Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, the moderator of the first 2020 presidential debate, has announced the topics for the head-to-head battle between President Trump and Joe Biden.
&#8220;The topics for the September 29 debate are as follows, not necessarily to be brought up in this order,&#8221; the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) <a href="https://www.debates.org/2020/09/22/moderator-announces-topics-for-first-presidential-debate-2/">announced</a> on Tuesday.
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<li>The Trump and Biden Records</li>
<li>The Supreme Court</li>
<li>Covid-19</li>
<li>The Economy</li>
<li>Race and Violence in our Cities</li>
<li>The Integrity of the Election</li>
</ul>
All debates start at 9:00 p.m. ET and run for 90 minutes with no commercials. Each topic will be debated for 15 minutes in the first faceoff.
The second debate will be town-hall style and will be moderated by C-SPAN’s Steve Scully in Miami on Oct. 15. The final debate will be moderated by Kristen Welker of NBC and will take place in Nashville on Oct. 22.
For the one vice presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), USA Today’s Susan Page will moderate the event, which will take place in Salt Lake City on Oct. 7.
&#8220;We are grateful to these experienced journalists, who will help ensure that the general election presidential debates continue to serve their unique educational purpose of helping the public learn about the candidates. Each individual brings great professionalism to moderating and understands that the purpose of the 2020 debate formats is to facilitate an in-depth discussion of major topics,” Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., Dorothy S. Ridings, and Kenneth Wollack, co-chairs of the non-partisan CPD said in a <a href="https://www.debates.org/2020/09/02/cpd-announces-2020-debate-moderators/">statement</a>.
Wallace expressed frustration last month, saying Biden &#8220;continues to lead with what I&#8217;ll call the basement strategy. I don&#8217;t think you can hide from now until Election Day. I just&#8230;don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s possible.&#8221; He also said it was &#8220;the damnedest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen&#8221; — and he&#8217;s been covering politics a long time.
But Wallace has also attacked Trump, saying in December that he believes Trump &#8220;is engaged in the most direct sustained assault on freedom of the press in our history.”
Here&#8217;s the format for each debate as announced by the CPD earlier this month:
<blockquote>First presidential debate
The debate will be divided into six segments of approximately 15 minutes each on major topics to be selected by the moderator and announced at least one week before the debate.
The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. Candidates will then have an opportunity to respond to each other. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic.
Vice presidential debate
The debate will be divided into nine segments of approximately 10 minutes each. The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic.
Second presidential debate
The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which the questions will be posed by citizens from the South Florida area. The candidates will have two minutes to respond to each question and there will be an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate further discussion. The town meeting participants will be uncommitted voters selected under the supervision of Dr. Frank Newport, Senior Scientist, Gallup.
Third presidential debate
The format for the debate will be identical to the first presidential debate.</blockquote>
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While President Donald Trump put out a list of prospective Supreme Court justices even before the death of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Democratic nominee Joe Biden refuses to produce his own list, saying it&#8217;s &#8220;inappropriate.&#8221;
But Biden claims to have such a list — he just won&#8217;t tell anyone who&#8217;s on it.
“Should voters know? Should voters know who you’re going to appoint?” a reporter from WTMJ-TV in Wisconsin <a href="https://www.tmj4.com/news/election-2020/joe-biden-replacing-ginsburg-should-wait-because-were-in-the-middle-of-an-election">asked</a> Biden on Monday.
“No, they don’t, but they will if I’m elected. They’ll have plenty of time,” Biden said.
Biden said it would be “inappropriate” for three reasons. One, current cases being overseen by judges he might name would be adversely affected. Two, prospective nominees would suddenly be thrust into the public eye &#8220;without any way to defend themselves.&#8221; And three, Biden said he doesn&#8217;t want to give Trump a chance to “change the subject.”
In another interview, this one with <a href="https://www.wbay.com/2020/09/22/one-on-one-interview-with-democratic-presidential-nominee-joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Action 2 News</a>, Biden was asked if he would &#8220;consider adding more Supreme Court justices to the bench?&#8221;
“It’s a legitimate question, but let me tell you why I’m not going answer that question. Because it will shift the focus, that’s what [Trump] wants, he never wants to talk about the issue at hand and he always tries to change the subject. Let’s say I answer that question, then the whole debate&#8217;s going to be about what Biden said or didn’t say, Biden said he would or wouldn’t. The discussion should be about why he is moving in a direction that’s totally inconsistent with what the founders wanted,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;The Constitution says voters get to pick a president who gets to make the pick and the Senate gets to decide. We’re in the middle of the election right now, you know people are voting now. By the time this Supreme Court hearing would be held, if they hold one, it’s estimated 30% to 40% of American people will already have voted. It is a fundamental breach of constitutional principle. It must stay on that and it shouldn’t happen,&#8221; Biden said.
Trump’s reelection campaign, meanwhile, continues to push Biden to release a list of potential picks to the Supreme Court.
“President Trump has been completely transparent by releasing names he’s considering for the Supreme Court four times since 2016,” Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-camp-keeps-pressure-on-biden-to-release-list-of-scotus-picks-amid-ginsburg?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fpolitics%20%28Internal%20-%20Politics%20-%20Text%29">told</a> Fox News.
“Now that Joe Biden has broken his promise to release his own list, what is he hiding?” Murtaugh continued. “We know he’s a tool of the radical left, so the only answer must be that he doesn’t want Americans to see the radical leftists he would appoint, with judicial histories littered with extremist rulings on issues like abortion, religious freedom, immigration, Second Amendment rights and government regulation.”
In June, Biden told reporters that he was “putting together a list of a group of African American women who are qualified and have the experience to be on the court.”
“I am not going to release that until we go further down the line in vetting them, as well,” Biden said at the time.
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden botched the words to America&#8217;s Pledge of Allegiance on Monday, drawing widespread mockery online.
&#8220;I don’t pledge allegiance to red states of America or blue states of America, I pledge allegiance to the United States of America. One nation, indivisible under God. For real,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;I’m running as a proud Democrat, but I’m not going to govern as a Democratic president, I’m going to govern as president.&#8221;
The Pledge of Allegiance states:
<blockquote>I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.</blockquote>
This is not the first time that Biden has seriously botched reciting important things related to America&#8217;s history.
Earlier this year, while trying to recite the Declaration of Independence, Biden <a href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/joe-biden-botches-declaration-of-independence-quote-during-texas-rally">said</a>, “We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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Joe Biden completely botches the Pledge of Allegiance:
&quot;I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, one nation, indivisible, under God, for real.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Gct4AEVWog">pic.twitter.com/Gct4AEVWog</a>
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Earlier this month, a top press secretary for Biden erupted in anger &#8220;after he was asked during a live television interview if Biden has been using a teleprompter to answer questions during media interviews,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-campaign-erupts-refuses-to-answer-if-biden-using-teleprompter-during-live-interviews">reported</a>. &#8220;The segment is especially newsworthy because Biden has faced repeated questions about his mental fitness for office, and the Trump campaign has continually highlighted instances in which Biden appears to be using a teleprompter to answer questions during interviews.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s worth <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-brian-stelter-responds-to-questions-about-bidens-mental-fitness-he-can-ride-a-bicycle">noting</a> that <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/13/cory_booker_on_bidens_state_of_mind_there_are_times_you_listen_to_him_and_just_wonder.html">numerous</a> <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/video/-are-you-forgetting-what-you-said-two-minutes-ago-castro-calls-out-biden-68827717777">Democrats</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B8sB7OW2bQ">progressives</a>, and <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/joe-biden-gaffes-democratic-presidential-campaign-trump">left-wing</a> publications have also questioned Biden’s mental fitness for office,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;Biden, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-i-am-constantly-tested-for-cognitive-decline">said</a> a couple of months ago that he was ‘constantly tested’ for cognitive decline, walked those claims back last week, denying that he had been tested for cognitive decline and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-walks-back-claims-on-taking-cognitive-test-rambles-about-cocaine-during-bizarre-interview">saying</a>, ‘Why the hell would I take a test?’&#8221;
Washington Post columnist Mark Thiessen <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/12/its-fair-speculate-whether-biden-is-mentally-fit-be-president/">highlighted</a> just a few of Biden’s recent struggles:
<blockquote>There is plenty of cause for concern. Biden recently announced “<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/09/biden-democrats-win-back-house/">I think we can win back the House</a>” and promised to ban the “<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/joe-biden-mocked-for-ranting-about-ar-14s-to-detroit-auto-worker/">AR-14</a>.” He mistook Super Tuesday for “Super Thursday,” and forgot the words of the Declaration of Independence, saying “We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women are created, by the, you know, you know the thing.” In South Carolina, he misstated what office he was running for, declaring “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-gaffe-united-states-senate">My name’s Joe Biden. I’m a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate</a>.” On three occasions last month, Biden declared <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/us/politics/joe-biden-arrest-mandela.html">he was arrested in South Africa</a> trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison — an incident his campaign later admitted never happened. He earlier described meeting a Navy captain in Afghanistan, but The Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-he-campaigns-for-president-joe-biden-tells-a-moving-but-false-war-story/2019/08/29/b5159676-c9aa-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a> that “almost every detail in the story appears to be incorrect.” He claimed to have worked with Chinese leader “<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/02/25/biden-says-he-worked-on-2016-climate-accord-with-leader-who-died-in-1997/">Deng Xiaoping</a>” on the Paris Climate Accord (Deng died in 1997)/. He claimed during a debate that “<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-carolina-democratic-debate-full-transcript-text/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">150 million people have been killed [by guns] since 2007</a>” (which would be nearly half the U.S. population). He said <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/11/politics/joe-biden-parkland-victims/index.html">he met with Parkland victims while he was vice president</a> even though the shooting took place after he left office. He has declared that Democrats should “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/09/joe-bidens-mounting-slip-ups-why-they-matter/?tid=lk_inline_manual_14&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_14&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_7">choose truth over facts</a>” and that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-tells-minority-voters-in-iowa-that-poor-kids-are-just-as-bright-as-white-kids/2019/08/09/4926be02-ba8e-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.html?tid=lk_inline_manual_14&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_14&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_7">“poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”</a> He pledged to use biofuels to power <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/why-joe-bidens-gaffes-matter">“steamships.”</a> He repeatedly gets <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/4-times-joe-biden-couldnt-remember-what-state-he">confused about what state he is in</a>; called “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace “<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/485362-biden-refers-to-chris-wallace-as-chuck-during-fox-news-interview">Chuck</a>”; said his late son Beau “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-biden-beau-biden-attorney-general">was the attorney general of the United States</a>”; and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/09/joe-bidens-mounting-slip-ups-why-they-matter/?tid=lk_inline_manual_14&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_14&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_7">confused</a> former British prime minister Theresa May with the late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
Any one of these gaffes in isolation would be nothing more than that. But taken together they form a pattern – and raise questions about whether Biden has experienced a cognitive decline. Biden’s defenders say this is unfair, and some have even suggested raising it <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/was-joe-biden-the-victim-of-an-ageist-attack-at-the-democratic-debate-2019-09-13">is ageism</a>. No, it’s not. His socialist rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is 78 — almost a year older than Biden — yet no one is questioning his mental fitness. On Monday night, Sanders spent an hour at a Fox News town hall where he was challenged to defend his policies and answered in great detail and without any gaffes or senior moments. Could Biden do the same?</blockquote>
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Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden Speaks On Death Of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘FOR REAL’: Joe Biden Botches The Pledge Of Allegiance

