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Aug 17 2020
Opinion
Unconventional convention a crucial moment for Biden
It may be unfashionable to say, but national party conventions are important -- even when the parties can't convene.
They are among the few nights on the election calendar when a candidate and campaign have the chance to deliver an unfiltered message directly to an audience of tens of millions of Americans. Joe Biden enters his convention with an average polling lead of 9 points, the
CNN (Opinion)Jun 26 2021
News
Why Latter-day Saint Democrats have a harder time breaking into politics
Last December, as then-President-elect Joe Biden was preparing to take office, a group of Latter-day Saint Democrats sent a letter to his transition team asking them to hire some of their own in his forthcoming administration.
“We circulated a letter reminding the Biden transition team of, hey, Latter-day Saints have done a lot of work, we’re here, continue to cultivate us, put us in
Deseret NewsFeb 03 2021
News
House Republicans, divided and angry, meet to decide fate of Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene
When House Republicans meet Wednesday, they'll be at odds over what to do about Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene, controversial figures representing the two wings of an increasingly fractured party.
But the closed-door gathering also could reveal a lot more about the direction of a party openly warring with itself while charting a future without Donald Trump in the White House but
USA TODAYDec 22 2020
News
Congress Passes Major Climate Legislation in Year-End Omnibus
Lawmakers agreed last night to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), the most significant congressional action on climate change in years and a head start for President-elect Joe Biden’s plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions across the economy.
The emission phase-down bill was tucked into the 5,593-page year-end omnibus, which also included a long-anticipated $35 billion energy
Scientific AmericanDec 22 2020
News
Biden To Pick Connecticut Schools Chief Miguel Cardona As Education Secretary
President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Miguel Cardona, the head of Connecticut's public schools, to be his secretary of education, a source familiar with the decision told NPR's Juana Summers. The source was not authorized to speak publicly because the decision has not been announced.
Cardona became the top education official in Connecticut in 2019 after being an assistant
NPR (Online News)Dec 22 2020
News
Report: Social media manipulation affects even US senators
The conversation taking place around two U.S. senators’ verified social media accounts remained vulnerable to manipulation through artificially inflated shares and likes from fake users, even amid heightened scrutiny in the run up to the U.S. presidential election, an investigation by the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence found.
Researchers from the center, a NATO-
Associated PressDec 05 2020
Analysis
Biden bids for activist world role. Will Americans back him?
“America is back.” President-elect Joe Biden’s message to the world has been clear, to friend and foe alike. That could prove easier said than done, though, and one early challenge awaiting the next U.S. administration will serve as a signal.
Unsurprisingly, it is pandemic-related: What will Washington do to distribute promising U.S. and European vaccines in developing countries, amid
Christian Science MonitorJan 05 2021
Fact Check
FactChecking the Georgia Senate Runoffs
Two months after Election Day, control of the U.S. Senate in the 117th Congress comes down to two races in Georgia on Jan. 5. None of the four candidates on the ballot garnered 50% of the vote on Nov. 3, which forced separate runoffs.
In one of the contests, Georgia’s senior senator, Republican David Perdue, is defending his seat against Democrat Jon Ossoff, a media executive and
FactCheck.orgApr 07 2019
News
Mulvaney: Democrats will 'never' see Trump's tax returns
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that Democrats will "never" see President Trump's tax returns."Nor should they. That’s an issue that was already litigated during the election. Voters knew the president could have given his tax returns, they knew that he didn’t, and they elected him anyway," Mulvaney said during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday."
The HillJun 16 2020
Opinion
The Military-Intelligence Complex
The generals and spy chiefs entering the political arena to slam Trump forget that voters chose him — and not them.
Not long after a number of generals and admirals recently weighed in with renewed criticism of the president in orchestrated unison, presidential candidate Joe Biden seemed giddy at their effort. After breezily asserting that “this president is going to try to steal this
Victor Hanson