Former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, who jumped into the presidential race in the aftermath of his powerhouse 2018 U.S. Senate campaign, has struggled in his transition to the national political stage and slipped in recent polls. But the Democratic debates, the first round being held in Miami on Wednesday and Thursday, could help elevate candidates who exceed expectations.
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Senator Bernie Sanders, considered a frontrunner in the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential race, announced a plan Monday to cancel all existing student loan debt and send everyone to college.
Read moreTwenty Democratic presidential candidates attending a Planned Parenthood forum on Saturday vowed to defend abortion rights under nearly any circumstance while largely ignoring nuances around the issue that have already roiled their party heading into the 2020 election.
Read moreA poll released Tuesday shows former Vice President Joe Biden’s lead over President Donald Trump slipping in three key Midwestern battleground states.
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 moreFlexing his muscle as the former head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Democratic presidential hopeful Julian Castro shifted his focus Monday to a familiar issue: housing challenges facing Americans that he says have worsened under President Donald Trump.
Read moreSenator Amy Klobuchar and fellow Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg pitched their bid for office before a sold out crowd of Virginia Democrats Saturday night, just a week and a half before the first debates take place.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Julian Castro put on his hat as former head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in a visit Friday to a mobile home park where residents were recently stunned by rent increases by the new out-of-state owners.
Read moreWith an invitation to the first Democratic presidential debates officially in tow, Congressman Eric Swalwell returned to his home state of California on Friday to build on his image with the tech industry and millennial voters.
Read moreBetsy Sweet, a progressive Democrat who ran for governor of Maine last year, has announced her bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins.
Read morePresident Donald Trump says if a foreign power were offering dirt on his 2020 opponent, he’d be open to accepting it and would have no obligation to call in the FBI.
Read morePromising to undo what he calls an assault on LGBTQ rights under the Trump administration, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke rolled out a new plan Wednesday to strengthen federal protections for gay and transgender people in the United States that calls for the reversal of several Trump policies, including the transgender troop ban.
Read moreWhile national headlines may point to the re-election of the state’s most notorious legislators, Virginia voters made a number of surprising choices in Tuesday’s primary election that some say paved the way for Democrats to take full control over the once deeply red state.
Read moreAs Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn await possible contempt proceedings, House lawmakers voted Tuesday to pass a resolution allowing congressional committee chairs to enforce subpoenas in court if their requests go ignored.
Read moreThe Democrat-controlled House of Representatives filed an appeal Monday night to the D.C. Circuit challenging a federal judge’s denial of its request to freeze funds tapped for the construction of a wall at the southern border.
Read moreBolstered by a string of concrete policy proposals, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is gaining support among Bernie Sanders supporters and other Democrats as the two prominent progressives try to cut into former Vice President Joe Biden’s lead in the polls.
Read moreHouse Democrats have scheduled a series of hearings this coming week on the special counsel’s report as they intensify their focus on the Russia probe and pick up the pace on an investigative “path” — in the words of Speaker Nancy Pelosi — that some of them hope leads to impeachment of the president.
Read moreDemocratic White House hopefuls on Saturday attacked President Donald Trump as harmful to LGBTQ Americans and promised if elected they would not just restore gay rights but expand them.
Read moreAfter two days of intense criticism, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reversed course Thursday and declared that he no longer supports a long-standing congressional ban on using federal health care money to pay for abortions.
Read moreAmid the question of whether Democrats will enact impeachment proceedings, more Americans say they expect President Donald Trump to win re-election in 2020, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
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