No one has ever won a major statewide race, let alone a presidential nomination, with a single-issue, climate-focused candidacy. But Jay Inslee is about to try. The Washington state governor launched a White House bid Friday that stands to have a significant effect on the electoral politics surrounding climate change. For years, despite scientists’ warnings…
Gabbard says Democrats share blame in shutdown logjam
Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic candidate for president Tulsi Gabbard said Sunday that her party’s leadership was not blameless for the partial government shutdown that is now approaching a month, accusing both sides of posturing and refusing to compromise. “The problem here is that this issue, like so many others in Washington, are being relegated to…
How Gov. Jay Inslee would address immigration
In his first policy proposal not directly related to climate change, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee laid out plans to enact wholesale reversals of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. What would the plan do? Inslee’s plan would call for an immediate end to a number of signature Trump policies, including the construction of a wall on…
Cheri Bustos takes on the new left
Cheri Bustos isn’t afraid of the insurgent left. The chairwoman of House Democrats’ campaign arm has found herself in a very messy — and public — spat with progressives over the past week and a half. But the Midwestern moderate is refusing to budge, despite drawing ire from prominent progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.),…
‘Slow and steady’ strategy pays off for Biden
In Joe Biden’s first visit to South Carolina as a presidential candidate, the former vice president kept it light: He spoke at a public rally and a private fundraiser on a Saturday, attended a church service on a Sunday, and then was gone. There was no Elizabeth Warren-style town hall with questions from the audience,…
Bernie’s new approach to raising cash: ‘Grassroots fundraisers’
Bernie Sanders — who swore off big-money fundraisers and criticized Hillary Clinton’s fundraising as “obscene” during the 2016 campaign — is changing his approach as the scramble for Democratic campaign cash heats up. The Vermont senator has decided to hold in-person fundraising events where donors of all means will be invited and the media will…
Trump says he doesn't believe Warren's crowd size
President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed assertions that more than 20,000 people turned out for Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren’s rally in New York on Monday evening, lobbing accusations of crowd-size inflation that have long been leveled at himself. "Certainly, if I went to Manhattan, if I went there — No. 1, she didn’t have…
Why some lesbians don’t want Pete Buttigieg to be president
Campbell Spencer, a lesbian and political consultant, moved to Washington in the 1990s to work in LGBTQ advocacy. She wooed gay and lesbian voters for Al Gore, worked a stint in the Obama White House and now serves on the board of the LGBTQ Victory Fund, which this year issued its first-ever endorsement of a…
Biden bounces back
Joe Biden is leading in a new Fox News national survey of the Democratic presidential primary, holding on to a steady lead from a pre-debate poll in the latest piece of good polling news for the former vice president after faltering in the first debate. The former vice president leads the field with 33 percent,…
Warren warns of ‘coming economic crash’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday predicted an imminent economic crisis unless the Trump administration and Congress quickly pass legislation to regulate the financial sector and significantly reduce middle class household debt. “Warning lights are flashing. Whether it’s this year or next year, the odds of another economic downturn are high — and growing,” Warren (D-Mass.)…