With strong name recognition and a long résumé, the former Vice-President was always the most likely candidate to emerge from the New Hampshire primary as the presumptive nominee; instead, a third of the state’s likely voters remain undecided.
“That was the most low-key campaign speech I’ve ever heard,” an observer of one of the candidate’s speeches in California said. “I expected to see a politician. I saw a businessman.”
After a year of warning about the threat to democracy posed by Donald Trump, many of the Democratic candidates seemed to ignore the chaos that had engulfed their own party.
More than two dozen candidates came to Iowa seeking the Democratic nomination, and only a half-dozen or so will leave with a reasonable chance to move on.
From the start, humor has played a distinctive role in Yang’s unlikely Presidential campaign. But Chappelle has said that Yang’s policies are the reason for his endorsement.
Sanders’s platform is no less radical than it was in 2016—in its tone and its message, his remains an outsider’s campaign. But it also is beginning to look like a winning one.
Thousands of volunteers from across the country have devoted their time to support a particular candidate this primary season. Here are the stories of eight who did so in the first caucus state.
The Minnesota senator was greeted by crowds that seemed motivated equally by hope that she could prevail against Trump and by a genuine passion for moderate politics.
With less than a week to go before caucus night, Warren is not so much campaigning as counselling, making the case to the state’s moderates that she’s a better option than Biden.
With the candidates Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Amy Klobuchar called back to Washington for Trump’s impeachment trial, their campaigns have voids to fill in early-voting states.
The race in its final weeks isn’t a distilled fight between the left and center of the Democratic Party; it’s a jostling for position among candidates who overlap in different ways.
Now that the Democratic field has winnowed to half a dozen candidates, everyone at the debate site—candidates, staff, reporters—seemed to be quietly waiting for the voting to finally start.