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Last week we reported that Joe Biden was planning to hold regular shadow-briefings on the coronavirus pandemic--a campaign gimmick to undermine public faith in the federal government's response to the pandemic, while promoting himself as a leader in charge who can handle the situation better than Trump.If today's inaugural shadow-briefing is any indication, it's not going to go well for Biden. "We can put politics aside and meet the moment like governors all across this nation are doing," Biden said, before listing off the names of governors he says are meeting the challenge. When he got to the governor...

The campaign of Republican Charles D. Baker, under pressure from the Democratic Party, has abruptly deleted an online photo of a supporter wearing a T-shirt that compares President Obama to Hitler. Governor Deval L. Patrick's campaign aides jumped on the issue earlier this morning, asserting that the presence of the photo of the woman wearing the T-shirt -- which has pictures of Obama and Hitler and a swastika -- is further indication that Baker is courting his party's fringe elements. The wording on the shirt says: ''HITLER gave good speeches and had his own symbol too.'' Next to Obama's photo...

A Republican political hopeful interested in serving as governor of Massachusetts announced Monday he has chosen Richard R. Tisei, an openly gay state legislator, to be his running mate in the 2010 gubernatorial election. "Want you to be the first to know: I've chosen State Senator Richard Tisei as my running mate," Republican Charles Baker wrote on his Twitter account. "Excited about this team." In the photo at left, Baker stands to the left of Tisei outside the civic center in Wakefield, Mass. Baker is the former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and a former adviser to two Republican...

GOP gubernatorial candidate Charles Baker runs a charity that’s funded ultraliberal outfits which have fought for tuition breaks and driver’s licenses for illegals, accused American soldiers of torture and blamed Israel for “genocide” in Palestine, a Herald review found... The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation, of which Baker is chairman, has given $30,000 to the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition since 2002, records show. The agency is a driving force on Beacon Hill for immigration reform, including pushing a controversial bid to allow illegal aliens to pay the same tuition rates as Massachusetts residents at state colleges...