Candidates
WASHINGTON – Former Vice President Joe Biden has chosen Sen. Kamala Harris of California to join him on the Democratic ticket, fulfilling his pledge to select a female running mate and making Harris the first Black person ever tapped as the vice presidential nominee of a major party. His campaign announced the pick Tuesday afternoon […]
Lewis helped organize the Freedom Rides, spoke at the 1963 March on Washington and led the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where a state trooper fractured his skull with a billy club. That protest galvanized national support for the Voting Rights Act, which candidates for his seat pledged to defend […]
“I’ve made very clear that when I look in the mirror in the morning, I realize who and what I am. I have three daughters, two granddaughters and I am very supportive of an African American woman on the ticket. I’m very supportive of that,” he said. “But I also know that in order for […]
.entry__header IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is warning laid off workers that they will lose their unemployment benefits if they refuse to return when their employer calls them back to work. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is moving to partially reopen 77 of the state’s 99 counties Friday, relaxing restrictions that were intended to stop […]
Isabel Canning, left, and Tatiana Lathion take the same class at Haverford College, but returned to very different homes after their campus closed. Ms. Canning is at her family’s vacation home in Boothbay, Me., and Ms. Lathion is helping her parents’ food truck business in Jacksonville, Fla.Credit…From left, Tristan Spinski for The New York Times, […]
Joe Biden’s ‘Text Team:’ Inside the Presumptive Nominee’s Shift to Digital “Work with campaign staff to host an event at your home,” a Biden campaign email that went out on Sunday read. Updated Apr. 02, 2020 5:00AM ET / Published Apr. 01, 2020 4:41AM ET In any normal election year, the email sent Sunday from Joe Biden’s […]
Two telling clues reveal these suits to be frivolous. First, all three lawsuits target opinion pieces—not news reports asserting factual claims. While in theory an opinion piece could meet the Supreme Court’s high bar for defamation of a public figure, in practice this is very hard to imagine. Second, the statements alleged to be defamatory […]
Biden stays in the driver’s seat, coronavirus changes our elections and other takeaways from Tuesday’s vote WASHINGTON – It was a night of early wins for Joe Biden. Biden swept all three primaries Tuesday night against Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was already trailing the former vice president in delegates. Arizona, Illinois and Florida all held primaries Tuesday, while Ohio, which […]
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 […]
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 […]