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Tony Dejak / AP The Risk of Elizabeth Warren’s Dodging
She’s presented herself as the truth-teller, the straight-talker, the one who can break down complex economic ideas and bring nonprogressives along.
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Meg Kinnard / AP The Best Campaign Money Can Buy
Tom Steyer, the outsider billionaire candidate, will make his debate-stage debut tonight.
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Radio Atlantic: Understanding the Whistle-Blower
A former CIA analyst, Representative Elissa Slotkin of Michigan changed her mind on impeachment after Trump’s Ukraine phone call, leading her party to follow her lead.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters Kamala Harris Preps Her Pivot
As President Trump lashes out at legal attacks, the senator from California sees an opportunity to remind voters that she was once a respected lawyer.
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Radio Atlantic: Amy Klobuchar, Live at The Atlantic Festival
The 2020 hopeful says Democrats need to think hard about which plans they can pass, not just which ones they can propose.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Why Steve Bullock Refuses to Drop Out
Members of the Clinton diaspora are pleading with the Montana governor to stay in the race, even if the rest of the country doesn’t know who he is.
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters The Democratic Debates Aren’t Pleasing Anyone
The candidates hate them. The campaigns hate them. The press hates them. For once in American politics, there’s a consensus.
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Eric Gay / AP ‘How Are You Going to Pass That?’ Befuddled Democrats at the Debate
The candidates onstage heard a version of that big question over and over again.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters Why Beto O’Rourke Argues He Has a New Case to Make to Voters
The former congressman says the recent mass shooting in El Paso changed his thinking on the presidential race. But he still needs to convince the electorate.
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Michael Dwyer / AP Will Joe Biden Lose His Lead?
The septuagenarian former vice president maintains a comfortable lead in the polls as Democrats head into the third debate.
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Scott Morgan / Reuters The Enduring Mystery of Tulsi Gabbard
The 38-year-old presidential contender does not fit any “conventional” political profile.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Michael Bennet, Mad as Hell
The next-door-neighbor from Colorado has spent the past few months raging against the Democratic machine. Will voters buy it?
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Ben Margot / AP Elizabeth Warren Manages to Woo the Democratic Establishment
The party insiders at the DNC’s summer meeting seemed unexpectedly drawn to the senator from Massachusetts.
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Scott Morgan / Reuters The Pull of Andrew Yang’s Pessimism
Once derided as a “novelty candidate,” the outsider Democrat is poised to hang on longer than many senators and governors in the 2020 primary race.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The DNC Debate Rules Are a Game
Just weeks into his presidential campaign, the billionaire activist Tom Steyer is close to qualifying for the contests in Houston.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP The Contradictory Americana on Display at the Iowa State Fair
Democrats went through the performative motions of the American electoral system this weekend—even though that system may be severely broken.
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Randall Hill / Reuters Cory Booker Challenges America’s Disneyfied History
In a new interview, the senator from New Jersey and 2020 Democratic candidate speaks candidly about race and white-supremacist violence.
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Radio Atlantic: Rebuilding the Blue Wall
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel talks about what it will take for Democrats to win back the industrial Midwest.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters / The Atlantic The Democratic Primary Is Right Back Where It Started
The debates haven’t come close to upending the race.
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Leah Millis / Rebecca Cook / Reuters / ... The Democrats’ Visceral Fear of Losing to Donald Trump
Their trauma is especially clear in Michigan, the host state of the second round of primary debates.
