No One Has Any Idea If Joe Biden Really Is “Electable”
John Kerry and Joe Biden in the Oval Office in 2014.Andrew Harrer/picture-alliance/dpa/AP The watchword of the 2020 Democratic primary so far is “electability.” As a Hill column recently put it, “Democrats have 23 candidates but just one issue: electability.” Boiled down, that means Democratic voters are likely to choose among the candidate who they believe…
North Carolina’s 9th District Still Doesn’t Have a Congressman. The Guy Behind the “Bathroom Bill” Wants the Job.
In his ads, Dan Bishop wants everyone to remember what the “Right Dan” stands for.A still from Dan Bishop’s campaign ad / YouTube Voters in North Carolina’s 9th District may be a bit exhausted by their democratic duty. They’ve been voting to decide the 2018 midterm election—if you include primaries—for more than a year. The…
Joe Biden’s Climate Plan Copied Language and “Inadvertently” Forgot Citations
NurPhoto/Getty Hours after Democratic candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden released his plan to address climate change Tuesday, individuals and the media began to point out some questionable similarities between passages of the presidential frontrunner’s proposal, posted to his website, and materials from other organizations and websites. Biden’s plan has since been changed to reflect…
Joe Biden Just Released His Green New Deal. He’s Targeting Net Zero Emissions by 2050.
In a 10,400-word campaign policy proposal, the presumptive front-runner for the next Democratic presidential nomination laid out plans to ramp up renewable energy and electric car investments, spurring 10 million jobs over a decade, and ending fossil fuel subsidies. “As president, I will lead America, and the world, not only to confront the crisis in…
Elizabeth Warren’s New Economic Plan Tears into Trump on Trade
Sen. Elizabeth Warren campaigns at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, on May 3, 2019.Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Wire In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Elizabeth Warren, then a wonky law professor teaching at Harvard, led the effort to set up a new federal agency, a financial watchdog that would fight for American consumers against…
John Hickenlooper Has a Curious Connection to a Trump Cabinet Secretary
Mother Jones illustration; ZUMA Press Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s ties to the oil and gas industry run deep, especially when compared to those of other candidates in the unwieldy 2020 Democratic field. In some ways, given that Hickenlooper served two terms in the fifth-largest oil-and-gas-producing state, these connections are not surprising. But what may…