Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race. “I think it’s evident that this is now a three-way race between Biden, Warren and Sanders, and really it’s a debate about how far left the party should go,” he told The New York Times. He planned to announce his decision in a […] Read more
Days before Wednesday’s deadline to qualify for the fall presidential primary debates, Democratic candidates teetering below the threshold are scrambling to make the grade. Candidates need at least 2% support in at least four polls approved by the Democratic National Committee and 130,000 unique donors to secure a spot. So far, 10 candidates have qualified […] Read more
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race, he announced Wednesday night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show.” Inslee had centered his campaign around climate change, calling it “the most urgent challenge of our time.” “This is our moment to put the greatest threat to our existence, to our economy, to […] Read more
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s political origin story is inextricably tied to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a regulatory agency the presidential contender envisioned while an influential professor at Harvard Law School. In the brief biography included on her campaign’s Twitter account, Warren boasts that she is the “mom” of the agency. In Iowa, a staffer recently […] Read more
Many good policy ideas miss out on the daily cable news spin cycle after a big Democratic Party debate — but it is not for lack of trying. CNBC.com is interviewing presidential candidates this summer to gain insight on their vision and how it can impact the economic outlook for 37% of the 2020 electorate: […] Read more
President Donald Trump “richly deserves impeachment,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler says. Nadler also says that former special counsel Robert Mueller’s recent hearings before Congress about his report on Russian election meddling represent an “inflection point.” Nadler’s comments come amid a growing rift in the Democratic caucus, where party leaders have shown resistance to […] Read more
Executives at Wall Street’s biggest banks have begun throwing financial support to their early favorites in the 2020 Democratic presidential field: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg. All three combined to receive contributions during the second quarter from at least 15 bank executives from Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Bank […] Read more
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Thursday aimed her campaign of economic populism at a new target: the private equity industry. The Massachusetts senator, in tandem with colleagues on Capitol Hill, introduced what she calls the “Stop Wall Street Looting Act.” It stands no chance of enactment so long as Republicans control the White House […] Read more
Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden led the 2020 Democratic primary field in second quarter fundraising, while the leading candidates all entered July with a healthy store of cash, according to records filed late Monday. The South Bend, Indiana, mayor hauled in $24.9 million from April through June, the best in the field of about two […] Read more
The Trump administration outlined “active threats” to U.S. elections as it briefed Congress Wednesday on steps the government has taken to improve election security in the wake of Russian interference in 2016. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, FBI Director Christopher Wray and other officials “made it clear there are active threats and they’re doing […] Read more
