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Diplomats Believe Joe Biden Will Repair The Damage Done By Trump

Diplomats Believe Biden Will Repair The Damage Done By Trump

July 4, 2020 1:23 pm

Joe Biden’s election as US president in November would restore UK-US relations, repair the diplomatic damage caused by the Trump administration, and boost the prospects of a transatlantic trade deal, according to European diplomats and trade experts.

The transatlantic alliance between the US and its European allies has been under growing strain since Trump’s election in 2016.

The president’s attacks on multilateral institutions such NATO, his attacks on Europe’s rapprochement with Iran, and his decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord have all tested the long-standing “special relationship” with the UK and other European allies.

The damage has …

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Joe Biden Blasts Trump For Walking Into Church Holding Bible

June 3, 2020 6:18 am

Democratic presidential aspirant and former US Vice President, Joe Biden has blasted President Donald Trump for walking to a church near the White House as protesters were dispersed with tear gas, flash grenades and rubber bullets by security agents.

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Trump, surrounded by his aides on Monday, held up the Bible in front of the St. John’s Episcopal Church at the White House and declared “we have the greatest country in the world.”

Reacting to Trump’s action, Biden, while delivering an address in Philadelphia, referenced the Constitution’s First Amendment, guaranteeing freedom

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Joe Biden’s Sexual Assault Accuser Changes Story

Joe Biden’s Sexual Assault Accuser Changes Story

May 3, 2020 6:52 am

Tara Reade, the former U.S. Senate staffer who alleged Joe Biden sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, has changed her story.

In an interview with AP, she now claimed she filed a limited report with a congressional personnel office that did not explicitly accuse him of sexual assault or harassment.

“I remember talking about him wanting me to serve drinks because he liked my legs and thought I was pretty and it made me uncomfortable,” Reade said.

“I know that I was too scared to write about the sexual assault.”

Reade said she described her issues with Biden but “the …

Biden Predicts Trump Will Try To Postpone US Election

Biden Predicts Trump Will Try To Postpone US Election

April 24, 2020 6:19 pm

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has predicted that US President Donald Trump will try to postpone the country’s November election in an attempt to win.

“Mark my words, I think he is gonna try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can’t be held,” Biden said during an online fundraiser Thursday.

The 77-year-old former vice president said it is “the only way he thinks he can possibly win.”

Six months before US voters head to the polls, Trump’s mind is already in election mode.

But with a pandemic raging and job losses climbing …

Joe Biden Accused Of Sexual Assault, Campaign Reacts

Joe Biden Accused Of Sexual Assault, Campaign Reacts

April 15, 2020 7:32 am

A former aide to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has in several media interviews accused him of sexually assaulting her nearly 30 years ago when he was a U.S. senator, an assertion that Biden’s campaign has strongly denied.

Tara Reade, who worked briefly as a staff assistant in Biden’s Senate office from December 1992 to August 1993, told the New York Times, the Washington Post and other news outlets that Biden pinned her against a wall in 1993 and reached under her shirt and her skirt.

A campaign spokeswoman for Biden, the former vice president, said in a statement …

Biden-Trump Showdown Looms After Sanders Quits

Biden-Trump Showdown Looms After Sanders Quits

April 9, 2020 6:08 pm

Leftist US Senator Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign Wednesday, clearing the way for rival Joe Biden to secure the Democratic nomination and challenge Donald Trump in November.

The feisty 78-year-old democratic socialist shook up the 2020 race with his relentless pursuit of “economic justice” for all Americans and a demand for universal health care.

But he acknowledged his campaign had fallen short, as party voters determined Biden would be a stronger candidate to go up against Trump in the general election.

“I have concluded that this battle for the Democratic nomination will not be successful,” Sanders told supporters in …

Biden, Sanders Face Off In Debate Overshadowed By Virus

Biden, Sanders Face Off In Debate Overshadowed By Virus

March 15, 2020 2:55 pm

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders meet on Sunday for the first one-on-one debate of the Democratic presidential primary campaign, now overshadowed by the spread of the new coronavirus.

Both men have cancelled rallies and two-state contests have been postponed in the wake of the outbreak, which has killed at least 57 Americans and upended daily life across the country.

Many states and cities have clamped down on large gatherings and closed schools, which are often used as polling places, to help contain the epidemic.

Frontrunner Biden and self-described “democratic socialist” Sanders are vying to replace President Donald Trump, who was …

Biden’s Campaign Boosted By Booker Ahead Of Primary

Biden’s Campaign Boosted By Booker Ahead Of Primary

March 10, 2020 3:46 am
US Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden received another boost on Monday when former presidential hopeful and the senator from New Jersey Cory Booker endorsed him.

The former US vice-president is hoping to deliver a knockout blow to rival Bernie Sanders on Tuesday as six states vote.

At a campaign event in Flint, Michigan, alongside Biden, Booker, who ended his own White House bid in January, said that “it should be obvious” why he is backing the former vice president, who, he said, could heal a “wounded nation.”

Booker’s endorsement – one day after another onetime candidate, Senator Kamala Harris of …

Biden Gas Double-Digit Lead Over Sanders For Nomination

Biden Gas Double-Digit Lead Over Sanders For Nomination

March 9, 2020 4:23 pm

Former Vice President Joe Biden has a double-digit lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination, a new CNN poll of Democratic voters nationwide conducted by SSRS shows.

Biden is now the choice of a majority of Democratic voters nationwide, according to the poll, which was taken in the days after the former vice president’s stronger-than-expected showing across Super Tuesday contests and as the field of Democratic contenders with a realistic shot at winning the nomination narrowed to two.

The poll finds 52% of registered voters who are Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents say they want to see …

Twitter Labels Edited Biden Video 'Manipulated Tweet'

Twitter Labels Edited Biden Video ‘Manipulated Tweet’

March 9, 2020 4:22 pm

Twitter has used its new “manipulated media” tag for the first time on an edited video of a speech by Joe Biden.

The tag, introduced on 5 March, tells readers when a picture or video has been “significantly altered or fabricated”.

The footage of Mr Biden, posted by Dan Scavino, White House director of social media, claimed to show the Democrat calling for people to vote for President Donald Trump, a Republican.

The video was shared by Mr Trump twice.

In the clip, Mr Biden appeared to tell a crowd in Kansas City: “We can only re-elect Donald Trump.”

However, …

Kamala Harris Officially Becomes US Vice-Presidential Candidate

Breaking: Kamala Harris Joins Joe Biden’s Bandwagon

March 8, 2020 11:15 am
Joe Biden’s White House bandwagon picked Senator Kamala Harris on Sunday, the latest of high profile endorsements that the former US Vice president had picked in the last two weeks.

Harris, a California senator who was a candidate herself until she withdrew for lack of money in December, said that Biden would “speak to the best of who we are and challenges us to live up to our ideals” if elected.

“I believe in Joe, I really believe in Joe”, she said in the video posted on her Twitter page. The video was shot in Alabama, where she had gone

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Awash With Cash, Biden Mounts Biggest Ad Campaign

Awash With Cash, Biden Mounts Biggest Ad Campaign

March 8, 2020 6:47 am

With a rush of momentum, endorsements and awash with donor cash after his strong Super Tuesday, former US Vice President Joe Biden launched the biggest advertising blitz of his presidential campaign.

Biden’s campaign said on Friday it had raised about $22 million in five days.

Until recently, Biden’s campaign was struggling to raise funds. Now, as he looks ahead to Tuesday and more big contests on March 17, Biden is spending $12 million on a six-state ad buy.

The online, digital and TV ads will run in Michigan, Missouri and Mississippi – three states that vote on Tuesday – and …

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