Bernie Sanders

An attempt to think a little more clearly about the Democratic presidential primary.

It’s not his style to let someone else take his platform to victory, which makes his 2020 run all the more likely.

Why I think his odds have dropped in the last two years.

America's favorite septuagenarian socialist is back—Bernie Sanders is getting ready for another White House bid.

Bernie’s son is running for Congress with a progressive platform in a right-leaning district.

Few American liberals strike the same balance.

The federal price tag of Bernie Sanders's proposal is not surprising. But the implications are kind of insane.

Plus, when you should leave the ballpark.

He's running.

Will he ever stop running?

The president's latest moves—and Steve Bannon’s lastest comments—raise the question.

It wasn’t with shock but with relief that The Scrapbook greeted the news that a Washington tradition is coming to an end: “After nearly 15 years, The Hill is bidding a beautiful bye-bye to its annual 50 Most Beautiful list.”

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Michael Warren and deputy online editor Jim Swift join host Charlie Sykes to discuss whether or not Dr. Ronny Jackson, President Trump's pick to lead the VA stands a shot at getting confirmed by the Senate, Mick Mulvaney's views on lobbyist…

Progressive lawmakers—several of whom are eyeing 2020 presidential bids—are increasingly embracing sweeping guaranteed jobs proposals. But many of their Democratic colleagues remain hesitant to offer a full-throated endorsement of the concept.

An article published by CNS News alleged that the Bernie Sanders campaign was fined $14,500 by the Federal Election Commission for “accepting illegal in-kind contributions during [the] 2016 campaign.” Facebook users questioned the article and flagged it for third-party fact checkers.

In his first public indictment of 2018, special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday announced charges against 13 Russian nationals and three organizations for conspiring in secret to destabilize America’s political institutions.

It’s not surprising that members of Congress would have a habit of repeating a short list of talking points, given how often they face the media and how important it is for them to stay on message. But that tendency was more apparent than usual last week during a feud over a stopgap spending…

The Scrapbook stopped caring about the Grammys ages ago. Like all entertainment awards, they’re not much a measure of talent. Long ago they devolved into the self-satisfied celebration of a self-satisfied industry. And in no way is the music biz more pleased with itself than in its politics, which…

Independent Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is in the lead for the Democratic nomination according to a new ranking by the Hill. Last week, Hill reporters interviewed Democratic insiders and reported that although no candidate is clearing the field, Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden,…

“This is my truth,” says Donna Brazile, the two-time DNC chairwoman of her self-contradictory bestseller.

As the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare withered on the vine, the self-described socialist senator from Vermont rushed to fill the political vacuum. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All Act of 2017 is a single-payer proposal that shamelessly attempts to harness the popularity of…

Democratic euphoria over the party’s sweeping November 7 election triumph in Virginia lasted, undisturbed, for all of four days—until the airing of that week’s installment of Saturday Night Live jarringly altered the mood. SNL, which, in the Trump era, has seemed like the comedy auxiliary of the…

After a startling revelation from former Democratic National Committee interim chair Donna Brazile that the DNC had engineered the party’s primary election system in favor of then-candidate Hillary Clinton, President Donald Trump suggested that the primary was illegally stolen from Bernie Sanders.

President Trump said Wednesday that the GOP has "great unity" despite a series of attacks over the past week from Republicans, two of whom are retiring after 2018.

Oakland, Calif.

Oakland, Calif.

Bernie Sanders might be the most popular politician in all of America, and his constituents give him the highest approval rating in the Senate—but the Vermont social worker who just announced his intention to challenge Sanders says it’s all for show. “The electorate is ready to see who Senator…

It was two years ago Friday when Donald Trump descended an escalator inside Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for president. Did he drag the country's political conduct with him? "Any debate about civility in politics begins with Trump," New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush tweeted on Thursday.…

It wasn't exactly May vs. Corbyn, but Virginia's Democratic gubernatorial primary was a shocker in its own right. The race pitted Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam (the heir to the Clintons' heir in the Old Dominion) against former representative Tom Perriello, a super-progressive who was attempting to sell…

What I needed, said my wife, was a cup of tea.

President Donald Trump stated on Thursday that the United States would pull out of the Paris climate agreement, saying that it would not only help the economy of the United States but act as "a reassertion of America's sovereignty."

Democratic antagonism toward attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions continued Wednesday ahead of a confirmation vote, with former presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders following Elizabeth Warren's lead from the night before.

