After another big win, this time in Nevada with 46 percent of the vote, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a self-described democratic socialist, is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 — and the Democratic establishment has no idea what to do about it.
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New Poll Shows Bernie with Big Leads in Michigan and Wisconsin
A new poll shows Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with significant leads over his Democratic primary opponents in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Read MoreCommentary: The Truth About ‘Socialism’ as Told by Scandinavian Leaders
It says a lot about the 2020 Democratic field when Michael Bloomberg’ defense of capitalism became a point of offense during his first presidential debate.
Read MoreKeith Ellison Asks for Examples of Bernie Bros ‘Being Bad,’ Steve Scalise Responds
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, said on Twitter this week that he has “never seen” a supporter of the Vermont socialist “being unusually mean or rude.”
Read MoreRashida Tlaib Speaks at Democratic Socialists Event, Says Student Debt Tied to ‘Racial Discrimination’
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-13) spoke this week at an event hosted by the Young Democratic Socialists of America at Wayne State University.
Read MoreCommentary: Bernie Sanders, Not Jeff Bezos, Is the Face of Greed
Until Bernie Sanders was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in 1981, he had never held a steady job. Almost 40, he had been “virtually unemployed” his entire adult life. Those who knew Sanders before he was elected mayor say “he was always poor” and lived “just one step above hand to mouth.”
Read MoreRivals Target Bloomberg as He Rises in Democratic Presidential Race
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s name is not on any of the ballots for the first four U.S. Democratic presidential nominating contests, and he has yet to qualify for the candidates’ next debate on Wednesday night.
But it is Bloomberg who has quickly become a key figure in the Democratic contest, rising to third in national political surveys of Democratic voters behind Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Read MoreCommentary: Governing Takes a Team
Bernie Sanders—a supporter of Cuba’s and Venezuela’s Communist regimes, whose honeymoon idyll was the Soviet Union, passionate and earnest about his beliefs—now appears likeliest to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. The number and quality of the young surrogates with whom he has surrounded himself show his seriousness about breaking a lot of America’s eggs to whip up his favorite socio-communist omelet. Were Sanders to be elected, his people—and no others—would take charge of the U.S. government’s every last bit, and place it behind their vision to reshape America and Americans.
Read MoreBernie’s Green New Deal to Go 100 percent renewable in 10 years Would Destroy America
Are the American people about to vote to destroy the way of life?
Read MoreOcasio-Cortez Explains Why She’s Sponsoring a Bill to Ban Fracking Across the US
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a nationwide fracking ban Wednesday as Democratic presidential candidates work to paint themselves as moderates ahead of the 2020 election.
Read MoreSanders Edges Out Buttigieg to Win New Hampshire Democratic Primary
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire Democratic primary Tuesday, as the race to be the party’s candidate to take on President Donald Trump in November starts to come into focus after months of battling among a wide group of challengers.
Read MoreForeign Volunteers for Bernie Sanders Have Contacted Thousands of American Voters
Foreign nationals, under the direction of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, have sent thousands of texts and phone calls urging American voters to support the democratic socialist in the Democratic primaries.
Read MoreMichigan Democratic Party’s Black Caucus Endorses Biden After Initially Backing Harris
The Michigan Democratic Party’s Black Caucus endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden in the Democratic Party, at least according to Biden’s campaign.
Read More78-Year-Old Bernie Sanders Flip-Flops on Promise to Release Medical Records
Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday flip-flopped on his promise to release his medical records.
Read MoreThe Battleground State Report: Leahy Explains How Iowa Will Become a Battleground State for the Senate and Not the 2020 Presidential Election
The Battleground State Report, airing Fridays at 8 a.m. CST with Michael Patrick Leahy and Doug Kellett – is a one-hour radio show from Star News Digital Media in the early stages of national weekend syndication rollout. With Kellett out of the studio, Michael Patrick Leahy discussed the recent debacle of the Iowa caucus.
Read MoreButtigieg, Sanders Top Vote-Getters in Iowa Caucus
The final results from the Democratic Party’s tumultuous Iowa caucuses were released late Thursday.
Read MoreCommentary: He’s Not Even a Good Socialist
Senator Bernie Sanders’ high-flying campaign for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president inched closer to putting the first major party socialist candidate on the ballot Monday night.
Read MoreMichael Bloomberg Rises to Third in National Poll
Mega-billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D-N.Y.) has risen to third place in national polling for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, as reported by The Hill.
Read MoreButtigieg in First After (Some) Iowa Caucus Results Released: ‘Did They Just Make Things Worse?’
