Joe Biden’s campaign has released a video featuring excerpts from a recently recorded conversation with President Barack Obama, in which they discuss the 2020 race and their work together over eight years.
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Joe Biden’s campaign has released a video featuring excerpts from a recently recorded conversation with President Barack Obama, in which they discuss the 2020 race and their work together over eight years.
LaunchJennifer Epstein and Tyler Pager of Bloomberg: “This cycle, Biden’s team is working more closely with the DNC than any candidate in recent history, according to interviews with more than 20 veteran Democratic operatives. The two teams coordinate strategy on advertising, fundraising and messaging and share operational costs in ways that Clinton and Barack Obama did not do with the party.”
LaunchFollowing his wins in Michigan, Missouri, and Mississippi, former Vice President Joe Biden delivered remarks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Launch“Super Tuesday has given Biden a big advantage and momentum going forward. But the race is still far from over, with big questions on the horizon for both the Sanders and Biden camps.”
Launch“If these are the revolutionaries, it’s a reality we need to face up to — because it speaks volumes about the predicament we’ve gotten ourselves into,” writes Matt Driscoll.
Launch“Can we really push back against a machinery that was built to keep women (and so many others) out of the halls of power? Or will we simply have to swallow our emotions, tamp down our exhaustion, and resign ourselves to America’s misogyny as an immovable object?”
LaunchVia Politico: “Trump’s willingness to accept foreign assistance has essentially invited overseas spies to meddle with 2020 presidential campaigns, undoing months of work, said law enforcement veterans.”
Launch“It may well be that the same candidates who appeal authentically to progressive emotional sensibilities will also appeal to the voters Democrats most need to persuade in the purple districts and states they need to win–as well as bring out people who otherwise just wouldn’t vote at all,” writes David Atkins. (He’s correct.)
Launch“In 1964, the GOP ceased to be the party of Lincoln and became the party of Southern whites. As I now look back with the clarity of hindsight, I am convinced that coded racial appeals had at least as much, if not more, to do with the electoral success of the modern Republican Party than all of the domestic and foreign policy proposals crafted by well-intentioned analysts like me. This is what liberals have been saying for decades. I never believed them. Now I do, because Trump won by making the racist appeal, hitherto relatively subtle, obvious even to someone such as me who used to be in denial.”
LaunchToday, with Trump in office, the problems of the right are the problems of all Americans. And the worst part of it is that we—conservatives—did
LaunchI arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putins private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin. I will get Putin on this program
LaunchThe American people didn’t vote for Donald Trump. The Electoral College did. That is why Trump is President. The American people collectively voted for Hillary Clinton to be their Commander-in-Chief.
LaunchThe American people didn’t vote for Donald Trump. The Electoral College did. That is why Trump is President. The American people collectively voted for Hillary Clinton to be their Commander-in-Chief.
LaunchThe American people didn’t vote for Donald Trump. The Electoral College did. That is why Trump is President. The American people collectively voted for Hillary Clinton to be their Commander-in-Chief.
LaunchThe American people didn’t vote for Donald Trump. The Electoral College did. That is why Trump is President. The American people collectively voted for Hillary Clinton to be their Commander-in-Chief.
LaunchThe American people didn’t vote for Donald Trump. The Electoral College did. That is why Trump is President. The American people collectively voted for Hillary Clinton to be their Commander-in-Chief.
Launch“Most Canadians want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to stand up to Donald Trump as a champion of progressive values and the international order, even if it strains Canada-U.S. relations, according to a new poll from Nanos Research Group,” The Globe and Mail reports.
LaunchAs far as I know, she didn’t stop at any UAW halls. I probably would have been invited to be with her if she was
Launch“It was very surgical and corporate. They had their model, this is how they’re going to do it. Their thing was, ‘We don’t have to
Launch[N]ow that a recount is underway, we believe we have an obligation to the more than 64 million Americans who cast ballots for Hillary Clinton
LaunchGeorge Lakoff on why the polls failed, and what the majority can do.
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