Both former Vice President Joe Biden and failed 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke out in defense of a November election on Tuesday, warning President Donald Trump not to postpone the presidential contest &#8212; even though President Trump hasn&#8217;t expressed any desire to move the date.
Biden warned Trump not to move the election in an interview with the Today show, where he suggested the November presidential election is laid out in the Constitution, and pleaded with the president to allow vote-by-mail in the event social distancing measures are still in place at the end of 2020.
&#8220;I&#8217;d much prefer to have in-person voting. but it depends. It depends on the state of play, but we cannot, we cannot delay or postpone a constitutionally required November election,&#8221; Biden said.
Technically, Biden&#8217;s incorrect on at least one detail: Congress set the presidential election date on the first Tuesday that follows the first Monday in November by Federal statute. It can also be postponed, though it&#8217;s only happened once, and then, for only a handful of select Congressional districts in Georgia &#8212; and that was for a midterm election, not a presidential election.
Biden&#8217;s solution to the possibility of a continuing coronavirus crisis seems to be the same solution proposed by Congressional Democrats: a national vote-by-mail system that&#8217;s largely seen as problematic by Republicans, largely because there&#8217;s nearly no workable state oversight of balloting, verification, and election results. As Wisconsin is demonstrating Tuesday, it&#8217;s also difficult even for a state that regularly handles absentee ballots to adapt to a vote-by-mail system.
With more than 1.2 million absentee ballots likely to be cast in the Wisconsin primary, state election officials say it could be days or weeks before results are certified.
“We have to make our democracy, as well as dealing with the disease, function. We can do both. We should be thinking now ahead — have all the experts, both political parties and academia laying out what it would take to have voting by mail,&#8221; Biden told Today.
He&#8217;s backed by 2016&#8217;s Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, who assured her social media followers this week that President Donald Trump does not have the authority to move the presidential election, no matter how much he may want to.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s be clear,&#8221; Clinton tweeted. Trump does not have the power to cancel or postpone the November election.&#8221;
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Let&#39;s be clear. Trump does not have the power to cancel or postpone the November election. <a href="https://t.co/OKQyAq5g80">https://t.co/OKQyAq5g80</a>
&mdash; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1247194855245316101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The problem, of course, is that Trump hasn&#8217;t spoken on the issue. Congressional Republicans have repeatedly dismissed the Democrats&#8217; plan for a national vote-by-mail program, but President Donald Trump, more concerned with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, has been silent on the issue of the presidential election except to lob an occasional barb at his prospective opponent, Biden.
So far, even the coronavirus task force has also been silent on the possibility of moving a presidential election and both parties are proceeding as if the election will take place in November.
Clinton&#8217;s linked article says much the same as above: that there&#8217;s only one way to postpone a presidential election and that is with the total cooperation of Congress, a body so aggressive, at the moment, that it&#8217;s almost impossible to believe it would support a change to Election Day.

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Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton Panic Over President Trump Postponing The Presidential Election

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Former Vice President Joe Biden told ABC News over the weekend that he had &#8220;apologized&#8221; to his challenger for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), for acting as though the Democratic primary is &#8220;officially over,&#8221; and for starting the hunt for a running mate, even as Sanders remains in the race.
Sanders, of course, is running well behind Biden in the delegate count but says his team believes there&#8217;s still a &#8220;narrow path&#8221; to the nomination, largely because so many states have either canceled or postponed their primaries, leaving it nearly impossible for Biden to win 1,991 delegates before the August convention.
Likely fearing that Sanders&#8217; supporters won&#8217;t make the jump to Biden if the former Veep assumes the mantle too quickly, Biden reportedly reached out to Sanders to give him an update on the search for a running mate and to assure Sanders that the contest was far from over.
&#8220;I was apologizing because it was a bit presumptuous of me to be setting up a committee to go through the process of deciding and doing the background checks on potential nominees,&#8221; Biden said.
&#8220;I was apologizing to him by saying, ‘Bernie, I don&#8217;t want to in any way to demean your effort but if we don&#8217;t start now, we&#8217;re not going to be able to get there,'&#8221; he continued.
Biden is, per a pledge made during the last Democratic debate, only considering female running mates, so Sanders, despite being the likely second place finisher in the race for the nomination, isn&#8217;t being vetted for the slot. Instead, Biden is reportedly speaking with Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), as well as a handful of unnamed others.
Biden, of course, is the presumptive Democratic nominee, but that isn&#8217;t enough to convince Bernie, Biden told ABC News.
&#8220;It was about saying to him, ‘Bernie, I feel somewhat foolish since, although I&#8217;m the overwhelming likelihood to get the nomination, that in fact it&#8217;s not officially done yet and I&#8217;m moving forward with a committee for vice presidential selection,'&#8221; Obama&#8217;s former Vice President told the network.
Democrats are, it seems, pressuring Sanders to leave the race, in order to make it easier for Biden to take on a national campaign. The longer Biden remains locked in a battle for the nomination, the shorter Biden&#8217;s national campaign against Trump will be &#8212; particularly given that the Democratic National Convention has already been pushed back a month, until the end of August, to accommodate coronavirus-related lockdowns.
Even Sanders&#8217; campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, has been pressuring the Vermont socialist to step out of the way, per reports from last week. Sanders, though, believes that the 2016 nomination was stolen and wants to litigate the 2020 nomination as far as possible.
Biden&#8217;s biggest challenge for the nomination, though, may not be Sanders. Democrats, concerned that the hapless Biden, who has all but disappeared from the airwaves amid the coronavirus pandemic, may not pose a strong challenge to Trump, are quietly pressing New York governor Andrew Cuomo into service, on the theory that Cuomo&#8217;s handling of the coronavirus crisis in New York gives him greater gravitas &#8212; and a better chance at beating Trump.

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Joe Biden Apologized To Bernie Sanders For Acting Like The Primary Is ‘Officially Over’

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After media outlets obtained a recording of his comments to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt about his decision to relieve their captain of his command, acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly apologized for his &#8220;choice of words,&#8221; but stood by his decision. In response to the removal of the captain, President Trump said Monday that he&#8217;s now getting &#8220;involved.&#8221;
Modly announced on Thursday that the aircraft carrier&#8217;s captain, Brett Crozier, was being relieved for his decision to violate the chain of command by sending an email to a &#8220;broad&#8221; audience sounding the alarm about the threat of coronavirus on the ship, which had infected 100 of its more than 4,000 personnel. The contents of the email, a four-page letter pleading for Navy officials to take an &#8220;extraordinary measure&#8221; — remove most of the personnel from the ship to quarantine on land for two weeks — found its way to the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Exclusive-Captain-of-aircraft-carrier-with-15167883.php#">San Francisco Chronicle</a>.
“This will require a political solution but it is the right thing to do,” Crozier wrote in a March 30 letter emailed to Navy officials. “We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our Sailors. &#8230; Keeping over 4,000 young men and women on board the TR is an unnecessary risk and breaks faith with those Sailors entrusted to our care.&#8221;
On Thursday, Modly relieved Crozier of command, citing his decision to send his plea over &#8220;non-secure unclassified email&#8221; to a &#8220;broad array of people,&#8221; rather than up the chain of command.
Speaking to the crew of the Guam-docked nuclear aircraft carrier on Monday, Modly delivered a scathing rebuke of Crozier&#8217;s &#8220;betrayal of trust,&#8221; as a recording of the comments posted by <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-secretary-blasts-fired-aircraft-carrier-captain?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1586186903">Task &amp; Publication</a> revealed.
&#8220;If he didn&#8217;t think, in my opinion, that this information wasn&#8217;t going to get out into the public, in this day and information age that we live in, then he was either A, too naive, or too stupid to be a commanding officer of a ship like this,&#8221; Modly told the crew. &#8220;The alternative is that he did this on purpose. And that&#8217;s a serious violation of the UCMJ which you are all familiar with.&#8221;
&#8220;It was betrayal,&#8221; Modly said, as reported by <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/acting-navy-secretary-rips-ousted-captain-who-sounded-alarm-over-n1177676">NBC News</a>. &#8220;And I can tell you one other thing: Because he did that, he put it in the public’s forum and it’s now become a big controversy in Washington, D.C., and across the country, about a martyr CO who wasn’t getting the help he needed and therefore had to go through the chain of command, a chain of command which includes the media.&#8221;
&#8220;Everyone is scared about this thing,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And let me tell ya something, if this ship was in combat and there were hypersonic missiles coming in at it, you&#8217;d be pretty f***ing scared too. But you do your jobs. And that&#8217;s what I expect you to. And that&#8217;s what I expect every officer on this ship to do, is to do your jobs.&#8221;
The acting secretary also called out Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden. &#8220;If I could offer you a glimpse of the level of hatred and pure evil that has been thrown my way, my family&#8217;s way over this decision, I would. But it doesn&#8217;t matter. It&#8217;s not about me,&#8221; said Modly. &#8220;The former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden suggested just yesterday that my decision was criminal. I assure you that it was not. Because I understand the facts and those facts show that what your captain did was very, very wrong in a moment when we expected him to be the calming force on a turbulent sea.&#8221;
After the recording went public, Modly defended his comments. &#8220;The spoken words were from the heart, and meant for them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I stand by every word I said, even, regrettably any profanity that may have been used for emphasis. Anyone who has served on a Navy ship would understand. I ask, but don&#8217;t expect, that people read them in their entirety.&#8221;
A few hours later, however, Modly offered a partial apology for his &#8220;choice of words&#8221; in a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/acting-navy-secretary-rips-ousted-captain-who-sounded-alarm-over-n1177676">statement</a>: &#8220;Let me be clear, I do not think Captain Brett Crozier is naïve nor stupid. I think, and always believed him to be the opposite. I believe, precisely because he is not naive and stupid, that he sent his alarming email with the intention of getting it into the public domain in an effort to draw public attention to the situation on his ship. I apologize for any confusion this choice of words may have caused. I also want to apologize directly to Captain Crozier, his family, and the entire crew of the Theodore Roosevelt for any pain my remarks may have caused.&#8221;
Asked if Modly&#8217;s comments to the crew about Crozier were appropriate, President Trump <a href="https://abc7ny.com/coronavirus-government-response-updates-trump-task-force-say-mitigation-is-working/6081690/">said</a> during a press conference Monday that he&#8217;s going to have to step in to address the controversy.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t need to have letter-writing campaigns where the fake news finds a letter and gets a leak. We don&#8217;t want that. So the letter shouldn&#8217;t have been sent,&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;With all of that said, his career prior to that was very good. So I&#8217;m going to get involved and see exactly what&#8217;s going on there.&#8221; The president added that he&#8217;s &#8220;heard very good things about the gentleman, both gentlemen,&#8221; referencing Crozier and Modly. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to destroy somebody for having a bad day,&#8221; said Trump.

