Oct 24, 2019 – A brief follow-up to my earlier post, which highlighted nervous griping from Democratic establishment types about their party's 2020 … presidential field.   … strategists and donors are intensifying conversations about setting up an outside group to bolster Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy…

Oct 24, 2019 – On Thursday, Ohio Representative Tim Ryan reminded America that he was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination by announcing … There are currently 18 candidates left seeking the 2020 Democratic nomination. … The top three candidates in the Democratic Primary are still former Vice President Joe Biden, Independent Sen.…

Oct 24, 2019 – Public polling suggests that Democratic voters are broadly satisfied with their party's 2020 presidential field, but party elites … They're wary of the policies and electability of left-wing candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, and they're concerned … “You can imagine much stronger candidates,” Democratic National Committee member Elaine Kamarck told The Washington Post...Both papers…

Oct 24, 2019 – The New York Times and CNN co-sponsored the recent Democratic presidential debate. … Prior to the Mueller report, the influential paper published story after story about alleged Russian collusion with the Trump presidential … Compared to previous Democratic debates, this recent three-hour long one aired on CNN rated pretty bad. Who knows?…

Oct 24, 2019 – Candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination like Sen. … Reducing inequality is also a poor means to fix whatever these candidates think ails America. … It may feel good for some candidates to bash wealth accumulation and threaten to use taxes to punish the very rich.…

Oct 23, 2019 – proof that the Clinton email scandal was a bogus nothingburger from the start, cooked up to hurt the former Secretary of State's presidential … Anyone in the media who is pretending otherwise is being dishonest, and actively working to ensure that future Democratic scandals … are soft-pedaled in such a manner as to not pose an electoral threat to journalists' preferred candidates.  …

Oct 23, 2019 – Beto O'Rourke is taking flak from other Democratic presidential contenders for supporting mass confiscation of military-style rifles … "Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15," O'Rourke declared during last month's Democratic presidential debate. … The Democratic presidential candidates, including those who criticize O'Rourke's confiscation scheme as impractical, nevertheless insist…

Oct 22, 2019 – She’s a poor campaigner, which is very fitting for her two-time presidential loser accolade. … “It scares me that (some Democratic candidates) don’t know working-class people,” said the 47-year-old self-described liberal who voted … strategist who worked as Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign manager and fought fracking in Colorado.…

Oct 22, 2019 – Things have come to a pretty pass when the most “moderate” Democratic presidential candidate wants to make history by bringing along … That’s where things stand after the latest Democratic debates, town halls and other glimpses into the bizarre strain in American politics … The entire current Democratic leadership is radically socialist, from the presidential candidates on down to the freshmen Congresswomen…

Oct 22, 2019 – I have two candidates for their consideration: Hillary Clinton and presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii). … She made a similar assertion about Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who she says Russia also used to keep her from winning … Trump, calling Clinton "the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic…

Oct 21, 2019 – "As your news organization seems to have lost all sense of objectivity, spinning itself into oblivion to support left-leaning candidates … and participating in distortion against conservative candidates, you have still operated within the boundaries of the First Amendment … According to the group, CNN is violating the Buckley decision because the network continues to run Democratic presidential candidates…

Oct 21, 2019 – Not surprisingly, most of the Democratic presidential candidates are veering further to the left when it comes to abortion, to the … point that most of the candidates now support bills which, if enacted, would legalize some of the crimes committed by abortionist Kermit…

Oct 21, 2019 – be clear, what you just described is a quid-pro-quo: The funding will not flow unless you're getting an investigation into the Democratic … A foreign government interfering in an American election with the express goal of helping defeat one of the candidates is a serious … is profoundly biased, and far too often outright hysterical, about this president doesn't mean that bad, unwise, or unethical presidential…

Oct 21, 2019 – between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard. … In the same exchange, Clinton called 2016 Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein a “Russian asset.” … Nevermind, of course, that third party candidates have cost Republicans too.…

Oct 19, 2019 – In an apparent pandering competition to win the favor of union voters, Democratic presidential candidates used the Ohio debate stage … But reports of a possible end to the strike didn’t prevent Democratic candidates from forgoing their chance to bash the corporation … Unfortunately, claiming that corporations aren’t paying taxes has become a standard talking point for Democratic candidates.…

Oct 18, 2019 – candidate (via CBS News): "I'm not making any predictions but I think they've got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic … And I'm not making any predictions, but I think they've got their eye on somebody who's currently in the Democratic primary. … Everyone who is inconvenient to the Democratic Party is now being surreptitiously controlled by Russia.…

Oct 18, 2019 – The world's oldest political party set an all-time record Tuesday night, with 12 presidential candidates on a single stage in Westerville … election but one for a half century (1944-92) but has voted Democratic in the six elections since. … Other Democrats were tussling over other issues that tend to pit one Democratic constituency against another.…

Oct 18, 2019 – Watching the Democratic presidential candidate debate -- with Elizabeth Warren promising government health care for all without saying … But I concentrated on what the candidates were saying, and it completely harshed my mellow. … he won't be the Democratic nominee.…

Nov 6, 2019 – presidential candidates. … Even with a Democratic Congress, I doubt this will get 60 votes in the Senate. … If she thinks she’s facing pressure, wait until Donald Trump goes full-court press should she become the Democratic nominee. …

Nov 6, 2019 – These truly persuadable voters — 1 percent of all adults in America — have the votes to decide the 2020 presidential election. … Most, 69 percent, say they usually vote for a mix of both Democratic and Republican candidates. … Presidential misconduct shouldn't be ignored or swept under the rug based solely on lukewarm public opinion, but voter sentiment is…

Nov 5, 2019 – McConnell brought up a valid point, especially for 2020 Democratic presidential contenders who currently hold positions in the Senate … How long do the presidential candidates want to be here on the floor of the Senate instead of in Iowa and New Hampshire?" … The last thing these candidates want is to lose time on the ground in early battleground states.…

Nov 5, 2019 – Beto O'Rourke's pullout from the presidential race leaves the Democrats with, oh, a mere dozen and a half or so candidates available … Candidates who come out of nowhere in order to lead us somewhere else are a dime a carload. … This is presidential politics. If you want to be president, you must DO something for us.…

Nov 5, 2019 – In 2018, Lamb was the center of the Democratic universe. … Democratic presidential candidates cannot win Pennsylvania without western Pennsylvanian support, and they cannot win the presidency … "This will be Lamb's first election during a presidential year.…

Nov 4, 2019 – All the leading Democratic candidates trail in the precincts or counties that voted for Barack Obama and then flipped to Mr. … Respondents in these states said they voted for Democratic congressional candidates by an average of six points, all but identical … Nearly two-thirds of the Trump voters who said they voted for Democratic congressional candidates in 2018 say that they’ll back the…

Nov 4, 2019 – A new Harvard-Harris poll found former Vice President Joe Biden leading the field of candidates among Democratic voters, but if Hillary … Nineteen percent of Democratic voters said they would choose Biden while 18 percent were in favor of Clinton. Sens. … Kerry and Bloomberg were next, beating out the rest of the Democratic presidential candidates. …