2020 presidential nomination

You wouldn't believe the number of people asking why DWT has nothing to say about Alex Thompson's reporting on the knock-out punch administered to one of the Democratic also-rans, Kirsten Gillibrand. Thompson's original blockbuster Politico article, Former Gillibrand aide resigned in protest over handling of sex harassment claims, was pretty thorough.

Very rare photo of what Joe Biden looks like in the 21st CenturyMike Allen reported yesterday that Biden's lifelong lust for the presidency-- an end-goal rather than a wish to accomplish something for the country-- is about to manifest itself with a final "decision", imminently.

by NoahBonesaw privileges included.Sure, Trump overruled the CIA and the FBI when he gave a security clearance card to that Kushner dweeb but he didn't even bother with the card when he had those Russian diplo-spies over to the oval office for laughs about firing Comey and to hand them top secret Israeli intelligence.

Last week David Atkins, writing for the Washington Monthly pushed back on some of the lame ideas ritually asserted by the Republican wing of the Democratic Party upon which they claim their right to dominate a party they are so obviously out of touch with.

A couple of years ago, when The Blade asked Mayor Pete about the experience of being openly gay in a state where Pence was governor, Buttigieg called Pence a "super-nice guy," immediately adding that he pursues "divisive and backward-looking policies...

John Delaney is a rich guy who bought himself a House seat in Maryland in 2012. After the state legislature made MD-06 nearly impossible for a Republican to win again, Delaney spent $4,423,738 against Republican incumbent Roscoe Bartlett's $1,362,902. Only $33,172 of Delaney's money came from small individual contributions. The biggest chuck came from his personal bank account: $2,370,556.

"I'm Jay Inslee; I'm running for president because I'm the only only candidate who will make defeating climate change our nation's number one priority." So who is he? H was elected governor of Washington in 2012. He was elected to the state legislature in 1988 and then to Congress in 1992 where he was defeated after serving one term. He was reelected though in 1998 in a bluer district and was reelected 6 times (as a New Dem) before being elected governor.

Pete Stark was one of Congress' most liberal members. He beat another Democrat in a 1972 primary, claiming the incumbent had been in Congress "too long" and was then challenged-- and beaten-- himself on the same grounds 40 years later (2012). The victor in that tight race went to a moderate Democrat, Eric Swalwell, then a first-term member of the Dublin city council.

Jonathan Allen, writing for NBC News, lays out Kamala Harris' path to victory. It depends heavily on a "juggernaut" in California, which many California voters are discovering for the first time, is where she's from. "California voters alone," wrote Allen, "will send more than 400 delegates to the convention, nearly double second-ranking Texas.

Corporate media is always ready to set up a tragic dichotomy between the actual grassroots base of the Democratic Party on the one hand and the careerists and special interests and donors who prop them up on the other hand.