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President Biden cast his early vote Monday with just over a week to go until Election Day, as his chosen successor and former rival appear to be deadlocked in a tight race for the White House. Mr. Biden cast his vote near Wilmington, Delaware, where he spent the weekend, before returning to the White House. "Let's go vote," Mr. Biden said as he headed to the polling place, where he greeted voters alongside Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, who is running to represent the state in the Senate. When asked after waiting in line to cast his ballot whether the moment...

“I feel more concerned today than I did two years ago about resource adequacy,” he said Monday. “Load is growing much faster than we had projected then, which even back then was an eye-popping set of numbers.” PJM’s recent capacity auction, in which PJM secures commitments from generators to provide electricity in the future, produced higher than usual prices. Those prices have thus far served their purpose of incentivizing some generators to delay retirement and others to consider investments in new generation. “I haven’t seen any forecast of load that allows me to rest and say we’re good,” he said...

Joe Biden did not exit the 2024 presidential race of his own volition. Anybody paying attention knows that his wife certainly didn't want him to stop running for a second term. Her ambition was most likely what drove him to run in the last election and she was still his most vocal cheerleader when the rest of the Dems were jumping ship after his disastrous debate against Donald Trump. The question on a lot of people's minds since then is whether Old Joe himself has been upset that he was tweeted into political irrelevance. ... Biden has done a few...

During an interview with Nexstar Media’s Austin, TX NBC affiliate KXAN on Wednesday that was released on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that while Iran’s missile attack against Israel “is unacceptable.” He agrees with the United Nations “and others who are fighting for an immediate ceasefire. The last thing in the world this country needs is to see American troops getting engaged in another Middle East war.” And so, we have to make sure the war doesn’t expand. Sanders said, “The fear right now — obviously, what Iran did and all of those 180 missiles coming into Israel is...

Delaware Democratic Governor John Carney vetoed a bill Friday that would have legalized assisted suicide in the state. Lawmakers passed HB 140 in June. The bill would have allowed a terminally ill adult to self-administer lethal drugs (assisted suicide) with the approval of two physicians or APRNs. Carney released a statement following his veto, in which he called assisted death a “deeply personal issue” but said that he is “fundamentally opposed” to suicide. “I still don’t believe a firm consensus has been reached on what is a very difficult issue – in Delaware or nationally,” he wrote. “Last year, the...

The 2024 presidential election is approaching, but the legal battle over how the 2020 race was covered by right-wing channel Newsmax isn't going away quietly. On Sept. 30, Newsmax will head into a Delaware court to defend itself against a defamation lawsuit filed by Smartmatic, a voting machine technology company. Smartmatic says its reputation was damaged by false statements made on the network regarding voter fraud allegations in the 2020 presidential election. Smartmatic's suit says Newsmax provided a platform for its hosts, Donald Trump and the former president's attorneys and allies to falsely claim that the company's software was manipulated...

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Harris-Walz Co-Chair Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) stated that Hezbollah’s continuing “escalatory” attacks against Israel, “this striking incident where pagers and walkie-talkies were remotely detonated” in addition to the “ongoing ground war in Gaza” have all made it “harder than ever” to see the ceasefire deal that “President Biden very much urgently wants to get done” happening. But the Biden administration is pushing both Hamas and Israel to reach one. Coons said, “[I]t is heartbreaking how close we’ve come to a ceasefire and hostage deal. I know senior members of the Biden team are...

Will McVay, a former Delaware Libertarian Party activist who has left the Libertarian Party, earlier this year noticed that the Conservative Party of Delaware had become ballot-qualified, almost accidentally. The Delaware definition of a qualified party is one with registration of at least one-tenth of 1% of the total state registration. Without any organized effort, the number of people who spontaneously filled out a Delaware registration chard showing themselves as “Conservative” rose high enough last year to qualify that party. McVay organized it, and this year, under his leadership, the party is running Vermin Supreme for President, Jonathan Realz for...

Biden has been hiding on a beach in Delaware ever since his disastrous debate with Donald Trump that hard-launched Kamala Harris as the Democrat nominee. Biden is speaking off the prompter once again and revealing hard truths that have been concealed from the public. The Inflation Reduction Act, the largest spending measure in American history, was never intended to reduce inflation. “We should have named it what it was!” Biden said at an event in Westby, Wisconsin, where he unsuccessfully attempted to tout the success of Bidenomics. The president referred to the Inflation Reduction Act as “the most significant CLIMATE...

