2020 United States presidential election news and stories

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2020 United States presidential election

Biden promises to end 'forever wars' as president

Joe Biden promised on Thursday his White House would end "forever wars" and reassert American leadership to combat ...

AP Interview: Buttigieg discusses his plan to tackle racism

Pete Buttigieg has a message for white liberals who decry racism: "Good intentions are not going to be enough." The ...

Warren, Sanders, O'Rourke and Castro set for Milwaukee forum

Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Beto O'Rourke and Julian Castro are participating in a ...

Jay Inslee

Democratic presidential hopeful Inslee opposes pipeline plan

Democratic presidential hopeful Jay Inslee waded into a Great Lakes regional controversy on Wednesday, calling for the defeat ...

Democratic presidential candidates invited to Latino forum

Latino Victory Fund is inviting Democratic presidential candidates to speak at a forum in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Nov.

Biden earned more than $15 million after leaving White House

Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, took in more than $15 million since leaving the Obama White House, according to newly released ...

Plan by Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez to declare climate emergency

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are teaming up on a measure that would designate ...

Tom Steyer

Tom Steyer launches 2020 campaign after saying he wouldn't

Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor and activist, said Tuesday he's joining the race for the Democratic presidential ...

3rd Democratic presidential debate to be held in Houston

The third Democratic presidential debate will be held in Houston in September. The more than two dozen candidates in the ...

Jill Biden says American people know Joe Biden isn't racist

Jill Biden says the American people "didn't buy" any insinuation during the Democratic presidential debate that her husband, ...

Elizabeth Warren

Warren raises $19.1M, topping Sanders in new fundraising

Elizabeth Warren raised $19.1 million in the second quarter, her campaign said Monday, cementing her status in the top tier ...

US Rep. Swalwell ends presidential bid, will seek reelection

Rep. Eric Swalwell on Monday became the first candidate in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary to exit the ...

Kamala Harris

AP Interview: Kamala Harris on race and electability in 2020

Kamala Harris can't forget the older black woman she met in Iowa while campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate ...

Biden says he picked South Carolina as spot for apology

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Sunday he chose South Carolina to deliver an apology for his controversial ...

UK ambassador called Trump administration 'clumsy and inept'

Britain's ambassador to the United States described the Trump administration as "diplomatically clumsy and inept" and said ...

A matter of faith: Democrats embrace religion in campaign

When 10 Democratic presidential candidates were pressed on immigration policy during their recent debate, Pete Buttigieg took ...

Biden says he was wrong in comments about segregationists

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday apologized for recent comments about working with segregationist senators in his ...

Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg has money, but can he turn it into 2020 win?

Pete Buttigieg stunned the Democratic presidential field with a nearly $25 million second-quarter fundraising haul. Now he ...

Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris proposes $100B in homeownership assistance

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is proposing $100 billion in federal grants to pay for down payment and ...

Joe Biden

Biden, Harris join Warren to promise teacher as ed secretary

Echoing one of their top Democratic presidential rivals, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris promised Friday to nominate an educator ...