President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden had their first chance to challenge each other face to face. They did — a lot. Hardly a minute went by in the 90-minute brawl without one of the candidates angrily interrupting the other, whether on the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court, the economy or anything […] Read more
Joe Biden embraced his blue-collar roots and his political centrism during a town hall hosted by CNN in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania. On question after question Thursday night, Biden replied with answers aimed directly at potential “Trump-Biden voters,” whose defection from the Democratic Party in 2016 helped deliver narrow victories to Donald Trump in […] Read more
22:15 ET – Trump: ‘They’re Democrat-run cities. It is what it is.’ At a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump blamed Congressional Democrats for wanting “a bailout of Democrat-run states” for the stalemate over a coronavirus relief bill. ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, the moderator of the town hall, pressed Trump on why he keeps […] Read more
President Donald Trump’s fawning relati0nship with U.S. oil and gas companies has taken a momentary pause, following Trump’s decision to extend an offshore drilling moratorium in the southern United States for ten more years. With the coastlines of Florida, South Carolina and Georgia now off-limits, the oil sector has found itself in rare moment of […] Read more
The 2016 election clearly left an impression on Pennsylvania voters — and right now, they’re apparently downright skittish. © Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images A new Monmouth poll shows presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden with a 13-point lead in Pennsylvania, making it yet another swing state with good polling news for the former VP. But it also seems that […] Read more
President Donald Trump on Thursday launched his most direct attacks to date on the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice. Trump, seizing on a quote by a man who runs a fringe Black Lives Matter knock-off group, and a chant that is not popular with protesters, suggested in tweets that the loosely organized […] Read more
President Trump is in a political hole and has a lot of ground to make up over the next five months if he hopes to win another term, an NPR analysis of the Electoral College map finds. Given his handling of the coronavirus and protests over racism and police brutality in the first six months […] Read more
Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis ripped into his former boss President Donald Trump in a scathing Wednesday night statement. “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis wrote in a statement published by […] Read more
The economy is a key 2020 election issue The economy is a key issue for independent voters, with theelectionsobserver.com survey finding 48% citing the economy as a top issue they will vote on in 2020. But the roughly one-third of independents who already lean Democratic — an assumption based on existing national polling — can be […] Read more
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended her decade-long record of voting by mail, arguing Wednesday that her public opposition to expanding mail-in voting for other people is not incompatible with her personal use of mail-in ballots. “Absentee voting has the word absent in it for a reason. It means you’re absent from the jurisdiction […] Read more
