2020 presidential candidates

Staffers for presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have drafted a letter to campaign manager Faiz Shakir complaining that they are making “poverty wages,” and demanding he pay them a $15 per hour minimum wage.

Left-wing billionaire mega-donor and impeachment crusader Tom Steyer entered the 2020 Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, and launched the first major television advertising blitz of the campaign on Wednesday.

Presidential candidate John Delaney (D-MD) said Monday that he does not think decriminalizing illegal border crossings is the correct approach to the problem. 

Presidential candidate Julian Castro said on Friday that he supports tackling “housing segregation” in addition to “voluntary busing” to desegregate more school districts across America.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) status as Joe Biden’s (D) biggest threat was solidified in an Economist/YouGov poll released ahead of the first Democrat debate Wednesday, showing Warren just six points behind Biden and four above Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

Maryland’s Republican Governor, Larry Hogan, is ending all speculation by announcing that he will not challenge President Trump in 2020. 

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) unveiled an abortion policy on Tuesday that treats pro-life states the way Jim Crow states were treated in the civil rights era — effectively treating Christian voters like racists.

A local South Bend, Indiana, newspaper has reported that Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been out of town for nearly half of 2019 as he campaigns for the Democratic Party nomination for president.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) received a raucous welcome on home turf on Sunday, as her campaign held its first organizing rally of the 2020 Democratic primary at Los Angeles Southwest College.

With former vice president Joe Biden making an aggressive pitch to black voters in South Carolina — the fourth state on the primary calendar — Harris is working hard to shore up her support among minority voters.

President Donald Trump has delivered a new nickname for rising Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg: Alfred E. Newman.

Most of the frontrunners for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2020 reacted to the synagogue shooting in Poway, California, on Saturday by denouncing “gun violence.”

Throughout the Democratic presidential primary race in 2020 thus far, no Democrat wants to be perceived as a “moderate” option.

Joe Biden, preparing to run for president in 2020, recently told reporters: “I’m an Obama-Biden Democrat, man. And I’m proud of it.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said to supporters in Wisconsin on Friday that Trump’s promise to working class Americans was a “monstrous lie.”

Presidential candidate Julian Castro on Wednesday evening said the United States needs migrants today “more than ever before” and will be “begging” for more migrants in the future if the country does not allow more to stay.

Former vice president Joe Biden offered a hint of his strategy for an impending 2020 presidential run on Friday, telling reporters that he is not “moderate,” but that the “progressive” wing of the party is further left than its voters.

The Los Angeles Times has noted the fact that virtually every Democratic Party presidential contender for 2020, current and potential, is courting Al Sharpton’s support, despite his history of racism, antisemitism, and division.

The New York Times defended what it called former vice president Joe Biden’s “handsy approach to politicking” on Friday by accusing President Donald Trump of hypocrisy for posting a video parody of Biden’s tweeted apology.

Every major Democratic candidate has courted Sharpton’s favor, despite his history of incendiary racist and antisemitic rhetoric and actions.

Former vice president Joe Biden released a statement Sunday — his second in three days — in response to allegations that he had touched women inappropriately throughout his public life.

The simple reason that Joe Biden must run for President of the United States is that almost all the other Democratic candidates are so radical that only Biden can stop the party from taking itself — and perhaps the country — off a cliff.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is facing a torrent of criticism from the left after she met with AIPAC delegates in her office after skipping the AIPAC conference.

Failed Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum (D) said on Wednesday that presidential candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D) is only taken seriously after his 2018 loss because of his “set of privileges.”

LOS ANGELES, California — Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is running for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, appeared at a rally of over 1,000 striking workers and students outside the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) on Wednesday afternoon in a show of solidarity and a pitch for labor support.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) dropped out of the 2020 presidential race, the only major Democratic candidate who had declined to support both “Medicare for All” and the “Green New Deal.”

Democratic presidential contender Sen. Amy Klobuchar defended her treatment of staff to CNN: “I have kept expectations for myself that are very high. I’ve asked my staff to meet those same expectations.”

Former San Francisco mayor and California State Assembly speaker Willie Brown threw shade at his ex-girlfriend, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), and the other contenders for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2020, writing Saturday that none of them can beat President Donald Trump.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) co-sponsored the “Green New Deal” legislation introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Thursday, even though the plan had already been widely mocked.

Democratic presidential candidates are rushing to declare their support for a single-payer — i.e. government-run — health care system. But voters reject such a system — even in left-wing California, where it is thought to be popular.

Marianne Williamson, the Hollywood spiritual guru with close ties to A-list celebrities, is running for president as a Democrat, she announced Monday evening.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is running as the antidote to the alleged racism of President Donald Trump, using a “fake news” claim that he praised white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. The claim remains a lie.

Former San Francisco mayor and California State Assembly speaker Willie Brown confirmed Saturday that he had dated Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris and appointed her to two state jobs — and dismissed the fuss.

Julian Castro, the 2020 presidential candidate who was former President Barack Obama’s Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary, will reportedly allow his campaign workers to unionize.

Pete Buttigieg, the Fort Bend, Indiana, mayor who announced his 2020 presidential exploratory committee on Wednesday, believes the Electoral College must be abolished.

Democrats are fuming about a $200,000 speaking fee that former Vice President Joe Biden collected last October that helped re-elect Republican congressman Fred Upton of Michigan in a closely-fought midterm election race.