They don’t talk to each other much, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But now they’re speaking at one another in a way that threatens party unity and underscores broader tensions reshaping the Democrats.
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U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris picked up steam in the race to become the 2020 Democratic nominee while Joe Biden maintained front-runner status but lost ground in the wake of the two candidates’ heated exchange over civil rights records during last week’s debates, according to a CNN poll released Monday.
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The largest presidential field in modern Democratic politics could shrink quickly as more than half of the contenders are in danger of failing to meet tougher requirements to participate in the fall round of debates.
Read moreIf you don’t want to take 2020 presidential hopeful Andrew Yang’s word for it, ask his robot.
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Defeating the Democratic Party machine, defense attorney Tiffany Cabán landed one step closer Tuesday to fundamentally reshaping criminal justice in Queens. The insurgent candidate for district attorney wants to end the drug war and decriminalize sex work in a borough known for the harsh prosecution of petty crimes.
Read moreNew York City’s most ethnically diverse borough, the landing point for and home to many of the city’s immigrants, will head to the polls Tuesday for a primary that will help decide whether their next top prosecutor will target U.S. immigration officials who violate civil rights.
Read moreJoe Biden refused calls to apologize Wednesday for saying that the Senate “got things done” with “civility” even when the body included segregationists with whom he disagreed.
Read moreMore than 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. spearheaded the Poor People’s Campaign to demand economic justice and an end to systemic racism, activists reviving that effort grilled Democratic presidential candidates at a forum in the nation’s capital Monday on their strategies to provide relief for the millions of Americans who currently live in poverty.
Read moreDemocratic presidential contenders are in a feverish battle to one-up each other with ever-more-ambitious plans to beat back global warming, curb gun violence, offer universal health care coverage, slash student debt and preserve abortion rights. Largely left out of the policy parade is immigration.
Read moreThe Democratic National Committee is upping the ante for its second round of presidential primary debates, doubling the polling and grassroots fundraising requirements from its initial summer debates.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke on Monday announced his first major policy initiative, a $5 trillion plan to combat climate change that he says will keep the Earth from sliding past the point of no return in less than a generation.
Read moreAfter touring the National Lynching Memorial recently in Montgomery, Alabama, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper spoke of the “shame” he felt that some white people “kind of looked the other way during these lynching incidents.”
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidates raised about $75 million during the first quarter for the 2020 election, a lackluster sum spread across more than a dozen campaigns that signals a drawn-out battle likely lies ahead.
Read moreLiberal, pro-labor and anti-corporate cash, the field of Democrats running for president may look like a union activist’s dream. But some key labor leaders are starting to worry about the topics dominating the 2020 conversation.
Read moreFormer Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday defended his interactions with women, saying he does not believe he’s ever acted inappropriately. But a Nevada politician’s assertion that Biden’s kiss on the back of her head made her feel uncomfortable prompted some Democrats to question whether the 76-year-old is too out of step with his own party to run a successful 2020 presidential campaign.
Read moreDemocratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg is riding in the back of a rented minivan to his last event of the day in South Carolina, munching on cold French fries and critiquing his stage performance so far.
Read moreFormer Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke announced Thursday that he’ll seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, ending months of speculation over whether he’d try to translate his newfound political celebrity into a White House bid.
Read moreA majority of Americans say the Democratic Party’s views on climate change, health care, immigration and abortion are more mainstream than the Republican Party’s views, according to a new poll.
Read moreCapping off a thorough trampling of the GOP at the ballot box, California Democrats will enter 2019 with the largest Assembly majority in the modern history of the Golden State.
Read moreIn a blow to Democrats seeking to deny House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi the speaker’s gavel, Representative Marcia Fudge announced Tuesday that she will support her bid to become the next Speaker of the House.
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