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Acting Navy Sec. Apologizes For ‘Choice Of Words’ About Captain Who Sent Coronavirus Letter; Trump Getting ‘Involved’

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President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden spoke Monday afternoon about the coronavirus crisis, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-biden-speak-over-the-phone">Fox News</a> reported.
&#8220;A source familiar with the call said they spoke about the response to the COVID-19 pandemic,&#8221; Fox reported. &#8220;The call comes after Fox News first reported last week that Biden offered to have a phone call with Trump directly to discuss a strategy to combat the virus.&#8221;
Trump called out Biden early Monday, writing on Twitter, &#8220;&#8221;[W]hat ever happened to that phone call he told the Fake News he wanted to make to me?&#8221;
&#8220;Joe Biden wanted the date for the Democrat National Convention moved to a later time period. Now he wants a &#8216;Virtual&#8217; Convention, one where he doesn’t have to show up. Gee, I wonder why? Also, what ever happened to that phone call he told the Fake News he wanted to make to me?&#8221;
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Joe Biden wanted the date for the Democrat National Convention moved to a later time period. Now he wants a “Virtual” Convention, one where he doesn’t have to show up. Gee, I wonder why? Also, what ever happened to that phone call he told the Fake News he wanted to make to me?
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1247185910673952776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Biden fired back in his own tweet on Monday, offering to keep a chat on the table.
&#8220;Mr. President, I hope we can gather in Milwaukee, but that is going to depend on you stepping up and doing what needs to be done to handle this pandemic,&#8221; Biden tweeted, before plugging his campaign page outlining his own response.
He added: &#8220;Happy to discuss anytime.&#8221;
&#8220;We had a wonderful warm conversation,&#8221; Trump said at his daily White House briefing on Monday. &#8220;He gave me his point of view, and I fully understand that,&#8221; Trump said, adding the call lasted about 15 minutes.
&#8220;VP Biden &amp; President Trump had a good call. VP Biden shared several suggestions for actions the Admin. can take now to address the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and expressed his appreciation for the spirit of the American people in meeting the challenges facing the nation,&#8221; Kate Bedingfield, Biden&#8217;s deputy campaign manager, wrote on Twitter.
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Mr. President, I hope we can gather in Milwaukee, but that is going to depend on you stepping up and doing what needs to be done to handle this pandemic. I have laid out how you can do that: <a href="https://t.co/YLHCGEKnUB">https://t.co/YLHCGEKnUB</a>. Happy to discuss anytime. <a href="https://t.co/ePQuQKkeZV">https://t.co/ePQuQKkeZV</a>
&mdash; Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1247194938762297345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Earlier Monday, a source familiar told Fox News that despite the president expressing interest in having a phone call with the Democratic frontrunner, the Biden campaign did not hear from the White House,&#8221; Fox wrote.
<blockquote>The source told Fox News that the Biden campaign reached out to the White House Monday to set up the call, which took place Monday afternoon.
Last week, when asked whether he would be receptive to a call with the likely Democratic presidential nominee, Trump said: “Oh sure, absolutely. I’d love to speak with him.”</blockquote>
Trump said last week: “I always found him to be a nice guy. I don’t know him very well, frankly, but I think he’s probably a nice guy. If he’d like to call, I’d absolutely take his call.”
Biden’s offer to chat with Trump came after White House adviser Kellyanne Conway called on the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to stop criticizing the Trump administration’s efforts to handle the coronavirus and instead “call the White House today and offer some support.”
Biden last week finally backed restrictions on travel from China &#8212; two months after Trump put them into place to stem the spread of the coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China.
Bedingfield said on CNN on Friday that the former vice president “supports travel bans that are guided by medical experts, advocated by public health officials, and backed by a full strategy.”
“Science supported this ban, therefore he did, too,” Bedingfield said.
On Jan. 30, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency of international concern. The same day, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the first time confirmed person-to-person spread of the Wuhan virus and applauded WHO’s decision. And also that same day, Trump created the White House Coronavirus Task Force to coordinate U.S. efforts regarding the new disease.
The next day, on Jan. 31, the president declared coronavirus a U.S. public health emergency and issued a travel ban between the United States and China. Campaigning in Iowa that day, Biden criticized Trump’s China travel ban, saying, “This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia.”
On Feb. 1, Biden again criticized Trump for the move.
&#8220;We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter.

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Actress and prominent #MeToo activist Rose McGowan had some harsh words for fellow activist and actress Alyssa Milano after the latter said she was still endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden despite sexual assault allegations against him.
“You are a fraud,” McGowan began. “This is about holding the media accountable. You go after Trump &amp; Kavanaugh saying Believe Victims, you are a lie. You have always been a lie. The corrupt DNC is in on the smear job of Tara Reade, so are you. SHAME”
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You are a fraud. This is about holding the media accountable. You go after Trump &amp; Kavanaugh saying Believe Victims, you are a lie. You have always been a lie. The corrupt DNC is in on the smear job of Tara Reade, so are you. SHAME <a href="https://t.co/B7NHK4k09K">https://t.co/B7NHK4k09K</a>
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/1247252442812690433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alyssa-i-believe-survivors-milano-explains-silence-on-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-internet-hypocrite-a-liar-and-a-bad-joke">reported</a>, Milano tweeted a YouTube clip of her appearance on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM Radio show explaining why she has remained silent after Biden was accused of decades-old sexual assault by a former staffer named Tara Reade.
“I have not publicly said anything about this – if you’ll remember it took me a long time to say anything about Harvey [Weinstein] as well – because I believe that even though we should believe women and that is an important thing … what that statement really means is that, like, you know for so long the go-to has been not to believe them, so, really we have to sort of societally change that mindset to believing women, but that does not mean at the expense of not giving men their due process and investigating situations and it’s gotta be fair in both directions,” Milano said.
This is a far cry different than what Milano has said and how she has acted in other situations, when she condemned President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after they were accused of sexual assault without any investigation whatsoever.
“So, you know, I’ve been very vocal about Biden and my support for him, I’ve known him for a long time, and I did do my due diligence,” she said, saying part of the reason she questioned the accusations was an article about how #MeToo legal fund Time’s Up refused to take Reade’s case, even though they said their reason was due to their classification as a nonprofit and not anything to do with whether they believed Reade. “I just don’t feel comfortable throwing away a decent man that I’ve known for 15 years in this time of complete chaos without there being a thorough investigation. I’m sure that the mainstream media would be jumping all over this as well if they found more evidence through their investigating.”
Host Andy jumped in to suggest the mainstream media would be all over the story if we weren’t in the middle of a pandemic and if there were more “credible” evidence.
This is not true, however, as the media rushed to report every accusation against Kavanaugh even when the evidence was nonexistent. Christine Blasey Ford said Kavanaugh attacked her when they were in high school three decades earlier, but there isn’t one iota of evidence the two were ever in the same room together. Kavanaugh’s second accuser, Deborah Ramirez, didn’t even know if Kavanaugh was the man who assaulted her until after she talked to Democrat lawyers. The third accuser, Julie Swetnick, was interviewed on TV even though <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbc-sat-information-undermined-brett-kavanaugh-ashe-schow">NBC knew</a> her story wasn’t credible.
Milano then took a strange turn – for her and other #MeToo champions – by seriously suggesting we remember due process.
“I sent the #MeToo tweet over two years ago. I never thought that it would be something that was going to destroy innocent men. We don’t want that to happen either,” she said. “So, we have to find this balance in the ‘believe women’ movement and also giving men their due process and realizing that we’re destroying lives if we publicly don’t go through the right steps in order to find out if an accusation is credible or not.”
Anyone with half a brain could have foreseen innocent men getting swept up when we’re told no women would ever lie about being raped even though there is amble historical evidence. And Milano only cares now because it is someone she likes who is being accused. Perhaps that will open her eyes to the problem of “believe all women,” but she’ll probably forget about due process as soon as another Republican is accused.

