Biden and Sanders announce joint task force members
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MAY 14, 2020: Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders announced the members of a series of joint task forces. Donald Trump will visit Allentown, Pa., today.
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JOE BIDEN ([link removed]) and Bernie Sanders announced ([link removed]) the members of a series of joint task forces on climate change, criminal justice reform, the economy, education, health care, and immigration. Biden tweeted ([link removed]) , “A united party is key to winning the White House this November. The work of the task forces will be essential to identifying ways to build on our progress and not simply turn the clock back to a time before Donald Trump — but transform our country.”
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DONALD TRUMP ([link removed]) will visit ([link removed]) an Owens and Minor medical supply distribution center in Allentown, Pa., today. According to CBS Philadelphia ([link removed]) , he plans to announce an initiative called the Strategic National Stockpile 2.0. Earlier this week, Trump tweeted ([link removed]) , “Looking forward to being in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Thursday. I love the State, and for very good reason!”
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TRUMP’s administration began working on potential transition plans ([link removed]) , which are required by law to be prepared six months before the presidential election.
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_The Washington Post_ reported ([link removed]) that a “band of exasperated Republicans — including 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, a handful of veteran consultants and members of the conservative intelligentsia” was “commissioning private polling, lining up major funding sources and courting potential contenders” in hopes of running an independent presidential candidate in the November election.
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