Billionaire Michael Bloomberg warned on Monday that there "is no way an independent" presidential candidate "can win" and that such a bid would only ensure the reelection of President Donald Trump. Bloomberg’s statement, published on his website, came less than 24 hours after former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced that he is "seriously considering" mounting…
The nation’s biggest swing state looks even more like Trump Country heading into 2020. Newly released Florida voter data suggest President Donald Trump will begin his reelection campaign as the favorite in a state that offers a windfall of 29 electoral votes. The driving force: white voters who broke Republican and showed up in such…
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders — the front-runners in most presidential primary polls — have generated a torrent of news coverage since the beginning of the year. But so has Elizabeth Warren. And Kamala Harris is showing up everywhere. From Jan. 1 to April 30, four candidates — Sanders, Biden, Harris and Warren — accounted…
President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager predicted in an interview with CBS News that the president would win multiple swing states, including at least three he lost in 2016, if the presidential election were held this week. Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign chief, said the president would win Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina, New…
President Donald Trump’s comments on accepting foreign dirt in 2020 may have put some distance between him and Republicans in Congress. But seemingly not with Mitch McConnell. Speaking with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Thursday night, the Senate majority leader spoke with exasperation over the backlash the president has received for saying he would hear…
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will deliver a speech in front of the Trump International hotel in New York City next Sunday as she launches the next phase of her presidential campaign. The New York Democrat released a video Sunday morning announcing that she is officially running for president, after starting an exploratory committee two months ago….
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Russian, Chinese and other actors both foreign and domestic could flood the 2020 election and the broader political landscape with sophisticated "deepfake" digital forgeries, lawmakers and researchers cautioned Thursday, warnings that arrive as questions mount about whether campaigns and Silicon Valley firms are prepared to ward off a swarm of phony footage. Off-the-shelf video-editing and…
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With just months before Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, Facebook is refining its rules for political advertisements amid fears that the 2020 election campaign will be hit with new Russian-style disinformation efforts. Under a new Facebook policy announced on Wednesday, organizations that buy political ads or issue-oriented ads on topics like gun control and immigration will be…