Biden leads Sanders by 7 in new national poll

Biden leads Sanders by 7 in new national poll-thehill: Former Vice President Joe Biden has a 7 point lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in a new national poll, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) a distant third place. The latest Monmouth University survey finds Biden at 30 percent, followed by Sanders at 23 percent and Warren at 14 percent. All three candidates saw a modest increase in support, with Biden gaining 4 points, Sanders 2 and Warren 3.

Democrats top Trump in Michigan matchups: poll

Democrats top Trump in Michigan matchups: poll-thehill: A poll in Michigan finds several 2020 Democratic White House hopefuls leading President Trump in hypothetical matchups in the crucial battleground state, according to the Detroit News. The Glengariff Group poll showed former Vice President Joe Biden with the widest lead, at 50 percent to Trump’s 43 percent, followed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, at 47 percent to 41 percent, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with a 4-point lead, 49 to 45 percent.

DNC says next debate will be rescheduled if it conflicts with impeachment trial

DNC says next debate will be rescheduled if it conflicts with impeachment trial-politico: The chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, said on Tuesday that the party organization would reschedule next week’s presidential primary debate in Iowa if the televised event conflicts with President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate.

Biden builds primary strategy around general election

Biden builds primary strategy around general election-thehill: Former Vice President Joe Biden is running a general election campaign during the Democratic primary. While other candidates are running campaigns tailored to the Democratic base, Biden's message, for the most part, is targeting centrists and independents, a move typically reserved for the general election. While the strategy can be risky for primary candidates, Democrats say the strategy works well for Biden. He is currently well ahead of his competitors.

Kamala Harris drops out of presidential race

Kamala Harris drops out of presidential race-politico: Kamala Harris ended her presidential campaign on Tuesday after months of failing to lift her candidacy from the bottom of the field, a premature departure for a California senator once heralded as a top-tier contender for the nomination.

Bloomberg officially announces he's entering presidential race

Bloomberg officially announces he's entering presidential race-thehill: Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Sunday officially announced his entrance into the Democratic presidential primary field. "We cannot afford four more years of President Trump’s reckless and unethical actions," Bloomberg said in a statement. "He represents an existential threat to our country and our values. If he wins another term in office, we may never recover from the damage." Bloomberg's statement said he will focus on creating jobs, providing health care, ending gun violence, combating climate change, adjusting the immigration system and increasing taxes on the wealthy "like me."

Five takeaways from the Democratic debate

Five takeaways from the Democratic debate-thehill: Ten Democrats took the stage here Wednesday night with less than three months to go before the Iowa caucuses, and after a day of high political drama at the impeachment hearings back in Washington.

The left smells a rat in Bloomberg, Patrick bids

The left smells a rat in Bloomberg, Patrick bids-politico: Democratic donors say they want Michael Bloomberg and Deval Patrick to run for president because they’re petrified that a left-wing candidate can’t defeat President Donald Trump. But progressives see a more sinister effort afoot. Aides and allies to Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, among other liberals, perceive the eleventh-hour campaign launched last week by Patrick, and the prospect of an impending Bloomberg 2020 bid, as an attempt to crush an ascendant left wing that would expand government more than any other Democratic president in decades.

Democrats confront prospect of long primary

Democrats confront prospect of long primary-thehill: There is no true front-runner in the Democratic presidential race, and that opens up the specter of a long and divisive nomination fight within a party desperate to beat President Trump in 2020. At a time when some Democrats hoped that the field was being winnowed down, speculation is instead focused on possible late entrants to the field. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick are both said to be moving toward bids. Their maneuvering has attracted plenty of skepticism, but it is also evidence of the unsettled nature of the race.

Bloomberg makes preparations for 2020 run

Bloomberg makes preparations for 2020 run-politico: Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is preparing to file paperwork to qualify for the Democratic presidential primary in Alabama, ahead of a Friday deadline. The move would be a first step toward a national campaign, though Bloomberg has not made a final decision to run.

