in Washington, Tuesday, July 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

SEUNG MIN KIM

Seung Min is a White House reporter.
FILE - President Joe Biden talks with the U.S. Border Patrol and local officials, as he looks over the southern border, Feb. 29, 2024, in Brownsville, Texas, along the Rio Grande. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Here’s where Biden and Trump stand on 10 key issues
It hasn’t happened in almost anyone’s lifetime: two presidents squaring off in one election. Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, have track records in office that voters will judge alongside their promises.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks April 24, 2024, in Washington. Biden called Japan and India "xenophobic" countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia as he tried to explain the four countries' economic circumstances and contrasted them with the U.S. on immigration at a campaign fundraiser Wednesday evening at the start of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
President Joe Biden calls Japan and India ‘xenophobic’ nations that do not welcome immigrants
President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia as he tried to explain the four countries’ economic circumstances and contrasted them with the U.S. on immigration.
 
President Joe Biden waves as he walks out of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024, before departing on a trip to New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
US and Mexico will boost deportation flights and enforcement to crack down on illegal migration
The White House says teamwork between the U.S. and Mexico to crack down on illegal migration is paying off.
 
President Joe Biden waves as he walks out of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024, before departing on a trip to New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador discuss migration in latest call
President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, spoke on Sunday about cooperating on migration policy.
 
President Joe Biden steps off of Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 26, 2024, as he returns from a trip to New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Joe Biden says he’s ‘happy to debate’ Donald Trump. Trump says he’s ready to go
President Joe Biden says he is willing to debate Donald Trump later this fall. Biden’s comment Friday is the most definitive he’s been on whether he would debate his presumptive Republican opponent.
 
Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and Kim Kardashian, left, listen during a discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024, on criminal justice reform and the pardons issued by President Joe Biden earlier this month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
First with Trump, now with Kamala Harris: Kim Kardashian is advocating for criminal justice reform
Kim Kardashian has joined Vice President Kamala Harris for a roundtable highlighting the administration’s efforts on criminal justice reform.
 
President Joe Biden speaks before signing a $95 billion Ukraine aid package that also includes support for Israel, Taiwan, and other allies, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden says the US is rushing weaponry to Ukraine as he signs a $95 billion war aid measure into law
President Joe Biden says he’s immediately rushing badly needed weaponry to Ukraine now that he’s signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that also includes assistance for Israel, Taiwan and other allies.
 
President Joe Biden arrives to speak at Prince William Forest Park on Earth Day, Monday, April 22, 2024, in Triangle, Va. Biden is announcing $7 billion in federal grants to provide residential solar projects serving low- and middle-income communities and expanding his American Climate Corps green jobs training program. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Biden’s Morehouse graduation invitation is sparking backlash, complicating election-year appearance
President Joe Biden will be the commencement speaker for Georgia’s Morehouse College and at West Point next month.
 
People listen as President Joe Biden speaks about reproductive freedom on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Fla. Biden is in Florida planning to assail the state's upcoming six-week abortion ban and similar restrictions nationwide. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Biden blames Trump for Florida’s 6-week abortion ban, says women nationwide face health crisis
President Joe Biden is blaming Donald Trump for Florida’s upcoming abortion ban and other restrictions across the country that have imperiled access to care for pregnant women.
 
In this combination photo, President Joe Biden speaks in Milwaukee, March 13, 2024, left, and former President Donald Trump speaks in New York, Jan. 11, 2024. (AP Photo)
Many say Biden and Trump did more harm than good, but for different reasons, AP-NORC poll shows
A new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that more than half of U.S. adults think Joe Biden’s presidency has hurt the country on cost of living and immigration.
 
President Joe Biden speaks about lowering health care costs in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
President Joe Biden will unveil his new plan to give student loan relief to many new borrowers
President Joe Biden will announce a significant new plan next week to cancel federal student loan debt for new categories of borrowers.
 
President Joe Biden, center, and former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton participate in a fundraising event with Stephen Colbert at Radio City Music Hall, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Joe Biden is lapping Donald Trump when it comes to campaign cash — and he’ll need it
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is raising gobs of cash. And it has an election-year strategy that aims to spend more — and spend faster.
 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers his speech after a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, Pool)
Talks resume on bringing Israeli officials to the US to discuss Gaza operation, the White House says
Talks have restarted aimed at bringing top Israeli officials to Washington to discuss potential military operations in Gaza.
 
President Joe Biden arrives on Air Force One Wednesday March 20, 2024, at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Biden and Trump ask voters if they’re ‘better off’ than they were 4 years ago. It’s complicated
Both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are posing the time-tested question “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”
 
President Joe Biden arrives on Air Force One Wednesday March 20, 2024, at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Biden is using the ‘are you better off today’ question to contrast himself with Trump
At a campaign fundraiser in the Dallas area, President Biden asked and answered the classic “are you better off today than you were four years ago” question.
 
