WASHINGTON – Joe Biden is set to join Senate Democrats for an online lunch, returning virtually to the place that fostered his political career as he fields questions from allies on the race for the White House and the down-ballot effort to wrest the Senate's majority control from Republicans.The event Thursday will be a homecoming, of sorts, for the former U.S.

senator now the party's presidential nominee. Yet it takes place at a grave moment with the COVID-19 crisis and economic distress ahead of an election like no other.

While a welcome former colleague, Biden will likely face tough questions about his strategy to defeat President Donald Trump.Biden is on offense this week over the president's handling of the coronavirus crisis.

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seafood industry, resulting in the freeing of more than 2,000 men.President Donald Trump has since ordered the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to step up the seizure of unethically produced goods, from seafood and electronics to products believed to have been made by Muslim Uighurs in labor camps in China.“CBP needs to do its job and investigate credible allegations of products coming into our country that violate U.S.

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Biden's low-key campaign style worries some Democrats

WILMINGTON, Del. – The final stretch of a presidential campaign is typically a nonstop mix of travel, caffeine and adrenaline. But as the worst pandemic in a century bears down on the United States, Joe Biden is taking a lower key approach.Since his Aug.

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Trump signs executive order on health care; attracts criticism from Democrats

Donald Trump on Thursday launched what aides termed a “vision” for health care heavy on unfulfilled aspirations.“It is affirmed, signed and done, so we can put that to rest,” Trump said after signing an executive order covering a range of issues, including protecting people with preexisting medical conditions from insurance discrimination.But that right is already guaranteed in the Obama-era health law his administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissively said Trump’s “bogus executive order on pre-existing conditions isn’t worth the paper it’s signed on.” Democrats are betting heavily that they have the edge on health care this election season.

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‘We are Republicans, Democrats, and Independents’: 489 retired military leaders endorse Joe Biden

LOS ANGELES - Scores of retired military generals and admirals have openly endorsed former vice president Joe Biden for president in a letter published Thursday, saying the Democratic nominee “has the character, principles, wisdom, and leadership necessary to address a world on fire.”Another letter published earlier this month bearing the names of 235 retired U.S. military leaders expressed support for Trump.The open letter published Thursday in support of Biden read, “We are Republicans, Democrats, and Independents.

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Democrats in Pa. scramble to limit number of 'naked ballots'

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Democrats are launching a digital ad targeting Pennsylvanians voting by mail to explain how to correctly fill out and return the ballots, hoping to avert worried predictions that 100,000 votes or more could be invalidated because the ballots aren't put in the proper envelope.The so-called naked ballots have become a huge concern for Democrats in the state since the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that ballots had to be rejected if not enclosed in the proper secrecy envelope. The ruling was a victory for President Donald Trump's campaign in the battleground state.Democrats so far have been far more likely than Republicans to request mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania and the rest of the country.

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President Trump declines to commit to peaceful transfer of power if Biden wins November U.S. election

U.S. President Donald Trump held a press conference on Wednesday and was asked about transfer of power if he is to lose the election to Joe Biden.

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GOP senators see political, principle gain in court fight

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump marveled at a rally this week about how important Supreme Court nominations are to voters. But Senate Republicans are with the voters on that.

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Democrats propose sweeping bill to curb presidential abuses

WASHINGTON – House Democrats are proposing a sweeping bill to curb presidential abuses, a pitch to voters weeks ahead of Election Day as they try to defeat President Donald Trump, capture the Senate from Republicans and keep their House majority. The legislation, a wide-ranging package of new and revised bills, will be announced Wednesday morning by the heads of seven House committees.

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Cindy McCain rebukes fellow Republican Trump to back Biden for president

Cindy McCain, John McCain's widow, is expected to endorse Joe Biden for president. PHOENIX - Cindy McCain, the widow of Republican Senator and the GOP's 2008 nominee John McCain, has endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president in a rebuke of President Donald Trump by the widow of the Republican Party’s 2008 nominee.Trump has had a fraught relationship with John McCain’s family since he disparaged the Arizona senator during the 2016 campaign.

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Cindy McCain rebukes fellow Republican Trump to back Biden

PHOENIX – Cindy McCain has endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president in a rebuke of President Donald Trump by the widow of the Republican Party's 2008 nominee. Trump has had a fraught relationship with John McCain's family since he disparaged the Arizona senator during the 2016 campaign.

