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Tucker Carlson Offers Rare Apology
Tucker Carlson
Offers Rare Apology
Apr 4, 2019 8:35 AM CDT

Tucker Carlson Offers Rare Apology

It has to do with Joe Biden

(Newser) - It's not often Tucker Carlson offers up an apology, let alone a "sincere" one, though that's what the Fox News host said he wanted to do Wednesday. Carlson kicked off his show by saying he wanted to begin with an apology "that has to do with...

Joe Biden: 'Social Norms Have Begun to Change'

The former VP explains his 'gestures of support and encouragement'

(Newser) - Joe Biden tweeted a video Wednesday giving his side of the story—that is, reacting to accusations he gets too touchy-feely with women on the job. "Today I want to talk about gestures of support and encouragement that I have made to women and some men and made them...

Trump Mocks Biden as 2 More Women Come Forward

'You having a good time, Joe?'

(Newser) - President Trump gleefully brought up the Joe Biden misconduct allegations at a GOP fundraising event in Washington on Tuesday night. The president told the National Republican Congressional Committee event that "socialists" were behind claims of unwanted touching from Biden, whom he described as the "only non sort of...

Nancy Pelosi Offers Advice to Joe Biden

Speaker says he should join the 'straight-arm club' and shake hands instead of hug

(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi doesn't think Joe Biden's new controversy should keep him out of the 2020 race. "I don't think it's disqualifying," she told reporters Tuesday, reports Politico . But the House speaker, a strong backer of the #MeToo movement, passed along some related advice to...

For Biden, a 2nd Accuser, Plus 'Smears and Forgeries'

Nancy Pelosi says he should still be able to run

(Newser) - More trouble for Joe Biden: A second woman has come forward to say the former vice president touched her inappropriately. Connecticut's Amy Lappos tells the Hartford Courant that Biden made her feel extremely uncomfortable at a 2009 fundraiser for Rep. Jim Himes. "It wasn't sexual, but he...

Woman in This Biden Photo Says People Got It Wrong

Stephanie Carter says former VP is a close friend who was giving comfort, not being creepy

(Newser) - Joe Biden is taking serious heat for being too touchy-feely with women over the years, but one of the women in a much-trafficked photo is coming to his defense. Stephanie Carter, wife of former defense chief Ash Carter, says people are misconstruing an image of the former VP whispering into...

Dems React to New Biden Accusation
Dems React to New
Biden Accusation
Mar 31, 2019 5:15 PM CDT

Dems React to New Biden Accusation

So far, no big names are coming to his defense

(Newser) - Former Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday defended his interactions with women, saying he doesn't believe he's ever acted inappropriately. But a Nevada politician's assertion that Biden's kiss on the back of her head made her feel uncomfortable prompted some Democrats to question whether the 76-year-old...

Biden Responds to Accusation About His Behavior

Former Nevada candidate says kiss left her embarrassed and confused

(Newser) - Accused of inappropriate conduct at a 2014 campaign event, Joe Biden said Sunday he didn't believe that he acted inappropriately. But "if it is suggested I did so," he said in a statement, "I will listen respectfully." Lucy Flores was a Democrat running for lieutenant...

Ex-Lawmaker: Biden's Actions During Rally 'Mortified' Me

Lucy Flores says ex-VP put hands on her shoulders, kissed her head at 2014 event in Nev.

(Newser) - In 2014, then-Vice President Joe Biden helped Lucy Flores campaign in Nevada for a shot at becoming the state's lieutenant governor. But something Flores says happened between the two at a Nov. 1 campaign rally that year left Flores feeling "embarrassed," "shocked," and "confused,...

Biden Not Exactly Praised for His Latest Anita Hill Comments

Pundits say the topic could be a real 2020 problem for him

(Newser) - Joe Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the 1991 Senate hearing in which Anita Hill alleged sexual harassment at the hands of then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. On Tuesday, Biden expressed regrets—and not for the first time—for his handling of the hearing. In what the...

