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ABC News reports: The Democratic National Convention, which attracted a smaller audience compared to last cycle, still delivered a favorability boost for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, particularly among the core base of the party, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday. Prior to the convention, Biden had a net negative favorability rating, with slightly more Americans having an …

ABC News reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden tackled questions about his age in an exclusive interview with “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir, saying he “absolutely” could serve two terms in the White House if elected. “His campaign has called you ‘diminished.’ And, I’m curious how you’d respond to that,” Muir said, pressing Biden on President Donald Trump’s repeated …

ABC News reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden said in an exclusive interview with ABC “World News Tonight” Anchor David Muir on Friday that as president, he would shut the country down to stop the spread of COVID-19 if the move was recommended to him by scientists. “I would shut it down; I would listen to the scientists,” Biden told …

The New York Post reports: Joe Biden supporters on Friday paraded through The Villages retirement community in Florida — the morning after Biden accepted the Democratic presidential nomination. Fox News reporter Robert Sherman reported that more than 300 golf carts took part in a parade that snaked through the 132,000-person senior citizen community northwest of Orlando. It’s a significant show …

Mediaite reports: Fox & Friends hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade teed up a montage of fawning media praise for former Vice President Joe Biden’s DNC speech, after which Earhardt conceded “It was a good speech” and described the elements she thought were effective. On Friday morning’s edition of the Fox News morning show, the general tenor was to cast …

Axios reports: Historian Jon Meacham invoked the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Democratic National Convention Thursday, saying that “bending the arc of the moral universe” toward justice “requires all of us” — and a “president of the United States with empathy, grace, a big heart and an open mind.” Meacham’s task during his address was to …

The Washington Post reports: Twenty seconds into his speech to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, Brayden Harrington started to stutter. He knew he would — it was the reason the 13-year-old was addressing millions of viewers from his bedroom. As he had explained to kick off his speech, his life had changed after meeting former vice president Joe Biden …

The South Bend Tribune reports: Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, pointing to his own experience as an openly gay Afghanistan war veteran and presidential candidate, touted Democratic nominee Joe Biden Thursday night as someone who would help more Americans feel like they “belong.” Underscoring that theme of belonging, Buttigieg addressed the virtual Democratic National Convention from LangLab, the South …

The New York Times reports: Speaking before a row of flags in his home state of Delaware, Mr. Biden urged Americans to have faith that they could “overcome this season of darkness,” and pledged that he would seek to bridge the country’s political divisions in ways Mr. Trump had not. “The current president has cloaked America in darkness for much …

The New York Times reports: On Thursday, the fourth and last night of the Democratic National Convention, Joseph R. Biden Jr. will finally take the stage — a stage, anyway, albeit hundreds of miles from the one in Milwaukee where he would have accepted the presidential nomination he has sought for more than 30 years. Also on the docket are …

The Washington Post reports: Hours before former vice president Joe Biden accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, President Trump held a rally in this key swing state where he took aim at his rival’s record and accused him of having “abandoned” Pennsylvania — even though Biden was only 10 when his family moved to Delaware for his father’s job. “He left,” …

The Hill reports: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has the support of the majority of voters who didn’t cast a ballot in 2016, according to a new poll. Fifty-two percent of non-voters in 2016 said they plan to vote for Biden in November’s election, according to preliminary data of a USC Dornsife poll released Thursday. Trump has just 32 percent …

Yahoo News reports: California Sen. Kamala Harris reintroduced herself to America at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, taking aim at President Trump as she celebrated her running mate, Joe Biden. Harris, a former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general, spoke about her time as a prosecutor and about growing up in the Bay Area as the daughter …

“For the eight years of the Obama-Biden administration, we led by example. We eliminated the threat of an Iran with a nuclear weapon. We built a 68-nation coalition to destroy ISIS. We forged 195-nation agreement to attack climate change. We stopped Ebola before it became a pandemic. “President Trump inherited a growing economy and a more peaceful world. And like …

Fox News reports: Former second lady Jill Biden did a masterful job of highlighting the personal qualities of her husband, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, in her address to conclude the second evening of the Democratic National Convention, Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume said Tuesday. “I think the speech tonight by Jill Biden was tremendously effective, in the …

Buzzfeed News reports: Democrats nominated Joe Biden for president Tuesday night from dozens of locations in a roll call vote that was shockingly entertaining, weird, and great. Traditionally, delegates shout the votes inside an arena. Instead, because of the coronavirus, they voted from afar. In practice, the roll call built from something fun to something fascinating and deep: the uniqueness …

The Associated Press reports: Cindy McCain is going to bat for Joe Biden, lending her voice to a video set to air during Tuesday night’s Democratic National Convention programming focused on Biden’s close friendship with her late husband, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona. She’s just the latest Republican to join in the convention, after a number of notable GOP …

The Hill reports: President Trump’s reelection campaign in a new ad is attacking presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s mental acuity, a frequent target of the president’s. The ad, timed to coincide with the virtual Democratic National Convention, contrasts footage of Biden speaking in 2015 and 2016 with clips of him seemingly losing his train of thought in 2020. “Did …

The Washington Post reports: As the two major political parties prepare to open their national conventions, the race for the White House tilts toward the Democrats, with former vice president Joe Biden holding a double-digit lead nationally over President Trump amid continuing disapproval of the president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. Democrats kick …

Politico reports: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) defended Sen. Kamala Harris on Sunday, saying that despite Democratic Party infighting over policy proposals, a majority of progressives understand the importance of defeating President Donald Trump come November. Sanders spoke highly of Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick, noting that she’s “incredibly smart [and] incredibly tough.” “I think she’s an asset for the Biden …