Tag: 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
Sanders released from Las Vegas hospital following heart attack
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, has been released from a Las Vegas hospital following a procedure after suffering a heart attack, causing the candidate to briefly suspend his campaign.
“I...
Sanders undergoes heart-blockage surgery, suspends campaign events
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, underwent a medical procedure on Tuesday following a blockage discovered in one of his arteries, causing his campaign to cancel future events...
Top this? Presidential candidates get covered in Yiddishkeit
Along with giving out kipot to put on one’s head, Marc Daniels, a published author and the director of an independent marketing and consulting company, is also seeking to get wearers and non-wearers—from presidential...
The ‘first Jewish’ president’s anti-Semitic surrogate
Will Bernie Sanders be America’s first Jewish president? That’s up to Democratic primary voters and then the rest of the electorate should he receive his party’s nomination. But the Vermont senator’s choice of a...
Sarsour: ‘I would be proud to elect America’s first Jewish president’
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday tweeted an excerpt from a speech by American political activist Linda Sarsour in which Sarsour expressed her hope Sanders would be the first Jewish president.
Sarsour,...
O’Rourke: Trump turning Israel into partisan issue
Former Texas representative and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump has turned the U.S.-Israel relationship into a partisan issue.
“Certainly the president is trying to ; I don’t think...
Despite their small numbers, Iowan Jews play outsize role in state’s prized presidential caucus
DES MOINES, Iowa—With 165 days until the Iowa Caucus, the scene in the central Midwest has been busy in and outside the state’s annual fair with the candidates making their case over the past couple weeks at the...
Buttigieg calls US recognition of Golan ‘interference’ in Israeli politics
DES MOINES, Iowa—Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, denounced on Tuesday U.S. President Donald Trump’s official recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan...
Sanders pledges to ‘leverage’ US funding to ‘end some of that racism’ in Israel
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said on Tuesday that, if elected, he would be even-handed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and even leverage U.S. funding “to end some...
Sanders says he would ‘absolutely’ consider cutting US military aid to Israel
Vermont senator and leading 2020 Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders would “absolutely” weigh withholding U.S. military aid to Israel to pressure the Jewish state into making policy changes.
Speaking with Jon Favreau on his...