O'Rourke ends presidential bid

O'Rourke ends presidential bid-thehill: Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) announced Friday that he would drop out of the presidential race, ending what was once thought to be a potential leading 2020 Democratic bid that failed to garner the same enthusiasm that surrounded his Senate campaign last year.

100 days to Iowa: Uncertainty reigns over fluid race

100 days to Iowa: Uncertainty reigns over fluid race-thehill: With just 100 days to go before the Iowa caucuses, the Democratic race for the White House is clouded in uncertainty. What had once looked like a three-person race is showing signs of widening as Iowa voters debate the electability question that has dominated the battle since its beginning: Which of their candidates is most likely to defeat President Trump?

Tim Ryan drops out of 2020 presidential race

Tim Ryan drops out of 2020 presidential race-thehill: Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) announced he will exit the 2020 presidential race, ending a long-shot bid that failed to gain traction amid a crowded field of high-profile candidates. “I got into this race in April to really give voice to the forgotten people of our country. I look forward to continuing that fight. Thank you, to everyone who supported this campaign,” Ryan said in a video posted to his Twitter account.

Buttigieg surges in Iowa poll

Buttigieg surges in Iowa poll-politico: A new Iowa survey of the 2020 Democratic presidential race shows Pete Buttigieg surging in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, locked in a three-way race with front-runners Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren. Eighteen percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers back the former vice president, while 17 percent favor the Massachusetts senator and 13 percent prefer the South Bend, Indiana, mayor, according to a Suffolk University/USA TODAY poll released Monday.

Democrats stop faking it — and have a serious debate

Democrats stop faking it — and have a serious debate-politico: There was something different going on with 12 Democrats on the debate stage in Ohio on Tuesday night. It was a serious conversation about how to bring change to the party and the country, waged by people making serious claims about what they would do if elected president of the United States.

‘Advantage Warren’ as Dems ready for pivotal

‘Advantage Warren’ as Dems ready for pivotal debate-politico: Bernie Sanders is recovering from his heart attack. Joe Biden is under siege, and laying into Donald Trump. And the entire Democratic presidential field has become consumed with the House’s impeachment inquiry into the Republican president. With so many candidates responding to circumstances beyond their control, and the threat of a destabilizing moment running high on a stage that’s expanding to 12 candidates from 10, it’s raising the specter of a debate Tuesday that finally breaks the Democratic primary logjam.

Warren enters crucial debate with big momentum

Warren enters crucial debate with big momentum-thehill: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is the candidate with the most momentum as the Democratic presidential field heads into a critical debate on Tuesday. Warren has surged in front of former Vice President Joe Biden in recent polls in Iowa and New Hampshire and in some national polls. She also is seeing some encouraging numbers within the polls. Surveys show she has started to appeal to moderate voters and black voters, cultivating a coalition across the party and robbing the Biden campaign of one of its popular talking points.

Why Biden declared war on Trump — and poked at Warren

Why Biden declared war on Trump — and poked at Warren-politico: After calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment for the first time, Joe Biden experienced something here he rarely sees on the campaign trail: a sustained standing ovation. His Rudy Giuliani joke had the crowd roaring, as did his digs on Trump’s tax secrecy. It was just the kind of crowd energy that the Biden campaign had hoped to tap as it abruptly shifted gears on Wednesday, revealing a new intensity and an amped up response to the president’s relentless attacks.

Sanders and Warren transform how presidential campaigns are paid for

Sanders and Warren transform how presidential campaigns are paid for-politico: The latest batch of fundraising reports released this week confirmed a new reality of presidential politics: the traditional, big-dollar model of funding a presidential campaign is going the way of landlines and the VCR. With Elizabeth Warren’s announcement Friday that she had raised nearly $25 million in the last three months, slightly less than Bernie Sanders reported Tuesday, two candidates who didn’t hold traditional donor events became the top two fundraisers in Democratic primary.

Biden faces dual challenges from Trump, Warren

Biden faces dual challenges from Trump, Warren-thehill: Joe Biden is at a crossroads in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, as President Trump fights an impeachment inquiry by unloading on the former vice president and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) overtakes him in some polls.