White House reveals when Biden will finally speak out about stepping down

President Joe Biden is set to return to the White House on Tuesday afternoon, six days after he was last seen in public.

The 81-year-old announced he was dropping out of the presidential race through a letter posted on X and has only been heard from through a loudspeaker phone call into Kamala Harris' new campaign headquarters.

His absence during his COVID isolation has sparked a flurry of conspiracy theories about his health and led to calls from Republican lawmakers for his Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.

The last footage of the president saw him walking very slowly down the small stairs of Air Force One before being helped into his motorcade by a Secret Service agent.

Kamala Harris is facing growing questions of whether Joe Biden is fit for office or if she knew about his cognitive decline.

The vice president has all but sewn up the Democratic nomination after 81-year-old Biden's extraordinary decision to drop out.

But now she is under pressure as Republican lawmakers demand Biden's cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment.

Republican Senator Eric Schmitt sent a letter to all cabinet members on Monday demanding they use the Constitution to remove him from office.

GOP Senator Tom Cotton has slammed Harris for spending years saying 'Biden was able to serve, sharp as a tack, fit as a fiddle.

'Now, she has to answer: if Joe Biden isn’t fit to run for president, do you believe that he’s fit to continue serving as president?'

Harris' office didn't respond to Fox News Digital's question of whether she believes Biden should serve out the remainder of his term.

The ailing president broke his silence after five days on Monday by calling into his old campaign office on loudspeaker.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Joe biden canceled a scheduled fundraising trip to California and Colorado that was to take place at the end of the week, according to the Harris campaign.

They will be rescheduled.

Biden has exited the presidential race but can still raise money for Kamala Harris, whom he endorsed as the Democratic nominee.

Harris has enough delegates pledged to her to win the party's nomination at the convention next month. And she has raised more than $100 milllion in the 30 hours she has been running for the nomination.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters as the news broke: 'I'm happy to see she resigned, she should have sooner.'

From House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky.:

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has dramatically announced her resignation after the massive security failures that led to the attempted assassination on Donald Trump.

Cheatle plans to announce her resignation later on Tuesday following a brutal Capitol Hill hearing on Monday that resulted in dozens of lawmakers calling for her to step down.

The embattled Cheatle faced mounting questions of why an agent wasn't on the office from where Thomas Crooks opened fire on the former president and why he was allowed to take the stage even when a threat was detected.

She refused to step down from her post for nine days after the lapses that led to Trump being struck in the ear.

By Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Milwaukee:

Vice President Kamala Harris is headed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Tuesday.

It is her first campaign stop in a battleground state since President Biden dropped out of the race and she secured enough delegates to become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

Harris will be speaking at a campaign event in the early afternoon before heading back to Washington.

It is her ninth time in the state since she became vice president and her fifth visit to Wisconsin this year.

The state Democratic party chair revealed Harris has the backing of more than 90 percent of Wisconsin's delegates to the Democratic National Convention.

Every Democratic leader in the state including it's governor and lawmakers have endorsed Harris for president.

According to the campaign, Harris will outline the contast between her, a former prosecutor and Donald Trump, a convicted felon.

Wisconsin is a crucial state for Democrats as part of their blue wall to win the presidency this November. The Harris campaign building off Biden's efforts already has 48 offices across the state and roughly 160 full-time staffers on the ground.

By Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Milwaukee

Democrats have raked in an enormous sum of cash since President Biden exited the presidential race.

According to the tracker on ActBlue, the platform used by Democrats and progressive groups, fundraising is up roughly $140 million since Sunday afternoon and money is still flooding in.

The whopping sum comes as the Harris campaign announced it raised $81 million in its first 24 hours, breaking records.

Other Democratic groups and state parties have also said they've seen an increase in donations as the shake-up at the top of the ticket has reenergized contributors.

Donald Trump still leads in the 2024 race now that Vice President Kamala Harris has taken over Joe Biden's campaign and became the presumed Democratic nominee.

Several polls taken in the midst of Biden dropping out over the weekend reveal the former president is ahead of Harris by at least 2 points and up to 9 percent with just over three months until Election Day.

