WASHINGTON — As the election approaches, President Joe Biden is making regular calls to former President Barack Obama to catch up on the race or to talk about family. But Obama is making calls of his own to Jeffrey Zients, the White House chief of staff, and to top aides at the Biden campaign to […]
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign held an organizing call and released video Saturday with supporters championing the Affordable Care Act on its 14th anniversary and warning against former President Donald Trump’s efforts to repeal it. Biden was joined by former President Barack Obama and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to celebrate […]
The Republican nominee for superintendent overseeing North Carolina’s public schools and its $11 billion budget has a history marked by extreme and controversial comments, including sharing baseless conspiracy theories and frequent calls for the execution of prominent Democrats. Michele Morrow, a conservative activist who last week upset the incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction in North […]
Claim: During a speech in 2009, then-U.S. President Barack Obama said, “We can’t have half a million people pouring over the border […].” Rating: Rating: Correct Attribution Context: Obama was calling for a “comprehensive” approach to immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, arguing for strengthening the border as well as taking a humane approach with migrants […]
Donald Trump confused Barack Obama for Joe Biden at a rally in Virginia on Saturday, triggering further questions about the age of the likely Republican presidential nominee who has made a string of such gaffes. It also comes at a time of similar concerns about the Biden. At 77 and 81 respectively, Trump and Biden […]
A new survey of over 150 scholars offered their take on the greatest U.S. president ever. Their choice? Abraham Lincoln. The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey, commissioned by a pair of political scientists from the University of Houston and Coastal Carolina University, asked 154 political scientists and other experts to rate each U.S. president […]
A new ranking of presidents by a group of self-styled experts determined that Abraham Lincoln is America’s greatest president, while Donald Trump ranks last. Lincoln topped the list of presidents in the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project expert survey for the third time, following his top spot in the rankings in the 2015 and 2018 versions […]
Former President Donald Trump has started making a fictional claim about the political past of Nikki Haley, his remaining opponent for the Republican presidential nomination. On social media last week and at a campaign rally last weekend in South Carolina, where Haley served as governor from 2011 to 2017, Trump claimed that Haley had been […]
Donald Trump claimed high-profile campaign trail gaffes, in which he seemed to think Barack Obama was still president and mistook Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi, were deliberate, the result of his being “sarcastic” in the first instance and choosing to “interpose” names in the second. Related: Putin says he prefers Biden to Trump and mocks […]
Former President Barack Obama gave his two cents about former President Donald Trump’s threat to not help European allies if they’re attacked by Russia. Trump once again rattled the country’s political cages at a campaign stop last weekend, saying he might even “encourage” Russians “to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that have […]
Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy doubled down on his theory that Democrats will swap out President Biden with Michelle Obama on their party’s ticket following the release of the special counsel’s report. The bombshell findings from Special Counsel Robert Hur put a spotlight on Biden’s cognitive abilities, saying he would not bring charges against […]
Biden kept classified information hoping history would prove Obama wrong, according to Robert Hur. Biden took particular exception to Obama’s controversial decision to surge US troops in Afghanistan. Obama’s 2009 decision was closely watched. Special Counsel Robert Hur concluded that part of the reason President Joe Biden kept classified information after leaving the vice presidency […]