Tag: Democratic Party

Amy McGrath beats national Democrats’ preferred candidate in Kentucky primary

Laura Barrón-López · May 23, 2018 12:22 am

Democratic establishment strikes back in Texas

Laura Barrón-López · May 22, 2018 11:47 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speak to reporters about the massive government spending bill moving through Congress. The bipartisan $1.3 trillion spending bill left Congress in stalemate over shielding young Dreamer immigrants from deportation and curbing surging health insurance premiums.

Democrats try to surf, not drown in, blue wave as primaries rage

W. James Antle III · May 22, 2018 11:21 pm

Voters in Brooklyn, New York, cast ballots in the 2016 presidential election. As worries about interference in this year's midterm vote climb, Microsoft is introducing new tools to safeguard data for candidates and campaigns.

Beltway Confidential

GOP up on generic ballot in surprising new polling

Emily Jashinsky · May 22, 2018 10:38 pm

White House: Dems not invited to document review because they ‘never asked’

Gabby Morrongiello · May 22, 2018 7:42 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, speaks during the Polk County Democrats Spring Dinner, Sunday, May 6, 2018, in Des Moines, Iowa.

Beltway Confidential

The blue wave is inevitable, not necessarily catastrophic for House Republicans

Philip Wegmann · May 22, 2018 7:36 pm

Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer say they would dismantle Trump tax cuts to boost education

Katelyn Caralle · May 22, 2018 9:54 am

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Memphis, Tenn. King was assassinated April 4, 1968, while in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers.

In re-election announcement, Bernie Sanders vows to be Trump’s ‘fiercest opponent in the Senate’

Anna Giaritelli · May 21, 2018 4:05 pm

"The other night, Mitch McConnell walked on to the floor of the Senate, and he knows the rules better than anybody. He did not have 60 votes. He barely had 50 votes," Bernie Sanders said.

Bernie Sanders: Democrats 'misreading where the American people are at'

Steven Nelson · May 20, 2018 2:50 pm

Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the March 13 special election in the 18th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, center, is pictured at his election night party in Canonsburg, Pa., early on Wednesday.

Pennsylvania’s new congressional map a huge gift to Democrats

David M. Drucker · May 20, 2018 4:00 am

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How talk of impeachment will impact the midterms

Emily Jashinsky · May 18, 2018 10:00 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2014, file photo, Environmentalist Tom Steyer speaks to the Center for American Progressâs Second Annual Policy Conference in Washington. The billionaire climate activist Steyer, 57, announced Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, that he will not enter the race to succeed U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer in Calif., a move that reshaped the early contest that has attracted a pack of potential candidates.

Democrats’ dark money and the climate industrial complex

Rupert Darwall · May 18, 2018 12:00 am