Biden reaffirms support for Israel on eve of Passover
US President Joe Biden has reaffirmed his commitment to Israel's security on the eve of the Jewish Passover holiday.
US presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden retained a ten-point lead over Senator Elizabeth Warren in a national poll of likely Democratic primary voters that was released on Monday.
According to SurveyUSA poll, Biden enjoyed the support of 32 per cent of likely Democratic primary voters nationwide, while Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren garnered 22 per cent backing as runner-up, Xinhua news agency reported.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was placed on the third position in the poll, trailing Warren by 5 percentage points.
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California Senator Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican descent, fell behind Sanders by 10 points, signalling a wide gap between the three top-tier contenders and the rest in the field.
In the recent past week, President Trump has attacked Biden with allegations of corruption involving son Hunter Biden’s business ties in Ukraine and China.
In response to that, the Biden campaign has adopted an aggressive strategy to deflect attention back onto alleged abuses committed by Trump.
Trump’s allegations do not seem to have affected support for Biden within the Democratic field, but the former vice president is currently lagging in the fundraising race, having raised about $15.2 million in the third quarter compared to Sanders’s $25.3 million and Warren’s $24.6 million.
Earlier this month, Biden had said that President Trump won’t destroy me or my family over the latter’s call for an investigation against the former Vice President and his son”.
Biden made his comments during a campaign swing through Nevada after days of internal debate among his advisers over how best to refute unsubstantiated claims by the president and his personal lawyer that Biden improperly assisted his son’s business ventures in Ukraine and China.
Later, in the month of August, a whistleblower complaint filed by an unidentified intelligence official alleged that Trump asked Zelensky during the call to probe Biden and his son Hunter, who once worked for Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings that was accused of corruption.
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