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Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden said that the issue of whether he supports packing the Supreme Court is a &#8220;legitimate question&#8221; for journalists to ask, but he is not going to answer the question.
A local Wisconsin news station asked Biden if he was elected president and the Democrats gained back control of the Senate, would he support adding more seats to the Supreme Court.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a legitimate question,&#8221; Biden responded. &#8220;But let me tell you why I&#8217;m not going to answer that question: Because it will shift the whole focus. That&#8217;s what he wants. He never wants to talk about the issue at hand. He always tries to change the subject. But let&#8217;s say I answer that question, then the whole debate&#8217;s going to be: well, Biden said or didn&#8217;t say. Biden said he would or wouldn&#8217;t.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s remarks come just over 40 days from the election and as voters increasingly focus on where candidates stand on issues so they can make informed decisions election day.
&#8220;However, the subject of adding more members to the court has been increasingly raised by Democrats infuriated that Republicans who control the Senate would vote to fill the vacancy left by the Friday death of the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal icon, just days before the election,&#8221; Politico reported. &#8220;Even before Ginsburg’s death, Democrats began warming to the idea of packing the Supreme Court. They included Sen. Kamala Harris, who’s now Biden’s running mate.&#8221;
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Biden owes the American people an answer on court packing. 
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The idea of packing the Supreme Court is so radical that even progressive Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who died last week — rejected the idea as recently as a year ago, calling it a “bad idea.”
“There is no fixed number in the Constitution, so this court has had as few as five and as many as 10. Nine seems to be a good number and it’s been that way for a long time,” Ginsburg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/honor-her-wishes-rbg-blasted-democrats-for-proposing-bad-idea-of-packing-supreme-court">said</a> in a 2019 interview with NPR. “I have heard that there are some people on the Democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges. I think that was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court, his plan was for every justice who stays on the court past the age of 70, the president would have the authority to nominate another justice. If that plan had been effective, the court’s number would have swelled immediately from nine to 15 and the president would have six appointments to make.”
“You mentioned before the court appearing partisan, well if anything would make the court appear partisan, it would be that — one side saying, ‘when we’re in power, we’re going to enlarge the number of judges, so we want to have more people who will vote the way we want them to,’” Ginsburg added. “So, I am not at all in favor of that solution to what I see as a temporary situation.”
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Biden On If He Supports Radical Idea Of Packing Supreme Court: ‘I’m Not Going To Answer That Question’

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Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden said that the issue of whether he supports packing the Supreme Court is a &quot;legitimate question&quot; for journalists to

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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden provided three reasons on Sunday for why he will not release his own list of potential Supreme Court nominees — and why he says he is against the practice at all — including the possibility that releasing a list could potentially affect an individual judge&#8217;s decision making.
&#8220;First: putting a judge&#8217;s name on a list like that could influence that person&#8217;s decision-making as a judge, and that would be wrong, or at least create the perception [that] it would have influence,” <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/biden-says-wont-releasing-list-201127721.html">said Biden</a> in remarks Sunday. &#8220;Second: anyone put on a list like that, under these circumstances, would be subject to unrelenting political attacks. Because any nominee I would select would not get a hearing until 2021 at the earliest, she would endure those attacks for months on end without being able to defend herself.&#8221;
Biden, who was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee when the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed in the early 1990s, also said he wasn’t going to release the names of potential picks to avoid making the process partisan, saying he would only make his choice after “consulting Democrats and Republicans in the United States Senate and seeking their advice and asking for their consent.”
The Democratic nominee has resisted calls to release a list of potential nominees in the vein of President Donald Trump, who expanded his original list by over 20 and called on Biden earlier this month to release his own list.
During remarks earlier this month, President Trump suggested that Biden may already have judicial nominees for the Supreme Court in mind, but may be withholding them “because he knows the names are so extremely far left that they could never withstand public scrutiny or receive acceptance.”
“He must release a list of justices for people to properly make a decision as to how they will vote,” said Trump, adding: “It is very important that he do so.”
In the wake of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Trump has vowed to nominate a woman to the nation’s highest court, which narrows down the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-scotus-pick-will-be-a-woman-here-are-12-possibilities">potential choices to twelve,</a> should he stick to the list as he has with his past two nominations. According to multiple media reports, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-two-women-said-to-be-at-the-top-of-trumps-scotus-list">two current favorites</a> for the position are Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett, and Eleventh Circuit Judge Barbara Lagoa, who was added to the Supreme Court nominee list earlier this month. Both choices are unique in that neither attended Harvard or Yale Law Schools, where all of the current sitting justices studied.
Biden promised earlier this year to “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-biden-claims-he-will-choose-female-vp-appoint-first-black-woman-to-the-courts">appoint the first black woman to the courts</a>,” although he declined to list names. However, Biden reiterated Sunday that his &#8220;first choice for the Supreme Court will make history as the first African American woman justice.&#8221;
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Biden Against Releasing SCOTUS List, Says It ‘Could Influence That Person’s Decision-Making’