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Rose McGowan Calls Alyssa Milano A #MeToo Fraud For Supporting Joe Biden After Sexual Assault Allegation

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Speaking on a radio show called &#8220;Radio Andy,&#8221; actress Alyssa Milano <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcNx_nD6Bi4&amp;feature=youtu.be">explained</a> why she has not spoken out about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-accuses-joe-biden-of-sexual-assault">sexual assault allegation</a> that has been made against former Vice President Joe Biden, and for the woman who ferociously condemned Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings, her answer on the Biden claim reeked of utter hypocrisy.
Milano stated:
<blockquote>I have not publicly said anything about this; if you remember, it kind of took me a long time to publicly say anything about Harvey (Weinstein) as well, because I believe that even though we should believe women, and that is an important thing, and what that statement really means is like, for so long, the go-to has been not to believe them. So really, we have to sort of societally change that mindset to believing women. But that does not mean at the expense of not giving men their due process.</blockquote>
Andy Cohen, aka Radio Andy, gushing, “I like that.”
Milano continued, “And investigate situations, and giving, you know, it’s gotta be, it’s gotta be, it&#8217;s gotta be fair in both directions. So I’ve been very vocal about Biden and my support for him. I’ve known him for a very long time, and I did do my due diligence because part of it was that, and the article that sort of stood out to me was that Time’s Up decided not to take the case.&#8221;
Cohen: That was important to you. That meant there was more to the story here.
Milano: Right. I did my work and I spoke to Time’s Up and I just don’t feel comfortable throwing away a decent man that I’ve known for 15 years —
Cohen: Yup.
Milano:  — in this time of complete chaos, without there being a thorough investigation. I’m sure that mainstream media would be jumping all over this as well if, if, y’know if —
Cohen, jumping in to help: “If we weren’t in a pandemic.”
Milano: If they found more evidence … so I’m just staying quiet about it … I sent the #MeToo tweet over two years ago; I never thought that it would be something that was going to destroy innocent men, right? We don’t want that to happen either. So we have to find this balance in the “believe women” movement and also giving men their due process, realizing that we’re destroying lives if we publicly don’t go through the right steps in order to find out if an accusation is credible or not.
Here’s Milano in an <a href="https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/9/23/17890700/brett-kavanaugh-alyssa-milano-assault-allegations-why-i-didnt-report">op-ed</a> from September 2018:
<blockquote>So let me be as clear as possible: I believe Christine Blasey Ford and I demand that our Senators vote to reject Brett Kavanaugh as the next Justice on the Supreme Court. Every person who refuses to loudly and openly reject Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination is telling every generation of Americans that an alleged abuser’s career is more valuable than a survivor’s humanity. And the highest court in our land is no place for an alleged sexual offender to sit.</blockquote>
Only days later, Milano was one of a group of anti-Kavanaugh leftists protesting at on the door of Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), which she pounded. She tweeted, “I’m in D.C. because I don’t believe any man’s misogyny should take precedent over a survivor’s humanity.”
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I’m in D.C. because I don’t believe any man’s misogyny should take precedent over a survivor’s humanity. 
We tried to see a Murkowski, Collins and Hyde-Smith today and share our stories of survival. They refused to see us. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KavaNo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KavaNo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BelieveWomen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BelieveWomen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SurvivorStrong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SurvivorStrong</a> <a href="https://t.co/rRtTSVWEpJ">pic.twitter.com/rRtTSVWEpJ</a>
&mdash; Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) <a href="https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1045009533653979137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Only a few days after that, Milano wangled a seat at the Kavanaugh hearings, where she held up a sign emblazoned, &#8220;I BELIEVE SURVIVORS NO ON KAVANAUGH.&#8221;
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Oh, so suddenly due process has made a comeback. How convenient! <a href="https://t.co/do1ZtvIzoV">https://t.co/do1ZtvIzoV</a>
&mdash; Steven Crowder (@scrowder) <a href="https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1247231724611866625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Remember all the mainstream media attention Milano got for sitting behind Kavanaugh and scouring and weeping? There&#39;s no corroborating evidence Kavanaugh and Ford have even met. This is a former Biden staffer. Now Milano is &quot;whoa whoa, we have to hear him out!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/G1D9z7acjd">https://t.co/G1D9z7acjd</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1247228780323561472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This woman is a hypocrite, a liar, and a bad joke. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MeToo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MeToo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TimesUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TimesUp</a> <a href="https://t.co/aBFoxOVqet">https://t.co/aBFoxOVqet</a>
&mdash; Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM &amp; TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/1247233675147673600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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So you *don&#39;t* believe all women then. <a href="https://t.co/OQpdNq0vIh">https://t.co/OQpdNq0vIh</a>
&mdash; Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) <a href="https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/1247243310856429568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The following is satirical.
Joe Biden is proposing that a commission be formed to investigate where all the traffic’s at.
In a speech made to a family photo on the mantelpiece until Biden realized the camera was actually behind him, the former Vice President and sentient creature said, “We need to find out where all the cars are. One minute I’m looking out the window and there’s traffic everywhere, the next it’s like everyone just decided to stay at home. Is this some sort of conspiracy or has Donald Trump stolen all the cars? Darned if I know, but come on, man, we’ve got to find out.”
When informed that people were staying indoors because of a dangerous pandemic, Biden responded, “Oh yeah, I seem to remember hearing something about that. Well, that’s no good either. Maybe we should look into that too.”
Mrs. Biden then stepped up to her husband and murmured, “Come away now, Joe,” and led him back to his bedroom so he could continue his speech there.
Nancy Pelosi is also demanding investigations into why the Trump administration invited people to come to Chinatown after the pandemic was well underway and why they tried to push meaningless expenditures and regulations into a pandemic relief bill, holding up emergency funds in order to support a socialist agenda.
When told that was actually not the Trump Administration but she herself who had done those things, Pelosi remarked, “Oh. Well then, let’s investigate something else.”
Congressman Adam Schiff wants investigations as well. Schiff says he has seen absolute proof that something very bad has happened and it’s Trump’s fault and he’s going to show everybody that proof in a very short time but right now it’s a secret.
Meanwhile, on Brian Stelter’s Reliable Sources, commentator Napoleon Bonaparte called for an investigation into why his troops had fallen back from Moscow just as victory was within their grasp. Other panelists were either nodding in agreement or just reacting to the meds.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-offers-to-dial-up-president-nixon-and-tell-him-how-to-deal-with-all-this-flu-malarkey-satire">Biden Offers To Dial Up President Nixon And Tell Him How To Deal With All This Flu Malarkey</a>

Biden Calls For Investigation Into Where All The Traffic’s At [Satire]

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Despite the cadre of Democratic presidential candidates who have endorsed the idea of giving college student their education for free, the impact of the coronavirus COVID-19 may have shelved those plans indefinitely, according to various experts, including a former deputy domestic policy adviser in the Obama White House.
Morley Winograd, president of the Campaign for Free College Tuition, told <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/03/financial-woes-states-threaten-free-college-proposals-biden-and-sanders">Inside Higher Ed</a> that free tuition and such ideas “need to be put aside for now … As states focus their attention on responding to the immediate crisis, they are rapidly draining their financial reserves and then some. This combination of events makes it clear that even though the need for free college tuition has never been greater, the likelihood of funding it, even partially, from state revenues is unlikely.”
Phillip Oliff, the Pew Charitable Trusts’ senior manager of fiscal federalism and student loans policy, echoed, “It’s looking very challenging for state budgets. The coronavirus crisis looks like it&#8217;s going to have a major economic impact. When there are economic downtowns, they often mean major troubles for state budgets.&#8221;
James Kvaal, president of the Institute for College Access &amp; Success and former deputy domestic policy adviser in the Obama White House, added, &#8220;Colleges never fully recovered from the last recession, and now they need tens of billions of dollars to avoid massive tuition hikes. The first priority for both the federal government and states has to be addressing steep budget cuts and preventing large tuition hikes … (that) puts the free college plans in doubt for the foreseeable future.&#8221; He added, “It’s scary. Colleges will be swamped by a tidal wave of state budget cuts that could be more devastating than the Great Recession.”
Senator Bernie Sanders wants the federal government to pay three-fourths of the cost, roughly $48 billion per year, while states would cough up another $16 billion, Inside Higher Ed notes, adding, “Biden, meanwhile, initially proposed that states pick up one-fourth of the cost of a smaller plan that would have made community colleges free, with the rest paid by the federal government … Biden announced last month that he would adopt an earlier Sanders proposal, the 2017 Colleges for All bill, making public colleges and universities free for all students whose families earn less than $125,000 a year.”
Moody&#8217;s has reported, “Universities face unprecedented enrollment uncertainty, risks to multiple revenue streams and potential material erosion in their balance sheets.&#8221; Ted Mitchell, the president of the American Council on Education, which represents over 1,700 colleges and universities, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/us/politics/colleges-universities-coronavirus.html">The New York Times</a> in late March, “Campuses are losing staggering sums. If these needs are not met, students are going to suffer financially and may drop out.” The Times added, &#8220;In <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Higher-Education-Supplemental-Summary-Memo-031920.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a memo</a>, the council joined other associations representing virtually every school in the country to request at least $50 billion to help with student housing costs, other student expenditures and the damages that universities are suffering from their shutdowns.&#8221;
Kvaal concluded, “The top priority now has to be recovery from the immediate crisis. Colleges will need tens of billions of dollars to prevent rising tuitions and layoffs. In return, states should be required to limit their cuts and reinvest in colleges over time.”

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Dems Want Free College Tuition. Coronavirus Blows That Apart.

