Joe Biden Archive
Archives for August 2020


TV is an intimate medium. In her DNC speech, Michelle Obama showed she knows how to play to it.


Bipartisanship and moderation — not revolution — defined the first night of the convention.


“He’s looking at an across-the-board restoration project,” said a former Obama administration official.


In 2017, Trump promised to end “this American carnage.” Four years later, carnage defines his presidency.

Winner: Real people. Loser: Lecterns.

Sanders drew a stark contrast between Trump and a left-leaning Biden presidency for the DNC.


Democrats are telling their voters not to trust the post office.


“I know the measure of the man. Reasonable. Faithful. Respectful. And no one pushes Joe around.”


Conventions usually shake up polling in the short term, but do those effects last?

Democrats have scheduled a convention that’s more about celebrating the past than winning the future.

But can he break from his past to get there?

“This is a very serious time”: The coronavirus has reshaped the Democratic National Convention.


It’s more robust than you might think.


Joe Biden’s new criminal justice reform plan reverses some of the policies he helped make law.


Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party’s leftward shift.