Month: October 2019

COLUMBIA, S.C.— When Sens. Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders make their first early-primary state appearances of 2019 on Monday, the location won’t be by chance. As the first Southern state to vote in 2020 — and, more importantly, the first state where African-Americans will cast a majority of primary votes — South Carolina looms as a crucible for both potential presidential candidates. Each has something to prove here, though for different reasons. For Booker, the…

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President Donald Trump is in a fight over immigration — with himself. Trump denied on Tuesday that he is “cleaning house” at the Department of Homeland Security. But on Wednesday, the White House was eyeing a replacement for a senior DHS official whose job congressional Republicans are trying to save. The president has also said he has no plans to renew the administration’s highly controversial migrant child separation policy — even as officials throughout the…

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President Donald Trump insisted Monday that he is polling ahead of what he called the “Motley Crew” of 2020 Democratic White House hopefuls, despite leaked internal polling by his own reelection campaign showing him lagging former Vice President Joe Biden in several battleground states. “Only Fake Polls show us behind the Motley Crew,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “We are looking really good, but it is far too early to be focused on that. Much work…

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One of the Democrats running for president is a youthful former Rhodes Scholar who speaks more than one language and cut his teeth as a two-term mayor. The other is Pete Buttigieg. Buttigieg’s sparkling résumé has been the subject of countless profiles, powering the South Bend mayor to the top tier of the 2020 field. Sen. Cory Booker, however, hasn’t received nearly as much attention and remains mired in the middle of the pack in…

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Joe Biden’s campaign announced Friday that he raised $6.3 million on his first day as an announced candidate, placing him atop the crowded Democratic primary in terms of first-day fundraising totals and quelling doubts about his ability to raise enough money to compete. His surprising total — Biden has not been a candidate on his own since 2008 — far exceeded expectations set by those who suggested the establishment-oriented politician couldn’t compete in the new…

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Click:metal cnc machining Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned at President Donald Trump’s request on Wednesday, ending a tumultuous tenure marked by repeated public humiliations and raising new questions about the fate of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Word of the Justice Department leader’s ouster came via a Twitter post from Trump, who thanked the former Alabama senator for his service and announced that Sessions’ chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, would take over as acting sttorney…

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Former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel, who last week announced the end of his presidential campaign, endorsed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders Tuesday in the 2020 White House race. Click Here: Tienda cruz azul “Bernie has a program that benefits all Americans, not just the 1 percent. He will be a great president for all Americans,” Gravel said in a video posted to Twitter. “We have a simple choice,” he continued. “We can have a Democratic socialism…

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HANOVER, N.H. — Joe Biden’s campaign wanted to make Friday a celebration of the time Barack Obama chose him as his running mate. But on the stump, the Democratic presidential candidate veered off message and posed an out-of-nowhere hypothetical: What if the first black president had been killed? "Imagine what would have happened if, God forbid, Barack Obama had been assassinated after becoming the de facto nominee,” Biden said. “What would have happened in America?”…

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Beto O’Rourke is expanding his national staff despite a weak fundraising quarter, adding a number of senior hires. Nick Rathod, a Democratic operative who served as President Barack Obama’s liaison to state officials, has been hired as a senior national political adviser, a campaign spokesperson confirmed to POLITICO on Friday. Adnan Mohamed, who was deputy national political director for Rep. Seth Moulton’s presidential campaign, has been named national political director. Anna Korman, who worked with…

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Nearly 40 percent of registered voters surveyed in a new poll are concerned about the integrity of the results of the upcoming presidential race, echoing warnings of electoral interference blared on both sides of the aisle. Asked how they would feel if their preferred candidate were to lose next year’s election, 20 percent of those polled said they would be “not very confident” that the 2020 election “had been conducted in a fair-and-square way." Eighteen…

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