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Over the last few weeks, many key figures on the left have been outspoken about the danger of the coronavirus and claim that President Trump has done little to address the crisis. Democratic presidential frontrunner <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/biden-offers-to-call-trump-with-coronavirus-advice">Joe Biden</a> has urged the president to be even bolder in his actions to combat the virus and condemned him for “wasting time” when the pandemic first emerged. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made similar comments and has urged drastic action. He <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/politics/bernie-sanders-wisconsin-primary/index.html">argued</a> recently that primary elections should be postponed because “people shouldn’t have to put their lives on the line to vote.” An editorial for the Boston Globe has thundered “that President Trump has blood on his hands.”
This level of fear around the coronavirus is understandable — the case for blaming President Trump for a worldwide pandemic is less convincing. Should we really take these angry voices seriously when just a few months ago these same people and institutions were warning that something completely different was an existential threat to mankind and criticized Donald Trump “not caring” and contributing to the disaster?
I know pre-COVID-19 seems like a lifetime ago, but do you all remember the good old days of climate change? You must remember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that the “world will end” in 12 years if we do not act to stop or slow climate change and Bernie Sander’s warning that “we’re fighting for the survival of the planet.” Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg even said “we’re in the beginning of a mass extinction” because of climate change.
And the “blood on his hands” <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/opinion/president-unfit-pandemic/">Boston Globe</a> said then that President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord would lead to “rising seas, higher temperatures, catastrophic loss in wildlife and natural habitats, and the further degradation of the only home the human race will ever know.” The paper said the move “will haunt America and the world for generations to come… imperiling the earth for the narrowest of political advantage.”
It’s quite clear where the liberal left have been focusing in the past few decades and where they have been diverting enormous resources — and it wasn’t the threat of a pandemic. The Boston Globe itself hasn’t shied away from hysterical language when it comes to President Trump and climate change as well. In an opinion piece endorsing left-leaning policies and politicians during the 2020 election cycle, the Globe wrote that both President Trump and the Republican Congress are “reversing progress as the planet careers toward climate catastrophe.”
Spending on energy saving programs and subsidies has matched the increasing hysteria. According to the Government Accountability Office, <a href="https://www.gao.gov/key_issues/climate_change_funding_management/issue_summary">federal funding</a> for “climate change research, technology, international assistance, and adaptation” has increased exponentially over the last three decades. In 1993, the feds spent $2.4 billion on such programs and it keeps increasing. The polling website <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-is-the-government-spending-on-climate-change-we-dont-know-and-neither-do-they/">FiveThirtyEight</a> reported that the federal government has spent $154 billion on “climate change related activities” since 1993. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 tacked on an additional $26.1 billion in spending.
It’s clear that this reckless spending and climate change hysteria were even more damaging to our economy and our nation than opponents claimed. We actually are facing a global crisis that may lead to massive loss of life and a worldwide economic depression. Congress just passed a $2 trillion emergency bill to help address the pandemic and its effects, but Americans continue to suffer. Can you imagine if that $154+ billion in spending on climate change projects was put into virus research or pandemic preparation? How many ventilators can you buy with $154 billion? How many talented researchers were diverted to addressing climate change when they could have worked to prevent pandemics and research vaccines and cures?
There are many loud and vindictive voices telling the world that America is ill-prepared for this event that is threatening lives and our futures. These voices might be more credible if they had not spent the past few decades urging the country to fund and prepare for a completely different scenario. They should apologize for that costly diversion before asking us to listen to them this time.
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This article has been updated since its original publication. 
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been floated as a possible running mate for former Vice President Joe Biden in the coming 2020 election. However, her actions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic may have seriously hurt her popularity in the swing state that President Trump so desperately needs to win.
In an op-ed published on Saturday, the Michigan paper <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/04/04/editorial-whitmer-must-make-michigan-her-priority/5111367002/">Detroit News, </a>which endorsed Libertarian Gary Johnson over Trump in 2016, severely criticized Whitmer for playing politics as her state suffers through an unprecedented crisis.
&#8220;Gov. Gretchen Whitmer must send an unequivocal message to her constituents that Michigan is her priority in this hour of crisis,&#8221; wrote Detroit News. &#8220;Her running feud with President Donald Trump calls into question whether she&#8217;s acting in the best interests of this state, or on behalf of the Democratic Party.&#8221;
Whitmer has routinely used COVID-19 pandemic as a means to battle with President Trump, such as when she alleged the federal government was not helping her state with coronavirus while <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-governor-claims-feds-wont-deliver-coronavirus-supplies-to-state-refuses-to-provide-proof">providing zero proof</a> to support her case. She also <a href="https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2020/03/31/gov-whitmer-reverses-course-on-coronavirus-drugs-is-now-asking-feds-for-hydroxychloroquine-and-chloroquine">reversed course</a> after instructing medical professionals in her state not to prescribe the drug hydroxychloroquine, which the Trump administration had been pushing to combat COVID-19.
“Prescribing any kind of prescription must also be associated with medical documentation showing proof of the medical necessity and medical condition for which the patient is being treated. Again, these are drugs that have not been proven scientifically or medically to treat COVID-19,” said a letter from the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs.
Unlike Dem Governors Gavin Newsom (CA) and Andrew Cuomo (NY), Whitmer&#8217;s actions became so blatantly partisan that President Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-governor-claims-feds-wont-deliver-coronavirus-supplies-to-state-refuses-to-provide-proof">had to publicly call her out</a> on it.
“I love Michigan, one of the reasons we are doing such a GREAT job for them during this horrible Pandemic,” Trump tweeted. “Yet your Governor, Gretchen ‘Half’ Whitmer is way in over her head, she doesn’t have a clue. Likes blaming everyone for her own ineptitude! #MAGA.”
Though Detroit News did not necessarily criticize Whitmer&#8217;s handling of the pandemic in her state, the newspaper did feel that her priorities were out of place by focusing so much media time on criticizing the Trump administration.
&#8220;She&#8217;s also assumed the role of designated Democratic attack dog in this crisis, appearing almost daily on cable news shows to criticize the administration&#8217;s handling of the virus response,&#8221; Detroit News wrote. &#8220;That creates confusion about whether Whitmer is advocating for her Michigan constituents, or carrying out her duties as co-chair of Joe Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign, or worse, serving her own ambition to be vice president.&#8221;
&#8220;Trump apparently thinks it&#8217;s the latter,&#8221; the op-ed continued. &#8220;He&#8217;s singled out the governor for particular disdain, repeating often the unsupported claim that Whitmer is mishandling the crisis in her state. Last week he demeaned her by referring to her as &#8216;the woman from Michigan.'&#8221;
While Detroit News referred to Trump as a &#8220;petty and vindictive man,&#8221; the newspaper ultimately felt that Whitmer should put the needs of her state first and seek to foster a collaboration with the president, citing Governors Cuomo and Newsom as chief examples of politicians who have set aside their differences with Trump for the good of their state.
&#8220;If everyone pulls together, the worst of the COVID-19 crisis might soon be behind us, and there will be time to return to the jousting of the election campaigns,&#8221; the op-ed concludes. &#8220;Until then, Michigan residents need to know their governor is serving one master – them.&#8221;
Joe Biden, who has promised to pick a female running-mate, has <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/490570-biden-confirms-hes-considering-whitmer-for-vp">already stated</a> that Whitmer is on his &#8220;list&#8221; of potential choices for the 2020 race.
UPDATE: The original article said that Detroit News is &#8220;hardly a bastion of conservatism.&#8221; The language was altered to reflect the fact that the paper has been more libertarian-leaning than the Detroit Free Press. It did not endorse President Trump in 2016.

