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The coronavirus outbreak has afforded Joe Biden the ability to sit in his basement and carefully craft his message without it potentially being derailed by reporters.

Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden would restore “moral leadership” if he won in November.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday declared President Trump is defying science and sacrificing lives, all to “hear cheers from an adoring crowd” at his rallies. 

Hollywood director and monomaniacal anti-Trump activist Rob Reiner is making the outlandish claim that President Donald Trump doesn’t care about the health of his supporters who will attend his upcoming rally in Oklahoma, alleging that the president is “OK if his cult followers in Tulsa die.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg penned an op-ed for USA Today this week in which he announced this his company is implementing strategies that will educate Americans on the importance of voting this November. The company’s goal is to register four million new voters for the 2020 election. Zuckerberg also stated that Facebook may censor posts from politicians that violate community guidelines.

A group with direct links to the government of the United Kingdom and to senior members of the UK Labour Party has taken credit for having websites ZeroHedge and The Federalist threatened with suspension of service by Google ads.

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has opened up a 13-point lead over President Donald Trump – the widest margin this year – according to a poll released Wednesday, although Trump is clearly backed as the better steward of the country’s economy.

During an interview with Huntsville, AL radio’s WVNN on Tuesday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) pointed this out and argued the turmoil inflamed by the Black Lives Matter movement was being used by the Democratic Party to bring racial division for the sake of political gain during the 2020 presidential election cycle. 

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) claimed during a floor speech on Tuesday that the United States did not inherit slavery but rather “created it.”

Rick Wilson, a prominent Never Trumper and leader of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, is facing a wave of backlash after effectively attempting to “cancel” Domino’s Pizza for thanking White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany for a compliment over seven years ago.

Katrina Pierson writes: While President Trump follows through on his promises to the American people, let’s examine Black Lives Matter and how Joe Biden is hoping to use race to divide the nation for his own political gain.

The DOJ on filed a lawsuit against former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton to stop the publication of his tell-all book.

Iowa’s Republican Governor Kim Reynolds is set to give voting rights to about 60,000 convicted felons in time for the 2020 presidential election after meeting with the George Soros-funded ACLU, the NAACP, and Black Lives Matter activists. 

The Trump campaign in a Tuesday memo laid into the former vice president for “campaigning from the comfort of his basement,” describing it as “a tactic to help him avoid errors and embarrassing, lost trains of thought, while also conveniently preventing the press corps from asking him any questions in person.”

The Republican Party is fielding a stronger-than-expected crop of U.S. House candidates as the GOP aims to retake the House majority from Democrats in November.

Rep. Debbie Dingell and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are not sold on polls showing former Vice President Joe Biden leading President Trump.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) joined a few of her ultra-progressive counterparts and essentially turned her back on incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, backing his progressive challenger Jamaal Bowman.

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, introduced a measure to prevent the Trump campaign from requiring rally attendees to acknowledge a coronavirus disclaimer, which shields the campaign from the risk of lawsuits in the litigious age of the coronavirus.

Former South Bend, IN mayor and failed Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday voiced his support for former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee in the 2020 presidential election, selecting a woman of color as his running mate.

The Roots is kicking off their 13th annual “Roots Picnic” this summer and teaming up with former first lady Michelle Obama’s voter organization When We All Vote and its celebrity backers, including Tom Hanks and Lin-Manuel Miranda. “Who else is coming to #RootsPicnic?!”

These are the major changes Democrats could make within months of the 2020 election, and which will be impossible to reverse.

A new poll finds a large majority of Michigan voters are uncertain if U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D) should be reelected in November.

Colorado Senate Democrat candidate Andrew Romanoff has called for former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to drop out of the Senate race in the wake of his ethics controversy.

New polls show trouble for President Donald Trump’s re-election prospects, as well as for Republicans wishing to take the House and hold the Senate in 2020.

Katy Perry and the Black Eyed Peas will headline a celebrity studded virtual concert on Thursday for the progressive organization Rock the Vote, featuring Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and sponsored by Michelle Obama’s pro-vote by mail voter drive organization.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) headlined a high-dollar fundraiser for Joe Biden (D) on Monday, helping the Democrat Party’s presumptive nominee rake in his campaign’s biggest haul yet — $6 million from a virtual event with just 620 people in attendance.

Presidential candidate Joe Biden appears in a new Planned Parenthood advertisement, promising the abortion giant the full support of his presidency.

A House Republican report said Chinese Communist Party leaders knew there was a pandemic ongoing “weeks” before it was announced.

National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Michael McAdams told Breitbart News in a comment on Monday that freshman swing district Democrat Rep. Conor Lamb (D-PA) continues to ignore his own coronavirus social distancing advice to pose with “Defund the Police” protesters.

Skarlatos, the Army veteran who heroically stopped a terrorist from hijacking a train, is now running to flip a key district in Oregon.

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund formally endorsed Joe Biden (D) on Monday despite the abortion giant’s past concerns regarding the former vice president — from his former support of the Hyde Amendment to Tara Reade’s allegations of sexual assault.

Burisma Holdings, the eastern European natural gas conglomerate that once had Hunter Biden on its board of directors, is being accused of attempting to bribe Ukrainian officials with more than $5 million in order to end a corruption probe into the company.

An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that Joe Biden is not as unpopular as Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Trump approval slightly higher.

President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign said Monday that attendees of the president’s first rally since the Chinese coronavirus pandemic broke out will be given temperature checks, face masks, and hand sanitizer as a health precaution. 

Former Colorado Gov_ John Hickenlooper has apologized for comments he made six years ago comparing politicians to slaves being whipped to row “an ancient slave ship.”

Monday on ABC’s “The View,” Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) said the Trump campaign requiring medical waivers for attendees at an upcoming rally in Tulsa, OK was a “good clue” that holding rallies amid the coronavirus pandemic is a bad idea.