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Wisconsin voters wait for hours while others stay home amid coronavirus
Thousands stayed home, unwilling to risk their health even as Republican officials pushed forward with the election amid a stay-at-home order. Read more
Thousands stayed home, unwilling to risk their health even as Republican officials pushed forward with the election amid a stay-at-home order. Read more
President Donald Trump said he had a “really wonderful, warm conversation” with Joe Biden today about the coronavirus outbreak. Read more
Hours after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order postponing the election for two months, the Wisconsin Supreme Court voted against it. Read more
The Hawaii for Biden campaign today announced endorsements from dozens of elected Democrats and other community leaders from across the state including House Speaker Scott Saiki, Senate President Rob Kouchi and two former lieutenant governors, Doug Chin and Shan Tsutsui. Read more
Party officials plan to add a new round of mail-in balloting to the party-run presidential primary so that people who had planned to vote in person on April 4 can still participate in the polling. Read more
The increasing death toll came as the number of confirmed cases rose to more than 700, a total Gov. Phil Murphy said likely will rise into the “many thousands.” Read more
She’s offering her full support to former Vice President Joe Biden. She made the announcement by email today. Read more
Saturday was the first time Sanders had a bigger delegate day than Biden since Nevada’s caucuses on Feb. 22. Read more
Only party members can vote in person or via mail for the April 4 party-run presidential primary. Hawaii voters who vote Democratic but don’t belong to the party are ineligible. Read more
Sanders said he wants to force Biden to confront issues of economic inequality and other issues important to Sanders’ supporters. Read more
Joe Biden decisively won Michigan’s Democratic presidential primary, seizing a key battleground state that helped propel Bernie Sanders’ insurgent candidacy four years ago. Read more
Bloomberg on Tuesday won half of the 351 Democrats voting in the American Samoa caucus, picking up four delegates before he dropped out of the race and endorsed Joe Biden on Wednesday. U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who was born in American Samoa, received two delegates. Read more
The report from University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Young Mie Kim found that Russia-linked social media accounts are posting about the same divisive issues — race relations, gun laws and immigration — as they did in 2016, when the Kremlin polluted American voters’ feeds with messages about the presidential election. Read more
The judge granted Google’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit because the Gabbard campaign had failed to prove that the First Amendment clause that prohibits the government from curbing free speech applied to Google as a private company. Read more
For much of the past year, her campaign had all the markers of success, robust poll numbers, impressive fundraising and a sprawling political infrastructure that featured staffers on the ground across the country. Read more
It was a stunning collapse for the former New York City mayor, who pumped more than $500 million of his own fortune into the campaign. Read more
Joe Biden’s rise coincided with the collapse of Michael Bloomberg, who spent a half-billion dollars and came away with just one outright victory — in American Samoa. Read more
A resurgent Biden scored Super Tuesday victories from Maine to Texas, but his rival Bernie Sanders seized the biggest prize with a win in California. Read more
