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Biden says he will appoint a commission on court alternatives

In the interview, Biden said: “There’s a number of alternatives that are—go well beyond packing. […] The last thing we need to do is turn the Supreme Court into just a political football, whoever has the most votes gets whatever they want. Presidents come and go. Supreme Court justices stay for generations.” So on the “packing”

Mark Meadows Says Hunter Biden Probe Not a Priority Before Election Day

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said a possible investigation into Hunter Biden is not a priority before Election Day, one day after President Donald Trump urged his attorney general to investigate Biden’s business dealings. “It’s not necessarily at the top of our priority list in this last 13 days, but as we’re looking

A Democratic Super PAC Surge Helps Biden Expand His Map

Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Nick Corasaniti, your host on Tuesdays for our coverage of all things media and messaging.Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday.Until a month ago, the biggest-spending Democratic super PAC in the general election had aired only

From her secret identity to how Joe Biden’s wife could become first career First Lady, everything you need to know

Jill Biden could become first first lady to have full-time job outside White House (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)She may be on the verge of becoming America’s first lady if her husband wins the White House, but don’t expect Dr Jill Biden to give up her teaching career.For Dr Biden, who has four

The Beastie Boys Ad License A Song For The First Time Ever To Support Joe Biden

The Beastie Boys granted their first-ever ad song license for an ad, and it was to support Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Variety reported: The Beastie Boys had never before licensed any of their songs for an advertisement, but that commercial blackout came to an end during Sunday’s Steelers/Browns game when the sounds of “Sabotage”

The Hunter Biden Emails Story Has Totally Fallen Apart

Writers at The New York Post refused to allow their bylines to be used on the alleged Hunter Biden emails story because they doubted the sourcing and credibility of the materials. Via The New York Times:The New York Post’s front-page article about Hunter Biden on Wednesday was written mostly by a staff reporter who refused

Joe Biden town hall drew more viewers than Trump, early ratings show

Joe Biden’s town hall drew more TV viewers than President Trump’s competing event on Thursday night, according to early figures. A total of 12.7 million viewers tuned in to ABC to watch Biden field questions from voters from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., compared to 10.4 million who watched Trump do the same on NBC,

Trump and Biden Spar From Afar at Town Halls

President Trump spoke positively about an extremist conspiracy-theory group, expressed skepticism about mask-wearing, rebuked his own F.B.I. director and attacked the legitimacy of the 2020 election in a televised town hall forum on Thursday, veering far away from a focused campaign appeal. Instead, he further stoked the country’s political rifts as his Democratic opponent, Joseph

Joe Biden grilled by voter on ‘you ain’t black’ remark at town hall

Joe Biden launched into a nearly incoherent policy rant in response to a question from a young black voter who tossed his infamous “you ain’t black” comment back in his face as he simply asked what the former vice president would do for African Americans if he won. Student Cedric Humphrey from Harrisburg, Pa., who

Trump’s Law And Order Message Flops In The Midwest As Biden Leads In Wisconsin And Minnesota

Donald Trump hoped his new “law and order” campaign strategy would save him in key midwestern battleground states like Wisconsin and even help him carry historically blue Minnesota, but new polling released Saturday shows that his bet isn’t paying off. According to a batch of polls from The New York Times/Siena College, Biden has a

Trump Onslaught Against Biden Falls Short of a Breakthrough

In Minnesota, Mr. Biden was ahead among suburban voters by 20 percentage points. In Wisconsin, that advantage was just five points.More significant for the former vice president is his strength with seniors, an advantage Democrats did not enjoy four years ago. Mr. Biden enjoys a 12-point lead, 52 to 40, among people 65 and older

Progressive groups push House Dems to help Biden resurrect Iran nuclear agreement

The letter was also signed by the Arms Control Association, the progressive Jewish organization J-Street, and foreign policy-focused groups  Just Foreign Policy and Win Without War. […] Rep. Eliot Engel (D–N.Y.), the current chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was one of nineteen House Democrats who joined with Republicans to vote against the [JCPOA]

What to Watch as Biden Observes 9/11 in NY, and He and Trump Go to Shanksville

Joseph R. Biden Jr. will travel to New York and Pennsylvania on Friday to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as he and President Trump put forth radically different visions of what it means to comfort a nation in mourning.Mr. Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, will attend the National September

Biden Pushes a Jobs Plan and Tears Into Trump’s Covid Response in Michigan

WARREN, Mich. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. tore into President Trump on Wednesday over new revelations from a forthcoming book by the journalist Bob Woodward that the president knowingly minimized the risks of the coronavirus, arguing that Mr. Trump had lied to the American public and put lives in danger.Mr. Biden’s remarks came as part

Biden Mocks Trump’s Infamous Ramp Walk. Asks Voters to Compare Their Health.

For a long-time, bashing a political opponents health would be considered out of bounds. That was before the age of Donald Trump, however. The 45th President was downright giddy when he had to opportunity to talk about Hillary Clinton’s bout with pneumonia. Trump has spent the last few months defending his health and mental capacity.

