Tag: 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
Florida Mayor Wayne Messam wants to restore US as ‘honest broker’ in Mideast negotiations
Wayne Messam, the mayor of Miramar, Fla., is one of nearly two-dozen Democrats running for president in 2020, announcing his candidacy on March 28.
Days after forming an exploratory committee on March 13, Messam, 44, traveled to...
Record at a glance: Sen. Michael Bennet’s pro-Israel history stands out in a changing...
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet became the latest Democrat to enter the 2020 presidential race on Thursday morning in a video where he briefly mentions his mom and grandparents surviving the Holocaust. (She later immigrated to the...
Joe Biden and the trouble with old friends
The shoe finally dropped for the Democratic presidential field this week with the announcement by former Vice President Joe Biden that he is running. It remains to be seen whether his place atop the...
Joe Biden’s long record of often heated exchanges on Israel
After much speculation, former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden announced his third run for the White House, entering a crowded field of now 20 Democratic contenders for the American presidency in 2020.
Biden, 76, served...
O’Rourke compares rhetoric on immigrants from White House to that of Third Reich
Former Texas congressman and current 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke compared rhetoric from the White House to language rampant in Germany during the Third Reich, in which Jews and other minorities were compared...
Record at a glance: Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan supports Israeli self-defense, though favors Iran...
U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, 45, announced his candidacy on Thursday for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.
Serving in the House of Representatives since 2003, the Ohio congressman has emphasized Israel’s right to defend...
Multiple 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to skip AIPAC conference
A number of Democratic candidates running for president in 2020 announced that they will not attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference.
This comes after the left-wing group MoveOn called on candidates...
Sanders’s campaign aide apologizes for dual-loyalty remark referring to Jews
An aide working for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign has apologized for asking whether the “American-Jewish community has a dual allegiance to the State of Israel,” a remark that reflects a longtime...
Record at a glance: Controversial stances by Sen. Bernie Sanders on US-Israel relationship
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced on Tuesday his second run for the White House.
While Sanders, 79, became the most successful Jewish candidate to run for president—what the late conservative intellectual and pundit Charles Krauthammer called “a...
Are most US Jewish votes going to shift from Democrats to Republicans in 2020?
The American Jewish vote that has been traditionally overwhelmingly Democrat may very well change dramatically in the next Presidential election. The reason is the potentially substantial gap between the significant pro-Israel policies of President...