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Police and law enforcement agencies have a higher approval rating than President Joe Biden. According to a Thursday NBC survey, Biden is less popular than police and other law enforcement agencies by 8 percent. The poll shows Biden has a 50 percent approval rating while police and law enforcement agencies have a 58 percent approval rating. What’s more popular than Joe Biden and baseball? The police. https://t.co/J10Yo3xqYjpic.twitter.com/EXeQXrqnKI The poll comes after the President addressed Congress to further radical social welfare programs and packages, receiving the lowest ratings in ...

(AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) Not a lot of attention has been paid nationally to the Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary race because former governor Terry McAuliffe is considered to be a shoo-in for the nomination. In fact, a New York Times report from Thursday asked if “anyone [can] take on Terry McAuliffe,” considering his deep Democratic connections and apparent popularity with Democratic voters in the state due to his previous stint as governor: There’s been scant polling in this race, but McAuliffe is regarded as a clear front-runner, partly because of his formidable connect...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Steve Helber Well, he’s swinging for the fences on this one. Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax decided to go nuclear with the identity politics when he compared himself to Emmett Till and George Floyd. Till was brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Floyd was killed in an officer-involved incident in Minneapolis last summer which set off months of unrest across the country. The officer involved in the incident, Derek Chauvin, is currently on trial for Floyd’s death. Fairfax made this declaration during the Democratic gubernatorial primary deb...

Snarky Tweets Shouldn’t Override Smarts. But They Did for Neera Tanden Time 3/3/2021 Philip Elliott © Anna Moneymaker—Pool/AFP/Getty Images Neera Tanden, nominee for Director of the Office of Management and Budget, testifies during a Senate Committee on the Budget hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Feb. 10, 2021. This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. In the end, it wasn’t any one tweet that disqualified Neera Tanden from joining President Joe Biden’s Cabin...