Latest in 2020 presidential race

Beto O’Rourke has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race, ending a campaign in which he started as one of the most promising of all Democratic contenders only to drop in the low single digits in the polls. “Our campaign has always been about seeing clearly, speaking honestly, and acting decisively,” O’Rourke said…

Fox News personalities Raymond Arroyo and Jason Chaffetz are perplexed as to why Bernie Sanders would sit down to talk politics with Cardi B. The Democratic presidential candidate and the Grammy-winning rapper discussed the 2020 election last month at a Detroit nail salon. The video, released this week by the Sanders…

A popular website dedicated to 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden was apparently created by a Republican operative to mock the former vice president. At first glance, JoeBiden.info looks like a pro-Biden site, and even sells T-shirts with his face on them. But on closer inspection, the posts on the site make fun of…

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who last week became the 23rd Democrat to announce a bid for the 2020 presidential nomination, is shrugging off the jeers of late-night TV comedians and the city tabloids. In an appearance Tuesday morning on CNN’s New Day (watch it above and below), the candidate was shown in split…

Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg is from Indiana, but he seems to have a major following in Harlem. The South Bend mayor, who’s been surging in the polls, met with Al Sharpton Monday in New York City. The two had lunch at Sylvia’s, a soul food institution in the city, as the White House hopeful looked…

Elizabeth Warren, leaning into her reputation as a consumer advocate, unveiled a plan to break up tech giants Amazon, Google and Facebook. In a blog post published on Medium, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts who is running for president in 2020, argued that all three companies have become far too dominant…

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker made it official today: The New Jersey Democrat declared he’s running for president  in 2020. “I'm running for president,” Booker tweeted today, the first day of Black History Month. “Join me on this journey.” In a video Twitter message about his decision to run (hear it below), Booker said, “I…

Michael Avenatti, the self-styled provocateur who is representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her legal battles with the president, is weighing whether to move his fight with President Trump from the courtroom to the ballot box. The lawyer said he is seriously evaluating a 2020 presidential bid and plans to arrive…

Joe Biden, who was President Obama’s vice president for eight years, said Obama used to often ask him during his second term what would motivate him to run for president. Rev. Al Sharpton raised the same question during a lengthy sit-down with Biden that aired this morning on MSNBC’s Politics Nation. “I’m really…