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Biden Follows Debate Attacks With Ad Mocking Buttigieg

Former mayor agrees he's no Obama in answering former vice president

(Newser) - Pete Buttigieg took his share of shots from his Democratic presidential rivals in their debate Friday night , and that wasn't the end of it. A new online campaign ad for Joe Biden mockingly contrasts his experience in working to pass the Affordable Care Act and cut the Iran nuclear...

Where We're at in Iowa: 71% of Results Are In

Buttigieg leads, with Sanders close behind

(Newser) - Better late than never: The Iowa Democratic Party has released more results from Monday night's Democratic caucuses. After technical glitches with a mobile app used for reporting the results, not much has changed from Tuesday afternoon's rankings, when 62% of precincts had been reported. Per the New York ...

Jill Biden Fires Back at 'Friend' Lindsey Graham

'I don't know what happened to Lindsey. ... He's changed'

(Newser) - Lindsey Graham's repeated criticism of Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine appears to have cost him an old friendship. "Well, you know, Lindsey—I don't know what happened to Lindsey," Jill Biden said on CNN Monday. "We used to be great friends and friends...

GOP Senator Warns of 'President Biden' Impeachment

Sen. Joni Ernst suggests it could happen on Day 1 of a Biden presidency

(Newser) - "I think this door of impeachable whatever has been opened," said Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst—and it wasn't just a statement, but a warning. In Sunday comments to Bloomberg News , the Republican suggested that should Joe Biden end up winning the presidency, a GOP effort to impeach...

Trump Lawyers Target Obama, Biden
Trump Lawyers Target
Obama, Biden
THE RUNDOWN
Jan 28, 2020 8:07 AM CST

Trump Lawyers Target Obama, Biden

They argue that the Obama administration was the one that abused power

(Newser) - Much of the second day of President Trump's impeachment defense focused not on the president's actions, but on the previous administration. In what Politico calls "an alternate-reality impeachment of his political rivals," Trump lawyers Pam Bondi and Eric Herschmann argued that former President Obama and Joe...

Biden: Sanders Campaign Is Circulating 'Doctored' Video

It's not actually doctored, but is taken out of context

(Newser) - Joe Biden has called for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign to “disown” a video that some Sanders supporters say shows the former vice president endorsing Republican calls to cut Social Security and Medicare, the AP reports. “There’s a little doctored video going around ... put out by one of...

Rand Paul to Fellow GOPers: Careful on Vote in Trump Trial

Warns Republican senators their vote on witnesses could threaten their reelection runs

(Newser) - President Trump's impeachment trial officially begins Thursday in the Senate, and at least four Republican senators will need to vote with Democrats to introduce new evidence and call witnesses such as John Bolton and Mick Mulvaney, per the Washington Post . And Kentucky's Rand Paul has a warning for...

Firm: Russians Hacked Burisma Amid Impeachment Hearings

Russian military intelligence is implicated, again

(Newser) - "You're looking at a repeat, potentially, of 2016." So says New York Times journalist Matthew Rosenberg, whose reporting indicates that the same Russian hacker group that stole emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman has now hacked Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company at the heart of President...

AOC: Any Other Country, I Wouldn't Be in Biden's Party

She thinks Democratic party's tent may be too big

(Newser) - New York magazine is out with a profile of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after her first year in office, and the progressive does not sound thrilled about being in the same party as moderates such as, say, Joe Biden. Reporter David Freelander asked about her hypothetical role in Congress if Biden...

Video of Joe Biden Is Deceptively Edited
Misleading
Biden Video
Goes Viral
Jan 3, 2020 6:35 AM CST

Misleading Biden Video Goes Viral

Line from former VP's speech addressing domestic violence was taken out of context

(Newser) - A video of Joe Biden making its way around the internet has gone viral—but it is a cherry-picked clip from a longer Biden speech that misrepresents what he was really saying, putting renewed focus on the issue of misinformation and the role it may play during the 2020 campaign....

