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Instead, there was a sequence of external circumstances that thwarted Mr. Biden’s rivals and revived his campaign. There was the vote-counting fiasco in Iowa that denied Pete Buttigieg a moment of exultant triumph in primetime, leaving the former mayor without the sudden influx of cash and media attention that might have propelled him to victory […]

Pete Buttigieg lost his primary bid on Sunday night when he dropped out of the Democratic presidential race, yet there’s little question that the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., won his personal campaign to become a national political figure. Mr. Buttigieg had tried before to become a power broker in national politics. His early

Good morning and welcome to On Politics, a daily political analysis of the 2020 elections based on reporting by New York Times journalists. Joe Biden’s thumping win in the South Carolina primary on Saturday didn’t just throw him back into the race on the eve of Super Tuesday. It was also enough to knock two

Criminal justice has become a rare point of bipartisan consensus in recent years, leading to the passage in 2018 of the First Step Act, which expanded early-release programs, increased job training and changed mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offenses. And that bill, a breakthrough at the time, has now become a floor. The First Step

SAN FRANCISCO — The Silicon Valley venture capitalist Keith Rabois, onstage in January at a tech conference, said his first choice for president was a Democrat, Pete Buttigieg. And, sure, it would be a close call for Joseph R. Biden Jr. over President Trump. But Bernie Sanders? At that, Mr. Rabois, who has been a

WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled on Sunday that Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II was unlawfully appointed to lead United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and that two policies he put in place that limited asylum seekers’ access to counsel should be nullified. The judge, Randolph D. Moss of United States District Court in Washington, said

“Milken and I are good friends now, and I believe Milken is an excellent candidate for a pardon,” Mr. Giuliani told the Fox News host Sean Hannity on Nov. 10, 2016, less than 48 hours after Mr. Trump’s electoral triumph. “Wow,” Mr. Hannity said. The endorsement was notable in part because Mr. Giuliani, as the

The Democratic presidential campaign took a dramatic turn on Sunday as a top candidate, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg, quit the race and started clearing the way for moderate voters to coalesce around candidates better positioned to stop Senator Bernie Sanders, the liberal front-runner for the party’s nomination. Mr. Buttigieg made his decision after a devastating

As president, he said, “You have to have somebody that the public thinks, ‘Whether I like the guy or the woman or not, he is smart, well meaning and knows how to manage the process.’” As for the subject of his wealth, he said, “it’s tricky,” adding: “People in America fundamentally don’t want to take

SELMA, Ala. — Pete Buttigieg, the former small-city Indiana mayor and first openly gay major presidential candidate, has decided to quit the Democratic race, a person briefed on Mr. Buttigieg’s plans said on Sunday, following a crushing loss in the South Carolina primary where his poor performance with black Democrats signaled an inability to build