by Jim Heath | Aug 9, 2020 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines, Joe Biden
Bernie Sanders and John Kasich will share a night in the spotlight with prominent speaking roles at the all-virtual Democratic National Convention later this month. Kasich — the former tea-party backed Republican governor of Ohio who has become a major critic of...
by Jim Heath | Jul 30, 2020 | 2020, Analysis, Battlegrounds, Democrats, Headlines, Joe Biden
Once ignored, underfunded and often written off, Democratic state party organizations are harvesting record-setting cash heading into the 2020 election, reasserting their roles inside the Democratic infrastructure after suffering for years in competition with super...
by Jim Heath | Jul 22, 2020 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines, Joe Biden
Former President Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden recently took part in a socially distanced conversation to discuss Biden’s presidential bid and the future of the U.S. amid the coronavirus pandemic. Video of the conversation, which will be released in...
by Jim Heath | Jun 23, 2020 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines, Joe Biden
Joe Biden, with the support of his onetime boss former President Barack Obama, raised more than $7 million tonight, the largest haul from a single fundraiser to date for the former vice president’s campaign. Obama, in their first joint fundraiser of the cycle,...
by Jim Heath | Jun 14, 2020 | 2020, Analysis, Democrats, GOP, Joe Biden, Polls, Trump
For the past four decades in American politics, the comparison any first-term president has most wanted to avoid is to Jimmy Carter. That’s not entirely fair, since Carter governed at an exceptionally difficult time, in the shadow of Vietnam and Watergate and at the...
by Jim Heath | Apr 16, 2020 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines, Joe Biden
The former chairman of the Democratic National Committee suggested today that party officials explore “creative” alternatives to holding a national convention in Milwaukee this August. Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who led the 2000 Democratic...