Beto Tops All Candidates in First-Day Fundraising

Campaign reports pulling in $6.1M, just ahead of Bernie Sanders

(Newser) - When he ran against Ted Cruz for the Senate, Beto O'Rourke generated a huge amount of support from grass-roots fundraising. As a presidential candidate, he appears to be starting off the same way. O'Rourke's campaign said Monday he had raised $6.1 million in the first 24...

Crowd Cheers Biden&#39;s 2020 Hint
Biden Offers a Big Hint on 2020
Mar 12, 2019 2:15 PM CDT

Biden Offers a Big Hint on 2020

Former vice president leads Democrats in polls

(Newser) - "Run, Joe, run," firefighters chanted at Joe Biden during a speech Tuesday. "Save it a little longer; I may need it in a few weeks. Be careful what you wish for," the former vice president told them, NPR reports. He hasn't announced whether he'll...

Trump Is Worried About One Candidate the Most

Joe Biden; his campaign, however, is focusing on Harris, Warren, and Booker, reports Politico

(Newser) - As the Democratic field begins to take shape for 2020, Politico reports that President Trump is worried about Joe Biden—who remains undecided about a run—more than any other candidate. Trump reportedly thinks that Biden would give him the toughest run in a general election, but that's assuming...

Biden Ridicules Negative Story in Times
Biden Has
Sarcastic
Reply to NYT
Jan 24, 2019 5:03 PM CST

Biden Has Sarcastic Reply to NYT

'Bless me father for I have sinned,' says former VP after account of him praising GOP lawmaker

(Newser) - Joe Biden isn't just shrugging off a negative story that appeared this week in the New York Times , he's scoffing at its premise with sarcasm. "Bless me father for I have sinned," Biden said Thursday in a speech before the US Conference of Mayors, per Politico...

Biden Has Been Steering Clear of Corporate Gigs

He's assembled a 2020 'campaign-in-waiting'

(Newser) - With 13 months to go until the Iowa caucuses, Joe Biden hasn't confirmed whether he is planning a White House bid—but in some ways, the former vice president has been preparing for one since leaving office two years ago. In that time, Biden has managed to strike a...

Ex-First Lady Passes Torch to Another as 'Most Admired Woman'

Michelle Obama takes crown from Hillary Clinton, winner since 2002; Barack Obama is men's victor

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton has been named the most admired woman in Gallup's annual survey more than any other since Gallup started asking in 1946: 22 times, to be exact, including for each year since 2002. This year, however, another former first lady has finally knocked Clinton off the hill. Michelle...

2 More Democrats Enter the 2020 Dance

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and former HUD chief Julian Castro

(Newser) - Add two more names to the list of maybe-candidates among Democrats in the 2020 field. Julian Castro , who served as HUD secretary in the Obama administration and is a former mayor of San Antonio, has formed an exploratory committee and will decide by Jan. 12, reports CBS News . "There...

Joe Biden: I'm the 'Most Qualified' to be President

Says he'll decide on a 2020 run on the coming weeks

(Newser) - Joe Biden says he knows who should be the next president: himself. But the former VP says he's not ready to commit to a 2020 run. The comments came Monday during a stop in Montana to plug his book Promise Me, Dad, reports CNN . "I'll be as...

Trump, Biden Rallies Put the Focus on Nevada

Midterm early-voting brings out the big guns

(Newser) - President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential White House challenger in 2020, are making election pushes several hundred miles apart from each other in pivotal Nevada, where early voting was beginning Saturday, the AP reports. Trump was wrapping up a visit to Western states with an...

Anita Hill's Family Has Running Joke About Biden

It involves the doorbell and a long-delayed apology

(Newser) - The Brett Kavanaugh controversy has drawn lots of comparisons to the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearing of 1991, and as Politico notes, that's not such great news for Joe Biden. The former VP was not only on the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time, he was actually the chairman, and...

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