Tag: Joe Biden

President Donald Trump's campaign fired several pollsters after internal polling numbers that showed the President lagging behind Democratic presidential candidates in key states were made public, according to multiple sources. CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports. #CNN #News

SE Cupp dishes on Joe Biden's presidential campaign and takes a look at the way President Trump may be helping his bid into the general elections. #CNN #News

Former Vice President Joe Biden's announcement of a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination earned him an 11-point polling bounce, leaving him head and shoulders above the rest of the Democratic candidates. A new CNN poll conducted by SSRS after…

CNN's Don Lemon critiques President Donald Trump for his responses to questions on white nationalism after various acts of extremist violence.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders defends his voting record against former Vice President Joe Biden's, telling CNN's Anderson Cooper he hopes all of the candidates run campaigns that focus on issues and not personal attacks. #CNN #News

CNN's Erin Burnett says former Vice President Joe Biden's decision to directly take on President Donald Trump is "clearly getting under Trump's skin." #CNN #News

In an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett, "The Breakfast Club" radio show co-host Charlamagne tha God said he prefers Mayor Pete Buttigieg to former Vice President Joe Biden and that Buttigieg is built for the spotlight. #CNN #News

Former Vice President Joe Biden kicked off his presidential campaign for the 2020 election in Pittsburgh, telling constituents if he is going to defeat Trump, it's going to happen in Pennsylvania. This is the first campaign rally since Biden announced…

Good Monday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. This is the story behind the relationship between Barack Obama and Joe Biden. • Attorney General William P. Barr and congressional Democrats clashed on Sunday over his scheduled testimony before the House Judiciary Committee this week, with Mr. Barr threatening to skip the session and the panel’s chairman threatening to subpoena him. • As House Democrats return to Washington after a two-week recess, they will find a Capitol consumed by the Mueller report. But rank-and-file Democrats are not being propelled by their constituents into impeaching the president. • Guantánamo Bay as nursing home: With no sign that the prison will close, the Pentagon has begun planning for detainees to grow old at the American military base in Cuba. • As Washington wrestles with Mr. Trump’s refusal to grant more disaster relief to Puerto Rico, farmers affected by disaster elsewhere have been left in limbo. • Mr. Trump on Saturday repeated an inaccurate claim about doctors “executing babies.” Here’s the truth. • Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, hosted the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, breaking from the tradition of featuring a comedian.

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway defended President Trump on Sunday over renewed criticism of his comments following the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, Va. – arguing that the president had “condemned white nationalism” and that his words following the incident has been distorted for political gain. Trump was slammed by both sides of the aisle for his remarks in the summer of 2017 that there were "very fine people on both sides" during the white nationalist "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, where participants had chanted phrases like "Jews will not replace us." "Well, the irony is that he condemned white nationalism and neo-Nazis and the KKK during the Charlottesville incident," Conway said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. Conway added that Trump’s “very fine people” comment was in reference to “the debate over removing statues.” She added: "He was not talking about the weekend at all." While Trump was largely panned at the time for his comments, those words have come under renewed scrutiny after former Vice President Joe Biden launched his Democratic presidential campaign by condemning them. Biden blasted Trump's "moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it" and declared the election a "battle for the soul of this nation." Biden is positioning himself as the anti-Trump, an experienced elder statesman ready to restore stability to Washington. Conway’s defense on the president comes days after Trump himself tried to downplay the renewed controversy – arguing that he was referring to some who were protesting the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general. Trump praised Lee as "a great general, everybody knows that." The Associated Press contributed to this report.