Audrey Conklinon The 2020 Trump campaign trolled Democratic candidate Joe Biden Wednesday by purchasing the web domain for Biden’s new Latino outreach campaign. The former vice president announced the outreach campaign called “Todos Con Biden,” or “Everyone With Biden,” Wednesday, but the campaign did not purchase the web address todosconbiden.com before the Trump…
Mary Margaret Olohan A billionaire bashed 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren over her critiques of wealthy Americans, saying she is “shitting on” the American dream. The Massachusetts senator has demonstrated that she does not need wealthy donors or corporations to back her campaign, according to Politico. Warren has $26 million tucked away and has used…
Mary Margaret Olohan The nonprofit Rock the Vote sponsored a petition bashing the electoral college and pushing the National Popular Vote Compact, though the organization advertises itself as ‘non-partisan.’ Rock the Vote sponsored the petition, which urges voters to “Fix the broken Electoral College with National Popular Vote,” alongside a slew of other groups, including the…
Audrey Conklin Facebook announced Monday an effort to “protect the 2020 U.S. elections” by clearly marking fake news posts, offering protections to politicians’ accounts and offering more transparency. The effort comes after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg defended the social media site’s new advertisement policies, which will effectively allow political campaigns to release misinformation to voters, in an…
Chris White Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced Sunday afternoon that she plans on releasing plans in the coming weeks to fully pay for Medicare for all after months of avoiding the subject. Warren’s decision comes shortly after South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg railed against the Massachusetts Democrat for not having a plan to pay for such a…
Alright, raise your hands if you predicted that Tulsi Gabbard and Hillary Clinton would have the most explosive duel in the 2020 Democratic primary. Now put your hands back down, you liars. It came out of nowhere and completely consumed the Internet, with Clinton starting it all by bizarrely suggesting Gabbard is being groomed by…
Thursday, Hillary Clinton was interviewed on the podcast “Campaign HQ with David Plouffe”. David is best known for being Barack Obama’s campaign manager, while Hillary is best known for blowing what should have been one of the easiest Presidential victories in US history. They talked for roughly an hour about several topics, much of it…
At this point in the Democratic primaries (and American politics in general), populist rhetoric and demagoguery is the mainstream. As many academics and pundits have proclaimed, we are in a ‘populist moment’. Populist moments have certainly ebbed and flowed since before the American founding, but after the 2008 financial crash, the rhetoric has been ramping…
Mary Margaret Olohan 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris tweeted Wednesday that “we have not given nearly enough time” to talk about reproductive health care laws. The California senator was the first candidate to mention abortion at a Democratic debate Tuesday night. “Poor women and women of color will die because of restrictive reproductive health…
Shelby Talcott Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard went after the two outlets moderating Tuesday’s debate for alleging she is a Russian asset and apologist for Assad, calling it “completely despicable.” CNN moderator Anderson Cooper asked Gabbard during Tuesday’s Democratic debate in Ohio what she would do differently regarding pulling troops out of Syria. The question came after…