As the field of candidates vying for the Democratic nomination converged in Las Vegas two years and one day after the nation’s deadliest mass shooting, a consensus emerged that the majority of the American public crave common-sense gun control measures.
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Bernie Sanders said, “I hate asking people for money” — and then asked for money. Joe Biden’s campaign warned that President Trump would “feel like he won” if a fundraising goal wasn’t reached. And Beto O’Rourke offered to “try to text you” in exchange for $5.
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A national poll of likely Democratic primary voters released Tuesday has former Vice President Joe Biden shedding support and settling into a statistical three-way tie with Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders continue to stand as the top three Democratic presidential candidates based on new polling Tuesday out of California and New York.
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Democratic presidential candidates are releasing their plans to address climate change before a series of town halls on the issue as the party’s base increasingly demands aggressive action.
Read moreThe Democratic National Committee will recommend scrapping state plans to offer virtual, telephone-based caucuses in 2020 due to security concerns, sources tell The Associated Press.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden maintains a solid lead over other 2020 presidential hopefuls – though all top Democratic candidates would beat President Donald Trump in a matchup – a poll found Wednesday.
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Racism in America is an institutional “white man’s problem visited on people of color,” former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday, and that the way to attack the issue is to defeat President Donald Trump and hold him responsible for deepening the nation’s racial divide.
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A poll released Monday shows a three-way tie for the lead in the 2020 Democratic presidential race, with Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders catching up to former Vice President Joe Biden.
Read moreThe Democratic National Committee on Saturday quashed a push from climate activists and some national party members who want a 2020 presidential primary debate devoted exclusively to the climate crisis.
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Several polls released Tuesday tell a similar story: Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to lead the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, regardless of his performance on the campaign trail or debate stage.
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Days after his appearance in a Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, where he sparred with front-runner Joe Biden over criminal-justice reform, Senator Cory Booker widened his focus at a town hall Monday at the start of his ninth sweep across South Carolina.
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The day after Democratic presidential candidates duked it out over the future of the party in the second round of debates, a poll released Wednesday shows nearly half of independent voters think the Democratic Party leans too far to the left.
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The second of two Democratic presidential debates held in Detroit and broadcast on CNN wraps up Wednesday night with the remaining 10 candidates. If it goes like Tuesday’s event, viewers can expect spirited back-and-forth discussion on issues like health care, racism, gun violence and foreign policy as candidates tried to generate campaign momentum.
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Amid the second round of Democratic primary debates, the public at large sees a party that is deeply divided as it searches for the best way to unseat a deeply unpopular president.
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Gaining traction for his longtime ambition of Medicare for All, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders left Tuesday’s debate in Detroit with more than memorable zingers.
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Ten Democratic presidential candidates faced off in a frenetic debate in Detroit Tuesday night that pitted progressives against moderates in a battle over the ideals that will shape the future of the party, and, perhaps, the country.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden solidified his lead of the pack of Democratic presidential candidates, regaining ground lost after a widely panned performance in the first debate according to a Quinnipiac poll published Monday.
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Rehabilitating a slogan first popularized by World War II-era fascist sympathizers in the United States, President Donald Trump appealed to economic nationalism in his first campaign with cries of “America First.”
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Democratic candidates for president converge in downtown Detroit this week for two nights of debate on CNN. Nine of them already appeared in the area last week at the NAACP’s national convention.
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