With the number of US coronavirus cases now topping 2 million, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday blasted a new President Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic, saying Trump “still refuses to take the virus seriously.” Noting that the number of COVID-19 cases continued to rise in more than …
Read More »Biden says military will escort Trump from White House if he loses 2020 election and refuses to leave
Joe Biden has claimed that the US military will escort president Donald Trump from the White House, if he loses in November’s presidential election and refuses to leave. When asked during an interview with Trevor Noah, of The Daily Show on Wednesday, if he has thought about what would happen …
Read More »Leaked Audio: Democrats Think Joe Biden Is “Fine in the Basement”
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said during a video conference Saturday that Democrats believe former Vice President Joe Biden is “fine in the basement” and has the best bet of winning the election if he makes small but strategic statements. Fox News obtained a video Tuesday of McAuliffe making the …
Read More »US Sen. Cory Booker said he’s “concerned” Trump might refuse to concede if he loses the 2020 presidential race.
Sen. Cory Booker said Wednesday that he’s “concerned” President Donald Trump might refuse to concede if he loses the 2020 presidential race and declared that he’d “sooner die” than let that happen. “I would sooner die. And I mean that very seriously, I would sooner die than to see my …
Read More »CNN Poll: Trump losing ground to Biden amid a chaotic week
As protesters gather daily near the White House and the coronavirus pandemic rages on, the American public is souring on President Donald Trump. A new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS finds Trump’s approval rating down 7 points in the last month as the President falls further behind presumptive Democratic nominee …
Read More »Snark-filled #Trumpslogans trends on Twitter amid reports US president is mulling new catchphrase
The iconic red MAGA cap may soon be out of fashion, amid reports that Donald Trump will roll out a fresh slogan for November’s election. Twitter couldn’t resist offering some sarcastic suggestions for the president’s re-brand. It’s hard to imagine Donald Trump parting ways with his signature line, “Make America …
Read More »Some 80 percent of Americans say country ‘out of control,’ poll finds
An overwhelming majority of American voters believe that things are “out of control” in the country, according to a new poll. The newest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll posed the question “When it comes to the country these days, do you generally feel that things in the country are…,” to …
Read More »Video: Joe Biden formally wins Democratic Party nomination
Joe Biden has formally won the Democratic Party nomination to challenge Donald Trump in November’s presidential election. The former vice president declared on Friday that he had won the 1,991 delegates needed to secure the nomination after primaries and caucuses in 42 states. A surge of mail ballots carried Mr …
Read More »Biden wins enough delegates to clinch US Democratic nomination
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden secured enough delegates to formally clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, setting the stage for a challenge to President Donald Trump in the November election. A candidate needs at least 1,991 delegates to secure the nomination. Biden crossed the threshold when results came late on …
Read More »Joe Biden says ‘10-15 percent’ of Americans ‘not very good people’
Presidential candidate Joe Biden has accused Donald Trump of playing to a small sliver of the American public that consists of “not very good people” – echoing comments by previous candidates who sought to explain rifts in the electorate at times of bitter division. “Do we really think this is …
Read More »Trump Retweets Fiery Ted Cruz Speech Accusing Obama of Illegally Going After His Political Opponents
The former bitter 2016 campaign rivals teamed up to go after the Democrats amid the release of previously classified documents showing that members of the Obama White House allegedly began to probe and try to undermine incoming Trump administration officials using ‘Russian collusion’ claims, despite a lack of any actual …
Read More »Biden vows to heal U.S. racial wounds, slams Trump as divisive
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday vowed in a speech to try to heal the racial divide in America and blasted President Donald Trump’s response to protests over racism and police misconduct. Speaking in Philadelphia – a city rocked by sometimes violent demonstrations in recent days – the former …
Read More »Biden says ‘you ain’t black’ if you aren’t supporting him over Trump
Joe Biden, the presumptive presidential candidate for the Democratic party in the 2020 election, told a black reporter that African-Americans who don’t know if they’re on his side or Trump’s “ain’t black.” The exchange happened on an episode of The Breakfast Club, a radio show featuring celebrity interviews during which …
Read More »The 2020 US election will be the most expensive ever
Expect unprecedented spending as President Trump and Joe Biden kickstart their campaigns. It will be to no great effect, though, as opinions on both are set in stone. The cost of the 2020 presidential campaign had already outpaced the total cost of the 2016 presidential campaign by nearly $20 million …
Read More »Barack Obama calls Trump’s coronavirus response a ‘chaotic disaster’ in leaked recording
Former US President Barack Obama has issued a stern critique of the Trump administration’s coronavirus response, calling it a “chaotic disaster”. The comments were made on a 30-minute private phone call between the former president and members of the Obama Alumni Association, according to Yahoo News, which obtained audio from …
Read More »Joe Biden denies sexually assaulting staff assistant Tara Reade
US Democratic candidate Joe Biden has flatly denied sexually assaulting a former staff assistant, Tara Reade, nearly 30 years ago. “I’m saying unequivocally: it never, never happened,” he said of the allegations during a TV interview on Friday. He asked for a search of the Senate archives for any record …
Read More »Trump mocks Palestinian-American’s 2020 bid
US President Donald Trump has mocked a Palestinian-American lawmaker’s bid for the White House in the 2020 presidential election. Representative Justin Amash, the first Republican in Congress who supported the impeachment of President Trump and had to leave the party, launched a website announcing the exploratory committee for a Libertarian …
Read More »New York state cancels presidential primary over coronavirus risk
The state of New York on Monday canceled its presidential primary, which had already been delayed from late April to June 23, over concerns voting was an unnecessary risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic. With former Vice President Joe Biden the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee, Douglas Kellner, one of two of …
Read More »Video: Nancy Pelosi endorses Joe Biden in US election
U.S. House Of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has endorsed Joe Biden for president, according to a video statement released by her on Monday. Pelosi’s endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president follows that of U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, former president Barack Obama and former …
Read More »Trump claims Biden too scared to debate him – after VP challenges him
Donald Trump claimed Joe Biden “doesn’t want to debate” him because of the coronavirus pandemic during a press conference on Thursday — just hours after the former vice president suggested he’s eager for the shot. The president referred to the presumptive Democratic nominee as a “sleepy guy in the basement …
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