Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the 2020 election. Visit here for the latest news on the candidates running for president. The race began with 25 Democrats and two Republicans, including President Trump, who is running for reelection. There are…
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News Why Don’t More Jews Like Bernie Sanders?
The first sign of trouble might have been in May, when a poll showed him doing far worse among his fellow Jews than with Democratic voters in general. Or it could have been in July, when the Forward found that Jews formed a smaller part of his major donor base than nearly every other candidate….
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Fast Forward WATCH: Bernie Sanders Slams Trump’s Remarks About ‘Disloyal’ Jews
Senator Bernie Sanders, the most high-profile Jewish figure running for the Democratic presidential nomination, offered a retort to President Trump on Tuesday night, a few hours after the president said that Jews who vote Democratic were either uninformed or show “great disloyalty.” “I am a proud Jewish person, and I have no concerns about voting…
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The Schmooze Watch Bernie Sanders And Cardi B Debate Policy In A Nail Salon
This week, he ate a corn dog at the Iowa State Fair. She traveled on a private jet (though she often flies Delta.) He used to volunteer on an Israeli kibbutz. She’s a former stripper, who joked on Monday that she got breast implants because she can’t swim, and they help her float. Both are…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Biden Confronts Breitbart Journalist Claiming Trump Didn’t Praise Charlottesville Marchers
Former vice president Joe Biden was fired up on Thursday while arguing with a journalist from the right-wing website Breitbart who claimed that Biden had mischaracterized President Trump’s comments about “very fine people on both sides” in Charlottesville after the 2017 white nationalist riot there. After Biden descended from a podium after his 20-minute speech…
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Fast Forward Hasidic New Yorkers Urged To Donate To De Blasio’s Struggling Campaign
Supporters of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s presidential campaign have been circulating a Yiddish-language donation request to help the struggling candidate qualify for next month’s debate, Politico reported Thursday. The message called for 10,000 supporters to contribute $1 each to help de Blasio reach the debate’s qualifying threshold of 130,000 donors. As of the…
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The Schmooze The Owner Of Soul Cycle And Equinox Is Hosting A Huge Trump Fundraiser
“Find your soul.” “You did not wake up to be mediocre.” “I am…enough.” Such are the phrases you will hear if you enter a SoulCycle, the wildly popular fitness company that offers group stationary-biking classes and mood-lit spirituality for a steep fee. (A single class at a Manhattan SoulCycle costs $36, which is 2.5 times…
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Fast Forward Tulsi Gabbard Is Rising In The Polls, But Can’t Shake Neo-Nazi Support
Presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is having a moment — she received praise from commentators for her attacks on Sen. Kamala Harris’ prosecutorial record during last week’s Democratic presidential debate, and the latest New Hampshire poll has seen her rise to sixth place. But some of America’s most prominent white nationalists have taken credit for…
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Fast Forward Soros Has Doubled His Presidential Campaign Spending Compared To 2016
(JTA) — George Soros has donated $5.1 million to a new super PAC ahead of the 2020 presidential election — over twice as much as he had spent at this point in the campaign leading up to the 2016 election, Politico reported Wednesday. The Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire’s Democracy PAC is his first involvement in the…
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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