Joe Biden told reporters Thursday he would reveal his stance on expanding the size of the Supreme Court the day after the election.
"You’ll know my opinion on court packing when the election is over," Biden said during a joint appearance with his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) in Arizona. He said his position would become a "distraction" if he were to state it.
Biden has repeatedly dodged on the question of whether he supports expanding the size of the Supreme Court. During the first presidential debate, Biden refused to take a position on court packing.
"Whatever position I take on that, that will become the issue," he said.
Harris also refused to state a position during the debate with Vice President Mike Pence Wednesday, even after repeated questioning.
Biden had earlier in his career opposed expanding the size of the Supreme Court, calling it a "bonehead" move that would hurt the institution’s legitimacy. During this past Democratic primary, Biden said he opposed packing the Supreme Court.
"We begin to lose any credibility the Court has at all," he said in 2019.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged key allies to take “more concrete steps” to counter threats from the Chinese Communist Party, in a rare gathering of the most powerful Indo-Pacific democracies.
The Nevada Republican Party asked federal law enforcement to investigate a Culinary Union chapter for illegally tampering with mailboxes while canvassing for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
In a Monday letter sent to U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada Nicholas Trutanich, party chairman Michael McDonald highlighted a recent canvassing effort in which a member of Culinary Union Local 226 was pictured leaving campaign literature in a voter’s mailbox. Under federal law, "only U.S. Postal Service delivery personnel are allowed to place items in a mailbox" in order to "ensure the integrity of our customer’s mailbox," according to a 2010 USPS press release.
"Not only are such actions a violation of Federal law and a violation of Nevada citizens’ right to privacy, they open the door to potential fraud and ballot manipulation in a year where Nevadans will be nearly universally voting by mail," the letter states. "And if operatives are going door to door and placing campaign literature in mailboxes, nothing would stop an unscrupulous canvasser from removing live ballots from mailboxes and filling them out for their preferred candidate or removing them from households and simply throwing them away."
The canvassing effort was highlighted in a Monday Los Angeles Timesarticle that said union members Maria Magana and Atilano Salgado "took turns asking voters in English, Spanish and a combination if they would support Joe Biden for president." Magana was later pictured depositing campaign literature in a Las Vegas mailbox.
"If they’re leaning or undecided, we’ll see if they’ve made up their minds," Salgado told the Los Angeles Times. "If they support Biden, we’ll make sure they vote."
The union told the Washington Free Beacon that Magana "acted inadvertently and without authorization."
"Culinary Union member canvassers have had a clear written instruction about voter mailboxes from the beginning of the campaign efforts: ‘Don’t put anything in a voter’s mailbox,’" spokeswoman Bethany Khan said. "We have reemphasized this instruction to the entire canvass team and met with the canvasser in question, who acted inadvertently and without authorization."
Clark County—which includes the city of Las Vegas—mailed sample ballots to voters on September 25 and is scheduled to mail official ballots on Saturday, according to the Nevada secretary of state. Thirteen Nevada counties have already mailed official ballots to voters.
"Put simply, the election is underway," McDonald’s letter says. "In the year 2020, the integrity of our elections is at stake, and we cannot allow potentially rogue activists to compromise them."
Culinary Union Local 226 has long supported Democrats, spending nearly $1.5 million to boost former president Barack Obama in the 2008 cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The chapter is an affiliate of hospitality labor group UNITE HERE, which has spent more than $16.1 million backing Democrats over the last three decades. Both the Culinary Union and UNITE HERE have endorsed Biden for president.
Social media took CNN’s Chris Cuomo to task on Monday night after he embarked on a blistering rant against President Donald Trump.
In the attack, Cuomo slammed the president’s return to the White House following his COVID-19 diagnosis and stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
What are the details?
As highlighted by Fox News, a bevy of critics hit out at Cuomo on Monday night after the CNN anchor bemoaned Trump’s return to the White House and took aim at footage showing the president taking off his mask while outside on his own balcony to wave to the public.
The "Cuomo Prime Time" host went viral in April for videotaping his "official reentry" from quarantine into the rest of society following his own COVID-19 diagnosis. During his dramatic reentry, Cuomo insisted that he’d been stuck in the family’s basement for weeks during his convalescence.
