Another musician is telling the Trump campaign to stop using their music, this time the cease and desist is coming from the band Linkin Park. On Saturday night, President Trump retweeted a campaign video that featured the band’s 2002 hit song ‘In The End.’ Linkin Park swiftly took action on having the video removed and
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In the summer of 2016, Donald Trump was trailing in the polls. With time running out, he changed up his campaign leadership team, though not his own mercurial behavior. Four years later, and in the midst of another summer slump, Trump is hoping a similar campaign shakeup will help put him on
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — In the summer of 2016, Donald Trump was trailing in the polls. With time running out, he changed up his campaign leadership team, though not his own mercurial behavior. Four years later, and in the midst of another summer slump, Trump is hoping a similar campaign shakeup will help put him on
Continue ReadingNEW YORK, NY — Kanye West’s run for the 2020 presidency is reportedly over just as quickly as it started. Less than two weeks after the July 4th announcement of the 43-year-old rapper tweeted intentions to campaign for the White House, New York Magazine’s Intelligencer reports that he’s withdrawn his bid. Steve Kramer, a member of the Yeezy designer’s campaign
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES, California — It’s unclear whether he’s consulted with his friend Donald Trump, but rapper Kanye West has announced he’s ready to unseat the Republican president. “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future,” West wrote on Twitter Saturday night. “I am running for president of the
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MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL, South Dakota — At the foot of Mount Rushmore on the eve of Independence Day, President Donald Trump made a direct appeal to disaffected white voters four months before Election Day, accusing protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history.” The
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AUSTIN, Texas — President Donald Trump would beat former Vice President Joe Biden in Texas by 4 percentage points if the election were held today, according to a new poll from the University of Texas and the Texas Politics Project. The Republican incumbent’s narrow lead four months before the election suggests Texas, a state where
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It looks like Willie Nelson has Joe Biden on his mind. The legendary country singer will join Robert Earl Keen at a Monday night virtual fundraiser to support the former VP’s presidential bid. Guests at the event will include two of Biden’s former primary rivals — former HUD Secretary Julián Castro and former Congressman Beto
Continue Reading TULSA, Oklahoma — Thousands of President Donald Trump’s supporters gathered in Tulsa Saturday evening for his first campaign rally in more than 100 days as he tries to reinvigorate his re-election bid in the midst of a pandemic, a recession and a national debate over racism. The campaign suggested the rally would be the largest indoor gathering
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DALLAS, Texas — President Donald Trump said Thursday he would pursue an executive order to encourage police departments to meet “current professional standards for the use of force,” while slamming Democrats for broadly branding police as the problem. He also defended his calls on governors and mayors to aggressively quell violent protests that erupted across
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WASHINGTON, DC — Former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that President Donald Trump has “drifted away” from the Constitution, adding to a growing list of former top military officials who have strongly criticized the president’s response to the nationwide protests surrounding the police killing of George Floyd. “We have a Constitution. And we have to follow
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HOUSTON, Texas — George W. Bush will not support the re-election of Donald Trump, according to people familiar with his thinking, The New York Times reported late Saturday. The paper said the former president and Texas governor won’t vote for Trump’s reelection and that his brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, “isn’t sure how he’ll vote.” The
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WASHINGTON, DC — Joe Biden formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Friday, setting him up for a bruising challenge to President Donald Trump that will play out against the unprecedented backdrop of a pandemic, economic collapse and civil unrest. “It was an honor to compete alongside one of the most talented groups of candidates the
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Democrat Joe Biden has won the New Mexico presidential primary, his latest victory in Tuesday’s voting as he marches toward earning enough delegates to claim the party nomination before the summer convention. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has pledged to help Biden connect with racial- and ethnic-minority voters in
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Joe Biden mounted one of his most aggressive attacks against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, deriding the commander in chief’s disregard of core constitutional values and blistering him for being “more interested in power than in principle.” “He thinks division helps him,” the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said in a speech at