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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made a series of confusing and contradictory remarks on Sunday during an interview on ABC News about the coronavirus outbreak.
Appearing on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; Biden attacked President Trump after Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/politics/joe-biden-trump-china-coronavirus/index.html">reversed</a> course last week and said that he agreed with Trump&#8217;s travel restrictions on China after initially <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1223727977361338370">appearing to suggest</a> that Trump was xenophobic for banning travel from China.
&#8220;He indicated that I complimented him on – on dealing with China,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;Well, you know, 45 nations had already moved to keep – block China&#8217;s personnel from being able to come to the United States before the president moved.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s statement is completely false. 45 other nations did not &#8220;block China&#8217;s personnel from being able to come to the United States before the president moved.&#8221;
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Joe Biden lives in a alternate reality.
Over 2 months ago, when Trump announced travel restrictions with China, Joe Biden was criticizing Trump for “xenophobia.”
Today, Biden criticized Trump for the speed he enacted the travel ban.
Biden didn&#39;t support the ban until April 3. <a href="https://t.co/vndvvmPBTj">pic.twitter.com/vndvvmPBTj</a>
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Later in the interview, Biden reversed course and claimed that shutting down borders was not an effective way of preventing the spread of the disease.
&#8220;You know, these viruses as you know, George, they have no borders, you can&#8217;t build a wall, you can&#8217;t put up – you can&#8217;t have, you know, people at the border trying to stop it, it&#8217;s beyond that capacity,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;You have to know what&#8217;s coming, where it&#8217;s coming from, and how to deal with.&#8221;
Biden made the remark while adding that Trump should &#8220;listen to the experts&#8221; and &#8220;listen to the Faucis of the world.&#8221;
However, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, <a href="https://twitter.com/LizRNC/status/1242864353889714177">said</a> that Trump&#8217;s decision to shut off travel from China &#8220;saved us really a lot of hurt.&#8221;
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Despite Dr. Anthony Fauci’s support for travel restrictions, Joe Biden suggests they don’t work. 
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<blockquote>STEPHANOPOULOS: And former Vice President Joe Biden joins us right now.
Good morning, Mr. Vice President. Thank you for joining us.
JOE BIDEN: Oh, thank you for having me on your show. I appreciate it.
And I wish you well.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Sure thing.
We just heard President Trump there talking about you at his press conference yesterday. But his team also said &#8212; he also said this week that he would be open to taking a phone call from you. Has that phone call happened? And, if it does, what&#8217;s the most important thing you want to tell him to do right now?
BIDEN: Well, it hasn&#8217;t happened. I&#8217;m happy to talk to him.
And I would just tell them what we found is important to do when we went through, not as bad, but a similar crisis. And that is to &#8212; you have to move swiftly. And we have to move more rapidly. You have to implement the Defense Production Act, empower a supply commander, create a Defense Production Act for banks that get out small business loans, ramp up testing, a whole range of things.
You got to go faster than slower. And we started off awfully slow.
He indicated that I complimented him on &#8212; on dealing with China. Well, you know, 45 nations had already moved to keep &#8212; block China&#8217;s personnel from being able to come to the United States before the president moved.
So, it&#8217;s just &#8212; it&#8217;s about pace. It&#8217;s about &#8212; it&#8217;s about the urgency. And I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s been enough of it, urgency.
STEPHANOPOULOS: The president has said many times now he&#8217;s worried that the cure is going to be worse than the disease.
Does that &#8212; does that concern you at all? And isn&#8217;t there a point there that, if this lockdown goes on for too long, the public health concerns could be &#8212; could be grave?
BIDEN: Well, the public health concerns can be grave.
And you saw what&#8217;s happening in Singapore. They moved very rapidly to bring down the coronavirus down to zero, and then they began to open up. They had very, very tight restrictions in terms of social distancing, et cetera, staying in place.
Now it&#8217;s coming back. And so, you know, we have got to &#8212; what we need most of all, and it&#8217;s not the president&#8217;s fault at all, but we need most of all a vaccine. But in the meantime, we have to take all the efforts we can to make sure we prevent the spread, lower that curve as they talk about, and move from there.
And that&#8217;s why I think, George, we&#8217;re going to need not only the last &#8212; CARES Act that the congress passed, which did a great deal, we&#8217;re going to need at least two more iterations of that I believe to help the economy.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And what we&#8217;ve seen also these new guidelines from the CDC saying that they believe the public now should wear masks in public. President Trump said he doesn&#8217;t want to do it. He&#8217;s not going to do it, but several other leading politicians are. When you go in public going forward, will you be wearing a mask?
BIDEN: Yes. Look, I think it&#8217;s important to follow the science, listen to the experts, do what they tell you. It&#8217;s, you know, you may not look &#8212; he may not like how he looks in a mask, but the truth of the matter is that follow the science, that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re telling us.
So, if I go out in public, and I have not gone to commercial places of late. I haven&#8217;t gone to my local church, et cetera, there are no services actually, but my generic point is that you should follow the science.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And your campaign videos have been quite tough on the president. You say his failures, his incompetence are going to cost lives. Is that what&#8217;s happening now?
BIDEN: Well, look, what I have been saying is that he&#8217;s moving too slow. The virus is not his fault, but the response is his responsibility.
Look, there are a few things he can do &#8212; he can immediately and fully implement the Defense Production Act, which I and many others called for a long time ago. And he&#8217;s just getting underway with it. There&#8217;s still no Defense supply act &#8212; Production Act for gloves, masks, all the things first responders need.
We should create a bank Defense Production Act. We have got to get those small business loans out. You saw what American Express did &#8212; I mean, excuse me, Bank of America did. They came out and said unless you already have loans with us, unless you already have worked with us, unless you have a credit card with us we&#8217;re not going to &#8212; even though they&#8217;re government-guaranteed loans, we&#8217;re not going to process those loans.
We have got to save jobs. We&#8217;ve got to save people&#8217;s businesses. And they have to exponentially ramp up testing. We have been talking about 4 million tests are going to be available. Look where is all this &#8212; where is it? What&#8217;s being done?
You&#8217;ve got to open up enrollment for Obamacare. A lot of people don&#8217;t have insurance. This president is trying to take away Obamacare across the board, which will leave people naked to this problem that we&#8217;re facing. And we have to finally get some data how this Coronavirus is really hurting African-Americans and minority communities.
These are things that should be done now, but you need a supply commander in charge of it all. And right out of the White House, right out &#8212; in direct response to the president so we know where to get what we have to get and get it quickly.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Back in 2014, President Obama&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security warned that a devastating pandemic was the highest homeland security risk from a natural cause. Should your administration have done more to prepare?
BIDEN: Well, we did a lot to prepare. As you know, George, we set up an office within &#8212; a pandemic office within the White House. We expanded CDC in other countries, so we could be, in fact, observe, see when things were coming, how things were moving. We put people in China. I mean, we did a whole lot of things and they got a very detailed breakdown on this by a briefing, the Trump administration, when we transitioned out of office.
But the president dismantled almost all of that. And he drastically cut the budgets for the CDC. He drastically cut the budget for the &#8212; anyway, so he didn&#8217;t follow through on any of what we suggested was a real problem.
Now, it&#8217;s going to continue to be a problem. We&#8217;ve got to learn lessons from this. We can do much better than being done now. And we can eventually get to the place where we can &#8212; you know, these viruses as you know, George, they have no borders, you can&#8217;t build a wall, you can&#8217;t put up &#8212; you can&#8217;t have, you know, people at the border trying to stop it, it&#8217;s beyond that capacity. You have to know what&#8217;s coming, where it&#8217;s coming from and how to deal with.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let&#8217;s deal with the situation with Captain Brett Crozier from the USS Theodore Roosevelt. As you know, he was fired earlier this week. The president said yesterday he 100 percent supports that decision. Your response?
BIDEN: I think it&#8217;s &#8212; I think it&#8217;s close to criminal the way they&#8217;re dealing with this guy. Not his conduct. The idea that this man stood up and said what had to be said, got it out that his troops, his &#8212; his Navy personnel were in danger &#8212; in danger.
Look at how many have the virus. I think the guy should be &#8212; he should be &#8212; have a commendation whether than be fired.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Finally, sir, let &#8212; I want to turn to some politics before we go.
As you know, Wisconsin now having its primary on Tuesday, your opponent Sanders said that should be put off and the governor now joining that chorus as well. But it looks like it&#8217;s going to happen.
Is that wise?
BIDEN: Well, look, I think they should follow the science, I &#8212; and, you know, what I’ve been hearing, I have been following it like you have, like everybody has, watching the court action, it&#8217;s still in court now. And &#8212; but I think whatever &#8212; whatever the science says is what we should do.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And does that hold for the convention as well? If &#8212; are you open to the idea that &#8212; it just may not be possible to do the convention in August?
BIDEN: Well, we&#8217;re going to have to do a convention, may have to do a virtual convention. I know &#8212; I think we should be thinking about that right now. The idea of holding a convention is going to be necessary, but we may not be able to put 10,000, 20,000, 30,000 people in one place and that&#8217;s very possible. Again, let&#8217;s see where it is.
What we do between now and then is going to dictate a lot of that as well. But my point is that I think you just got to follow the science. Listen to the experts. Listen to the Faucis of the world. And if that&#8217;s the case, it&#8217;s the case.
But we cannot let this &#8212; we’ve never allowed any crisis from a Civil War straight through to a pandemic in ‘17, all the way around, in ’16, we have never, never let our democracy take second fiddle, we can both have a democracy and elections and at the same time protect the public health.
But I think it&#8217;s time we start thinking about how we&#8217;re going to hold elections, whether we&#8217;re going to have to spend a lot of time figuring whether we do &#8212; is it going to mostly be by mail, which is not the preferred route for everyone &#8212; how are we going to do that? How are we going to make it available to everybody?
And I think that has to be &#8212;
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STEPHANOPOULOS: I know you talked to Bernie &#8212;
BIDEN: &#8212; smart people thinking about now.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I know you talked to Bernie Sanders about your vice presidential pick, and tell us a little bit about how that’s going. Is he ready to unify behind your candidacy? And has he given you any recommendations?
BIDEN: Well, look, what I’ve said about the vice presidency, I said &#8212; I was apologizing because it was a bit presumptuous for me to be setting up a committee to go through the process of &#8212; and you&#8217;ve been through it before in your other life, of deciding, doing the background checks on potential nominees. And, I was apologizing to him by saying, Bernie, I don&#8217;t want to in any way and not in any way to demean your effort, but if we don&#8217;t start now, we’re not going to be able to get there. And he was very gracious, he said he understood.
It wasn&#8217;t about asking him for recommendations of who he or I would pick were we the nominee for vice president. It was about saying to him, Bernie, I feel somewhat foolish since although it’s likely &#8212; I’m the overwhelming likelihood to get the nomination that, in fact, it&#8217;s not officially done yet and I’m moving forward with a committee for vice presidential selection and to be able to set up a circumstance where the background checks can be done. As you know, they take a lot of time, and if we don&#8217;t start now or shortly in the month of April, it&#8217;s going to be hard to get it done.
So, I was basically apologizing and making it clear that I wasn&#8217;t trying to be presumptuous, in any way push him. And he said he appreciated that. That was the extent of our discussion about the vice presidency.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Mr. Vice President, thanks for your time this morning.
BIDEN: Thank you. Thank you, George. Good luck to you, man.</blockquote>