Bernie Sanders had teased supporters via email, "This is something you'll want to watch"—referring to his Wednesday night speech and book talk with columnist E.J. Dionne at George Washington University. Less predictably, Sanders tore into the Democratic National Committee with a fire he'd held back…

Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted the following:

Over at 538, Harry Enten has done some number crunching on Democratic unity following Hillary Clinton's bruising primary with Bernie Sanders and, well, it looks like she still got her work cut out for her. A recent CNN poll that was heavily touted showed Clinton nailing down the support of 91…

How did it get to this point?

Philadelphia

The day after endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, Bernie Sanders was asked a question he didn’t welcome. Did he believe Clinton could be trusted to enact a left-wing agenda if elected? Sanders ducked. "Sorry, I'm not going to get into the trusted or not." The questioner wanted him "to…

Many sorrowful conservatives observed after President Obama’s speech Wednesday night that Democrats, not Republicans, are the party trumpeting American greatness and optimism this year. To hear some tell it, John Winthrop was in the house. "American exceptionalism and greatness, shining city on…

Day one of the Democratic convention was dominated by disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters. The protested in the city; they chanted and booed inside the arena. And so even though 90 percent of Sanders voters now say they're supporting Hillary Clinton, the Sanders vanguard was still fighting.

Philadelphia

Philadelphia

The Democratic party has been plunged into turmoil over an email focusing on, of all things, whether or not Bernie Sanders believes in God. It's a remarkable turn of events, considering that Sanders has tried so hard to avoid talking about that very subject.

"Advocates for poor people and progressive causes say they still plan to make a stink—literally—during Hillary Clinton's big night accepting the Democratic presidential nomination this month.

Bernie Sanders officially ended his improbable campaign to be the Democratic party's presidential nominee Tuesday. He did so with visible reluctance, which is both understandable and odd. He came close, which makes losing even harder. But he was never much of a Democrat to begin with. He had made a…

Bernie Sanders and other prominent liberals are taking a stance against established science to warn Americans of food ominously called "Genetically Modified Organisms."

Hillary Clinton's campaign unveiled an outline of its upcoming new college affordability platform Wednesday. And it looks awfully familiar.

We're used to hearing Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren shout about college affordability, rallying hoards of debt-ridden youth with stats of bankers' bonuses compared to rising tuition costs.

The Democratic Platform Drafting Committee voted against an amendment that would have condemned Israeli "occupation and illegal settlements" and legitimized the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement Friday.

A dive into Hillary Clinton's plans to capture the youth vote in November revealed that her strategy largely revolves around stealing Bernie Sanders.

Hillary Clinton clobbered Bernie Sanders in the District of Columbia's presidential primary on Tuesday. The former secretary of state took 79 percent of the vote to Sanders's 20 percent.

Free college is still a potent rallying cry for the stalwart Bernie Sanders youth. Hope for debt-free education ought to be wilting along with Sanders' campaign—and yet, not unlike the delusional conviction of the socialist senator's young devotees, it has yet to fade.

Cornel West and James Zogby lobbied to include the term Israeli "occupation" in the official Democratic platform during a meeting of the party's platform drafting committee last week.

Bernie Sanders held a rally in Washington, D.C. on June 9. On the same day, Sanders visited the White House for a “friendly conversation" with the president, and President Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton shortly thereafter. Tuesday June 7 Sanders lost the California primary, and on Monday the…

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with deputy online editor Chris Deaton on how public figures like Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have tapped into voters in search of an authority figure.

Vermont senator Bernie Sanders reaffirmed his progressive platform and vowed to stay in the Democratic presidential primary after meeting with President Obama at the White House Thursday. But the self-proclaimed socialist signaled he may be inching towards realizing the calls from many Democrats…

Hillary and Bill Clinton will hold eight events in California Friday, days before the primary, in an attempt to thwart the threat of a Bernie Sanders victory there.

Former U.S. House representative Barney Frank responded Tuesday to Bernie Sanders's call to oust him from his role as co-chair of the Democratic party's rules committee, saying that the Vermont senator is sore about his loss to front-runner Hillary Clinton.

A new survey of California ahead of the state's June 7 primary shows Hillary Clinton with a 13-point advantage over Bernie Sanders.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Sunday that a condemnatory watchdog report concerning Hillary Clinton's use of a private server would be on the minds of superdelegates and the American people in the run-up to the Democratic convention.

