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Pennsylvania meltdown triggers Republican alarms

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PHILADELPHIA — A GOP implosion in Pennsylvania has Republicans alarmed about President Donald Trump’s reelection prospects in a state that proved essential to his 2016 victory. The enfeebled state party — still reeling after a devastating midterm election where Republicans lost three congressional seats and whiffed gubernatorial and Senate races by double digits — is […]

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New ‘Draft Beto’ group launches to rally support for 2020 bid

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A group of Democratic activists and progressive “social media influencers” will launch a “Draft Beto” campaign on Tuesday, a source involved with the effort told POLITICO. The group will focus its efforts on raising $1 million for a future presidential campaign for Beto O’Rourke, the Texas congressman whose 2018 Senate campaign against Republican Ted Cruz […]

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Warner: ‘Modern capitalism is under assault’

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Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Thursday issued an emphatic call for economic reforms to make capitalism work for more Americans but declared that government deficits matter, in a preview of the debate looming for Democrats heading into the 2020 elections. “Modern capitalism is under assault in ways that are frankly unprecedented,” Warner said at a […]

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Klobuchar to appear in Fox News town hall

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Fox News announced Wednesday that it will host a town hall with Sen. Amy Klobuchar next month, its second event of the nascent 2020 campaign with a Democratic presidential candidate. The town hall is scheduled for May 8 in Milwaukee and is to be hosted by Fox anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. News of […]

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Trump, RNC rake in massive $105 million second-quarter haul

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President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee raised $105 million in the second quarter of 2019, the RNC announced Tuesday. That number, first reported by The New York Times, eclipses the roughly $85 million in contributions then-President Barack Obama’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee raised during the same period in 2011 […]

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Booker backs 'Medicare for All' but pledges 'pragmatist' approach

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Sen. Cory Booker on Sunday said he’d take incremental steps to overhaul the American health care system rather than push through "Medicare for All" if elected president. Despite his support for the proposal, the New Jersey Democrat told CNN host Jake Tapper that his experience as mayor of Newark, N.J., taught him, "You don’t let […]

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Democratic field readies for the big shrink

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With the first debates and two quarters of fundraising behind them, strategists with the leading Democratic campaigns and party operatives are beginning to rethink the conventional narrative of the 2020 primary. Gone is the expectation of a massive candidate pile-up when the early states begin voting, and a long, drawn-out primary. Few are worried anymore […]

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Democrats decry double standard in fact checking

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On Friday, The Washington Post’s Fact Checker column awarded three Pinocchios to President Donald Trump’s boast that he’s already built large sections of a border wall, which the paper called “the false claim Trump most often repeats.” The Post counted nearly 200 instances of Trump making it. The Fact Checker also recently gave three Pinocchios […]