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In a wide-ranging quarantine <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/style/larry-david-curb-your-enthusiasm-coronavirus-psa.html">interview</a> with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Larry David, co-creator of “Seinfeld” and creator and star of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” said that it’s time for Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to drop out of the Democratic presidential primary.
“I feel he should drop out,” David said.
<blockquote>Because he’s too far behind. He can’t get the nomination. And I think, you know, it’s no time to fool around here. Everybody’s got to support Biden.</blockquote>
David is also known to many for his uncanny impersonation of the Vermont senator on “Saturday Night Live.” David first appeared as Sanders on “SNL” during the 2016 Democratic primary between the senator and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. David was brought back to the stage after Sanders announced his candidacy for the 2020 nomination.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, “at least 15 states and one territory have postponed or otherwise extended their presidential primaries,” according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/states-shelve-primary-contests-now-coronavirus-shuffles-2020/story?id=69713829">ABC News</a>. The Democratic National Convention has also been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/finally-dnc-moves-democratic-national-convention-to-august">delayed</a>, moving from its initial mid-July date to sometime in August.
All of this has stalled what was a roaring comeback for the Joe Biden campaign, which, prior to the former vice president’s landslide victory in South Carolina in late-February, was looking bleak.
Following his win in the Palmetto State, Biden whipped up enough enthusiasm to score victories in 10 of the 14 Super Tuesday states, gaining the upper hand on rival Sanders. Biden also went on to win eight more races in Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Washington, Arizona, Illinois, and Florida prior to most other primaries being postponed.
As of publication, Joe Biden has 1,217 delegates, and Sen. Bernie Sanders has 914. To clinch the Democratic nomination at the convention, a candidate must have 1,991 pledged delegates.
Despite Sanders’ increasingly narrow path to the nomination, as well as pressure from the media, the senator has refused to bow out of the race.
On Wednesday, Sen. Sanders told Whoopi Goldberg of “The View” that he wasn’t dropping out:
<blockquote>Last I heard, people in a democracy have a right to vote and they have a right to vote for the agenda that they think can work for America, especially in this very, very difficult moment. We are assessing our campaign, as a matter of fact, where we want to go forward.</blockquote>
The senator went on to speak about his work on the next proposed COVID-19 stimulus legislation.
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Bernie Sanders on staying in the race: “Last I heard, people in a democracy have a right to vote and have a right to vote for the agenda that they think can work for America, especially in this very, very difficult moment. We are assessing our campaign.” <a href="https://t.co/XqBZIxsIGR">https://t.co/XqBZIxsIGR</a> <a href="https://t.co/WPNsidZQ7f">pic.twitter.com/WPNsidZQ7f</a>
— ABC News (@ABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1245379379108220928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
According to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> national polling average, Joe Biden leads Bernie Sanders by 20.5 points (56% to 35.5%). Although the polling isn’t as fresh, Biden leads Sanders by a 22.5-point margin in <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/oh/ohio_democratic_presidential_primary-6873.html">Ohio</a>, he leads Sanders by an 11.5-point margin in <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/pa/pennsylvania_democratic_presidential_primary-6860.html">Pennsylvania</a>, and he leads Sanders by an 18.3-point margin in <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/wi/wisconsin_democratic_primary-6848.html">Wisconsin</a>.
The <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting_odds/democratic_2020_nomination/">betting odds</a> also give Biden a seemingly insurmountable lead with 83.9 points. Sanders actually comes in fourth place with 5.2 points behind New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (6.3 points) and Hillary Clinton (6 points), neither of whom are running for president.

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Larry David To Bernie Sanders: ‘Drop Out,’ We Need To ‘Support Biden’

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The Gravel Institute, a progressive think tank named after former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK), slammed the Democratic establishment for coalescing around former Vice President Joe Biden, remarking that podcast host Joe Rogan openly considering voting for President Trump in November was an indictment of Biden himself.
“Bernie didn’t run a bad campaign, he got f***** over by sudden establishment consolidation and concentrated media attacks. The next step is figuring out how to overcome that next time,” tweeted the Gravel Institute.
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Bernie didn&#8217;t run a bad campaign, he got fucked over by sudden establishment consolidation and concentrated media attacks. The next step is figuring out how to overcome that next time.
— The Gravel Institute (@GravelInstitute) <a href="https://twitter.com/GravelInstitute/status/1246512866569535488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
“The fact that Joe Rogan would rather vote for Donald Trump than Joe Biden is not an indictment of Bernie Sanders. It’s an indictment of Joe Biden,” said the institute in a separate tweet.
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The fact that Joe Rogan would rather vote for Donald Trump than Joe Biden is not an indictment of Bernie Sanders. It&#8217;s an indictment of Joe Biden.
— The Gravel Institute (@GravelInstitute) <a href="https://twitter.com/GravelInstitute/status/1246531413748285440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
In response to Rogan’s earlier remarks about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), left-wing commentators blasted the Sanders campaign for openly touting the comedian’s observation that he would probably vote for the Vermont senator in the Democratic nomination.
“When we told you about Joe Rogan, we were scolded,” remarked former South Carolina lawmaker Bakari Sellers.
“Given Bernie (mistakenly, imho) elevated Joe Rogan’s endorsement of him, and given Rogan is now saying he’d rather vote for Trump than Biden… is it not time for bernie to also now disown/distance himself from Rogan, too?” said Mehdi Hasan, columnist for The Intercept.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-has-backed-away-from-sanders-campaign-wont-stump-for-bernie-until-he-disavows-joe-rogan">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Joe Rogan remarked earlier this year that he would probably vote for Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the California Democratic primary, a move that resulted in Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reportedly distancing herself from the Sanders campaign.
Rogan made the remarks about Trump on Friday during a conversation with Eric Weinstein, the managing director of Thiel Capital. However, the comedian also indicated that he would have rather seen Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) leading the country during the coronavirus pandemic than any other politician who ran in the Democratic primary.
“This is the real issue with the Democratic Party,” Rogan said, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-on-2020-election-i-would-rather-vote-for-trump-over-biden-biden-cant-handle-anything">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported. “They’ve essentially made us all morons with this Joe Biden thing. They really have. They’ve made us all morons.”
“I can’t vote for that guy,” said Rogan. “I’d rather vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t think he can handle anything. You’re relying entirely on his cabinet. If you want to talk about an individual leader who can communicate, he can’t do that. And we don’t know what the f**k he’ll be like after a year in office. The pressure of being President of the United States is something than no one has ever prepared for.
“The only one who seems to be fine with it is Trump, oddly enough. He doesn’t seem to be aging at all or in any sort of decline. Obama, almost immediately, started looking older. George W. [Bush], almost immediately, started looking older,” said Rogan.

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‘An Indictment Of Joe Biden’: Leftwing Think Tank Slams Dems After Joe Rogan’s Trump Remarks

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Joe Rogan, host of the podcast &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience,&#8221; said on Friday that he would vote for President Donald Trump over Joe Biden if Biden becomes the Democratic presidential nominee.
Rogan made the remarks while talking with guest Eric Weinstein, a left-wing political commentator who is also the managing director of Thiel Capital.
&#8220;This is the real issue with the Democratic Party,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;They’ve essentially made us all morons with this Joe Biden thing. They really have. They&#8217;ve made us all morons.&#8221;
&#8220;I can’t vote for that guy,&#8221; Rogan continued. &#8220;I’d rather vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t think he can handle anything. You’re relying entirely on his cabinet. If you want to talk about an individual leader who can communicate, he can’t do that. And we don’t know what the f**k he’ll be like after a year in office. The pressure of being President of the United States is something than no one has ever prepared for. The only one who seems to be fine with it is Trump, oddly enough. He doesn’t seem to be aging at all or in any sort of decline. Obama, almost immediately, started looking older. George W. [Bush], almost immediately, started looking older.&#8221;
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Joe Rogan&#8211;who supported Bernie&#8211;on his podcast yesterday w/ managing director of Thiel Capital Eric Weinstein. &quot;I’d rather vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t think he can handle anything. You’re relying entirely on his cabinet.&quot; 1.3 million views on YouTube since yesterday <a href="https://t.co/Sxor0RvVZ0">pic.twitter.com/Sxor0RvVZ0</a>
&mdash; Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlxThomp/status/1246499752071647233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>ERIC WEINSTEIN: I think that in general people, when they are given no choice at all, express themselves moronically.
JOE ROGAN: When they are given no choice at all — How so?
WEINSTEIN: I want a choice of an actual president that’s viable. I don’t have one. Now you’re going to ask me which of the none-viable people do you like best?
ROGAN: This is the real issue with the Democratic Party. They’ve essentially made us all morons with this Joe Biden thing. They really have. They&#8217;ve made us all morons.
WEINSTEIN: Can you imagine?
ROGAN: I can’t vote for that guy.
WEINSTEIN: I can’t vote for him, I can’t vote for Trump.
ROGAN: I’d rather vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t think he can handle anything. You’re relying entirely on his cabinet. If you want to talk about an individual leader who can communicate, he can’t do that. And we don’t know what the f**k he’ll be like after a year in office. The pressure of being President of the United States is something than no one has ever prepared for. The only one who seems to be fine with it is Trump, oddly enough. He doesn’t seem to be aging at all or in any sort of decline. Obama, almost immediately, started looking older. George W. [Bush], almost immediately, started looking older.</blockquote>
Rogan, who is a supporter of socialist Bernie Sanders, has repeatedly hammered Biden in recent months over Biden&#8217;s struggles on the campaign trail.
“You have to be able call out s**t that’s wrong on your side,” Rogan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rogan-blasts-biden-skin-pulled-tight-like-a-lizard-trump-going-to-eat-him-alive">said</a> in March. “And this is one of the problems that the Democratic Party is having right now with this Joe Biden guy. You guys gotta be able to call it out, you can’t let this slide, because everybody else see’s it and Trump is going to eat him alive. He’s going to eat that guy alive.”
“The guy can barely remember what he’s talking about while he’s talking,” Rogan continued.
“Stop. Pause. He can’t be president,” Rogan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rogan-blasts-biden-skin-pulled-tight-like-a-lizard-trump-going-to-eat-him-alive">said</a> earlier in March. “Stop. Pause. Pause. Listen, we can’t play any games here, folks. This is a really old man who can’t talk. This is not a joke. Like that right now, ‘you know the thing,’ play that again. This should get you into a mental hospital. They should be like, ‘Hey, um, Joe are you alright?’”

