Joe Biden said he told some governors not to publicly endorse him because he worried their states would not get support/resources from the federal government needed to fight the COVID outbreak
Biden was being heckled by a Trump supporter as he arrived to deliver pizzas. The man was waving a Trump flag as he stood on top of a truck. Biden’s response to him: “Don’t jump.”
Kamala Harris arrives in Milwaukee for her first trip as the Democratic vice presidential nominee. She will be meeting with unions and business leaders this afternoon.
An observation from inside the debate hall: Everyone in Biden’s side of the hall is wearing a mask. More than half on Trump’s side, including his four children, are not wearing masks. According to the Cleveland Clinic, it’s a requirement that all guests wear masks.
SCOOP: The Biden administration is buying 500 million doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine to donate to the world. Biden will make the announcement at the G7.
Story with
@emilyrauhala
.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are expected to address the nation around 8 p.m. tonight, per sources familiar with planning. Harris will speak first and then Biden.
SCOOP: Trump supporters flooded a hotline used by Iowa precinct chairs to report Democratic caucus results after the telephone number was posted online, worsening delays in the statewide tally, a top state Democrat told party leaders Wednesday. w/
@jeneps
Some personal news: I’m joining
@politico
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A Cleveland Clinic doctor with masks just walked up to a number of unmasked members of the audience on Trump’s side of the room and asked them to put on masks. She told me they refused to take one and wear them.
An observation from inside the debate hall: Everyone in Biden’s side of the hall is wearing a mask. More than half on Trump’s side, including his four children, are not wearing masks. According to the Cleveland Clinic, it’s a requirement that all guests wear masks.
SCOOP: It's official. Tony Blinken will be Joe Biden's secretary of state, and the announcement is expected to be made on Tuesday, sources tell me,
@jeneps
and
@SalehaMohsin
Joe and Jill Biden visited Beau Biden’s gravesite this morning after attending church together in Wilmington. Joe Biden is now headed to North Carolina.
Biden getting into a disagreement with a voter over his healthcare plan. She says his plan is protecting insurance companies’ profits. He questions whether she would pay higher taxes for it. She says yes. He responds: “You got the right candidate in Bernie.”
BREAKING: First lady Jill Biden crossed the border into Ukraine, making an unannounced visit to the country amid Russia’s ongoing invasion. She met with Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska, who had not appeared in public since the Feb. 24 Russian invasion.
SCOOP: Joe Biden has selected former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to serve as secretary of energy, according to people familiar with the decision. Story coming with
@zcolman
Joe Biden is meeting with community leaders at Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Delaware this morning. There are 14 leaders, including Delaware Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, spread out across the church.
SCOOP: Joe Biden is no longer traveling to Milwaukee to accept the Democratic nomination. His plans to travel to the convention have been scrapped because of coronavirus concerns.
For the first time as president, Joe Biden is playing golf. The president just arrived at Wilmington Country Club, a golf course near his home in Delaware.
News: AOC will be serving on Biden's climate policy committee. "She believes the movement will only be successful if we continue to apply pressure both inside and outside the system. This is just one element of the broader fight for just policies," a spokeswoman said.
Biden says in a Vegas local TV interview that
@AOC
will be on one of the policy task forces that his campaign and Sanders' team are putting together but haven't rolled out yet. He doesn't say what issue she'll be focused on.
SCOOP: Joe Biden has selected Jeff Zients to serve as Covid-19 czar, Vivek Murthy as surgeon general and Marcella Nunez-Smith in a senior role focused on health disparities. Official announcements to come as soon as this weekend.
While Biden has had COVID:
-Congress passes CHIPs bill
-Manchin-Schumer strike an agreement on a major piece of legislation
-U.S. kills al-Qaeda leader
One of Biden’s most successful weeks as president has come as he has mostly been isolating
NEWS: Buttigieg campaign had a call w/ IDP this morning + raised concerns about how the party was allocating SDEs from satellite caucuses. Campaign believes the party has not followed rules set out by the delegate selection plan, and Bernie got more SDEs.
Joe Biden and the DNC will report raising more than $300 million in August, a record-breaking haul. Confirming news first reported by
@ShaneGoldmacher
.
News: Joe Biden told donors tonight that he has spoken to Bernie Sanders to inform him he was starting the vetting process for VP, saying he wanted to give him advanced notice and not appear "presumptuous." It's the first time Biden has acknowledged privately speaking with Bernie
Scoop: Joe Biden will travel Georgia on Tuesday, marking his first trip to the state as Democrats make a late push to win where they haven't since 1992. He is slated to travel to Atlanta and Warm Springs.
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Biden's line tonight saying Putin "cannot remain in power" was NOT planned and a surprise to U.S. officials, per people familiar.
Still, officials say no change in policy. Instead, the line was an example of Biden's sometimes inarticulate rhetoric.
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NEWS: Joe Biden has tapped Gene Sperling to oversee the implementation of the $1.9 trillion stimulus package. Sperling served as NEC director under Obama and Clinton and advised Biden during his campaign.
NEW w/
@MariannaReports
: Biden blew up in a private meeting with some House Democrats earlier Thursday.
When he was asked how he was doing, he said, “How the fuck could I forget the day my son died? Of course I remember everything,” per two people familiar with his comments.