The Democratic National Committee has accepted Bernie Sanders-appointed pro-Palestinian activist James Zogby to its platform drafting committee in an attempt to ease interparty tensions.

Bernie Sanders is set to take more than 50 percent of the vote combined in Oregon and Kentucky, continuing to rack up support despite Hillary Clinton's attempted pivot to the general election.

Talk about police brutality. Wendell Pierce, an actor well known to fans of HBO's The Wire as Detective Bunk Moreland, was arrested early Saturday for simple battery. Pierce, a Hillary Clinton supporter, allegedly assaulted a Bernie Sanders fan. TMZ reports:

The Democratic National Committee has selected bank board member and Clinton ally Barney Frank to co-chair the party's rules committee, a move that could aggravate Bernie Sanders' attempt to push his anti-big bank agenda at the Democratic Convention in July.

Hillary Clinton finally raised more than Bernie Sanders last night, according to press releases from their respective campaigns. According to the Clinton campaign, Hillary raised $26.4 million last month. And according to the Sanders campaign, Bernie pulled in $25.8 million.

Bernie Sanders suggested last night that he is seeking the Democratic party's vice presidential nomination. The suggestion came in a press release put out by the Democratic candidate late last night.

Following a big primary win in New York this week, Hillary Clinton laid out her rival Bernie Sanders's exit strategy for him during a Thursday interview.

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By late April 2000, Vice President Al Gore was thumping his liberal challenger Bill Bradley with 70 or 80 percent of the vote in most primary states. That same time four years later, the tent hosting Howard Dean's populist revival had been folded for two months.

In an interview on MSNBC, Bernie Sanders's campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, questioned Hillary Clinton's "unusual" fundraising practicies.

Bernie Sanders reportedly earned just over $200,000 in 2014. That same year, Hillary Clinton, Sanders's top Democratic rival, gave about 45 paid speeches, many of which paid her more in a single hour than Sanders made the entire year.

Following the lead of populist insurgent Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton emerged from her Secret Service Mystery Machine to join the picket line of telecom giant Verizon.

Bernie Sanders had a massive crowd tonight in New York City. The campaign for the 74-year-old socialist from Vermont claims 27,000 came out tonight for the event.

Bernie Sanders is leaving the country ahead of the New York primary. The Democratic presidential candidate is heading to the Vatican.

Desperately needing a win in the New York primary, Hillary Clinton is looking to exploit any vulnerability that she can find in the Bernie Sanders machine. So, she is going after him on guns. First, for voting wrong on holding manufacturers of firearms liable when their products are used in the…

Bernie Sanders’s recent interview with the New York Daily News editorial board revealed gaps in his knowledge of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that suggest, at a minimum, he isn't paying attention. Instead he is relying on old Socialist memories of the Israel he visited decades ago.

The Democratic party has had its own reckoning this year. The electoral street fight between Donald Trump and conservatives has obscured the fact that young Democrats are choosing a 74-year-old democratic socialist with few elected allies to represent their party's future. It's a development that…

After a thumping in Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton is embracing a new tactic to undermine the rise of Bernie Sanders: suggesting he is not a Democrat.

The Hillary Clinton campaign is telling supporters the nomination is not looked up. But the campaign manager, Robbie Mook, has a different message.

The Clinton campaign is telling supporters that the nomination is not locked up. And, the campaign is telling supporters, more cash donations are needed to beat Bernie Sanders.

Bernie Sanders raised $44 million in March. In February, the socialist senator from Vermont also raised an enormous sum, $43.5 million.

You'd think that Republican voters would want to crumple the primary system into wastepaper and chuck it atop a radioactive dump. On the one hand, Donald Trump has criticized the process ("unfair"), the rules ("unfair") and the size of the field ("unfair"), and his supporters have consistently…

For a candidate who has popularity issues of her own, it's perhaps a bit of surprise that #NeverHillary has not sprung up beside #NeverTrump.

Based on the delegate counts, it seems we may not feel the Bern past this summer—except in one important regard: Bernie Sanders has made socialism reputable in America. Call it the afterBern.

Ted Cruz thinks that Donald Trump embodies "New York values." Hillary Clinton isn't so sure.

