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Mr. Vassiliadis said that dynamic had contributed to opening the door, among moderate voters, to former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., who has been aggressively ramping up his presence in Nevada, as well as Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who surprised with a third-place finish in New Hampshire. Mr. Biden’s allies have played […]

Good morning and welcome to On Politics, a daily political analysis of the 2020 elections based on reporting by New York Times journalists. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. Where things stand in the race With momentum comes resistance: It’s a lesson Michael Bloomberg is learning the hard way

HOUSTON — It hadn’t even been a full day since a 12-year-old video surfaced of Michael R. Bloomberg showing him linking the 2008 financial crisis to the end of redlining, a practice that allowed banks to declare low-income, mostly minority neighborhoods off-limits for loans. But as the criticism swelled over his record on race and

Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, has repeated an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that has spread from small-town China to the right-wing news media in the United States: The new coronavirus originated in a high-security biochemical lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the outbreak’s center. In a television interview on Fox News on Sunday, Mr.

Harriet Tubman was to be commemorated by appearing on the $20 bill in a design that would have been unveiled this year, but the treasury secretary said in May that plans for the bill would be delayed until after President Trump left office. Enter OneUnited Bank, which this month revealed it was honoring the abolitionist

But his general reference to “all campaigns” only further angered some of the union leaders, who, like many of the rank-and-file members, are women of color. Ms. Argüello-Kline said that she wished Mr. Sanders would have spoken out sooner to help quell the threats. “He understands the world we live in, where there can be

“There is no doubt in my mind that the dedication of resources from Congress during multiple administrations is at the top of the list in terms of what has been impactful,” said Dr. Keith Harris, who oversees homelessness issues for the Department of Veterans Affairs. “Our budget for this is the highest it has ever

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — President Trump put his showmanship skills on full display on Sunday at the Daytona International Speedway, leading the famous stock car drivers in a lap around the 2.5-mile racetrack. A sold-out crowd of 101,500 people cheered his appearance in a state he must win this year to secure re-election. Serving as

LAS VEGAS — Nevada has a message for Iowa and New Hampshire: We don’t care how you think you narrowed the Democratic field. We will do our own thing. This state, which will hold its caucuses on Saturday and is more diverse than either of the two that have held presidential nominating contests so far,

Mr. Barr is scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on March 31. And Mr. Bolton’s book, which is scheduled to go on sale on March 17, could yield additional revelations about the president’s behavior with respect to Ukraine and revive calls for Mr. Bolton to testify. At the same time, cases related to