Former vice president Joe Biden's younger brother Frank said the 2020 frontrunner intervened on behalf of an oil heiress and lobbyist to advance animal cruelty legislation, according to recently unearthed videotaped remarks.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) called out her fellow presidential candidates for "hobnobbing with the rich and powerful" and doubled down on her pledge to spurn big-money fundraisers.
Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to criticize fellow Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) for promising too many executive actions on gun control, saying anyone who did so would be "abusing power." He explained that the Democratic presidential nominee would need to be able to work with Republicans.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D.) on Thursday slammed 2020 rival Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) for her staff not allowing him to attend a press conference celebrating the passage of legislation to fund the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund.
Democratic lawmakers are not pleased with billionaire activist Tom Steyer's long-shot bid for the presidential nomination, according to reporting by Politico's Burgess Everett and Heather Caygle.
Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I., Vt.) presidential campaign paid over $60,000 to the consulting firm of the campaign's senior adviser, Chuck Rocha, who embezzled thousands of dollars from the United Steelworkers Union between 2008 and 2009.
Amusingly, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden found himself in yet another plagiarism scandal Tuesday as activists and reporters noticed several portions of his new climate plan were lifted wholesale from advocacy groups, think tanks, and a reporter. The campaign’s excuse was weak: they “inadvertently” left off citations, you see. (One wonders how one “inadvertently” takes language from a nonprofit about what “[their] goal” is and unabashedly make it read “Biden’s goal.”)
It somehow took the New York Times two tries to apologize for their decision to publish an anti-Semitic cartoon in the international edition this weekend. The cartoon in question featured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog with a Star of David, leading around President Donald Trump. Critics noted that the cartoon rather clearly played on age-old stereotypes of Jews as beasts controlling the U.S. government.
A campaign official working for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) apologized Tuesday for suggesting Jewish Americans and the U.S. government may have "dual allegiance."
Former vice president Joe Biden's younger brother Frank said the 2020 frontrunner intervened on behalf of an oil heiress and lobbyist to advance animal cruelty legislation, according to recently unearthed videotaped remarks. 
