By all accounts, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke has lost his mojo. He has slipped in the polls, is dismissed as a lightweight by much of the news media, and now serves as a punchline for late-night talk show hosts who used to fawn over him. And yet he is clinging to a handhold in the race that could give him a path to the nomination if he can hang on into 2020.
While the political jockeying gets more attention, candidates in the 2020 Democratic presidential are advancing serious policy proposals. The Washington Times takes a weekly look at some of those ideas that may have flown under the radar.
The 2020 Democratic presidential contenders appear to be growing as divided as their House colleagues over the question of whether President Trump should be dragged into the impeachment process.
Undaunted by jeers in his own backyard, Mr. de Blasio pitched himself as well-suited to take on President Trump, touting a record of delivering on key liberal priorities in his city and expressing an interest in taking them to the national level.
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Rep. Eric Swalwell of California on Wednesday each pledged to name a woman as his vice presidential pick.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is trying to zig while the rest of the Democrats' 2020 presidential field zags, staking out some unique positions on issues ranging from Syria to WikiLeaks as she makes foreign policy the centerpiece of her underdog campaign.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Wednesday released 12 years of tax returns and called on her rivals for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination to follow her lead.
President Obama waged an Election Day blitz of radio interviews Tuesday to spur Democratic voter turnout in big cities amid generally long lines at polling places nationwide in the contest to choose his successor.
Election Day started on a bitter note in Pennsylvania, as Democratic challenger Katie McGinty accused Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of opting to vote at the last minute so that most of his constituents wouldn't know if he finally decided to support GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
President Obama engaged in a little bit of Election Day superstition Tuesday morning by playing basketball with friends, while Vice President Joseph R. Biden voted in his home state of Delaware.
The first results will start rolling in at 6 p.m., when some polls close in Indiana and Kentucky, but the telling moment Tuesday night will come two hours later, when voting ends in the Florida panhandle.
President Obama bequeathed his political legacy to Hillary Clinton on Monday as they campaigned together hours ahead of Election Day. But Donald Trump challenged voters to overthrow the corrupt Washington status quo that he said Mrs. Clinton embodies.
President Obama told a rally Monday that Donald Trump was anti-union and anti-worker, attempting to chip away the Republican presidential nominee's support across the Rust Belt.
Strip away the personalities and their policies, and this year's election is the epitome of the insider versus the outsider.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are deadlocked in New Hampshire, according to several polls released as the candidates plan to blitz the state in the final days of the presidential race.
The battle for control of the Senate remains a jump ball just days before elections, with Democrats leading or within striking distances in seven races -- more than enough to take the chamber from Republicans.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine will deliver remarks entirely in Spanish at a rally in Arizona on Thursday, highlighting the growing importance his party places on Hispanics in presidential politics.
Early voters who have second thoughts can switch their votes before Election Day in several Midwestern states, and the Trump campaign is hoping to peel off some who backed Hillary Clinton but are having a rethink in the wake of the renewed FBI investigation into her emails.
President Obama on Tuesday called on Ohio voters to help power Hillary Clinton to the presidency just as they did for him in back-to-back elections, and warned working-class voters here not to be "bamboozled" by Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton's closing argument is all about Donald Trump, as she piled on accusations Monday that the Republican presidential nominee is a threat to national security, in league with Russia and ready to start nuclear war.
