GOP leader says Biden should suspend his campaign: It’s the ‘rightful thing’
McCarthy also accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi of hurting the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 14, 2020McCarthy also accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi of hurting the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 14, 2020Presidential hopefuls look to break out as the first nominating contest draws near.
By Associated Press - January 14, 2020The former secretary of Housing and Urban Development never really gained traction in the Democratic field.
By Emily Singer - January 02, 2020A winnowed field of presidential hopefuls will come together for Thursday night’s debate.
By Associated Press - December 19, 2019All the 2020 candidates who qualified for the December debate say they’ll stand by campus workers protesting for better wages and affordable health insurance.
By Associated Press - December 13, 2019There’s bad news out of Georgia for Donald Trump, who also faces difficult impeachment numbers in the state.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 13, 2019Democrats see an opportunity to make inroads in Iowa with union voters frustrated by the GOP’s attacks on unions.
By Associated Press - November 10, 2019Warren released her plan days after 2020 rival Bernie Sanders said he doesn’t intend to release a plan for how his Medicare for All proposal would be paid for.
By Associated Press - November 01, 2019For the first time since the House announced an impeachment inquiry, 12 candidates will meet on the debate stage Tuesday night at 8 p.m. ET.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 15, 2019Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders suffered a blocked artery and is off the campaign trail until he recovers.
By Associated Press - October 02, 2019The Republican congressman from Texas mocked Sen. Bernie Sanders for wanting to take care of veterans.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 17, 2019Ten Democrats take the stage in Detroit to discuss their plans to create a better America.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 30, 2019Trump can’t get more than 44% support when facing top Democratic challengers in a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 15, 2019The race to oust Trump from the White House continues Thursday night at 9 pm ET.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 27, 2019The NRA has repeatedly opposed laws restricting gun violence in Maryland, but a would-be murderer who targeted Sens. Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris said the state’s laws blocked him from getting a gun.
By Oliver Willis - June 14, 2018Sen. Bernie Sanders made it quite clear where the blame lies regarding the epidemic of gun violence in America.
By Tommy Christopher - May 20, 2018On the heels of Donald Trump’s failure to repeal Obamacare, Democrats are already formulating a strategy to capitalize on Trump’s ostensible overtures for bipartisanship. Whether those overtures are genuine or not, they provide Democrats with an opportunity to pressure Trump and the Republicans to improve the current health care system, rather than trying to make […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 27, 2017The consensus, even in the corporate media, is that CBO report on the Republican’s Obamacare repeal plan is abysmal. The report shows that the plan, backed by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Donald Trump, will result in 24 million fewer Americans having health coverage over the next ten years. And amazingly, the White House’s own internal estimates for […]
By Matthew Chapman - March 14, 2017When it was revealed during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that Russian bots (computer algorithm controlled social media accounts) on Twitter had masqueraded as “Bernie Bros” during the 2015-2016 election cycle, it was not news to me — it was confirmation of my experience. During the campaign season, I was vocal on Twitter about my […]
By Leah McElrath - April 02, 2017A State of Denial Susan Glasser, an editor at Politico, recently wrote an article about the media, “Covering Politics in a Post-Truth America,” that was published by the Brookings Institute. Much of Glasser’s article discusses some of her own interesting history as a journalist and how the mainstream media in Washington, D.C., has evolved over […]
By T.R. Ramachandran - December 13, 2016During the most intense period of the Democratic primaries, I wrote about Bernie Sanders’ laudable willingness to address sexism head on. Here is what he said early in the campaign: “I think for a variety of reasons, Hillary Clinton has been under all kinds of attack for many, many years. In fact, I can’t think of […]
By Peter Daou - November 02, 2016Here is Bernie Sanders speaking as directly as he ever has on the choice facing voters in November: .@BernieSanders: Voting for anyone but Clinton essentially "a vote for Trump." https://t.co/liTKZNYuTx #ThisWeek https://t.co/9e2gM17mAz — ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 2, 2016 The evidence is overwhelming that the next president of the United States is going to […]
By Peter Daou - October 02, 2016