by Jim Heath | Feb 11, 2019 | 2020, Headlines, Immigration, Trump
The showdown between Donald Trump and Beto O’Rourke started with the president ratcheting up his rhetoric on immigration and the border wall at a campaign rally in O’Rourke’s home town. It spilled over at a sports complex across the street, where O’Rourke was...
by Jim Heath | Feb 10, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) announced today she’s running for president in 2020, becoming the fifth U.S. senator to jump into the race to defeat President Trump. Standing on a snow-covered stage in Boom Island Park in Minneapolis, where the temperatures had dipped to a...
by Jim Heath | Feb 9, 2019 | 2020, Congress, Headlines
A naval battle just might be on the horizon in one of Houston’s most competitive Congressional districts. Navy veteran and science teacher Elisa Cardnell, a Democrat, has filed papers with the Federal Election Commission to challenge newly-elected U.S. Rep. Dan...
by Jim Heath | Feb 9, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Headlines
Senator Elizabeth Warren, the 69-year-old Massachusetts Democrat, officially launched her campaign for president at a rally today in Lawrence, Massachusetts, one of New England’s poorest and most heavily Latino communities. “I am a candidate for president...
by Jim Heath | Feb 4, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines, Polls
A new poll shows former Vice President Joe Biden leading the potential Democratic field, and he’s giving everyone he’s seen in recent weeks the feeling that he’s very close to saying yes. The Monmouth poll finds that among a possible field of 19 announced and...
by Jim Heath | Feb 1, 2019 | 2020, Headlines
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today slammed former Starbucks CEO and possible 2020 presidential candidate Howard Schultz, calling him a “total idiot.” Brown made the comments during a stop on his speaking tour in Iowa. A voter asked Ohio’s senior senator if he was...
