Mike Pence

Biden admin rolls back Trump-era citizenship test, reverts to 2008 version

The Latest: Biden is game for in-person debate if it’s safe

10:42 pm October 5, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP): Joe Biden says he’s willing to go forward with an in-person debate later this month “if scientists say it’s safe,” even after President Donald Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19. Speaking to reporters before boarding a flight to campaign in Florida, the Democratic presidential nominee declined to say Monday whether he believes the next […]

Trump’s defender: Pence’s campaign role grows at key moment

12:31 pm October 5, 2020

Washington: Vice President Mike Pence is in a familiar spot: standing by President Donald Trump. With Trump hospitalised with a virus that he spent months downplaying, his ever-loyal No. 2 will play an increasingly prominent role in the weeks ahead. Pence will take a leading role in campaigning around the country in the final stretch before the Nov. […]

VP Pence ordered borders closed after CDC experts refused

11:38 pm October 3, 2020

New York: Vice President Mike Pence in March directed the nation’s top disease control agency to use its emergency powers to effectively seal the U.S. borders, overruling the agency’s scientists who said there was no evidence the action would slow the coronavirus, according to two former health officials. The action has so far caused nearly 150,000 children […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Pandemic overwhelms Trump’s message in critical N. Carolina

2:40 pm September 28, 2020

Winston-Salem: President Donald Trump is fighting to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, howling with unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud and warning that violent mobs are infiltrating the suburbs. But on a recent morning along Arbor Street, a peaceful tree-lined road with stately brick Colonials and Tudors near Winston-Salem, the women who are the targets of Trump’s messages […]

Pence drops plan to go to fundraiser hosted by QAnon backers

11:27 pm September 12, 2020

Billings: Vice President Mike Pence has canceled plans to attend a Trump campaign fundraiser in Montana following revelations that the event’s hosts had expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory. President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign told The Associated Press on Saturday that Pence’s schedule had been changed, but the campaign did not provide a reason or say whether the fundraiser might […]