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Sanders will accept endorsement at a rally in Oakland, Calif. on Friday. "Bernie Sanders is, and has been, leading on Medicare for All through his advocacy and Senate legislation,” says Bonnie Castillo, the executive director of the nurses' union.
Many large labor unions have yet to make formal 2020 presidential endorsements.
Sludge and Data for Progress analyzed the Democratic presidential candidates' donors by income, race, gender, age, and ideology.
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Ahead of the first 2020 presidential debates, Dems have released some of the most far-reaching housing plans in decades.
Kansas Democrats are using ranked-choice voting for the 2020 primary election, hoping to increase voter participation and to create fairer voting systems.
If Warren is rising, it’s not because people are tired of Sanders. It’s because they’re pissed at soulless, nationless, money-sucking companies and overpaid, under-prosecuted executives. This is also why Sanders is still very much in contention.
They're scared that trying to remove him would backfire, but they're taking the wrong lessons from the past—and ignoring voters' wishes in the present
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