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A supervising video producer for Joe Biden's presidential campaign tweeted a meme in June that urged people to stop calling the police "pigs" -- but only because unlike the police, pigs are "highly intelligent and empathetic animals who would never racially profile you."The videographer, Sara Pearl, also retweeted a user's comment that while "pigs are sweet, intelligent and compassionate," police…

Ohio was thought to be an uphill battle for Joe Biden in November. Now there are signs the Trump campaign is on defense, despite continuing Republican advantages in the state.Joseph R. Biden Jr. at an event in Columbus in March. Democratic leaders have urged him to expand his ambitions to states like Ohio that were…

Joseph R. Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, endorsed Sara Gideon Friday in her bid to challenge Sen. Susan Collins in Maine. “Ending the Trump nightmare is not enough. We can’t just go back to the way things were,” Mr. Biden said in a statement. “We need to make progress on health care, the climate…

Joe Biden, the likely Democrat challenger to face President Trump in 2020, took to Twitter late Thursday to criticize the White House’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.“President Obama and I left a playbook for President Trump on how to fight pandemics. He flat-out ignored it. And we’re all paying the price every day,” Biden tweeted.The…

Throughout the second quarter, Biden and the DNC together raised in excess of $53 million from more than 200 donors who gave at least $100,000 apiece. The biggest donors among them, giving at least $500,000, included philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, financier George Soros, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, a Hollywood producer and founder of streaming platform Quibi.…