A new prize in Nevada: the Asian-American vote
Asian-Americans have leaned Democratic in recent presidential elections, they were evenly split in 2014 midterm elections
The Latest: Clinton to campaign with mother of Sandra Bland
( KTRS ) Hillary Clinton will campaign next week with the mother of Sandra Bland, the Chicago-area woman who was discovered hanged in her jail cell three days after being pulled over for a routine traffic stop near Houston. Geneva Reed-Veal will join the Democratic presidential candidate at a Feb. 17 voter mobilization event in…
Elizabeth Warren’s hard choice in Democrats’ White House run
Warren is the only one of the Senate’s 14 Democratic women who hasn’t endorsed Clinton
Presidential Candidates Look Toward New Hampshire Following Iowa Caucuses
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – A victorious Ted Cruz and buoyant Marco Rubio have emerged from Iowa with compelling claims to the outsider and mainstream mantles in the fractured Republican primary. Cruz emerged with a comfortable lead Monday night to win the country’s leadoff vote in what had been a close race until the end. Donald Trump,…
UPDATE: Democrats locked in dead heat
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says the “virtual tie” he has secured in Iowa in the Iowa caucuses with rival Hillary Clinton sends a profound message that it’s “too late for establishment politics and establishment economics.” Sanders says he’ll wind up with about “half of the Iowa delegates.” Hillary Clinton says…
Obama contrasts Clinton’s pragmatism with Sanders’ idealism
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is portraying the Democratic presidential primary as a race between Hillary Clinton’s pragmatism and experience versus Bernie Sanders’ idealism and liberalism. Obama is offering his most extensive assessment of the 2016 Democratic race to date in an interview with Politico. He says Clinton is “wicked smart,” but that her…
TV station loses debate sponsorship over union fight
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – Democrats have dropped a New Hampshire television station as a debate sponsor over an ongoing disagreement between union workers and management. The Democratic National Committee and the New Hampshire Democratic Party said Friday they will not include WMUR-TV as a sponsor of the Dec. 19 debate because the station’s parent company,…
Hillary Clinton To Visit St. Louis
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination will be in St. Louis tonight. Hillary Clinton will speak at the Union Hall for Sheet Metal Workers Local 36 in south St. Louis. Clinton will discuss her economic plan during the event. The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. The public is invited…
Clinton proposes new ‘exit tax’ on corporate inversions
The Democratic presidential front-runner will propose spending the revenue raised by the new tax to boost manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
Clinton, Sanders spar over taxes, health care
DALLAS (AP) – Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign is launching a new offensive on taxes, saying Bernie Sanders’ health care plan would require middle-class workers to pay higher taxes. Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon says in a statement that a 2013 proposal by Sanders in the Senate to create a single-payer health care system showed middle-class…