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Joe Biden will close out Texas Democrats’ virtual convention next month that was moved online over fears of the coronavirus. The announcement Thursday rounds out an unusual slate of big names that Texas Democrats have rounded up for their state convention. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Kamala Harris of California and
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Joe Biden called President Donald Trump “an absolute fool” on Tuesday for sharing a tweet that mocked the former vice president for wearing a mask Monday at a Memorial Day ceremony. In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash in Delaware — Biden’s first in-person interview since being knocked off the campaign trail by the coronavirus
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Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign launched a grassroots effort Tuesday focused on mobilizing young voters, a particularly challenging demographic for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The new program, called League 46, consists of three teams: Students for Biden, Young Professionals for Biden and Young Elected Officials for Biden. It will be led by Symone
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Joe Biden on Tuesday said his vice presidential search committee has interviewed “a lot” of the people under consideration to be his potential running mate. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee would not commit to choosing a woman of color as his running mate, saying that “we haven’t gotten there yet.” “There are women of color
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Donald Trump would beat Joe Biden by five points in Texas if the presidential race were held now, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. In a Trump-Biden contest, Democratic and Republican voters overwhelmingly back their own party’s candidate. But independent voters are on the fence, with 39% favoring Trump,
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The story of the 2016 election has often been told like this: “Donald Trump secured victory by breaking through the big blue wall in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.” It’s how you end up with all those stories about Trump voters in Midwest diners. Heading into 2020, there’s still a lot of focus on those pivotal
Continue Reading Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a wide lead over President Donald Trump in the national race for the White House, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Biden leads Trump 53% to 42% among registered voters, roughly steady from CNN’s poll in early March. The nationwide picture shows Biden starts with an
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — Sen. Bernie Sanders ended his presidential bid on Wednesday, making Joe Biden the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge President Donald Trump in a general election campaign that will be waged against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic. Sanders initially exceeded sky-high expectations about his ability to recreate the magic of his 2016
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — The Democratic National Committee is delaying its presidential nominating convention until the week of Aug. 17 after prospective nominee Joe Biden said he didn’t think it would be possible to hold it in mid-July because of the coronavirus pandemic. Convention CEO Joe Solmonese confirmed the decision in a statement Thursday. “In our
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — Former Vice President Joe Biden has emerged as Democrats’ top choice for the presidential nomination in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, but with only bare majority support within his party and a massive enthusiasm gap in a November match-up against President Donald Trump. (Scroll down in this article to see the complete poll data.)
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — ABC News projected that Joe Biden swept to victory in Florida, Illinois and Arizona on Tuesday night, increasingly pulling away with a Democratic presidential primary upended by the coronavirus and building pressure on Bernie Sanders to abandon his campaign. The former vice president’s third big night in as many weeks came amid
Continue ReadingBURLINGTON, Vermont — Bernie Sanders says he’s moving ahead with his Democratic presidential campaign and plans to appear at Sunday debate with Biden. He told reporters in Burlington on Wednesday that he’s not quitting despite key primary losses to Joe Biden the night before. The Vermont senator’s path to the presidential nomination considerably narrowed after
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — Joe Biden won Michigan’s Democratic primary on Tuesday night, seizing a key battleground state that helped propel Bernie Sanders’ insurgent candidacy four years ago. The former vice president’s victory in Michigan, as well as in Missouri, Mississippi and Idaho, dealt a serious blow to Sanders, who was urgently seeking to jump-start his
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, Ohio — Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden abruptly canceled scheduled rallies Tuesday night in Cleveland amid concerns over the spread of the new coronavirus — as public health fears began transforming the 2020 race. Sanders had been planning to speak at a convention center in Cleveland as results from six states
Continue ReadingDETROIT, Michigan — Joe Biden got into a testy exchange Tuesday with a worker in Detroit who falsely accused the former vice president of wanting to confiscate guns from Americans, a remark that caused the Democratic presidential hopeful to say the man was “full of s***.” The spat came during a campaign stop at a
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