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-27 posts tagged "Joe Biden"
Observer Staff Report | Friday, January 15, 2021
Rachel Palermo, a third-year Notre Dame Law student will work as assistant press secretary to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris after President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated next week, according to a Jan. 8 Biden-Harris press release. Palermo completed her undergraduate degree at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, and from there, worked for the Democratic National Committee
Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is expected to be nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to be his transportation secretary, according to sources close to the President-elect. The secretary of transportation oversees federal transportation programs and an agency with about 58,000 employees. After dropping out of the presidential race, Buttigieg endorsed Biden for president. Buttigieg
Observer Staff Report | Friday, December 11, 2020
On Friday, President-elect Joe Biden nominated Denis McDonough, a professor of the practice of public policy in the Keough School of Global Affairs, to the position of secretary of veterans affairs, permitting Senate approval. McDonough has been a Notre Dame faculty member since 2017, teaching courses on public policy analysis and formulation as well as
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, November 10, 2020
When I was about nine, I fell off my bike. My brother and I had ridden our bikes to the park, and on the way back, I veered off the sidewalk, fell on the pavement and skinned my knee. It was a pretty nasty fall — my poor, seven-year-old brother stared at me with wide
Observer Staff Report | Monday, November 9, 2020
Democratic candidate Joe Biden was elected the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, after days of ballot counting and uncertainty. Biden received more votes in the 2020 election than any other presidential candidate in the country’s history. Biden, 77, defeated President Donald Trump after he was projected to win Pennsylvania and secured 290
Serena Zacharias | Wednesday, November 4, 2020
With several states still counting ballots, no clear winner has been determined and the 2020 presidential election is expected to continue for days. Trump secured the electoral votes of battleground states including Florida, Ohio and Iowa early Wednesday, but a number of other key states — Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — are still too
Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, November 4, 2020
7 p.m. — President Donald Trump wins Kentucky, and Democrat Joe Biden wins Vermont, the Associated Press reports. 7:10 p.m. — Flaherty Hall: As the first polls begin to close, the energy in Flaherty Hall is almost like any other night. Watch parties have not yet begun, and students shuffle out the doors to get
Isabella Volmert | Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Associate News Editor Isabella Volmert talked to Notre Dame political science experts over the course of Tuesday night as the primary votes came in across the country. 6:44 p.m. — Joshua Kaplan, political science department’s director of undergraduate studies Isabella Volmert: Looking to the rest of the night, this presidential election is very different than
Letter to the Editor | Monday, October 19, 2020
Some moments in life are so significant, so integral to your story, that they become forever ingrained in your memory. One such instance that has been on my mind recently is from when I boarded the airplane that would take me from London to my first semester at this spectacular institution. It would be the
Clark Bowden | Thursday, October 15, 2020
Donald Trump may be one of the best things to happen to America. Now for those of you who have read my columns before (a number I’m fairly certain I could count on two hands), you know me to be a left wing bleeding heart liberal … and you’d be correct. So my opening sentence