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Nov 24 2019
News
'He cannot be bought': Michael Bloomberg to refuse donations, presidential salary
NEW YORK — Michael Bloomberg will not accept political donations if he runs for president and he will not take a salary if he wins, according to senior aides who offered new details on Saturday about the New York billionaire’s plans to navigate his wealth as he marches toward a formal 2020 announcement.
“He has never taken a political contribution in his life. He is not about to start
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Nov 03 2018
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Midterms: Races for governor, statehouses will help decide control of Congress for a decade
Politicians often claim that whatever election is coming up is the most important in our lifetime, and the 2018 campaign has been no different.
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Sep 22 2020
Perspectives Blog
Trump vs Biden: Criminal Justice Policy
This is the first of our "Trump vs Biden" Perspectives Blogs, in which we'll analyze and explain each candidate's positions on major issues leading up to the 2020 presidential election. This blog will examine each candidate's stances on matters pertaining to criminal justice.
Biden: Shift from incarceration to preventionIn the 1980s and 90s, Biden pushed for
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Apr 12 2021
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Progressives fight for leverage amid ever-slimming majority
Progressives are ascendant in the Democratic-controlled Congress, but they may not have the political leverage to dramatically shape legislative priorities like President Biden’s infrastructure and jobs package as they return to Washington this week with an even slimmer majority.
Democrats will need near-total cooperation among everyone in their House and Senate caucuses to pass any
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Jul 03 2019
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Booker not sure Biden ‘up to the task’ of fixing US racial injustice
The Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker said on Sunday he is not sure Joe Biden is “up to that task” of fixing America’s racial injustice.
Booker told NBC’s Meet the Press: “Whoever our nominee is going to be, whoever the next president is going to be, really needs to be someone who can talk openly and honestly about race with vulnerability because none of us are perfect, but
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Oct 19 2020
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Rightwing populists place their bets on four more years of Trump
In Budapest, Hungary’s far-right prime minister, Viktor Orbán, says he is “rooting for another victory for Donald Trump”. In Brasília, Jair Bolsonaro has been pictured in a Trump 2020 campaign hat.
Rightwing nationalist politicians around the globe are abandoning the usual diplomatic etiquette of hedging bets before foreign elections and instead are throwing their support firmly behind
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Mar 30 2017
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Democrats Joe Manchin and Heidi Heitkamp Will Vote For Gorsuch
Democrat Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced Thursday he will vote in favor of putting Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.
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Feb 09 2018
News
Rand Paul was right
When Rand Paul took control of the Senate floor just before 6 p.m. Eastern, virtually every one of his Republican colleagues grimaced. Five years ago, they would have cheered him.
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Sep 24 2018
News
What we know about Deborah Ramirez, the second woman to accuse Kavanaugh of sexual assault
A second woman came forward Sunday to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of a decades-old sexual assault, the same day his first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, committed to testifying about her own allegations before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
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Jul 28 2020
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Here’s where the veep race stands
Ryan Lizza created a stir in Politico on Monday when he reported that former Senator Christopher Dodd, who is vetting potential vice-presidential candidates for Joe Biden, is unimpressed with Kamala Harris. In particular, Dodd allegedly doesn’t like how Harris responded when asked about her decision to go after Biden on the busing issue in the first Democratic debate.
This set off a
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