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Welcome to DailyMail.com's U.S. politics blog with the biggest stories of the day from the campaign trail and in the corridors of power.
With just nine days until the first presidential debate on CNN, President Joe Biden has received a surprise boost in the polls after months of sagging support.
Biden is also set to announce a new immigration policy that will protect thousands from deportation, sparking fury from the right and celebration from the left.
In Virginia, a MAGA civil war will reach its conclusion with the state's Republican primary tonight.
Follow live coverage from our reporters in Washington D.C. and around the country.
12:24
China now has 500 nuclear weapons and is believed to have carried out its first peacetime deployment of warheads
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12:11
Biden to give hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants who are married to US citizens protection from deportation
President Joe Biden is planning to announce a sweeping new policy Tuesday that would lift the threat of deportation for hundreds of thousands of people married to U.S. citizens, an aggressive election-year action on immigration that had been sought by many Democrats.
Biden will announce the new program at a White House event to celebrate the Obama-era 'dreamers' directive that offered deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, according to three people briefed on the White House plans.
The policy will allow roughly 490,000 spouses of U.S. citizens an opportunity to apply for a 'parole in place' program, which would shield them from deportations and offer them work permits if they have lived in the country for at least 10 years, according to two of the people briefed.
They all spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the announcement publicly.
The White House on Monday declined to comment on the announcement.
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12:09
Biden, 81, gets surprise boost ahead of first debate with Trump
President Joe Biden has received a surprise boost in the polls with just nine days until his first debate with Donald Trump.
After months of sagging support, a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll out Tuesday shows 81-year-old Biden tied with Trump at 49 percent.
Nine percent of voters haven’t yet made up their mind who they will vote for.
25 percent said they have a ‘good idea’ of who they will vote for, but admitted they could ‘still change their mind’.
Six in 10 of the respondents said they plan to watch next Thursday’s primetime showdown on CNN.
12:09
Welcome to DailyMail.com's live US politics blog
Welcome to DailyMail.com's U.S. politics blog with the biggest stories of the day from the campaign trail and in the corridors of power.
With just nine days until the first presidential debate on CNN, President Joe Biden has received a surprise boost in the polls after months of sagging support.
Biden is also set to announce a new immigration policy that will protect thousands from deportation, sparking fury from the right and celebration from the left.
In Virginia, a MAGA civil war will reach its conclusion with the state's Republican primary tonight.
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