Rep. Swalwell of California’s 15th congressional district suspended his 2020 bid for President on July 8, 2019 after consistent low polling. Swalwell has announced his intention to run for re-election for his current House seat instead. His short-lived candidacy emphasized his work on the House Intelligence Committee in which he attacked the Trump administration on...
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Reset Button: Most Democrats Would Reassure Europe First
When moderator Chuck Todd asked the Democratic presidential candidates at the second debate,” What is the first relationship you would like to reset as president? ” five of ten candidates said “Europe” or “NATO.” On the Wednesday night debate The candidates agreed on the need to return to the Iran nuclear agreement that President Trump tore...
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Diplomacy, Not War: Democrats Unite to Support the Iran Nuclear Deal
The first debate showed the ten Democratic candidates were divided on key domestic issue but united on Iran, now the biggest foreign policy story in the headlines. With an aborted U.S. attack, tankers in flames, a downed U.S. drone shot down, and a volley of insults between top officials in Tehran and Washington, the two...
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Sanders, Biden, and Buttigieg Lead the War and Peace Debate
On foreign policy, former Vice President Joe Biden is campaigning on his relatively dovish record in the Obama administration, essentially promising a return to normalcy of pre-Trump politics. Wishes aside, do voters think that is possible? Mayor Pete Buttigieg deploys his military experience to advocate repeal of the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military...
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Former CIA Officials Woo the 2020 Democrats
Former CIA officials are increasingly willing to inject themselves into presidential politics. Former directors Michael Morrell and John McLaughlin want to educate the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates about national security issues. The 2020 Democratic candidates face some fundamental questions about national security and intelligence issues. Only Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have spelled out their...
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