On Thursday, the early hours of Friday Irish time, US president Joe Biden and Republican candidate Donald Trump will go head-to-head in the first debate ahead of the November election. While these occasions have devolved into glorified shouting matches, they hold a key place in the history of US campaigns. Here, we have a look […]
Joe Biden and Donald Trump will debate on Thursday for the first time this election cycle, and it holds the potential for some history-making moments. Debates can inform voters on both the issues and temperaments of the candidates, potentially swaying an undecided voter toward one candidate’s direction. They can also make for good TV, creating […]
According to Donald Trump, Joe Biden is either a very accomplished or utterly incompetent debater. When details of the presidential debate, which takes place in Atlanta on Thursday, were announced last month, Trump mocked Biden as “the WORST debater I have ever faced”, adding: “He can’t put two sentences together.” And yet, while speaking to […]
What makes “a dictator” an actual “dictator”? North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum jousted with CNN host Kaitlan Collins over that concept Sunday in discussing his repeated use of the word “dictatorship” to described President Joe Biden’s administration. Burgum, who is considered one of the most likely choices to become the running mate of presumptive GOP […]
Life as the commander in chief is “in a sort of protected bubble,” says Alan Schroeder, a presidential debate historian. “It’s four years of people saying ‘Mr. President,’” a Democratic strategist put it. Then comes the first debate of a re-election campaign — when the shock of personal confrontation with a hungry adversary has for […]
MSNBC host Alex Wagner worried President Biden had to overcome a “structural disadvantage” in the upcoming debates because he was held to a “much higher” standard than his GOP rival, former President Trump. “It already feels like the bar that is set for Biden to clear is so much more substantially higher than the one […]
Soon after two overheated Ohio Republicans stood chest-to-chest trading taunts on the debate stage in 2022, Donald Trump watched a video of the viral clip and raised an eyebrow. But it was the composed reaction from a third candidate on the stage that night, JD Vance, that helped win over the former president and secured […]
President Joe Biden’s campaign is working to organize a rally in the Raleigh area following his first debate with former President Donald Trump, a source told McClatchy. McClatchy has not yet learned a date for the rally, where Biden would make a rare appearance in front of a crowd of supporters. Biden and his surrogates […]
President Joe Biden’s campaign is working to organize a rally in the Raleigh area following his first debate with former President Donald Trump, a source told McClatchy. McClatchy has not yet learned a date for the rally, where Biden would make a rare appearance in front of a crowd of supporters. Biden and his surrogates […]
Demonstrators and police clashed outside Argentina’s Congress on Wednesday as senators were discussing a controversial reform package that proposes to privatize several state entities in a move slammed as neoliberal by critics. Hooded demonstrators hurled stones and incendiary devices at officers in Buenos Aires, while police deployed batons and tear gas. Several cars went up […]
Jun. 1—Fairfield City Council enacted a nine-month moratorium against allowing adult-use cannabis license holders from opening within the city, but that could change. As rules surrounding the legalization of adult-use cannabis, often referred to as recreational marijuana, are finalized and updated, communities that had put a ban or moratorium on allowing related businesses to operate […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has been sitting for hours a day in a Manhattan courtroom, where his hush-money trial is nearing its end. On Monday, a trial is set to begin in Wilmington, Delaware, for President Joe Biden‘s son Hunter, who is accused of lying on a federal gun purchase […]