Read more about the state of the race between Trump and Harris:

Donald Trump grilled the Secret Service chief over the security failures at his campaign rally and dismissed the excuse that agents did not have the 'manpower' to secure the roof where a gunman opened fire at him as 'crazy', he has revealed.

Thomas Crooks, 20, shot the former president from a roof just 400ft away from the stage where Trump was speaking during an outdoor campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.

He claims she said they 'didn't have the manpower for it' and pointed to the roof's 'slope' when trying to explain the massive security failure.

Cheatle, who was brutally grilled in Congress Monday over the assassination attempt, admitted her agency failed in its mission to protect Trump and was met with demands from lawmakers of both major political parties that she resign.

Actor George Clooney has endorsed Kamala Harris for president.

'President Biden has shown what true leadership is. He’s saving democracy once again. We’re all so excited to do whatever we can to support Vice President Harris in her historic quest,' Clooney said in statement to CNN.

Clooney, a longtime Democrat who has raised millions for the party, sent shockwaves through the political world on July 10th when he wrote an op-ed in the New York Times calling for Joe Biden to exit the presidential race.

His move started a tidal wave of Democratic voices calling for Biden to step down as the party's nominee.

Repulican Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) called Kamala Harris a 'DEI hire' and asked Joe Biden why he didn't consider 'white females' in an interview on Monday night.

Burchett told CNN'S Manu Raju said Harris was '100 percent' chosen because of diversity, equity and inclusion and called her record 'absymal'.

Vice President Kamala Harris has the support from enough Democratic delegates to sew up the Democratic nomination.

CNN and other outlets calculated that delegates from enough states have said they would back Harris that she has more than the 1,976 pledged delegates needed to win the Democratic presidential nomination at the convention in Chicago next month.

The news comes one day after President Joe Biden dramatically departed the race, endorsing Harris on his way out.

So far, there hasn't been Democratic resistance to having Harris take over the top of the ticket.

Marianne Williamson, the self-help guru who challenged Biden in the primaries earlier this year, said she wanted there to be an open convention.

But with a majority of delegates saying they'll vote Harris, it's unlikely an insurgent candidate would gain much traction.

Tory rightwinger Suella Braverman praised Donald Trump today, saying she would vote for him if she was American because of his track record of keeping the world safe.

The former home secretary said she would back the Republican candidate because 'no wars were started' when he was in the White House between 2016 and 2020.

Appearing as a guest host on LBC radio Ms Braverman, who is expected to make a bid for the conservative leadership in the autumn, admitted Trump was 'not right' to have challenged the result of the 2020 election.

But she said that he was the right person to retake power to rebuild the US economy and had been 'robust' on foreign policy - despite having praised autocratic leaders like Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping.

She used her guest host appearance to lambast Kamala Harris as 'very much to the left of US politics, in some ways she is even to the left of Bernie Sanders.'

She said:  'I want Trump to be president. If we look at the policy - don't look at the characters and the personalities - if we look at the policy, I think the world will be safer under Donald Trump.

The Democratic Party plot to get Joe Biden to drop out has been long in the works, a Biden insider claims.

However, a source close to Biden's family is saying that the party put together a 'palace coup' over the course of recent weeks, with the president fighting it until he was threatened with being forced out.

The insider says that the disastrous debate against Donald Trump on June 27 - the earliest presidential debate in history - was part of the strategy, despite being publicly requested by Biden on social media.

President Joe Biden broke his silence over 24 hours after his extraordinary decision to drop out of the 2024 race with a phone call to what has now become Kamala Harris' campaign headquarters.

The 81-year-old spoke in a scratchy voice to campaign staffers from COVID isolation at his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home and told Harris: 'I'm watching you kid'.

He pledged to still be involved in the reelection fight and said he would continue to hit the campaign trail as he interacted on loudspeaker with his staffers who now work for Harris.

Biden's comments followed questions of why he hadn't been seen or heard from since he made the bombshell announcement on X Sunday afternoon that he was stepping aside.

'I know yesterday's news is surprising and hard for you to hear, but it was the right thing to do,' the president said.

'I know it's hard because you poured your heart and soul into me, to help us win this thing, help me get this nomination, help me win the nomination and then go on to win the presidency,' he continued.