By Michael Casey, The Associated Press PLYMOUTH, N.H. — Bounding onto a stage at a conference center in New Hampshire, tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang beamed a smile to a cheering crowd and launched into his pitch for votes heading intod of Tuesday’s first-in-the nation primary. Yang didn’t mention his poor showing in Iowa, his back-of-the-pack […]
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What a viral photo says about Michael Bennet’s presidential campaign in Iowa, and his chances in New Hampshire
The night of the Iowa caucuses, one photo seemed to capture Michael Bennet’s presidential bid: Jeff Harris, a 63-year-old substitute teacher, wearing a navy blue Bennet campaign T-shirt and a beanie, slouched in a folding chair, sitting all by himself. The image from a caucus in Marshalltown, captured by a Washington Post reporter and posted […]
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Still a chance? 2020 presidential longshots like Colorado’s Michael Bennet insist race is up for grabs
By Holly Ramer and Nicholas Riccardi, The Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. — Bernie Sanders rallied hundreds of supporters outside the New Hampshire capital when the senator formally filed to compete in the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary. A howling crowd cheered South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg as he walked through the statehouse to file his […]
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Michael Bennet looks to New Hampshire to give his 2020 presidential campaign new life
CONCORD, N.H. — Michael Bennet continued to push against the odds Wednesday, making his presidential candidacy in New Hampshire official by securing a spot on the ballot for the state’s February primary. The Colorado senator is largely missing from the public’s view of the Democratic primary, absent from the debate stage and barely registering in […]
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Jim Morrissey: Go to the head of the class
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.
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Colorado voters will be able to cast their presidential primary ballots on the same day as New Hampshire’s
Iowa and New Hampshire are synonymous with presidential primary politics, serving as a litmus test for candidates in every election cycle. But they’ll need to make room for Colorado, too. Colorado voters will be among the first able to cast presidential primary ballots in 2020. That’s because mail-in ballots will be sent to voters 22 […]
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Michael Bennet’s cancer diagnosis underscores importance of health care in New Hampshire campaign visit
Nashua, N.H. — Colorado’s Michael Bennet outlined why he thinks Congress is “completely immobilized” and offered his plan to fix the nation’s health care system during a presidential campaign visit Saturday to New Hampshire. When he finished the hour-plus talk, the two dozen voters who filled a small bakery on Main Street began to disperse. […]