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GOP-led Senate committees issue report on Bidens, Ukraine

WASHINGTON – Two Republican-led Senate committees issued a politically charged report Wednesday on the work Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's son did in Ukraine. Biden’s campaign immediately panned the report, released six weeks before the election, as an effort by an ally of President Donald Trump to damage his election opponent.Trump has repeatedly drawn attention to the issue even as his own administration has warned of a concerted Russian effort to denigrate Biden and asserted that a Ukrainian lawmaker who is involved in spreading anti-Biden claims is an “active Russian agent."Republican Sen.

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‘Bidin’ his time': Joe Biden battles being chronically late

WILMINGTON, Del. – Joe Biden was running late. Again.

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Senate GOP plans vote on Trump's court pick before election

WASHINGTON – Votes in hand, Senate Republicans are charging ahead with plans to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat before the Nov. 3 election, launching a divisive fight over Democratic objections before a nominee is even announced.Trump said Tuesday he will name his choice Saturday, confident of support.

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Trump mocks Biden for wearing face mask amid pandemic

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Cindy McCain endorses Joe Biden for president in rebuke of Trump

Cindy McCain, John McCain's widow, is expected to endorse Joe Biden for president. PHOENIX - Democrat Joe Biden said Tuesday that Cindy McCain plans to endorse him for president, a stunning rebuke of President Donald Trump by the widow of the GOP’s 2008 nominee.Trump has had a fraught relationship with members of John McCain’s family since he disparaged the Arizona senator during his 2016 campaign.

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Trump, Biden fight to define campaign's most pressing issues

SWANTON, Ohio – President Donald Trump was interrupted twice during an Ohio rally this week by sign-waving supporters chanting, “Fill that seat!”“I will fill that seat,” Trump responded before launching into an extended riff on his plans to quickly nominate a successor to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “They say it’s the most important thing a president can do.”During a swing through Wisconsin a few hours earlier, there were no big crowds for Democrat Joe Biden, whose campaign is strictly following protocols to combat the coronavirus.

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Court, COVID, race are topics for first Trump-Biden debate

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will face off on the Supreme Court, the coronavirus pandemic and race and violence in the nation's cities next week when they meet for their first presidential debate.The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates on Tuesday announced the six topics for the first face-to-face event scheduled for Sept. 29 in Cleveland.

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'Justice Joan' Larsen emerges as finalist for Supreme Court

IOWA CITY, Iowa – One of the women on Donald Trump’s short list to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court got her first taste of politics as a college student stuffing envelopes for Democrat Joe Biden’s 1988 presidential run.But, by 1996, Joan L.

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Toomey supports Senate voting on Trump high court nominee

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Michigan’s ‘tale of two electorates’: Experts say it’s a close, competitive race between Biden and Trump

DETROIT - Four years ago, President Donald Trump did the unthinkable: He cracked the foundation of Michigan’s “blue wall.” Trump accomplished this in a state that had voted Democratic in six consecutive presidential elections from 1992 through 2012.

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2020 presidential election: Where Trump and Biden stand on key issues, according to their campaigns

President Donald Trump addresses the crowd during a campaign rally at Smith Reynolds Airport on Sept. 8, 2020 in Winston Salem, North Carolina, alongside Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden delivering remarks in the pa WASHINGTON - How do President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden stack up on key issues for Americans ahead of the 2020 election?Here is a summary of their positions on the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy, policing, the climate and more — drawn directly from information presented on their respective campaign websites. FOX Television Stations reached out to both campaigns seeking candidate statements regarding their stance on each key issue ahead November.

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Black voters in Detroit key for Biden, but are they engaged?

DETROIT – Wendy Caldwell-Liddell is tired of waiting for change in Detroit.The nation’s largest Black-majority city has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic and its ensuing economic fallout. More than 14,200 COVID-19 cases and 1,500 deaths have been confirmed in the city.So when the 29-year-old Black mother of two thinks about what's at stake for the November presidential election, her answer is simple: Everything.

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Donald Trump panicked in the face of Covid-19, says Joe Biden

November 3 presidential election."What worries me now is we have been living with this pandemic for so long; I worry we are risking becoming numb to the toll it has taken on us and our country and communities. We can't let that happen.

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Pressure mounts on GOP senators over filling Ginsburg seat

WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hammered President Donald Trump and leading Senate Republicans for trying to rush a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as pressure mounted on senators to support or oppose a quick vote to fill the seat.As the Senate returned to Washington on Monday, all eyes were on Republicans Mitt Romney of Utah and Chuck Grassley of Iowa for clues to whether Trump and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will be able to confirm Ginsburg's replacement anytime soon. A day earlier, Biden had urged unnamed Republicans to join Sens.