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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden struggled during a speech on Sunday, falsely claiming that estimates indicated that there would be 200 million people dead from COVID-19 by the time he was finished talking.
While talking about the issue of health care, Biden said, &#8220;And perhaps most cruelly of all, if Donald Trump has his way, the complications from COVID-19, which are well beyond what they should be—it’s estimated that 200 million people [will] have died probably by the time I finish this talk—the complications of COVID-19, like lung scarring and heart damage, could become the next deniable preexisting condition for over six million Americans who’ve already contracted the disease.&#8221;
Globally, fewer than a million deaths have been recorded from the virus and, in the United States, approximately 200,000 people have been recorded as having died from the virus.
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Biden did not correct himself but, several minutes later, <a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-philadelphia-speech-transcript-sept-20-accuses-trump-republicans-of-abuse-of-power-over-scotus">said</a>, &#8220;Like I said, as I speak, we’re probably passing 200,000 deaths lost to this virus.&#8221;
During a CNN town hall last week, Biden claimed, “If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people—I’m not making this up. Just look at the data. Look at the data.”
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/17/joe-bidens-cnn-town-hall-an-occasional-whopper/">responded</a> to Biden’s claim by writing:
<blockquote>Actually, Biden is making this up. There is no data to support this, even if the president had moved rapidly in January to deal with the coronavirus and been able to persuade the Chinese leadership to be more forthcoming about the situation. Even nations that have been praised for their handling of the pandemic, such as South Korea, New Zealand and Iceland, have suffered some deaths (377 in South Korea, 25 in New Zealand and 10 in Iceland).
In the United States, with 50 states run by governors, policies have varied greatly. Trump has been faulted for not articulating a national plan, but he would have had trouble persuading every governor to follow the exact same path.</blockquote>
Politico responded to Biden’s remarks by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/18/talk-about-losers-cnn-town-hall-joe-biden-417560">writing</a> that he “vastly overstated what protections could have worked against the virus,” and that his remarks were “not true.”
Biden has a history of making puzzling statements regarding numbers, including a remark from last year where he claimed that more than 100 million Americans had been killed from gun violence over the previous 12 years.
“150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability,” Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-joe-biden-150-million-americans-killed-in-shootings-since-2007">falsely claimed</a>. “More than all the wars, including Vietnam, from that point on, carnage on our streets.”
Biden also once <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/20/facebook-posts/yes-biden-has-said-150-million-americans-died-guns/">stated</a> that the U.S. had &#8220;over 120 million dead from COVID,” but he then immediately corrected himself, saying in his very next words, &#8220;I mean, 120,000 dead from COVID.&#8221;
Biden also recently misstated the number of deaths that the U.S. military has experienced from COVID-19.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-gives-false-military-coronavirus-stats-it-appears-he-didnt-understand-basic-abbreviation">reported</a>:
<blockquote>“Military COVID infected: 118,984,” Biden said while reading off of a note card. “Military COVID deaths: 6,114.”
As of today, a <a href="https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Spotlight/Coronavirus/">total</a> of seven members of the U.S. Military have died from the coronavirus while the total number of infected is 40,026.
A look at photos that were available from the event shows the note card that Biden was reading, which stated: “MI COVID Infected: 118,984. MI COVID Deaths: 6,814.”
Biden—speaking in Michigan—apparently did not understand that “MI” was an abbreviation for the state that he was in, not an abbreviation for “Military.”</blockquote>
A spokesperson for the campaign told Fox News that Biden &#8220;misspoke.&#8221;
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/us/politics/aoc-ruth-bader-ginsburg.html">The New York Times</a> in an interview Saturday that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden should refrain from releasing a list of potential Supreme Court nominees in the wake of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death because it could divide the Democratic Party ahead of the election.
“On his list are individuals like Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz – Tom Cotton famously supporting bringing in the military to potentially endanger the lives of people exercising their first amendment rights. This is incredibly scary, that that kind of perspective could replace a vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” said Ocasio-Cortez.
She also said that “right now, it’s less about motivating people around a specific individual to be named to that court” and that Democrats could remain “highly motivated” by the thought of protecting the vacancy for a new president.
“I don’t think releasing a list of names really adds to that, and in fact, I think it could risk demoralizing and dividing our party,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
President Donald Trump has vowed to nominate a woman to fill the vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died from cancer on Friday, a promise that draws attention to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-scotus-pick-will-be-a-woman-here-are-12-possibilities">dozen women on his list of potential Supreme Court nominees</a>.
Biden, on the other hand, has called for the Supreme Court seat to remain vacant until after the election, banking on a victory that would put him in the position to fill a rare appointment at the start of his presidency, should he be elected.
Back in 2016, Biden said that, in the past, he has made it “absolutely clear” he would proceed with a Supreme Court nomination process, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-in-2016-president-has-constitutional-duty-to-fill-vacant-supreme-court-seat">even a few months before a presidential election</a>, if the nominee were chosen with the advice and not merely the consent of the Senate. Just as the Constitution requires.”
The Democratic presidential nominee has not given any indication as to who he would nominate to fill the vacancy, but back at the Democratic presidential debate against Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) earlier this year, Biden promised to “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-biden-claims-he-will-choose-female-vp-appoint-first-black-woman-to-the-courts">appoint the first black woman to the courts</a>.” Several months later, Biden said his team was “putting together a list of African American women who are qualified and have the experience to be on the court” and would release it “further down the line,” according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/20/attention-bidens-earlier-pledge-nominate-black-woman-supreme-court-increases/">The Washington Post</a>.
During remarks Sunday afternoon, Biden explicitly declined to release a list of potential Supreme Court nominees and falsely claimed that the Trump campaign has only called on him to release a nominee list in the aftermath of Ginsburg’s death.
“It’s no wonder the Trump campaign asked that I release a list only after she passed away,” remarked Biden. “It&#8217;s a game for them. It’s a play to gin up emotions and anger.”
Earlier this month, before Ginsburg’s death, Trump <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMP8pSI0WPI">said</a> that Biden was refusing to release such a list, “perhaps because he knows the names are so extremely far left that they could never withstand public scrutiny or receive acceptance.”
“He must release a list of justices for people to properly make a decision as to how they will vote,” continued Trump, adding: “It is very important that he do so.”
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AOC: Biden Releasing A SCOTUS Nominee List ‘Could Risk Demoralizing And Dividing Our Party’

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If you&#8217;ve been following the media coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s death, then you&#8217;ve heard a million times what Republicans like Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said in 2016.
After the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, both the Senate majority leader from Kentucky and the South Carolina senator said a replacement should not be seated until after the presidential election.
But then-Vice President Joe Biden said otherwise at the time, declaring that the president had a &#8220;constitutional duty&#8221; to seat a justice on the high court when a vacancy arises.
&#8220;The president has the constitutional duty to nominate; the Senate has the constitutional obligation to provide advice and consent,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/opinion/joe-biden-the-senates-duty-to-advise-and-consent.html">wrote</a> in a New York Times op-ed in 2016.
&#8220;It is written plainly in the Constitution that both presidents and senators swear an oath to uphold and defend,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;That’s why I was so surprised and saddened to see Republican leaders tell President Obama and me that they would not even consider a Supreme Court nominee this year. No meetings. No hearings. No votes. Nothing. It is an unprecedented act of obstruction. And it risks a stain on the legacy of all those complicit in carrying out this plan.&#8221;
In a speech at Georgetown University, Biden also said: &#8220;I would go forward with a confirmation process as chairman, even a few months before a presidential election, if the nominee were chosen with the advice, and not merely the consent, of the Senate, just as the Constitution requires.&#8221;
Biden has made a 180-degree turn with the death of Ginsburg, writing on Twitter on Friday: &#8220;Let me be clear: The voters should pick a President, and that President should select a successor to Justice Ginsburg.&#8221;
The vice president was echoing the words of his boss, former president Barack Obama. After Scalia&#8217;s death, Obama declared that he had a duty to nominate a successor.
&#8220;The Constitution vests in the President the power to appoint judges to the Supreme Court. It’s a duty that I take seriously, and one that I will fulfill in the weeks ahead,&#8221; Obama <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/a-responsibility-i-take-seriously/">wrote</a> in 2016.
Obama said he was looking for a replacement with a &#8220;sterling record, deep respect for the judiciary’s role, an understanding of the way the world really works.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s what I’m considering as I fulfill my constitutional duty to appoint a judge to our highest court.  And as Senators prepare to fulfill their constitutional responsibility to consider the person I appoint, I hope they’ll move quickly to debate and then confirm this nominee so that the Court can continue to serve the American people at full strength,&#8221; Obama wrote.
But like Biden, Obama has flip-flopped on the issue &#8212; now that a Republican president is in office and the GOP controls the Senate.
&#8220;Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-down vote on Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn’t fill an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in,&#8221; he wrote in a <a href="https://obama.medium.com/my-statement-on-the-passing-of-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-5a925b627457">statement</a>.
<blockquote>A basic principle of the law — and of everyday fairness — is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment. The rule of law, the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our democracy all depend on that basic principle. As votes are already being cast in this election, Republican Senators are now called to apply that standard. The questions before the Court now and in the coming years — with decisions that will determine whether or not our economy is fair, our society is just, women are treated equally, our planet survives, and our democracy endures — are too consequential to future generations for courts to be filled through anything less than an unimpeachable process.</blockquote>
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Biden In 2016: President Has ‘Constitutional Duty’ To Fill Vacant Supreme Court Seat

