Donald Trump likes to refer to Joe Biden as “Sleepy Joe,” but apparently he was the one who got tired first Thursday night. The two presidential candidates held dueling town halls on rival networks ― Trump on NBC, Biden on ABC ― but it’s what they did after their events […]
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The rapper and producer says he’s starting a new party ‘to help advance a political agenda that addresses the needs of Black people.’ Sean “Diddy” Combs said Friday he’s supporting Democratic nominee Joe Biden for president, while also starting a Black political party. “I’m launching one of the boldest things […]
Good morning. Election Day is in 19 days. Do you know how you’ll cast your ballot? Today’s biggest news reflects the issues front-and-center for American voters, from health care to climate events to the coronavirus. And while this evening’s scheduled debate which may have dived into the issues was canceled, two separate town halls – […]
“Everyone’s been wondering how you campaign in a pandemic, and we’re trying to show them how,” says Eric Schultz, a senior adviser to the former president. Obama will spend much of the next few weeks texting, tweeting, and recording web videos. He’s agreed to a few interviews with podcast hosts […]
Pembroke Pines, Fla. — With Election Day just three weeks away, President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden concentrated Tuesday on battleground states both see as critical to clinching an Electoral College victory, tailoring their travel to best motivate voters who could cast potentially decisive ballots. Biden was in Florida […]
Jill Biden will make her first visit of the general election to North Carolina on Tuesday when she visits Greenville and Fayetteville to campaign for her husband, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, his campaign announced Monday. Jill Biden will host a get-out-the-vote rally at Pitt Community College in Greenville at […]
Culinary Union members Maria Magana, left, and Atilano Salgado go canvassing in Las Vegas. (Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times) On a blazing hot afternoon, two canvassers recently went door to door in a working-class neighborhood of east Las Vegas, bearing masks, campaign fliers and the weight of Democratic […]
(CNN) — Joe Biden will be tested more frequently for COVID-19 and intends to move forward with in-person campaigning, following news of President Donald Trump and several individuals in his orbit testing positive, sources tell CNN. The Democratic nominee will receive a test each time he travels, a source familiar with the Democratic nominee’s testing said. […]
Grand Rapids — At the end of a week that shook the race for president, Democratic nominee Joe Biden returned Friday to Michigan, where he said the nation must come together to get COVID-19 under control. Biden’s visit — his second to the state in less than a month — came the same […]
Last week, a Senate Intelligence Committee report detailed how the son of a major presidential candidate, who has an extensive history of shady foreign business dealings, received a $3.5-million wire transfer from the wife of a Russian politician. The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and most major media […]
With Election Day just a little over a month away, the showdown between President Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden is coming to a head. Following Tuesday night’s raucous and fiery debate in Cleveland — Biden called Trump the “worst president ever,” while Trump took shots at the former vice president over his son’s […]
Joe Biden boards a plane at the airport in New Castle, Del., Monday en route to a campaign appearance in Wisconsin. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press) With the help of lots of cash from Californians, including past Republican donors, Joe Biden is eclipsing President Trump in fundraising as they head […]
For the first time this election, Joe Biden is sitting on the biggest pile of cash — and he’s vastly outspending President Donald Trump, too. Biden is entering the final stretch of the general election with $141 million more in the bank than Trump, a stunning reversal of fortunes from […]
WAYZATA, Minn. (AP) — For such a volatile year, the White House race between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden has been remarkably consistent. With Election Day just eight weeks away, Biden is maintaining the same comfortable lead in most national polls that he enjoyed through the summer. […]
WAUWATOSA, Wis. (AP) — When Jill Biden introduced herself to millions of Americans during last month’s Democratic National Convention, she did so from a high school where she once taught English near her Delaware home. Since then, she’s visited a classroom that would otherwise be filled with elementary school children, […]
Democratic nominee Joe Biden is filling his calendar with in-person campaign events as the race shifts into high gear. Biden, speaking with teachers in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, kicked off his education tour, where he plans to make a combination of virtual and in-person stops at schools in major […]
Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden will travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin on Thursday, his campaign said, after a controversial visit by Donald Trump to the city at the heart of fresh protests against racism and police brutality. “Vice President Biden will hold a community meeting in Kenosha to bring together Americans […]
Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden will travel Thursday to Kenosha, Wisconsin — the city at the heart of fresh US protests against racism and police brutality — in a push to help it “heal” after a controversial visit by Donald Trump. “This is about making sure that we move forward,” […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — After spending a pandemic spring and summer tethered almost entirely to his Delaware home, Joe Biden plans to take his presidential campaign to battleground states after Labor Day in his bid to unseat President Donald Trump. No itinerary is set, according to the Democratic nominee’s campaign, but […]
It’s official. Joe Biden is no longer the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential candidate. And this week, Donald J. Trump became the Republicans’ official nominee, too. We’ve been enduring these campaigns for nearly two years now. Most democracies seem capable of selecting leaders in about six weeks. These next and blessedly […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democrats hoping to create a surge of enthusiasm behind Joe Biden’s presidential bid will look to Wednesday’s convention headliners to broaden the party’s focus from a multipart rebuke of President Donald Trump to a message of change. Former President Barack Obama, a transformational figure for the […]
The second day of the 2020 Democratic National Convention saw the party formally nominate Joe Biden as its presidential candidate and, of course, Biden formally accept the job. But it wasn’t the only big moment of the evening. Like the previous night, it saw a cross-political sampling of speakers (like […]