Full coverage: Joe Biden, Democratic presidential nominee
Joe Biden has been formally nominated as the Democratic candidate for president. The Times tracks his path to the presidential election.
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White voters, those without college degrees and seniors, who powered Trump’s win in 2016, have cooled on him four years later, final USC poll shows.
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‘Only the Young,’ a song by pop sensation Taylor Swift, is featured in a new campaign ad for former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris.
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Election 2020: These states will probably decide if Joe Biden or President Trump wins the race. And their absentee ballot laws could determine when we find out.
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President Trump has recovered ground in Iowa, leading Joe Biden by 7 points, according to a new poll, and Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst leads Theresa Greenfield.
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Biden campaigns in Michigan with Obama, and Trump rallies in Pennsylvania, cheering a pro-Trump caravan surrounding and harassing a Biden bus in Texas.
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President Trump is on the defense as he and Joe Biden campaign in the Midwest on Friday, and Kamala Harris makes a play for a newly competitive Texas.
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For all the talk of hidden Trump support — what the president likes to call a “silent majority” — there are also Biden backers preferring to keep it quiet.
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The presidential contenders shadow each other in the Sunshine state, holding contrasting events in Tampa. A Biden win in Florida would block Trump’s path.
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Bloomberg’s new TV ads for Biden in Texas and Ohio come as Trump’s money woes force him to scale back his Florida ad spending.
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The Democrat goes to Warm Springs, Ga., to evoke the spirit of Franklin D. Roosevelt, while President Trump keeps up a frenetic pace in the Midwest.
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With future migration from Central America inevitable, a President Biden would face many of the same challenges he confronted as vice president.
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As the presidential election nears, Democrats and Republicans are targeting Florida’s other Latino voters, not just Cuban Americans and Puerto Ricans.
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The final UC Berkeley poll of California voters shows Biden is likely to defeat Trump by the largest margin for a Democratic presidential candidate in state history.
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Whatever his past reputation for verbal stumblings and gaffes, Biden is one of the few who can tangle with Trump and not be thrown off his game.
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Biden’s debate remark about a transition away from oil generates glee from Republicans. The argument illustrates why climate politics is politically hard.
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Flashbacks to 2016’s presidential upset have Democrats fretting about the ways Donald Trump could still eke out a win over Joe Biden.
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COVID, overseas business deals, race relations, immigration and a mute button
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Presidential debate: Trump and Biden faced off in Nashville. Four of our veteran journalists analyzed the debate, round by round.
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Some ‘facts’ just aren’t so. That much was certain, especially for President Trump, as he and former Vice President Joe Biden met Thursday for a final debate.
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California election law allows items with slogans at voting locations, as long as no candidate or campaign’s name is displayed.
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President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden met for their second and final debate 12 days before election day.
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The Democratic presidential candidate aims to postpone a divisive debate over enlarging the Supreme Court by proposing a panel to study the judiciary.
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The Trump campaign ended September with $63.1 million in the bank; Biden’s team had nearly three times as much.
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Biden holds a narrow lead in the nation’s perennial swing state, where early voting has started. Winning it would all but seal victory over Trump.
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President Trump and Democrat Joe Biden will have their microphones cut off in Thursday’s debate while their rival delivers their opening two-minute answer to each of the debate topics.
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Biden plans to use California as a template for a frenzy of advancements in clean energy and environmental justice. The state would reap big benefits.
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Biden’s appearance on ABC, moderated by George Stephanopoulos, averaged 14.1 million viewers compared to Trump’s 13.5 million on NBC.
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President Trump and Joe Biden gave a study in contrast during dueling televised town halls Thursday after Trump refused to participate in a virtual debate.
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The Democrat remains an underdog in the Lone Star State, but the fact he is competitive is significant. Texas is vital to Republicans.
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Thursday’s town hall events in lieu of a canceled presidential debate will air at the same time, prompting criticism that “this is a bad decision.”
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How the two 1960 presidential candidates — one in New York, the other in Los Angeles — held an hourlong forum from separate studios.
