Mike Bloomberg made his debut on the debate stage Wednesday night. To put it kindly, it did not go well. The former New York mayor has spent hundreds of millions of dollars of his personal fortune to buy his way into relevancy in the Democratic primary, but he appeared wholly …
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Bernie Sanders is raising phenomenal campaign cash — in tiny increments. The Democratic Socialist announced Thursday that his presidential campaign raised $34.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2019. That haul, secured from 1.8 million donations averaging less than $20 a pop, puts him nearly $10 million ahead of the …
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WASHINGTON — Democrats cleaned house in Virginia, grabbing full control of the state government for the first time in decades. In Kentucky, an unpopular, Trump-endorsed Republican governor appears to have lost by the thinnest of margins. But Kentucky Republicans won every other statewide race, and an establishment Republican cruised past …
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WASHINGTON — Last year, on the Monday after Thanksgiving, as Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan was on his way back to Washington from his home in northeast Ohio, his teenage daughter called him in tears. General Motors had just announced it was idling its massive factory in Lordstown, a city in …
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Editor’s note:This piece appears in the March 2019 issue ofRolling Stone,“Women Shaping the Future.”After the magazine was sent to press in early February, Sen. Klobuchar’s alleged mistreatment of staffers became a national story. Reached byRolling Stone to comment on the allegations, the Minnesota senator sent the following statement: “I’m incredibly …
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