numbers after he misplaced his first debate to Utah Sen. Mitt Romney in 2012. The comparability is inexact, nonetheless. Obama did carry out very poorly and pitched his marketing campaign into disaster. However there was by no means any query that he was not bodily or mentally match to serve one other 4 years as president.

A brand new CBS/YouGov ballot performed after the controversy discovered that 72% of registered voters now consider that Biden doesn’t have the psychological and cognitive well being to function president. That’s seven factors increased than weeks earlier than the controversy. Solely 28% of voters stated Biden needs to be working for president. Some 46% of Democratic registered voters thought he shouldn’t be.

On the one hand, these are devastating figures for a president who has seen erosion in key points of his coalition — amongst younger, progressive and minority voters particularly and has an more and more slim path by battleground states. But when there’s one silver lining for Biden, it’s that voters have lengthy thought he’s too outdated to run and he’s been intently matched with Trump in nationwide polls, elevating the chance that the twice impeached convicted felon alienates so many citizens that the president should still be seen as a more sensible choice by many.

Biden’s deputy marketing campaign supervisor Rob Flaherty raised this level in a pep discuss e-mail to Biden supporters, noting that “individuals have been reminded of what they hate about Donald Trump: that he’s unhinged, out for revenge, and in it for himself.”

Flaherty additionally took outstanding swipes on the “mattress wetting brigade” of Democrats calling on Biden to drop out and prompt voters didn’t care about cable information evaluation or “self-important Podcasters,” an obvious reference to former Obama aides on the “Pod Save America” podcast who have been withering of their criticism.

This story has been up to date with further particulars.

Boulter stated she is is anticipating “an absolute battle” in opposition to her Billie Jean Cup team-mate Dart.

“Taking part in a Brit within the UK, on the grass, is rarely a simple draw,” added Boulter.

The pair confronted one another on the Nottingham Open final month, with Boulter profitable the first-round tie in three units.

Talking earlier than Boulter’s victory over Maria, Dart stated: “We’re team-mates, we performed huge tournaments, we have grown up collectively, we have been shut.

“It is at all times going to be difficult, whoever I play, particularly if you play a fellow Brit. Nevertheless it’s nice to see that each one of us are doing nicely and placing us in positions the place we do get to play one another, hopefully extra so within the latter rounds.”

World quantity 94 Dart didn’t lose serve in opposition to Bai, breaking the 21-year-old within the tenth recreation to take the primary set, and solely a rain interruption delayed her progress.

“The previous couple of weeks I’ve had some actually good matches, some which have gone my manner, some that have not,” added Dart.

“For me it is simply having the ability to construct on it, try to play some good tennis. Right this moment I confirmed that. I used to be actually medical on the market – I used to be fairly happy with that.”

Dart and Boulter have been amongst 11 Britons in motion on Tuesday after Andy Murray introduced he wouldn’t play singles following his again operation.

On the entrance, Verstappen had prolonged his result in over 5 seconds from Norris as Lap 14 ticked down. However issues weren’t going fairly so effectively for Leclerc close to the rear of the pack, with the Ferrari driver shedding a spot to the Williams of Albon to drop all the way down to P19.

Perez – working in seventh place – was reporting sidepod harm, having been caught up within the Lap 1 Leclerc/Piastri incident. Magnussen, in the meantime, was apparently not within the temper to save lots of tyres after being requested to take action by his engineer, providing a sweary response to the request.

As many groups appeared to be considering switching to a three-stop technique, Leclerc’s day continued to go from dangerous to worse, with the Monaco Grand Prix winner pitting for medium tyres to emerge on the very again of the sphere and seemingly on target to be lapped by Verstappen.

With a lot of the front-runners but to pit, Norris was informed by his engineer that the laborious compound regarded “poor”, although the Briton was reminded that he had two units of mediums left, a potential benefit on condition that the Pink Bull staff didn’t have the identical out there.

