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A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against the New York Board of Elections’ decision to cancel the state’s Democratic primary election and ordered the state to hold the election next month as planned. The preliminary injunction from Manhattan Federal Court Judge Analisa Torres requires New York to reinstate Democratic candidates on the ballot who were “duly …

Hillary Clinton is set to host a pricey virtual fundraiser for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden later this month, her first fundraiser appearance as an official surrogate for the Biden campaign. On May 19, the former first lady and failed 2016 Democratic nominee will hold a “virtual conversation” on the teleconferencing platform Zoom along with …

The Secretary of the Senate on Monday said that her office cannot comply with Joe Biden’s request to disclose records pertaining to a complaint allegedly filed by former staffer Tara Reade. “Based on the law’s strict confidentiality requirements…and the Senate’s own direction that disclosure of Senate records is not authorized if prohibited by law…Senate Legal …

Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez dismissed calls to search Joe Biden’s archives for Tara Reade’s sexual-assault accusation, telling ABC’s Martha Raddatz that “this is like the Hillary emails, because there was nothing there.” Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Perez defended Biden’s innocence and his handling of the accusation, saying that Biden had already been …

Dear Twitterverse: Tara Reid wants everyone to stop confusing her with Tara Reade. Ever since Reade, a former staffer to Joe Biden, publicly accused the presidential candidate of sexual assault, Reid — as in the “Sharknado” and “American Pie” star — has seen her Twitter timeline inundated with threats, nastiness and snarky comments from people …

An internal Republican poll shows Senator Kelly Loeffler down 44 points to Representative Doug Collins in the race to fill former Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson’s seat in a November special election. The poll, obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, found that 29 percent of the Georgia voters polled April 25-27 favored Collins, while Loeffler trailed with …

President Trump is entering a new phase of coronavirus management that will likely determine whether he is reelected, as he embarks on his first major post-pandemic travel, encouraging states to reopen economies shuttered by quarantines. One of the questions he faces is whether the country can return to something like normal without sacrificing the hard-fought …

China officially denied President Trump’s assertion on Wednesday that it wants Joe Biden to defeat him in November. But read between the lines, and a very different picture emerges. Take what the highly influential editor of China’s state-controlled Global Times newspaper is saying. Hu Xijin is a mouthpiece, adviser, and sounding board for the regime. …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Thursday dismissed the notion that vice president Joe Biden should “directly, publicly” respond to sexual-assault allegations made by his former Senate staffer, saying in an interview that she was “satisfied with how he has responded.” Speaking to CNN, Pelosi defended Biden after she was asked if Biden should …

A coalition of national women’s advocacy groups drafted a letter urging Joe Biden to address sexual-assault claims by former staffer Tara Reade, but decided against releasing the letter publicly after the Biden campaign learned of the efforts, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. Instead, the unspecified groups decided to work with Biden advisers to …