Former vice-president Joe Biden’s struggling campaign faced a do-or-die moment in South Carolina, and a dominant win there gives him a well-timed shot of momentum entering the coming week’s Super Tuesday contests. ‘We are very much alive,’ Biden says. CBC | World News
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Joe Biden easily wins South Carolina Democratic presidential primary
Joe Biden scored a thundering victory Saturday in South Carolina’s Democratic primary on the strength of support from black voters, a decisive win that could force moderate rivals out of the race and blunt the rise of progressive leader Bernie Sanders. CBC | World News
Read More »Michael Bloomberg Says He Won’t Abolish Presidential Term Limits If Elected
Billionaire and former Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg is reassuring the American public that he will not seek to abolish presidential term limits if elected president. Per Politico, during a wide-ranging interview with MSNBC, Bloomberg — who infamously extended term limits, serving three terms as New York City mayor — said that changing the United States Constitution is ...
Read More »Which presidential hopeful would be best for Canada? Ex-ambassadors share their picks
The Democratic race to pick a presidential nominee will hit overdrive with 14 states voting on Super Tuesday next week. We asked four Democratic Party insiders who have all served as ambassadors to Canada to share who they are picking and why. CBC | World News
Read More »Democratic presidential candidates target front-runner Sanders at South Carolina debate
Mike Bloomberg seized on reports that Russia is interfering in the 2020 presidential election to help Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders as the party’s candidates met on the debate stage for what could be their final prime-time opportunity to change the direction of the nomination fight. CBC | World News
Read More »How the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee will be chosen
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
Read More »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
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