Joe Biden’s China Journey – The New York Times

WASHINGTON — On a steamy August day along the Chinese coast, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. stepped off a minibus at a seaside compound for a series of unusual meetings with China’s Communist Party leaders.At a lunch banquet, Mr. Biden and three other senators argued with Chinese officials about what the O.J. Simpson trial had

What to Watch For on Labor Day From Trump and Biden

LA CROSSE, Wis. — Labor Day is the traditional kickoff to the fall campaign season, but this year the holiday represents something more: the first time both candidates for vice president will be on the trail on the same day in the same state.Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris on Monday will be

Democrat Biden adds former rival Buttigieg, ex-Obama officials to transition team

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Saturday added former Democratic primary rival Pete Buttigieg, along with senior officials who served under President Barack Obama, to an expanded White House transition team.Biden added four new co-chairs to the team led by his longtime ally Ted Kaufman: New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, former Obama

Biden’s Week Gets Even Better As Osama Bin Laden’s Niece Endorses Trump

As Trump is insulting US veterans and troops, he has picked the endorsement of Osama Bin Laden’s niece who claims that only Trump can prevent another 9/11. The New York Post reported:“ISIS proliferated under the Obama/Biden administration, leading to them coming to Europe. Trump has shown he protects America and us by extension from foreign

Joe Biden Just Called Out William Barr For Lying About Russian Election Interference

Vice President Joe Biden called out Attorney General William Barr for lying about Russia not being the biggest threat to the election. Biden was asked about Barr’s claim that China is a bigger threat to the election than Russia, and he answered: No, it’s not consistent with the briefings I have received. He’s a lousy

Trump and Biden to both attend 9/11 Shanksville, PA memorial

President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will both pay their respects at the site of the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the two announced Wednesday. The memorial is located at the site of the attack, where one of the four hijacked planes crashed into

Joe Biden Tells America You’re Paying For Trump’s Failure And Delusions

Joe Biden spoke about safely reopening schools and said that Trump has offered parents and students nothing but failure and delusions. Biden said: American families all across this country are paying the price for his failures. And his administration’s failures. Like many of you, because you’re all reporters, you also have a lot of friends,

Trump says Biden is using ‘enhancement’ drug based on performance

President Trump on Tuesday night said he believes Joe Biden “is on some kind of enhancement” based on the former vice president’s previous debate performances. The president told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that Biden “was horrible” in the Democratic debates, except for the final one when he squared off against Sen. Bernie Sanders. “I watched

Adam Schiff Says Trump Thinks He Can’t Beat Biden Without Russian Help

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Trump is hiding election security briefings because he can’t beat Biden without Russia. Chairman Schiff said on CNN’s State Of The Union, “When you can hide behind documents or withhold documents and not have to answer questions about it, it lets you conceal the truth. And in this

Biden, Dems, BLM Must Embrace and Re-define “Law and Order”

Donald Trump has repeatedly declared himself the “law and order” candidate, wearing this mantle proudly. At last week’s Republican National Convention, the array of speakers trumpeted this slogan again and again as the dominant chord of Trump’s otherwise ill-defined policy platform. “Law and order” isn’t just the definitive slogan on Trump’s candidacy; it’s deployed as

Biden, Speaking to National Guard Group, Takes Aim at Republican Criticism on Crime

But if Mr. Sanders’s remarks were intended to unify his supporters behind Mr. Biden nine weeks before the general election, he also went out of his way to present Mr. Biden as a moderate. All of the Biden policies that Mr. Sanders noted were widely acceptable liberal proposals. Mr. Sanders made plain that he and

Registered Foreign Agent Pam Bondi Says Biden Is Corrupt

Chip SomodevillaFormer Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, a registered lobbyist for a foreign government that Donald Trump’s Justice Department has implicated in a corruption scandal, used her speech at the Republican convention on Tuesday to criticize former vice president Joe Biden for alleged self-dealing abroad.“I fought corruption and I know what it looks like, whether

Scott Walker Blames Joe Biden For Wisconsin Riots After Jacob Blake Shooting

Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker tried to blame Joe Biden and Democrats for the unrest in Wisconsin after the Jacob Blake shooting. Walker said on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper:Silence is complicit. While the vice president, Republicans across the country spoke out against the travesty that happened in Minnesota with George Floyd as did

Closing Night at the D.N.C.: Joe Biden Accepts Democratic Nomination

Joseph R. Biden Jr. accepted the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday night, beginning a general-election challenge to President Trump that Democrats cast this week as a rescue mission for a country equally besieged by a crippling pandemic and a White House defined by incompetence, racism and abuse of power.Speaking before a row of flags in

Biden Speaks Once More, With Feeling

“You know me.” It’s one of Joseph R. Biden’s most-used lines, a folksy introduction, a deflection and a defense.Fact-check: It’s true. Mr. Biden has been around long enough to be on his third presidential run in four decades. Long enough to have had a dubious role in the 1991 Senate sexual harassment testimony of Anita