October 25, 2012 in The Daily Republic
SIOUX FALLS (AP) — In a stirring tribute Thursday to former Sen. George McGovern, Vice President Joe Biden hailed the one-time presidential nominee as the “father of the modern Democratic Party” for his forceful stand against the Vietnam War and for helping open the party to more women, young people and minorities.
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October 25, 2012 in The Daily Republic
SIOUX FALLS (AP) Vice President Joe Biden says George McGovern should be remembered as the “father of the modern Democratic Party,” saying the former South Dakota senator helped open the party to women, young people and minorities.
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October 25, 2012 in The Daily Republic
SIOUX FALLS (AP) Vice President Joe Biden received a standing ovation at the start of a prayer service tribute to former Sen. George McGovern.
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October 25, 2012 in The Daily Republic
The White House confirmed Wednesday that Biden would take part in a Thursday prayer service at the First United Methodist Church in Sioux Falls. The two served together in the Senate during the 1970s and early 1980s. Continue Reading
October 24, 2012 in The Daily Republic
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) The White House says Vice President Joe Biden will attend a South Dakota prayer service for former U.S. Sen. George McGovern on Thursday. Continue Reading
October 11, 2012 in The Dickinson Press
DANVILLE, Ky. At odds early and often, Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan squabbled over the economy, taxes, Medicare and more Thursday night in a contentious, interruption-filled debate. “That is a bunch of malarkey,” the vice president retorted after a particularly tough Ryan attack on the administration’s foreign policy. Continue Reading
October 11, 2012 in The Daily Republic
WASHINGTON (AP) Time running short, Vice President Joe Biden faces the greater burden in his debate with Republican Paul Ryan as he seeks to use the election’s only encounter between presidential running mates to slow Mitt Romney’s momentum and reset the campaign storyline in time for the next Obama-Romney debate.
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October 11, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
As in 2008, where Sarah Palin had to convince voters that she was ready for the demands of the vice president’s office, the stakes in this debate are also unusually high. Continue Reading
August 21, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
Vice President Joe Biden pounced on Republicans, with his main targets Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, during an early afternoon downtown Minneapolis rally. Continue Reading
January 6, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
Adds men, others as victimsThe Obama administration on Friday expanded the FBI’s more than eight-decade-old definition of rape to count men as victims for the first time and to drop the requirement that victims must have physically resisted their attackers. Continue Reading
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