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JOE BIDEN, the former Vice President of the US and Democratic nominee in the November 2020 elections, appeared to forget what year 9/11 happened during a live interview. The tragic events of the morning of September 11, 2001, saw the coordination of four terrorist attacks on the US by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda, masterminded by Osama bin Laden. Just shy of 3,000 people lost their lives in the cowardly act and 6,000 more were injured, when two planes crashed into the World Trade Centre, another into the Pentagon and a fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. This Friday, to...

CLAIM: Joe Biden claimed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: “I am not banning fracking.” VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. Biden has promised to ban fracking — repeatedly — as has his running mate. Biden said Monday — during a speech supposedly on violence: “I am not banning fracking. Let me say again: I am not banning fracking. No matter how many times Donald Trump lies about me.”

“Mr. Biden, who has been a firm supporter of peaceful protests, is expected to travel on Monday to condemn violence, and to note that chaos has unfolded on Mr. Trump’s watch.” Biden, Speaking to National Guard, Takes Aim at Republican Criticism on Crime nytimes.com

Joe Biden went off on a tangent Thursday night — about the Kenosha protest shootingo suspect and the deadly Charlottesville rally in 2017 — despite being asked about the police shooting of Jacob Blake. The Democratic presidential candidate’s flub came during an appearance on CNN.

The president has challenged presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden to take a cognitive test. On Thursday, he claimed Biden could not pass the cognitive test that President Trump claimed he “aced.” He then suggested the former vice president should take the test as well. It is not the first time the president has questioned Biden’s mental fitness. His reelection campaign has been airing ads focused on Biden’s mental state for months. The tweet came after Biden told reporters Wednesday that he had taken a cognitive test. However, it remains unclear if the test results will be released.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would compel Americans to wear masks in public if elected president. In an interview with Pittsburgh CBS affiliate KDKA, Biden said that he would use federal power to “mandate” masks. Q: I know you have been critical of the president’s handling of the pandemic in the past. But let’s look ahead. If you became president tomorrow, what would you do differently regarding the pandemic and getting these surging cases now under control? Biden: I would go back to making sure that everybody had masks, that you had PPE [personal protective equipment]...

Joe Biden, who is poised to earn enough delegates to formally secure the Democratic presidential nomination this month, promises to enter the general election campaign on offense in states President Trump won in 2016. As the nation battles a pandemic, high unemployment, and civil unrest, polls show Biden leading Trump in six critical swing states the latter narrowly carried four years ago: Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Arizona, according to CNBC/Change Research poll conducted in mid-June. Observers note that the battleground advantage polls came shortly after a Gallup poll showed that Trump's net approval rating had dropped 19...

Joe Biden ✔ @JoeBiden Climate change is linked to increased pregnancy risks — and heartbreakingly, Black mothers are being hit the hardest. As President, I'll work every day to tackle the climate crisis head-on and root out injustice. Because they are intertwined. https://twitter.com/HirokoTabuchi/status/1273639654936530955 …

A day after President Trump delivered a statement from the White House about the administration's efforts to combat the coronavirus, Former Vice President Joe Biden offered a press conference of his own. He noted that his presidential campaign had cancelled election night rallies they had scheduled in Cleveland, OH, taking his own advice to "avoid public gatherings." That's all understandable, and a good tip. But then Biden pointed fingers at Trump and accused him of "xenophobia" because he called COVID-19 a "foreign virus" in his White House address. He also said the Trump administration was guilty of several "misjudgments" since...

Former Vice President Joe Biden threatened Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for launching an investigation into his activities with Ukraine while in the Obama White House, stating the Republican will “regret” the move his “whole life.” Snip~ "Lindsey is about to go down in a way that I think he’s going to regret his whole life,” Biden told CNN host Don Lemon in a Friday interview in South Carolina. “I say Lindsey, I just — I’m just embarrassed by what you’re doing, for you. I mean, my Lord.”

The vice president campaigned in Iowa City Wednesday at a bar On Tuesday he stumped in Cedar Rapids and Dubuque Biden opened up a lead in three national polls Trump unloaded with more than 50 retweets and attacked 'dues-sucking' firefighters union Biden acknowledged the tweets, asking: 'I wonder why the hell he's doing that?'

In his new memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose, Joe Biden reveals he did not want to be vice president after he was asked by Obama The former VP also details how he and his family were confident he could win the 2016 presidency, but Obama 'was almost certain' Hillary would be the nominee Biden had wrestled with the idea of running before and after the death of son Beau, who had encouraged him to enter the race for years He writes how in early 2015, months before Beau's death, Hillary Clinton was already preparing...

The Democratic Party, soliciting for donations to celebrate Vice President Biden's 75th birthday, is giving a "free" bumper sticker that declares "I DIDN'T VOTE FOR TRUMP" as a reward. "Help us make Joe's last White House birthday extra sweet," reads the Democratic email solicitation.

The White House said Biden and Pence talked about the key duties of vice president and well as specific policy portfolios he has worked on, including the NATO alliance, eastern Europe and expanding access to the middle class. . . . Biden offered his full support to the vice president-elect to ensure a seamless transition to power and that he invited the Pence family to join him and his wife for dinner on the grounds of the Naval Observatory, which is where the vice president traditionally resides.

Vice President Joe Biden told fellow Democrats they should be optimistic about the state of the nation, “in spite of who’s president.”

It's no secret that Vice President Joe Biden has made more than a few gaffes during his political career. His latest: a hard-to-prove comment about a brush with the 2006 school shooting at Nickel Mines. Speaking last week to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C., Biden made the surprising revelation that he was golfing within earshot of the one-room schoolhouse when a troubled truck driver shot 10 Amish girls, killing five and wounding five. Read more: http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/806823_Vice-President-Biden-says-he-heard-gunshots-from-Nickel-Mines-shooting.html#ixzz2Iu9PLaux