2020 election

A new poll suggests that the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination may be tightening, with a virtual three-way tie nationally among former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and two more progressive rivals, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Despite the dead heat — Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren each with 20 percent support among Democratic voters, and Mr. Biden with 19 percent — the Monmouth University Poll released Monday may hint at a concerning trend for the candidacy of Mr. Biden, the poll’s previous front-runner, whose support declined from 32 percent when the Monmouth Poll was taken in June. Mr. Sanders, of Vermont, and Ms. Warren, of Massachusetts, both picked up several percentage points of support since June. Voters were asked whom they would support among 23 Democratic candidates. Patrick Murray, who runs the polling institute at Monmouth, in West Long Branch, N.J., said Monday that the poll suggested that the race for the Democratic … [Read more...] about New 2020 Poll Shows Three-Way Tie Among Sanders, Warren and Biden

The Federal Election Commission, the beleaguered independent agency that is supposed to serve as the watchdog over how money is raised and spent in American elections, has long been criticized as dysfunctional, if not toothless. Now the state of affairs at the agency is poised to get even worse: It will no longer even have enough commissioners to legally meet. The resignation of Vice Chairman Matthew S. Petersen, announced on Monday and scheduled for the end of August, will effectively freeze the F.E.C.’s governance, leaving it one person short of a quorum and thus unable to take on some of its most basic actions, including holding board meetings, starting audits, making new rules and levying fines for campaign finance violations. “Voters should be extremely concerned,” said Ann M. Ravel, a Democrat and former F.E.C. chairwoman who stepped down in 2017 and who has not been replaced. “If you do not have the ability to do any kind of enforcement, then there isn’t any kind of … [Read more...] about The Federal Election Commission Needs 4 of 6 Members to Enforce the Law. It Now Has 3.

Election day is just around the corner as America and the world waits to see if Donald Trump or Joe Biden will top the polls is what has been a tough and divisive race. The majority of Hollywood who are vocal about politics have been throwing all of their support behind Biden and the Democrats with the likes of Bette Midler, Alyssa Milano and Jim Gaffigan condemning Trump on Twitter regularly. However, just this week actress Kirstie Alley faced intense backlash when she voiced her support for Trump and tweeted about her intentions to vote for the Republican on November 3. The longtime Trump supporter, took to the platform on Saturday night to tell her followers that she will vote for the president again in 2020 because "he's NOT a politician." "I'm voting for @realDonaldTrump because he's NOT a politician. I voted for him 4 years ago for this reason and shall vote for him again for this reason," the 69-year-old actress, best known for her role in Cheers and the Look … [Read more...] about Every celebrity to speak out in support of Donald Trump

As both Donald Trump and Joe Biden took part in televised Town Hall events last night, supporters and critics of both candidates were out in force voicing their views on how each performed. The two political opponents both held town hall events on Thursday night. Biden announced his first after Trump pulled out of the second presidential debate because organizers had shifted the in-person event to a virtual format. The president then scheduled his own town hall to run at the same time as Biden's. Bette Midler, who has not relented on her attacks on Trump in the lead up to election day had a lot to say about the president's performance last night. Comparing both Biden and Trump's events, she wrote: "There are two town halls on tonight. One is a human being who actually makes sense and has a coherent way of communicating, and the other is utterly befuddled and can't follow a thought, because he is mentally incapacitated. That man is the demented lunatic, #DonaldTrump." The … [Read more...] about How Bette Midler, Alyssa Milano and other celebrities reacted to Trump’s Town Hall

After publicly endorsing Democratic nominee Joe Biden for president on Thursday, Rudy Giuliani 's daughter Caroline encouraged voters to cast their ballot for "someone decent." "Please everyone, let's end this election strong. We need to face & start addressing the problems in front of us with someone decent & experienced at the helm. #VoteBidenHarris," she tweeted on Friday. In another tweet, she wrote "Please vote for @JoeBiden to save this country!!" Giuliani announced her support for the Democratic presidential nominee in an op-ed published in Vanity Fair titled, "Rudy Giuliani Is My Father. Please, Everyone, Vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris ." She wrote that while Biden wasn't her first choice, she urged voters to support the former vice president "to end Donald Trump 's reign of terror." "If I, after decades of despair over politics, can engage in our democracy to meet this critical moment, I know you can too," she wrote. Newsweek reached out to … [Read more...] about After endorsing Biden, Rudy Giuliani’s daughter encourages people to vote for “someone decent”

Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidential campaign on Tuesday made an extraordinarily emotional appeal for his candidacy and his health care proposal through a new ad that highlights his struggles with grief and family loss, a message that reminds voters of the good will and empathy many have for the former vice president while accentuating one of his central policy goals. In the 60-second television spot, called “Personal,” Mr. Biden tells the stories of his family tragedies that he often shares on the campaign trail as he discusses the importance of health care access. But the ad is striking for the wrenching images of Mr. Biden with his two sons who survived a car crash that killed his first wife and a daughter in 1972. One of those children, Beau Biden, would die of cancer in 2015, a development that drew widespread sympathy in Washington and around the country toward the end of Mr. Biden’s second term in the Obama administration. While many Democratic voters have pointed to the … [Read more...] about Why This Joe Biden Health Care Ad Stands Out

DES MOINES — As Tom Steyer, the billionaire former hedge fund investor and impeachment impresario, made his first trip to Iowa as a 2020 candidate this month, he embarked on the usual political circuit. He delivered a soapbox speech at the state fair (“We have to break the corporate stranglehold on our democracy,” he said), visited the butter cow (“Not my first butter cow,” he corrected one fairgoer; he had been there last year) and professed his desire to see farm animals. What was unusual for a man who has never held elected office and who has been running for president for only a few weeks was that people kept recognizing him along the way. “Hey, it’s the YouTube guy!” one woman shouted as Mr. Steyer strode past. He also heard from several fans of his TV ads, including Catherine Rondema of Portland, Ore., who said she liked his commercials so much that she had timed her Iowa fair visit to hear him speak. Mr. Steyer has spent $12 million on digital and television ads in … [Read more...] about Tom Steyer Missed the Debate. He Has $100 Million To Disrupt the Race Anyway.

New polls published on Wednesday show Joseph R. Biden Jr. with a significant national lead in the Democratic presidential race as the contest heads into the intense fall campaign season, with Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders rounding out a threesome that seems to have separated from the rest of the primary field. The new data, which shows Mr. Biden earning the support of about one in three Democratic voters, stands in contrast to a poll published Monday that showed a virtual three-way tie between Mr. Biden, Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders at about 20 percent support each. On Wednesday, the director of that poll called those results an outlier. The latest round of polling suggests that Mr. Biden’s national lead — at this early stage in the campaign — has been relatively durable throughout the summer. It has been fueled in part by the former vice president’s strong name recognition, calculations about general election viability and good will from rank-and-file Democratic … [Read more...] about Polling Picture Comes Into Focus: Biden Leads a 3-Way Race at the Top

Jacob Rees-Mogg has fired off a warning to mutinous Tories that an election could be needed if Boris Johnson was ousted from Government. The Commons Leader claimed a new Tory leader would need to go to the polls to get a fresh mandate from the public as Mr Johnson's future hangs in the balance. There is no rule forcing a new Prime Minister to send voters to the ballot box if they have taken over between elections. Gordon Brown succeeded Tony Blair as PM in 2007 but didn't go to the polls until 2010, while Mr Johnson himself took over from Theresa May in July 2019 but he didn't hold election until December that year. But Mr Rees-Mogg's comments will be perceived as a warning shot to angry Conservative MPs who are waiting for Sue Gray to publish her 'partygate' report before they move against the PM. Allies of the PM have made increasingly bizarre attempts to support him, with one saying he had been "ambushed by cake" at a surprise birthday celebration - and another … [Read more...] about Jacob Rees-Mogg warns Tory rebels election needed if Boris Johnson toppled

Rob Reiner has repeatedly called President Donald Trump a “white supremacist.” Now the left-wing Hollywood director is claiming that the president needs votes from white supremacists to win reelection in November. “In 56 days we’ll find out if there are enough White Supremacists in this country to elect a White Supremacist,” Reiner tweeted on Tuesday. “I think not.” In 56 days we’ll find out if there are enough White Supremacists in this country to elect a White Supremacist. I think not. — Rob Reiner (@robreiner) September 8, 2020 The Princess Bride director is one of Hollywood’s most outspoken anti-Trump voices, using his Twitter account to lash out at the president and his supporters, and to rally support for Joe Biden. On Labor Day, Reiner referred to himself as “us Union Workers” in an attempt to mobilize the organized labor vote for Joe Biden. “On this Labor Day the most important job for all us Union Workers is to mobilize and elect a true working man’s … [Read more...] about Rob Reiner: Election Will Decide ‘If There Are Enough White Supremacists in This Country to Elect a White Supremacist’