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UFC fighter Colby Covington gave an impassioned post-victory speech on Saturday night, saying that President Donald Trump&#8217;s victory over Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden would be more impressive than his own victory during the fight.
“Ladies and gentlemen, the silent majority is ready to make some noise,” Covington said. “If you thought that was a beating, wait till November 3 when Donald Trump gets his hands on Sleepy Joe. That’s gonna be a landslide.&#8221;
Covington dedicated the fight to first responders and slammed left-wing athletes who double as social justice warriors.
&#8220;I want to dedicate this fight to all the first responders, all the military out there,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This world would not be safe without you guys. You keep us safe and not these woke athletes. I’m sick of these woke athletes and [these] spineless cowards like LeBron James.”
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&quot;Ladies and gentleman, the silent majority is ready to make some noise. If you thought that was a beating wait until November 3rd, when Donald Trump gets his hands on Sleepy Joe. That&#39;s gonna be a landslide.&quot; &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/ColbyCovMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ColbyCovMMA</a> <a href="https://t.co/0b518NdgV2">pic.twitter.com/0b518NdgV2</a>
&mdash; Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) <a href="https://twitter.com/Surabees/status/1307518411229081604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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MMA Fighting <a href="https://www.mmafighting.com/2020/9/19/21447215/ufc-vegas-11-in-tweets-fighters-react-to-colby-covingtons-dominance-khamzat-chimaevs-fast-knockout">wrote</a> the following about Covington&#8217;s fight victory:
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After a high-paced night of impressive finishes, the grudge match years in the making between Colby Covington and Tyron Woodley wasn’t close to the fiery fight many expected.
Instead, Covington took down a listless Woodley round after round before an injury to the former undisputed champ brought a swift end to the fight at the 1:19 mark of the fifth and final round.
As far as action in the cage, there were other bright spots throughout the night, none more than the 17-second knockout win of Khamzat Chimaev, which left fighters’ jaws open.
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ESPN <a href="https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/29924655/colby-covington-dominates-tyron-woodley-fifth-round-tko-ufc-fight-night">noted</a> that the two fighters have been bitter rivals for years, adding: &#8220;Saturday&#8217;s main event was billed as one of the biggest grudge matches in the history of the UFC welterweight division. Covington and Woodley have a long history, including both once representing American Top Team. Woodley flew the younger Covington into his hometown of St. Louis as a training partner in 2014, and the two had a falling-out.&#8221;
President Donald Trump later called Covington during an interview on ESPN, telling him: &#8220;You are a great fighter, man, I&#8217;ll tell you. You make it so easy, I don&#8217;t know how &#8230; you do that. Congratulations. I wanted to watch that fight tonight. I wanted to watch it, you were great.&#8221;
&#8220;That was easy work, relatively easy work for you,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m proud of you, man. I&#8217;m proud of you.&#8221;
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Trump literally just called him while he was on the post-show OMG <a href="https://t.co/uwTZebkUgK">pic.twitter.com/uwTZebkUgK</a>
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Covington later added on Twitter: &#8220;Nothing makes me prouder than fighting for the people who fight for America!!! THANK YOU to all the brave men and women of law enforcement and the military!!! Thank You @realDonaldTrump for all the love and support!! The silent majority is ready to make some noise November 3rd!!&#8221;
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Nothing makes me prouder than fighting for the people who fight for America!!! THANK YOU to all the brave men and women of law enforcement and the military!!! Thank You <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> for all the love and support!! The silent majority is ready to make some noise November 3rd!! <a href="https://t.co/CazbUUnIiJ">pic.twitter.com/CazbUUnIiJ</a>
&mdash; Colby Covington (@ColbyCovMMA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColbyCovMMA/status/1307535742516649984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The pinned tweet on Covington&#8217;s Twitter account, from 2018, stated: &#8220;Like @POTUS @realDonaldTrump always says: Promises made. Promises kept. Pleasure to finally meet you Mr. President. Thank you for always putting America first! #maga #GreatAmericanWinningMachine &#8230;&#8221;
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Like <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> always says: Promises made. Promises kept. Pleasure to finally meet you Mr. President. Thank you for always putting America first! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/maga?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#maga</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreatAmericanWinningMachine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GreatAmericanWinningMachine</a> 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/yYZWkdd5wS">pic.twitter.com/yYZWkdd5wS</a>
&mdash; Colby Covington (@ColbyCovMMA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColbyCovMMA/status/1025064933736759298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who has endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, launched an outrageous attack on those in &#8220;the political middle&#8221; on Friday, claiming without evidence that they are &#8220;willing to sacrifice immigrants.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez made the shocking attack while specifically talking about the need for her supporters to register to vote and show up to the polls.
&#8220;I’m not here to dismiss you. I’m not here to poo-poo you. I’m not here to say you’re wrong or that you’re a bad person,&#8221; she said. &#8220;What I’m here to say is that this year, this election, voting for Joe Biden is not about whether you agree with him. It’s a vote to let our democracy live another day. That’s what this is about.&#8221;
&#8220;We need to act in solidarity and protection for the most vulnerable people in our society who have already experienced the violent repercussions of this administration. And the reason we need to do that is because yes, the political middle is willing to sacrifice immigrants,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez claimed. &#8220;The political middle too often is willing to play both sides when someone dies to police violence. Absolutely. That’s why we need to show up.&#8221;
&#8220;We need to show up because if we don’t show up, those people don’t get protected,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;Our trans brothers and sisters will not be protected. Our immigrant brothers and sisters will not be protected. Our brothers and sisters who are not making a living wage, that are working at McDonald’s and that they aren’t being paid a living wage, or they’re working at Amazon and they’re being forced to work in unsafe conditions, we gotta show up for them.&#8221;
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<blockquote>I’m not here to dismiss you. I’m not here to poo-poo you. I’m not here to say you’re wrong or that you’re a bad person. What I’m here to say is that this year, this election, voting for Joe Biden is not about whether you agree with him. It’s a vote to let our democracy live another day. That’s what this is about.
We need to act in solidarity and protection for the most vulnerable people in our society who have already experienced the violent repercussions of this administration. And the reason we need to do that is because yes, the political middle is willing to sacrifice immigrants. The political middle too often is willing to play both sides when someone dies to police violence. Absolutely. That’s why we need to show up.
We need to show up because if we don’t show up, those people don’t get protected. Our trans brothers and sisters will not be protected. Our immigrant brothers and sisters will not be protected. Our brothers and sisters who are not making a living wage, that are working at McDonald’s and that they aren’t being paid a living wage, or they’re working at Amazon and they’re being forced to work in unsafe conditions, we gotta show up for them.</blockquote>
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AOC Launches Shocking Attack On Those In ‘Political Middle’: They’re ‘Willing To Sacrifice Immigrants’

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who has endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, launched an outrageous attack on those in &quot;the