After voting here in Burlington, Jane Sanders was briefly locked out of the family Subaru Forester. “Bern! Bern!” she said as Bernie continued to hit the unlock button.
Scoop: Cedric Richmond is officially joining the Biden administration in a senior role with a portfolio that includes public engagement. He is leaving a safe Democratic seat in Louisiana. Story to come w/
@jeneps
Scoop: President-elect Joe Biden is meeting tomorrow with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in Wilmington, Delaware, per people familiar. It will be the first in-person meeting between the three Democratic leaders.
New: HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge may have violated the Hatch Act yesterday when promoting Democrats for the Ohio Senate race from the White House briefing room
Scoop: The Biden campaign sent an email to staff this afternoon banning them from trading individual stocks without approval from Biden's general counsel. Email came from Dana Remus, who wrote it is to “ensure that staff do not even inadvertently trade on nonpublic information."
Joe Biden boards a plane to Cleveland for his first debate with President Trump. The Biden campaign has a new plane with the Biden/Harris logo on the side.
SCOOP: Joe Biden has selected Rochelle Walensky, the chief of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On Putin’s nuclear threat, a U.S. nat sec official tells me: “At this time see no reason to change our own alert levels.”
“We think provocative rhetoric regarding nuclear weapons is dangerous, adds to the risk of miscalculation, should be avoided, and we will not indulge in it”
It's quite striking to see this spat with France unfold under Biden, who ran a presidential campaign heavily focused on restoring America's alliances abroad. Biden also regularly touted his years of foreign policy experience as a contrast with Trump
Joe Biden’s campaign has called at lid at 11:27 am, just nine days before the election. In the last week, he has only held three campaign events outside of participating in the debate. He was in Durham, North Carolina last Sunday and made two stops in Pennslyvania yesterday.
Unclear any of these positive tests would have been disclosed if we had not reported earlier tonight that Pence’s top political adviser tested positive for coronavirus. Updated story with
@JenniferJJacobs
Two people briefed on the matter said that the White House chief-of-staff, Mark Meadows, sought to keep the information about the VP office outbreak from becoming public
Joe Biden has arrived in Tampa, Florida for his first visit to the state as the Democratic nominee. He is hosting a roundtable with veterans here and then a Hispanic Heritage Month event in Kissimmee.
🎶 Scoop on final night musical acts
Lady Gaga will perform tomorrow night at Joe Biden's final rally in Pittsburgh (She performed at Clinton's final NC rally in 2016)
John Legend will perform at Kamala Harris' final rally in Philadelphia
Confirmed: Joe Biden is expected to take a coronavirus test today, per someone with knowledge of matter. No decision made yet on whether he will still travel to Grand Rapids, Michigan today.
SCOOP: Joe Biden’s campaign and the DNC set another fundraising record for the month of September, surpassing the massive $364.5 million haul it raised in August. Story to come with
@bill_allison
Kamala Harris greets supporters in Milwaukee and encourages them to request their ballots and vote early. “We have got to get this done,” she said. “I need your help in Milwaukee.”
Kamala Harris on her meeting with Jacob Blake’s family: “I mean they’re an incredible family and what they’ve endured and they do it with such divinity and grace and you know they’re carrying the weight of a lot of voices on their shoulders.”
A 9-year-old boy just asked Pete Buttigieg to help him come out as gay at this town hall in Denver. The crowd started chanting “love is love.” The boy was brought on stage and Buttigieg told him: “I don’t think you need a lot of bravery from me... It took me awhile.”
From a White House official: “As we have with others, we offered a call with Nicki Minaj and one of our doctors to answer questions she has about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine.”
The White House has invited me & I think it’s a step in the right direction. Yes, I’m going. I’ll be dressed in all pink like Legally Blonde so they know I mean business. I’ll ask questions on behalf of the ppl who have been made fun of for simply being human.
#BallGate
day 3
Joe Biden and the DNC will report raising more than $300 million in August, a record-breaking haul. Confirming news first reported by
@ShaneGoldmacher
.
.
@RonaldKlain
on Trump’s tweet this morning that Joe Biden “won”: “If the President is prepared to begin to recognize that reality, that's positive. Donald Trump's Twitter feed doesn’t make Joe Biden president or not president, the American people did that.”
SCOOP: It's official. Joe Biden has selected Rep. Marcia Fudge to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to two people with knowledge of the decision. Story w/
@KatyODonnell_
and
@mmcassella
Warren: "When a candidate tells you about all the things that aren't possible, about how political calculations come first .... they're telling you something very important: they are telling you that they will not fight for you"
If the race is called today, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will deliver remarks during a prime time event, per people familiar with planning. Same plan in place as last night - they’re just waiting for a call.
Biden to Harris during fundraiser: "I'm so lucky to have you as part of this partnership going forward because I think working together we can make a great of difference and the biggest thing we can do is making Donald Trump a one term president. So, I'm coming for you, kid.”
Joe Biden will speak tomorrow in Wilmington on the wildfires in the west and how they "underscore the urgent need to tackle the climate crisis," according to his campaign.
Joe Biden is nominating Meg Whitman, former CEO of HP and the 2010 Republican nominee for California governor, to serve as ambassador to Kenya. Whitman endorsed Biden in the 2020 election.