WASHINGTON, DC — The White House doctor said Saturday night that President Donald Trump is no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus, a diagnosis that comes as the president prepares to resume campaign rallies and other activities. In a memo released by the White House, Navy Cmdr. Dr. Sean Conley said Trump meets the
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Taylor Swift is choosing to be fearless about endorsing her pick for president. The superstar singer has announced she will be voting for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the upcoming November election. She expanded on her decision to do so in the new issue of V Magazine. “The change we need
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump on Saturday delivered remarks from the White House at his first in-person event since he tested positive for coronavirus, but White House officials wouldn’t say if he was still contagious. In his approximately 18-minute speech, Trump said a Covid-19 vaccine “is coming out very very quickly” in “record time.” Trump,
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WASHINGTON, DC — On Saturday, President Donald Trump is planning to hold his first in-person event since testing positive for the coronavirus. Two weeks after the Rose Garden event that is now considered a “superspreader,” Trump is planning to convene another large crowd outside the White House for an event on “law and order.” That’s
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WASHINGTON, DC — The fate of the final debates between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden was thrown into uncertainty as the campaigns offered dueling proposals for moving forward with a process that has been upended by the president’s coronavirus infection. By Thursday afternoon, it was unclear when or how the next debates would proceed,
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Post-debate poll: Harris seen as winnerFact Check: Holding the candidates accountableTalker Moment: Fly lands on Pence’s headTakeaways: 5 key debate itemsHit and misses: Analysis of the debate SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Trading barbs through plexiglass shields, Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris turned the only vice presidential debate of 2020 into a dissection
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — There was briefly another participant swooping into Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate. For several minutes, a fly landed in Vice President Mike Pence’s hair, not moving as he answered questions about racial injustice and whether justice has been done in the death of Breonna Taylor. Conversation about the fly briefly
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WASHINGTON, DC — The morning after leaving the hospital, President Trump on Tuesday tweeted that he plans to attend next week’s presidential debate in Miami. The debate is set for Oct. 15 — two weeks after the president tested positive for the coronavirus on Oct. 1. When asked about the president campaigning, Trump’s physician, Dr. Sean Conley,
Continue Reading Click here for blog on the latest developments ABC News poll: 3 in 4 Americans feel Trump didn’t take proper virus precautions ABC-7 exclusive: El Paso insider says not following CDC guidelines allowed virus to spread inside White House BETHESDA, Maryland — President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House Monday night
Continue ReadingWILMINGTON, Delaware — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is detailing his approach on what he’s called a “national mask mandate” as he campaigns against President Donald Trump. Biden told NBC News during a town hall Monday night that he doesn’t believe a president can impose a national mandate nationwide. But Biden says as president he’d
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EL PASO, Texas — Borderland supporters of President Trump decked out their cars in flags and banners Saturday and hit the highway as part of a nationwide caravan. What was billed as “MAGA Drag the Interstate” began around 12:30 p.m. in El Paso, with similar events said to be happening across the country. The so-called
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Marked by angry interruptions and bitter accusations, the first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden erupted in contentious exchanges Tuesday night over the coronavirus pandemic, city violence, job losses and how the Supreme Court will shape the future of the nation’s health care. In what was the most
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Six in 10 debate watchers said former Vice President Joe Biden did the best job in Tuesday’s debate, and just 28% say President Donald Trump did, according a CNN Poll of debate watchers conducted by SSRS. View 2020 presidential election polling In interviews with the same voters conducted before the debate, 56% said they expected
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NEW YORK, NY — President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report Sunday in The New York Times. Trump, who has fiercely guarded his tax filings and is the only president in modern times
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WASHIGNTON, DC — In a race defined by economic views and pandemic fears, and riven by wide gender and education gaps, Joe Biden retains a 10-point lead nationally against Donald Trump in a new ABC News-Washington Post poll released Sunday, contracting to six points with third-party candidates included. Biden’s 54%-44% advantage over Trump in a two-way contest precisely matches the
