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☆ A myth about Irish immigrants who came to the US during the potato famine gets debunked in a new book
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +22 min

In part, that was because it was just impossible to trace Irish famine immigrants and find out what had happened to them. This is just inconceivable to anyone who had ever thought about the famine Irish given the obstacles that faced them. Biden is one of four US presidents who descended from Irish famine immigrants. The famine immigrants really were the ones who cemented the idea of the American Dream as we understand it today. At the time, the neighborhood was home to the more Irish immigrants than any other part of the city.

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☆ How Biden hopes to recapture voters scarred by inflation
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Ron Brownstein | Analysis Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

A majority of Hispanics, and even a plurality of Black voters, said Biden’s policies would cause inflation to rise, the survey found. You can’t not make the contrast and comparison.”These negative retrospective assessments of the Biden and Trump economic records create huge headwinds for the president. “Voters—even past Biden voters who disapprove of his economic record—clearly reject what Trump and Republicans are offering,” Democratic pollster Margie Omero said in an email. After voters were exposed to Biden’s populist arguments, assessments of his economic record improved in the group’s polling, Clark said. But even after hearing that case, most voters in the group’s surveys still gave Biden negative marks for his economic performance, the study found.

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☆ Opinion | Please, President Biden: Don’t Blame Corporate Greed for Inflation
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I hope President Biden doesn’t show up for his State of the Union address on Thursday with a Snickers bar. Biden is obsessed with high prices because voters are, and he knows that to beat Donald Trump in November he needs to make a strong case that he’s wrestling inflation to the ground. But there are good ways and bad ways to fight inflation. One of the bad ways, I think, is to put the blame on price gouging and corporate greed, as Biden has done on numerous occasions. Gouging refers to abrupt, extreme price increases to take advantage of temporary scarcity, often accompanied by hoarding.

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Among registered voters nationwide, 26 percent believe the economy is good or excellent, according to polling in late February by The New York Times and Siena College. The movement occurred disproportionately among older Democrats, a constituency already likely to vote for Mr. Biden. And the share of voters saying they approve of the job Mr. Biden is doing in office has actually fallen, to 36 percent in the latest poll, from 39 percent in July. Inflation has pervaded economic sentiment since mid-2022, confronting voters daily with the price of everything from eggs to car insurance. Nearly two-thirds of registered voters in the Times/Siena poll rated the price of food and consumer goods as poor.

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☆ Michigan Tests the Strength of Biden’s Campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Both President Biden and Donald Trump are all but assured to win their respective Michigan primaries today by large margins. But a prominent Democratic protest movement there will offer an important measure of the intraparty division facing Biden’s re-election campaign. A high number of “uncommitted” votes would send a warning to Biden’s campaign. A low number would give Biden renewed faith that he can weather the tensions and focus on campaign priorities like the economy and abortion rights. The Arab American-led group that began the push, Listen to Michigan, has set a modest goal: 10,000 votes.

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☆ Biden calls on snack companies to stop shrinkflation ahead of Super Bowl
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Joe Biden doesn’t want corporate greed to eat into your Super Bowl snack spread. “The American public is tired of being played for suckers,” said Biden in the video. He called on companies “to put a stop to this,” but did not mention any actionable steps his administration would be taking. Biden also didn’t address the companies by name, although the video panned over snacks like Doritos, Wheat Thins and Gatorade, which were mentioned in Casey’s report. Another 13% who feel the economy is still in decline cite Biden or Democratic policies.

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☆ Trump is already flexing strongman power in the GOP
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

The ex-president is trying to intimidate Nikki Haley into abandoning the GOP presidential race. Trump’s brisk assertion of his growing power as the likely nominee is a characteristic dismantling of constraints that echoes his behavior in office. But she provoked him by refusing to quickly fold her campaign and endorse him like other GOP candidates, including Florida Gov. But the disdain toward Haley from Trump world is remarkable. It would have essentially joined the party’s forces with Trump while an election involving a rival was still taking place.

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☆ What Democrats Can Learn From Joe Biden and Poll Numbers - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The median voter rule still applies. The median voter rule says parties win when they stay close to the center of the electorate. The Democrats’ strong showing in elections across the country this week proves how powerful the median voter rule is, especially when it comes to the abortion issue. This year, Democrats and their supporters effectively played to median voters, with, for example, an ad in Ohio in which a father who grew up in the church castigated the G.O.P. And if you’re truly living out your faith, you’re not playing into these anger and hatred games.”

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They also dug into and sorted through a blizzard of political news — particularly the new New York Times/Siena battleground-state polling with dreadful news for President Biden that has Democrats freaked out (again). I mean: Donald Trump ahead of President Biden in five of six crucial battleground states? Should Biden at this late stage consider not pursuing re-election? Nate Silver: Thanks for having me, Frank! And the answer might just be that he’s 80 years old, and that colors every impression voters have of him.

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North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former biotech executive Vivek Ramaswamy, U.S. It was a clear reflection of how illegal immigration and border security are among the top concerns for Republican primary voters. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he would send the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border “on Day One." That didn’t stop Christie from trying a little humor himself in blasting Trump for skipping the debate. There were some hoots but more moans from the audience, likely because much of the crowd, like the Republican Party, was comprised of voters who like Trump.

