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Former Vice President Joe Biden a delivers eulogy for his longtime friend Sen. John McCain at his memorial service in Phoenix, Arizona. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as…

John Weaver, a political consultant who worked on John McCain's Presidential campaign in 2000 and 2008, reacts to McCain's death, and gave insight into the relationship between McCain and Joe Biden: "They were fast friends. And because of what happened…

Thank you Senator McCain for your service to the nation." America has lost one of the greatest patriots and public servants in our history. The Senate is keeping Cindy, the McCain family, all John's friends and staff, and the people of Arizona in our prayers at this tremendously difficult time." John McCain was one of them. "Passionately committed to our country, Senator McCain always put service to the Nation before self. There will never be another John McCain. Our country lost an iconic leader today, and I will miss him terribly. There will never be another John McCain. An American hero. "John McCain fought for America every day — from the Navy through Vietnam to the U.S. Senate.

Trump says he'd love to run against former Vice President Joe Biden; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.' FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news.…

A new poll shows that three out of four Democrats believe it's time for a fresh face to lead the party. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political…

The president thinks the U.S. is losing money and jobs because of low-skilled immigrants, but that is not true. Economic Policy Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, Jared Bernstein, joins Ali Velshi to break down the numbers that prove America…

Biden, seen as a potential Democratic party candidate against Donald Trump in 2020, did not mention the US president by name but linked his anti-immigrant drive and that of European populists and the far right to pre-war fascists who were willing to create scapegoats to retain their grip on power. “In ways that evoke memories of the 30s, frustrated and disaffected voters may turn instead to strongmen,” he told a conference in Copenhagen. Now it is immigrants, the outsider, the other.” Joe Biden: the liberal everyman spoiling for a fight with Trump as 2020 looms Read more Biden said: “Rather than some dramatic assault on democracy, however, ... our institutions and freedoms are slowly but determinedly being sanded down, little by little, each small step designed to curb institutional safeguards and concentrate power in the hands of individual leaders. “All round the world, repressive governments are borrowing from one another’s playbook, deriding a critical free press as fake news and questioning, indeed delegitimising, an independent judicatory, hamstringing civil society with increasingly repressive laws. He said: “Voters [are] worried that politicians are not looking out for them. Borders seem less real. Terrorist attacks feel inescapable. There are fears about unrelenting migration. Some are concerned that the demographic and cultural foundations of their society are going to be forever changed or erased.” He said globalisation had deepened rifts, divorced productivity from labour and created less demand for low-skilled labour. “There is no other democracy anywhere in the modern world that invites its population to vote on its future, decides by a wafer-thin majority to go in a completely different direction to where it has been going for 40 years against the explicit and stated wishes of those that have to inhabit that future – the young.” Blair warned that faith in democracy was in decline, saying: “There is more than a mild flirtation in the west with what we can loosely call rule by the ‘strongman’ ie the leader who has supreme control over the levers of government, sets a direction and dismisses all opposition to it with varying portions of disdain or repression,” the former prime minister said “We must understand the attraction of this model since its footprint is growing.” Harper, the former Canadian prime minister, said: “Democracy is ultimately justified on its record and for a lot of our citizens in the last 30 years their outcomes have not been very good for a long period of time.” The Danish prime minister, Lars L?kke Rasmussen, said he was less worried by the assault on western democracy from Russia than one from allies within the western alliance.

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Battling brain cancer at his family ranch in Arizona, 81-year-old Sen. John McCain has been sharing his hopes for the future of the country and reflections on his political life with friends who visit. For former Vice President Joe Biden, McCain's message was a simple one: don't "walk away" from politics, Biden told The New York Times, describing his conversation with the Arizona Republican. After visiting McCain last weekend at his ranch, Biden told the Times the Arizona senator is still preoccupied with the future of the country. "We talked about how our international reputation is being damaged and we talked about the need for people to stand up and speak out." McCain calls failing to go against the advice of some advisers to pick Lieberman "another mistake that I made." Lieberman told the Times he was unaware of McCain's regret over the matter until he watched the documentary, saying, "It touched me greatly." On the campaign trail, Mr. Trump blasted McCain, saying he likes "people who weren't captured" — McCain spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam — and last year, the president attacked McCain for voting against a health care overhaul, after McCain's cancer diagnosis. McCain, in past remarks and in his new book, has criticized the sitting president's approach to politics, and political climate in the country. "We are asleep to the necessity of our leadership, and to the opportunities and real dangers of this world," McCain said on the Senate floor in October. "We are asleep in our echo chambers, where our views are always affirmed and information that contradicts them is always fake.

Jeff Swensen / Getty Images Joe Biden hasn’t decided whether he’s running for president, but he has assembled a coalition of 30 of some of the biggest names in Washington last month to help shape his domestic policy, from union presidents to former top Obama administration officials to bank officials. Announced last month, the Biden Institute’s new Policy Advisory Board is the next major piece in what is shaping up to look like a very familiar playbook: a potential presidential run rooted in old-school, establishment politics, capitalizing on his broad popularity among Americans and vast experience in politics. Said one former Biden adviser, “He’s building out a host of different pieces, and he’s definitely doing that with an eye towards the presidency and the future.” Though many of Policy Advisory Board members say joining doesn’t mean they’re signing on to support him if he runs for president, the adviser said, “They have to know what they’re doing to some extent. The folks that really need to be on a panel like this right now are people that you and I have not heard of that are living the reality that most Americans live on.” More than a half-dozen members sidestepped questions from BuzzFeed News about whether they wanted the former vice president to run in 2020. “The first reason I joined is out of personal loyalty to Biden,” said Larry Summers, a top Obama economic adviser and the former president of Harvard. Dean, of Democracy for America, said Biden’s advisers were unlikely to consider how closely the former vice president’s economic concerns were tied to issues of racial justice. Biden “comes from working-class roots, and we don’t question that, but times are not the same as when he was going through them,” Dean said. The Institute’s advisory board is stocked with longtime Biden loyalists, like the president of the powerful International Association of Firefighters, Harold Schaitberger. When he said he would not run, the union waited months to support Clinton. Biden is “clearly a voice that knows how to speak to workers.” “I know by January, I have to make that decision,” Biden said in a speech at Vanderbilt University on Tuesday.