Tag: Democratic Party

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland speaks at a news conference.

Top Democrat: House will consider new gun control measures

Susan Ferrechio · August 13, 2019 5:23 pm

Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer arrives to speak during a news conference in Washington, Monday, Jan. 8, 2018. Steyer announced Monday he will spend $30 million to get young voters to the polls in this year's midterm elections.

Beltway Confidential

Yikes: Tom Steyer will likely become the tenth and final Democrat to make the September debate stage

Tiana Lowe Doescher · August 13, 2019 5:02 pm

From left, Marianne Williamson, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, former Maryland Rep. John Delaney and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock take the stage for the first of two Democratic presidential primary debates.

2020 Democrats to meet party insiders they may need at convention

Naomi Lim · August 13, 2019 3:18 pm

A child and her father wait to board a bus that will take them and other migrants to Monterrey, from an immigration center in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Thursday, July 18, 2019.

Americans increasingly support accepting Central American refugees: Poll

Tim Pearce · August 13, 2019 1:32 pm

American flags fly as a Field of Honor for veterans on the North Andover Common, Friday, June 14, 2019, in North Andover, Mass.

Today it’s the flags, what next?

Noemie Emery · August 13, 2019 4:00 am

Martin O'Malley, former governor of Maryland, speaks during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Wednesday, July 27, 2016. With the historic nomination for the first woman to run as the presidential candidate of a major U.S. political party, Democrats gathered in Philadelphia hoped they had turned a corner on Tuesday.

Martin O’Malley is wrong: city government is out of control

Ross Marchand · August 13, 2019 4:00 am

From left, Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Andrew Yang, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Beltway Confidential

Hey 2020 Democrats, locking up criminals is a good thing

Eddie Scarry · August 12, 2019 8:13 pm

Democratic presidential candidate former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development JuliÃ¡n Castro speaks at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa.

Castro still struggling for surge of Latino support in large primary field

Kerry Picket · August 12, 2019 6:46 pm

President Donald Trump takes a question from a member of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Trump is apparently racist because the media say he’s racist

Eddie Scarry · August 12, 2019 5:27 pm

FILE - In this April 2, 2019, file photo, Police Sr. Sgt. Paddy Hannan shows New Zealand lawmakers an AR-15 style rifle similar to one of the weapons a gunman used to slaughter 50 people at two mosques, in Wellington, New Zealand.

New Zealand’s gun buyback has seized more than 10,000 firearms since July

Regina Barton · August 12, 2019 5:13 pm

Pictured are Elon Musk, left, and Andrew Yang, right.

Tesla founder Elon Musk endorses 2020 Trump rival Andrew Yang

Melissa Quinn · August 12, 2019 5:06 pm

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa.

Biden leads pack in Iowa State Fair’s corn kernel poll

Kerry Picket · August 11, 2019 8:22 pm