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Mr. Moore, 68, said he was worried that several of the other candidates were too old to be president, and that was one of the reasons he chose Mr. Steyer, 62, a former hedge fund manager. “He just seems to have an energy about him that comes across,” Mr. Moore said. Also leaving the polling […]

It’s Primary Day (again)! As voters in South Carolina cast their ballots, let’s catch you up on what happened this week and get you ready for Super Tuesday. South Carolina and Super Tuesday We here on The Times’s politics team ran daily reports on the newest developments in the Democratic presidential race on Wednesday, Thursday

The topic is inequality, raging against the rich. Progressives who are more concerned with racial equality or gender parity have had to figure out how to either go against the Dirtbag movement or resign themselves to this singular focus, which occasionally runs roughshod over all the rest. “I’m a news junkie, and it’s good to

The first few contests in the Democratic presidential primary race have been fought in states that are small and somewhat quirky economically. There aren’t many states where voters care as much about ethanol subsidies as they do in Iowa, or where culinary unions wield as much power as in Nevada. All of that will change

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — In 2008 and 2016, black voters in South Carolina’s presidential primary set the last two Democratic nominees on their way, backing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton by huge margins. Rival candidates never managed to catch up in the race for delegates to clinch the nomination. On Saturday, black Democrats are set

“He only had one photograph on the wall. It was a photograph of Rev. Pinckney and Joe Biden,” Mr. Riley recalled. “I didn’t say anything, didn’t have to say anything. He understood why I brought him down there.” Mr. Riley suggested that the inauspicious start to the primary season had only further endeared Mr. Biden

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — Hobbled by lackluster debate performances and with time running short, Michael R. Bloomberg is trying to refocus his presidential campaign on his experience dealing with disasters as the mayor of New York, hoping to draw a stark contrast with President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus and the managerial records of some of

“I thought I knew all the wealthy people,” he said of Mr. Steyer, whom he mocked as “Mr. Impeachment.” He then teased Mr. Biden for mixing up the names of states he has visited. “He did that like seven times,” Mr. Trump said. “If I did that once, it would be the end of the

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that Congress could not sue to enforce its subpoenas of executive branch officials, handing a major victory to President Trump and dealing a severe blow to the power of Congress to conduct oversight. In a ruling that could have far-reaching consequences for executive branch secrecy powers

Many times in many countries, political leaders have tried to censor health officials and play down the risks of infection just as epidemics approached. This strategy has almost never worked, historians and former health officials said. And ultimately, if there are more deaths than leaders blithely predict, it destroys the reputations of the leaders themselves.