Lawrence O’Donnell Destroys The Argument That Biden Should Step Aside
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell wrecked the argument coming from some circles that President Joe Biden should step aside as the Democratic nominee.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell wrecked the argument coming from some circles that President Joe Biden should step aside as the Democratic nominee.
Manchin’s betrayal has created an opening, an opportunity for Democrats to spur a much broader profound and urgent reflection on which party is seeking to serve to their interests.
This type of coverage of the mere politics, as opposed to the underlying reality of inflation, constitutes in its own right a kind of disinformation campaign that risks turning working-class and middle-class voters back to the very Republican Party.
Uncle Joe – also known as the President of these United States, signed Democrats’ once-in-a-century, $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
A belief in science supports a socialist philosophy and worldview, and to slander or dismiss socialism may very well undermine the advocacy for believing in science.
Back in April of his year, nearly 70% of Americans agreed that it was time to pull troops from Afghanistan. There was strong b-partisan support for the measure and Donald Trump has repeatedly talked about bringing the troops home. But now that Joe Biden has executed his plan, many Republicans seem to be getting cold…
Traditional Republican policies do not put country over party but rather turn back the clock on the American Revolution.
We may be ready for this discussion as a nation, especially if Biden were to stop eschewing the socialist label and proudly embrace his goal of an economy designed to meet need rather than just produce profit.
Building back better, which is how Biden characterizes his agenda of running government to address American’s needs, is, indeed, an effort to de-criminalize government itself.
When President Joe Biden recently voiced support for unions, encouraging workers at Amazon currently involved in a vote to unionize or not to take part in this process, Biden was really just standing up for democracy itself.
Donald Trump Jr. took to Twitter to revive a conspiracy theory about President Joe Biden’s mental health, suggesting Biden has Alzheimer’s Disease. “It’s almost like there’s a personal reason Joe Biden is all of a sudden magically focused on Alzheimer’s,” wrote Trump Jr. in response to a piece in Time by Maria Shriver and George Vradenburg,…
In a small sentence, Biden made a huge point. Let’s serve people, not presidents or politics.
President-elect Joe Biden campaigned aspirationally on a vision of uniting a country many see as severely, if not hopelessly, divided. After all, while Biden amassed over 80 million votes, the most votes ever tallied by any candidate in a presidential election in U.S. history, Trump hauled in the second-most votes ever, finding the support of…
President-Elect Joe Biden has reportedly expressed concerns about the many possible criminal prosecutions of Trump distracting from his presidential mission. Just as Barack Obama declined to pursue prosecution against the Bush-Cheney regime for its outright lies about Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction, leading us into a prolonged and unnecessary war with Iraq, costing…
Polling indicates that Americans still give Donald Trump an edge over Joe Biden when it comes to their faith in either candidate to manage the economy. While it’s true that, according to a late-August Reuters/Ipsos poll, Trump’s approval rating on the economy has dipped 14% since March, putting him in negative territory with 47% approving…
Texas, especially during the 8 year run of George W. Bush, has been a ruby red Republican stronghold. There have been cracks over the last 10 years with Democrats winning house seats and Beto O’Rourke coming within 3 points of defeating Ted Cruz. There have been a number of recent polls that show Joe Biden…
Last Tuesday, former President Barack Obama gave his much-anticipated endorsement of his former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy. The endorsement was expected, of course, despite the wait Obama imposed, which seemed likely attributable to his preference to time his speech in the wake of Bernie Sanders’ own endorsement of Biden, creating a crescendo effect….
Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, said that Trump’s firing of the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt was close to criminal.
During the Democratic Debate, Mayor Pete Buttigieg defended former Vice President Joe Biden from President Trump’s attacks on Biden’s son.
Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is being probed for Ukraine corruption related to his energy projects and push to investigate Joe Biden.
The top three Democrats in the polls were on stage together, but who won? Here are the winners and losers of the ABC Democratic debate.
A parade of 19 Democratic White House hopefuls will plead their case to thousands of New Hampshire party activists on Saturday, hoping a quick sales pitch will help ignite their campaigns in the race to pick a challenger to Republican President Donald Trump in 2020.
President Donald Trump said in a speech to a Republican group that former Vice President Joe Biden is “being taken care of pretty well by the socialists.” He was implying that recent criticisms against Biden, a potential 2020 presidential candidate, is the product of attacks coming from the left wing (i.e. Bernie Sanders wing )…
A new poll shows that Donald Trump is in trouble. According to the highly respected Quinnipiac University poll, the majority of American voters have already made up their minds that they will not vote to reelect the president in next year’s election. The poll also found that in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential race, with…
New reporting this morning has revealed that former vice president Joe Biden may soon announce he is running for president, and at the same time might announce that Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams will be his running mate if he wins the Democratic Party nomination next year. The report came from Axios and is based on…
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he has “zero” doubt that President Trump will run for reelection in 2020. He also said that he thinks Trump will win. “I happen to think now, the president is going to run again in 2020 and I think he’ll win….
