4/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOBS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, we learned that another 4.4 million people filed new unemployment claims last week, bringing the total number of Americans filing new unemployment claims to 26 million since this crisis started, with many more feeling the direct economic impact of this pandemic. These aren’t just overwhelming numbers or aggregate statistics — […]

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4/22/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Workers, like grocery store cashiers, are on the front lines of this crisis risking their lives every day to combat COVID-19 and keep this country running. President Trump is refusing to do his job, but we’ve got to do ours.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 22, 2020 8:45 pm […]

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4/22/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “This year, Earth Day comes amid global crises: the difficult, immediate, and undeniable reality of pandemic disease, and the existential threat of climate change — which we are already experiencing and which threatens equally deadly results in the near future if we fail to act. COVID-19 and the climate emergency both underscore the […]

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4/21/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “I know COVID-19 is causing many people to feel anxious about what the future holds or lonely during this time of social distancing — and that’s okay, just know that you’re not alone.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 21, 2020 4:15 pm […]

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4/21/2020

CONGRESS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “As Congress reaches a new deal on economic relief measures, including more funds for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for small businesses, I am grateful to Democratic leaders for securing more funds for hospitals and testing, and more resources for smaller lenders and community-based financial institutions, as well as the depleted Emergency Injury […]

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4/21/2020

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN//VOTING/VOTE BY MAIL: “The right to vote is the most fundamental American right there is. We need to immediately expand vote-by-mail, online voter registration, and early voting to ensure everyone can safely exercise their right to participate in our electoral process.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, April 21, 2020 7:06 pm […]

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4/18/2020

CHINA/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China wants Sleepy Joe sooo badly. They want all of those billions of dollars that they have been paying to the U.S. back, and much more. Joe is an easy mark, their DREAM CANDIDATE! https://t.co/vmvCr4SkQq“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2020 2:13 pm […]

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4/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The uncomfortable truth is that Donald Trump left America exposed and vulnerable to this pandemic. He ignored the warnings of health experts and intelligence agencies and put his trust in China’s leaders instead. Now, we’re all paying the price.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 17, 2020 2:02 pm […]

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4/17/2020

JOE BIDEN/OBAMA/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Biden/Obama were a disaster in handling the H1N1 Swine Flu. Polling at the time showed disastrous approval numbers. 17,000 people died unnecessarily and through incompetence! Also, don’t forget their 5 Billion Dollar Obamacare website that should have cost close to nothing!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2020 11:25 am […]

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4/16/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/MINIMUM WAGE: “I think we have an opportunity now to significantly change the mindset of the American people, things they weren’t ready to do, you know, even two, three years ago. They’re now going ‘Oh, my Lord! Look at all those people out there making minimum wage or saving their lives, look at all […]

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4/13/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/USPS: “Our U.S. Postal Service workers are at the front lines of this crisis. Millions of people are relying on them for things like medicine and other essentials. And the President is trying to let them fail. Congress should do everything it can to prevent this.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 13, 2020 12:46 […]

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4/12/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Safe and effective treatment can help manage the risk of the coronavirus. But of course, the only complete solution is finding a vaccine to extinguish the threat it poses. Scientists are making great strides on this, but discovering and testing a vaccine is only the first step: Manufacturing sufficient doses and […]

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4/12/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “First, we have to get the number of new cases of the disease down significantly. That means social distancing has to continue and the people on the front lines have to get the supplies and equipment they need. President Trump needs to use his full powers under the Defense Production Act […]

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4/12/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What is the plan to safely reopen America? So far, the Trump administration hasn’t supplied an answer. The plan has to start with responding effectively to the immediate medical crisis and ultimately lead to the widespread availability and administration of a vaccine. But we can’t stay home and just wait for the […]

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4/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Since the outbreak of COVID-19, we’ve heard increasing reports of Asian Americans in communities across our country being targeted with messages of hate… These disgusting and racist acts must stop… Trump’s attempts to deflect responsibility away from his own failures in addressing this pandemic by calling the coronavirus the ‘Chinese Virus’ […]

