Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams were 2018 runner-up candidates for governor in the country’s third- and ninth-largest states, are considered “rising stars” in the Democratic Party, and are engaging in “horrifying,” “shocking” rhetoric that is “threatening our democracy.”
Priorities USA, the largest Democratic super PAC, announced on Thursday it will spend $100 million in four of the top swing states as part of an initial investment to try and defeat President Donald Trump.
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.—Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) agrees with other Democrats who think last year’s Georgia governor’s race was stolen from Democrat Stacey Abrams, saying Saturday it’s what the “evidence seems to suggest.”
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams will deliver her party’s response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week.
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) has joined MSNBC and NBC News as a political analyst.
Laura Moser, a failed 2018 progressive candidate who ran in Texas’ 7th Congressional District, suggested Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) was giving the party’s progressive base “a big middle finger” by hiring the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s communications director.
Several progressive organizations blasted the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, on Wednesday for announcing a leadership team consisting entirely of pro-business Democrats from the New Democrat Coalition.
Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski (Ill.) is listed as one of the speakers for the annual March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., later this month, after skipping last year’s rally amid a heated reelection battle.
The PAC primarily responsible for sustaining Democrat Andrew Gillum’s candidacy in the Florida governor’s race raised an additional $1 million from small donors nationwide to help pay legal bills for a recount fight in Florida that fizzled out when Gillum’s margin of defeat was too large to trigger a hand recount.
A Democratic representative disbursed nearly $200,000 from his campaign funds to a law firm that is owned by his sister throughout the 2018 election cycle, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings.
