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 19, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Former Vice President Joe Biden came under fire on Wednesday after invoking his working relationships with two segregationist senators in the 1970s as an example of bygone “civility” in the Senate. Five of Biden’s rivals in the Democratic presidential field, New York...
by Jim Heath | Jun 12, 2019 | 2020, Bernie Sanders, Headlines
Senator Bernie Sanders offered a vigorous defense of the democratic socialism that has defined his five decades in political life today, while tying his presidential campaign to the legacies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. Sliding in public polling...
by Jim Heath | May 17, 2019 | 2020, Bernie Sanders, Headlines
In a major education policy speech set to be delivered Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders will call for a ban on all for-profit charter schools, a position that puts him directly at odds with the Trump administration. The Vermont independent also will call for a moratorium...
by Jim Heath | May 9, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Former Vice President Joe Biden leads Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) by a two-to-one margin in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire, according to a new poll. The Monmouth University survey released today found Biden winning 36 percent support, followed...
