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On March 15, we will be hosting our first-ever March convention: the Blue Forum & Fair. The Fair starts at 12pm, and will include speakers, trainings and activities. >> Get your tickets here! Several candidates running for state and county office will have tables at the fair, as well as several of our own Clubs and […]

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Official: White House overruled health officials on recommendation concerning commercial air travel

NEW YORK (AP) — Official: White House overruled health officials on recommendation concerning commercial air travel. Source: Official: White House overruled health officials on recommendation concerning commercial air travel

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Biden’s resurrection was unprecedented – and well-timed

The dominant question going into Super Tuesday was: Did Joe Biden’s sweeping victory in South Carolina come just in time, or was it too late? The answer is now clear. Biden all-but-swept Super Tuesday states, propelled by a tsunami of late-deciding voters. A week ago, prognosticators speculated that Bernie Sanders could emerge from Super Tuesday’s […]

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Did Trump try to cut the CDC’s budget as Democrats claim?: ANALYSIS – ABC News

President Donald Trump is taking heat from Democrats for proposing budget cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amid growing fears about a new coronavirus outbreak in the United States, but administration officials say CDC funding has steadily increased since Trump took office. An ABC News analysis of the president’s budget proposals compared […]

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Federal judge blasts William Barr for Mueller report rollout – CNNPolitics

  Judge Reggie Walton asked if Barr’s actions were a “calculated attempt” to help President Donald Trump and opined the attorney general had a “lack of candor” with the public and Congress. “The Court cannot reconcile certain public representations made by Attorney General Barr with the findings in the Mueller Report,” Walton wrote on Thursday. […]

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AP FACT CHECK: Sanders’ shift on delegates needed to win

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders is misrepresenting his stance on how many delegates a Democratic candidate must amass before clinching the party’s presidential nomination. Heading into key Super Tuesday contests and leading the AP delegate count, the Vermont senator argues that the candidate with a plurality of delegates at the end of the primary and […]

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Warren, Unlike Sanders, Makes the Medicare Math Add Up – WSJ

Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally in Columbia, S.C., Feb. 28.  Photo: jim watson/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Bernie Sanders released an updated plan last week to pay for Medicare for All. The plan is light on details, but leaves the senator at least $12.5 trillion short of covering the cost of his health-care proposal over 10 […]

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How a data-backed Christian nationalist machine helped Trump to power | US news | The Guardian

By his own account, Bill Dallas grew up in an unhappy household. His mother had been sexually abused by her father and had her first pregnancy aged 17. Dallas’s dad was an alcoholic and a depressive who died at 51. Dallas was an intense, obsessive child, dogged by feelings of inadequacy. You could say he […]

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Why Buttigieg Dropped Out | FiveThirtyEight

Mar. 1, 2020, at 8:22 PM .post-info .has-bugs Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Images .single-featured-image Pete Buttigieg pulled off a surprisingly successful presidential run. The 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, the fourth-largest city in Indiana, was unable to win the race for chair of the Democratic National Committee three years ago. In the […]

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Here are Trump’s cuts to programs responsible for fighting coronavirus – Business Insider

President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that the coronavirus, known as COVID-19 virus, is under control because China is “working very hard” to contain its spread. The president’s comments are at odds with reality. The same day, the CDC announced that it expected the virus to spread enough within the US to cause a “disruption […]