Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has ridden a polling upswing and winning the most votes in Iowa and New Hampshire to a tenuous but undeniable status as the Democrats’ 2020 front-runner. In response to Sanders’ rise, party leaders and media figures have expressed dread at the prospect of being led by a democratic socialist who has…
Michael Bloomberg has become a top presidential candidate in the Democratic primary seemingly overnight. He’s spent over $300 million on ads across the country, and he’s been able to pay his campaign staff more than double the going rate of competing campaigns. But while money certainly doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t tell the entire story of…
Mike Bloomberg is paying online influencers to make his presidential campaign look hip, evidently anxious about cornering the youth vote. But the state of his base is perhaps best summed up by an altogether different alleged endorsement: That of film legend Kirk Douglas, who died last week at the age of 103. This weekend at…
Representatives of five Democratic presidential candidates will speak tonight at a Los Angeles-area synagogue as the campaigns begin outreach to Jewish voters ahead of the California Democratic primary. The event at Valley Beth Shalom synagogue in Encino, organized by a collection of Democratic Jewish groups, will feature surrogates for the campaigns of former Vice President…
It turns out $217 million can really get you far in politics. Billionaire and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg is rising in the polls, and is now in fourth place nationally – thanks in no small part to the hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money that he’s spent on advertising,…
The candidates running in the Democratic presidential primary have very little positive to say about President Trump’s foreign policy — and his newly-unveiled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan is no exception. The Democratic presidential race hasn’t touched on Israel that much —some candidates, mostly on the left, have proposed putting conditions on American military aid to the…
Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg spoke at length on Sunday about his relationship with Judaism and Israel and how it would affect his presidency. Bloomberg, who would be the first Jewish president, made his remarks at the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center in Miami at an event called “United for…
(JTA) — Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is said to be preparing to become a Democratic presidential candidate, apologized for using “disrespectful” language about women. Bloomberg, who is Jewish, apologized through a spokesman in a New York Times article published Thursday. “Mike has come to see that some of what he has said…
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