GO VOTE! Here in MA, I'm voting for Bob Antonellis for US Senate.

First, where is Joe Biden? And second, who is running the country at the moment? The subject arose because people have been looking at the President's schedule as published by the White House. Normally that schedule is sparse with a very early lid on the best of days. But now it's absolutely empty. Biden just came back from a one week vacation in California, but he headed immediately to his mansions in Delaware for another two weeks of rest and relaxation. There is nothing on the schedule after the President's daily briefing each morning and we're not entirely sure that...

Oh, yeah, he’s still here. President Biden was pictured lounging on a Delaware beach Wednesday during his second straight week of vacation from the White House. The 81-year-old spent about two hours on the North Shores near Rehoboth Beach, Del., with first lady Jill Biden and two of her sisters. The ostensible leader of the free world looked relaxed in colorful swim trunks, a white T-shirt and black cap, sitting on a beach chair while combing through documents. It’s been nearly 10 days since the president has been in the Oval Office — despite insisting he’d finish out the last...

Biden and the entire crooked clan are on vacation at a billionaire’s California estate. That’s where Biden headed after yelling about how all his opponents are a threat to democracy at the DNC convention (presumably not his own party bosses who ousted him and replaced him with Kamala.)That’s before Biden leaves his vacation in California to go on vacation in Delaware. (snip)

Shortly before midnight on Monday evening, Joe Biden finally took the stage at the DNC. Billed as his "final speech" and a tribute to his career, the failed president, who dropped out of the race in July, was nothing new. Instead, his time behind the podium was incredibly typical, with lots of angry shouting and repeating the same old lies. If you watched his last State of the Union, you've heard it all. [snip] According to Joseph Robinette Biden, the terrorist-supporting lunatics outside the DNC who are promising to "bring the war home" while burning American flags "have a point."...

Special Counsel David Weiss appears to have finally made the long-awaited case exposing years of concealment and political corruption. No, it is not the case against Hunter Biden. The allegations of tax fraud in California are obvious and unavoidable. Weiss just made the case against the Justice Department and himself in protecting Hunter Biden from the most damaging charges of being an unregistered foreign agent. In a new filing, Weiss released evidence on Hunter seeking money to advance the interests of a Romanian on United States policy. I have previously testified on the Foreign Agents Registration Act and have previously...

The enthusiasm among Democrats for Vice President Kamala Harris stepping in to run at the top of the Democrat ticket instead of President Joe Biden is “palpable,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claims, despite initial polling showing that less than half believe Harris should be the one to replace Biden in the race. Biden remained obstinate for weeks after his poor debate performance against former President Donald Trump, refusing to drop out of the race despite pleas from Democrats. At the time, Biden even sent a letter to congressional Democrats, stating, “I wouldn’t be running again if I did...

Governor Wes Moore (D-MD) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that President Joe Biden deserved better treatment than public calls for him to leave the presidential race. Guest host Martha Raddatz said, “You had been a very strong supporter of Joe Biden staying in the race just a few days after that disastrous debate saying, he is not going to take himself out of the race nor should he. Did your concerns grow as the weeks went on?” Moore said, “I had private conversations with the president. And I’m a big believer that when you care about somebody, you tell...

President Biden on Tuesday made his first public appearance since dropping out of the 2024 presidential race, arriving at Dover Air Force Base ahead of a planned return to the White House. Biden, 81, saluted and smiled as he got out of his motorcade and walked slowly toward Air Force One while reporters shouted questions at him asking how he felt. “Well,’’ the president responded twice. He then lumbered toward the jet and held onto its railing as he slowly climbed up the steps, holding a blue COVID mask in his left hand.

When President Joe Biden began his campaign trip in Las Vegas last week, everything seemed to be running as smoothly as it could for an 81-year-old president in physical and cognitive decline. The day before he abruptly left town, Biden delivered the keynote address in front of a packed crowd of almost five thousand people at the NAACP National Convention at the Mandalay Bay hotel. On Wednesday, Biden was scheduled to deliver the keynote at the UnidosUS annual convention at the MGM Grand, with thousands in attendance anticipating his arrival. With the venue located right off the Las Vegas Strip,...

During an interview with CNN on Sunday, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), who was a co-Chair of the Biden Campaign, responded to calls for President Joe Biden to resign by stating that Biden has demonstrated his ability on international issues and that he “has more experience in foreign policy than any national leader, and to have him step aside now, I think would be a grave disservice to our nation and a profound disrespect to his legacy and his lifetime of service.”