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Thirty-three years ago, current Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s first attempt to run for president collapsed after a plagiarism scandal and numerous, blatant falsehoods came to light.
The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/18/joe-biden-resurrects-false-college-claim-that-helped-ruin-his-1988-presidential-run/">reported</a> Friday that Biden has now resurrected one of the false claims that led to him dropping out of the Democratic primary in 1987. During a CNN Town Hall on Thursday night, Biden claimed he was the first member of his family to go to college, a claim he admitted was not true back in 1987.
That didn’t stop Biden-supporting political reporters from praising the line, including Politico’s Tim Albert, who called it possibly the “single-most effective line deployed against Trump since he rode down the escalator.”
Yet the line is not true.
In 1987, The New York Times published a quote from Biden admitting that he was not the first in his family to go to college.
“In addition, Mr. Biden said … he had miscast some of his own forebears, painting them as having rather more humble origins than they in fact did. For example, borrowing Mr. Kinnock’s sentiments, Mr. Biden had said he was ‘the first in his family ever to go to university.’ In fact, Mr. Biden said today, ‘there are Finnegans, my mother’s family, that went to college,’” the Times reported.
As Hemingway noted, Biden’s “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Francis_Blewitt">great-grandfather</a> attended college at a time in which fewer than 2 percent of college-aged men and women in the United States did so.”
It wasn’t the only lie regarding his education that Biden made back in 1987 while running for president, as Hemingway reported. During a campaign stop 33 years ago, a voter asked Biden what law school he attended and how well he did. Biden responded:
<blockquote>I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect. I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my — in my class to have a full academic scholarship. In the first year in law school I decided didn’t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class, and then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school, and in fact ended up in the top half of my class. I won the international moot-court competition. I was the outstanding student in the political science department at the end of my year. I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school and 165 credits — I only needed 123 credits. And I’d be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours if you’d like Frank.</blockquote>
Hemingway explained how many falsehoods were included in that one Biden response:
<blockquote>It turned out that Biden did not receive a full academic scholarship, but a half scholarship based on financial need. He did not end up in the top half of his class, but near the very bottom. There is no record of him winning the moot court competition. He did not receive the outstanding student award at the University of Delaware. And he <a href="https://apnews.com/cd977f7ff301993f7976974ba07c5495">graduated with only one degree</a>.</blockquote>
This was the same failed presidential campaign where it was discovered Biden plagiarized five pages of a law review article and lifted biographical details from British Labor politician Neil Kinnock.
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Joe Biden’s primary platform position is that he — by definition — is not Donald Trump. As a result, the Democrats and the media are working overtime to pick out negative elements of Trump’s character — real or imaginary — and present Biden as the opposite image. They will implore you to “choose compassion over cruelty, empathy over ego, facts over fear, and hope over hate.” The implication, of course, is that Trump represents cruelty, ego, fear, and hate, with Biden representing compassion, empathy, facts, and hope. Such “inverse” assumptions are at the heart of Biden’s effort to replace Trump. Unfortunately for Biden, assumptions are often far from reality.
Earlier this month, Biden tweeted, “You deserve a president who tells you the truth.” Again, the implication being that Trump does not tell the truth, and therefore Biden does.
If we do &#8220;deserve a president who tells us the truth,&#8221; voters should enthusiastically reject Biden. Here are 20 times this year alone that Biden has lied, in chronological order.
<a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2020/02/trump-has-condemned-white-supremacists/">February 11th</a>
“You see these white supremacists coming out from under the rocks. He’s yet once to condemn white supremacy, the neo-Nazis. He hasn’t condemned a darn thing.”
Donald Trump has specifically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sichel-the-big-charlottesville-lie">condemned</a> white supremacists and neo-Nazis on multiple occasions.
<a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4857014/user-clip-biden-arrested">February 11th</a>
“This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid. I had the great honor of meeting him. I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on Robbens Island.”
Firstly, the prison is actually named “Robben Island.” Secondly, Biden admitted on <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/28/nday.06.html">February 28th</a> that he was never arrested:
“When I said arrested, I meant I was not able to — I was not able to move. Cops, Afrikaners, would not let me go with them. Made me stay where I was. I guess I wasn’t arrested, I was stopped. I was not able to move where I wanted to go.”
<a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4857029/user-clip-bidens-proposal">February 18th</a>
“I came back from South Africa trying to see Nelson Mandela and getting arrested for trying to see him on Robbens Island. He was in prison.”
See above.
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-joe-biden-on-face-the-nation-february-23-2020/">February 23rd</a>
Speaking with Margaret Brennan on CBS News’ Face the Nation:
BRENNAN: South Carolina, though, is your firewall.
BIDEN: You said it, my firewall.
BRENNAN: You need&#8211;
BIDEN: I&#8217;ve never said it&#8211;
BRENNAN: The campaign has said it&#8217;s your&#8211;
BIDEN: No&#8211;
BRENNAN:&#8211; firewall.
BIDEN: It&#8217;s not fi&#8211; I said I&#8217;m going to do well there. And I&#8217;ll do well there and I&#8217;ll do well-beyond there as well.
On February 2nd during an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news-on-the-bus-with-joe-biden-77997125565">NBC News interview</a>, Biden said “I think I’ll do well in Nevada. And I think I have a real firewall in South Carolina.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1234856304918663168">March 3rd</a>
Biden campaign video suggests that Donald Trump stated “Coronavirus — this is their new hoax.”
These were Trump’s words&#8230;if you ignore more than <a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-charleston-south-carolina-rally-transcript-february-28-2020">100 words</a> between “coronavirus” and “hoax.”
&#8220;Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, you know that right? Coronavirus, they’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs. You say, ‘How’s President Trump doing?’ They go, ‘Oh, not good, not good.’ They have no clue. They don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa. They can’t even count. No, they can’t. They can’t count their votes.
&#8220;One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.’ That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was not a perfect conversation. They tried anything. They tried it over and over. They’d been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost. It’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/biden-trump-wrong-about-who-coronavirus-tests/">March 15th</a>
“No, look, the World Health Organization offered — offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them. We did not want to buy them. We did not want to get them from them. We wanted to make sure we had our own.”
The U.S. never refused a test from the World Health Organization, and the U.S. wanted to make its own test for legitimate reasons, including the fact that the WHO test kits are “largely meant for less wealthy countries with weaker health systems.”
<a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/27/se.01.html">March 27th</a>
“When we were talking about early on in this crisis, we said — I said, among others, that, you know, you should get into China, get our experts there, we have the best in the world, get them in so we know what&#8217;s actually happening. There was no effort to do that.”
In reality, there were <a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/bidens-false-claim-on-trumps-response-to-coronavirus/">multiple offers of assistance</a>, with the earliest occurring one week after China reported the outbreak to the World Health Organization.
<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/15/biden-trump-was-praising-china-and-now-hes-trying-to-play-this-chinac-card/">May 14th</a>
“We had over 44, if I’m not mistaken, people from the CDC in China, in China to observe what was going on. The president brought home the vast majority of them and I think left only four in place.”
According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3N5">Reuters</a>, “The CDC’s China headcount has shrunk to around 14 staffers, down from approximately 47 people since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017.”
<a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/29/joe-biden/joe-bidens-dubious-claim-about-revolutionary-war-c/">May 21st</a>
&#8220;[Assault-style weapons] have no rationale for being owned by individuals on the street. They should be outlawed. … From the very beginning you weren&#8217;t allowed to have certain weapons. You weren&#8217;t allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual.&#8221;
According to Politifact, Biden’s campaign “was unable to come up with an example of a law banning private ownership of cannons, and historians of the period doubt that any existed. To the contrary, there are documented instances of privateers, or privately owned vessels, setting sail with cannons during the period.”
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“You got more questions, but I tell you if you have a problem figuring out whether you&#8217;re for me or Trump, then you ain&#8217;t black.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-big-chunk-of-white-americans-with-degrees-and-people-of-color-are-behind-trump/">FiveThirtyEight</a>, “Polls suggest about 10 percent of black voters both nationally and in key swing states with large black electorates are supporting Trump.”
<a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/01/joe-biden/naacp-gave-joe-biden-some-high-marks-never-endorse/">May 22nd</a>
&#8220;I have a record that is second to none. The NAACP has endorsed me every time I&#8217;ve run.&#8221;
Derrick Johnson, CEO of the NAACP, stated that the organization does not endorse candidates. Indeed, due to their tax-exempt status, they are unable to endorse political candidates.
<a href="https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/VBLsK6tVFRoPXG5fL9JIbAX45j_v3qRhyQ9ZbU7YI8uRz6XliLEINEkJlDEvk7hvETsZoCtwStIc6t7uDvl7rzmCDW4">May 22nd</a>
&#8220;I opposed that three strikes and you’re out bill.”
Speaking with Katie Couric on NBC’s Today Show on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190703135749/http:/www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12/flatview?cuecard=4342">February 1st 1994</a>, Biden said “What I support is a three strikes and you’re out, if in fact, they’re very violent crimes – arson, rape, murder, manslaughter. Three strikes in those areas, and you should be out.”
<a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/28/joe-biden/biden-wrong-mcdonalds-workers-cant-jump-competing-/">July 22nd, 2020</a>
&#8220;McDonald’s is making billions of dollars, but here’s the deal. They’ve made you all sign noncompete contracts that you cannot go across town to try to get a job at Burger King. And maybe, and I’m not saying you could, but you get 25 cents an hour more. People who are hourly workers are required to sign noncompete: ‘I will not go anywhere to any business like the one I’m in to get a raise.’&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/bidens-false-claim-about-mcdonalds/">FactCheck.org</a>, “There is no evidence to support this. McDonald’s says that is not the case. And McDonald’s discontinued a related practice, barring workers from moving from one store inside the company to another, in 2017.”
<a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/27/joe-biden/long-history-racism-us-presidency/">July 22nd, 2020</a>
“We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed, they’ve tried to get elected president. He’s the first one that has.”
As expressed by <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/no-uncle-joe-trump-is-hardly-our-first-racist-president.html">New York Magazine</a>, “even by the narrowest definition, such as conscious belief in the superiority of the dominant white race and/or the inferiority of others — or cementing those foul ideas with the deliberate pursuit of policies designed to promote racist ends — the list of racist presidents is still very extensive.”
<a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2020/08/final-night-of-the-democratic-convention/">August 21st, 2020</a>
“Five million Americans infected by COVID-19. More than 170,000 Americans have died. By far the worst performance of any nation on Earth.”
These statements <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-false-covid-19-claims">fail</a> to take population size into account. “In the United States, there have been 53.26 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people, compared to 62.4 in the United Kingdom, and 58.61 in Italy. In fact, the United States isn’t even in the “Top 10,” with San Marino, Belgium, Peru, Andorra, Spain, Sweden, Chile, and Brazil ranking “higher.””
<a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/04/joe-biden/joe-biden-wrong-about-how-early-he-called-invoke-d/">September 2nd</a>
&#8220;When it got up to March, I kept saying, look, you’ve got to invoke, and you remember, I think I was the first — I may be mistaken — person calling about the Defense Production Act. … Use that authority. Use it to go out there now and don’t wait to talk about the need for us to have masks.&#8221;
In fact, multiple people discussed using the Defence Production Act prior to Biden, including New York City emergency management commissioner Deanne Criswell on February 26th, and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on February 28th.
<a href="https://youtu.be/2OyqVdVN8Gk">September 7th, 2020</a>
“Trump has a plan to gut Social Security. If his Social Security plan … actually became law, the Social Security actuary has said the entire Social Security system will be bankrupt by mid-2023.”
According to <a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/bidens-false-attacks-on-trumps-social-security-plan/">FactCheck.org</a>, while the Social Security Administration’s chief actuary has analyzed hypothetical legislation which would eliminate payroll taxes, this is not a proposal from Trump, who has not said that he would cut benefits.
<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/11/joe-biden-fact-check/3471137001/">September 9th, 2020</a>
“$400,000 … is more money than I’ve ever made” in a year.
Joe Biden’s tax returns from 2017 and 2018 showed income of “many multiples that amount.” The combined income of Biden and his wife amounted to $407,009 in 2013, $11,031,309 in 2017, and $4,580,437 in 2018.
<a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/10/joe-biden/joe-biden-mistook-michigans-covid-19-numbers-milit/">September 9th, 2020</a>
&#8220;U.S. troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan: 53,188. U.S. COVID infected in America: 6,344,700. U.S. COVID deaths: 189,506. Military COVID infected: 118,984. Military COVID deaths: 6,114. Folks, every one of these lives matter. Every one of these lives left somebody behind grieving.&#8221;
According to the Defense Department, 7 service-members have died from COVID-19, with nearly 38,500 infected.
<a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-speech-transcript-warren-michigan-september-9">September 10th, 2020</a>
“Under President Trump, U.S. trade deficit has grown. It’s hit an all time high. Let me say that again. U.S. trade deficit is at an all time high under Trump in the last three years.”
During Trump’s first term, the <a href="https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/historical/gands.pdf">trade deficit</a> was over $513 billion in 2017, almost $580 billion in 2018, and almost $577 billion in 2019. The trade deficit was higher than these values between 2004 and 2008, reaching its peak of over $763 billion in 2006.
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“You deserve a president who tells you the truth.” Then why are you running, Joe?
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20 Lies & False Claims From The ‘Honest’ 2020 Candidate

Joe Biden’s primary platform position is that he — by definition — is not Donald Trump. As a result, the Democrats and the media are working overtime to

