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Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, at a town hall for his Democratic presidential campaign in Spartanburg, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard) RPMK201 RPMK201

August 29, 2019 at 9:58 am

As he campaigns for president, Joe Biden tells a moving but false war story

HANOVER, N.H. - Joe Biden painted a vivid scene for the 400 people packed into a college meeting hall. A four-star general had asked the...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) IACN158 IACN158

August 10, 2019 at 11:18 am

Democrats descend on Iowa – with renewed anxiety VIEW

DES MOINES - As Democrats descend on Iowa to kick off a six-month sprint to the first primary vote, party activists are increasingly anxious that...

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August 9, 2019 at 4:18 am

Biden tells minority voters in Iowa that ‘poor kids’ are just as bright as ‘white kids’

BOONE, Iowa - Former vice president Joe Biden on Thursday night told a group of mostly minority voters in Iowa that "poor kids" are just...

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June 25, 2019 at 5:38 am

Biden has reaped millions in income since leaving the vice presidency

WASHINGTON - The Georgian-style home - from the front a brick version of the White House - once belonged to Alexander Haig, the former secretary...

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June 19, 2019 at 6:14 pm

Biden faces backlash over comments about ‘civility’ of his past work with racist senators

Joe Biden faced a growing backlash Wednesday from prominent Democrats — and a bit of second-guessing within his own campaign — over comments in which...

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March 14, 2019 at 3:34 am

Beto O’Rourke joins 2020 Democratic presidential contest

BURLINGTON, Iowa - Beto O'Rourke spent the first day of his presidential campaign driving himself from town to town in a Dodge Caravan, ducking into...

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In an announcement aimed at shifting pressure to Democrats to end the partial government shutdown, President Donald Trump offers to extend deportation protections for immigrants in the United States illegally in exchange for $5.7 billion for a border barrier, at the White House in Washington, Jan. 19, 2019. A day later, Trump took to Twitter to attack House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for turning down his offer, even as Vice President Mike Pence appeared to open the door to negotiations over the plan. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times) XNYT9 XNYT9

January 21, 2019 at 9:50 am

Part of Trump’s base is faulting him for the shutdown

Macomb County, north of Detroit, is filled with the white working-class voters whose flip to from Obama to Trump has been the most heralded part...

FILE – In this Nov. 5, 2018, file photo, Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso, the 2018 Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, speaks during a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas. Southern politics was a one-party affair for a long time. But now it’s a mixed bag with battlegrounds emerging in states with growing metro areas where white voters are more willing to back Democrats. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) WX202 WX202

December 4, 2018 at 3:34 pm

Beto O’Rourke meets with Obama as he weighs a White House run

November's meeting was the first sign of former President Obama getting personally involved in conversations with O'Rourke, who despite his November loss in a U.S....

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December 2, 2018 at 4:46 pm

GOP is falling in line with climate skeptics

Sen.-elect Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said falsely in the lead-up to her campaign that the Earth has started to cool, and argued inaccurately that scientists...

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November 26, 2018 at 7:56 pm

Democrats work to energize African Americans in Mississippi Senate runoff

African Americans make up a larger share of the electorate in Mississippi than they do in any other state, and in recent days Mike Espy...