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WASHINGTON, DC — A majority of Americans oppose efforts by President Trump and the GOP-led Senate to fill a Supreme Court vacancy before the election, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll released on Friday. The Post-ABC poll, conducted from Monday through Thursday, finds just 38 percent of Americans say the replacement for Justice
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power following November’s election during a press conference on Wednesday afternoon. Asked if he will leave the White House peacefully, if he loses the election, Trump responded, “Well, we’re going to have to see what happens. You know that.” The president then
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WASHINGTON, DC — Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain, has crossed party lines to offer her endorsement of Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president. “I, like everyone else, want to have a president that will have my back, that shows empathy and compassion, who has courage and dignity in how they lead
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WASHINGTON, DC — An El Paso native and former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence assailed President Donald Trump’s response to the pandemic in a new video Thursday, adding to the growing list of former Trump administration officials who have criticized the President and, in several cases, endorsed his Democratic opponent Joe Biden. Olivia Troye, who
Continue ReadingWILMINGTON, Delaware — Joe Biden says that while he trusts what scientists say about a potential coronavirus vaccine, he doesn’t trust President Donald Trump. Biden spoke to reporters at an event Wednesday in Wilmington, after being briefed by public health experts about a potential vaccine. He mentioned what he called Trump’s “incompetence and dishonesty” surrounding
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Exactly seven weeks before Election Day and two weeks before the first presidential debate, President Donald Trump was facing uncommitted voters in a 90-minute town hall special hosted by ABC News from the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Asked Tuesday night by an uncommitted voter at “The President and the People,” why he would “downplay a pandemic that is
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SACRAMENTO, California — With the smell of California wildfires in the air, President Donald Trump on Monday ignored the scientific consensus that climate change is playing a central role in historic West Coast infernos and renewed his unfounded claim that poor forest management is mostly to blame. The fires are threatening to become another front
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada — President Donald Trump held a “Latinos for Trump” roundtable Sunday, a push that comes as the president hopes to win a bigger share of the Latino vote than he did four years ago. Trump is walking a tightrope in his attempt to court Latino voters ahead of the November election while
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WASHINGTON, DC — Most Americans are skeptical of President Donald Trump’s performance on the coronavirus pandemic — disapproving of his response, disbelieving of his rhetoric on the virus and critical of what they view as his lagging approach to containing it, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday finds. Trump’s approval for his handling of
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wisconsin — A judge has ruled that rapper Kanye West was correctly left off the presidential ballot in the key swing state of Wisconsin. The ruling Friday upholds a decision by the state elections commission. It is likely to be rapidly appealed to the conservative-controlled state Supreme Court, which put the mailing of absentee
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WASHINGTON, DC — Vice President Mike Pence and top officials from President Donald Trump’s campaign are slated to attend a Montana fundraiser next week hosted by a couple who have expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to an event invitation obtained by The Associated Press and a review of social media postings. The
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden declared President Donald Trump “unfit” for the presidency on Friday, delivering an impassioned reaction to a report that Trump — who never served in uniform — allegedly mocked American war dead. The president and his allies have dismissed the report in The Atlantic as false. The allegations,
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KENOSHA, Wisconsin — Former Vice President Joe Biden made one of his most aggressive campaign trips in months, visiting with the family of Jacob Blake and meeting with community leaders in Kenosha on Thursday. Biden, and his wife Jill, visited with Blake’s family Thursday afternoon for about an hour at Milwaukee General Mitchell Airport inside
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security in July withheld an intelligence bulletin warning of a Russian plot to spread misinformation regarding Joe Biden’s mental health, according to internal emails and a draft of the document obtained by ABC News on Wednesday. In the draft of the bulletin obtained by ABC News titled “Russia
Continue ReadingWILMINGTON, Delaware — Joe Biden is hammering President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak ahead of a planned trip to Wisconsin, a pivotal swing state that’s become a focal point for political debate over protest-related violence, police treatment of people of color and the actions of vigilante militias. The Democratic nominee said Wednesday that
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