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Some people are saving the Sunday, November 8, 2020 New York Times with the banner "Biden Beats Trump" headline. The one I am thinking of framing and putting up on the wall, though, is the front page of the Thursday, February 27, 2020 Times. That is the one
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Vice presidential candidates, like doctors in the Hippocratic Oath, are supposed to "do no harm." Joe Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris, risks violating that traditional rule with an animated video narrated in her voice that she posted Sunday on social media. "There's a
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The Democrats are trying to make it socially unacceptable to vote to re-elect Trump. It seems to be working so far, at least up to a point. The Republican governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, says he wrote in Ronald Reagan. The Republican governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, says he "
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Former vice president Joe Biden and President Donald Trump ought to answer serious foreign policy questions during the final weeks of the campaign. If they don't, voters might contemplate them on the way to the polling station.
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Thanks are owed to Vice President Mike Pence for, at the outset of his debate with Senator Kamala Harris, making reference to "plagiarism, which is something Joe Biden knows a little bit about." The lead front-page New York Times news article about the debate dismissed it as "
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Of all the possible criticisms for Joe Biden to lob at President Donald Trump in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, the Democrat and his campaign have settled on the complaint that the admissions policies at Trump's country clubs are too restrictive. "He's the
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The New York Times has just published a big investigation of President Donald Trump. It says the president used big tax losses in some years to avoid paying taxes in other years, that he invested some of his profits into money-losing businesses, that Trump paid his daughter as "a
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Joe Biden says he views "this campaign as a campaign between Scranton and Park Avenue." It's comical on a variety of levels, the most stunning of which is that, while bashing Park Avenue on the campaign trail, Biden's been busy raising money from people