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With viral interviews on Fox News and other outlets, Joe Biden’s Democratic primary rival Pete Buttigieg becomes his presidential campaign’s sharpest surrogate.
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Trump stops TV and radio ads in Ohio, Iowa and New Hampshire as Biden expands into Texas and Georgia.
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![Alex Rosado, a member of Unite Here Local 11 in Los Angeles, is hitting the streets as a canvasser in Phoenix, Ariz., for the rest of the election cycle to turn Arizona blue in the presidential election. "I want to make sure that I'm one of the people responsible for getting [Trump] out of office." Photo courtesy of Maria Hernandez.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/97e370d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1386x924+75+0/resize/840x560!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fbc%2Fb4%2Ffadf46e64e4fba157ce302e408f0%2Fla-pol-na-pol-2020-arizona-democratic-volunteers01.JPG)
The Biden campaign has mostly done virtual outreach because of the pandemic, but union members and others have moved to Arizona to knock on doors.
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Trump refused to debate Biden in a virtual format that had been changed by the independent debate panel after the president contracted COVID-19.
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Campaigning together after the vice presidential debate, Biden and Harris look to appeal to voters in Arizona, an important battleground state in the November election.
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White women without a college degree overwhelmingly supported Trump in 2016, but his standing with them has fallen dramatically.
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Under Trump, Latin America policy has seldom gone beyond immigration. Biden would widen the focus. But he might find resistance from the region’s leaders.
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Trump’s coronavirus infection could endanger the health of Biden and others at debate next week in Miami. Medical experts say Trump might still be contagious.
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Speaking at Gettysburg, Biden delivers a call for national unity and racial healing as polls show his lead over Trump growing.
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden holds a televised town hall as Trump tried to downplay his own COVID-19 case following hospitalization.
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For weeks, Biden has accused Trump of acting irresponsibly and taking too many risks. How does he respond now that events have borne out his warnings?
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After mocking Biden for wearing a mask, the president is diagnosed with COVID-19. The pandemic is back in full focus.
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The first presidential debate showed Trump at his worst and Biden at his best.
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Poor Chris Wallace, the moderator from Fox News. He was not only asking questions but trying to manage the president’s logorrhea.
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Fact-checking the debate: President Trump unleashed a blizzard of falsehoods; Joe Biden hewed closer to the truth, but strayed at times.
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Cindy McCain will advise Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential transition team as it prepares for the former vice president to take office if he wins.
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News of Trump’s tax evasion plays to Biden’s ‘Scranton-vs.-Park Ave.’ campaign. It won’t upend the race, but it’s another hurdle for Trump.
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Declaring that you have a plan to provide great, affordable healthcare does not cause such a plan magically to exist.
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President Trump repeatedly interrupted Joe Biden and moderator Chris Wallace in the first 2020 presidential debate. We analyzed the debate, round by round.
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President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden faced off in Cleveland in their first presidential debate.
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Democratic nominees Joe Biden and Kamala Harris released their 2019 tax returns as an explosive report shed light on President Trump’s income taxes.
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With less than two months before election day, Joe Biden and President Trump are increasingly competing across Spanish-language media markets to reach Latino voters in cities such as Miami, Orlando and Phoenix.
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Polls show a close race in battleground states of the Midwest and South ahead of Tuesday’s first debate — but Joe Biden has an edge over President Trump.
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Trump needs to change a race he’s losing. Biden needs to prove himself to voters who don’t like the president but remain uncertain about the challenger.
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Amid incendiary published revelations about Trump finances, Democrats determined to exact a political price if Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is confirmed.
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Cindy McCain is endorsing Democrat Joe Biden for president in a stunning rebuke of President Trump.
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President Trump and Joe Biden are so healthy they could be long-living ‘super-agers,’ a new study suggests. But it also fears the two campaigns will continue to ‘weaponize’ the age issue.
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New polling reveals the Biden campaign’s strength in red states and Sen. Susan Collins’ imperiled reelection prospects in Maine. Meanwhile, Democrats and Republicans are split over when and how to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Joe Biden vows he won’t ban fracking. But in Pennsylvania, many voters are skeptical, and Trump is exploiting their anxieties in a key battleground.
