Trump, Biden Presidential Campaigns Gave the TV Ad Business a Much Needed Influx of Cash

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticOver three weeks after he was declared the winner of the 2020 election, Joe Biden’s transition to the White House has finally officially started.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPresident Trump still refuses to publicly acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election, but in any event his administration will lose access to the White House accounts on Facebook and Instagram in less than two months.Facebook confirmed that as of Jan. 20, 2021, when president-elect Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th U.S.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsDonald Trump, even after polls continue to show strong support for President-Elect Joe Biden, still hasn’t conceded from the 2020 Presidential race. Instead he’s spreading baseless claims of voter fraud, incorrectly claiming victory and playing golf.“I will say for all the talk about Trump being an aspiring dictator, this is some weak shit,” The Daily Show host Trevor Noah said on Monday night.

Michelle Obama has spoken!

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsFor better or worse, Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie turned heads in October when she faced President Donald Trump during NBC’s Town Hall.During the telecast, which notoriously aired the same time as Joe Biden’s town hall on ABC, Guthrie turned the town hall into an interview with the president, peppering him with questions about his COVID-19 strategy, his tweets and more.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has come under fire for enforcing new stay-at-home orders just days after she was seen in a crowded street applauding the win of President-elect Joe Biden. “I think that we’ve been saying all along everybody has to take care, everybody has to take precaution,” Lightfoot told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle Friday.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday defended her decision to implement a new round of lockdown orders, just days after she joined large crowds celebrating Joe Biden's election victory, saying that sometimes people need “relief” despite her recent calls to cancel traditional Thanksgiving plans.

writing on Twitter, “First I want to say congratulations to both President Elect Joe Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala Harris.

United States of America.Nicola Sturgeon tweeted just moments after it was announced that the Democrat candidate had secured enough votes to claim victory over Donald Trump.The Scottish Government leader also offered her heartfelt congratulations to Vice President elect Kamala Harris who has become the first woman of colour to be elected to the role.Sturgeon wrote: “Congratulations from Scotland to President-Elect Joe Biden and the history-making Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris.”She added:

according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

It’s the biggest battleground map in recent presidential elections – with roughly 12 swing states up for grabs on the eve of the 2020 election. But in final hours before Election Day, some battleground states are grabbing more attention than others.

President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden offered sharply different visions of how to handle the surging pandemic and fought over how much Trump pays in taxes during their final debate of a tumultuous campaign. With Trump trailing and needing to change the campaign's trajectory, the debate could prove pivotal though more than 46 million votes already have been cast and there are fewer undecided voters than at this point in previous election years.

Despite President Trump threatening to release footage from his shortened interview with Lesley Stahl ahead of its 60 Minutes airing, CBS News beat him to the punch, releasing on Thursday morning the first preview clips of both the president's sit-down with Stahl and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's interview with Norah O'Donnell. In excerpts shown on CBS This Morning, Trump is asked about his domestic priorities and what the U.S.' greatest foreign adversary is.

2020 presidential debates is just about here. After a chaotic first matchup between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, a more subdued (but still buzzy) vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris, and dueling Trump-Biden town hall events in lieu of a second debate, the whole process has felt long and, at times, extremely disorderly.

A recent Gallup poll found 77% of registered voters said the outcome of the November election between President Trump and Joe Biden matters more to them than prior U.S. elections.  That represents an uptick of 6 percentage points from 2016 when Trump faced of against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

"Saturday Night Live" took aim at President Trump and Joe Biden's town halls and likened the Democratic nominee to a television icon. Jim Carrey again took on the role of Joe Biden, who fielded questions from audience members regarding his proposed policies, and while the sketch implied that both events were relatively uninformative, they poked fun at Biden's mannerisms.

once again mined the endless mill of comedy that comes from a presidential election season for this week's «cold open.» The show mocked Joe Biden and Donald Trump's simultaneous town hall appearances that were held on NBC and ABC on Thursday.Jim Carrey returned to play Biden at a town hall moderated by George Stephanopoulos (played by Mikey Day), who described the vibe they were going for as, «Poorly attended college lecture.»The sketch switched back and forth between Biden's town hall and