Tag Archives: 2020-election

The second night of the first 2020 Democratic debates in Miami lived up to its billing. With four of the top five candidates onstage, the contenders scraped it up, diving for loose balls, and throwing elbows. The debate created stinging exchanges — some of which will leave lasting marks. Mixing …

This past Friday, Kamala Harris, the Senator from California and a Democratic presidential hopeful, released her summer playlist, a collection of songs she’s “listening to while traveling around country.” Said Harris, “I’m a firm believer that we all need to find the time to dance, to sing and to bop …

President Trump filed the paperwork to run for reelection on January 20th, 2017, the day he was inaugurated. He officially announced his intention to seek a second term just over a year later, earlier than any president in history. The “launch” that took place in Orlando Tuesday night was nothing …

Rare is the politician who will say “I don’t know” about something and mean it, including her own future. That is one reason why I despise the question, “Are you running?” It generally wastes the time of journalists everywhere; candidates rarely say “yes,” even if they secretly intend to launch …

A few minutes before announcing that he crossed the 65,000 unique donation threshold necessary to qualify for the first two Democratic debates, 2020 longshot candidate Andrew Yang tweeted that he thought Nicolas Cage may have sent some money his way. Late last week, I confirmed with Cage’s manager that Cage …

Howard Schultz was never going to be able to avoid what happened in that Philadelphia Starbucks. Over the past two nights, the billionaire former coffee chain chairman has been asked aboutthe arrests of two African-American businessmen, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, in a Center City Starbucks last April, and event …

In a throwback to the rhetoric of Richard Nixon, would-be independent presidential candidate Howard Schultz insisted on Twitter Monday that he’s going outside the two party system to represent a “silent majority.” The phrase has a dark history. Nixon appealed to a “silent majority” in an infamous 1969 speech as …