by Jim Heath | Mar 7, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
He’s a scrappy liberal politician from a a state Democrats would like to win in 2020, but today Sen. Sherrod Brown said no thanks to a White House bid. That’s bad news for progressives who had hoped to support a younger and less divisive Bernie Sanders who...
by Jim Heath | Mar 1, 2019 | 2020, Headlines
Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) announced his presidential candidacy today, hoping to seize a key moment in the climate change debate. Inslee, 68, a former Seattle congressman, has a long history of campaigning on climate issues and has been a vocal critic of President Trump...
by Jim Heath | Feb 25, 2019 | 2020, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Headlines
In the final months of the 2016 campaign, Bernie Sanders refused to fly commercial and repeatedly requested, and received, the use of a carbon-spewing private jet for himself and his traveling staff when he served as a surrogate campaigner for Hillary Clinton. In the...
by Jim Heath | Feb 19, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Senator Bernie Sanders, 77, the Vermont independent and 2016 Democratic primary runner-up whose populist policy agenda has helped push the party to the left, embarked today on a second run for president. The self-styled democratic socialist whose calls for “Medicare...
by Jim Heath | Feb 18, 2019 | 2020, Headlines, Kamala Harris
Campaigning in New Hampshire today, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) told a crowd that she would push for the federal government to rename Columbus Day “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” That’s a focal point for some progressives who say the holiday should emphasize the...
by Jim Heath | Feb 12, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Mark Kelly, an American astronaut and husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, is running for US Senate in Arizona in 2020. Kelly announced today that he would seek the late John McCain’s seat, which Sen. Martha McSally was appointed to last year after losing her Senate...