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Mainstream fact checkers slammed Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden late on Thursday night after he falsely claimed that the data stated that President Donald Trump was responsible for every single person who has died from the coronavirus that originated in China.
Biden stated: “If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people—I’m not making this up. Just look at the data. Look at the data.”
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/17/joe-bidens-cnn-town-hall-an-occasional-whopper/">responded</a> to Biden&#8217;s claim by writing:
<blockquote>Actually, Biden is making this up. There is no data to support this, even if the president had moved rapidly in January to deal with the coronavirus and been able to persuade the Chinese leadership to be more forthcoming about the situation. Even nations that have been praised for their handling of the pandemic, such as South Korea, New Zealand and Iceland, have suffered some deaths (377 in South Korea, 25 in New Zealand and 10 in Iceland).
In the United States, with 50 states run by governors, policies have varied greatly. Trump has been faulted for not articulating a national plan, but he would have had trouble persuading every governor to follow the exact same path.</blockquote>
Politico responded to Biden&#8217;s remarks by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/18/talk-about-losers-cnn-town-hall-joe-biden-417560">writing</a> he &#8220;vastly overstated what protections could have worked against the virus,&#8221; and that his remarks were &#8220;not true.&#8221;
&#8220;One study <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/coronavirus-distancing-deaths.html">suggested</a> that a large number of people may not have died if certain measures had been implemented weeks earlier, but the study in no way stated that earlier action would have saved &#8216;all the people.&#8217; It’s worth <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/20/coronavirus-donald-trump-one-rally-march-joe-biden-eight/">noting</a> that Biden held eight rallies in March while Trump only held one,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-trump-is-responsible-for-all-the-people-who-died-from-coronavirus-im-not-making-this-up">reported</a>. &#8220;At the same time, it’s important to remember that the coronavirus spread in large part thanks to the Chinese Communist Party <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/02/intelligence-report-says-china-lied-about-origin-of-coronavirus">lying</a> to the world about the outbreak, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/10/wuhan-officials-tried-cover-up-covid-19-sent-it-careening-outward/">trying</a> to cover it up, <a href="https://apnews.com/3c061794970661042b18d5aeaaed9fae">delaying</a> the release of critical information, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-coronavirus-whistleblowers-speak-out-vanish-2020-2">silencing</a> whistleblowers.&#8221;
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Biden claims Trump is responsible for every single person who has died from COVID-19: 
&quot;If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people — I’m not making this up. Just look at the data. Look at the data.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Z6tkk9NzHi">pic.twitter.com/Z6tkk9NzHi</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1306763697772085250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/03/how-much-pressure-did-trump-put-china-access-concerning-coronavirus/">highlighted</a> in a separate report just some of the early actions that the Trump administration took to combat the coronavirus:
<blockquote>Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, learned on Dec. 31 of a “cluster of 27 cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology reported in Wuhan, China,” according to Katherine McKeogh, press secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services.
On Jan. 3, Redfield emailed George Gao, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and spoke with him the same day, she said, citing his calendar entry.
The next day, Redfield emailed Gao, writing: “I would like to offer CDC technical experts in laboratory and epidemiology of respiratory infectious diseases to assist you and China CDC in identification of this unknown and possibly novel pathogen.” Two days later, he sent another email, attaching a formal letter offering CDC support, McKeogh said.
On Jan. 6, the Trump administration “offered to send a CDC team to China that could assist with these public health efforts,” HHS Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on Jan. 28. “I reiterated that offer when I spoke to China’s minister of health on Monday, and it was reiterated again via the World Health Organization today. We are urging China: More cooperation and transparency are the most important steps you can take toward a more effective response.” …
On Jan. 31, Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-suspension-entry-immigrants-nonimmigrants-persons-pose-risk-transmitting-2019-novel-coronavirus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">announced</a> travel restrictions on non-U. S. citizens traveling from China, effective Feb. 2, with 11 exceptions. U.S. citizens could still travel from China but were subject to screening and a possible 14-day quarantine. Some flights were immediately suspended, but others continued for weeks at the discretion of the airlines.</blockquote>
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Fact Checkers Blast Biden’s Outlandish Remark About Trump, Pandemic: ‘Biden Is Making This Up’

Mainstream fact checkers slammed Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden late on Thursday night after he falsely claimed that the data stated that

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Do you vote based on how you feel about the personal moral character of the candidate or the policies they represent? And what do you do when those two things contrast each other in one candidate — when negative personality conflicts with a positive platform?
The 2016 presidential election saw lesser-of-two-evils voting sweep the nation. Few people fervently supported Donald Trump until he presented himself as the only viable option to Hilary Clinton and the rest of the political establishment. His rise came not on his accomplishments, personality, or winsomeness but on his ability to present himself as the antidote — he didn’t taste good, but he wasn’t the poison the he claimed everyone else to be.
Four years later, we find ourselves in a similar spot. Only this time, the Democrat says he’s the antidote. Joe Biden’s platform can be summed up in three words: I’m not Trump. And again, conservatives find themselves in a frustratingly familiar dilemma. The personality they chafe against represents the policies they support while the policies they hate are touted by a personality that is, at least comparably, tolerable if not at times likeable.
When we find ourselves in this situation, shouldn’t we know which way to lean? Shouldn’t the conscience so many of us claim to vote with tell us whether personality or policy takes priority? When we walk into voting booths, we should bring with us the confidence that says, “I know who I’m voting for, but more importantly, I know why.”
Voting for a Person
The argument for voting for the person is based on the notion that when we vote, we are electing people to represent us — literally the people that will be the face of our nation. And when it comes to President, we’re selecting someone to go to other countries on our behalf.
In this mode of thinking, how could we vote for someone we neither respect nor trust? We can only judge someone’s character based on the limited personal information we have. But if, knowing what we know, we find ourselves full of respect for and trust in a candidate, particularly in their judgment, then we can go into a voting booth feeling confident we’re making a good decision.
Even if this candidate has policies we may disagree with, judgment matters immensely. Because once they’re in office, they’ll have more information on every situation and decision than we could ever understand. And if we can trust them to make the right choices, and respect them even when they do something we may disagree with, a vote for that person seems well spent.
The major flaw of this approach, of course, is that judging someone&#8217;s character is far more difficult than we&#8217;d like to admit. All too many times we&#8217;ve seen elected figures seemingly morph into someone else after gaining power. Even political figures who have been in the spotlight for a long time can pull the wool over the public&#8217;s eyes. Good politicians are particularly good at presenting themselves in ways that conceal their character flaws.
Voting for a Policy
At the end of the day, the politicians we elect represent us. They are our surrogates. When it comes to passing laws and enacting legislations, we should put our votes behind people who will do what we would do in the same situation. Why do their morals matter if we know that they’re going to vote the way we want them to vote, or if they’re going to support the initiatives we want to see supported?
If we’re sending politicians to Washington D.C. to get things done, then they better have interests aligned with our own. Sure, we want them to be good people, but there’s nothing wrong with ignoring some personality flaws as long as they prove they can consistently do right by the voters they represent. Not only that, but this litmus test is so much easier to judge than a person’s character and morality.
Who knows if someone is who they say they are? Deep down, we don’t know the true face of any public figures, so why should we bother trying? Instead, let’s look at their policy positions and voting records to see what they’ll do once in office. With this approach, it’s easy to walk into a voting booth knowing exactly how aligned we are with a candidate’s positions and knowing that our voice will be heard because our vote speaks for us.
Look, neither of these arguments is fully wrong or right. This question poses no easy answers. But isn’t that what makes democracy great? You can vote for your candidate for your reason, I can vote for my candidate for a different reason, and we can both be doing right by the system.
If we’re paying attention to the words a candidate speaks, the actions that follow, the beliefs they claim, and the positions they support, then we&#8217;re doing our best to make the best choice. Choose your person. Choose your policies. And when you can’t find both in the same candidate, choose the one you think will be more impactful in the end.
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Person or Policy? How to Pick a President

Do you vote based on how you feel about the personal moral character of the candidate or the policies they represent? And what do you do when those two

