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This past week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , a self-proclaimed socialist, won the Democratic primary for a congressional seat in New York. Why would a sane person advocate a political movement that was responsible for well over a hundred million deaths in the last century, as well as untold misery? By her comments, Ms.
Several prominent Democrats who are mulling a bid for the White House in 2020 have sought to bolster their progressive credentials by calling for major changes to immigration enforcement, with some pressing for the outright abolition of the federal government's chief immigration enforcement agency. President Trump responded on Twitter Saturday that it will "never happen!" Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York said Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, has "become a deportation force," telling CNN late Thursday "you should get rid of it, start over, reimagine it and build something that actually works."
New York voters denied longtime House Democratic Caucus chairman Joe Crowley an 11th term, instead backing 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic socialist and former organizer for Senator Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign. "It's time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same," Ocasio-Cortez said in her viral campaign announcement video.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old who's never held elected office, ousted New York City Congressman Joe Crowley. Crowley had been considered a candidate to become House speaker if Democrats win the majority in November.
He first hit the million mark in 2016 after publishing book Our Revolution following Trump's election and is due to release another book later this year The royalties and side jobs earned the Independent politician $885,767 in addition to his $174,000 Senate service income, according to a May financial disclosure report. He first hit the million mark in 2016 following his lucrative book deal for Our Revolution, a book on his failed presidential campaign, VTDigger reported.
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I hear Bernie might have his sights set on a 4th home, and at this rate, the semi-dedicated socialist might just get there : A recent financial disclosure report shows the junior Vermont senator made nearly $1.06 million in 2017. Most of his income - $885,767 - came from advances and royalties, according to the report filed in May. Get all of VTDigger's political news.
Progressive American politicians must embrace the necessity of dramatic action on climate change as a touchstone. So far, Senator Bernie Sanders has done it the most persuasively, campaigning on addressing climate change, health care, racial justice, and economic inequality as his unvaried quartet of issues, invoked in every speech and backed up with serious legislation that shows a willingness to move with real speed.
Former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed Stacey Abrams Wednesday in her bid to become Georgia's first Democratic governor in 15 years and the nation's first-ever black female state executive. The former vice president hailed Abrams in a statement to The Associated Press for her "track record of building consensus across party lines" while still advancing Democratic priorities like Medicaid expansion and public education.
New York's 19th Congressional District stretches from the wealthy enclaves of Rhinebeck and the tie-dye world of Woodstock across the Catskill Mountains to the struggling dairy farmers near Cooperstown. In this enormous district, seven Democrats are competing in the primary on June 26 to challenge Representative John Faso, a first-termer who is considered one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the House.
In this March 1, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., his wife Jane Sanders, and his son Levi Sanders arrive at a primary night rally in Essex Junction, Vt. Levi Sanders has now officially filed the paper and is one of 10 candidates seeking the Democratic nomination to run for Congress from New Hampshire.
In a time when the Democrats have to be doubling down on mending the divide between the progressive and establishment wings, the national committee decides to pass a not so subtle rule that takes a swipe at Sen. Bernie Sanders . The Democratic National Committee has made it known that all future presidential candidates must identify as Democrats : Democratic National Committee officials on Friday moved forward with a proposal to force the party's presidential candidates to identify as Democrats, a move that drew immediate criticism from a top official in Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign.
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders praised President Donald Trump after a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in a statement released Tuesday. The meeting between Trump and Kim was "a positive step" towards peace, Sanders said hours after Trump and Kim signed a "comprehensive" agreement promising North Korea better relations and security guarantees.
Democrats have adopted a new rule requiring future candidates for President to certify that they are Democrats, but it seems largely unenforceable. In addition to changes to the rules regarding the role of superdelegates in the nomination process, the Democratic National Committee is also working on other changes to the way the party's nomination process works, and this one seems to be directly aimed at Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and his supporters: Democratic National Committee officials on Friday moved forward with a proposal to force the party's presidential candidates to identify as Democrats, a move that drew immediate criticism from a top official in Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign.
California voters unseated a sitting state senator in midterm on Tuesday, denying Senate Democrats a supermajority and setting up a statewide battle this fall over a gas tax increase. Republicans said the recall showed Democrats are vulnerable after they successfully targeted Democratic state Sen. Josh Newman's vote to raise gas taxes last year.
In this May 23, 2018, photo, one of two Democrats seeking the party's nomination to run for attorney general in Colorado, Phil Weiser speaks during a campaign stop at a senior living community in Highlands Ranch, Colo. First-time candidate Weiser, a law school dean, explains in a TV commercial that he's running for attorney general because of President Donald Trump.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said President Donald Trump wants to "undermine American democracy," exhibits "strong authoritarian tendencies" and "kind of likes" authoritarian leaders in other countries, The Hill reported Saturday. "We have a president who has strong authoritarian tendencies; who wants to, every day, undermine American democracy," Sanders said Friday on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."
"He is considering another run for the presidency," Jeff Weaver, who served as the Vermont senator's campaign manager during the 2016 presidential election, told C-Span's "Washington Journal" on Tuesday. "When the time comes I think we'll have an answer to that, but right now he's still considering it."
For more than two decades, Montana's lone U.S. House seat has been a sacrificial altar where Democratic candidates' dreams are squashed. Not only have all 12 Democratic candidates since 1996 lost to Republicans, but only two of them have since gone on to win any election at all.