Elsewhere, the stewards have been being stored busy. Zhou voiced his annoyance after being punted off observe by Alonso, prompting an investigation which resulted in a 10-second time penalty for the latter. Hamilton, in the meantime, had been famous for probably crossing the white line on pit entry, and this gave the seven-time world champion a five-second penalty.

In getting over the road, Boulter now joins Dart, Emma Raducanu, Lily Miyazaki and Sonay Kartal – marking the primary time that 5 British ladies have reached the second spherical in SW19 since 1987.

A highly-anticipated all-British battle in opposition to Dart now awaits the 27-year-old on Thursday, in what is about to be a must-watch match. The British No.1 leads the head-to-head 6-1 and can take confidence into the match-up after claiming victory of their most up-to-date assembly on the Rothesay Open Nottingham final month.

“Enjoying a Brit within the UK on the grass isn’t a straightforward draw – I’m anticipating an absolute battle” Boulter added.

“We’ve performed fairly a number of occasions earlier than, so I’ll be taking a look at these and eager about what I’m going to do going into it. For me, it’s about taking part in the tennis ball not the individual, we’re clearly Billie Jean King Cup teammates on the courtroom so I’ve acquired to attempt to neglect that and concentrate on the tennis.”

In the meantime, Britain’s newly topped males’s No.1 Draper got here out on the successful facet of a marathon match in opposition to Mikael Ymer, ending 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 to arrange a second-round assembly in opposition to compatriot Cam Norrie.

After lacking out on final yr’s match as a result of damage, the 28 seed returned to motion in dramatic style – getting back from a set right down to ultimately scrape via in 5 units after three hours and 17 minutes.

“I missed it right here final yr, not having the ability to play. I do know you most likely needed to see Andy out right here however you had been caught with me as an alternative.

“I really like taking part in in entrance of a great deal of individuals so thanks, it actually helped me out right here. There have been some nervy moments however I actually respect the entire assist, it means lots.”

The 22-year-old was initially scheduled to play on Courtroom 2 however after Andy Murray withdrew from the singles draw earlier this morning, Draper was gifted the chance to compete on probably the most prestigious stage in world tennis.

The rising star has ceaselessly credited the previous world No.1 for his assist via the early levels of his profession and tonight’s present felt like a becoming tribute to his sporting idol beneath the lights on Centre Courtroom.

“What an honour, pondering of the quantity ones who got here earlier than me – Tim (Henman), Andy (Murray), Cam Norrie. A phrase on Andy, I wouldn’t be right here with out Andy he’s an unimaginable man off the courtroom, so humorous so real and certainly one of a sort. What a competitor and what a champion so thanks very a lot”

Draper will now re-focus his consideration to his upcoming match in opposition to his predecessor Norrie, after he eased to a straight units victory over Facundo Diaz Acosta 7-5, 7-5, 6-3.

It will mark their third ATP tour assembly, with Norrie successful each of their earlier matches on the cinch Championships (2021) and the Miami Open (2022). Nevertheless, with Draper carrying confidence and momentum after clinching his first tour-level title on the Boss Open and downing reigning Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz on the Queen’s Membership, it’s secure to say something can occur in SW19.

The Mercedes driver capitalised on Max Verstappen’s and Lando Norris’s lap-64 crash to say an unlikely victory.

George Russell has received the Austrian Grand Prix for Mercedes after Pink Bull’s triple world champion Max Verstappen and McLaren’s Lando Norris collided late within the race whereas preventing for the lead.

McLaren’s Oscar Piastri completed second with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz third at Spielberg, Austria’s Pink Bull Ring on Sunday.

The gifted win was a primary for Mercedes since November 2022, when Russell triumphed in Brazil, and the second of the Briton’s profession.

“It’s not over till it’s over,” declared the jubilant winner after taking the chequered flag in a race that saved up its pleasure till the final 20 laps, when the battle between Verstappen and Norris boiled over.

A sluggish 6.5-second pit cease for Verstappen throughout lap 52 introduced Norris proper again into vary and the following duel noticed the McLaren automobile having fun with a drag discount profit as Norris tried to overhaul.