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On Thursday night, at a CNN townhall conducted by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was asked whether the Green New Deal was “too much.” He answered, “No, I don’t think it’s too much.”
The question posed to Biden was, “Are you a firm supporter of the Green New Deal, and how will you make sure our communities are protected?”
Cooper interjected, “Let me jump in, though; she was asking about a Green New Deal. Do you back that or do you think it’s too much?”
Biden responded, “No, I don’t think it’s too much.” He continued, “I have my own deal. I’ve laid it out in detail. The Democratic party’s adopted it as a platform. It requires for us to move in a direction to fundamentally change the way in which we deal with the environment.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-green-new-deal-cost-10-trillion-2019-6">said in June 2019</a> that her Green New Deal resolution would cost at least $10 trillion to implement.
<a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/aoc-green-new-deal-cost-american-household">Fox Business</a> reported in July 2019, “A new <a href="https://cei.org/content/what-green-new-deal-could-cost-typical-household">study</a> released by libertarian think tank The Competitive Enterprise Institute and Power the Future (which was launched by an alum of the Charles Koch Institute) found that the average American household in Florida, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Pennsylvania would be on the hook for more than $70,000 during the first year the plan was implemented.”
“I’m the guy that ran the Recovery Act, which invested over $90 billion in bringing down the cost of renewable energy so it’s now more competitive that it is for coal or for oil or for gas,” Biden boasted Thursday night. “And so there’s no reason why we can’t transition, in an orderly way, making — and by the way, before I actually went through the whole thing I sat down with every one of the major unions. They all endorsed me. And I said, ‘Look, this is what it’s going to mean for you. It’s not only good for the environment; it’s gonna provide jobs and you’re not gonna lose your job. You’re not gonna lose your job. Not producing the same energy, producing a different kind of energy.’”
Biden’s reference to the Recovery Act was about the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Obama administration <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/25/fact-sheet-recovery-act-made-largest-single-investment-clean-energy">stated</a> of the act, “Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act), President Obama made the largest single investment in clean energy in history, providing more than $90 billion in strategic clean energy investments and tax incentives to promote job creation and the deployment of low-carbon technologies, and leveraging approximately $150 billion in private and other non-federal capital for clean energy investments.”
Biden stated that the stimulus plan would “literally drop kick us out of the recession.” But on the fifth anniversary of Obama signing the act, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/obama8217s-stimulus-five-years-later-1392640078">The Wall Street Journal</a> noted:
<blockquote>Five years ago today, President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law. The $830 billion spending blowout was sold by the White House as a way to keep unemployment from rising above 8%. But the stimulus would fail on its own terms. 2009 marked the first of four straight years when unemployment averaged more than 8%. And of course the unemployment rate would have been even worse in those years and still today if so many people had not quit the labor force, driving labor-participation rates to 1970s levels.</blockquote>
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden suggested Thursday evening during a CNN town hall that, if elected, he would be the first president without a degree from an Ivy League university.
&#8220;When you guys started talking on television about &#8216;Biden, if he wins will be the first person without an Ivy League degree to be elected president.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Who the hell makes you think I need an Ivy League degree to be president?&#8217; I&#8217;m not joking,” said Biden.
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What the hell makes you think I need an Ivy League degree to be president? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BidenTownHall?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BidenTownHall</a> <a href="https://t.co/fzoMjYTlZ4">pic.twitter.com/fzoMjYTlZ4</a>
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Biden’s suggestion, which was later fact-checked by <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/joe-biden-town-hall-fact-checking-democratic-nominees/story?id=73062846" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ABC News</a>, is wrong. While the Ivy League universities boast over a dozen presidents, including John Adams, the second president of the United States, more than 25 other presidents, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, didn’t receive an Ivy League degree.
In fact, these six Americans were elected as president of the United States without college degrees at all:
George Washington (1789-1797)
George Washington, the Revolutionary War hero and the first president of the United States, didn’t receive much in the way of formal schooling and never attended college. However, Washington enjoyed an array of academic subjects, which he studied on his own, including fiction, history, and philosophy. He was also a fan of practical knowledge. According to one historian, Washington was even derided by some of his contemporaries, including John Adams, who succeeded Washington as president and once referred to him as “too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation.”
Source: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
Born in a remote area between South Carolina and North Carolina, Andrew Jackson lacked a formal education and never attended college. Despite his lack of schooling and educational opportunities, Jackson came to enjoy reading and later became a lawyer through self-study, eventually serving on the Tennessee Supreme Court. In subsequent years, he gained national attention as a major general in the War of 1812, in which he won the Battle of New Orleans, and was later elected president of the United States.
Source: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H.W. Brands
Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
The son of Dutch immigrants, Martin van Buren started his formal education in a one-room schoolhouse and learned English as a second language. When he turned 14, his father sent him away to study law at a lawyer’s office. After turning 21, Van Buren returned as a lawyer, and eventually started a political journey that included serving as a local official, state senator, state attorney general, New York governor, U.S. senator, secretary of state, vice president, and ultimately ninth president of the United States.
Source: <a href="https://millercenter.org/president/vanburen/life-before-the-presidency">Miller Center</a>
Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
A dedicated member of the U.S. military, Zachary Taylor received little formal education, but was widely knowledgeable in practical frontier skills, having been raised in Kentucky. As a young adult, Taylor left home for a career in the military and served in multiple wars over the span of four decades, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War between 1846 and 1848, eventually rising to the rank of Brigadier General. In 1848, less than a year after the war shortly had ended, Taylor was elected president.
Source: <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/zachary-taylor">HISTORY</a>
Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
As a child, Abraham Lincoln didn’t receive extensive formal schooling. Nonetheless, he had a strong appetite for learning, and was known to carry around books and commit to memory some of what he did read. Although he initially believed a legal career was outside of his reach, once an adult, Lincoln was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives and decided to self-study the law. He later served a term in the U.S. House of Representatives, and was elected president in 1860 in a four-way race, with 39% of the popular vote but a decisive Electoral College victory.
Source: Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Grover Cleveland (1885-1889; 1893-1897)
The fifth of nine siblings, Grover Cleveland was raised in upstate New York, where he attended school until his father’s death in 1853, at which point he worked to support his family. Cleveland, unable to afford the cost of college, worked at a law office for several years, pursuing self-study in order to pass the bar exam. He launched his political career as the sheriff of Erie County, New York, where he served for two years. Nearly a decade later, Cleveland sought higher office, and went from Mayor of Buffalo, New York, to governor, to president of the United States, in the span of only three years. He is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms in office.
Source: <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/grover-cleveland">HISTORY</a>
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden repeatedly refused to call China an &#8220;opponent&#8221; on Thursday when he was pressed multiple times by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.
Cooper and Biden had the following exchange where Biden repeatedly refused to call China an &#8220;opponent&#8221;:
<blockquote>Cooper: Do you view China as an opponent? Because the president says you&#8217;ve been too cozy with China, too accepting of them in the international community.
Biden: I, I&#8217;m not the guy, look, China, we now have a larger trade deficit with China than we&#8217;ve ever had with China and in our administration when the World Trade Organization he keeps going on about, just ruled that his trade policy violate the World Trade Organ&#8211;we sued, we went to the World Trade Organization 16 times.
Cooper: Do you view China as an opponent?
Biden: I view China as a competitor. A serious competitor. That&#8217;s why I think we have to strengthen our relationships and our alliances in Asia.</blockquote>
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Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell responded by writing on Twitter: &#8220;China wants Biden to win. So he won’t criticize them. This is a scandal.&#8221;
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China wants Biden to win. So he won’t criticize them. 
This is a scandal. <a href="https://t.co/bVs2CzjoJ7">https://t.co/bVs2CzjoJ7</a>
&mdash; Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1306784342589542406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) Director William Evanina <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2139-statement-by-ncsc-director-william-evanina-election-threat-update-for-the-american-public">said</a> in a statement last month the following about China as it pertains to foreign nations looking to interfere with U.S. elections this fall:
<blockquote>We assess that China prefers that President Trump – whom Beijing sees as unpredictable – does not win reelection. China has been expanding its influence efforts ahead of November 2020 to shape the policy environment in the United States, pressure political figures it views as opposed to China’s interests, and deflect and counter criticism of China. Although China will continue to weigh the risks and benefits of aggressive action, its public rhetoric over the past few months has grown increasingly critical of the current Administration’s COVID-19 response, closure of China’s Houston Consulate, and actions on other issues. For example, it has harshly criticized the Administration’s statements and actions on Hong Kong, TikTok, the legal status of the South China Sea, and China’s efforts to dominate the 5G market. Beijing recognizes that all of these efforts might affect the presidential race.</blockquote>
A week later, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-security-adviser-china-trying-to-elect-biden-has-most-sophisticated-global-influence-programs-and-capabilities">warned</a> that China was &#8220;trying to elect Joe Biden&#8221; and that China had &#8221; the most sophisticated global influence programs and strategies and abilities and capabilities in the world.&#8221;
Barr <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/02/sitroom.01.html">told</a> CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer that China was more aggressive and assertive than Russia in terms of trying to interfere in U.S. elections, according to U.S. intelligence.
The NCSC added the following about Russia and Iran, which were the top two other nations that were deemed to be a threat in the upcoming U.S. elections:
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<li>RUSSIA – We assess that Russia is using a range of measures to primarily denigrate former Vice President Biden and what it sees as an anti-Russia “establishment.” This is consistent with Moscow’s public criticism of him when he was Vice President for his role in the Obama Administration’s policies on Ukraine and its support for the anti-Putin opposition inside Russia. For example, pro-Russia Ukrainian parliamentarian Andriy Derkach is spreading claims about corruption – including through publicizing leaked phone calls – to undermine former Vice President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party. Some Kremlin-linked actors are also seeking to boost President Trump’s candidacy on social media and Russian television.</li>
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<li>IRAN – We assess that Iran seeks to undermine U.S. democratic institutions, President Trump, and to divide the country in advance of the 2020 elections. Iran’s efforts along these lines probably will focus on on-line influence, such as spreading disinformation on social media and recirculating anti-U.S. content. Tehran’s motivation to conduct such activities is, in part, driven by a perception that President Trump’s reelection would result in a continuation of U.S. pressure on Iran in an effort to foment regime change.</li>
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WATCH: Biden Repeatedly Refuses To Call China An Opponent When Pressed By CNN

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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden repeatedly refused to call China an &quot;opponent&quot; on Thursday when he was pressed multiple times by CNN anchor