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s eulogy of John McCain never mentioned Trump’s name, but still contained a stinging indictment of Trump’s character and the kinds of politics that he practices.
“The only war that’s worse than one that’s intended is one that’s unintended. This is not the stuff to be tweeting about.”
Biden gets the support of 41 percent of likely Democratic voters in a crowded field that includes Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
The new revelation may seem like a bombshell, but the idea reportedly didn’t gain traction anywhere other than Brazile’s head.
McCain described Trump’s worldview as”unpatriotic” and said it should be thrown into the “ash heap of history.”
A new poll shows former vice president Joe Biden would easily beat Trump in a 2020 presidential election matchup.
“Enough. This has to stop,” the former Vice President tweeted. “Our children are watching.”
Joe Biden’s daughter said in an interview that the former vice president is considering a 2020 run against Donald Trump.
Former Vice President Joe Biden spoke to the soul of a nation when he called out Trump for enabling the dark forces of racism while terrorizing Latinos.
“If this is not who we are as Americans, let’s prove it,” Hillary Clinton said.
The fact that there is widespread disagreement and confusion in the White House surrounding the Paris climate accord could signal that Trump may back away from his promise to “cancel” the agreement.
Joe Biden and his staff are planning and laying out a strategic map for the former vice president to run against Donald Trump in 2020.
Former Vice President Joe Biden revealed the heartbreaking reason why he didn’t run for president in 2016, but also stated that he had planned on running, and thought that he would have beaten Trump if he would have been the Democratic nominee.
After a winless two months in the White House, perhaps Trump should give Barack Obama a call. He knows a thing or two about winning.
In an ideal world where politics is centered around issues that matter, Hillary Clinton – not Trump – would be getting sworn in next week.
An openly crying Vice President Joe Biden went from tears to shock as President Obama awarded the final Medal of Freedom of his time in office to the Vice President.
If Warren is planning to launch a candidacy in four years, this is a smart move in bolstering her credentials.
If there’s any 78-year-old who can pull it off, it’s Joe Biden.
“I don’t think [Trump] was trying to be mean. He is just so thoroughly, completely uninformed.”
Vice President Biden completely demolished Donald Trump in just forty seconds while campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania.
“This stuff about growing an economy that works for everybody, we haven’t been sitting in an ivory tower looking out at the world; we’ve not ever been sitting in penthouses looking out at the world.”
Middle-class Joe was at his best on Thursday in Ohio, when he told blue-collar voters not to buy what the Republicans are selling.
Vice President Joe Biden drove a stake through the heart of the myth that Donald Trump cares about the middle-class with a single sentence while campaigning with Hillary Clinton in Scranton, PA.
“Our country does not feel ‘great already’ to the millions of wonderful people living in poverty, violence and despair”
“No major party nominee in the history of this nation has ever known less or has been less prepared.”
Trump’s repeated comments about Russia would be puzzling but inconsequential if he was still hosting a reality show or driving casinos into the ground. The fact that he is running to be commander-in-chief makes them reckless and irresponsible.
In an interview with NPR, VP Biden said that he spoke to Sen. Bernie Sanders, who told him that he would endorse Hillary Clinton.
John Boehner put his terrible political instincts on public display again by claiming that he would be surprised if Hillary Clinton had to withdraw from the Democratic nomination and be replaced by Joe Biden.
Republicans have been hiding behind a fictional “Biden Rule†to justify their SCOTUS nominee obstruction but today Vice President Joe Biden blew up that whole mess of lies.
Vice President Joe Biden blasted Republicans with the argument that they are playing into the terrorists’ hands and making America less safe by trying to exploit fear for political gain.
Vice President Biden may not be a candidate, but he held a one on one meeting with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to discuss getting the Koch billionaire dollars out of our politics.
Biden seemed intent on running as the Democrat who would befriend Republicans, and that idea wasn’t going to attract Democratic voters.
Vice President Joe Biden committed the most selfless act of his political career when he decided not to run for the Democratic nomination.
A new poll found Biden performing better than both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in head to head contests with the leading Republicans.
If Joe Biden enters the Democratic race he could split the centrist vote with Hillary Clinton, giving Sanders greater odds of winning.
Stephen Colbert put the media’s pandering to Donald Trump and obsessing over Hillary Clinton’s emails to shame with a masterfully compelling interview of Vice President Joe Biden.
South Carolina isn’t feeling the Bern. Instead, the state appears poised to serve as a firewall for Hillary Clinton.
