by Jim Heath | Feb 16, 2019 | Debates, Democrats, Headlines
A growing Democratic field of presidential candidates find themselves now just four months away from their first televised debates.. The Democratic National Committee has announced media partnership plans for the first two debates in the 2020 presidential primary...
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...
by Jim Heath | Feb 11, 2019 | Democrats, Headlines
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) apologized this afternoon for what many saw as anti-Semitic comments perpetuating the stereotype that Jews control politics with money. Omar’s mea culpa came as prominent members of both parties denounced the first-term congresswoman’s...
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, 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 6, 2019 | Democrats, Headlines
All three of Virginia’s statewide elected leaders are fighting to save their political lives in the midst of a rapidly evolving series of crises that threatens both their own survival and their party’s electoral chances later this year. In a state saddled by racial...
