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Joe Biden Surrogates, Aides Say Kamala Harris Tops List of Potential Running Mates
Everything is coming up Kamala. According to people familiar with Joe Biden’s campaign—and the ongoing process to select a running mate—the California senator is emerging as an early frontrunner to accompany Biden at the top of the Democratic presidential ticket this year. “Biden aides, surrogates and major donors see her as the best fit at…
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley Addresses Joe Biden Assault Allegations: 'We Still Don't Know What Survivor Justice Looks Like'
Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley penned an open letter to former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday calling for the presumptive presidential Democratic nominee to give a response that “models the empathy, diligence, and acknowledgment of broken systems that this conversation demands.” Rep. Pressley’s letter, titled “It’s 2020 and We Still Don’t Know What Survivor Justice…
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Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Make Voting Easier and Safer This November—If You're Into That Kind of Thing
It’s hard to remember in the midst of, well, literally everything happening in the world right now, but we are just seven months away from a general election where we will either pick a new president or stay the same disastrous course. There are quite a few reasons to feel some dread about that, including…
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Proposes Student Debt Relief Be Included in Coronavirus Measures
Crazy how much shit can change up on you in literally the span of a week. Things that sounded out of the realm of possibility now seem like very real solutions. Take, for example, canceling student loan debt. Senator and former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, writing for MTV News, calls for the next coronavirus bill…
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Black Voters Are the Most Influential Voting Bloc in the Country. Their Generational and Regional Differences Are Worth Exploring
The immediate wake of Super Tuesday went more or less as predicted: some jubilation, some anger, and a lot of punditry on overdrive as those invested in the Democratic presidential nomination collectively recalibrated where the race now stands. Southern states turned out for former Vice President Joe Biden, pushing him to the front of the…
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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren Drops Out of the Presidential Race
Sometimes the right decision is still the tough decision. With little to go on except the hope that one of the preeminent Democratic nominees is caught in a urine-soaked Russian bed or a has a secret lover who’s decided to tell all, Elizabeth Warren, the woman with all the plans, has decided to end her…
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Biden Stays on Brand, Bernie Wins Pot-Smoking States and Other Takeaways From Super Tuesday
It’s the resurgence of Uncle Joe! If you woke up on Regular Wednesday, which is the official name for the day after Super Tuesday, you would’ve thought that the former vice president was in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded walking up to the plate needing a grand slam to win the…
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Weed Justice Is at the Top of Some California Voters' Minds on Super Tuesday
OAKLAND, Calif.—Chaney Turner has already voted in California’s primary and said that the person who got their vote was most likely to liberalize America’s federal marijuana policies to empower black cannabis entrepreneurs. Turner (whose pronouns are they/them/their) and I are in downtown Oakland at the Make Westing bar, which is located in an area where…
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Super Tuesday Is Really Just a Regular Tuesday in Leggings and Heels. Here’s Everything You Need to Know
It’s Super Tuesday, so you know what that means? It means that it’s a regular Tuesday that has a babysitter and is getting dressed up to go to the club with her girlfriends. It’s Tuesday in leggings and heels. It’s thotting and bopping Tuesday. It’s Tuesday saying “Ayeeee” while her homegirls dance in a roped…