However, it was shortly revealed that Cuomo was seen walking outside of his second property, and even engaged in an altercation with a cyclist while he was on the mend and purportedly confined to the family’s basement.
"Days later," Fox News pointed out, "Cuomo dug himself a hole when he tried to combat a Twitter critic by claiming he was ‘past quarantine’ on the date of a now-infamous altercation with a cyclist, which appears to have occurred days before he claimed he was first healthy enough to emerge from his basement."
Despite his own controversy, Cuomo on Monday night said, "You want a metaphor? You’ve [got] a president who is a drunk driver who is pushing others to drive drunk. That’s what he is. Do I want to see a drunk driver get hurt? Hell no. But I worry more about the people he hits."
He complained, "I love seeing him do that victory lap in that limo, thank God! You know why? I knew that meant he has to be OK. Not the people in there with him, PPE up to their … nose. Now they’ve got to quarantine. He doesn’t give a damn. And now, I do not have to feign any extra measure of compassion."
"Because he went out there, [and] whatever happens now is on him," Cuomo ranted. "The White House is a cluster. He returned to a cluster and took his mask off."
"This President is a walking lie," says @ChrisCuomo, detailing Trump returning to the White House and removing his… https://t.co/EBaYo1bSuJ
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What did people say about the diatribe?
In a lengthy article, Media Research Center news analyst Nicholas Fondacaro wrote, "This was from the same guy who was caught breaking his own quarantine while he was still contagious, and staged a fake news segment where he came out of his basement ‘officially.’ He also admitted to spreading his coronavirus to his wife."
Commentator Caleb Hull added, "Chris Cuomo was diagnosed with COVID-19, broke quarantine, didn’t wear a mask, put others in danger, got into a fight with a cyclist who called him out, then pretended nothing ever happened and threw a party when his ‘quarantine’ was over."
The Daily Caller’s official Twitter account quipped, "Flashback to April when Cuomo played a dramatic clip of him leaving his basement after supposedly being cleared of coronavirus but had already broken quarantine and got into an altercation with a biker."
Flashback to April when Cuomo played a dramatic clip of him leaving his basement after supposedly being cleared of… https://t.co/M6FYdxUrRb
Commentator Jordan Rachel added, "Remember when Chris Cuomo went out in public while knowingly infected with COVID (violating his quarantine) and threatened the random biker who called him out for it?"
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NBC News featured a pair of "undecided" voters during a network town hall earlier this week who had previously declared their support for Democratic nominee Joe Biden on the network’s sister channel, MSNBC. Lawyer Peter Gonzalez and marketing executive Ismael Llano posed questions to Biden during a town hall on Monday, when he appeared before …
This is what happened to us last night while at a 3yr old birthday party minding our own business they had the audacity to start throwing our stuff no one was bothering them it was apartment complex property apparently they thought they owned everything cops came nothing was done now my family and all have to pay for the damages they did.
House investigators join the Senate in asking the FBI to look into the Biden’s criminal history.
Paul Sperry on Tuesday just released a tweet noting that House Investigators have now joined the Senate in requesting the FBI open a criminal investigation into possible foreign influence-peddling and embezzlement involving Joe Biden, his younger brother and son Hunter due to suspicious financial activities flagged by the US Treasury.
BREAKING: House investigators have now joined the Senate in requesting the FBI open a criminal investigation into possible foreign influence-peddling & embezzlement involving Joe Biden and his younger brother and son based on suspicious financial activities flagged by US Treasury
“I look at Hunter Biden today, where he stole millions of dollars, stole millions,” Trump claimed. “His father should leave the campaign because his father was in on it.”
He added: “His father knew everything.”
The president was referring to an interim report released by Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Finance Committees on their months-long joint investigation into the younger Biden’s role on the board of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, as well as his alleged “extensive and complex financial transactions.” According to the report, an investment firm co-founded by Hunter Biden, Rosemont Seneca Thornton, “received $3.5 million in a wire transfer” from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of the Russian capital.