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4/8/2020

CONGRESS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOBS/JOE BIDEN: “We have to work with Congress to extend and boost unemployment benefits. That is the extra $600 however long this [coronavirus] crisis lasts, not just for the month, for however long this crisis last, so your unemployment check will be there every month for the entire month for as long as this crisis […]

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4/8/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “My heart goes out to everyone out there suffering from COVID-19. We all know the greatest tragedy in all of this is how many lives are being lost, how many are infected and suffering alone… This disease is not only tearing through the nation, it’s devastating families… It’s wrecking the economy and we’re […]

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4/7/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The president should be laser focused on keeping as many people employed as possible and making workers financially whole so that we weather this crisis, come back stronger as a nation like we always have in the past. Because once we break the infection curve and stem this public health crisis, […]

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4/7/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump likes to say he’s a wartime president. Well, he needs a step up and act like it. I’ve offered him a 10 point plan. I call it the Make Work Checklist. It’s what the Trump administration needs to do to make sure that that $2 trillion in the Cares Act […]

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4/5/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “[W]e’ve never allowed any crisis from a Civil War straight through to a pandemic in ‘17, all the way around, in ’16, we have never, never let our democracy take second fiddle, we can both have a democracy and elections and at the same time protect the public health. But […]

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4/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/OBAMACARE (ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During this outbreak, when health care coverage is more important than ever, Donald Trump is refusing to give those who have been uninsured access to the best resource we have: the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces… This is no time to put pettiness and ideology above helping those who are in the […]

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4/1/2020

CENSUS/JOE BIDEN: “Folks, it’s Census Day! The Census only takes a few minutes to complete but will help determine the future of your community for the next decade. Head to https://2020census.gov/ to get counted today.” -Joe Biden, Facebook.com, Apr. 1, 2020 5:08 pm […]

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3/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The President cannot resort to fear-mongering and also baseless downplaying or lying about the situation. The President needs to be honest, needs to follow. The science needs to be transparent with the American people. And we need information for people not to scare them, but to get people to pull together […]

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3/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[L]ook, the Coronavirus is not the president’s fault. But the slow response, the failure to get going right away, the inability to do the things that needed to be done quickly, they are things that are — they can’t continue. We’re going to go through another phase of this. And we […]

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3/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “The first thing we should do is listen to the scientists. Secondly, we should tell them the truth, the unvarnished truth. The American people have never shied away from being able to deal with the truth. The worst thing you can do is raise false expectations and then watch them get dashed. Then […]

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3/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am issuing this challenge to the President: in the next 48 hours, direct the production and distribution of respirator masks, gloves, protective face shields and gowns to fill every supply request made by a governor to the federal government. Lives are at stake.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 29, 2020 10:43 […]

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3/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The coronavirus is not Donald Trump’s fault, but his inept response is. He ignored the warnings for months, downplayed the threat it posed, and failed to take the action needed to combat the outbreak. It’s one of the greatest failures of presidential leadership in our history.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 27, 2020 […]

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3/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[The Obama] administration spent a lot of time working with the incoming Trump administration, laying out exactly what could happen with a future pandemic, and that they were likely, not unlikely to occur… We set up an office within the White House directly to stay focused on this, in the president […]

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3/25/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In recent days, there’s been talk that we have to choose between public health and our economy. That’s not just a false choice. It’s a dangerous one. It would be catastrophic to reopen everything without a plan, and then have a spike in [coronavirus] cases and shut it all back down. That […]

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3/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “We know, you’re tired of hearing the phrase, you’ve got to flatten that curve, where it’s going up like this, people get it, and then it comes down. We’ve got to flatten that curve. And we’ve got to make sure that once, in fact, we have this under control, it doesn’t come back. So […]

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3/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Let me be very clear: No one is expendable. No matter your age, race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability. No life is worth losing to add one more point to the Dow.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 24, 2020 8:10 pm […]

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3/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I don’t want to slow the economy. I would like everybody to be back to work. But let’s be reasonable here. Let’s look at what happened in other countries. Look what happened when we have social distancing… Now, there are places in the country where I could see it makes sense […]

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3/23/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….us since the beginning of this crisis.’ They meant the opposite? Forgot to mention that I closed our Country to China (and Europe) very early, long before it was considered acceptable to do so. Sleepy Joe said I was ‘xenophobic’, but I saved thousands of lives! Fake News!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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3/23/2020