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Two Republican-led Senate committees issue a politically charged report on the work Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, did in Ukraine.
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Joe Biden, if he wins the White House, will have the most experience with the federal courts of any president in modern times.
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Two states give electoral votes by congressional district, not winner-take-all statewide. That brings Biden’s campaign to Omaha, Trump’s to Maine.
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Enthusiastic donors, many in California, swelled Joe Biden’s campaign accounts this summer, and he headed into the fall with a huge financial advantage over Trump.
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President Trump twice tweeted a video doctored to make it appear Joe Biden played an N.W.A song disparaging police, the latest case of Trump sowing disinformation.
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President Trump shared a tweet falsely suggesting Democratic nominee Joe Biden is a pedophile, the latest smear from his no-holds-barred reelection campaign.
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The 2020 winner must rebuild an economy slammed by COVID-19. Trump has an edge but Biden seeks to be the Main Street choice to Wall Street’s Trump.
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President Trump has a hard-line position on policing. Joe Biden urges reforms to limit the use of force but rejects calls to ‘defund’ the police.
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Biden laments the loss of a woman who was “not only a giant in her own profession but a beloved figure.”
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President Trump and Joe Biden react to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, calling the Supreme Court justice ‘amazing’ and ‘a voice for freedom.’
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President Trump and Joe Biden both campaigned in Minnesota on Friday, a longtime Democratic bastion that’s now a battleground state.
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Biden pleaded with Republican senators to not push a nominee through, saying such an action would push the country “deeper into the abyss.”
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Trump’s economic vision looks to a long-gone America; Biden’s to the next stage.
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Actor, artist and author Jim Carrey is returning to “Saturday Night Live” to play former Vice President Joe Biden when Season 46 begins next month.
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With seven weeks to go, Biden finds resistance from swing voters who think he’s too liberal. Trump needs to motivate supporters uncertain about voting.
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A majority of Asian American voters prefer Democratic nominee Joe Biden over Republican President Trump, a new poll says.
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Joe Biden marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month with Ricky Martin and Eva Longoria in a Florida visit aimed at boosting support among Latinos and veterans.
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden spoke at a drive-in town hall in Pennsylvania, criticizing Trump over the pandemic and election misinformation.
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Progressives worry Dianne Feinstein wouldn’t be as aggressive in approving judges as Republicans have been during the Trump presidency.
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is committing at least $100 million to help Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in the crucial battleground state of Florida
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These states will probably decide if Joe Biden or President Trump wins the election. And their absentee ballot laws could determine when we find out.
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Trump and Biden both visit the Flight 93 memorial at Shanksville, Pa., to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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Joe Biden launches a fiery attack on President Trump over reports that the president called dead U.S. soldiers “losers” and “suckers.”
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Making empathy central to his campaign, Joe Biden seeks a contrast with President Trump.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden raised $364 million for his election effort in August, a record-shattering sum that will give the Democrat ample resources to compete in the final two months of the campaign
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Biden read a speech in Pittsburgh with more vigor that Trump’s low-energy RNC performance. He needs to get out a lot more, hold a press conference or two and show he deserves the support that is still largely anti-Trump.
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At the DNC, Democrats heard from Joe Biden’s children Ashley and Hunter Biden and saw a tribute to Beau Biden.
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Convention speakers, burned by 2016’s loss and anxious about voting during the pandemic, plead with Democrats to vote. The nominee closes with hope.
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Steph Curry and Ayesha Curry discussed the election in a lighthearted video with their two daughters.
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A Long Beach backyard turns into a DNC watch party. Socially distanced, of course.
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Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president on the final night of the four-night, all-virtual DNC
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Joe Biden made his case for a major course correction in America, laying out his vision for a return to calm and stability as he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Joe Biden’s hometown of Wilmington is known for its small size and relationship-based politics. But just as in national politics, backlash has been brewing against the status quo.
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Joe Biden, storied speechifier whose verbal gaffes have come under scrutiny, had a stutter as a child. How he overcame it says a lot about his character and speaking style.
