Tag: Biden

12 OCT

Joe Biden rebukes Harvey Weinstein and urges Hollywood to speak up about sexual assault

Mark Makela/Getty Images Former Vice President Joe Biden had terse words for Harvey Weinstein on Wednesday, as a growing sexual-harassment scandal continued to engulf the movie mogul. Biden called Weinstein’s recent firing a “justifiable end” to what has been described as a long history of abuse by the Hollywood executive. Speaking at a fundraiser for a […]

09 SEP

‘We refuse to go backwards’: Biden torches Betsy DeVos’ move to weaken Obama-era sexual-assault policy

Mark Makela/Getty Images Former Vice President Joe Biden blasted Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ plan to rescind sexual assault reporting procedures on college campus. “Sexual assault is the ultimate abuse of power, and its pernicious presence in our schools is unacceptable,” Biden wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday. “Policies that do not treat this epidemic with the utmost […]

13 AUG

‘There is only one side’: Obama and Biden weigh in on Charlottesville violence

REUTERS/Mike Theiler Former President Barack Obama took to Twitter on Saturday to weigh in on the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which took a deadly turn when a driver mowed down a crowd of pedestrians and killed one 32-year-old woman.  In a series of tweets, Obama quoted Nelson Mandela: Tweet Embed:https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/896523232098078720“No one is born […]

10 JUN

BIDEN: I knew a month before Election Day that Hillary would lose key battleground states

AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris Former Vice President Joe Biden had more criticism for Hillary Clinton during a private donor conference hosted by Mitt Romney on Friday. Biden was speaking at the E2 Summit in Deer Valley, Utah, where he riffed on politics, past and future. Reflecting on the vicious 2016 election between Donald Trump and Hillary […]

19 MAY

Joe Biden just made a stunning admission about Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid

Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Former Vice President Joe Biden mused about the potential for a future White House run and reflected on the 2016 race during an appearance at the SALT conference in Las Vegas on Thursday. Speaking about Hillary Clinton’s surprise November defeat to Donald Trump, Biden said, “I never thought she was a […]

12 MAR

Former Vice President Joe Biden at SXSW 2017: ‘Your government’ is how curing cancer ‘gets done’

REUTERS/Brian Snyder AUSTIN, TX — Former Vice President Joe Biden may have left office in January, but that hasn’t stopped him from stumping. Biden spoke on Sunday at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas to talk about The Cancer Initiative, a program that continues the work he began under the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force. The […]

01 FEB

‘The Biden Foundation’: Joe Biden is launching a nonprofit aimed at promoting equal rights and opportunity

Thomson Reuters WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden is launching a nonprofit foundation aimed at promoting equal rights and opportunity. The Biden Foundation will be a platform for Biden to advance priorities he worked on in the Senate and the White House, including cancer research, military families and preventing violence against women. Biden […]