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The One Where All the Candidates Are Friends

By Charlotte Alter

Joe Biden's Campaign Downplays Expectations for Iowa and New Hampshire

By Philip Elliott

How White Male Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Struggling with Questions of Privilege

By Lissandra Villa

Beto Finds His Voice in Helping El Paso Grieve

By Lissandra Villa/El Paso, Tex.
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What It Was Like Watching the Debates in Flint

Between Harris, Biden, and Booker, no clear favorite emerged. Instead, these Flint voters seemed drawn to candidates like businessman Andrew Yang and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.

By Charlotte Alter/Flint, Mich.

Who Shined, Who Stumbled

Ten Democratic presidential candidates gathered in Detroit Wednesday for a rowdy debate that underscored the party’s deep divisions. Here are 10 of the top takeaways:1. This Was the Most Diverse Presidential Debate in American HistoryWednesday...

By TIME Staff

Joe Biden Is Ready for a Debate Rematch

Biden has personally signed off on a more aggressive posture and has has been studying dossiers about Harris’ record as a prosecutor and California Attorney General, advisers say

By Charlotte Alter / Detroit , Lissandra Villa/Detroit and Philip Elliott

10 Debate Takeaways

Ten Democratic presidential candidates took the stage in Detroit on Tuesday night for a debate that revealed the party's fault lines on issues ranging from healthcare to immigration to foreign policy.

By TIME Staff

2020 Democratic Debate: All About Trump's Racist Tweets

Trump's attacks leave the candidates with a difficult choice: should they their time to make a moral case against Trump, or a case for themselves?

By Lissandra Villa/Detroit and Charlotte Alter/Detroit

First Debate Showed How Far Democrats Moved Left

Some of the positions put forth in Miami may stymie moderates’ willingness to vote President Donald Trump from power.

By Vera Bergengruen and Philip Elliott / Miami

Why the First Democratic Debates Will Force 2020 Candidates to Get Serious About Immigration Policy

How Democrats handle immigration in Miami will be the first campaign test of how they position themselves on Trump's signature issue.

By Vera Bergengruen/Miami

2020 Democrats' Response to Trump Rape Allegation

"Candidates jump in once it is elevated," one staffer to a top-tier Democratic presidential candidate says.

By Charlotte Alter

Cory Booker Was a Rising Star. Inside His Plan to Become the Next Big Thing, Again

It’s more than an hour before the largest gathering of 2020 candidates in Iowa to date, and Cory Booker is getting mobbed on the streets of Cedar Rapids. Reaching over a low wall of signs...

By Lissandra Villa/Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Inside Andrew Yang's Outsider Campaign

There’s nothing like an Andrew Yang campaign event. Nowhere else will fans show up wearing hats with MATH written across the top (“Make America Think Harder”). If the mood is right, chants of “PowerPoint” break...

By Lissandra Villa/Portsmouth, N.H.

How Andrew Yang's Online Following Has Turned Into a Real-Life Coalition

Long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang is winning support with an unorthodox campaign

By Lissandra Villa/Claremont, N.H.

Pete Buttigieg Enters Presidential Race With a Message of Generational Change

The South Bend mayor framed the 2020 election as a choice between America's future and its past.

By Charlotte Alter/South Bend, Ind.

Why Sherrod Brown Decided Not to Run For President

Brown concluded his path to the nomination was too narrow to be viable.

By Philip Elliott

Michigan Is Now Poised to Elect Democratic Women

In a year when an unprecedented number of women are running for office all over the country, the state that helped make Trump president is also the state with the most notable surge in enthusiasm for female candidates.

By Charlotte Alter/Plymouth, Mich.

Elissa Slotkin Wants the Democrats to Be the Party of Patriotism

"If there was ever a moment for a strategic shift, it's now."

By Charlotte Alter/Holly, Mich.

The Beto Effect: How O'Rourke's Campaign For Senate Could Help Other Texas Democrats

Even if his campaign comes up short, O’Rourke's coattails could help carry Democrats in the eight Texas House districts in play

By Philip Elliott / Dallas
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