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LAS VEGAS – Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg took a beating from his rivals on Wednesday at the very start of his first appearance on the Democratic debate stage. Nearly all of the five Democrats standing beside him jumped on their first opportunity to go after the billionaire, who has been dropping hundreds of …

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks to thousands of supporters during a rally in Durham, N.H. on Monday. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) Ctrl + N SAN FRANCISCO — Sen. Bernie Sanders’s narrow victory in New Hampshire means there will be even more attention paid to his calls to rein in corporate power and billionaire advantages in …

Text size Victories by Bernie Sanders tend to rock health-care stocks. Photograph by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders has the best shot in the Democratic primary field at winning the Iowa caucuses this evening, according to pollsters. Sanders is a bit of a boogeyman for health-care investors, given his commitment to a health-insurance scheme …

DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Secretary of State John Kerry — one of Joe Biden’s highest-profile endorsers — was overheard Sunday on the phone at a Des Moines hotel explaining what he would have to do to enter the presidential race amid “the possibility of Bernie Sanders taking down the Democratic Party — down whole.” …

Based on past campaigns, the Iowa results will have an immediate impact on the overall shape of the race and on public attitudes, nationally and in individual states that immediately follow the Feb. 3 caucuses: New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. A Post average of recent New Hampshire polls shows Sanders and Biden virtually tied, …

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right speaks as former Vice President … [+] Joe Biden listens Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ASSOCIATED PRESS Just three months after suffering what many thought was a …

That’s Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren describing a December 2018 conversation she had with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in advance of their respective decisions to run for president in 2020. Which, wow. Those eight words are very problematic for Sanders — particularly since they seem to run counter to his long-stated support of women running for …

The New Year opens with Bernie Sanders in his best standing yet against the field in Iowa and New Hampshire. He’s in a first-place tie with Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg in Iowa. All three are at 23%, and each would get a similar number of delegates out of the caucuses if they were to …

Sen. Elizabeth Warren during the Democratic primary debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Calif., December 19, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) said she would vote to pass the USMCA trade deal in the Senate during an interview Friday, despite saying in 2018 that she would not support “NAFTA 2.0.” Warren …

Sanders was the second candidate vying for the Democratic nomination to announce his fundraising numbers in the fourth quarter, a day after former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg announced raising $24.7 million. The other Democrats who have emerged in the top tier, former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, have not …