The how is the easy question in the sense that Bernie Sanders unforgettably demonstrated how much the right presidential primary candidate can alter the national political debate — even when the Democratic Party establishment pulls out all the stops to block them; and even if succeeds in doing so...
Democratic candidate Marianne Williamson, who had suspended her campaign after pulling only 2% of the vote in the South Carolina primary, announced last week that she is back in the race. In a video posted on social media, she explained that she had dropped out “because I was losing the h...
Voting. Think of it like public transportation. Think of it like a bus service. There’s a place you want/need to go to. But there’s no bus line that will take you directly to that place. So what do you do? You take the bus that gets you closest to where you want to be. ...
In the Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina Republican primary contests earlier this year, Trump won between 55% and 69% of white evangelical voters, according to AP VoteCast. Trump even criticized one competitor, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, for signing strict abortion curbs into ...
Breaking: Clean Energy Defunder Wins South Carolina Primary Re-post from ClimateProgress By Joe Romm on Jan 21, 2012 at 4:31 pm No single politician since Ronald Reagan has done more to set back America’s leadership in clean technology than Newt Gingrich. National Zoo plaque [click to enla...
It's called Super Tuesday becausemore delegates are at stakeon March 5 than on any other single date during the primary campaign. There are 865 Republican delegates that will be allocated, and the winner of the GOP presidential nomination must collect 1,215 delegates. On Tuesday, Democratic pr...
Donald Trump reacted to criticism from Republican presidential primary challenger Cruz Wednesday, saying that he equates “New York values” to “energy” that helped the city to persevere after the September 11th attacks. “One thing it means is energy. You know, when the World Trade Center ...
The congressman who did the most to make Joe Biden the president (by endorsing him in the South Carolina primary) is James Clyburn. He had the following pithy advice to Democratic senators who may be on the fence, as quoted by Summer Concepcion in a story in Talking...
Trump also tried to take the high road after his South Carolina primary victory in Haley's home state — but he went back to attacking her within a day. “We’re going to have unity, and it’s going to happen very quickly,” he said. Lead Art: Republican presidential candidate Don...
Kennedy, who mounted a Democratic primary, then a long-shot independent presidential bid before endorsing Trump this summer, might be more able to accomplish his goals in a White House job that does not require Senate confirmation. Steven Cheung, Trump campaign communications...