Joseph Biden Sr. cleaned furnaces and sold used cars. The child Joe Biden struggled with a stutter and was taunted by kids who called him "Dash" and "Joe Impedimenta." Biden later got rid of the stutter by standing in front of a mirror and reciting memorized poetry passages. ...
View Joe Biden’s voting record Recent Failed Fact Checks (Shortlist of Dozens) “We’ve appointed more African American women … to the federal bench than … every other president combined.”–False. Said he was “able to convince India, Australia, Japan, and the United States to form an...
A daughter of gospel singers and preachers, she sang songs of prayer and protest on that Bloody Sunday, to help shake the nation's conscience. Five months later, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. But 59 years later, there are forces taking us back in time. ...
“we don’t need any more photo ops. we need action, and that actually is in the form of the john lewis voting rights act, as well as the freedom to vote act—and we need that immediately.” what action is actually possible, though? democrats nominally control the senate, but the ...
And Trump did nothing. Members of his staff, members of his family. Republican leaders who were under attack at that very moment pled with him. Act. Call off the mob. Imagine had he gone out and said, “Stop.” Still, Trump did nothing. ...
told TPM. “There’s a ton of litigation, there’s a ton of legislative work, but there’s also like: how the rules get put into place. And without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act, there was a need to rethink how the civil rights community was going to approach this ...
President Biden called on Congress to pass the Freedom to Vote Act as he spoke about voting rights and election reform in his speech in Atlanta, ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. “Today, we call on Congress to get done what history will judge,” Biden said. “Pass...
Trump will win the Republican primaries in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state. Results still outstanding: Hawaii Republicans are holding caucuses which will end at 2 a.m. ET. Voting is also wrapping up tonight in the primary for Democrats Abroad, the official arm of the Democratic Party...
It may have been President Joe Biden’s final State of the Union address. Or possibly the last of his first term. As Biden and former President Donald Trump prepare for a 2024 general election rematch, a vigorous Biden went off script at times, directly addressing Republicans and making the...
“We should all remember: Democracies don’t have to die at the end of a rifle. They can die when people are silent, when they fail to stand up,” Biden said. Violence:Stopping the erosion of democratic institutions and values was central to Biden’s decision to run for president in 20...