This Is the Line to Get Into Buttigieg’s New Hampshire Rally
Former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg is holding a get-out-the-vote rally in Nashau, New Hampshire, this morning ahead of Tuesday’s primary, following his strong showing in Iowa. Here’s the line to get in: Daniel Schulman/Mother JonesIt curves around the corner and down the next block. And this is the entryway to the auditorium:
The 2020 Candidates Got Together to Discuss One of Their Biggest Threats. No, Not Donald Trump.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP The name that loomed over Saturday’s “Our Rights, Our Courts” candidate forum in Concord, New Hampshire was not Donald Trump. It was Mitch McConnell. The wily Republican Senate leader has bedeviled the Democrats for years. He denied Barack Obama a Supreme Court Justice, then helped to deliver Trump two. He invoked the…
The Democrats Hug It Out
Elise Amendola/AP A day after the four-year anniversary of Marco Rubio’s decapitation at the hands of Chris Christie, the Democrats have shown that they are not afraid to hug it out. The stakes are high for a few candidates on the debate stage. Elizabeth Warren needs to take out Bernie Sanders. Joe Biden needs to…
Did Tom Steyer Just Make a Good Point?
Charles Krupa/AP Billionaire and philanthropist Tom Steyer—who is currently polling at 2 percent nationally—just delivered what may turn out to be the best line of Friday night’s Democratic presidential debate. As the other candidates squabbled over health care, Steyer refocused the conversation by quoting the infamous phrase from Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign: “It’s the economy,…
The GOP Is Sending Out Political Mailers That Look Like Official Census Documents
Here’s something sleazy: In 2019, the state of Montana had to twice warn voters about mailers from the Republican National Committee disguised to look like official 2020 Census documents. They were actually requests for money and voter information to help re-elect President Donald Trump. But the GOP hasn’t stopped. In response to our recent request for your political…
Bernie to the Iowa Caucuses: Drop Dead
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during a news conference at his New Hampshire headquarters, on Thursday, February 6, 2020 in Manchester, N.H. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Before hordes of international press who had trudged through a slushy hellscape in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Thursday afternoon, Bernie Sanders announced what he’d waited three days to say:…