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Though she seems to promise a fight at every turn, Elizabeth Warren has mostly refrained from attacking her fellow Democratic presidential candidates. But this week, the Massachusetts senator showed a new willingness to counterpunch, and her first target was a candidate who preaches about the need for unity: Pete Buttigieg, the young mayor of South Bend, Ind., who is rising in the polls after excoriating Warren’s health care plan. The exchange marks the first time Warren has hit back directly at Buttigieg after months of simmering tensions that started when he c

Though she seems to promise a fight at every turn, Elizabeth Warren has mostly refrained from attacking her fellow Democratic presidential candidates. But this week, the Massachusetts senator showed a new willingness to counterpunch, and her first target was a candidate who preaches about the need for unity: Pete Buttigieg, the young mayor of South Bend, Ind., who is rising in the polls after excoriating Warren’s health care plan. The exchange marks the first time Warren has hit back directly at Buttigieg after months of simmering tensions that started when he c

The knives are out for South Bend, Ind., Mayor MORE. Liberals are tearing at Buttigieg, viewing him as a threat to the left's most ambitious policy goals such as "Medicare For All" and free college tuition. Buttigieg also has the full attention of former Vice President MORE’s campaign as the two battle for support from centrists. While Buttigieg's campaign once basked in glowing media profiles, he is getting tougher scrutiny from the press. Progressives have begun questioning his past consulting work.

Speaker MORE following her decision to advance the Democrats' impeachment inquiry. "I don't hate anybody. I was raised in a Catholic house, we don't hate anybody — not anybody in the world. So don't you accuse me of any [hate]," Pelosi said during her weekly press briefing in the Capitol. "As a Catholic I resent you using the word 'hate' in a sentence that addresses me," she continued. "I pray for the president all the time.

Speaker MORE, saying his actions — as revealed by their weeks-long investigation — left them “no choice” but to pursue his removal from office. The move erases any lingering doubt that Democrats view Trump’s dealings with Ukraine as a severe violation of the Constitution — and any question of whether they will take the next step of making him just the third president in the nation’s history to be impeached. "The president's actions have seriously violated the Constitution," Pelosi said in a televised address against a backdrop of American flags.

Former Vice President MORE on Thursday got in a tense back-and-forth with an audience member during an Iowa campaign stop after the man made debunked claims that the former vice president sent his son Hunter Biden to work for an energy company in Ukraine. "You're a damn liar, man.

The White House on Thursday appeared self-assured after Speaker MORE was all but inevitable in the House, with administration officials signaling they relish the looming fight in a Senate trial.  The president and his allies have spent weeks hammering the same narrative about the House impeachment inquiry, dismissing it as a partisan “sham” that failed to produce evidence of wrongdoing.  The White House has refused to turn over documents, blocked witnesses and declined offers to participate.

House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler has long been obsessed with overturning the results of the 2016 U.S. elections at any cost, trying to find any way to push the commander-chief out since less than a year after he took office January 2017. This week, Nadler officially took over as the chief impeachment inquisitor from Adm Schiff (D-CA).

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump could imperil many vulnerable freshman Democrats, such as Rep. Kendra Horn (D-OK), according to a poll released Thursday. As House Speaker Pelosi moves toward impeaching President Trump, Parscale said that impeachment will imperil many freshman swing district Democrats’ chances of winning reelection in 2020, according to a poll released by  Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale. “Nancy Pelosi is marching members of her caucus off the plank and into the abyss.