Sunday, January 26, 2025

Analysis: In debate, a last chance for Trump to define Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) — As a presidential candidate in 2016, Donald Trump seized control of the White House race and never let go. He masterfully defined and denigrated his opponents with cutting nicknames and a say-anything debate style, and repeatedly drew his rivals into the controversies he created.
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Analysis: In debate, a last chance for Trump to define Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) — As a presidential candidate in 2016, Donald Trump seized control of the White House race and never let go. He masterfully defined and denigrated his opponents with cutting nicknames and a say-anything debate style, and repeatedly drew his rivals into the controversies he created.
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Analysis: US to hit 200K dead; Trump sees no need for regret

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the
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Analysis: US to hit 200K dead; Trump sees no need for regret

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the
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AP Analysis: Trump wields fear in pitch for 4 more years

WASHINGTON (AP) — As he laid out his case for reelection, President Donald Trump deployed a powerful, and familiar, political tactic: fear.
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AP Analysis: Trump wields fear in pitch for 4 more years

WASHINGTON (AP) — As he laid out his case for reelection, President Donald Trump deployed a powerful, and familiar, political tactic: fear.
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AP Analysis: Trump's convention aims to airbrush his tenure

WASHINGTON (AP) — At
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AP Analysis: Trump's convention aims to airbrush his tenure

WASHINGTON (AP) — At President Donald Trump’s Republican convention, he is welcoming to immigrants, not the architect of some of the nation’s harshest anti-immigration policies.
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Analysis: Drive to beat Trump unites Democrats behind Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly everything in American life has changed in the 16 months between
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Analysis: Drive to beat Trump unites Democrats behind Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly everything in American life has changed in the 16 months between the launch of Joe Biden’s White House campaign and his address Thursday night as the Democratic presidential nominee. A pandemic has killed more than 170,000 Americans, and remade work and school. A soaring economy is …
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Obama, in scathing Trump rebuke, warns democracy on the line

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama painted a unsparing portrait of American democracy on the brink if President Donald Trump wins in November, warning in a scathing, and at times emotional, address Wednesday that his successor is both unfit for office and apathetic to the nation's founding principles.
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Obama, in scathing Trump rebuke, warns democracy on the line

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama painted a unsparing portrait of American democracy on the brink if President Donald Trump wins in November, warning in a scathing, and at times emotional, address Wednesday that his successor is both unfit for office and apathetic to the nation's founding principles.
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In Obama, Dems see a bridge between Biden and young voters

WASHINGTON (AP) — Since leaving the White House nearly four years ago, former President Barack Obama has repeatedly called for a new generation of political leaders to step up. On Wednesday, he’ll implore Americans to vote for
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AP Analysis: Why Trump's election delay tweet matters

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pattern is now familiar: He makes a stunning assertion, on Twitter or impromptu. The head scratching begins.
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AP Analysis: Why Trump's election delay tweet matters

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pattern is now familiar: He makes a stunning assertion, on Twitter or impromptu. The head scratching begins.
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AP Analysis: Why Trump's election delay tweet matters

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pattern is now familiar: He makes a stunning assertion, on Twitter or impromptu. The head scratching begins.
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In VP search, Biden has a known quantity in Susan Rice

WASHINGTON (AP) — As then-Vice President Joe Biden left the West Wing each evening to head home, he often popped his head into national security adviser Susan Rice’s nearby suite of offices to check in — sometimes on pressing foreign policy matters, sometimes just to shoot the breeze.
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Analysis: Trump wants a 2016 repeat in a very different year

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the summer of 2016, Donald Trump was trailing in the polls. With time running out, he changed up his campaign leadership team, though not his own mercurial behavior.
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Analysis: Trump wants a 2016 repeat in a very different year

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the summer of 2016, Donald Trump was trailing in the polls. With time running out, he changed up his campaign leadership team, though not his own mercurial behavior.
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Analysis: Trump fights to keep a job Dems say he isn't doing

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is asking Americans to let him keep his job. His critics are questioning how much of that job he’s actually doing.
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Analysis: Trump fights to keep a job Dems say he isn't doing

