The presidential election could turn on North Carolina. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are pouring millions into the state and surrogates are blanketing the state with rallies. But could Lennie Gerber and Pearl Berlin be the Democrats’ secret weapon? The Human Rights Campaign is pulling out the elderly lesbian couple, in hopes their heartwarming…
Democrats might have found their white knight — a Jewish billionaire who came out of nowhere to write eight-figure checks for their candidates and causes. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has forked over $35 million to Hillary Clinton and allies. But party officials fear he might dump them once the threat of Donald Trump is off…
As the November election fast approaches, Democrats and Republicans are in the usual arms race to raise campaign cash. But in a rare moment of across the aisle solidarity, Democrats led an online fundraiser to fix a North Carolina Republican Party office damaged by an explosion last week. “Even though we deeply, deeply, disagree with…
Over the summer, a writer for the “alt-right” website Breitbart News called Hillary Clinton a communist. What’s striking about the accusation is certainly not its source, nor its target, and definitely not its content. What’s striking is that the article appeared side by side with a web advertisement for Stephen Bannon’s film “Clinton Cash.” The…
I’ve been a Bernie Sanders acolyte for years, and have watched in awe during the last 12 months as he took his rightful place as the progressive leader of our time. He showed up exactly when we needed him, taking the smashed mantle of the Occupy Wall Street movement and bringing millions of millennial voters…
NEW YORK (JTA) – Democrats are more than four times as likely as Republicans to say they sympathize more with the Palestinians than with Israel, according to a new survey, and sympathy for the Palestinians among Americans overall is growing. While self-identified Democrats are more likely to favor Israel over the Palestinians (43 percent for…
WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders accused Hillary Clinton of neglecting the Palestinians, and Clinton said her rival was more prone to criticizing than solving problems when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Independent senator from Vermont and the former secretary of state had a lengthy and heated exchange on Israel and the Palestinians during their…
The New York Times’s editorial board endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John Kasich as they seek to become their parties’ nominees in the U.S. presidential election, calling Clinton one of the most “deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history.” Clinton, a front-runner facing a strong challenge from Senator Bernie Sanders, and Kasich, who has…
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