The boss joined guest host Jon Karl on ABC's This Week to discuss the 2016 election. The Powerhouse Roundtable discussed both frontrunner Donald Trump and insurgent underdog Bernie Sanders after each spoke on the program.

Bernie Sanders will not join the rest of the presidential candidates and address AIPAC at next week's policy conference in Washington, D.C.

There are two candidates who have repeatedly defied expectations over this campaign season. And while less attention has been paid to Bernie Sanders than to Donald Trump, many people believe that Sanders, like Trump, has energized an authentic political movement that could reshape American politics.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is accusing Donald Trump of "literally inciting violence among his supporters." Sanders made the comment in a town hall with NBC's Chuck Todd.

Bernie Sanders will be interviewed by Jesse Jackson. Jonathan Allen reports for Sidewire's Stitch:

Right after half-heartedly condemning Castro's Cuba for being "authoritarian" and "undemocratic" at Wednesday night's debate, Bernie Sanders made a pivot that was predictable to anyone who has ever eavesdropped in a coffee shop in Sanders's adopted state of Vermont: He rhapsodized on the wonders of…

Hillary Clinton violated debate rules in last night's duel in Miami, according to the Bernie Sanders campaign.

Major newspapers typically endorse a candidate from each major party during the presidential primary. The Chicago Tribune is atypical, writing in an editorial Wednesday saying that it can't recommend either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders for the White House.

There hasn't been a Republican praised by both the NRA and a Koch Brothers organization this week. Yet Bernie Sanders has been.

Robby Mook says Hillary Clinton shouldn't worry so much about losing some big states. After all, Clinton would still pull in more delegates--even by losing.

Bernie Sanders outperformed the wildly wrong polls in Michigan in a ludicrous upset of Hillary Clinton in Michigan's Democratic primary.

There has been a lot of discussion about media bias this election, particularly in regard to the media's non-stop coverage of Donald Trump. But it looks like the media has another bias.

The National Rifle Association praised socialist senator Bernie Sanders Monday morning.

Bernie Sanders bristled at a question during Sunday night's Democratic debate about government's ability to address the Flint water crisis.

Bernie Sanders raised an astonishing amount of money in the month of February, the Democratic presidential candidate announced last night.

President Bill Clinton's former labor secretary, Robert Reich, is endorsing Bernie Sanders.

South Carolina is not feeling the Bern. Currently, there's a minuscule crowd for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

Young voters love Bernie Sanders. According to entrance and exit polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders beat Hillary Clinton among voters under 30 by nearly six-to-one.

At tonight's CNN townhall in South Carolina, Hillary Clinton said she'd release the transcripts to her Wall Street speeches when "everybody does it."

Spike Lee has endorsed Bernie Sanders for president. The Lee endorsment comes in the form of a radio ad, saying that "When he gets into the White House, he will do the right thing."

It is getting nasty on the Democratic side. This evening, a Hillary Clinton spokesman accussed the Bernie Sanders campaign of spreading "bullshit."

Socialism is now "mainstream," according to the vice president of the United States. Joe Biden made the comments in an interview with Politico:

In an unusual move at last night's Democratic town hall, Bernie Sanders was asked a question by a Hillary Clinton campaign volunteer. The question was about veterans issues and was read off a piece of paper.

Bernie Sanders got a pretty sizable crowd last night at Morehouse College, an historically black college in Atlanta.

It's exactly what you might have expected. Larry Sanders, the brother of one of the top Democratic party contenders, is a health care spokesman for the British Green Party.

Hillary Clinton has found a new attack dog. Speaking at a Cleveland event, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton unloaded on her mother's sole Democratic rival.

Most conservatives believe Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have wrong solutions to the stagnation in wages and job creation that has marked the American economy since 2000. But Trump and Sanders have proven better vote-getters than conservative candidates because, politically speaking, having wrong…

Hillary Clinton’s loss to Bernie Sanders in the New Hampshire primary wasn't as bad as she'd feared. It was worse. Sanders's margin of victory — 60 percent to 39 percent — was the largest ever by a Democrat who wasn't a sitting president. It was a come-from-behind win: Eight months ago, Sanders was…

Even though Bernie Sanders has long caucused with the Democrats in the Senate, he was always officially an independent in a nod to his avowedly socialist beliefs.

The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates said in an interview with Democracy Now! that he would vote for Bernie Sanders in this year's Democratic primary. Coates is a favorite writer of President Barack Obama.