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is asking Americans to let him keep his job. His critics are questioning how much of that job he’s actually doing.
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Amid wave of cultural change, Trump tries to stir a backlash

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was June 2015, and Democrats felt the nation’s political and cultural winds blowing their way. The Supreme Court ruled in President Barack Obama’s favor on landmark gay marriage and health care cases. The White House was awash in rainbow light, a symbol of a liberal cultural …
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Amid wave of cultural change, Trump tries to stir a backlash

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was June 2015, and Democrats felt the nation’s political and cultural winds blowing their way. The Supreme Court ruled in President Barack Obama’s favor on landmark gay marriage and health care cases. The White House was awash in rainbow light, a symbol of a liberal cultural …
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Amid wave of cultural change, Trump tries to stir a backlash

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was June 2015, and Democrats felt the nation’s political and cultural winds blowing their way. The Supreme Court ruled in President Barack Obama’s favor on landmark gay marriage and health care cases. The White House was awash in rainbow light, a symbol of a liberal cultural …
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Analysis: As US reckons over race, Trump becomes a bystander

WASHINGTON (AP) — At a moment of national reckoning over racism in America, President Donald Trump is increasingly becoming a bystander.
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Analysis: As US reckons over race, Trump becomes a bystander

WASHINGTON (AP) — At a moment of national reckoning over racism in America, President Donald Trump is increasingly becoming a bystander.
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Analysis: Trump emulates strongman tactics, tests his limits

WASHINGTON (AP) — A phalanx of law enforcement officers and soldiers is positioned on the streets of the nation’s capital to keep protesters at bay. Helicopters circle overhead, sometimes dipping low to buzz the crowd. The country’s leader warns that he’s willing to go further to “dominate” the streets.
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Analysis: Trump emulates strongman tactics, tests his limits

WASHINGTON (AP) — A phalanx of law enforcement officers and soldiers is positioned on the streets of the nation’s capital to keep protesters at bay. Helicopters circle overhead, sometimes dipping low to buzz the crowd. The country’s leader warns that he’s willing to go further to “dominate” the streets.
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Obama steps out as nation confronts confluence of crises

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is taking on an increasingly public role as the nation confronts a confluence of historic crises that has exposed deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities in America and reshaped the November election.
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Obama steps out as nation confronts confluence of crises

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is taking on an increasingly public role as the nation confronts a confluence of historic crises that has exposed deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities in America and reshaped the November election.
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Analysis: Trump fuels new tensions in moment of crisis

WASHINGTON (AP) — Over 48 hours in America, the official death toll from the
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Analysis: Trump fuels new tensions in moment of crisis

WASHINGTON (AP) — Over 48 hours in America, the official death toll from the
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Analysis: Trump fuels new tensions in moment of crisis

WASHINGTON (AP) — Over 48 hours in America, the official death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 100,000, the number of people who filed for unemployment during the crisis soared past 40 million, and the streets of a major city erupted in flames after a handcuffed black man was killed …
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Tradition-bound Washington adjusts to life in a pandemic

WASHINGTON (AP) — The
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Analysis: Pandemic fallout tracks nation's political divide

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s entrenched political divide is now playing out over matters of life and death.
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Analysis: Pandemic fallout tracks nation's political divide

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s entrenched political divide is now playing out over matters of life and death.
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Tradition-bound Washington adjusts to life in a pandemic

WASHINGTON (AP) — The
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Tradition-bound Washington adjusts to life in a pandemic

WASHINGTON (AP) — The
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Tradition-bound Washington adjusts to life in a pandemic

WASHINGTON (AP) — The
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Analysis: Will voters want a president who feels their pain?

WASHINGTON (AP) — In 1992, Americans ousted an incumbent president in the middle of an economic downturn because his challenger, Bill Clinton, seemed to better feel their pain.
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Analysis: Will voters want a president who feels their pain?

