Tag: Joe Biden
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BIDEN CONTRACTS COVID
President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, finally contracting the virus whose control and ultimate defeat he had made a centerpiece of his campaign for the White House.Most Read from BloombergBiden’s illness, coming after a five-day trip to the Middle East during which he made few efforts to avoid infection, highlights the endurance…
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BIDEN TO HOST AFRICAN LEADERS
The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit will be held Dec. 13-15 and demonstrate a commitment by the U.S. to Africa that Biden described as “enduring.” President Barack Obama held a similar summit in Washington in 2014, when Biden was his vice president. Go deeper
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‘OBSTRUCTION’
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. said on Monday that his transition team had faced “obstruction” from the Defense Department, raising new concerns about the Trump administration’s cooperation with transition officials with just over three weeks until Inauguration Day. “Right now, we just aren’t getting all the information that we need from the outgoing administration in…
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BIDEN DEFEATS TRUMP
Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday and offered himself to the nation as a leader who “seeks not to divide, but to unify” a country gripped by a historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil. But Biden used his acceptance…
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TRUMP-BIDEN DEBATE FACT CHECK
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden sparred Thursday in their final presidential debate, hoping to sway undecided voters in the Nov. 3 election. A look at how their statements from Nashville, Tennessee, stack up with the facts: BIDEN: “Not one single person with private insurance would lose their insurance under my plan, nor…
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OBAMA URGES VOTERS TO SHOW UP FOR BIDEN
Former President Barack Obama blasted President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, his response to racial unrest and his fundamental unfitness for the job in his first in-person campaign pitch Wednesday for Joe Biden, his former vice president. With less than two weeks until Election Day, Obama delivered a sweeping condemnation of Trump while…
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EARLY VOTING SURGES PAST 35 MILLION MARK
President Donald Trump planned to rally his supporters in the swing state of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, as the number of early ballots cast in the contest between him and Democrat Joe Biden passed 35 million with two weeks of voting to go. Trump’s trip comes the day before Biden’s old boss – former President Barack…
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FORMER RNC CHAIR MICHAEL STEELE ON WHY HE’S VOTING FOR BIDEN
As an adult, I worked to advance those principles, first as GOP chair in one of the nation’s most Democratic counties, and, later, as party chair in one of the most Democratic states. The Republican Party, like our nation, has an animating purpose — promoting freedom. President Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 Cooper Union speech detailed the…
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TRUMP AND BIDEN WILL HAVE MICS CUT DURING OPPONENT’S ANSWERS IN FINAL DEBATE
President Donald Trump and Joe Biden will have their microphones cut off during Thursday’s final presidential debate while their opponent delivers initial two-minute answers to each debate topic, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday. On Monday, Trump’s campaign sent a scathing letter objecting to the selected topics for Thursday’s debate and that both campaigns…
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BIDEN CAMPAIGN USING INSTAGRAM TO MOBILIZE CELEBRITY SUPPORTERS
The Biden campaign is launching a new initiative today that will draft Hollywood celebrities for Instagram Live chats with campaign officials and other Biden supporters. The campaign, called #TeamJoeTalks, is an attempt to open up a new front on social media, drawing on celebrities’ Instagram followers to help find and motivate voters while large parts…
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DEMOCRATS, BIDEN LOOK TO ACCELERATE SOUTHERN POLITICAL SHIFT
Southern Democrats are pairing a demographically diverse slate of candidates for state and congressional offices with presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden, a 77-year-old white man they believe can appeal to what remains perhaps the nation’s most culturally conservative region. “There’s so much opportunity for everyone in this region,” said Jaime Harrison, Democratic challenger to South…
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BIDEN AGAINST DEFUNDING
Joe Biden’s campaign said in a statement Monday that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee does not support defunding police, but is pushing for police reform and more spending on community, school, health and social programs. The statement rejects claims from President Trump’s re-election campaign that the former vice president would undercut the ability of police…
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COLIN POWELL ENDORSES BIDEN
Former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell on Sunday endorsed Democratic former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, becoming the first major Republican to publicly back Donald Trump’s rival ahead of November’s election. Powell, who led the U.S. military during the 1991 Gulf War under Republican former President George…
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HOW BIDEN EARNED NOMINATION
The former vice president came across as easily blindsided at debates. The crowds at his presidential campaign speeches were far from stadium size. Other Democratic candidates such as Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg each had moments of radiating a kinetic energy, while Biden appeared to be conserving his resources. But Biden had name…
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BIDEN SECURES NOMINATION
Joe Biden won enough delegates on Saturday to become the Democratic presidential nominee in November’s election against President Donald Trump, NBC News projects. To win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination on the first ballot at the party’s convention, a candidate must receive support from a majority of pledged delegates — at least 1,991 of the…
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JULIÁN CASTRO ENDORSES JOE BIDEN FOR PRESIDENT
Julián Castro, who ended his presidential campaign in early January, endorsed Joe Biden today with a call for “real reform to address our broken policing system.” Go deeper
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BIDEN’S CHALLENGE IN BREAKING THROUGH
President Donald Trump spent much of Sunday using Twitter as a bullhorn to urge “law and order” and tougher action by police against protesters around the country. Joe Biden quietly visited the site of protests in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, and talked to some of the demonstrators. Earlier, he wrote a post on Medium…
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WHY VAL DEMINGS MAY BE THE BEST RUNNING MATE FOR JOE BIDEN RIGHT NOW
The very public pool of women that Biden has said he is considering as his VP pick have included, from the beginning, prominent women of color, like Stacey Abrams and Kamala Harris, along with Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. More recently, the names of Val Demings, the black Congresswoman from Florida;…
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BIDEN: ‘NONE OF US CAN BE SILENT’ ON RACE AFTER GEORGE FLOYD KILLING
Former Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that the death in Minnesota of a black man who had been detained by police exposed racial injustice that “none of us can turn away” from, urging Americans to treat the volatile national moment as a turning point for race relations in the U.S. Biden said Floyd, a…
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