Judiciary committee approved two articles on party lines, setting up vote for full House next week

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8.19pm GMT

There’s a workers’ strike at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, the location of next week’s Democratic debate - which has prompted, at this point, six of the seven candidates who’ve qualified to participate, to threaten to boycott the event.

They say they’ll refuse to cross the picket line. Out of Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Tom Steyer, Andrew Yang and Amy Klobuchar, who are the seven who’ve qualified for the debate, all but Klobuchar are saying this afternoon that they stand in solidarity with the workers and won’t cross their picket line. Warren was first to announce her decision.

.@UniteHere11 is fighting for better wages and benefits—and I stand with them. The DNC should find a solution that lives up to our party's commitment to fight for working people. I will not cross the union's picket line even if it means missing the debate.

I take the debate stage to stand up for workers’ rights, not to undermine them.

I stand in solidarity with the workers of @UNITEHERE11 at Loyola Marymount University and I will not cross their picket line.

8.09pm GMT

Representative Ilhan Omar is out campaigning with Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire today, per her Twitter account. They’re doing a town hall together.

In New Hampshire today with the one and only @BernieSanders!

Follow along on my Instagram story (@ilhanmn). pic.twitter.com/JsglilSDWn

A Green New Deal is the only plan bold enough to confront the climate crisis.

The political establishment may not understand that, but the young people of the @sunrisemvmt do.

Their leadership is going to save the planet. pic.twitter.com/88RJxxBDiB