#Resistance heroine Alyssa Milano is being raked over the coals for backing Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden despite sexual assault allegations, and she’s not the only ‘feminist’ making an exception from #MeToo. Milano, one of the earliest high-profile boosters of the #MeToo hashtag, has refused to drop her support for Biden, despite former Senate aide Tara Reade going public with allegations that the former vice president […]
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Photo credit: Ethan Miller, Getty Images A new Fox News poll shows former Vice President Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump by a crushing 25 point margin in counties that were close in 2016. The poll shows Biden with a commanding 49-40 lead over Trump nationally and an eight-point lead in battleground states, but things are considerably more dire for Trump in counties where Trump and […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden stopped himself from giving out his personal phone number on live television while discussing grief during the coronavirus pandemic in a moving highlight of CNN’s town hall Friday night. After an hour in which the former veep took questions from CNN viewers across the country about the Covid-19 crisis and laid out his own vision for managing the catastrophe, host Anderson […]
As the coronavirus pandemic escalates, late night comic Jimmy Kimmel asked former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden if President Donald Trump can “postpone the election,” and Biden had a very direct answer. The Jimmy Kimmel Live host has been taping short segments from home, including a remote interview with Biden on Thursday that featured some lighter moments, but mainly focused on the […]
After FaceTiming with comedians like Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Bill Burr over the past few days on the quarantined version of his late-night show, Jimmy Kimmel stepped things up a notch on Thursday night when he welcomed former Vice President Joe Biden live from his Delaware basement. With both men appearing from their homes, it was a looser and more down-to-earth interview than it would have been […]
Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images Former Senate Majority Leader and longtime Nevada powerbroker Harry Reid has in recent weeks told former vice president Joe Biden that he supports Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto as his vice presidential nominee, as part of an effort to give a shot in the arm to his Latino support as the general election comes into view, with Biden telling Reid that she is […]
Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders pushed back on former Vice President and current Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden for saying Democrats have had “enough debates,” saying that primaries delayed over the coronavirus pandemic provide an opportunity to debate systemic problems that the crisis has exposed. Biden concluded a virtual press briefing Wednesday by responding to a reporter who asked if there should be […]
Democratic Party front-runner Joe Biden has rejected the possibility of holding a televised debate with challenger Bernie Sanders, raising questions about his campaign’s strategy going forward. Asserting that “we’ve had enough debates,” the former vice president claimed that he is focused on combating the coronavirus outbreak. “My focus is just dealing with this crisis right now,” Biden said on Wednesday, when asked if he wanted another debate […]
Joe Biden has been ‘credibly’ accused of sexual assault – and in a world where Democrats set the rules for these types of claims, she must be believed. Biden with visibly uncomfortable girl (not accuser) The woman, Tara Reade, accused Biden last year of inappropriate behavior when she worked in his Senate office in 1993. Now (well actually, last April), Reade says Biden touched her inappropriately […]
Former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden responded to a Bernie Sanders campaign statement about a potential debate in April by saying “We’ve had enough debates, I think we should get on with this.” Vice President Biden held a virtual press briefing Wednesday afternoon, where he mainly focused on the coronavirus pandemic. But toward the end of the briefing, CNN correspondent Arlette Saenz […]
Former Vice President and Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden is expected to hold a virtual press briefing this afternoon amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis. Biden was very critical of President Donald Trump’s approach in multiple TV appearances Monday, at one point getting a reminder about coughing into his elbow. Biden’s campaign has now focused on taking on POTUS, but the Democratic primary race is still underway. […]
Unite the Country, the super PAC backing former Vice President Joe Biden, released a somber new ad condemning President Donald Trump for invoking the word “hoax” in relation to the coronavirus, eliminating the U.S. pandemic response team, and allowing the virus to spread “unchecked” across the country. The ad, entitled “Crisis Comes,” makes the point that crisis comes for every president, which they shouldn’t be blamed for, […]
Days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, then-Senator Joe Biden had been advised that he should make an address to a frightened nation before the National Press Club. Instead, he phoned Oprah. Biden, then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, decided that The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated daytime television show in the country at the time, was the best way for his […]
After saying President Donald Trump needs to better listen to his medical advisors, Joe Biden proceeded to cough into his hand, prompting CNN host Jake Tapper to give him a lesson about germs. Another day, another gaffe for presidential hopeful Biden, who has been doing his best to stay in the spotlight amid the coronavirus spread through television interviews where he’s criticized the Trump administration and […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden ripped President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response today after a number of comments POTUS made during his Fox News town hall Tuesday. CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Biden about the president setting Easter as a target date for potentially relaxing CDC guidelines and getting the country back to work, despite pushback raising the ongoing serious public health concerns. “He should stop talking,” Biden […]
CNN’s The Lead host Jake Tapper chided 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday for coughing into his hand live on TV. After Biden coughed into his hand and said, “Excuse me,” Tapper responded, “You know, you’re supposed to cough into your elbow… I learned that actually covering your White House.” “No, actually that’s true, but fortunately I’m alone in my home,” Biden […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden shot back at President Donald Trump and his supporters for suggesting that the country should abandon safety precautions while the coronavirus continues to run rampant. Appearing on The View Tuesday, Biden was asked about how Trump hinted that at the end of the month, he’ll call for a national rollback on the safety guidelines which have been enacted to stop the […]
When former Vice President Joe Biden pulled off the most unlikely come-from-behind victory in modern political history on Super Tuesday, his campaign staff breathed a tentative sigh of relief, and not only because Biden now stood a decent chance of capturing the Democratic presidential nomination. These staffers also felt that victory might provide an opportunity to replace some senior campaign officials who had helped steer the […]
Joe Biden has reemerged from an almost week-long disappearance to post a video on Twitter addressing the Trump administration’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis, but his return has been greeted with mockery and concern. Biden sounded tired and slow as he spoke for one minute and 20 seconds while standing in front of what appeared to be a green screen with a set of bookshelves digitally […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden kicked off what he promised to be frequent addresses to the nation on Monday by outlining his vision for what a successful emergency response looks like, using President Donald Trump as an example of what not to do. “Donald Trump is not to blame for the coronavirus,” Biden said in one of several critical remarks about the president. “But he does […]
2020 Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden seemingly lost track of his teleprompter during a speech on the coronavirus crisis, Monday. While discussing the crisis, Biden suddenly stopped talking, before frantically motioning off-camera staff with his hand below the podium. Trying to go off script, Biden eventually deserted his attempts, saying, “Let me go to the second thing.” Biden’s coronavirus speech hit President […]
Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden has promised to address the nation about the coronavirus epidemic “soon” as critics wonder where he’s been for the last week – and whether he’s even alive. The former vice president reportedly told donors on Sunday that he would be making the first of many “presentations” regarding the coronavirus pandemic from his Delaware home on Monday, despite disappearing from view for […]
2020 Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden will deliver a speech on the coronavirus, Monday, following repeated calls on social media questioning where Biden has been during the crisis. On Friday, during a phone call with reporters, Biden accused President Donald Trump of having “been behind the curve throughout this whole response,” before saying, “I promise you’re going to hear more of me […]
People have been wondering why former Vice President Joe Biden has been silent over the last week as the nation grapples with the the COVID-19 national emergency. According to “a source with knowledge of the campaign,” Biden’s campaign is working on “scaling up that infrastructure and dealing with the realities of Biden’s Wilmington home – like the fact that there aren’t particularly high ceilings, which can […]