Vice President Biden spoke before the Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh, PA, where he admitted that he is angry over the rich getting richer as workers get left behind. Biden also urged workers to stand up against the corporate “barbarians” that are holding them down.
Clinton still leads Sanders 49-30, but that margin is down from her 59-19 lead from a month ago.
It isn’t a coincidence that as Bernie Sanders is being forced to move to a bigger New Hampshire campaign headquarters due to increasing popularity, Democrats are actively searching for more serious candidates to enter the 2016 field.
Vice President Joe Biden is seriously considering a run against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
A CNN/ORC poll released on Monday finds Hillary Clinton is still dominating the Republican field in the 2016 presidential race.
If you were wondering how long it would take for a Republican to invoke Adolf Hitler in the made-for-Beltway-media controversy surrounding the White House’s nonattendance at the Paris Unity Rally over the weekend, you got your answer Monday evening.
President Obama and Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, talked yesterday about various issues involving the two countries, including Cuba, immigration, drug war violence and border security
Vice President Joe Biden is turning on the charm and doing everything possible to explain to the left why 2014 must not be a repeat of 2010.
When Netroots finally got down to the business of pumping up progressive causes, there was no shortage of expert advice to give the crowd the impetus to take their new knowledge back home and start applying it.
Vice President Biden rocked Netroots Nation on Thursday by enumerating progressive values in order to show the activists why their country needs them.
The legend of Joe Biden continues to grow as the Vice President responded to being invited to the prom by sending a handwritten note and a wrist corsage.
Somehow President Obama managed to say this without twitching, “It is a no brainier for Congress to do what it is supposed to do.”
With the outing of Rand Paul’s alleged serial plagiarism gathering steam his supporters are weighing in on social media. To paraphrase the common post, “And I suppose you were this outraged about Joe Biden too.”
Former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura is back in the headlines. He plans to run for President in 2016, if Howard Stern would be his running mate.
The year 2004 saw Republican sex, crotch grabbing, finger-giving and f-you’s and Ditka missing his big chance to change history
Benghazi was bigger than Watergate (and apparently, 9/11 as well) but “Seal Team 6-Gate” is bigger even than Benghazi! (and Benghazi was totally the worst scandal ever, right? Well, not so much…).
It turns out the”liberal extremists” that Wayne LaPierre warned were pushing background check legislation are 85% of U.S. gun owners.
President Obama said today while signing the Violence Against Women Act, “I promise you this – not just as your President, but as a son, as a husband, as a father – I’m going to keep at it.”
Freedom Works has been exposed as the force behind the opposition to the Violence Against Women Act, because they feel that protecting women from violence is mean and unfair to men.
Vice President Biden will speak with a group of Google+ users about the White House policy recommendations and answer their questions.
The Republican Party seems to think if Obama doesn’t do what they want him to do, he is violating the Constitution
Republicans are threatening to impeach Obama over executive action on gun control, but many presidents have issued executive orders on gun control, including George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
The reaction from gun-proliferation addicts over the past week have revealed a deep-seated belief among firearm fanatics that simply talking about gun control is a cardinal sin worthy of civil war.
It’s not just the Sandy bill. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and John Boehner (R-OH) also killed legislation that would help protect 30 million American women’s lives.
Republicans have quit on America. They’re putting forth no effort, and most importantly at all, they haven’t even bothered to show up for the past two years.
If the Republicans fell all over themselves in 2012 to sound stupid, the Democrats were happy to help them along, as this list demonstrates
Politicians (a few at least) are making loud gun control noises. They do that every time there’s another mass murder. Nothing ever happens.
Even in troubled times, there are a great many things to be grateful for. Here are a few of mine.
This image gives you the dramatic story of ReBiblican wins in 2012 Congressional races.
The American people, Vice President Biden said, want a President they can trust, and they know Romney doesn’t pass that test.
Joe Biden unloaded on Mitt Romney for his Jeep lies and said, he will, ‘say anything, absolutely anything, to win, it seems. But he can’t run from the truth.’
Biden took Romney to task today for his lack of gumption, failing to condemn Mourdock’s comments that pregnancy after rape is ‘something that God intended.’
Need proof ahead of the second presidential debate that the president is ready to go? The Obama campaign has already scheduled debate morning after interviews for Joe Biden on all three networks.
Matt Barber calls quotes anti-Constitutionalist Patrick Henry to defend the Constitution and to portray Obama as the anti-Constitutionalist
Fox News is still so angry over the debate beating that Joe Biden gave Paul Ryan that they are insinuating that the Vice President of the United States is sexist.
Bill Maher laid waste to the right for getting every prediction they made about Obama’s first term completely wrong.
If there was a single exchange that defined the winner of this debate, it was the 47% exchange