Tag: DNC
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Trump hits Biden over guns, schools and police at campaign stop in Pennsylvania
President Donald Trump delivered a wide-ranging political indictment of Joe Biden on Thursday in a speech near his Democratic challenger’s Pennsylvania birthplace, just hours before Biden accepts his party’s nomination for president. The president delivered his remarks at a building products company in Old Forge, Pa., about a 10 miles from Scranton, where Biden was born and grew up. Trump, who originally…
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Biden touts ‘Recovery’ in speech at DNC
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will seek to unite the American public around his candidacy Thursday, using his convention address to portray the country as resilient and hopeful after three days in which party luminaries lambasted President Trump. Mr. Biden’s remarks—in which he will formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination, three decades after he first…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Nominates Bernie Sanders at DNC
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night nominated Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for the party’s presidential candidacy. The freshman congresswoman used her 90-second speaking slot on the second day of the DNC to praise the “mass people’s movement working to establish 21st-century social, economic and human rights,” and formally nominate Joe…
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Did Clinton mislead on unemployment?
It was another unconventional night for fact-checkers at the truncated Democratic National Convention, which has been forced to go virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic. Clinton’s Misleading and Meaningless Unemployment Claim Clinton, who uncharacteristically spoke for less than five minutes, made a misleading claim when he said that the U.S. is “the only major industrial economy to have…