President Joe Biden listens to Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, left, as Intel factory manager Hugh Green listens, during a tour of the Intel Ocotillo Campus, in Chandler, Ariz., Wednesday March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Biden touts Arizona as America’s ‘future’ as government invests $8.5 billion in chipmaker Intel
President Joe Biden is celebrating an agreement to provide Intel with up to $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans for computer chip plants nationwide.
 
President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event at El Portal restaurant Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Biden tells Latino voters they’re the reason he defeated Trump in 2020 and says, ‘I need you back’
President Joe Biden is appealing to Latino voters, telling them they’re the reason he defeated Donald Trump in 2020 and urging them to help him do it again in November.
 
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on lowering prices for American families during an event at the YMCA Allard Center, Monday, March 11, 2024, in Goffstown, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Biden meets with Teamsters as he seeks to bolster his support among labor unions
President Joe Biden has met with the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters and reminded its leaders and members of his record on unions as likely Republican challenger Donald Trump tries to make gains among blue-collar workers.
 
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden depart as Stella, the daughter Jack Cunicelli and Monica Gagliardi, walks with them Friday, March 8, 2024, in Rose Valley, Pa. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Biden visiting battleground states and expanding staff as his campaign tries to seize the offensive
Fresh off his defiant State of the Union address, President Joe Biden and his senior aides are beginning to barnstorm the country to aggressively sell his vision for a second term to voters.
 
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington, as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., listen. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)
President Biden to make ‘unity agenda’ appeal to Congress in State of the Union
In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden will make an explicit appeal to the divided Congress for his “unity agenda.”
 
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Washington. Standing at left is Vice President Kamala Harris and seated at right is House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP)
Biden’s combative and fiery State of the Union was a call to action for his base
President Joe Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term in his State of the Union speech Thursday night, lacing into GOP front-runner Donald Trump for espousing “resentment, revenge and retribution” and for jeopardizing freedom at home and abroad.
 
Former Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, second right, meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)
Vice President Harris hosts Israeli war Cabinet member as the US pushes to get more aid into Gaza
Vice President Kamala Harris has held a meeting with a member of Israel’s wartime Cabinet who came to Washington in defiance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington. It’s an annual process that former presidential speechwriters say take months. Speechwriters have the uneviable task of taking dozens of ideas and stitching into a cohesive narrative of a president’s vision for the year. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
How speechwriters delve into a president’s mind with lots of listening, studying and becoming a mirror
There are few times in a American presidency that the art of speechwriting is more on display than during a State of the Union.
 
President Joe Biden walks towards members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 1, 2024, to travel to Camp David, Md., for the weekend. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
US military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation
US military C-130 cargo planes have airdropped food and aid in pallets over Gaza. It’s the opening stage of an emergency humanitarian assistance authorized by President Joe Biden after more than 100 Palestinians who had surged to pull goods off an aid convoy were killed during a chaotic encounter wi
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump talks with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
On the Rio Grande, 300 miles apart, Biden and Trump try to use immigration to election advantage
Three hundred miles apart, on the bank of the same winding Rio Grande, President Joe Biden and GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday surveyed the U.S.
 
FILE - This combo image shows President Joe Biden, left, Jan. 5, 2024, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, right, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo, File)
Trump and Biden won Michigan. But ‘uncommitted’ votes demanded attention
The Michigan Primary election is the last major primary state before Super Tuesday and a critical swing state in November’s general election. Even if Biden and Trump post dominant victories on Tuesday, both campaigns will be looking at the margins for signs of weakness.
 
In this combination of photos, President Joe Biden, left, speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, and former President Donald Trump speaks on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, N.J. Biden and Trump will make dueling trips to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, following the failed border deal that was opposed by the Republican front-runner. (AP Photo)
Biden and Trump both plan trips to the Mexico border Thursday, angling for advantage on immigration
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will make dueling trips to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday following the failed border deal that was opposed by the Republican front-runner.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 23, 2024, in Washington. Biden will convene the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday, Feb. 27, to discuss the emergency aid package for Ukraine and Israel, as well as avoiding a government shutdown next month, according to an anonymous White House official. The top four leaders include House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Biden is summoning congressional leaders to the White House to talk Ukraine and government funding
President Joe Biden will convene the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the emergency aid package for Ukraine and Israel, as well as avoiding a government shutdown next month.
 
President Joe Biden speaks to the National Governors Association during an event in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden tells governors he’s eyeing executive action on immigration, seems ‘frustrated’ with lawyers
President Joe Biden has told the nation’s governors that he’s exploring what executive actions he can take to address migration across the southern border after a bipartisan deal collapsed in Congress this month.
 
President Joe Biden arrives on Marine One to attend a fundraiser in San Francisco, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The White House is weighing executive actions on the border — with immigration powers used by Trump
The White House is considering using provisions of federal immigration law repeatedly tapped by former President Donald Trump to unilaterally enact a sweeping crackdown at the southern border.
 
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