President-elect Joe Biden addressed the nation hours after he secured an Electoral College victory. In the speech, he praised the strength of America’s democracy, called on the nation to unite and spoke about the challenges his administration will face. “Once again, in America, the rule of law, our constitution, and …
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Lady Gaga offered one final, prominent endorsement of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris — and yet another critique of President Trump — during an election eve campaign rally Monday in Pittsburgh. “To all the women and all the men with daughters and sisters and mothers — everybody, no matter how …
Read More »Mike Pence Spouts Copaganda in Convention Speech, Promises to Hold the 'Thin Blue Line'
In his convention speech Wednesday night, Vice President Mike Pence backed cops to the hilt, while baselessly warning that a Biden administration would leave America unprotected. Pence even invoked a line from the mythology of American policing — that cops represent a fragile barrier between social order and unbridled violence. …
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WASHINGTON —There were no gut punches at House Intelligence Committee’s first public hearing of impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens and a right-wing conspiracy theory about the 2016 election. But that doesn’t mean the hearing, the first of several, was a dud. Quite …
Read More »Biden Calls Female Moderator 'Sweetheart' After Defending LGBTQ Record
Democratic presidential hopefuls appeared at presidential forum on LGBTQ issues that took place in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday night. Candidates including Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg were lauded for their comfortability and familiarity with the issues—Warren, notably, read a list of 18 transgender women of …
Read More »Joe Biden's Lead is Sizable (But Shrinking) in New National Poll
A day after a Monmouth University poll found longtime frontrunner Joe Biden trailing Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, an Emerson University poll has the former vice president on top by a comfortable margin. Conducted between August 24th-26th with a 3.9 percent margin of error, the poll has 31 percent of …
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