JOE BIDEN/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This is the way the @nytimes finished a story on me. ‘You can see the contrast between the steady, assured, informed and strong leadership that VP Biden (Sleepy Joe) has shown, and the bungling, chaotic and dishonest start-stop approach that Mr. (not Pres.) Trump has shown….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 23, […]

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3/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our intelligence officials were warning of coronavirus threat in January. Just based on public information that I had, I warned the threat was getting worse way back on January the 27th… As of late yesterday, we’re told that the president still has not activated the authority under the Defense Production Act, […]

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3/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN/OBAMACARE (ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At a time of national emergency, which is laying bare the existing vulnerabilities in our health infrastructure, it is unconscionable that you are continuing to pursue a lawsuit designed to strip millions of Americans of their health insurance and protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the ban […]

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3/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/OBAMA/OBAMACARE (ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Finally, it’s worth noting that today is the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act. I’m proud of the role I played alongside President Obama, backing him up to bring Obamacare into the law, make it the law. It’s now law. And I’m proud of the record is […]

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3/31/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/OBAMACARE (ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re in the middle of a global pandemic, and the Trump Administration is preventing people from getting health care. I can’t believe this needs to be said, but President Trump needs to reopen Obamacare enrollment, and he needs to do it now. Lives are at stake.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 31, […]

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3/20/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “He’s [Trump] all over the map. In a crisis we need leadership that’s straightforward, clear and reliable… Stop saying false things that will make you sound like a hero.” -Joe Biden as quoted by Eric Bradner and Sarah Mucha, “Biden to Trump on Coronavirus: ‘Stop Saying False Things That Will […]

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3/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The coronavirus doesn’t care if you’re a Democrat or Republican. It will not discriminate based on national origin, race, gender, or your zip code. It will touch people in positions of power, as well as the most vulnerable people in our society.”  -Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe Biden Speech […]

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3/16/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN: “Thank you to our health care providers, first responders, grocery and other retail workers, and so many others that are keeping us safe and prepared. This coronavirus pandemic makes it clear that all workers deserve paid sick live, workplace protections and unemployment benefits.”  -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 16, 2020 2:25 pm […]

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3/15/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN/OIL: “Number one, no more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, no more drilling on federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore, no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends, number one.” -Joe Biden as quoted by CNN, “CNN Democration Presidential Primary Debate. Aired 8-10p ET,” cnn.com, Mar. 15, […]

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3/15/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “I would immediately rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, which I helped put together. I would call the 100 nations — over 100 nations, but the 100 major polluters to the United States in the first 100 days to up the ante and make it clear that, in fact, we would — in […]

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3/15/2020

IMMIGRATION/JOE BIDEN: “Look, we are a nation of immigrants. Our future rests upon the Latino community being fully integrated. Twenty-four out of every 100 children in school today from kindergarten through high school is a Latino. Right now, today. The idea that any American thinks it doesn’t pay for us to significantly invest in their […]

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3/15/2020

HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN/OBAMACARE (ACA): “We want a revolution, let’s act now. Pass the Biden health care plan, which takes Obamacare, restores all the cuts made to it, subsidizes it further, provides for lower drug prices, makes sure that there’s no hidden bills, makes sure that we invest — what I want to invest, $50 billion in […]

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3/12/2020

JOE BIDEN/OBAMA ADMIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’The Obama White House had to immediately issue an apology for Joe Biden’s remarks, and any alarm that he might have caused, an alarm about a Swine Flu outbreak that took 6 months for President Obama to declare a National Emergency, and that killed 12,000 Americans.’ @LouDobbs” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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3/12/2020

BORDER/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sleepy Joe Biden was in charge of the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic which killed thousands of people. The response was one of the worst on record. Our response is one of the best, with fast action of border closings & a 78% Approval Rating, the highest on record. His was lowest!” […]

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3/12/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Look, it can be hard to see the concrete value of this work when everything seems to be going well in the world. But by cutting our investment in global health, this administration has left us woefully unprepared for the exact crisis we now face.” -Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe […]