Biden Won't Rule Out Having a Republican VP

'I would, but I can't think of one now'

(Newser) - Joe Biden says he's open to sharing the Democratic ticket with a Republican if he's nominated, but there's one problem: He can't think of a suitable one. A woman at an event in New Hampshire on Monday told Biden that her 21-year-old son was wondering if...

Biden Says He Won't Comply With Senate Subpoena

Candidate argues his testimony would just be a diversion that the news media would fall for

(Newser) - "The grounds for them to call me would be overwhelmingly specious," Joe Biden said in detailing why he wouldn't honor a Senate subpoena to testify in President Trump's impeachment trial. Summoning him would just be a diversion, Biden told the Des Moines Register editorial board Friday....

Biden Fires Back After Sarah Sanders Mocks Stutter
Sarah Sanders Apologizes
After Mocking Biden Stutter
DEMOCRATIC DEBATE
Dec 20, 2019 2:00 AM CST

Sarah Sanders Apologizes After Mocking Biden Stutter

'I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I hhhave absolutely no idea what Biden is talking about' she said

(Newser) - Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders clashed over health care in Thursday night's Democratic debate —but an exchange with another Sanders is getting a lot of attention. After Biden demonstrated a stutter while talking about helping children with who struggle with stutters, former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders...

Doctor Says Joe Biden Is &#39;Healthy,&#39; &#39;Vigorous&#39;
Joe Biden Releases
Medical Report
Dec 18, 2019 12:11 AM CST

Joe Biden Releases Medical Report

He is a 'healthy, vigorous, 77-year-old male'

(Newser) - During an argument at a recent campaign stop in Iowa , Joe Biden challenged an 83-year-old retired farmer to a push-up contest. A doctor's report released by the Biden campaign Tuesday suggests he probably would have won. The report prepared by physician Kevin C. O'Connor states that Biden is...

Biden Denies Plans to Only Serve One Term

'I don't have plans on one term. I'm not even there yet'

(Newser) - Joe Biden is pushing back against claims that he is considering a pledge to only serve one term . Biden, who recently turned 77, would become the oldest president in US history if he is elected next year—and if he won a second term, he would be 87 by the...

Biden Signals He Doesn't Want 2 Terms

But there's debate on whether to admit that fact publicly

(Newser) - Joe Biden badly wants to be president, but apparently not for eight years. The 77-year-old former vice president has indicated to aides that he would serve only a single term if elected president next fall, Politico reports. "He's going to be 82 years old in four years and...

Most Notable Quotes of 2019 Have Been Chosen

At the top of the list: one from the July 25 Trump-Zelensky call

(Newser) - Activist Greta Thunberg and actress Emma Watson have two of the 10 most notable quotes of 2019, according to a librarian at Yale Law School. But it's the line at the center of the impeachment inquiry—"I would like you to do us a favor, though"—from...

Biden to Iowa Voter: 'You're a Damn Liar!'

He challenged 83-year-old to a push-up contest

(Newser) - Joe Biden called an Iowa voter a "damn liar" and challenged him to a push-up contest during an angry exchange Thursday. Biden lashed out at the man, who identified himself as an 83-year-old non-Republican retired farmer, after he accused him of sending son Hunter Biden to work for a...

Biden Picks Up Backing of a Former Nominee

John Kerry endorses the former VP

(Newser) - Joe Biden picked up a notable endorsement on Thursday from someone who once won the Democratic nomination. Former Secretary of State John Kerry backed his longtime friend for the White House, reports the Boston Globe . "The world is broken,” said Kerry, "and I believe very deeply that...

Biden Floats a Possible Running Mate

He's open to the idea of Kamala Harris

(Newser) - Joe Biden was asked on Wednesday whether he'd consider picking Kamala Harris as his running mate. "Of course I would," he told reporters. Politico suggests it might be more than a press-friendly reply. It reports he publicly praised Harris on Tuesday and Wednesday, and his words on...

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