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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Fast Forward Circumcision Is A Major Issue For One 2020 Presidential Candidate
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang revealed he’s against circumcision, and if elected, he would include that view into public policy. In a tweet that fell under-the-radar, Yang said that he was against the practice of cutting a newborn’s foreskin, which is often done for religious purposes. He doubled down in an interview with The Daily…
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Fast Forward That Time Teenage Beto O’Rourke Interviewed A Neo-Nazi
As a teenager in the late 1980s, presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was part of a famous hacking collective called the Cult of the Dead Cow, Reuters reported Friday. Among his exploits: Publishing an interview with a Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi. Transcripts from the taped interview, which O’Rourke published under his handle “Psychedelic Warlord” when he was around…
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Fast Forward Sanders Aide Sorry For Asking If Jews Have Dual Loyalty – Including Her Boss
(JTA) — A campaign aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders apologized for a Facebook post in which she suggested that American Jews have a dual loyalty to Israel. Politico reported that Belen Sisa made the comment as part of a discussion in a Facebook thread in which she said that she supports Rep. Ilhan Omar in…
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Culture 2020 Hopeful Pete Buttigieg Won An Award For This Essay On Bernie Sanders In High School
37-year-old South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a longshot presidential candidate in an already crowded Democratic field. At press time he’s still jockeying for the 65,000 individual donors needed to qualify for the first round of Democratically-sponsored debates in June. Meanwhile, Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has raised $10 million for his campaign less than…
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Opinion A Bernie Sanders Presidency Would Strike A Blow Against Anti-Semitism
Senator Bernie Sanders, a frontrunner in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential domination, stands as an central figure on the American left. Despite being elected as an Independent, his influence on the Democratic Party since his 2016 presidential run has been transformative. Even Democratic “centrists” in the 2020 field — such as Kamala Harris…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Hires First-Ever Muslim Presidential Campaign Manager
Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign manager will be American Civil Liberties Union national political director Faiz Shakir, the Daily Beast reported Tuesday. The move means that Sanders, who in 2016 became the most successful Jewish presidential candidate in American history, will have his campaign steered by the first-ever Muslim presidential campaign manager. Shakir is a…
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The Schmooze Bernie Sanders Is Running For President, And Twitter Is Exploding.
The difference between Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign and his 2020 campaign? “This time, we’re gonna win,” he told CBS on Tuesday morning, shortly after announcing his bid for candidacy. What won’t be any different? The onslaught of online takes about Sanders, particularly on Twitter. Seeking the 2016 Democratic nomination, Sanders was defeated by Hillary…
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Opinion Will Cory Booker’s Flip-Flopping On Israel Hurt Him In 2020?
On Friday, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey announced he would seek the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. For Jewish voters, there is an extraordinary history to consider when it comes to Booker, a former Mayor of Newark and Rhodes Scholar who once offered to tweet a D’var Torah during a snow storm for Jewish…
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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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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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