4 Memorable Moments From CNN's Climate Town Hall
From Joe Biden's call for high-speed rail to Kamala Harris' call for banning plastic straws, the Democratic presidential candidates pushed a hard-green agenda.
From Joe Biden's call for high-speed rail to Kamala Harris' call for banning plastic straws, the Democratic presidential candidates pushed a hard-green agenda.
The public option comes with plenty of pitfalls.
Maybe. But it is hard to imagine Sanders endorsing Warren until and unless Warren defeats him consistently and by a significant margin in several early states.
For many of the president's biggest supporters, pushing back against "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is their raison d'être.
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We're vastly more interested in the upcoming election than we were in 2016. We're also convinced neither party represents us. What could go wrong?
It's possible that the visibility of the way Biden is wrestling with his own aging could make him a more relatable and sympathetic figure. Or the Biden blunders could confirm that his moment has passed.
The presidential contender nevertheless insists the law reduced mass shooting deaths.
Deflections, generational conflict, and misleading data abound.
The progressive push to the left among presidential candidates will alienate most Democrats and independents, helping Donald Trump to a second term.
Republicans aren't the only ones who want to "lock 'em up"
The climate of opinion has changed so dramatically that Democrats are politically obliged to support reform.
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Is he trying to find a middle ground as Dems divide on trade? Or is he just talking gibberish?
"There are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses because you stood up and used that tough-on-crime phony rhetoric."
In a testy exchange about immigration, the former vice president argued that Trump alone was the problem.
Never before have presidential candidates offered so many giveaways.
A majority of Americans say they favor free trade. But both major parties are moving in the other direction.
Most Democratic candidates are to the left not just of Americans but of their own party.
A breathtaking repudiation of his own legacy on criminal justice
It's refreshing to see many conservatives abandon their kneejerk support for militarism, and nice to watch Joe Biden be held accountable for his support for the Iraq blunder.
Biden is framing his new plan as a defense of Obamacare. It's not.
What the backward-looking Democratic debate tells us about contemporary education policy and woke politics
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Biden misrepresented his own views, while Harris implied that opposition to busing is inherently racist.
At tonight's Democratic debate, Joe Biden totally whiffed on a question about deportation stats. He should be forthcoming about his record on immigration.
Tulsi Gabbard's defense of non-interventionism was electrifying. Tonight's fight between Biden and Sanders over capitalism and socialism will be, too.
Biden lambasts Trump for using the harsh enforcement tools that Biden himself helped create.
Just 25 percent of Democratic voters want a candidate promising a "bold, new agenda," which is exactly what party and media elites will cram down their throats.
The Democratic presidential hopeful tweeted that the company pays "a lower tax rate than firefighters and teachers."
A majority of Democratic voters now favor free trade. Some of the party's presidential candidates are starting to notice.
The two Democrats' climate action plans reveal a near limitless faith in the ability of government to reorganize the economy.
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The unloved independent centrist is waiting to see if Joe Biden survives or is yanked too far leftward
Biden, like Trump, understands the potential political appeal of "used to be," the warm nostalgia in the hearts and minds of older voters about what they imagine America was before its supposed decline.
He'll creak in the direction of the prevailing political winds eventually, for good and mostly ill. It's his greatest weakness, and main selling point.
He's a centrist compared to Sanders, but he's also a classic big-government liberal.
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The former vice president has a long legacy of expanding federal power.
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The one potential holdout? Joe "gateway drug" Biden.
If anything, he's understating how ridiculous they are.
Biden has arguably failed to live up to the affirmative consent standard he sounded so fond of.
It's too early to make predictions based on public opinion surveys.
This 1991 Senate floor speech shows Biden's central role in crafting disastrous crime policies.
In a new video, the former vice president defends his past touching of women.