DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – – Iowa Democrats were meeting at caucus sites around the state on Monday, kicking off what could be a bruising months-long national nominating fight to choose a November election challenger to Republican U.S. President Donald Trump. Voters poured into more than 1,600 schools, community centers and other public locations to
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Five Democratic candidates are considered to have viable shots at winning or placing highly in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, the first nominating contest of the 2020 presidential election. FILE PHOTO: Five 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are seen in a combination image from file photos: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, former U.S.
(Reuters) – The co-chair of South Carolina’s caucus for African-American women endorsed billionaire U.S. presidential candidate Tom Steyer on Sunday, helpful backing in the first state to vote in which most Democrats are black. FILE PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Tom Steyer attends the Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day Parade in Columbia, South Carolina,
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic Party will officially nominate a 2020 presidential candidate at its convention in July, a process that begins on Monday with the Iowa caucuses and ends with the Puerto Rico primary in June. FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidates (L-R) billionaire activist Tom Steyer, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), former Vice
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidates fanned out across Iowa on Saturday for a frenzy of rallies and last-ditch speeches with just two days to go before the rural state kicks off the nominating process. Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) poses for a group photo at a
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two billionaire Democratic presidential hopefuls, Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer, collectively spent about $389 million last year on their campaigns, more than the rest of the remaining Democratic field combined, according to disclosures filed on Friday. FILE PHOTO – Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul and former New York City mayor, now
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats appeared to have fallen short on Thursday in their bid to secure the votes needed to call witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial, clearing the way for Trump’s likely acquittal as early as this weekend. Democrats had urged a handful of Republicans to support their effort to call witnesses, but their
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump campaigned on Thursday in Iowa – the state that kicks off the presidential nominating race next week – basking in the support of his base while the U.S. Senate trial considering his impeachment continued in Washington. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign
FILE PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg speaks about his gun policy agenda in Aurora, Colorado, U.S. December 5, 2019. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – After steadily rising in popularity over the last several weeks, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appears to have surpassed U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren among registered
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lev Parnas, an indicted businessman who says he worked to pressure Ukraine to investigate one of President Donald Trump’s political rivals, traveled to Washington to press the Senate to allow him to testify in Trump’s impeachment trial, only to be turned away at the U.S. Capitol. Trailed by TV cameras, bullhorn-wielding protesters
WILDWOOD, N.J. (Reuters) – New Jersey supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday welcomed his first campaign rally in the state the same way they celebrate heroes from the New York Jets football team to native son Bruce Springsteen – with a tailgate party. Braving cold weather in lawn chairs and under tents, they
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) addresses reporters during a break in the fourth day of the Senate impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Erin Scott WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham on Tuesday said he would support a plan making
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate came under renewed pressure on Monday to allow witnesses in his impeachment trial, while his defense team largely ignored disclosures from a former White House adviser. The elephant in the room on Day 2 of Trump’s defense arguments was John Bolton, the former
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Utilizing a complicated in-person caucus system, the first contest in the Democratic presidential primary will take place in Iowa on Feb. 3. FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa, U.S., January 26, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria Iowans do not
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters as National Security Advisor John Bolton looks on during a meeting with Slovakia’s Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 3, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump told his then-national security adviser in August that
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Just before his lawyers stepped into the U.S. Senate to begin their argument that he should not be removed from office, President Donald Trump offered a preview of sorts. Americans should turn on their televisions, he wrote on Twitter, and watch the attorneys make “our case against” his political antagonists, who he