by Jim Heath | Jul 6, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines, Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg stunned the Democratic presidential field with a nearly $25 million second-quarter fundraising haul. Now he needs to figure out how to use that money to build a campaign that can go the distance against nearly two dozen rivals — many of them better...
by Jim Heath | Jul 2, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines, Kamala Harris, Polls
Kamala Harris’ polling surge continued today, as a pair of new polls — one of Iowa caucus-goers and another national poll — shows her leaping to second place. The Iowa poll, conducted by USA Today and Suffolk University, showed Biden at 24 percent to 16 percent...
by Jim Heath | Jun 27, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Don’t accuse Americans of not being interested in who might replace Donald Trump as president next year. More than 15 million viewers tuned in for part one of the 2020 presidential election’s first primary debate on television Wednesday night. The Nielsen...
by Jim Heath | Jun 26, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Headlines
Immigration politics exploded to the front-burner of the Democratic primary process tonight as presidential hopefuls blasted President Trump in the wake of the deaths of a Salvadoran man and his two-year-old daughter, drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande....
by Jim Heath | Jun 24, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) proposed today eliminating all $1.6 trillion of student debt held in the United States, a significant escalation of the policy fight in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary two days before the candidates’ first debate in Miami. Sanders...
by Jim Heath | Jun 23, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Joe Sestak, a former Navy admiral and congressman from Pennsylvania, has joined the crowded field of Democratic candidates running for president in 2020. With an announcement on his website, Sestak became the 25th Democratic candidate running for president. “I wore...
