It’s easy to miss the importance of this year’s South Carolina primary. Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders has already built a wave of momentum. Many more delegates will be allocated in the Super Tuesday contests just three days after the Palmetto State votes. But make no mistake: South Carolina is the last chance for the non-Sanders…… MORE
Jessica Cisneros, a 26-year-old immigration attorney, is launching an all-out attack on Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar just days before the Tuesday primary in Texas. Cuellar, one of the most conservative Hispanic Democrats, has represented a district that stretches from San Antonio to Laredo along the US-Mexico border for 15 years and now serves on the…… MORE
I spent a good chunk of time doing the math to come up with a bottom-line figure for all of Bernie Sanders’ proposals — not just “Medicare for All” but the Green New Deal, free college, universal pre-K and child care, and so on. The total? An estimated $50 trillion. This week, he released fact…… MORE
President Donald Trump wants America to know he’s doing a great job in keeping out the novel coronavirus, in a victory lap that could look premature if his own experts are correct in their more somber forecasts. The President spoke at a news conference on Wednesday about the worldwide health emergency that has seen the…… MORE
Elizabeth Warren said Wednesday that she is ready for a convention floor battle this summer if none of the Democratic candidates reaches a delegate majority during the primaries. The senator from Massachusetts made it clear at a CNN town hall in South Carolina that she would be willing to lobby superdelegates, who have votes on…… MORE
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she wouldn’t step aside before the Democratic convention if none of her presidential rivals reach the number of delegates required to clinch the party’s nomination before then. It was the biggest headline in a marathon night of town halls from South Carolina. Over four hours, former Vice President Joe Biden…… MORE
Sen. Amy Klobuchar said she thought she might have gotten hit in the middle of a heated exchange between businessman Tom Steyer and former Vice President Joe Biden during Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate. “That moment with those two, they were going at it and I stood there,” the Minnesota Democrat recalled on Wednesday night during…… MORE
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reflected on how personal tragedy has affected his faith while connecting Wednesday night with a pastor who lost his wife in the 2015 mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. The Rev. Anthony Thompson’s wife, Myra, was one of nine African Americans killed by a white supremacist at…… MORE
Health and Human Services Secretary Alexander Azar stressed that he was still in charge of the task force addressing the novel coronavirus following President Donald Trump’s announcement that Vice President Mike Pence would lead US efforts to battle the outbreak. “I’m still chairman of the task force,” Azar said Wednesday, as a White House news…… MORE
President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that concerns over the novel coronavirus are only partially responsible for the US stock market plunge this week, insisting that the dive is also related to the Democratic presidential debate that took place after markets plunged. “I think it took a hit for maybe two reasons. I think they look…… MORE
