A former associate of Hunter Biden has televised his grievances about former Vice President Joe Biden, telling Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the elder Biden was more involved in his son’s overseas business dealings than he has let on. Tony Bobulinski claimed that emails, text messages and audio recordings he released show the Democratic […]
Ben Salango, the Democrat trying to unseat Jim Justice, West Virginia’s Republican governor, released a campaign ad in September that contrasts his humble roots to the present-day fortune of his opponent, a billionaire. In the ad, titled “Raised Better,” Salango focuses on the number of times Justice has been sued. “My family worked hard to […]
Question: “With the election less than one week away, is it too late to mail in your ballot?” Answer: With only six days to go until Election Day, experts say that now it might be better to submit your ballot at a drop box or to vote in person rather than use the mail. The […]
If the pandemic has taught us nothing else, it’s that science and politics can be a dangerous brew. The national press jumped on an Oct. 27 White House press release that, by some lights, claimed victory over the coronavirus. The release, under the banner of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, announced […]
Republicans running for Congress on Nov. 3 are using a proposal that has emerged from nationwide protests — defunding the police — to attack their Democratic opponents, according to a PolitiFact review. Claims that Democrats support defunding the police have been made in at least 13 of the 18 pivotal House and Senate contests that […]
As Election Day 2020 draws near, Democratic nominee Joe Biden is centering his closing argument against President Donald Trump on the coronavirus pandemic and the economy. “I have a plan to deal with this pandemic,” Biden said in Durham, N.C., on Oct. 18. “Responsibly testing, tracing, masking. Not politicizing a race for a vaccine — […]
With Election Day getting closer, President Donald Trump is traveling from one swing state to the other making his last in-person pitch to voters. Trump frames the election through an economic angle, telling supporters that they have a choice between “a Trump super recovery” and “a Biden depression.” “If he gets in, you’re going to […]
Social media users are sharing a 30-second clip of Joe Biden, saying that it shows him mixing up President Donald Trump with George W. Bush. In the clip, Biden says “George” while discussing the significance of the upcoming election, which some viewers took as an allusion to former President George W. Bush. The clip was […]
During the past century, only three people have been elected president but then lost a bid for a second term: Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush. Could President Donald Trump become the fourth? Trump still has a chance of winning a second term. But based on historically weak approval ratings and consistent deficits […]
During the final 2020 presidential debate, President Donald Trump boasted that he had eased tensions on the Korean Peninsula by maintaining a good relationship with the nation’s leader Kim Jong Un. “North Korea, we’re not in a war, we have a good relationship,” Trump said. “You know, people don’t understand — having a good relationship […]
California voters are returning their mail-in ballots at a record pace, with more than 5 million already returned as of Oct. 22. With two weeks left until Election Day, that’s nearly one quarter of the 21.5 million ballots sent out to all active, registered voters in the state at the beginning of the month. But […]
The final presidential debate between former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump may have had fewer interruptions, but it wasn’t any more truthful. It was similar to the first debate, in that Trump’s comments needed more fact-checking than Biden’s. The claims came thick and fast about the coronavirus, immigration, health care and race issues. […]