It was a rare moment when someone running for the Democratic presidential nomination admitted that their spending ambitions would have to be paid for by taxes that touch not just the wealthiest Americans but taxpayers further down the bracket.…Trying to sell a big progessive agenda on the backs...
So Republicans designed a bill exactly along those lines hoping that if they can get it through both legislative bodies, the Governor will give it his signature. (Under the previous Democratic administration, Gov. Tom Wolf blocked the worst the GOP could throw at him,stopping all kinds of horr...
"Who do you think has the best chance of beating Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election: [see below], or another Democratic candidate who is running for president?" Candidate names rotated % Joe Biden 51 Bernie Sanders 16 Elizabeth Warren 15 Pete Buttigieg 3 Andrew Yang 2 ...
"The combined efforts of labor and management have been crucial to the rebound of our auto industry," he said. "That's why it is so disappointing that the governor and Republicans in the Michigan Legislature have chosen this moment to take this destructive step." ...
In nearbyIndiana, Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly, who voted against the Kavanaugh nomination, has fallen behind Republican nominee Mike Braun, and Braun now has a narrow +0.5 point lead; InTennessee,the Democratic nominee, and former Governor, Phil Breseden has lost the lead he once had ...
John Hickenlooper speaks during the panel Economic Development at the National Governor Association winter meeting in Washington. As the first Democrats running for president propose taxing wealth and providing universal health care, a broader debate is emerging over how far Democrats should go to ...
Buttigieg says he wouldn't be running for president if hadn't come out Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, described how his life would have been if he’d come out sooner. “I came out because I wanted to date. If dating had been available to me in my 20s I...
And some Democratic senators running for re-election in red states were sharply critical of Trump’s move. “Democrats need to show – and can show – that they can simultaneously fight for a society that is both more fair and more prosperous – and drive home the fact that Trump is ...
“How do you share an emotion that’s been so elusive for so long?” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul asked. She drew parallels going back 40 years ago when Geraldine Ferraro was selected as the running mate to Democratic nominee Walter Mondale and in 2016 when “we all had our hearts broke...
a whole string of them.” Still, top politicians could have taken advantage of this climate before 2016. Barack Obama’s calling Mitt Romney a “bullshitter” 12 days before the 2012 election didn’t seem to hurt him. In 2013, Republican leaders weren’t running their mouths in opposition....