There are more than a dozen doctors in Congress and none support Medicare for All. Rob Davidson, an emergency physician running for Michigan’s 2nd congressional district, could change that.
Davidson’s full-throated support of a national government-run health care system not only deeply contrasts his opponent’s position — Republican incumbent Rep. Bill Huizenga doesn’t believe health care is a right — but also those of current doc...
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Parkland mom wins school board seat and other election night stories you may have missed
Much of the coverage of Tuesday night’s primaries revolved around Andrew Gillum’s upset victory in the Florida Democratic gubernatorial primary. Gillum, the only non-millionaire or billionaire in the race, ran on the most progressive platform, including abolishing ICE and establishing Medicare for all.
If Gillum wins in November, he’ll be the first black governor of Florida. He becomes the third black gubernatorial nominee this election cycle, in addition to Stacey...
Representatives in hiding: campaigning as a Republican incumbent in upstate New York
UTICA, NEW YORK — Running for Congress as a Republican incumbent in 2018 is not an easy task. Running for Congress as a Republican in upstate New York in 2018 is, if anything, even more complicated.
New York as a whole is staunchly Democratic, but traveling north, and west, of New York City, the state looks and sounds much more like the Midwest. There are bluer college towns and smaller cities scattered across a half-dozen large congressional districts, as well as large swaths...
BREAKING: Andrew Gillum wins Florida Democratic primary
MIAMI, FLORIDA — Former Mayor of Tallahassee Andrew Gillum secured the Democratic nomination in Florida’s hotly-contested gubernatorial primary, putting an end to a messy and expensive race.
“The job of the governor is to do what is best for everyone in the state of Florida, and I can’t wait to do that,” Gillum told supporters at a watch party Tuesday night. “This is not my moment, this is our moment […] We are in this place right now becaus...
Ron DeSantis wins Republican nomination for governor
MIAMI, FLORIDA — Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) the Republican nomination for governor in the Florida primary Tuesday night.
DeSantis received the “full endorsement” of President Donald Trump, who called him “strong on Borders” and “tough on Crime.”
Congressman Ron DeSantis, a top student at Yale and Harvard Law School, is running for Governor of the Great State of Florida. Ron is strong on Borders, tough on Crime &...
Maternal death rates are a key indicator of why the state of female health in the US is so terrible
No rich country has a rate of maternal death (and near-deaths) comparably high to the US. The blame has been placed largely on how the US treats pregnancy and related emergency issues, but new data on deaths across the US (pdf) released by the country’s Centers fo...
President couldn’t issue meaningful McCain statement because The Media is too mean, says ex-adviser
Rather than issue the typical memorial statement that most human U.S. presidents have issued following the death of political opponents, current President Donald Trump instead apparently nixed a proposed message memorializing Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Instead, he tweeted a brief comment on Saturday evening that said basically nothing at all, raised the White House flags back from half-staff, and went back to whining about the media.
My deepest sympathies and res...
As Trump’s legal entanglements explode, Democrats on the campaign trail stay focused on issues
While America has been living in — and anesthetized to — this never-a-slow-news-day era for quite a while now, there was nevertheless something pulse-quickening about last week’s episodes of our reality-television presidency. Paced primarily by the ongoing legal sagas of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and longtime Trump consigliere Michael Cohen, the flow of the news cycle turned pyroclastic, with Twitter pundits proclaiming it to be a historic week for the T...
Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum brings it home ahead of Election Day
MIAMI, FLORIDA — Andrew Gillum’s campaign slogan, “Bring It Home,” took on a special meaning this weekend.
“Your son has come home,” his wife, R. Jai Gillum, told a crowd of supporters outside The Bethel Church in the Richmond Heights neighborhood of Miami, Florida Sunday evening, before Gillum, the current mayor of Tallahassee and a Democratic candidate for governor of Florida, took the stage.
She meant it, too. As Gillam spoke that night, days ahead of the statewide p...
John McCain, longtime senator and Trump antagonist, dies of brain cancer
Relatives for US Senator John McCain, 81, the Republican stalwart from Arizona, announced on Friday that he would no longer be receiving treatment for terminal brain cancer. Late Saturday, he succumbed to his illness.
Family and friends had gathered to be near him in his final hours as tributes poured in from both Republicans and Democrats for McCain, who in 2008 was his party’s presidential nominee.
John McCain was an American hero, a man of decenc...