Ken Thomas
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Biden Had Half as Much Cash as Trump at End of April
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign apparatus ended April with less than half as much money in the bank as President Trump’s team, figures showed, as the former vice president’s team promised a hiring spree to come in battleground states. → Read More
Hillary Clinton to Endorse Joe Biden's Presidential Bid
Hillary Clinton plans to endorse Joe Biden’s presidential bid, offering her support against her former rival President Trump. → Read More
Joe Biden Makes Mark on Democratic Party With New Fundraising Deal
Joe Biden formalized a joint fundraising agreement with the Democratic National Committee, allowing him to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from individual donors. → Read More
Biden Campaign Indicates Priorities USA Is Preferred Super PAC
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign signaled Wednesday that it favors a Democratic super PAC established during the Obama era over another group formed last year as the party prepares for a general-election battle against President Trump. → Read More
Barack Obama Endorses Joe Biden for President
Former President Obama endorsed the presidential bid of Joe Biden, his former vice president, in a video released Tuesday on Twitter. → Read More
Biden’s To-Do List: Unite Democrats, Counter Trump, Raise Money
The presidential candidate faces a six-month obstacle course made exceedingly more complicated by the global coronavirus pandemic. → Read More
Biden Wins Support of the National Education Association
Joe Biden won the support of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest labor union, in the latest example of political groups coalescing around his presidential bid. → Read More
The Top Takeaways From Super Tuesday
Joe Biden’s Super Tuesday victories served notice that his triumph in South Carolina was no fluke and could form the basis of a competitive coalition of voters in what is shaping up to be a protracted fight with Sen. Bernie Sanders. → Read More
How South Carolina Saved Joe Biden
When his struggling presidential campaign needed a lift, the former vice president turned to the state for a lifeline, notching a burst of momentum and a chance to become the alternative to Bernie Sanders in the race for the Democratic nomination. → Read More
Joe Biden’s Allies Launch Effort to Woo Centrist Voters
Joe Biden and his allies are trying to consolidate centrist voters behind his candidacy in the final days before Saturday’s South Carolina primary, with a key leader in the state endorsing him and a super PAC backing his bid making a major push for large donations. → Read More
Joe Biden Faces Competition for Diverse Coalition From Bernie Sanders
Former Vice President Biden has made the case for months that he can best appeal to black, Latino and moderate voters. But after the Nevada caucuses, Sen. Sanders is the one beginning to show the makings of a broad electoral coalition → Read More
Democratic Debate in Nevada: The Moments That Mattered
In a debate that included some of the fiercest exchanges of the Democratic primary, billionaire former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made his debate debut and quickly took incoming fire from the five leading contenders for the Democratic nomination. Here are the moments that mattered. → Read More
Democrats Storm Nevada Ahead of High-Stakes Caucuses
Democratic presidential contenders are blitzing Nevada in the final week before the state’s caucuses, a contest that could determine whether Sen. Bernie Sanders has staying power at the top of the pack and whether centrists will rally behind an alternative or remain splintered. → Read More
Democratic Candidates Court Unions With Infrastructure Pitch
The Democratic presidential candidates are appealing to union workers ahead of Nevada’s Feb. 22 caucuses by offering plans to rebuild roads and bridges. → Read More
How Iowa Slipped Away From Joe Biden
The former vice president now must convince donors and voters in other early states to stick with him in a fiercely competitive field. → Read More
In Iowa, Biden Tries to Turn Impeachment Trial to His Advantage
Former Vice President Joe Biden has cited GOP efforts to use the Trump impeachment trial to undermine his candidacy as evidence that he can take a punch as a candidate → Read More
Biden and Sanders Fight Over Social Security
The Democratic presidential candidates feuded from a distance over the future of Social Security, escalating their dispute involving an issue closely watched by retirees who will participate in the coming Iowa caucuses. → Read More
U.K. Results Provide Fodder for Internal Democratic Debate
Democrats weighing the importance of electability and warning against nominating a candidate from the left against President Trump have a new spark for that debate: The British general election. → Read More
Democrats’ January Plans Scrambled by Likely Impeachment Trial
Plans for a Democratic presidential debate in January have been complicated by the expected Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, which could tie up several 2020 hopefuls during the final stretch before the Iowa caucuses. → Read More
Democrats Scrutinize Party’s Diversity After Harris Exit
Sen. Kamala Harris’s exit from the presidential race has touched off an internal debate about diversity in the Democratic Party and whether any candidate can amass the type of voting coalition that powered Barack Obama. → Read More