Joe Biden Tag

After Embarrassing Finish in New Hampshire, Joe Biden Should Call it Quits

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 12, 2020 49 Comments

The Iowa caucus was a bad start for former Vice President Joe Biden, but New Hampshire was even worse. Biden took fifth place in the Granite State, barely breaking 20,000 votes.

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Biden Flees New Hampshire on Primary Day for South Carolina

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 11, 2020 24 Comments

Maybe 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden sees the writing on the wall? New Hampshire holds its primary today but Biden canceled his appearance at his primary night party to travel to South Carolina.

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Joe Biden Calls Female Student A “Lying dog-faced pony soldier”

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on February 09, 2020 64 Comments

In a truly bizarro world moment on the campaign trail in New Hampshire, Joe Biden (D-DE) told a woman who asked about his electability following his failure in Iowa that she is a "lying dog-faced pony soldier."

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Biden Gets Testy After Interviewer Notes ‘Irony’ of Impeachment Keeping Ukraine Issue in the Spotlight

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 04, 2020 20 Comments

Back in October, when Joe Biden called for President Trump's impeachment, I speculated that one of the reasons for him doing so was to attempt to regain control of the frontrunner narrative he'd lost.

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Biden in 1999: ‘Senate May Dismiss Articles of Impeachment Without Holding a Full Trial or Taking New Evidence’

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 30, 2020 2 Comments

It's so WEIRD how politicians change when the president is not a member of their party. Look at what 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden wrote in 1999 when he served as a Delaware senator.

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CNN Poll: Sanders Takes Over Top Spot From Biden

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 22, 2020 19 Comments

The latest CNN poll conducted by SSRS shows registered Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents prefer Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over former Vice President Joe Biden. This is the first time Biden did not come out on top of a CNN national poll.

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Biden Would ‘Consider’ Harris for His Administration, Including Vice President

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 14, 2020 29 Comments

Former Vice President Joe Biden said a month ago he would consider Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate. Biden repeated his thoughts this week in his first official California interview but broadened Harris's options.

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Former Castro, Harris Supporters Gravitate to Biden

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 07, 2020 15 Comments

Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro endorsed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Monday a few days after he dropped out of the race. However, former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign told The Texas Tribune that he picked up 11 new endorsements from Texas. Nine of those people once supported Castro. Biden's campaign also said that he now has more support from those who backed Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).

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Joe Biden On ObamaCare: “you couldn’t keep your doctor if you wanted to necessarily”

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on January 06, 2020 20 Comments

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared at a town hall in Iowa over the weekend and was asked about ObamaCare. Giving a typically rambling non-answer, Biden did admit a couple of salient details: nope, you couldn't keep your doctor "necessarily" as Obama repeatedly promised, and "no one did understand ObamaCare."

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Dem Rep. Joe Kennedy III: Biden Family Members Shouldn’t Profit From Political Relatives

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 04, 2020 21 Comments

Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) is currently challenging Senator Ed Markey to replace him as United States senator for Massachusetts. During a recent appearance on CNN, he expressed some concern about the appearance of Hunter Biden profiting from his father's political connections.

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Joe Biden Suggests English Legal Traditions to Blame for Campus Sexual Assaults

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 04, 2020 6 Comments

"It is our English jurisprudential culture, our European culture that says it is all right."...

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Biden to Coal Miners: “Learn to Program”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2019 45 Comments

Telling Journalists to "learn to code" in anticipation of their job losses is enough to get you kicked off Twitter. Seriously. Joe Biden promised to create a new legion of unemployed blue collar workers to advance the Green New Deal, as we covered in Biden Says Willing to Sacrifice Hundreds of Thousands of Energy Workers for a Green Economy.

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Joe Biden Says He’d Consider a Republican Running Mate

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on December 30, 2019 34 Comments

Former Vice President Joe Biden (D-DE) is still hanging on to the top slot in the 2020 presidential primary clown car.  Biden has recovered from a disappointing third quarter fundraising slump and is still leading the Democrat field in most polls.

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After brutal mockery, Biden kinda-sorta walks back refusal to obey Senate impeachment trial subpoena

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2019 20 Comments

Joe Biden was clear twice on the record in the past month that he would refuse to obey a Senate subpoena to testify at Trump's impeachment trial. There was no lack of clarity in the questions or Biden's answer. As documented in my prior post, Biden said it in an NPR interview earlier this month and again to the Des Moines Register yesterday.

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Biden: Of course I’d nominate Obama for Supreme Court “if he’d take it”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2019 10 Comments

Nice way to motivate the base -- the Republican base....

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Biden: I won’t comply with subpoena to testify at Senate impeachment trial

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2019 39 Comments

There is no indication that Mitch McConnell and his Republican majority in the Senate are going to let the impeachment trial turn into a wide-ranging free-for-all. Democrats desperately want to try to rescue their woefully inadequate impeachment case by locating evidence outside the record on which impeachment was based. At the same time, some Republicans wish for the day they can get Joe Biden, Adam Schiff and other Democrats on the witness stand.

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Biden Says Willing to Sacrifice Hundreds of Thousands of Energy Workers for a Green Economy

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 20, 2019 26 Comments

The issues of energy and climate change came up at the Democratic debate on Thursday night as expected. What was surprising, was Joe Biden's response when asked about displacing American energy workers for the sake of fighting climate change.

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Hundreds of Obama Alumni Throw Biden Under the Bus and Endorse Warren for 2020

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 19, 2019 12 Comments

Obama's non-endorsement of Joe Biden has been the subject of much speculation, but now things are getting even stranger. Hundreds of people who worked for the Obama campaign and administration are now backing Elizabeth Warren.

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