“The staff have performed a tremendous job to place us on this battle. You’ve bought to be there on the finish to choose up the items and that’s the place we had been,” Russell mentioned earlier than stepping as much as the highest of the rostrum.

“We had been solely about 12 seconds behind and I knew it [the collision] was a chance. You might be at all times dreaming.”

Russell had began third, with Verstappen on pole and Norris alongside on the entrance row, however the win was handed to him after 64 of the 71 laps.

Each frontrunners suffered punctures, Norris limping again to the pits and retiring whereas Verstappen rejoined and completed fifth behind Mercedes’s seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.

Stewards handed the Dutch driver a 10-second penalty for inflicting the collision, however that made no distinction to Verstappen’s end result and he elevated his championship benefit to 81 factors over Norris.

Nico Hulkenberg was sixth for Haas, a serious increase for that staff, with Pink Bull’s Sergio Perez seventh and Kevin Magnussen eighth for Haas.

Daniel Ricciardo gave RB two factors in ninth and Pierre Gasly took the ultimate level for Renault-owned Alpine.

UPDATE, 7/2, 9:01 p.m. ET: Microsoft mentioned it resolved the technical issues that had knocked out Xbox Stay for almost seven hours. “Customers ought to now not be encountering points signing in to Xbox Stay and providers,” the Xbox Assist account on X posted at 8:49 p.m. ET. “Thanks on your persistence, recreation on!”

EARLIER:

Xbox Stay, Microsoft’s multiplayer gaming and digital media community, was struggling a significant outage Tuesday as hundreds of customers reported issues accessing it.

Consumer-reported issues with Xbox Stay started to spike at about 2:15 p.m. ET Tuesday, in line with monitoring web site Downdetector. As of two:25 p.m., greater than 23,000 outage stories had been logged with the location, with greater than three-fourths indicating they had been having points logging in. Some Xbox Stay customers reported seeing error message saying the service was present process “scheduled upkeep.”

Different Microsoft-operated providers, together with Minecraft and the Microsoft Retailer, additionally had a excessive stage of consumer error stories on Downdetector.

The official Xbox Assist account on X posted at 2:55 pm. ET, “We’re conscious that some customers have been disconnected from Xbox Stay. We’re investigating!” The message directed customers to the Xbox standing web page — which finally was up to date to say {that a} main outage of the “Account & profile” service was reported at 2:07 p.m. ET. “You might not be capable of sign-in to your Xbox profile, could also be disconnected whereas signed in, or produce other associated issues,” the message on the Xbox standing web page mentioned. “Options that require sign-in like most video games, apps and social exercise received’t be out there.”

Microsoft requires customers to have an Xbox Stay account (which is free to arrange) to play video games on-line and entry different experiences on the Xbox console, Home windows PC and Xbox cellular apps.

Xbox Stay customers took to social media to vent concerning the technical issues:

Below the roof on Centre Court docket, the symbolism felt a bit of too apparent. As Andy Murray departed the stage, pressured to withdraw on the morning of his closing Wimbledon singles match, up stepped Jack Draper, the brand new British No 1. And whereas a scrappy, typically unconvincing five-set win over the qualifier Elias Ymer hardly felt just like the triumphant begin of a brand new period for British tennis at Wimbledon, it was harking back to one thing else. The Centre Court docket crowd had come for Murray – Draper mentioned so himself – however nonetheless noticed a show of coronary heart and grit from the 22-year-old. As Murray proved numerous instances throughout his golden years, success at Wimbledon is constructed on such qualities.

It could have been a becoming tribute to his idol, however as Draper thumped a closing serve out extensive on match level and smacked a ball excessive into the rafters on Centre Court docket, this was a victory that was met with extra reduction and frustration than outright celebration. Clearly, a fifth-set decider was not the plan for the twenty ninth seed Draper, anticipated to dispatch an opponent ranked exterior the world’s high 200 who had solely performed two tour-level matches this yr. He will likely be aiming larger after returning to the second spherical, towards the previous British No 1 and Wimbledon semi-finalist Cameron Norrie.

