Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has lost the capital Ankara and looks set to lose the commercial hub of Istanbul after 25 years in power in both cities, as Sunday’s municipal election results — largely seen as a referendum on the president himself — roll in. The Turkish lira […] Read more
Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who narrowly lost the Georgia gubernatorial race in 2018, said she believes race may have played a role in Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke’s rising popularity after his failed Senate run, she told MSNBC on Wednesday. Abrams suggested that she and Andrew Gillum, the Democrat who ran for governor in Florida, […] Read more
Mayor and 2020 hopeful Pete Buttigieg is making inroads into the New York donor circuit as he prepares to attend a campaign fundraiser hosted by Broadway executive Jordan Roth. Roth, and his husband, Richie Jackson, who is a movie producer, will be holding a reception for the South Bend, Indiana mayor with suggested contributions from […] Read more
An unusual coalition of business, labor and immigration rights groups wants to change the way federal regulators interpret their own rules — but that effort has sparked fears that consumer and worker protections could be gutted in the process. The fight is due to play out in a Supreme Court argument set for Wednesday. The […] Read more
Major Obama fundraiser Mark Gallogly looks likely to support Beto O’Rourke in 2020 run for president
A leading Democratic bundler who helped former President Barack Obama raise money during his two presidential campaigns has been indicating to friends that he’s likely to support Beto O’Rourke in the 2020 race, CNBC has learned. Mark Gallogly, the co-founder of investment firm Centerbridge Partners, has signaled to associates that he’s likely going to help […] Read more
President Donald Trump hit Facebook, Google and Twitter again Tuesday for supposedly siding with his Democratic opponents. It’s a familiar tune for the Republican president, whose administration is preparing antitrust action against Silicon Valley giants, but it comes with some ironic context. Trump far outspends his fellow 2020 candidates in social ads on sites like […] Read more
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand formally launched her presidential bid on Sunday morning, announcing she will deliver her first major speech next week in front of Trump International Hotel in New York City. Gillibrand, who launched an exploratory committee earlier this year as a precursor, joins more than a dozen other Democrats who have already formally […] Read more
One of former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s supporters from his 2018 Senate campaign has been reaching out to top Democratic Party donors to see if they will back him to run for president in 2020. Louis Susman, former U.S. ambassador to the U.K. and a lead bundler for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, has been […] Read more
President Donald Trump will “make his decision” on whether to pardon his former campaign chief Paul Manafort “when he’s ready,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday. The comments from Sanders, delivered at the first official White House press briefing in six weeks, appear to signal a development in the president’s thinking on […] Read more
Nearly all Senate Democrats running for president in 2020 have embraced a massive overhaul of how students pay for college. Four of the six senators in the Democratic primary co-sponsored legislation aiming to make public college debt-free, which Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, introduced Wednesday. Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, […] Read more
