As the nation prepares to hear from 20 Democratic presidential candidates during the first round of presidential debates that will air this Wednesday and Thursday on NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo, the Telemundo Station Group today announced its first round of Hispanic voter opinion findings for the 2020 election cycle for […] Read more »
The math is against Bill de Blasio 2020
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is running for Democratic nomination for president. You’re going to hear a lot of doubting takes from the press on de Blasio. And maybe, just maybe, de Blasio will prove all of us wrong. (He has before.) But unlike my skepticism of the […] Read more »
De Blasio 2020? So far, polls say voters don’t want it
… A new Quinnipiac University poll finds that 76% of New York City voters don’t want Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, to run for president in 2020. Only 18% do want him to run in 2020. The numbers aren’t much better among Democrats in the city. A sky high […] Read more »
Primaries Are Where Politics Happens Today, And That’s Why The Amazon Deal Died
It’s an old cliché that all politics is local. It’s equally true in this polarized age that most meaningful politics happens in party primaries. That hyperpartisan dynamic is why Republicans keep their disdain for Donald Trump to off-the-record Washington whispers: They are afraid of a primary challenge. And that dynamic […] Read more »
Initial Thoughts in the Aftermath of Crowley’s Defeat
In the biggest surprise of 2018 so far, House Democratic Caucus Chair Joe Crowley (NY-14) lost his primary to 28-year-old former Bernie Sanders organizer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 58 percent to 42 percent. Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic Socialist who favors abolishing ICE, is now a lock to represent the Queens and Bronx seat. […] Read more »
What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory says about the Democratic Party and 2020
Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset of Rep. Joe Crowley in New York’s 14th District’s Democratic primary is sending shockwaves through Washington. A lot of people are asking how she pulled it off. Like many shocking victories, there probably isn’t one cause. But a number of the different factors that likely catapulted […] Read more »