After a disastrous caucus night, the Iowa Democratic Party has finally released the results of Monday night’s contest, but not all of them.
Read MoreDemocrats Mocked for Disastrous Iowa Caucus
Someone won Monday night’s Iowa caucuses — we just don’t know who, yet.
The Iowa caucuses have been the first nominating contest in the nation since 1972 with 41 national delegates up for grabs.
Read MoreWall Street Exec. Jamie Dimon Launches an Anti-Socialist Crusade as Students Increasingly Gravitate Toward It
Young Americans, including college students, are increasingly gravitating toward socialism, but one Wall Street executive is pushing back, warning of the system’s potentially irreversible effects.
A recently published analysis by the top finance school in the United States, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Finance, has found that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” plan would shrink the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 24 percent by 2060. Meanwhile, the majority of Democrat and Democrat-leaning college students nationwide overwhelmingly favor Sanders as the Democrat presidential nominee over any of the other candidates.
Read MoreDemocratic Candidates Face Make-or-Break Caucuses in Iowa Tonight
DES MOINES, Iowa – As a crowd filters into the Horizon Events Center in Clive, Iowa, on an unseasonably warm winter night, it appears as if they are preparing for one of the regular concerts that usually fills this cavernous hall.
Read MoreRashida Tlaib Apologizes for Encouraging Bernie Crowd to Boo Hillary
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-13) issued an apology after encouraging a crowd at a campaign event for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to boo Hillary Clinton Friday night.
Read MoreBiden, Sanders Lead Field in New Poll Ahead of Monday’s Iowa Caucuses
NEW YORK – Former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders are leading a crowded field of candidates days before Monday’s Iowa caucuses, the first contest in the process of picking a Democratic presidential candidate, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
Read MoreCommentary: Bernie Sanders Is the Democrat to Beat
With less than a week to go before the official kickoff of the Democratic primaries, the parallels between the dynamics of the 2020 primaries and the contest in 2016 are almost uncanny. If there is both one key similarity and one major difference, they both involve the socialist senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders.
Read MoreBernie Sanders Pledges His First Executive Orders Would Reverse Trump’s Immigration Agenda
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his first executive orders as president would undo President Donald Trump’s immigration initiatives, calling them “racist” and “disgusting.”
Read MoreBernie Sanders Surrogate Says Biden ‘Has A Big Corruption Problem’
Former Vice President Joe Biden has a “big corruption problem,” a prominent backer of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential bid said in an op-ed Monday.
Read MoreCommentary: Democrats and the Narcissism of Small Differences
Eventually, I am going to get around to saying something about CNN’s hostility to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) – evidenced, most recently, by its energetic exertions on behalf of the campaign to elect Elizabeth Warren at last Tuesday’s Democratic debate. And I’ll say something, too, about the delicious exhibition of angst-filled hand-wringing that said hostility occasioned in many precincts of the leftwing media.
First, however, since CNN apparently undertook its cheerleading for Warren in order to declare its feminist bona fides, I would like to pose a few questions as a sort of prolegomenon, what Kierkegaard, in another context, called a “preliminary expectoration.” 1) Why are feminists so unpleasant? 2) Why do they insist on whining instead of getting on with the task at hand? 3) Why do they tend to blame other people for their failures?
Read MoreSanders’ Field Organizer Kyle Jurek Bailed Out After Arrest, Still No Comment from Campaign Over ‘Gulag’ Rants Caught on Camera
by Debra Heine In the latest Project Veritas sting video, Kyle Jurek, the self-proclaimed anarcho-communist Soviet Gulag fan who is a field organizer for the Bernie Sanders Campaign in Iowa, admits that he was recently arrested for “weed” after knocking on doors for the campaign. Jurek told the Veritas…
Read MoreSanders Field Organizer: MAGA People Need to Be Reeducated in Gulags
An “anti-fascist” field organizer for the Bernie Sanders Campaign in Iowa was caught on tape saying that when Sanders becomes president of the United States “MAGA people” will have to be “reeducated” to learn “how to not be a f**king nazi” and that, in fact, is what the candidate’s proposal of free education for all is all about.
Read MoreWhitmer Approval Rating Drops, James in Dead Heat with Peters in New Michigan Poll
A new survey of Michigan voters found that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s approval rating has dropped by more than seven percentage points since June.
Read MoreDark Money Has Bolstered Bernie’s Campaign From the Start
An outside dark money group has boosted presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders since announcing his campaign last February.
Read MoreHometowns of 2020 Democrat Candidates Have Resettled Only 0.22 Percent of All Refugees
According to a new study, the hometowns of the four leading candidates for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2020 have collectively taken in less than half-a-percent of all refugees resettled over the last decade, as Breitbart reports.
