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2020: Biden Refers to Julian Castro as ‘Julio’

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday referred to 2020 competitor Julian Castro as “Julio” while addressing the National Education Association’s presidential forum in Texas.

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***Live Updates*** Dems Debate Again in Miami

Ten more Democrats will debate in Miami on Thursday. Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang, Pete Buttigieg, Michael Bennet, Kirsten Gillibrand, Eric Swalwell, John Hickenlooper, and Marianne Williamson will take the stage tonight. Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates throughout the evening.

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***Live Updates*** 2020: Dems Debate in Miami

The 2020 debate season kicks off on Wednesday evening in Miami, Florida, as ten Democrats will take the stage with many needing the debates to stay relevant. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), former Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D-TX), former San Antonio Mayor and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Washington Governor Jay Inslee, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, and former Rep. John Delaney (D-MD) will be on the stage. Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates throughout the evening

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***Live Updates*** Trump Launches 2020 Re-Election Campaign

President Donald Trump will launch his 2020 re-election campaign on Tuesday evening in Orlando, Florida. Crowds have been waiting for 40 hours to get into the 25,000 capacity Amway Center, and movie screens will be outside for the overflow crowd.

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Kamala Backer: Clyburn ‘Tacitly Endorsing Joe Biden’

A top supporter of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) in South Carolina on Monday accused influential House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) of putting his thumb on the scale for former Vice President Joe Biden.

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Clyburn Defends Biden, Claims Black Dems Not Divided over Crime Bill

Ahead of a Sunday South Carolina poll that found former Vice President Joe Biden leading in the Palmetto State, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) claimed on Friday that black Democrats are not divided over former Vice President Joe Biden’s authorship of the 1994 crime bill.

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House to Hold Hearing on Slavery Reparations

A House Judiciary subcommittee will hold hearings on reparations next Wednesday, marking the first time in more than a decade that the House will discuss potentially compensating the descendants of slaves.

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Mayor Pete: Ban Voter ID Laws

Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (D) on Tuesday called for voter ID laws to be banned as part of his plan to “safeguard democracy” for black Americans.

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Bernie: Trump Favors ‘Socialism for the Very Rich’

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday accused President Donald Trump of favoring “socialism for the very rich” ahead of his address in which he said his version of “democratic socialism” is one in which “economic rights are human rights.”

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‘Case for Reparations’ Author Praises Warren: ‘I Think She Means It’

Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of “The Case for Reparations,” praised Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the New Yorker on Monday as a 2020 Democrat who is not just giving “lip service on reparations,” revealing that Warren had asked him about five years ago to have a conversation with her about his reparations piece.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at the RV/MH Hall

Abrams: ‘You Don’t Have the Right to Vote’ in Georgia

Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said on Thursday evening that the “right to vote” does not exist in Georgia, where she claimed people have “the opportunity to possibly think about maybe being able to participate in the right to vote.”

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Andrew Yang Attacks Bernie for ‘Backward-Looking’ Policies, ‘Advanced Age’

Entrepreneur and 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang (D) is calling out Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for “backward-looking” solutions that are trying to “resuscitate” last century’s economy while raising concerns about Sanders’—and former Vice President Joe Biden’s—“advanced age.”

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Hickenlooper Doubles Down: Younger Dems Don’t Understand Socialism’s ‘Baggage’

Former Governor John Hickenlooper continued to double down on his anti-socialism warning for Democrats even after left-wing activists this weekend at California’s Democratic convention jeered him for saying President Donald Trump will win the White House in 2020 if Republicans can easily define Democrats as socialists.

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Hickenlooper: Trump Will Win if Dems Embrace Socialism

Former Colorado Governor and 2020 presidential candidate John Hickenlooper on Wednesday evening told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that President Donald Trump will win back the White House in 2020 if the party does not distance itself from socialism.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper participates in a discussion as part of the Brookings Inst