Tag: Massachusetts

The Story: The two candidates to be the next mayor of Boston have held three televised debates:  the second of these was especially contentious, and...

The Story: Treatment of Covid-19 often requires the use of a blood thinner, because clotting is a common symptom. But according to a new analysis...

The Story: Eric Ruby, a pediatrician practicing in Taunton, Massachusetts -- a town about 40 miles south of Boston -- is one of the few...

The Story: The Democratic Party held three much-watched and hotly contested primaries in the state of Massachusetts Tuesday. Richard Neal (of the 1st district, much...

The Story: Senator Ed Markey (D - MA) has fallen behind Joe Kennedy III is the latest poll of opinion heading into a primary for...

The Story: Joseph Kennedy III, the grandson of Sen. Robert Kennedy and the grandnephew of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, announced recently that he is a...

The Story: Bill De Blasio, the 109th Mayor of New York City, announced last week that he is running for President of the United States,...

Watch former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, who has announced he will primary President Trump for the 2020 Republican nomination, join Stephanie Ruhle to discuss his run and if more republicans have reached out to him in the wake of the…

(CNN)President Donald Trump might be in jail by the time Election Day comes around, Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said on her first full day of campaigning as a declared presidential candidate. "In fact, he may not even be a free person." It's no longer just the Mueller investigation," Warren said. Earlier in the day, the Massachusetts Democrat had lamented in Cedar Rapids that the country is in a "dangerous moment," and that, "what happens in 2020 is going to determine the direction of our nation, the direction of our people." "Every day, there's a racist tweet, a hateful tweet, something really dark and ugly," Warren said of Trump. "And what are we, as candidates, as activists, the press, going to do about it? Yeah. Donald Trump is the symptom of a badly broken system," Warren said. "So, our job as we start rolling into the next election is not just to respond on a daily basis. A Warren campaign official told CNN that the presidential candidate does not plan to engage in every single tweet or attack from Trump as the 2020 season ramps up.

But the audience of nearly 1,000 people was engrossed as Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat and presidential hopeful, did what she does best: “nerd out,” as she puts it. While other Democrats have focused on sweeping themes of unity or change, as Senator Kamala Harris of California did on Sunday at a campaign kickoff rally, Ms. Warren is making a personal and political wager that audiences care more about policy savvy than captivating oration. “But voters — especially voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and other states that have the ability to get to know these candidates well — they want to hear real solutions, and that means a certain level of detail and not just platitudes.” On one level Ms. Warren is running as herself: a former Harvard law professor who likes getting into the weeds of policy. “Policy details in politics works the same way. “Do I have any net metering wonks out here? Thank you for sponsoring the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2018,” Mr. Goetz said. “Yes, it’s a nerd thing,” Ms. Warren responded, drawing laughter from the crowd. “It’s absolutely a nerd thing.” By playing up her instincts as a wonk, Ms. Warren is trying to define herself and her candidacy on her own terms before Democratic rivals try to cast her in a more unflattering light. Past presidential candidates in both parties have grappled with this. “Elizabeth Warren is trying to position herself as the ideas candidate of the field, and thus far, in the early going, she’s winning that,” Mr. Shakir said.