June 12, 2019 Sen. Chuck Grassley: Dems’ health care, Green New Deal promises riddled with poison pills that would harm us A government-run health insurance system, dubbed as “Medicare for All,” and the Green New Deal represents the Democratic Party’s most prized policy proposals. Both make sweet-sounding promises but will deliver a bitter economic reality.
June 12, 2019 Alfredo Ortiz: House Dems focus on single-payer health care – Here’s what you won’t hear Democrats at Wednesday's hearing and across the country should consider the inability of "Medicare for All" to pass in liberal states as a warning, not an invitation, to pursue it nationally.
June 11, 2019 Bernie Sanders to make his case for Democratic socialism in major speech Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is expected to make a speech on Wednesday touting his idea of Democratic socialism, a system promising Medicare-for-all, free public college and a $15-per-hour minimum wage, all of which have caused Republicans to dismiss him as too far to the left.
June 11, 2019 Warning signs for Trump as new poll shows Biden, other Dems with 2020 edge A new national poll contains warning signs for President Trump, showing former Vice President Joe Biden and a slew of other Democratic White House candidates leading the president in head-to-head matchups.
June 11, 2019 Liz Peek: Iowa Democrats are making smart choices (even conservatives should approve) You have to hand it to Iowa Democrats. Faced with a bewildering bevy of candidates vying for their attention, voters are promoting those who may credibly challenge President Trump in the 2020 race while winnowing out the buffoons and publicity-seekers who are merely along for the ride.
June 9, 2019 Beto and Bernie blast Trump for deal with Mexico and threatening tariffs 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke mocked President Trump’s claims of victory in the recent deal reached with Mexico to avert his threatened tariffs – calling the president’s claims “overblown” and arguing that he has hurt the economic ties between Washington and its closest neighbor.
June 5, 2019 Karl Rove: 2020 Democratic hopefuls engaged in 'two-front civil war' Democratic presidential hopefuls face a 'two-front civil war' as some candidates criticize the current front-runner, while others call out the left wing, Karl Rove claimed.
June 5, 2019 New 2020 polls: Biden tops Trump in Michigan, edges ahead in Texas Call it an early warning sign for Donald Trump as he runs for re-election. A new poll in reliably red Texas indicates former Vice President Joe Biden – the clear front-runner right now in the Democratic presidential nomination race – with a slight edge over Trump in a hypothetical 2020 general election showdown. Wednesday’s release of the Quinnipiac poll comes one day after a survey in Michigan indicated both Biden and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont – another leading Democratic nomination contender – both topping the president by double digits in potential general election matchups in the crucial battleground state.
June 5, 2019 Bernie Sanders: Soviet Union, Venezuela don't count as examples of failed socialism When criticizing socialism, don’t bring up the Soviet Union or Venezuela to Bernie Sanders.
June 5, 2019 Biden hits back at Bernie’s bashing over high-dollar fundraisers Hours before he headlines two campaign fundraising events in Boston on Wednesday, former Vice President Joe Biden pushed back against criticism by some of his top rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination for holding “high dollar functions” hosted by “corporate lobbyists.”