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Joe Rogan On 2020 Election: I Would ‘Rather Vote For Trump’ Over Biden, Biden Can’t Handle Anything

Presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden now backs restrictions on travel from China &#8212; two months after President Donald Trump put them into place to stem the spread of the coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China.
Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said on CNN on Friday that the former vice president “supports travel bans that are guided by medical experts, advocated by public health officials, and backed by a full strategy.”
“Science supported this ban, therefore he did, too,” Bedingfield said.
On Jan. 30, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency of international concern. The same day, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the first time confirmed person-to-person spread of the Wuhan virus and applauded WHO’s decision. And also that same day, Trump created the White House Coronavirus Task Force to coordinate U.S. efforts regarding the new disease.
The next day, on Jan. 31, the president declared coronavirus a U.S. public health emergency and issued a travel ban between the United States and China. Campaigning in Iowa that day, Biden criticized Trump’s China travel ban, saying, “This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia.”
On Feb. 1, Biden again criticized Trump for the move.
&#8220;We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter.
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We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency.
&mdash; Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1223727977361338370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Trump campaign blasted Biden for his tardiness.
&#8220;Joe Biden today finally endorsed President Trump’s travel restrictions on China in response to the coronavirus, more than two months after they were imposed and after Biden has already characterized them as &#8216;xenophobia&#8217; and &#8216;fear-mongering,'&#8221; wrote Tim Murtaugh, director of communications for the campaign.
&#8220;Trump issued the restrictions on January 31. Democrats like Biden’s top coronavirus advisor, Ron Klain, opposed the move. Health experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci have repeatedly credited the travel restrictions with putting the United States ahead of the curve in combating the coronavirus.
“After two months of criticizing the effective China travel restrictions, Joe Biden now wants a do-over. The overwhelming evidence shows that Biden repeatedly slammed the restrictions out of a knee-jerk need to oppose President Trump’s every move. And now that he has reversed himself, Biden adds to a long list of Trump actions that Biden has called for or agreed with after the President has already acted. While President Trump has been leading the nation in this war against the virus, Biden has positioned himself as the opposition at every step of the way,&#8221; Murtaugh wrote.
Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale also ripped Biden on Twitter over his travel ban reversal.
&#8220;This is a long time lag, even for Sleepy Joe! TWO MONTHS after @realDonaldTrump restricted China travel Biden says he supports it. After 2 months of bashing the restrictions as &#8216;xenophobia&#8217; &amp; &#8216;fear-mongering.&#8217; That’s not leadership. That’s bad judgment,&#8221; he wrote.
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This is a long time lag, even for Sleepy Joe!
TWO MONTHS after <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> restricted China travel Biden says he supports it.
After 2 months of bashing the restrictions as “xenophobia” &amp; “fear-mongering.”
That’s not leadership. That’s bad judgment.<a href="https://t.co/YqbXKTa5M4">https://t.co/YqbXKTa5M4</a>
&mdash; Brad Parscale &#8211; Text TRUMP to 88022 (@parscale) <a href="https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1246214389679697924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Bedingfield, though, said Biden&#8217;s &#8220;reference to xenophobia was about Trump&#8217;s long record of scapegoating others at a time when the virus was emerging from China,&#8221; and that it was not a reference to the China travel ban.

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On March 25, Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer for Joe Biden, made a disturbing accusation about her old boss. She claimed in a podcast episode with Katie Halper of Rolling Stone that then-Sen. Biden sexually assaulted her in a secluded area of the Capitol in 1993, pushing her against a wall, trying to kiss her and penetrating her with his fingers.
Like many accusers, Reade cannot prove this happened. The Biden campaign quickly denied it. &#8220;Women have a right to tell their story, and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims,&#8221; deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said in a statement. &#8220;We encourage them to do so, because these accusations are false.&#8221;
But are those obligated reporters rigorously vetting these claims? Are reporters pounding the pavement and incessantly droning on their cellphones over this? There&#8217;s no sign of any of that.
The networks haven&#8217;t said a single word about them &#8230; even as Biden did an hourlong town hall on CNN, interviews on NBC and MSNBC and then more interviews on CNN and MSNBC. So in the week after the allegations emerged, Biden was asked 55 questions but not one about this accusation. But NBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd asked Biden whether President Donald Trump has &#8220;blood on his hands&#8221; for his response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The networks clearly believe there should be a presumption of innocence, and that the mere launch of these charges can unfairly sully an image. The fact that this accusation emerged from a sketchy source like Rolling Stone underlines that. Journalists appear to be very sensitive &#8230; when the target is a Democrat. How can they fail to see the double standard?
This was not the standard for Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2018. The broadcast networks offered more than 300 minutes to several accusers who told wild stories of Kavanaugh&#8217;s sexual assaults during his teenage years that could not be proved in any way. Christine Blasey Ford couldn&#8217;t manage to offer a time or a place of her alleged assault — less information than Reade offered. But she instantly became a profile in courage, cemented as a &#8220;historic figure.&#8221;
During the hearings, the accusers were warmly embraced (metaphorically) by one Joe Biden. &#8220;For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you&#8217;ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she&#8217;s talking about is real,&#8221; he said.
There&#8217;s nothing on the Biden story on NPR — the proud purveyor of Anita Hill&#8217;s unproven accusations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas — and nothing on The New York Times. Two years ago, The Times somehow found space for a story that claimed Kavanaugh threw ice cubes at a man in a bar scuffle while attending Yale.
There&#8217;s no evidence of investigative journalism from The Washington Post, which first published Ford&#8217;s incredibly vague accusations. As Kavanaugh was being aggressively prosecuted and accusations arose about the Post cooperating with a Democratic plot to derail Kavanaugh, executive editor Martin Baron protested saying, &#8220;The conspiracy theories are pure nonsense.&#8221; As the late Wes Pruden used to say, there wasn&#8217;t a conspiracy, just a consensus.
In 2016, The Post was first to jump on the 2005 &#8220;Access Hollywood&#8221; tape in which Donald Trump assaulted no one but bragged about how he could assault women because he was a TV star. The paper waited about five hours before publishing the story. It seemed like the entire political elite — Republican and Democratic — was demanding Trump drop out of the presidential race immediately.
Where are all these people now that Biden is in the dock? Absent. Apathetic. Callously indifferent. Out to lunch, never to return? #MeToo dies in darkness.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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In an interview with the &#8220;<a href="https://radio.foxnews.com/podcast/fox-news-rundown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fox News Rundown</a>&#8221; podcast Thursday, former campaign manager and senior adviser to President Barack Obama, David Plouffe, said that, despite the coronavirus crisis, President Trump is going to turn out his voters &#8220;almost at a historical level&#8221; in November, while Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden&#8217;s inability to get much national attention during the crisis is putting him at a serious disadvantage.
&#8220;You look at the economic situation and say, &#8216;How can an incumbent win in that?&#8217; But, you know, no one&#8217;s blaming Trump for the damage,&#8221; Plouffe said, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/david-plouffe-trump-biden-coronavirus">Fox News</a>.
&#8220;I think if you can lay his crisis response at his feet and connect that to the economy, I do think that&#8217;s some headwind he&#8217;s got to run into,&#8221; he said. But so far, he suggested, that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s taking place. Instead, the American people are looking to Trump and other leaders with actual authority, like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), while Biden has largely fallen off the national radar.
&#8220;But, almost no matter what happens,&#8221; said Plouffe, the question remains if Trump can win Rust Belt and other battleground states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Florida. The former Obama 2008 campaign manager&#8217;s answer: &#8220;Sure.&#8221;
The reason, he explained, is that Trump&#8217;s base is so &#8220;solid,&#8221; and, he predicts, pro-Trump turnout will be massive. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s going to turn out voters almost at a historical level on his behalf,&#8221; Plouffe said, &#8220;so that makes him very dangerous if you&#8217;re Joe Biden.&#8221;
What&#8217;s making it even harder for Biden, he suggested, is that the crisis is eclipsing the usual campaign season to such a degree that Biden has been forced far into the background &#8212; and &#8220;there&#8217;s nothing he can do about it.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s not in office. He&#8217;s not a governor. He&#8217;s not the president,&#8221; said Plouffe, as Fox reports. &#8220;And truthfully, Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom [and] Donald Trump, citizens want to hear from those folks because they&#8217;re the folks making decisions.&#8221;
Biden is left having to &#8220;leverage&#8221; interviews and social media every day in an attempt to gain some national attention in the midst of the new cycle-dominating, economy-crushing crisis.
Plouffe also offered his prediction about what the next four years would be under whichever candidate wins. It will be a term &#8220;defined&#8221; by attempting to dig the country out of &#8220;a really deep economic hole,&#8221; he said.
With the Democratic Party already pushing back the date of its national convention from July to August and much talk about a &#8220;virtual convention,&#8221; Plouffe said that the election might also have to be conducted in an unprecedented manner, perhaps entirely by mail-in.
As a result of the state-wide shutdowns of entire industries, a historic number of people have filed for unemployment. In just two weeks, nearly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/labor-department-reveals-highest-ever-jobless-claims-6-6-million-last-week-nearly-10-million-in-2-weeks">10 million</a> Americans filed jobless claims, blowing away any previous records. Before three weeks ago, the highest number of unemployment claims in the country&#8217;s history was 695,000, which occurred in 1982. In a two-week stretch since the lockdowns orders have been rolling out, 3.3 million and 6.6 million people have filed for unemployment.
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Ex-Obama Campaign Manager Explains How Crisis Not Hurting Trump, Setting Back Biden