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Biden to focus on health care in Supreme Court debate

WILMINGTON, Del. – Joe Biden is expected to use the sudden Supreme Court vacancy to reinforce his argument that the upcoming election should be a referendum on President Donald Trump's handling of health care and the coronavirus.The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg jolted the presidential campaign just six weeks before the election and as several states are already voting. Trump has seized on the opportunity to nominate a new justice to motivate his most loyal voters.

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GOP senators confront past comments on Supreme Court vote

WASHINGTON – Republican senators weighing what to do about the vacancy on the Supreme Court are facing questions about their own past comments amid complaints by Democrats that their views have shifted with changing political reality.President Donald Trump has urged the GOP-run Senate to consider “without delay” his upcoming nomination to fill the seat vacated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday. The move comes just six weeks before the election.A look at what key Republican senators were saying in the past — and what they are saying now — about filling a seat on the Supreme Court during an election year.

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Ginsburg’s death draws big surge of donations to Democrats

WASHINGTON – Democrats raised more than $31 million in the hours after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, demonstrating how the liberal icon’s passing and the contentious nomination fight that lies ahead have already galvanized the party’s base.The jaw-dropping sum was raised by noon Saturday after news of her death broke late Friday, according to a donation ticker on the website of ActBlue, the party's online fundraising platform.The 2020 campaign, which will decide control of the White House and the Senate, had already delivered record-shattering fundraising totals for the Democrats, a sign of the motivation within the party to rebuke President Donald Trump on Election Day.But Ginsburg's death brought new impetus to the

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Democrats face quandary on vaccine support as election nears

NEW YORK – President Donald Trump is escalating his promise for a coronavirus vaccine before Election Day. But across America, Democrats, independents and even some Republicans do not trust his administration to produce a safe and effective vaccine on such an aggressive timeline.

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Trump to Senate: Vote 'without delay' on his SCOTUS pick

US President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he arrives for a "Great American Comeback" rally at Bemidji Regional Airport in Bemidji, Minnesota, on September 18, 2020.

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McConnell vows quick vote on next justice; Biden says wait

WASHINGTON – The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just six weeks before the election cast an immediate spotlight on the crucial high court vacancy, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell quickly vowing to bring to a vote whoever President Donald Trump nominates.Democratic nominee Joe Biden vigorously disagreed, declaring that "voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice to consider.”McConnell, who sets the calendar in the U.S. Senate and has made judicial appointments his priority, declared unequivocally in a statement not long after Ginsburg’s death was announced that Trump’s nominee would receive a confirmation vote in the chamber.

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Trump, Biden absorb news of Ginsburg death on the fly

BEMIDJI, Minn. – Minutes into yet another Donald Trump campaign rally, the world got word that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. But no one told the president.No one passed him a note.

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Mitch McConnell says Trump Supreme Court nominee will receive vote by full Senate

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in a statement Friday that a Supreme Court nominee by President Donald Trump will receive a vote on the floor of the Senate following news of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing.Democratic nominee Joe Biden disagreed in a statement, declaring that "voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice to consider.”“This was the position that the Republican Senate took in 2016, when there were nearly nine months before the election.

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Trump calls Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘an amazing woman,’ Biden says she ‘stood for all of us’

BEMIDJI, Minn. - President Donald Trump called the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “an amazing woman” on Friday after apparently learning of her death from reporters. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Ginsburg “stood for all of us.”“She just died? Wow.

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Candidates and questions on the New Jersey ballot

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Coronavirus: Biden compares U.S. and Canada COVID-19 deaths to show Trump administration’s failures

Democratic presidential hopeful and former vice president Joe Biden on Friday compared America’s daily death count from COVID-19 to the number of deaths being reported in Canada, in an effort to depict how the Trump administration has struggled to contain the coronavirus. He said while on two separate days this month, the U.S.

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Puerto Rico getting funds for power grid 3 years after Hurricane Maria

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - President Donald Trump announced the release Friday of nearly $13 billion to Puerto Rico to help rebuild the electrical grid and repair schools from the devastation of Hurricane Maria three years ago, amid criticism that the aid was overdue and was being released now only for political purposes.The grant comes as President Trump, who has previously balked at providing assistance to the island territory, and former Vice President Joe Biden court voters in the crucial swing state of Florida.

