In Tuesday’s debate, the Democratic nominee distanced himself from his party’s left. But activists, desperate to defeat President Trump, are holding their fire — for now.
Category: Politics
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It wasn’t just the Proud Boys: Trump refused to dissuade supporters from a violent response to the election
Asked to lower the temperature on his fraud rhetoric, Trump instead pulled out a blowtorch.
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How Trump stumbled through defending his first four years as president
Trump was given an easy two minutes — perhaps the easiest two minutes of the debate — to talk about those accomplishments, and he stumbled.
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Reliable polls show that Biden won the debate — so those aren’t what Trump’s allies are highlighting
The data also suggest that not many minds were changed.
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‘Inshallah’: The Arabic ‘fuggedaboudit’ Biden dropped to blast Trump on tax returns
The word literally and seriously means “God willing” in Arabic. But as in Biden’s delivery, it can also take on a sharply sarcastic tone.
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Trump was the interrupter-in-chief at Tuesday’s debate. It wasn’t close.
Trump was responsible for more than three-fourths of the interruptions Tuesday night. And to be clear, it was against the rules to interrupt.
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Inside Joe Biden’s whistle-stop tour of Ohio and Pennsylvania
The former vice president will leave the Cleveland debate via chartered train for a tour of eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
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Georgia voters head to the polls for special election to fill John Lewis’s seat — temporarily
Voters in the Atlanta-based district will select a candidate to serve in the late civil rights icon’s seat until January, when a new Congress is sworn in.
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Early surge of Democratic mail voting sparks worry inside GOP
Democratic voters are requesting and returning mail ballots at higher rates than Republicans in several key battleground states.
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What to watch for when Trump and Biden get questions on ‘race and violence in our cities’
The candidates will try to convince voters that they are the best individuals to respond to America’s race matters.
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Presidential debate live updates: Candidates converging on Cleveland as Trump’s court nominee appears on Hill
Trump and Biden are set to face off in Cleveland tonight in the first debate of the 2020 presidential election.
