Tag: Daily Presidential News Briefing

  • Biden to be inaugurated as 46th president

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    Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Jan. 20. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) will also be sworn in as the 49th vice president of the United States, becoming the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to serve in the office.…

  • Daily Presidential News Briefing: October 14, 2020

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    October 14th, 2020: Welcome to today’s Daily Presidential News Briefing. In today’s edition, we check up on Facebook spending by the presidential candidates, discuss ad spending as we move into the last few weeks before the election, and provide you a selection of what we’re reading. Notable Quote of the Day“It was late summer 2019…

  • CNN hosts Scranton town hall with Biden

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    September 17, 2020: CNN is hosting a town hall with Joe Biden on Thursday night. Donald Trump is holding a campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, on Thursday night. Notable Quote of the Day “But with Florida’s registered Democrats for the first time requesting hundreds of thousands more mail-in ballots than Republicans, overseas ballots going out on Sept.…

  • CatholicVote launches $9.7 million anti-Biden campaign

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    September 16, 2020: National political advocacy group CatholicVote launched a $9.7 million ad campaign against Joe Biden. The Jo Jorgensen campaign announced that it had met ballot access requirements in all 50 states. Notable Quote of the Day “Campaigns have also been forced to reconsider their conception of Pennsylvania’s political geography. The conventional wisdom was that western…

  • Trump launches eight-figure ad campaign in battleground states

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    September 15, 2020: Donald Trump is launching an eight-figure ad campaign focused on the economy. Joe Biden is campaigning in Tampa and Kissimmee. Poll Spotlight Notable Quote of the Day “A flip is also more plausible if you consider history. Texas is in the long process of realigning — again. It did so from the 1960s through…

  • Weekly Presidential News Briefing: September 4th, 2020

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    September 4, 2020: Every weekday, Ballotpedia tracks the news, events, and results of the 2020 presidential election. Here’s the latest from the campaign trail. Share the latest from the campaign trail.         Candidates by the Number Notable Quotes of the Day “We now have a name for our worst-case election scenario. It’s called a…

  • Weekly Presidential News Briefing: August 28th, 2020

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    Every weekday, Ballotpedia tracks the news, events, and results of the 2020 presidential election. Here’s the latest from the campaign trail. Candidates by the Numbers Notable Quotes of the Day “Biden is not the first politician, upon entering the general election phase of the campaign, to pivot towards the center and try to build a…

  • Weekly Presidential News Briefing: August 17th – 21st, 2020

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    Every weekday, Ballotpedia tracks the news, events, and results of the 2020 presidential election. Here’s the latest from the campaign trail. Share the latest from the campaign trail. Candidates by the Numbers Notable Quotes of the Day “This was not the Michelle Obama of hope and change that defined her husband’s rise. Michelle was always the…

  • Weekly Presidential News Briefing: August 7th, 2020

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    Every weekday, Ballotpedia tracks the news, events, and results of the 2020 presidential election. Candidates by the Numbers Notable Quotes of the Day“How the new VP candidate is rolled out is also an important test. Even if you believe my theory that the VP pick only matters for a few days, those few days are…

  • Republican National Convention events in Jacksonville canceled

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    July 24, 2020: Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the Jacksonville portion of the Republican National Convention was canceled. Spending in the 2020 presidential election cycle has passed the $1 billion mark.   Notable Quote of the Day “Anxious Democrats are already fretting about nightmare scenarios in which Trump uses emergency powers to cancel the election, calls…