To recap: While billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who entered the race in November, will be able to self-fund his new campaign, Castro has not been on the debate stage in months. Booker failed to clear the barrier for tonight’s event. Neither of the men, both non-white, have been able to raise enough money or garner enough…
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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is blunt—the women have been pushed out. In late August, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) exited the 2020 presidential race. Earlier this month, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) announced she would end her campaign too. Meanwhile, over a dozen candidates—most of whom are less well known than those two women—remain in the contest,…
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Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has announced that she’s dropped out of the 2020 presidential race. The official word came less than an hour after news got out that Harris had told some staff she planned to end her campaign. In a tweet she confirmed the rumors were true, thanking those who backed her bid and…
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At the end of the last debate in September, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) tweeted: “The #DemDebate was three hours long and not one question about abortion or reproductive rights.” She wasn’t about to let that happen again. At the CNN/New York Times debate, Harris didn’t wait for moderators to raise the issue of attacks on…
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Presidential hopefuls Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and former Vice President Joe Biden faced off again during the second night of the latest Democratic debates on Wednesday. The two candidates had previously shared the stage on June 27, when Harris took Biden to task for his record on race and controversial comments he’d made about working…
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Following the Democratic debates two weeks ago, Kamala Harris has shot up in the polls and emerged as a frontrunner among the hopefuls planning to challenge Donald Trump in 2020. Now, her campaign is starting to roll out some of the policies that Harris would champion as president, and she announced on Friday that she…
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