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3/12/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our [Obama] administration, our last administration, we created that office to better respond to future global threats after the Ebola crisis of 2014. It was designed for exactly this scenario, but for some reason I still don’t understand President Trump eliminated that office two years ago. Look, here’s the bottom line. […]

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3/12/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I’d like to thank those who are already making sacrifices to protect us, whether that’s self quarantine, self quarantining themselves or canceling events and closing campuses. Because whether or not you’re infected or know someone who is infected or have been in contact with an infected person, this is going to […]

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3/11/2020

HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN: “Once we get Donald Trump out of the White House, we have an enormous opportunity to build the future this nation deserves. A future where every American has access to affordable health care, where we end our gun violence epidemic, and where we tackle the climate crisis head-on.”  -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 11, […]

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3/10/2020

DEMS/ELECTION/ELIZABETH WARREN/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Pocahontas, working in conjunction with the Democrat Party, totally destroyed the campaign of Bernie Sanders. If she would have quit 3 days earlier, Sanders would have beaten Biden in a route, it wouldn’t even have been close. They also got two other losers to support Sleepy Joe!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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3/10/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “My fellow Americans, we have to once again lead the world. Donald Trump’s America First policies made America alone. And the fight against climate change, we have to rally the rest of the world to act and act now. Rejoin the Paris Climate Accord on day one. Make it clear to our […]

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3/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I mean, there’s no sense of urgency. The American people, I think, want to know that their president is on top of this, understands it and that he’s being guided by science… And the American people are just saying wait a minute, what’s going on here? What’s happening?… And the other […]

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3/6/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/JOBS/JOE BIDEN: “America has always met every big challenge with an even bigger solution — this moment should be no different. We need an infrastructure program that will combat climate change and create good-paying jobs at the same time.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 6, 2020 4:35 pm […]

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3/6/2020

ENTITLEMENTS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I will protect your Social Security and Medicare, just as I have for the past 3 years. Sleepy Joe Biden will destroy both in very short order, and he won’t even know he’s doing it!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 6, 2020 10:08 am […]

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3/4/2020

DEMS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mini Mike Bloomberg will now FIRE Tim O’Brien, and all of the fools and truly dumb people who got him into this MESS. This has been the worst, and most embarrassing, experience of his life…and now on to Sleepy Joe!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 4, 2020 10:57 am […]

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3/4/2020

DEMS/ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mini Mike Bloomberg just ‘quit’ the race for President. I could have told him long ago that he didn’t have what it takes, and he would have saved himself a billion dollars, the real cost. Now he will pour money into Sleepy Joe’s campaign, hoping to save face. It won’t work!” […]

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3/4/2020

DEMS/ELIZABETH WARREN/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrat establishment came together and crushed Bernie Sanders, AGAIN! Even the fact that Elizabeth Warren stayed in the race was devastating to Bernie and allowed Sleepy Joe to unthinkably win Massachusetts. It was a perfect storm, with many good states remaining for Joe!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 4, 2020 […]

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3/2/2020

ECONOMY/JOBS/JOE BIDEN: “Look, we need an economy that rewards work, not just wealth like it is today. My dad used to have an expression: ‘Joe, a job’s about a lot more than a paycheck. A job’s about your dignity, respect, your place in the community.’” -Joe Biden, “Joe Biden Houston Rally Speech Transcript Before Super […]

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3/2/2020

IMMIGRATION/JOE BIDEN/REFUGEES: “We’re a nation where we have to stand up to beat the NRA, reform our criminal justice system like you’ve been working on a long time, mobilize the world against climate change. A nation where we live by the values that embraces immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, does not slam the door on those […]

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3/1/2020

AFGHANISTAN/FOREIGN POLICY/JOE BIDEN/TALIBAN: “I was against surging troops to Afghanistan in the first place. We’re not nation builders. We can’t build that nation. We should not be in the business of that. But we should have a small footprint to be able to determine whether or not there are terrorist organizations operating in the region […]

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3/1/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: [Jake Tapper: “What, if anything, do you think you would be doing differently if you were president right now? “] “I know what I would have done differently, what we did in the Ebola crisis. They used — I heard the vice president say they set up an office in the White House. […]

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