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Polling shows that only Mr. Sanders is positioned to break the threshold across all the states and in most districts. The more candidates who don’t clear 15 percent, the better the night will be for him. But the more places where multiple candidates hit that 15 percent mark, the more it will cut into Mr. […]

Last summer, Mr. Sanders dined with another group of House members to make the case that his economic message and outsider’s approach would have wide traction in the general election. “Bernie’s argument is, ‘Don’t pigeonhole me as just a progressive candidate,’” said Representative Dan Kildee of Michigan, who attended the dinner. But Mr. Sanders has

Are humans the only animals that caucus? As the early 2020 presidential election season suggests, there are probably more natural and efficient ways to make a group choice. But we’re certainly not the only animals on Earth that vote. We’re not even the only primates that primary. Any animal living in a group needs to

WASHINGTON — The United States Air Force is set to have its first black service chief, Defense Department officials said on Monday. General Charles Q. Brown Jr., known widely as C.Q., will soon be nominated as the Air Force chief of staff, officials said. If he is confirmed by the Senate, General Brown will become

Beyond the expulsions of the Journal reporters, the Chinese government has repeatedly allowed the visas of correspondents whose work is perceived as unfriendly to lapse, forcing them to leave the country. A report released Monday by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China pointed to another Wall Street Journal journalist who in the past year was

The Klobuchar campaign was constantly rescheduling events, oftentimes releasing public advisories for an event with less than 24 hours advance notice. One “get out the caucus” rally in Nevada at Rancho High School attracted less than 100 people. Days before, Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., brought more than 1,200 to the

WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Monday that it remained “very safe” for him and his Democratic opponents to hold large campaign rallies like the one he had scheduled for North Carolina later in the day even as businesses and nonprofit groups are canceling large conventions out of concern over coronavirus. Speaking with reporters at

All of the polls suggest that it is possible only two or three candidates could reach the 15 percent viability needed in any individual congressional district to earn delegates. That would make it possible for Mr. Sanders to win half the delegates in the state even if he wins only one-quarter of the total vote.

We asked several colleagues how they think about political impartiality. Kim Severson, a national food correspondent, considers the importance of applying the same rules to everyone in the newsroom: You might think it doesn’t matter if a reporter profiling a chef or testing a new recipe campaigns for a school board candidate or goes to

Ms. Taylor is vehement on the subject. “The thing I actually find really interesting,” she said in an interview, “is that the only things Michael’s opponents have come up with to disparage him with are things that happened a long time ago, and were part of the culture then, and are nothing to do with