2020 Elections

Bernie And Warren Go Viral With Miami Flight Photo

Mediaite reports: A photo of Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) ending up in coach on a flight together is going viral on Twitter. Both of the 2020 election opponents have window seats, with Warren seated behind Sanders in the flight. Twitter politicos were quick to pounce both on the seating arraignment and the senators’ seatmate looking directly …

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Trump Campaign Manager Predicts 2020 Landslide

CBS News reports: President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager predicted in an interview with CBS News that the president would win multiple swing states, including at least three he lost in 2016, if the presidential election were held this week. Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign chief, said the president would win Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina, New Hampshire, New …

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What If Trump Really Won’t Accept Losing In 2020?

Politico reports: In 2016, Donald Trump waffled over whether he would accept the election results if he lost. Since then, Trump has repeatedly joked about staying in office beyond the two terms the Constitution allows. Jerry Falwell Jr., Trump’s most prominent evangelical supporter, has suggested Trump should get two years tacked on to his first term as “pay back” for …

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Elizabeth Warren Unveils Plan To End All Private Prisons

Reuters reports: U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Friday called for the elimination of privately run prisons and detention centers at the federal and state level, arguing they too often place profits above safety. The U.S. senator from Massachusetts also pledged to ban private contractors from charging inmates for routine services such as phone calls, bank transfers and healthcare, …

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Booker Proposes Broad Clemency For Drug Offenders

The New York Times reports: Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey on Thursday announced a plan to offer clemency to more than 17,000 inmates serving time for nonviolent drug-related offenses on the first day of his presidency, an expansive use of executive power that would be the broadest clemency initiative since the Civil War. The plan, which draws heavily on …

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Kamala Harris Unveils Plan To Widen PrEP Availability

Politico reports: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) released a plan Thursday that would seek to slow the spread of HIV by making a preventive drug more accessible. The plan would require that private and public insurance plans cover PrEP without a copay. In addition, insurance companies would be required to cover any tests related to PrEP. The bill also would create …

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Bernie Sanders Rages: The Cat Is Out Of The Bag As “Corporate Dems Are Now Publicly Anybody But Bernie”

This is what Bernie is steaming about: There was a time not so long ago when leading Democrats warned that Elizabeth Warren’s “fantasy-based blue-state populism” risked leading the party to ruin. But in a revealing tell of how far her campaign has come since its early February launch, some unlikely voices in the center of the party are growing more …

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Trump Campaign Claims $24.8M Haul In Last 24 Hours

Axios reports: The head of the RNC and the communications director for President Trump’s 2020 campaign announced Wednesday that Trump’s re-election effort had raised $24.8 million “in less than 24 hours.” A Trump campaign official told ABC News that the sum is a combination of about $14 million from the Trump campaign and about $10 million from the Trump Victory …

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Democrats +8 In 2020 Generic Congressional Survey

Talking Points Memo reports: Democrats have an 8-point edge over Republicans in the generic 2020 congressional ballot, according to a new Economist/YouGov poll released Wednesday. The survey showed 47 percent of registered voters said they intend to vote for the Democratic congressional candidate in their district next year, while 39 percent said the same of the Republican candidate. Another 10 …

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South Carolina Dems Ban All Networks But MSNBC From Live Convention Airing, 21 Candidates To Speak

The Washington Examiner reports: In a first, only one TV outlet — MSNBC — will be allowed to deliver live coverage of Saturday’s South Carolina Democratic Convention where 21 presidential candidates are expected to speak, drawing heated complaints from other networks. C-SPAN, which has never been denied live coverage of a state convention in the network’s 40 years, has reluctantly …

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Trump Rented Buses Across Florida To Pack Rally

The New York Times reports: Despite weeks of hype from the president and his campaign, the official kickoff rally for a re-election campaign that he has been running since the day he took office was, in the end, just another rally. Mr. Trump had no new campaign message to unveil. He had no new theory of the case to mount …

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Joe Biden Drops In At NYC’s Stonewall Inn [VIDEO]

NBC News reports: Those who rebelled at the Stonewall Inn almost 50 years ago could have never imagined who would stroll into the now-iconic bar Tuesday afternoon. After his second fundraiser of the day in New York City, former vice president and current 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden was spotted talking with patrons and taking photos at the West Village …

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Trump Campaign Manager: The US Is “Too Complex Now” For Anybody To Rely On Accurate Polling [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign manager Brad Parscale argued in an interview Tuesday that the country is “too complex now” to rely on polls. Speaking to CBS News before Trump’s 2020 campaign kickoff rally in Orlando, Fla., Parscale followed Trump’s lead in questioning the validity of recent polls. “There are so many ways and different people who …

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POLL: Joe Biden +9 Over Trump In Swing State Florida

Just in from Quinnipiac Polling: In an early look at the 2020 presidential race in Florida, former Vice President Joseph Biden leads President Donald Trump 50 – 41 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders leads President Trump 48 – 42 percent, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University Poll finds. Matchups between Trump and other …

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Orlando Sentinel Endorses “Not Donald Trump” As Trump Kicks Off 2020 Campaign With Orlando Rally

From the editorial board of the Orlando Sentinel: Donald Trump is in Orlando to announce the kickoff of his re-election campaign. We’re here to announce our endorsement for president in 2020, or, at least, who we’re not endorsing: Donald Trump. Some readers will wonder how we could possibly eliminate a candidate so far before an election, and before knowing the …

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Longtime House Dem To Get Primaried From The Left

The Hill reports: Long-time New York Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel has drawn a primary challenger in his 2020 reelection bid who is supported by a key group that backed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in her upset win. Middle school principal and former teacher Jamaal Bowman [photo] launched his progressive campaign on Tuesday to represent New York’s 16th congressional district, pitting …

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SCOTUS Rules For Virginia Dems On Gerrymandering

The Hill reports: The Supreme Court has ruled against the Virginia House of Delegates in a racial gerrymandering case that represents a victory for Democrats in the state. In the 5-4 ruling, the justices found that the House didn’t have the standing to appeal a lower court ruling that found that the new district maps must be used ahead of …

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Politico: Mayor Pete Raised “Staggering” $7M In April

Politico reports: Pete Buttigieg’s campaign jolted its top donors with big news on a conference call last month: The upstart mayor had raised $7 million in the month of April alone, as much as Buttigieg had in his entire eye-catching first quarter in the presidential race. The huge April haul, which was previously unreported, highlights Buttigieg’s explosive rise in the …

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Mayor Pete: We’ve Likely Had A Gay President Already

USA Today reports: Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s candidacy has fueled speculation about how the American electorate would react to its first gay president. But, according to Buttigieg, he would not be the first gay president. In an interview with “Axios on HBO” aired on Sunday evening, Buttigieg asserted that it’s “almost certain” he would not be the first gay president. Buttigieg, …

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Five Democrats Best Trump In New Fox News Poll

Fox News reports: Biden tops the list of Democratic contenders with 32 percent support among primary voters. Bernie Sanders trails at 13 percent, Elizabeth Warren at 9 percent, and Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris both at 8 percent. Next is Beto O’Rourke at 4 percent, Cory Booker at 3 percent, and Amy Klobuchar and Andrew Yang each garner 2 percent. …

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