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More U.S. voters see China as an “enemy” than as a friend or ally amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll. The data shows that the percentage of U.S. voters who see China as hostile has risen 11 percentage points since January to 31 percent, while the number of respondents who …

Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) promised that the “vast majority” of his primary supporters “will be voting for Joe Biden” in the general election, contradicting a former top aide, who warned last week that Biden was facing an uphill battle to win over Sanders supporters. Asked by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos about the situation on Sunday, …

Joe Biden on Thursday again addressed allegations of sexual assault from former staffer Tara Reade, saying that voters should not choose him in the November elections if they believe Reade’s claims. Voters “should vote their heart and if they believe Tara Reade, they probably shouldn’t vote for me,” Biden said on MSNBC’s The Last Word. “I …

We’ve seen what happens when you hold an election during a pandemic without taking the necessary precautions. In Wisconsin, voters were sent to the polls in the height of the COVID-19 outbreak. Health officials there say they can trace dozens of cases to the elections.  Here in Florida in our March primary, we had poll …

Republican candidate Mike Garcia is leading Democratic challenger Christy Smith in the special election for California’s 25th congressional district, which was held by former representative Katie Hill until her resignation over an inappropriate relationship with a staffer. With 314 of 411 precincts reporting by Wednesday morning, Garcia held 56 percent of the vote to Smith’s …

Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden pledged to probe the Trump administration’s coronavirus loan programs if he’s elected this year. The former vice president said he would tap an inspector general on his first day in office to review “every stimulus loan given to any big company or political insider.” He was apparently referring to efforts …

Which politician insisted SNL should pay for their kid’s braces? Which SNL impression sent a political figure into therapy? In public, most politicians pretend their Saturday Night Live impressions, which can be downright brutal, don’t bother them. Several presidents have even publicly appeared with their SNL doppelgängers, including George H.W. Bush and Gerald Ford. But in private, …

As Covid Brings New Repression, Democracies Must Push Back. That authoritarian regimes around the world are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to tighten their grip on power is not surprising. Unfortunately, a number of democratic and semi-democratic governments are doing the same thing. Left unchecked, the combined actions could result in terrible damage to democracy and …

If you look back at presidential electoral maps from the past century, it paints a visual picture of how massive political shifts can occur in relatively short periods of time, even if things often feel set in stone in the present moment. California was a red state until 1992, for example, while Texas went blue …

Former president Barack Obama accused Senators Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) of giving “credence to a Russian disinformation campaign” by probing a possible conflict of interest between Hunter Biden’s business dealings and Joe Biden’s diplomatic work. In a March letter to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) — which maintains …