by Jim Heath | Mar 18, 2019 | 2020, Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke, Democrats, Headlines, Kamala Harris
To those who doubted whether former Rep. Beto O’Rourke would be a fundraising juggernaut as a presidential candidate can put those doubts to rest. O’Rourke raised $6.1 million in his first 24 hours as a presidential candidate, surpassing Bernie Sanders and...
by Jim Heath | Mar 17, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) today cast herself in a new video as “a leader who makes big, bold, brave choices” and announced she would hold a rally outside one of President Trump’s hotels later this month. Gillibrand, 52, made the announcement on Twitter and...
by Jim Heath | Mar 16, 2019 | 2020, Debates, Democrats, Headlines
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) said today that his campaign raised enough individual donors to guarantee a spot at the first Democratic Party debate of the 2020 cycle. Buttigieg said on Twitter that his team had received more than 76,000 individual donations,...
by Jim Heath | Mar 14, 2019 | 2020, Beto O'Rourke, Democrats, Headlines
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke is young and energetic, with the ability to raise unlimited cash, unite factions of the Democratic Party, draw Independents, and attract huge enthusiastic crowds. Now he wants to be President of the United States. “This is a defining...
by Jim Heath | Mar 11, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Democrats are picking Milwaukee as the host city for the Democratic National Convention in 2020, four years after presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s loss in Wisconsin contributed to the election of President Trump. Clinton was the first Democrat since Walter...
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...