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The same Hollywood that allowed Harvey Weinstein to prey on starlets snapped into action after the producer’s actions finally got exposed in the press.
Some of the industry’s players, including actress Kerry Washington, Ashley Judd, Eva Longoria and Reese Witherspoon, created the “Time’s Up” legal fund and movement.
The former vowed to defend women against predators past and present. The latter? It trained much of its fire power on President Donald Trump.
They cited sexual assault allegations against Trump prior to his election, as well as “uncovered” audio where Trump described grabbing women by their genitals as proof he needed to go.
All the while they mourned how the country’s potentially first First Husband, Bill Clinton, wouldn’t be returning to the White House.
Yes, that Bill Clinton.
Nor would the woman who ran defense for Bill Clinton, burying sexual abuse scandals rather than “believing all women.”
Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
That Hollywood hypocrisy is happening again, and this time at a nuclear-grade level.
Former Joe Biden staffer Tara Reade says the future vice president (and potential president) sexually assaulted her in 1993. Reade claims she’s tried to tell the story previously but ran into resistance.
Her recent attempt to recruit the Time’s Up legal group failed when it refused her plea on <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/joe-biden-metoo-times-up/">a technicality</a>.
Guess who else is ignoring her case?
Hollywood, Inc.
The stars who have previously protested President Trump’s “war on women” at both marches and Sundance Film Festival rallies reads like a who’s who of Hollywood: Katy Perry, America Ferrera, Chelsea Handler, Jessica Chastain, Zendaya, Melissa Benoist, Charlize Theron, Aisha Tyler, Kristen Stewart, John Legend, Joshua Jackson, Laura Dern and Jennifer Beals.
“Charmed” alum Alyssa Milano transformed her career from actress to activist in the Trump era, with her specific focus on women’s issues.
Are any publicly supporting Reade in her moment of need?
No, not yet, anyway. The abuse allegation story is at least a week old, so it’s not like they haven’t heard about the charges.
The Reade allegations are all over social media, and a smattering of news outlets have covered them – albeit with less vigor than if the politician in question had an R affixed to his name.
Other august outlets have <a href="https://reason.com/2020/03/30/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-media/">essentially looked the other way</a>. The Reade story isn’t an outlier, either. Several other women have <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/joe-biden-accuser-accusations-allegations.html">accused Biden of inappropriate touching, too.</a>
This week, Milano decried Sen. Bernie Sanders for staying in the race, throwing her support once more behind Biden.
What about Reade’s claims? Milano isn’t talking. And she’s not alone.
The industry that cried, “Believe All Women” now wants us to, “Change the Subject.” Or, more accurately, “This Woman Could Hurt Our Last Chance to Beat Trump So We’re Standing Down.”
That puts their silence into the proper perspective.
That silence is even more telling, more damning, given its plethora of platforms from which it can speak. Blogs. News articles. Podcasts. Social media. Interviews.
And it’s not the first time this hypocrisy rose up from Tinsel Town in the post-Weinstein era.
Where was Hollywood when not one but two women accused Virginia’s Lt. Governor, Justin Fairfax, of sexual assault? <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/hollywood-hypocrisy-northam-fairfax-omar/">Did they march to remove him from office?</a> Did stars create a hashtag campaign against him? Did they “believe the women” in question?
To be fair, Milano sent out a Tweet saying Fairfax should step down. Did she do more than that, or was a single Tweet her cover?
Fairfax recently said he plans to run for Governor. Will Hollywood rise up to stop that from happening?
Don’t hold your breath. Remember, he’s a Democrat.
Do we need to even summon the Brett Kavanaugh saga to reveal more raging hypocrisy? Stars like Amy Schumer literally got themselves arrested protesting Kavanaugh’s ascension to the Supreme Court, clinging to the flimsiest of assault charges to smite a Republican president’s nominee.
They believed accuser Christine Blasey Ford when even the woman’s own father <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/christine-blasey-fords-dad-supported-kavanaugh-ryan-saavedra">had doubts about her story</a>.
To her credit, the actress who helped bring Weinstein down isn’t staying silent on Biden. Rose McGowan deployed her Twitter account to mock journalists for not covering the assault allegations and failing to ask Biden during numerous press interviews about them.
At least she’s consistent. Her peers can’t say the same.
Perhaps we should have taken Handler at her word.
In 2018 she told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/arts/chelsea-handler-womens-rights.html">The New York Times</a> that the #MeToo movement was “a complete referendum on Donald Trump being elected to the presidency.”
So it’s not about protecting women, apparently?
Got it.

TOTO: Biden Accusation Puts Hollywood Hypocrisy On Full Blast

Harvey Weinstein

Hollywood

The following is satirical.
Joe Biden, who used to be somebody, has offered to call President Trump and give him advice on how to handle the Chinese Flu crisis.
And yes, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Oh, Klavan, you incorrigible wag! How I love your satirical shenanigans and the absurd fantasies with which you tickle our funny bones and invite us to share in the ridiculous concoctions of your whimsical imagination.”
But no, this actually happened. Joe Biden offered to call the President of the United States and give him advice on how to deal with the pandemic.
In a statement addressed to a kitchen mop he mistook for a woman he used to chase around the room, Biden said, “By golly, it’s time someone got on the horn to that Nixon fellow and set him straight on how to deal with all this flu malarkey.&#8221;
&#8220;He’s got to talk to experts and make plans and bring information to people instead of standing around with that little Italian guy and the cute girlie what’s-her-name and all those folks from the newspapers,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;We need more of those medical gizmos the modern fellows are always inventing, and maybe even some medicine or something. Why, in my day, we’d set up some tents with cots in them quick as a wink and get on with more important things like the Depression and World War II.&#8221;
Biden said he plans to offer a three point plan with two points in it, one of which he’s forgotten, which should make the whole conversation quicker than it would have been if his three point plan had three points and he could remember what they were.
The White House said they’d be happy to have Biden call and they apologized for accidentally giving him the wrong phone number that caused him to get a busy signal, to which Biden spoke for half an hour. The White House said they would give him the right number this time and thanked him in advance for waiting for the next available operator.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/news-media-skip-useless-presidential-briefings-to-make-time-for-urgent-anti-american-hatred-satire">News Media Skip Useless Presidential Briefings To Make Time For Urgent Anti-American Hatred</a>

Red Telephone

Biden Offers To Dial Up President Nixon And Tell Him How To Deal With All This Flu Malarkey [Satire]

Former Vice President Joe Biden says he does not believe there will be a Democratic National Convention in July even though the Democratic National Committee is insisting that the show will go on in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as planned.
&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to envision that,&#8221; Biden told MSNBC, referring to a full-scale arena convention with thousands of attendees. &#8220;Again, we should listen to the scientists.&#8221;
The Democratic National Convention was deliberately scheduled to take place before the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo; that gathering is now postponed until at least 2021. Other major summer events, like the Wimbeldon tennis tournament, are now being canceled pending further information on the coronavirus outbreak.
Biden predicts a smaller scale operation, perhaps even some sort of &#8220;conference call&#8221; to announce the 2020 Democratic presidential contender.
&#8220;We ought to be able to do, we were able to do in the middle of a Civil War all the way through to World War II, have Democratic and Republican conventions and primaries and elections and still have public safety. And we&#8217;re able to do both. But the fact is it may have to be different,&#8221; he said.
The DNC says it has not yet made a call on whether or not it will hold its convention and that it is considering a range of &#8220;contingency plans&#8221; that could include a digital meetup.
The DNC will &#8220;balance protecting the health and well-being of convention attendees and our host city with our responsibility to deliver this historic and critical occasion,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/politics/joe-biden-democratic-convention/index.html">the group told CNN</a> in response to Biden&#8217;s claims. &#8220;Providing an opportunity for our candidate to reaffirm our democratic values, unify the party and share his vision for a safer and stronger future for our country has never before felt more important.&#8221;
A second &#8220;convention aide&#8221; told CNN that, &#8220;Biden&#8217;s full remarks are in line with the convention&#8217;s contingency planning efforts that center on following the guidance of health officials and prioritizing the health and safety of all attendees and our host community.&#8221;
The Republican National Committee expressed similar sentiments last week. Their convention, though, takes place in late August, well after the Democratic National Convention.
Biden&#8217;s concerns might be better focused on the primary contest rather than the Democratic convention. With most coronavirus lockdowns now extended into May, many states have postponed their primary contests indefinitely, and it is possible that Biden won&#8217;t get enough delegates by the July 13th convention date to secure the nomination outright.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told Seth Meyers on Monday that he is staying in the race because he and his team see a &#8220;narrow path&#8221; to victory in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, and it&#8217;s likely this &#8220;narrow path&#8221; relies entirely on a lack of primary contests between now and July 13th.
Biden, like other Democrats, is also concerned about November voting and believes that Congress should press for an electronic or universal vote-by-mail option so that voters don&#8217;t have to risk their health to cast a ballot. Republicans have, so far, opposed such measures, suggesting that Democrats would use widespread absentee voting as a way of upending the electoral process.
&#8220;This is about making sure that we&#8217;re able to conduct our democracy while we&#8217;re dealing with a pandemic,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;We can do both.&#8221;

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