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Barack Obama, President of the United States from 2009 to 2017, served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. A member of the Democratic Party, he made his presidential run in 2008. He was elected President in 2008 and re-elected in 2012.
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As tensions and violence rise in the Middle East, it’s worth mapping out the political consequences if the United States and President Trump take action against Iran. An international crisis could very well help Joe Biden in the Democratic race, elevating foreign policy and experience (subjects that have received little attention so far). Yet Trump...
Here’s the story that has everyone in Washington talking today: “A whistleblower complaint by an intelligence officer that the Trump administration is withholding from Congress involves a phone conversation had by the president, a former U.S. intelligence official familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday night,” NBC’s Ken Dilania...
A Fox News pollreleased Wednesday shows a slightly different Democratic race than our NBC/WSJ poll from Tuesday did. The numbers: 1. Biden: 29 percent (-2 since August) 2. Sanders: 18 percent (+8) 3. Warren: 16 percent (-4) 4. Harris: 7 percent (-1) 5. Buttigieg: 5 percent (+2) 6. O’Rourke: 4 percent (+2) 7. Booker: 3 percent (even) 8. Yang: 2 perc...
Bernie Sanders, Julian Castro, Andrew Yang, Michael Bennet, Tim Ryan, John Delaney and Marianne Williamson all participate in the MSNBC climate change forum at Georgetown University… Kamala Harris campaigns in Iowa… Elizabeth Warren, also in the Hawkeye State, holds a town hall in Iowa City… Sanders later heads to North Carolina… Beto O’Rourke rema...
Amy Klobuchar finished up the first day of her “Blue Wall Tour” in Pittsburgh, where she discussed the states a Democrat “must win” in 2020. NBC’s Amanda Golden reports on Klobuchar’s comments: “All the candidates spent a lot of time in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and then into the Super Tuesday states. But the reason I am doing thi...
Sixteen points. That’s Joe Biden’s lead over Elizabeth Warren in a HEAD-TO-HEAD race among Democratic primary voters, according to a new FOX News poll. Asked who they would support if Biden and Warren were the ONLY choices in the Democratic primary, 53 percent chose Biden, while 37 percent chose Warren.
Don’t miss the podfrom yesterday, when we took a second look at some of the horserace numbers from our latest NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll.
John Bolton slammedTrump’s foreign policy in a closed-door speech. It’s official: Joe Kennedy will primaryEd Markey. The Pentagon saysthat visits to Trump’s Scotland hotel cost nearly $200,000 between 2017 and 2019. Justin Trudeau is apologizingafter a photo surfaced of him wearing “brownface” in 2001. And be sure not to miss NBC’s Andrea Mitchell’...
Trump has nameda new national security adviser. Attorney General William Barr once praiseda book that claims colleges were unfair to male students accused of sexual assault. How did Trump react to Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to win a clear majorityin Tuesday’s elections? “Our relations are with Israel, so we’ll see what happens.” Trump is still fe...
Pete Buttigieg is out withhis new health care plan, which he calls a “glide path” to Medicare for All. POLITICO reports thatKamala Harris is going to bet it all on Iowa. Beto O’Rourke is calling forthe federal legalization of marijuana. The Sanders campaign wants to crack downon leaks.
Mar 4, 2016 · When Obama took office, there were 60 Democratic senators; now there are 46. The number of House seats held by Democrats has shrunk from 257 to 188.
- Mara Liasson
Jan 12, 2017 · Through two terms, Obama deepened the Democrats’ connection with a constellation of growing groups, namely minorities, the millennial generation, and college-educated whites, especially women.
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Apr 29, 2011 · Rather than being an early 1990s moderate Republican, Mr. Obama is a prototypical, early 2010s Democrat. And although a 2010s Democrat shares more in common with a 1990s Republican than with...
Barack Obama won the Democratic Party's nomination and was elected as the first African American president in 2008. Under the Obama presidency, the party moved forward reforms including an economic stimulus package, the Dodd–Frank financial reform act, and the Affordable Care Act .
1 day ago · In February 2007 he announced at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln had served as a state legislator, that he would seek the Democratic Party ’s presidential nomination in 2008. (For coverage of the 2008 election, see United States Presidential Election of 2008.)
