This article is more than 6 months old Beto O’Rourke This article is more than 6 months old Beto O’Rourke’s ancestors were slaveholders, records reveal This article is more than 6 months old Exclusive: O’Rourke addresses family history for the first time and admits that he and his children are ‘beneficiaries’ of slaveholding ‘We must […] More
US elections 2020 This article is more than 6 months old This article is more than 6 months old The gathering of political progressives found itself almost spoilt for choice by the Democratic presidential field for 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren speaks at Netroots. Photograph: Elizabeth Robertson/AP Among nearly 4,000 progressive activists and organizers […] More
US elections 2020 US elections 2020: a simple guide to the race for the White House From the debates, to the conventions, to the electoral college, here’s everything you need to know The election cycle has been revving up since January 2019, when candidates started entering the race to be the Democratic party’s nominee for […] More
Play Video 1:18 Formally launching his third presidential campaign, Joe Biden appealed for party and national unity while accusing Donald Trump of leading the US with ‘a clenched fist, a closed hand and a hard heart’. But, he said, ‘we are the United States of America and there is not a single thing we cannot […] More
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US elections 2020 The astonishing disappearing act of Beto O’Rourke #Betomania became #Betofatigue in six short months – can the Texas Democrat rise again and show voters what type of president he’d be? Beto O’Rourke speaks at a rally in Los Angeles, California, on 27 April 2019. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters When Beto O’Rourke travelled to […] More
‘Iowa slingshot’: Amy Klobuchar plots midwest route to victory in 2020 Senator Amy Klobuchar, who announced her presidential run in a snowstorm, has toed a centrist line out of step with the apparent progressive mood in the Democratic party. Photograph: Eric Miller/Reuters The Minnesota senator, who has consistently won big in a purple state, may […] More
Bernie Sanders Sanders dares Democrats to stop him – but is he the man to beat Trump? The socialist senator and his supporters seem to have the upper hand over a party establishment worried he’s too leftwing Bernie Sanders kicked off his 2020 campaign in Brooklyn, in March. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Raging against the […] More
