Kamala Harris Endorsed Joe Biden This Morning
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Wire Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) endorsed Joe Biden for president Sunday morning, several months after Harris ended her own historic bid for president. She is just the latest of several former presidential contenders to align behind the former vice president. “We need a leader who really does care about the people and who…
The New York Times Found Some Soviet Files About Bernie Sanders. They’re Pretty Boring.
Charlie Neibergall/AP Late Thursday evening, the New York Times published a provocative-headlined story about Bernie Sanders. Previously unreported records from an archive in Russia detailed the Soviet government’s efforts in the 1980s to use the sister-city relationship between Burlington, Vermont, (where Sanders was mayor) and the Russian city of Yaroslavl as a vehicle for propaganda.…
Trump, Denying Sexism Helped Bring Down Warren, Says Something Sexist About Her
While political pundits fight over what exactly went wrong for Elizabeth Warren, one thing is reasonably agreed upon: The former Harvard law professor was one of the 2020 contest’s most qualified candidates, one whose unrivaled policy expertise became an unlikely but rousing campaign trademark. Not according to Donald Trump. Nope. While speaking at a press…
Sanders Said It Takes a Revolution to Beat Trump. On Super Tuesday, Most Democrats Disagreed.
Bernie Sanders arrives for his primary night rally in Vermont.Matt Rourke/AP Bernie Sanders, the Vermont democratic socialist, has been trying for five years to convince Democratic and independent voters to join a political revolution and back his hostile takeover of the Democratic Party. He has drawn thousands to his mega-rallies. He has inspired millions—many of…
Mike Bloomberg Went All in on Virginia. It Didn’t Pay Off.
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Zuma Since Mike Bloomberg jumped late into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, his entire campaign has been a grand political experiment predicated on a single question: Can the former New York City mayor’s immense wealth and record of philanthropy for progressive causes allow him to upend the traditional primary process, secure…
Michael Bloomberg’s Big Win: American Samoa
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg won the Democratic caucuses in American Samoa, an unincorporated American territory in the South Pacific Ocean, according to CNN. It is unclear whether Bloomberg will be visiting the territory’s most populous island, Tutuila, any time soon. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, of Hawaii, came in second place.