Tag: Bernie Sanders

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., center, accompanied by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., right, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.

Harris, Warren, Gillibrand hiring staff for 2020 campaigns

Al Weaver · January 28, 2019 9:14 pm

Washington Secrets

Moving on: 2020 NH Democrats want Warren, Ocasio-Cortez over Clinton

Paul Bedard · January 28, 2019 1:57 pm

Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, smiles after a group photo with the 116th Congress outside the U.S Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. Congress returns to work this week with Democrats and Republicans promising to work together to avert a partial government shutdown and pass a handful of other bills, though President Donald Trump's demand to fund his border wall could blow up their plans.

Beltway Confidential

The Left is idolizing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez like the Right idolizes Trump

Kimberly Ross · January 24, 2019 3:36 pm

Jeremy Ornstein of Watertown, Mass., cheers on fellow environmental activists as they occupy the office of Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., the incoming majority leader, as they try to pressure Democratic support for a sweeping agenda to fight climate change, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Dec. 10, 2018.

Energy and Environment

Greens want 2020 Democrats to go beyond vague ‘Green New Deal’ support

Josh Siegel · January 24, 2019 5:00 am

In this Jan. 16, 2019, photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., reacts during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. âMedicare-for-allâ makes a good first impression, but support plunges when people are asked if theyâd pay higher taxes or put up with treatment delays to get it. The survey, released Wednesday, Jan. 23, by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, comes as Democratic presidential hopefuls embrace the idea of a government-run health care system, considered outside the mainstream of their party until Sanders made it the cornerstone of his 2016 campaign.

Beltway Confidential

‘Medicare for all’ support is built on a shaky foundation

Philip Klein · January 23, 2019 4:12 pm

A display from The Satanic Temple-Chicago has been placed in the Statehouse rotunda at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. It joins the Nativity scene to mark the Christmas season and the Menorah to mark Hanukkah.

Beltway Confidential

Biden and Bernie would’ve won, and they can again

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 23, 2019 12:53 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Beltway Confidential

Kamala Harris ties Bernie Sanders’ 24-hour fundraising record

Philip Wegmann · January 22, 2019 10:22 pm

In this Dec. 13, 2018, file photo, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Washington Secrets

Surging Biden ‘in the driver’s seat,’ 14-point 2020 lead over Sanders

Paul Bedard · January 22, 2019 5:53 pm

Following a Martin Luther King Jr. prayer service at Zion Baptist Church in Columbia, S.C., on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., left, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right walk with NAACP President Brenda Murphy during a march to the Statehouse.

Bernie Sanders’ MLK message in South Carolina: Trump is a racist

Naomi Lim · January 21, 2019 7:04 pm

In this June 30, 2018, file photo, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at the "Families Belong Together: Freedom for Immigrants" March in Los Angeles.

Washington Secrets

2020 odds: Trump favored to win, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke top challengers

Paul Bedard · January 21, 2019 3:44 pm

Jimmy Carter to Cory Booker: ‘I hope you run for president’

Naomi Lim · January 21, 2019 2:13 am

President Donald Trump speaks as he tours the U.S. border with Mexico at the Rio Grande on the southern border, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, in McAllen, Texas, as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listens at right.

What 2020 Democrats can learn from Trump’s border wall quagmire

Philip Klein · January 17, 2019 10:12 pm