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Here’s a look at the differences between primaries and caucuses, the role of delegates and how Democrats will choose a candidate to square off against U.S. President Donald Trump in November’s presidential election. CBC | World News
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U.S. presidential hopefuls signal they won’t go gently into Sanders’s good night if he falls short of majority
Bernie Sanders’s rivals have raised the possibility of pushing him out on a second ballot if he enters this summer’s Democratic convention with a lead short of a first-ballot majority. That was the subtext of a revealing exchange in a presidential candidates’ debate Wednesday night in Las Vegas. CBC | World News
Read More »Ben Shapiro Says Bernie Sanders Is Going To Be The Democratic Presidential Nominee
Early Wednesday morning, the day after the New Hampshire primary that saw Bernie Sanders take the lead, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro took to Twitter to predict that the Vermont Senator will secure the Democratic presidential nomination. “Sanders is clearly the frontrunner at this point,” he tweeted. “The moderate lane is fractured. If Democrats wish to challenge Sanders internally, Biden and ...
Read More »Democratic presidential hopefuls trade jabs ahead of New Hampshire primary
Democratic presidential candidates traded jabs over money and message on Sunday, two days before New Hampshire voters pick their choice to take on U.S. Republican President Donald Trump in November. CBC | World News
Read More »Michael Bloomberg has spent well over $200M on presidential campaign so far
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg contributed more than $ 200 million US of his own money to his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination as of the end of 2019, according to disclosures his campaign filed on Friday with the Federal Election Commission. CBC | World News
Read More »Mexico’s Obrador considering raffling off presidential jet
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Friday the latest in a series of desperate ideas to sell off his predecessor’s official jet, which he says is too luxurious for a country where half the people live in poverty. CBC | World News
Read More »‘Dynamite into a tinderbox’: Democratic presidential hopefuls weigh in on Soleimani killing
The killing of a top Iranian military commander via a U.S.-ordered airstrike has been met with resounding criticism by the Democratic presidential hopefuls aiming to prevent the man who ordered the operation from winning a second term. CBC | World News
Read More »Democrat Julian Castro ends bid for U.S. presidential nomination
Former Obama housing secretary Julian Castro on Thursday ended his run for president that pushed the 2020 field on immigration and swung hard at rivals on the debate stage but never found a foothold to climb from the back of the pack. CBC | World News
Read More »Democratic presidential candidates spar in final debate of 2019
The Democratic Party’s shrinking 2020 class clashed over the defining issue for their party’s primary voters — electability — as they met on the debate stage Thursday for the sixth and final time in 2019. CBC | World News
Read More »Polarizing ex-defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa wins Sri Lanka presidential vote
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a former defence official revered by Sri Lanka’s ethnic majority for his role in ending a bloody civil war but feared by minorities for his brutal approach, declared victory Sunday in the nation’s presidential election. CBC | World News
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