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Joe Biden Speaks on COVID-19 at Town Hall: "I Don't Trust the President on Vaccines, I Trust Dr. Fauci"

Democratic nominee Joe Biden, wearing a face mask, took the stage Thursday at the Presidential Town Hall, moderated by Anderson Cooper and presented from the PNC Field baseball stadium in Moosic, Pennsylvania, in accordance with social distancing guidelines. Taking questions from Cooper and the audience, Biden removed his mask and shared that, if elected, he would introduce national standards for going to work safely amid the pandemic, including rapid testing, tracing and federal funding.

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In N. Carolina Senate race, Tillis calibrates ties to Trump

RALEIGH, N.C. – When President Donald Trump fired up a crowd at a North Carolina airport last week, he gave a shout-out to the home-state senator fighting in his own tough reelection battle that could decide control of the chamber.Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, Trump said, has “been by my side!”But at that moment, Tillis wasn’t.

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At Pennsylvania town hall, Biden blasts Trump's 'criminal' virus response

Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall event on September 17, 2020 in Moosic, Pennsylvania.(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) MOOSIC, Pa - Joe Biden on Thursday went after President Donald Trump again and again over his handling of COVID-19, calling Trump's downplaying of the pandemic “criminal” and his administration “totally irresponsible."“You’ve got to level with the American people — shoot from the shoulder. There’s not been a time they’ve not been able to step up.

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Trump and Biden hit unlikely battleground state of Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota has backed Democratic presidential candidates for nearly half a century and rarely receives much attention during the final stages of the race, when campaigns typically focus their resources on more traditional swing states like Florida or Pennsylvania.But Minnesota will feel like a genuine battleground on Friday when President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, campaign here to mark the beginning of early voting.They're expected to avoid the urban core of Minneapolis to focus on rural and working class voters, some of whom shifted to Republicans for the first time in 2016.

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Biden rejects Trump claim that Covid-19 vaccine is imminent

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has bluntly contradicted President Donald Trump's suggestion that a coronavirus vaccine may be only weeks away, warning Americans they cannot trust the president's word.

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At town hall, Biden blasts Trump's 'criminal' virus response

MOOSIC, Pa. – Joe Biden on Thursday went after President Donald Trump again and again over his handling of COVID-19, calling Trump's downplaying of the pandemic “criminal” and his administration “totally irresponsible."“You’ve got to level with the American people — shoot from the shoulder. There’s not been a time they’ve not been able to step up.

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Biden says Trump’s downplaying of coronavirus threat is ‘close to criminal’

Joe Biden on Thursday went after President Donald Trump again and again over his handling of COVID-19, calling Trump’s downplaying of the pandemic “criminal” and his administration “totally irresponsible.”“You’ve got to level with the American people — shoot from the shoulder. There’s not been a time they’ve not been able to step up.

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Former adviser to Mike Pence says she's voting for Joe Biden

WASHINGTON - A former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence has joined the chorus of former Trump administration officials urging voters to deny him a second term.Olivia Troye was Pence’s former homeland security adviser and served as a member of the White House’s coronavirus task force.RELATED: Federal judge blocks USPS changes that slowed mail ahead of 2020 electionShe says in a new video released Thursday by the group Republican Voters Against Trump that Trump was more concerned about his reelection chances than the virus.

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Former member of White House coronavirus task force backs Joe Biden

Mike Pence who served on the White House coronavirus task force says President Donald Trump once suggested that COVID-19 might be a good thing because it would stop him from having to shake hands with “disgusting people.”Olivia Troye is the latest former member of the Trump administration to speak out against him and urge voters to deny him a second term.

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Ex-Pence adviser says Trump bungled virus; she's for Biden

WASHINGTON – A former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence who also served on the White House coronavirus task force says President Donald Trump once suggested that COVID-19 might be a good thing because it would stop him from having to shake hands with “disgusting people."Olivia Troye is the latest former member of the Trump administration to speak out against him and urge voters to deny him a second term.

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Biden to join Senate Democrats online for lunch, questions before Scranton town hall

Joe Biden is expected to join Senate Democrats for an online lunch before heading to his hometown of Scranton Thursday. WASHINGTON - Joe Biden is set to join Senate Democrats for an online lunch, returning virtually to the place that fostered his political career as he fields questions from allies on the race for the White House and the down-ballot effort to wrest the Senate's majority control from Republicans.The event Thursday will be a homecoming, of sorts, for the former U.S.

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Chris Rock Believes Democrats And Nancy Pelosi Are To Blame For Coronavirus Crisis In The U.S.

Sure, Donald Trump is president of the United States, but in Chris Rock’s opinion, he’s not the one with the real power.

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