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This follows news Friday that Saikat Chakrabarti, the congresswoman’s chief of staff since January, and Corbin Trent, her communications director, would be parting ways with her congressional office in the next few weeks. Chakrabarti, who masterminded Ocasio-Cortez’s election to Congress, is heading to New Consensus, a nonprofit working to bolster the Green New Deal and other climate change initiatives, as Breitbart New reported. According to the Post, both men w

Former vice president Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris were both in the hot seat Wednesday as they defended their records and proposals in the second night of the second round of 2020 Democratic presidential debates. While this pair will dominate the headlines, the real drama was among the seven on the stage who have not yet qualified for the next round of debates. There are 25 Democrats running for president, but only about 10 are expected to meet the party’s requirements for the next debate in September. By Aug.

DETROIT —Former vice president Joe Biden, the front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, faced down a barrage of criticism Wednesday night as his opponents sought to cast him as a relic of a bygone era, ill-equipped to lead his party as it grapples with urgent questions about race, immigration, and the best way to beat President Trump. One by one they dug in, denigrating Biden’s health care plan, criminal justice record, support for free trade policies, and the immigration policies pursued by President Barack Obama.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates expressed outrage Saturday that mass shootings have become chillingly common nationwide and blamed the National Rifle Association and its congressional allies after a gunman opened fire at a shopping area near the Texas-Mexico border. ‘‘It’s not just today, it has happened several times this week. It’s happened here in Las Vegas where some lunatic killed 50 some odd people,’’ Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said as he and 18 other White House hopefuls were in Nevada to address the nation’s largest public employees union.

A little girl attending a recent campaign rally for Senator Elizabeth Warren got a little one-on-one time with the presidential candidate and in a photograph shared on Twitter by the girl’s father, appeared to be making a promise to one another. Warren, who has said that she regularly does pinky swears with little girls on the campaign trail, retweeted the photo by repeating her refrain about women (and girls) running for president. “Whenever I meet a little girl, I say: “I’m running for president, because t

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is recuperating at home in Kentucky after suffering a shoulder fracture in a fall Sunday, a spokesman said. McConnell tripped Sunday morning on his outdoor patio, but has been treated and released after getting medical attention, David Popp, a spokesman for the Kentucky Republican, said in a statement.

Democratic lawmakers say they are feeling better about former Vice President MORE’s standing as their party’s presidential front-runner after this week’s debates, despite what they describe as lingering questions about his age. The 76-year-old’s shaky performance at a June debate after limited public appearances on the campaign trail raised doubts about his ability to compete with rivals 22 years younger, in the case of Sen.

Several Democratic presidential contenders called for action to end gun violence after a Saturday shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, that resulted in multiple fatalities. A police source told local news station KTSM that 18 people were killed.

Republicans are growing more pessimistic about their odds of taking back the House majority after the surprise news Thursday that Rep. MORE (Texas), the only African American GOP lawmaker in the House, is retiring. Hurd is the sixth House Republican and the third from the critical state of Texas to announce his departure, dampening GOP hopes for 2020. Republicans would need to gain either 18 or 19 seats to win back the House majority.

Tech entrepreneur Yang promoted the Freedom Dividend as helping women and minorities, noting that it was “the most effective way for us to address racial inequality in a genuine way and give every American a chance at the 21st-century economy.”  Giving out a Freedom Dividend would cost more than $3 trillion a year based, on the estimate of U.S.