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Joe Biden met a 13-year-old boy with a stutter in New Hampshire and offered advice from his own challenge with stuttering.
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Joe Biden has made much of his ability to reach across the partisan divide, but the gap has widened since his years as a senator and since Trump.
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Obama’s choice of a vice president altered the course of Joe Biden’s career. It also is shaping how Biden is going about choosing his own running mate.
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In the running mates’ first joint appearance, both hew toward the party’s center, disappointing the left, but a possible general election plus.
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In a preelection report, the director of national intelligence’s office says Russia is actively trying to denigrate Joe Biden, China “prefers” that President Trump loses reelection, and Iran is seeking to undermine U.S. democracy.
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A look at where President Trump and Joe Biden stand on key issues in the 2020 election, including healthcare, immigration, police reform and climate.
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Joe Biden’s pledges to ‘change the system’ echo Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and reflect a new American reality.
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Joe Biden has a testy exchange with a prominent Black radio personality over the Democrat’s support among Black voters and his running-mate decision.
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Joe Biden’s wife, former Second Lady Jill Biden, closed out Tuesday night’s session of the DNC.
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Cindy McCain joins a growing list of high-profile Republicans crossing party lines to help Joe Biden’s candidacy against President Trump.
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We must seize this moment of opportunity to address all the issues that have denied the promise of this nation to so many for so long.
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Biden likens Trump to violent segregationists in response to George Floyd protests, decries gassing of demonstrators for a church ‘photo-op.’
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Joe Biden’s plan for rebuilding the economy hinges heavily on clean-energy investment and would rapidly reverse the Trump era’s retreat on climate.
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Facing dire political straits, the former vice president steps out and holds forth before reporters in Manchester, N.H.
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While Elizabeth Warren is surging, Joe Biden is back at center stage in the Democratic debate. Still, he can’t shake doubts about his age and agility.
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Twenty-five years ago, after passing the most sweeping anti-crime bill in history, Democrats were ecstatic, convinced they’d not only addressed a top concern of voters but finally shed the party’s soft-on-crime label.
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Joe Biden doubles down on his argument that he is the Democrats’ best bet to take on President Trump, but there are risks to that strategy.
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Joe Biden raged at the gun lobby, congressional Republicans and President Trump as he spoke about the deadly Saugus High School shooting. Biden held his first rally in California since he joined the 2020 presidential race.
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As he moves toward formally entering the Democratic presidential race, Joe Biden has repeatedly expressed regret for how he handled one of the most consequential challenges of his career in the Senate — the 1991 hearings into Anita Hill’s sexual harassment allegations against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.
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Joe Biden is carrying a 20th century voting record into a 21st century political dogfight.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden defended his record on busing black students and desegregation Friday, after a contentious exchange with Sen. Kamala Harris.
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Vice President Joe Biden stood silently beside his family, huddled in grief as Delaware’s elected officials offered words of tribute to the memory of his son Beau, who will be buried Saturday after dying of cancer at the age of 46.
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Joseph “Beau” Biden, the son of Vice President Joe Biden and a promising young figure in Democratic Party politics, died Saturday of brain cancer at Walter Reed Medical Center near Washington, his father said.
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Joe Biden touts White House progress on gun control.
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Biden pushes gun background-check plan.
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Biden to nudge Iraq on sluggish efforts to form a government.
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The vice presidential candidates stick mostly to the economy and the wars in their only campaign debate.
![Alex Rosado, a member of Unite Here Local 11 in Los Angeles, is hitting the streets as a canvasser in Phoenix, Ariz., for the rest of the election cycle to turn Arizona blue in the presidential election. "I want to make sure that I'm one of the people responsible for getting [Trump] out of office." Photo courtesy of Maria Hernandez.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/96f08bd/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1386x924+75+0/resize/840x560!/format/webp/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fbc%2Fb4%2Ffadf46e64e4fba157ce302e408f0%2Fla-pol-na-pol-2020-arizona-democratic-volunteers01.JPG)
