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As Bernie Sanders’s momentum builds, down-ballot Democrats move to distance themselvesDemocrats fear that with the Vermont senator at the top of the ticket, their chances of winning the Senate would evaporate and their House majority would be at risk.Read complete article
What to know about the next Democratic debateThe next meeting of Democratic presidential candidates is scheduled for Tuesday in Charleston, S.C., ahead of the state’s Feb. 29 primary.
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Bernie Sanders decisively wins Nevada caucusesBernie Sanders won the Nevada caucuses by a wide margin, giving him significant momentum headed toward the high-stakes Super Tuesday vote on March 3.
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Nevada caucuses highlights: Sanders wins the Nevada caucuses, official results slowly trickle inThe Nevada Democratic Party caucuses will be held on Saturday, Feb. 22, though thousands of Nevadans have already participated in early voting. The process is similar to Iowa, which has raised concern among campaigns after the chaos there earlier this month.
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What each candidate has to win — or lose — in the Nevada caucusesLet's run through the stakes, candidate by candidate.
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What to watch for during Saturday’s caucuses in NevadaThe Nevada caucuses are dealing with a major change in technical procedure that has been planned for months.
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Bloomberg now says he’ll release women from nondisclosure agreements. Here’s how those work.Here is some context about NDAs and how they're used in the business community.
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As Bernie Sanders’s momentum builds, down-ballot Democrats move to distance themselvesDemocrats fear that with the Vermont senator at the top of the ticket, their chances of winning the Senate would evaporate and their House majority would be at risk.
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Democrats jockey for advantage after spirited debate in NevadaThe fierce two-hour exchange in Las Vegas exposed deep divisions, both political and personal, among the six candidates on the stage.
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Critics slam Bloomberg on race, gender. D.C.’s black, female mayor has his back.D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser says no Democratic presidential candidate is perfect on race.
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Nevada Democratic caucuses entrance polls and analysisSee the strengths and weaknesses of each Democratic candidate from a survey of voters as they entered randomly selected voting sites during the early caucus period as well as on caucus day, Feb. 22.
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Democrats are on a perilous course as they seek a nominee to challenge TrumpThe big question is whether any of the candidates can unite a divided party.
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Twitter suspends 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts for campaign’s copy-and-paste strategyTwitter told The Washington Post it banned the accounts for "violating our rules against platform manipulation and spam."
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Democrats rushed to Nevada to offer caucus tech support. Some say they’ve been left in the dark. Volunteers flew in to help run the caucuses Saturday. But some say they’ve been given no guidance about what to do or how to help.
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Rod Blagojevich called himself a ‘political prisoner.’ Anderson Cooper wasn’t having it. Cooper tore into the disgraced former governor in an interview Friday night, using a vulgar expression to criticize Blagojevich's lack of remorse after being granted clemency by President Trump.
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What each candidate has to win — or lose — in the Nevada caucusesLet's run through the stakes, candidate by candidate.
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Trump’s India trip mixes politics with policy, and offers the promise of his biggest rally yetTrump hopes his popularity in India translates to more votes from Americans of Indian heritage, who tend to vote Democratic.
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Trump was not told coronavirus-infected Americans would be flown home from cruise shipThe president grew furious with senior advisers this week after being assured that infected patients would remain in quarantine overseas.
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Supreme Court removes last remaining obstacle to immigrant ‘wealth test’Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who dissented in the decision, says the high court is indulging the administration’s repeated emergency pleas.
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Trump embarks on expansive search for disloyalty as administration-wide purge escalatesJohnny McEntee, Trump’s former personal aide who now serves as director of presidential personnel, has begun combing through various agencies with a mandate from the president to oust political appointees who have not proved their trustworthiness
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With little left to lose, Elizabeth Warren rolls the diceThe Massachusetts senator has started criticizing her rivals, fiercely, and reversed her longtime opposition to help from super PACs as her campaign has teetered.
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Trump wants to block Bolton’s book, claiming most conversations are classifiedThe president’s private arguments stand in contrast to the point-by-point process used to classify and protect sensitive secrets and appears to differ from the White House’s public posture toward Bolton’s much-anticipated memoir.
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Nevada Democratic Party moves to muzzle election workersThe Democratic Party of Nevada is asking volunteers to sign non-disparagement agreements.
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Bloomberg says he will release women from three nondisclosure agreementsThe candidate said Friday he will permit his company to release women who accused him of sexual harassment from their non-disclosure agreements.
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