It’s been inevitable for nearly a month now, but on Wednesday it became official: Bernie Sanders dropped out. This now means the 2020 presidential race will come down to two old, white men with a strong support for the drug war, anti-immigrant sentiment, warmongering tendencies, and rape allegations. Not surprisingly, this result has seen Sanders’…
At the beginning of March, controversy arose in the Libertarian Party of New York (LPNY) after it was announced that, out of the eight qualified candidates for the 2020 Libertarian presidential nomination, seven of them were being kicked off the ballot. The one candidate who remained: Jacob Hornberger. While all primaries in the Libertarian Party…
Will this summer’s Democratic Party national convention in Milwaukee be a slugfest? Might the eventual nominees for president and vice president be compromise choices that result from inconclusive primaries or from delegates having second thoughts about the leading candidates? Convention surprises are not without precedent in American political history. In fact, a century ago the…
Former Vice President Joe Biden has endorsed California’s job-killing AB 5 law, which restricts freelance work. This was after AB 5 “killed countless gig-worker jobs all over the state,” especially jobs held by “entertainers, freelance writers” and other people who tend to have multiple clients rather than a single employer, notes Red State’s Nick Arama. Due to AB 5,…
After Joe Biden’s surprise blowout victory in the South Carolina Democratic Primary, the ensuing momentum carried him on to yet another incredible performance on Super Tuesday, putting his delegate count slightly above Sanders. And as Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Bloomberg all dropped out and rallied around the former vice president, Biden had developed a solid coalition…
This article is not about the 2020 election. It’s about a more serious effort by the Democratic party to permanently control the presidency. The effort has a non-threatening name “The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact,” (“NPV”). Under NPV, a state, by agreement with other states in the compact, awards all its electoral votes to the…
Mary Margaret Olohan Former 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president in a tweet Monday. “The answer to hatred & division is to reignite our spirit of common purpose. @JoeBiden won’t only win – he’ll show there’s more that unites us than divides us,” the New Jersey Democrat tweeted. “He’ll restore honor…
TLR: This is Gary Doan and talking to Jo Jorgensen. She’s best known for being Harry Browne’s running mate on the ’96 Libertarian presidential ticket and is currently running for the nomination, herself. Jo, thanks for talking with me. JJ: Oh, thanks so much for the interview. I appreciate it. TLR: Yesterday was Super Tuesday…
Chris White Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested Tuesday that he didn’t know that Sen. Elizabeth Warren was still competing in the Democratic primary. “If there’s only three candidates, you can’t do worse than that,” Bloomberg said when a reporter asked if he would be happy with a third place finish after Super Tuesday. The…
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders spent a large part of the last week defending earlier statements he made regarding Fidel Castro and Cuba. While denouncing the dictatorship of Castro, he praised the social programs that were implemented under his rule, notably with regards to literacy. He pointed out that there was a rapid increase in literacy rates in…