Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the 2020 election. Visit here for the latest news on the candidates running for president. The race began with 25 Democrats and two Republicans, including President Trump, who is running for reelection. There are…
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News 5 Jewish Things To Know About Amy Klobuchar
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The race for the Democratic presidential nomination is like a CNN panel — more people fit than you think possible. Up next is the nice one: Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. She’s committed to bipartisanship, close to Republicans like her late Senate colleague John McCain from Arizona and John Hoeven from neighboring North…
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News 5 Jewish Things To Know About Kamala Harris
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s pick for vice president is the daughter of a mother who immigrated from India and a father who immigrated from Jamaica,. Harris, 54, has some Jewish nuggets in her history. That time @KamalaHarris met her Jewish in-laws. “The first time I meet my mother-in-law, she looks at me,…
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News 5 Jewish Things To Know About Elizabeth Warren
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In the waning days of 2018, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., formally declared her interest in running for the presidency. Warren was not the first to do so — former Maryland Rep. John Delaney has for months been canvassing for Democratic votes in Iowa, the first caucus state — but Warren is the…
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Fast Forward Gillibrand Says She’ll ‘Engage Iran’ On Day One As President
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York said at a debate in Miami on Thursday that the top foreign relationship she’d like to reset as president is with Iran. “You’re likely going to have to reset a relationship between America and another country or entity if you become president… What is the first…
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Opinion Race – But Not Justice – Were The Winners At The Democratic Debates
On Thursday, the Supreme Court stuck a country club steak knife deep into the gut of democracy when it barred challenges to gerrymandering. But somehow, voting rights — preserving the integrity of the American political process — did not come up as a topic. NBC moderators didn’t even bother to ask about it on what…
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Opinion Foreign Policy Is The President’s Only Real Job. Why Was It Erased?
This week’s Democratic debates made for good television – as sparks flew between candidates in tussles few expected. From former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro arguing with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke about decriminalizing border crossings to California Senator Kamala Harris taking former Vice President Joe Biden to task over his long-held opposition…
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Opinion The Left’s Fight For The Democratic Party Is Not Yet Won
On Wednesday, hours before the first Democratic presidential primary debate aired, the Bloomberg columnist Jonathan Bernstein predicted that Democrats would evince a major party image never before seen in American politics. He was mainly speaking of the unprecedented racial and gender diversity among the Democratic hopefuls, but he could have just as easily been referencing…
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Opinion Which Democratic Candidate Gets Intersectionality Best? A Ranked List
The left is fractious. Where the right wing prizes uniformity and compliance, we lefties come from hundreds of perspectives. To get us marching in the same direction takes a compelling force. Hence the adage, “Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line.” The 2016 Democratic presidential primary was a fiasco because Bernie Sanders couldn’t wrap…
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