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with editor William Kristol on the results of the New Hampshire primary.

The Associated Press is projecting Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders the winners in today's New Hampshire primary.

Portsmouth, N.H.

Actor Danny Glover is throwing his support behind Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

It was 11:30 p.m. on the night of the Iowa caucuses and Hillary Clinton had a decision to make. She was ahead of Bernie Sanders by less than 1 percent of the vote count and most of the precincts were in. But her lead was shrinking. If she waited much longer, her victory speech might turn into a…

So now that the Democratic party is well and truly feeling the Bern, how should those of us who identify not as democratic socialists nor oligarchs nor oligarch-enablers feel about those lighter-shade-of-Mao “Bernie 2016" yard signs reddening up the landscape?

Iowa's largest newspaper roasted the state's Democrats Thursday for how they handled this year's caucus.

It seems that voters have been disenchanted ever since they had the opportunity to elect Barack Obama president. In 2008, the country was war-weary, terrified of its financial state, and eager to change its polarizing politics. In 2010, it was worried about its solvency, agitated by a law of…

Bernie Sanders is now calling Hillary Clinton's email scandal "a very serious issue."

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with editor William Kristol on what we can expect from tomorrow's Iowa caucuses: surprises.

Writing at the Washington Free Beacon, contributing editor Matthew Continetti squares recent columns by Charles Krauthammer and David Brooks.

The Scrapbook has been secretly rooting for Bernie Sanders for a while now, because, well, he’s not Hillary Clinton. However, we are not without serious reservations about his candidacy. Many of his policy proposals reveal the rich fantasy life of the left, and not even the New York Times can…

An ambitious liberal Democrat — some even call him a socialist — is knocking Hillary Clinton for her past support of the Iraq War. His name is not Barack Obama, and the year is not 2008. It's Bernie Sanders, it's 2016, and the presidential campaign's only contender to have voted for the use of…

Bernie Sanders is subtly bringing up Dick Cheney and George W. Bush in his latest ad. The ad is an anti-Iraq spot, highlighting his opposition to the war from the get go.

In the New York Times, Margot Sanger-Katz kicks the tires on Bernie Sanders’s just released health care plan and the details, or rather the lackthereof, are not encouraging:

One thought on last night's Democratic debate. It seems clear Hillary Clinton has decided to wrap herself in the mantle of President Obama, and in effect run for Obama's third term.

According to MSNBC and Google, voters have lots of questions about Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Hillary Clinton will appear on every Sunday show this week. Except for Fox News Sunday, hosted by Chris Wallace.

Earlier this week on the campaign trail, Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, attacked Bernie Sanders. It turns out, a Clinton spokesman told the press, the Chelsea Clinton attack was not a planned event.

David Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Obama, criticized Hillary Clinton's campaign for using Chelsea Clinton to attack her Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders, on healthcare.

The Hillary Clinton campaign has benefited greatly from the perception that her nomination is inevitable. The DNC has done its best to favor her, with a debate schedule that leaves few opportunities for insurgent candidacies to be heard, to say nothing of how they have even unfairly punished the…

Jeff Weaver, the campaign manager for Bernie Sanders's presidential run, made the case this evening that Sanders is the most electable Democrat in the race.

Manchester, N.H. -- Crossing from Vermont into New Hampshire, you get a feel for what is driving the improbable Bernie Sanders campaign. The two states are separated by the Connecticut River valley, where the American industrial revolution could be said to have begun. The river supplied power for…

Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren had some praise this morning for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

Des Moines

Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, running for President as a Democrat, released a few new web ads this afternoon.

He may be the Democrats' second choice in the polls, but Bernie Sanders has topped Hillary Clinton as the people's choice in Time magazine's annual Person of the Year vote.

Or, the choice of Time Magazine readers anyway. Seems that Bernie Sanders, who at this time last year was a marginal figure in American politics, "has topped Hillary Clinton as the people's choice in Time magazine's annual Person of the Year vote."

As reported by The Hill, Bernie Sanders is:

Bernie Sanders gave a big speech at Georgetown University today and used the opportunity to make clear a few things:

Bernie Sanders believes a recent comment from Hillary Clinton is both "silly" and "absurd." Sanders responded to Clinton's comment, which was made in the weekend debate, in an interview today with Katie Couric:

It wasn’t much of a debate.  This might have been because of the scheduling.  Everybody ought to have something better to do on Saturday night than argue over the correct level of the minimum wage.  Also, the atrocity in Paris hung over the proceedings, making the words of the candidates seem even…

The day after the terror attacks in Paris, Hillary Clinton refused to use the term "radical Islam." Clinton's refusal came tonight at a Democratic presidential primary debate in Des Moines, Iowa: 

Bernie Sanders says the reason Hillary Clinton has so many endorsments is because she's the "candidate of the establishment."

