Joe Biden called Donald Trump his vice president, said he was “following the advice of my commander in chief,” and vowed going forward as both a candidate and the leader of the free world to “pace myself a little more.”

Army veteran Sam Brown easily secured the Republican nomination in Nevada’s Senate race Tuesday night, setting up a spirited battle against incumbent Democrat Jacky Rosen in what is expected to be one of the nation's most closely watched 2024 Senate races.

Shortly after 5:00 p.m. Thursday, a New York jury brought the country to an unprecedented brink by finding Donald Trump guilty of financial fraud, making the former president a convicted felon for now (unless or until the conviction is overturned on appeal) and making the current presidential election a referendum, he now hopes, not just on his record against Joe Biden’s but the entire political system.

President Biden often argues that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. He and his campaign had not, however, said that reelecting Trump would end democracy altogether. Until recently.

Doug Burgum was bracing for disaster at the top of the ticket. “The Clintons might be the luckiest family in the world because Bill doesn’t win in 1992 without Ross Perot,” he told a North Dakota radio show eight years ago, “and Hillary doesn’t win in 2016 without Donald Trump.”