Read MoreTop Democratic Candidates End 2019 With Big Money Push
Several of the top-tier Democrats vying for their party’s presidential nomination released information this week about their fundraising efforts in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Read MoreBernie Sanders Won’t Reveal Cost of Medicare-for-All Because ‘It’s Such a Huge Number’
Democratic 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders said Thursday that he won’t put a price tag on his government takeover of the health care system because the figure is “such a huge number.”
Read MoreButtigieg Maintains Iowa Lead, Sanders Jumps to Second
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg continues to lead the field of Democratic presidential hopefuls in Iowa, according to the latest polling, but the rest of the top tier has reshuffled a bit.
Read MoreObama Allegedly Would Not Support a Sanders Nomination
Former President Barack Obama has allegedly said, in private, that he would publicly oppose Bernie Sanders as the nominee of the Democratic Party in 2020, according to The Hill.
Read MorePoll: Nearly Half of Likely US Voters Oppose Medicare for All
Nearly half of likely U.S. voters oppose Medicare for All, according to a Rasmussen national poll published Thursday.
Read MoreCommentary: Bernie Will Confiscate Your Money, But Fortunately Not Your Guns
Vermont’s Socialist Senator and top-tier Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is one of the true disruptors in American politics. His unconventional ideas defy easy categorization as he campaigns around the country on his own idiosyncratic brand of Democratic Socialism.
Read MoreCommentary: As Progressives Push Ever Leftward, an Orwellian ‘1984’ Election in 2020 Looms
For a variety of reasons, the 2020 election is going to be a referendum beyond Donald Trump’s record and his Democratic opposition.
The furor that Trump has incurred, and the radical antithesis to his agenda and first term, have redefined the looming election. It is becoming a stark choice between a revolutionary future versus American traditionalism.
Read MoreLEAHY: ‘USA on Way to Becoming Two Countries Divided by Common Language Where Same Words Mean Different Things to Each Side’
“The United States of America is well on its way to becoming two countries divided by a common language where the same words mean entirely different things to each side,” host Michael Patrick Leahy told co-host Doug Kellett Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report Early Edition with Michael Patrick Leahy and Doug Kellett – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 am to 8:00 am.
Read MoreBiden Bounds Back Into the Lead by Widest Margin Since April Despite Ukraine Scandal, Poll Shows
Former Vice President Joe Biden leads other Democratic 2020 presidential candidates by the widest margin since April, a CNN poll found.
Read MoreIlhan Omar Endorses Bernie Sanders, Two Other Members of ‘The Squad’ Expected to Follow Suit
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) announced her endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) 2020 presidential campaign ahead of Tuesday night’s Democratic debate, joining Attorney General Keith Ellison in skipping over hometown candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN).
Read MoreReport: All of Bernie Sanders’ Plans Combined Could Total a Whopping $97.5 Trillion Over 10 Years
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s various spending proposals amount to a total of $97.5 trillion over 10 years.
Read MoreUAW Tells Members That Negotiations with GM ‘Have Taken a Turn for the Worse’
United Auto Workers alerted its members Sunday that negotiations with General Motors “have taken a turn for the worse.”
Read MoreCommentary: Why a ‘Billionaire’ Wealth Tax Would Hurt the Working Poor and the Middle Class
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders wants to tax billionaires out of existence, or at least make them an endangered species. His proposed wealth tax of up to 8 percent per year would mean “the wealth of billionaires would be cut in half over 15 years,” he says.
Read MoreButtigieg, Warren, and Sanders Out Raise Biden During Third Quarter
Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Democratic Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg out-raised former vice president Joe Biden during the third quarter.
Read MoreBlocked Artery Takes Bernie Off Campaign Trail
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is off the campaign trail and in a Las Vegas hospital after having surgery to clear up a blocked artery.
Read MoreSanders Says CEOs Who Make Much More Than Their Workers Are a ‘Signal of a Lot of What Is Wrong in This Country’
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders unveiled a plan Monday targeting corporations that pay CEOs much more than their workers.
Read MoreCommentary: Under a President Sanders, UAW-Style Strikes Would be a Regular Occurrence
Americans woke up at the beginning of the week to hear an unusual bit of news – thousands of auto workers had gone on strike. Union strikes are hardly a common occurrence, and strikes have become particularly rare in the auto industry. In fact, the United Auto Workers hasn’t had a national strike against GM since 2007. But, if Senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) had his druthers, large national strikes would be a frequent occurrence.
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