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Mike. Is. OUT. Early Wednesday, Michael Bloomberg—an objectively terrible presidential candidate—announced that he was abandoning his bid for the White House following expectedly poor showings on Super Tuesday. Bloomberg also let loose an endorsement of Joe Biden. “Three months ago, I entered the race to defeat Donald Trump,” Bloomberg said in a statement. “Today, I’m […]
Super Tuesday, the biggest night of the U.S. primaries, is in full swing. Tonight, the remaining Democratic presidential candidates will battle it out in 14 states and one territory, competing for more than one-third of the delegates for Democratic National Convention. The results will significantly impact the shape of the remaining primary race, as the […]
Though it certainly feels like the 2020 election cycle has been going on for literal eons, complete with the constant barrage of fuckery we’ve come to expect here in the States, we are only just now approaching the concentrated madness of Super Tuesday. The days leading up to the crucial March 3 date have included […]
Pete Buttigieg will be dropping out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, the New York Times reports. Buttigieg was scheduled to speak at a rally in Dallas on Sunday, ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries, which includes Texas. Following Buttigieg’s fourth-place finish in the South Carolina Democratic primary, the writing was on the wall for the former South Bend, Indiana mayor. His inability to pull black voters […]
It has been a long time coming, but the U.S. has finally made lynching a federal hate crime. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) introduced the bill, naming it the Emmett Till Antilynching Act after the 14-year-old boy who was lynched in Mississippi 65 years ago, Vice reports. It’s also been 120 years since Congress first considered […]
Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, former VP Joseph Biden Jr., former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren at the Democratic debate at Las Vegas‘ Paris Theatre on Wednesday night and things got tense. A highlight from the evening featured Warren going after Bloomberg over […]
After a disappointing showing in the chaotic Iowa caucus, Andrew Yang announced on Tuesday night that he’s decided to drop out of the Democratic presidential race. The announcement arrived just as the results for the New Hampshire primary began to come in. “I am the math guy, and it’s clear from the numbers we’re not going […]
The House of Representatives capped off an exhaustive eight-plus hours of debates on Wednesday filled with arguments from both sides of the aisle with a majority of lawmakers voting in support of impeaching Donald Trump on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump joins Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton as the only three U.S. presidents to be impeached […]
Former steak salesman Donald Trump has been impeached for abuse of power. He is now the third U.S. President to be impeached. There was Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998. Richard Nixon was on track to getting impeached but resigned before it could happen. The House of Representatives debated and voted on two articles of impeachment […]
The already crowded democratic field has added one more candidate. On Sunday, Michael Bloomberg announced his presidential bid. In a letter on his campaign website, Bloomberg explains that he’s “a doer and a problem solver” that is focused solely on President Trump. “I’m running for president to defeat Donald Trump and rebuild America. We cannot afford four more […]
