Tag: Democratic Party

2020 Democrats tout ‘pen and phone’ plans to advance policies without Congress

Emily Brooks · June 25, 2019 4:01 am

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, center, speaks during a news conference after a Senate Republican weekly luncheon meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. McConnell says he is "somewhat optimistic" after conversations with Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer that there will be more cooperation on nominations and appropriations.

McConnell: I’ll be watching baseball during Democratic debates

Susan Ferrechio · June 25, 2019 1:05 am

Placards showing anti-Trump messages lie on the ground, in central London, near the end of a protest against the state visit of President Donald Trump, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Trump will turn from pageantry to policy Tuesday as he joins British Prime Minister Theresa May for a day of talks likely to highlight fresh uncertainty in the allies' storied relationship.

Beltway Confidential

Hey, ideologues, take a chill pill

Quin Hillyer · June 24, 2019 5:35 pm

Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, D-Freeport, poses in the House Chamber at the State House.

High-profile Democrat to run against Susan Collins

Caitlin Yilek · June 24, 2019 5:31 pm

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., listens as she joins Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to call for legislation to cancel all student debt, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 24, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Why the Ilhan Omar story matters

Tiana Lowe Doescher · June 24, 2019 5:13 pm

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is pictured.

Leaked nominations documents show White House worried about Robert Lighthizer’s Democratic donations

Sean Higgins · June 24, 2019 4:34 pm

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., left, appear at a hearing on Capitol Hill in D.C.

Harris and Booker slow to make headway in South Carolina

Naomi Lim · June 24, 2019 3:55 pm

Former Vice President Joe Biden.

Washington Secrets

Democrats see loss over abortion, hunt for pro-life 2020 candidate

Paul Bedard · June 24, 2019 3:34 pm

Washington, D.C. - March 19, 2015: Eternal flame on top of block holding dirt from concentration camps in Europe in the Hall of Remembrance inside US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

US Holocaust Museum rejects Democrats making concentration camp comparisons

Julio Rosas · June 24, 2019 3:33 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Tim Ryan speaks during the Iowa Democratic Party's Hall of Fame Celebration, Sunday, June 9, 2019, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

'My DM’s are open': 2020 Democrat trying new way to connect with voters

Caitlin Yilek · June 24, 2019 3:24 pm

Bill Maher: Holocaust comparisons may cost Democrats the 2020 election

Tim Pearce · June 24, 2019 3:19 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.

‘Terrible power dynamic’: Booker further scolds Biden for remarks about segregationists

Jon Brown · June 24, 2019 12:19 am