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is leading Democrats by over 20 points on “dealing with the economy.” So how is Joe Biden even still in this race? Second, the strongest argument for these other candidates was that Trump couldn’t beat Biden. But that’s becoming a harder and harder case to make — more because of Biden than Trump. And if Trump isn’t the nominee, he’ll quite possibly be acting to undermine whoever is the G.O.P. So it’s possible that Republicans are actually more likely to win the election if they nominate him than if they don’t.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden sued Rudy Giuliani and another attorney Tuesday, saying the two wrongly accessed and shared his personal data after obtaining it from the owner of a Delaware computer repair shop. The suit filed in California also claims Biden’s data was “manipulated, altered and damaged” before it was sent to Giuliani and Costello, and has been further altered since then. House Republicans, meanwhile, have continued to investigate every aspect of Hunter Biden's business dealings and sought to tie them to his father, the president, as part of an impeachment inquiry. Hunter Biden, meanwhile, after remaining silent as the images are splayed across the country, has changed his tactic, and his allies have signaled there's more to come. Giuliani provided the information to a reporter at the New York Post, which first wrote about the laptop, Biden's attorney said in a letter pushing for a federal investigation.

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☆ Here’s why Biden can’t do much to prevent an auto strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

New York CNN —President Joe Biden may hope the United Auto Workers union will not strike the nation’s three unionized automakers. Biden doesn’t have the legal authority he would have if a freight railroad or airline was threatening to strike. Joe Biden speaks at the United Auto Workers union hall in Warren, Michigan, during the 2020 presidential campaign. And UAW President Shawn Fain vows the union is ready to strike all three if there aren’t agreements by the 11:59 pm ET contract expiration on September 14. President Joe Biden after touring the General Motors' electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit in November 2021.

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☆ What the 14th Amendment Really Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot discusses the prosecutor's report with Kim Strassel and Holman Jenkins Jr. Images: Reuters/AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyThe debt talks are stalled and President Biden is again threatening to invoke the Constitution’s 14th Amendment to pay interest on America’s debt without Congress raising the debt ceiling. The truth is that the Treasury has more than ample revenue coming in each month to avoid defaulting on the debt, and Mr. Biden doesn’t need to distort the meaning of the 14th Amendment to do it.

☆ Opinion | Why Debt Chicken Is Such a Dangerous Game
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

He is refusing to negotiate with McCarthy on spending cuts. He’s demanding a “clean” — that is, unconditional — increase of the debt ceiling. Let’s say a default badly damaged the economy. Because the party in the White House tends to do badly when the economy does badly, regardless of the reasons. McCarthy wouldn’t need to say a word about this on Tuesday: Both men know how politics work.

☆ Kevin McCarthy Says He Will Invite Israel’s Netanyahu if Biden Won’t
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Aaron Boxerman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy addresses the Israeli legislature in Jerusalem. Photo: abir sultan/ShutterstockJERUSALEM—House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Monday that he would invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Congress if President Biden doesn’t invite him to the White House, amid tensions between the Israeli leader’s right-wing government and the Democratic administration. Mr. McCarthy (R., Calif.) told reporters that he expects Mr. Biden to invite the Israeli premier “especially because of Israel’s 75th anniversary,” which the country celebrated last week. Mr. McCarthy added that he had already invited Israeli President Isaac Herzog to address Congress this summer.

☆ Biden vs. Trump? Why 2024 could be the most boring presidential primary season ever
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Harry Enten | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

At this point, Biden doesn’t look likely to break that streak. First, primary endorsements are as good a predictor at this point of primary success as polling is. Second, it’s true that Democratic primary voters tell pollsters they are open to listening to a credible challenger to Biden. So it’s not like Democratic voters will be kicking and screaming if they have to support Biden for another term. Trump, like Biden, seems to have two things going for him: a large share of Republican voters and the party behind him.

“Bolsonaro ran on a very Trump-like ticket,” Todd Landman, professor of political science at the University of Nottingham in England, told NBC News. He also raised doubts about the integrity of the electoral process well in advance.”After his defeat to Lula in October, Bolsonaro didn’t explicitly concede. NBC News reached out to the White House for comment on congressional Democrats’ demands for Biden to remove Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro’s visa status was not immediately clear. Unlike the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, very few officials were in the buildings at the time of Sunday’s attacks, and Bolsonaro’s supporters faced little opposition.

WASHINGTON — One week from Election Day, the race for Senate control remains neck and neck in an unusually volatile political environment, with small margins carrying high stakes for the future of President Joe Biden's legislative agenda and judicial nominees. Kyle Kondik, an election analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said the battle for the Senate looks like a coin-flip. “Polling for the Senate is still real close in a lot of these states.”The Senate is split 50-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaking vote giving Democrats control. The FiveThirtyEight Senate projection is dead even, giving both Republicans and Democrats 50% chances of winning control. A perception that GOP control would threaten democracy is also motivating liberal-leaning voters.

☆ The decider: Jill Biden’s unparalleled influence and impact on the president
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Peter Nicholas | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Carol-Lee-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +17 min

WASHINGTON — Whenever his aides are pressed about President Joe Biden’s political future, they’ll often point to one person as the true decider: his wife of 45 years, Jill Biden. Eager to introduce herself to Gina McCarthy, then the president’s chief climate adviser, she gathered some flowers from a White House garden and brought them to her office, according to White House aides. When the realization of her new security restrictions sunk in, Jill Biden told her staff she didn’t want to become isolated. Journeys outside the protective cocoon of the White House expose her to the vitriol coursing through the nation’s politics. “I don’t pay attention because I just don’t want to hear it,” Jill Biden said.

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