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Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden claimed without evidence on Thursday night that President Donald Trump was responsible for every single person who has died from the coronavirus, which originated in China.
&#8220;If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people—I’m not making this up. Just look at the data. Look at the data,” Biden stated.
One study <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/coronavirus-distancing-deaths.html">suggested</a> that a large number of people may not have died if certain measures had been implemented weeks earlier, but the study in no way stated that earlier action would have saved &#8220;all the people.&#8221; It&#8217;s worth <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/20/coronavirus-donald-trump-one-rally-march-joe-biden-eight/">noting</a> that Biden held eight rallies in March while Trump only held one.
At the same time, it&#8217;s important to remember that the coronavirus spread in large part thanks to the Chinese Communist Party <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/02/intelligence-report-says-china-lied-about-origin-of-coronavirus">lying</a> to the world about the outbreak, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/10/wuhan-officials-tried-cover-up-covid-19-sent-it-careening-outward/">trying</a> to cover it up, <a href="https://apnews.com/3c061794970661042b18d5aeaaed9fae">delaying</a> the release of critical information, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-coronavirus-whistleblowers-speak-out-vanish-2020-2">silencing</a> whistleblowers.
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Biden claims Trump is responsible for every single person who has died from COVID-19: 
&quot;If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people — I’m not making this up. Just look at the data. Look at the data.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Z6tkk9NzHi">pic.twitter.com/Z6tkk9NzHi</a>
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The Trump administration moved quickly to respond to the coronavirus pandemic after China finally disclosed to the world that there was a problem in Wuhan.
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/03/how-much-pressure-did-trump-put-china-access-concerning-coronavirus/">highlighted</a> just some of the early action that the Trump administration took to combat the coronavirus:
<blockquote>Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, learned on Dec. 31 of a “cluster of 27 cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology reported in Wuhan, China,” according to Katherine McKeogh, press secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services.
On Jan. 3, Redfield emailed George Gao, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and spoke with him the same day, she said, citing his calendar entry.
The next day, Redfield emailed Gao, writing: “I would like to offer CDC technical experts in laboratory and epidemiology of respiratory infectious diseases to assist you and China CDC in identification of this unknown and possibly novel pathogen.” Two days later, he sent another email, attaching a formal letter offering CDC support, McKeogh said.
On Jan. 6, the Trump administration “offered to send a CDC team to China that could assist with these public health efforts,” HHS Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on Jan. 28. “I reiterated that offer when I spoke to China’s minister of health on Monday, and it was reiterated again via the World Health Organization today. We are urging China: More cooperation and transparency are the most important steps you can take toward a more effective response.” &#8230;
On Jan. 31, Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-suspension-entry-immigrants-nonimmigrants-persons-pose-risk-transmitting-2019-novel-coronavirus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">announced</a> travel restrictions on non-U. S. citizens traveling from China, effective Feb. 2, with 11 exceptions. U.S. citizens could still travel from China but were subject to screening and a possible 14-day quarantine. Some flights were immediately suspended, but others continued for weeks at the discretion of the airlines.</blockquote>
This report has been updated to include additional information.
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Biden Claims Trump Is Responsible For ‘All The People’ Who Died From Coronavirus: ‘I’m Not Making This Up’

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On Thursday, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court sided with the state&#8217;s Democrats, allowing a three-day extension past Election Day to count mail-in ballots.
The vital battleground state&#8217;s Supreme Court &#8220;granted the Democratic Party’s request to order an extension of Pennsylvania’s Election Day-deadline to count mailed-in ballots for three days after Election Day,&#8221; The Associated Press <a href="https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pa-supreme-court-mail-in-ballot-20200917-qfcxnhvtsffbvkcagimmw4vaj4-story.html">reported</a> Thursday afternoon.
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The ruling also &#8220;authorized the use of satellite election offices and drop boxes — which Philadelphia and its heavily populated suburbs are planning to use help relieve the pressure from an avalanche of mailed-in ballots expected in the Nov. 3 presidential election,&#8221; the AP added.
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pennsylvania-democrats-very-worried-about-mail-in-voting-causing-election-chaos">The Daily Wire</a> earlier this month, elected officials within the state are battling over mail-in ballots, in light of the disastrous June primary process: &#8220;For its June primary, Pennsylvania implemented no-excuse absentee voting, meaning voters did not need an excuse to request an absentee ballot, for the first time ever. Mail-in ballots skyrocketed to over 1.4 million in the state, overloading the system and delaying the outcomes of several races by weeks.&#8221;
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In July, an experiment conducted by CBS News to test the integrity of mail-in voting ended in disaster; a stunning 3% of the votes were never counted.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-mail-in-voting-experiment-shows-potentially-serious-issue">The Daily Wire</a> reported on the experiment:
<blockquote>Dokoupil sent out 100 mock ballots in the Philadelphia area, using the same size envelope, weight, and class of mail to simulate genuine mail-in votes, albeit without the expedited “Election Mail” insignia. After the post office box was set up, 100 more faux ballots were sent out.
“We’re gonna see somewhere between probably 80 and 100 million voters receiving their ballot that way,” a former Arizona election official told Dokoupil.
After a week, 97% of the ballots Dokoupil mailed had been returned. “Three simulated persons, or 3% of voters, were effectively disenfranchised by mail by giving their ballots a week to arrive,” CBS noted. “In a close election, 3% could be pivotal.” Even four days after mailing the second round of fake ballots, 21% of the fake votes had failed to materialize. Almost half of states allow voters to receive ballots less than half-a-week before the election.</blockquote>
On Thursday, The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-if-the-election-doesnt-end-on-election-day-heres-what-happens-next">Joseph Curl</a> outlined what would happen if there is no declared winner on Election Day.
&#8220;In the Electoral College, the candidate who receives at least 270 of the 538 electoral votes will win the White House. If there’s still no winner, the Constitution kicks in. According to the 12th Amendment, the House of Representatives elects the president and the Senate elects the vice president. That has happened only once, in 1825, when John Quincy Adams won,&#8221; Curl explained.
However, he added, &#8220;it’s not a straight vote by all 435 lawmakers. Instead, each state casts a unified ballot — one state, one vote.&#8221;
&#8220;Twenty-seven states currently have a majority of Republican representatives, 22 have a majority of Democrats, and one state tied. If a president isn’t selected before Congress reconvenes on Jan. 6, 2021, Republicans in the House would eventually pick their candidate: Donald Trump. But all that could change depending on the outcome of House and Senate elections on Nov. 3,&#8221; Curl outlined.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-if-the-election-doesnt-end-on-election-day-heres-what-happens-next">What If The Election Doesn’t End On Election Day? Here’s What Happens Next.</a>
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Court Sides With Pennsylvania Democrats, Mail-In Ballots To Be Counted 3 Days After Election Day

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Had this been a Republican, the Left would be demanding a whole new round of impeachment trials.
In a leaked call from late 2016 between then-Vice President Joe Biden and then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the former VP and current Democratic presidential nominee undermined the incoming Trump administration and set up a backchannel between himself and the Ukraine president.
The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/17/leaked-2016-call-reveals-joe-biden-risked-national-security-to-sabotage-trump/">explained</a> how the call is damaging to Biden and America’s national security, calling Biden’s efforts to undermine the Trump administration a form of “sabotage”:
<blockquote>During the course of the call, Biden badmouthed the incoming administration, saying, “The truth of the matter is that the incoming administration doesn’t know a great deal about [Ukraine]” and that they were unprepared for the transition. This in itself is inappropriate, but it was meant to set the stage for Biden’s next statement and future plans.
Biden then told Poroshenko, “I don’t plan on going away. As a private citizen, I plan on staying deeply engaged in the endeavor that you have begun and we have begun.” In a matter of moments, Biden undermined the incoming administration, branded them as not knowing anything about Ukraine, and attempted to set up a foreign policy backchannel for himself after he left office as a private citizen, which could violate the Logan Act.
The Logan Act bars private citizens from engaging in U.S. foreign policy, although its constitutionality remains questionable and no person has ever been convicted of violating it since it was signed into law in 1799. Ironically, this is the same act that, at Joe Biden’s suggestion, the FBI accused National Security Advisor Michael Flynn of violating as a result of a discussion Flynn had with the Russian ambassador to the United States around nearly the same time as Biden’s call with Poroshenko.</blockquote>
Further, Biden told Poroshenko that he had “been somewhat limited on what I am able to tell [the Trump transition team] about Ukraine,” blaming the limitation on a supposedly late start to the transition process. As The Federalist reported, however, “we now know he said this at the same time the FBI and other U.S. intelligence agencies were conducting a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia, known as ‘Crossfire Hurricane,’ of which Ukraine was a part.”
“So Biden, the sitting vice president of the United States, told a foreign leader whose country was part of a highly classified FBI counterintelligence investigation that there were things he couldn’t share about his country with the incoming administration and that they weren’t cleared. We now know from subsequent investigations that the Trump administration did not in fact collude with Russia, but at the time, Biden didn’t and he was privy to the fact that the FBI had opened the investigation,” The Federalist reported. “Additionally, it is mind-boggling that the vice president felt comfortable telling a foreign leader that there were things he was unable to tell the incoming administration at the same time the Department of Justice and the FBI failed to notify President-elect Trump of potential counterintelligence risks (that ended up not being true) posed by members of his campaign team who might join his administration in official capacities.”
Democrats spent months trying to impeach Trump over his own phone call with a Ukrainian president, even though a transcript showed no quid pro quo and the new Ukraine president himself said he felt no pressure from the U.S.
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Biden Post-Election Ukraine Phone Call Leaked: Undermined Incoming Trump Administration, Vowed To Keep Backchannel Open

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Had this been a Republican, the Left would be demanding a whole new round of impeachment trials. In a leaked call from late 2016 between then-Vice

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