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During a meeting of the Democratic party's platform drafting committee Wednesday, committee member and businesswoman Bonnie Schaefer said that no one should be able to own a gun. "I really don't personally think anyone should have a gun," Schaefer said after testimony by Lucia McBath, a spokeswoman for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
A panel of 15 party leaders and policy experts - - six chosen by the Clinton campaign, five from the Sanders campaign and four from party leadership - has tried to woo Sanders supporters by scheduling multiple forums for discussion about the party's platform, which Sanders backers are trying to push to the left over the coming weeks. Sanders has made clear he will push a progressive platform at the convention, regardless of his candidacy's fate.
Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a primary night event on June 7, 2016 in Brooklyn, New York. Hillary Clinton claimed victory on primary night Tuesday as the first woman to be a major party's presumptive nominee for president.
Hey Californians, here are your options to replace retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate come the fall: You can vote for a Democratic progressive liberal currently serving as the state's attorney general, Kamala Harris; or you can vote for a Democratic progressive liberal 10-term member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Loretta Sanchez. You can thank California's relatively recent implementation of a top-two primary system.
The discord and unseemliness of this year's presidential campaigns has renewed interest in decentralizing the power of political parties in government. Already this year, a member of Congress has renewed his call for nonpartisan primaries for all congressional races.
Hillary Clinton has celebrated her triumph as the first woman to lead a major party in a race for the White House, scoring big wins in California and New Jersey to cement her grip on the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nomination. The former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state spoke to supporters at a raucous event in Brooklyn, New York, and placed her achievement in the context of the long history of the women's rights movement.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders pauses during an election night rally at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California, U.S., on June 7, 2016. While Bernie Sanders vowed on Tuesday night to continue the "very, very steep fight" for the Democratic nomination, some of his congressional supporters - recognizing Hillary Clinton's primary victory - are instead turning their attention to how the Vermont Senator can unify and influence the party outside the nomination.
The former first lady, US senator and secretary of state spoke to supporters at a raucous event in Brooklyn, New York, and placed her achievement in the context of the women's rights movement. "Thanks to you, we have reached a milestone," Clinton said in a speech."
JUNE 7: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives onstage during a primary night rally at the Duggal Greenhouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, June 7, 2016 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Clinton has secured enough delegates and commitments from superdelegates to become the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee.
Authorities were seeking a pickup truck due to reports that it was driving erratically minutes before it struck a group of bicyclists on a street in western Michigan, killing five, a local prosecutor said. Police fielded complaints that a pickup truck was being driven erratically just minutes before the vehicle slammed into a group of bicyclists in western Michigan, killing five, authorities said.
North Carolina has one of the most-polled electorates in the United States. As we head into a general election full of highly competitive races for governor, senator, president, and other offices, those of us who closely follow politics in the Tar Heel State will again appreciate the high frequency of polling available.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke at her Brooklyn headquarters June 7. She thanked supporters and said that rival Donald Trump is "trying to wall off Americans from each other." NEW YORK - Powered by a strong showing in California, Hillary Clinton declared victory in her yearlong battle for the heart of the Democratic party, seizing her place in history and setting out on the difficult task of fusing a fractured party to confront Donald Trump.
Aerospace companies avoided $553 million in tax payments the past two years by taking advantage of generous tax breaks the state offers the industry. Although the Boeing Co.
Ballot counting for the presidential primary ended Tuesday and the results show Democratic voters in Snohomish County evenly split on who should be their party's nominee this fall. Hillary Clinton, the front-running Democrat and likely nominee, collected 52.4 percent of the Democratic vote statewide to beat Bernie Sanders by roughly 40,000 votes.
"I understand the responsibility of carrying the mantle" of the Republican Party, Trump said Tuesday night, reading from a teleprompter to supporters gathered at one of his golf courses. "I will never, ever let you down."
Wednesday, June 8, 2016. Chaos and violence continue, Today, the US Defense Dept announced: Strikes in Iraq Fighter and remotely piloted aircraft and rocket artillery conducted 15 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of the Iraqi government: -- Near Tal Afar, two strikes struck an ISIL modular oil refinery and destroyed an ISIL supply cache.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, listens to a question from an 8th grader during her trip to Children's Day School in San Francisco, California, on Tuesday, May 31, 2016. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, listens to a question from an 8th grader during her trip to Children's Day School in San Francisco, California, on Tuesday, May 31, 2016.
Hillary makes history: Clinton claims victory as the first woman Democratic nominee and urges Bernie to let her take on 'unfit bully' Trump in race for the presidency Trump promises a 'major speech' about the Clintons: The Donald ends primary season by blasting Hillary's 'politics of personal enrichment' and 'totally illegal private server' 'I think we've got a shot.'
2, 2015 file photo, California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks at a news conference in Los Angeles. California's unusual election rules allow only two U.S. Senate candidates to advance to a November ... .