However it’s not straightforward to observe the departure of Britain’s two-time champion and actually step into the void left by a legend of the game. “I wouldn’t be right here with out Andy,” Draper mentioned on Centre Court docket. “Such a man off the courtroom, so real, so type, what a champion and what a competitor.” But right here he was, entering into these sneakers. In what was a big second in his younger profession, confronted with elevated expectations and an opponent with nothing to lose, Draper emerged with a battling win to construct on into the fortnight.

Draper’s recreation shouldn’t be the completed product however it’s constructed behind a giant serve and a strong left-handed forehand, all modelled to be aggressive. He’s additionally a showman, a participant assured and positive of his skills. He completed with over 54 winners and a nice assortment of shot-making, with forehands struck crisply, low balls flicked down the road, and improvised volleys up excessive. However the unforced errors additionally adopted Draper all through, with 40 in all, the backhand a repeating fault. This was removed from the right displaying however Draper all the time managed to reply.

Dealing with a troublesome night because the roof was closed on Centre Court docket, Draper brushed apart his wobbles and confirmed authority within the decider to lastly break Ymer’s spirit.  He discovered improved depth, pushing for the break as he pressured Ymer into awkward positions in his backhand nook, flashing a winner down the road to drive three break factors. As Ymer double-faulted to present Draper the break, it was the daylight he required to lastly draw back. Naturally, he’ll imagine there’s extra to return.

Expectations, in spite of everything, are excessive, however whereas the heavy favorite towards the world No 205 Ymer, any type of win would have sufficed for Draper. Final yr, the Briton watched most of Wimbledon from his couch after damage dominated him out, however he has appeared to depart these health points behind him. Few gamers within the draw have loved such an encouraging run into Wimbledon, as Draper displayed the enhancements he has made to his recreation by securing his first ATP Tour title on the grass in Stuttgart, adopted by a career-best win over Carlos Alcaraz at Queen’s. As he arrived at Wimbledon as Britain’s highest seed, this felt just like the yr the place Draper was able to compete.

However, as Ymer proved within the opening set and all through, qualifiers could be harmful. In SW19, the 28-year-old received three matches in a row to succeed in the principle draw, the place he carried on that type to take the opening set. It was an unlikely begin, however Draper discovered the gang was behind him. As he levelled the match at a set all, he appeared to have weathered the storm as he started to strike his forehand with extra confidence. Ymer, nonetheless, by no means allowed Draper to cruise whilst he clinched the third. Ymer was fast to select up on any Draper lapses and served impressively to take the fourth.

Draper smashed up his racket after being taken to a decider however he steadied and managed to assault Ymer with renewed conviction within the fifth. Lastly, after three hours and 17 minutes of toil, he earns the prospect to go once more.

After taking good care of their first order of enterprise by hiring Kenny Atkinson to be their new head coach, the Cavaliers have now checked a very powerful merchandise off their summer time to-do checklist, agreeing to phrases with Donovan Mitchell on a brand new three yr, $150.5 million most contract extension, in keeping with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

So why not a four-year extension price over $200 million? It seems that this deal is structured to offer all events what they really need. In response to Woj, this deal provides the Cavs “the soundness of their franchise participant beneath contract past subsequent season.” For Mitchell, he’s now on the “fast-path to the 10-year service standards permitting him to pursue a 5-year, $380M-plus extension in 2027.”

Since touchdown in Northeast Ohio in September 2022, Mitchell has performed one of the best basketball of his seven-year profession, averaging 27.5 factors, 4.6 rebounds, 5.2 assists and 1.6 steals per recreation throughout two seasons in Cleveland. He led the Cavs to consecutive postseason appearances, together with the franchise’s first playoff sequence win since LeBron James left for Los Angeles — and its first sequence win with out James since 1993 — with a first-round victory over the Orlando Magic again in April.

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