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Fact Check: Biden on the Stump We fact-check nine claims made by the Democratic presidential nominee in recent campaign speeches Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images Former Vice President and presidential nominee Joe Biden gives remarks at UA Plumbers Local 27 Erie Training Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 10, 2020. After months of doing mostly virtual events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden returned to in-person events with small, socially distanced crowds in September. He’s kept up his travel in October. We reviewed Biden’s speeches on the stump between Oct. 12 and 16. He held six events over three days in swing states:  two   in  Ohio,  two   in  Florida and  two   more  in Michigan. All combined, he spoke for almost two hours and 46 minutes, or less than 30 minutes per speech. His shortest speech (in Detroit) was about 19 minutes, and his longest (in Cincinnati) was more than 3...

  Mute buttons and masks: Inside the final 2020 debate NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — While millions of people are watching on television, only around 200 are inside the massive college arena in Nashville where President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, are facing off in their second and final debate of the 2020 election. One of those 200 is controlling a mute button. A representative of the Commission on Presidential Debates — not the moderator — is supposed to ensure each candidate has a two full minutes of uninterrupted time to deliver opening answers on six major topics, according to debate commission chair Frank Fahrenkopf. A member of each of the the Trump and Biden campaigns was expected to monitor the person who controls the mute button backstage, Fahrenkopf told The Associated Press, noting that the button would not be used beyond the first four minutes of each topic. The mute button is among a handful of changes implemented by the nonpartisan debate commiss...

Mitt Romney Says He Voted Against Trump in 2020 Election Trump, Frustrated by Lack of Investigations Into Political Foes, Reportedly Looking Into Firing FBI Director Christopher Wray After the Election By  Reed Richardson Oct 21st, 2020, 9:06 pm Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images President  Donald Trump  is seriously considering the firing of his second FBI director in less than four years, having grown frustrated with the lack of investigations into his political foes by  Christopher Wray . According to the  Washington Post ,  a frustrated Trump is looking at replacing Wray after the 2020 election. Wray was sworn in to a 10-year term as the nation’s federal law enforcement agency in August 2017 after Trump infamously fired  James Comey   earlier that year. The conversations among the president and senior aides stem in part from their disappointment that Wray in particular but Barr as well have not done what Trump had hoped— in...