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The Daily Signal reports on Joe Biden’s current political role, public statements, and party influence, with updates on investigations, policy advocacy, and his standing among Democrats.
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Amazon Hires Lobbying Firm Connected to Top Biden Adviser
Amazon, the trillion-dollar tech company, has hired lobbyist Jeff Ricchetti, whose brother will be the top White House counselor to Joe Biden. Jeff Ricchetti’s firm, which he founded in 2001 with his brother Steve Ricchetti, the incoming Biden adviser, registered as a lobbyist for Amazon on Nov. 13. According to disclosure forms filed with Congress, Jeff Ricchetti… -
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Biden Should Beware of Nemesis
Former Vice President Joe Biden will be our next president. But he will face Nemesis in a way that few other presidents have ever encountered the cruel Greek god. Biden’s hubris and that of the media/Democratic Party fusion almost guarantee such divine retribution. Once the last of the other Democratic primary candidates dropped out and… -
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Media Saves Biden, Just as It Saved Obama
Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, is undergoing a tax investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware concerning Hunter Biden’s lucrative work with Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company on whose board Hunter Biden sat, despite a lack of energy experience and the ability to speak Russian or Ukrainian. The Media Research Center… -
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McConnell Calls Biden ‘President-Elect,’ Hails Harris as First Female Veep
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday congratulated “President-elect Joe Biden” in a Senate floor speech, asserting, “the Electoral College has spoken.” McConnell, R-Ky., delivered his remarks one day after the Electoral College voted 306 to 232 to declare Biden the official winner of the presidential election. However, President Donald Trump hasn’t conceded the race,… -
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Biden’s ‘Return to Normalcy’ Is Going to Be Terrible
After spending two years avoiding serious questions about his policy preferences, his team, and his prospective presidency, we now know what Joe Biden intends to do should the Electoral College, as expected, votes for him in December: He’ll reopen the swamp for business. The media spent four long years suggesting that President Donald Trump was… -
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John Kerry Would Return as Climate Czar in Biden Administration
John Kerry, a former secretary of state in the Obama administration and the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, will return to the federal government to oversee climate policy, former Vice President Joe Biden announced Monday. Biden, who several major news outlets have projected as president-elect, announced his national security team on Monday, including his would-be nominees… -
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5 ‘Terrifying’ Policies to Brace for Under Biden
Donald Trump has been a unique president for a lot of reasons, but one in particular: he keeps his promises. Anyone who’s seen former Vice President Joe Biden’s priorities has to be praying he doesn’t become president. They make Hillary Clinton, who ran on the most extreme platform of any candidate in history, look like… -
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Press’ Premature Biden Celebration Fuels American Mistrust
When residents in Washington, D.C., heard the media call the election for Joe Biden, they erupted in celebration—whooping and hollering, banging pots together on their front steps, honking car horns, and generally behaving as if Munchkin Land had been freed from the wicked witch. The media, too, gleefully danced upon President Donald Trump’s alleged political… -
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Biden, Comey, Brennan Submitted Flynn ‘Unmasking’ Requests
Former Vice President Joe Biden and the directors of the three main U.S. intelligence agencies submitted so-called unmasking requests for information about Michael Flynn contained in highly classified intelligence reports, according to documents released Wednesday. The documents show that an unmasking request was made in Biden’s name on Jan. 12, 2017. Similar requests were made under the… -
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In ‘White Man’s Culture’ Remarks, Biden Shows How Little He Knows About History
Last week, former Vice President Joe Biden spoke at the Biden Courage Awards ceremony in preparation for his presidential campaign launch. There, in an attempt to forestall claims that as a white man, he simply isn’t intersectional enough to compete in the Democratic primaries, he critiqued a central pillar of Western civilization as inherently racist…. -
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Second Suspicious Package Addressed to Joe Biden Found at Delaware Postal Facility
A second suspicious package addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden turned up Thursday morning at a Wilmington, Delaware, postal facility. The package is similar to others containing pipe bombs that were sent to high-profile figures, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a source told The Associated Press. Postal supervisor Sherina Dawson told WPVI-TV in Philadelphia that an… -
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Biden ‘Sunday Night Football’ Interview Shows Campaign Finance ‘Reform’ Would Benefit Media, Not All People
Many liberals point to the rising price tag of American political campaigns to support calls for campaign finance reform. According to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and many others, the billions of dollars donated to political campaigns by individuals and corporations amount to “legalized bribery” on the part of big corporations and the super-wealthy. But constraining… -
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VP Biden Defends Sen. Biden’s Stand on Supreme Court Vacancies
Vice President Joe Biden tried again to walk back his past objections to confirming any Supreme Court nominees five months before the 1992 presidential election. Those remarks, he argued, are irrelevant to the current Supreme Court controversy. Speaking at Georgetown Law School, Biden argued Thursday that he never advocated blocking any of President George H.W….