WASHINGTON (AP) — In 1992, Americans ousted an incumbent president in the middle of an economic downturn because his challenger, Bill Clinton, seemed to better feel their pain.
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Biden, Sanders to debate against backdrop of global pandemic

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the two remaining Democratic presidential candidates return to the debate stage, their party, the stakes, and the world look much different than in their last meeting less than three weeks ago.
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Analysis: Biden's stunning turnabout remakes Democratic race

WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than a month ago, Joe Biden’s campaign was in free fall. Even after he
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Analysis: Biden positions himself as leading moderate

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden bought himself time. It’s unclear how much.
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Analysis: Biden positions himself as leading moderate

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden bought himself time. It’s unclear how much.
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Analysis: Biden buys time with emphatic South Carolina win

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden bought himself time. It’s unclear how much.
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Analysis: Sanders learns what it's like to be a front-runner

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Bernie Sanders has spent much of his career on the political margins, an outsider looking in.
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Analysis: Sanders learns what it's like to be a front-runner

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Bernie Sanders has spent much of his career on the political margins, an outsider looking in.
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Analysis: Sanders' path has echoes of Trump's 2016 campaign

WASHINGTON (AP) — A burn-it-down candidate is topping a splintered field of more moderate contenders and setting the party’s establishment wing on edge.
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Analysis: Sanders' path has echoes of Trump's 2016 campaign

WASHINGTON (AP) — A burn-it-down candidate is topping a splintered field of more moderate contenders and setting the party’s establishment wing on edge.
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Analysis: Sanders' path has echoes of Trump's 2016 campaign

WASHINGTON (AP) — A burn-it-down candidate is topping a splintered field of more moderate contenders and setting the party’s establishment wing on edge.
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Analysis: Dems' civility gives way to combustible conflict

WASHINGTON (AP) — Through a year of campaigning, the Democratic presidential candidates played nice, talking up party unity, disagreeing mostly politely on policy.
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Analysis: Dems' civility gives way to combustible conflict

WASHINGTON (AP) — Through a year of campaigning, the Democratic presidential candidates played nice, talking up party unity, disagreeing mostly politely on policy.
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Analysis: Sanders win ups pressure on moderates to coalesce

WASHINGTON (AP) — For Bernie Sanders, not all victories are created equal.
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Sanders' narrow win ups pressure on moderates to coalesce

WASHINGTON (AP) — For Bernie Sanders, not all victories are created equal.
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Sanders' narrow win ups pressure on moderates to coalesce

WASHINGTON (AP) — For Bernie Sanders, not all victories are created equal.
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Democrats on edge after 2020 election season's ragged launch

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — For Democrats, this was supposed be a moment to begin easing three years of built-up of anxieties. Instead, the
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Democrats on edge after 2020 election season's ragged launch

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — For Democrats, this was supposed be a moment to begin easing three years of built-up of anxieties. Instead, the
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Trump defends Sanders, stoking Democratic divisions

WASHINGTON (AP) — As tensions between Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren rose earlier this month, Sanders found himself with an unusual ally: President Donald Trump.
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Trump defends Sanders, stoking Democratic divisions

WASHINGTON (AP) — As tensions between Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren rose earlier this month, Sanders found himself with an unusual ally: President Donald Trump.
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In defending Sanders, Trump is stoking Democratic divisions

WASHINGTON (AP) — As tensions between Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren rose earlier this month, Sanders found himself with an unusual ally: President Donald Trump.
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Analysis: Dems strain for civility, contrasts burst through

WASHINGTON (AP) — Electability questions persist. Anxieties about gender and sexism are resurgent. And three leading candidates are about to get yanked off the campaign trail for
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Analysis: Dems strain for civility, contrasts burst through

WASHINGTON (AP) — Electability questions persist. Anxieties about gender and sexism are resurgent. And three leading candidates are about to get yanked off the campaign trail for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
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Booker: Impeachment trial could be ‘big blow’ to my campaign

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Cory Booker said a looming impeachment trial and other pressing issues in Washington could deal a “big, big blow” to his Democratic presidential campaign by keeping him away from Iowa in the final weeks before the Feb. 3 caucuses.
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