For all the careful policy rollouts and message crafting of the past year, the Democratic candidates know that caucus-goers will vote in the context of events that are impossible to predict.
After months of debates looking out on the horizon, the Democratic Presidential hopefuls confront the present-day question of the President’s decision to assassinate Qassem Suleimani.
Harris began this race as a contender, had moments of real energy and momentum, and is now dropping out, with two months to go before the Iowa caucuses.
At what was billed as Sanders’s comeback rally, he was less interested in talking about his recent heart attack than about his core issues: inequality, Medicare for All, abolishing student debt, raising wages.
NowThis noticed that if it made videos on a number of topics—guns, race, climate change—people would respond and share them on their feeds. Politicians took notice, too.
Seventeen Democratic-primary candidates were on hand at the Polk County Steak Fry this past weekend, as Iowans judged who had the largest crowds, the snappiest chants, the sleekest signs, the longest march lines, and the loudest applause.
Amid the struggles that stem from years of low commodity prices, Wisconsin’s farmers display a loyalty to Trump that may prove daunting for Democrats aiming to seize the narrative from a skilled political showman.
Steyer represents the antithesis of Trump in more than a few respects. But his candidacy, like Trump’s, rests on the premise that a billionaire who has never held office is well suited to the White House.
The most pressing question for the Sanders campaign is not whether students in the first nominating state will caucus for him over his younger opponents but whether enough students will caucus at all.
The true stars of the night were not the candidates but the questioners in the audience, whose backstories and adamance offered the more inspiring reminder that it’s not too late to act.
A decision by the Democratic National Committee on Friday seemed to jeopardize both the fate of a new voting system and, in theory, the state’s claim to the nation’s earliest nominating contest.
At the upcoming debate, candidates with the highest poll numbers, biggest campaigns, and most money will be onstage together during prime-time television for the first time.
After the shooting in El Paso, O’Rourke doesn’t want to return to the campaign trail he left behind, where he was floundering, with bad polls, bad press, and bad debate performances.