Every Democrat in the 2016 field has complained about ridesharing services like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar. But their campaigns pay for plenty of Uber rides. 

Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley is not just going after Hillary Clinton. He's also turning his fire on Bernie Sanders, the self-described socialist. 

It has been a tough few weeks for Bernie Sanders.  Before the debate, his numbers were soaring, his crowds were growing, and there was a palpable and almost arrogant sense of confidence among his supporters and inside his organization where they talked magnanimously about considering Hillary…

Bernie Sanders, who has bemoaned America's vast deodorant selection, is now being featured on a patterned shirt. The Des Moines Register reports that the clothing shop Raygun has begun selling this shirt, covered entirely covered by Bernie Sanders's face:

Bernie Sanders is no longer "sick and tired" of Hillary Clinton's "damn emails."

Hillary Clinton dodged a question about whether she accused her Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders, of sexism in comments earlier this week.

According to the conventional, Beltway wisdom, Bernie Sanders let Hillary Clinton off the hook when he declined to attack on the matter of her e-mails in the recent debate among Democratic contenders. Perhaps.  But one wonders how many friends that would have made him among his party’s core voters…

In a speech tonight in Des Moines, Bernie Sanders will hit Hillary Clinton for rewriting history on gay rights, according to the remarks as prepared for delivery.

In an interview with CNN, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton insisted that she's not so different than her main rival, socialist Bernie Sanders:

Bernie Sanders has never met a corrupt, inefficient, obsolete government agency or initiative he didn’t like.  The only thing he finds objectionable is that they aren’t being given enough taxpayer money.  Earlier in the week, during the Las Vegas debate, he bragged on his efforts to get the…

Even if it were true that the “American people are sick and tired of hearing about [Hillary Clinton’s] emails,” as Vermont senator Bernie Sanders asserted on Tuesday (there is not a scintilla of evidence that that is the case, by the way), that’s an utterly irrelevant standard to apply when judging…

So Bernie Sanders, who wants to make college education "free," just tweeted out the following:

On Wednesday, Ellen DeGeneres tweeted, "Presidential candidate @BernieSanders​ is ready for his entrance onto my show."

A former top aide to President Barack Obama likened Bernie Sanders's debate performance -- and the way it was received by pundits -- to Obama's first presidential run in 2007. Dan Pfeiffer made the comment on Twitter. 

A focus group after last night's Democratic debate found that Bernie Sanders won the debate. The focus group was conducted by Frank Luntz. It aired on Fox News after the debate:

Hillary Clinton looked competent, tough, and in control during Tuesday’s low-key Democratic debate in Las Vegas. Clinton excelled amid a field of hapless has-beens, would-be revolutionaries, and ideological outliers by delivering a solid performance and looking like the adult in the room. The…

Going into tonight, the conventional wisdom was that Bernie Sanders would try to genially introduce himself, the candidates would mostly stay in their own lanes, and that Hillary was a bleeding target. Not so much.

Senator Sanders had been on a roll—until tonight. He had been playing a tent revival preacher in which he got himself, and his audiences of the faithful, worked up about the evil that has kept them in chains and from which he intends to free them before going on to use those same chains to whip up…

In tonight's CNN debate, Hillary Clinton described her Wall Street reform proposals as "tougher" than her opponents.

During Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate, Bernie Sanders resuced Hillary Clinton. "The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails," Sanders said, standing up for Clinton.

A new poll of the Democratic presidential primary shows frontrunner Hillary Clinton remaining under 50 percent support against Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and Vice President Joe Biden. The Fox News poll, which was released the day of the first Democratic debate, shows Clinton with 45 percent…

I've been saying for the last few weeks that Hillary Clinton's campaign is in a window of danger. Tonight might be the moment of maximal peril.

Bernie Sanders has been noted, above all, for his consistency. He doesn’t change his mind.  Ever.  Except, maybe, a little bit on gun control.  And this inflexibility is considered a virtue among politicians.  Especially in this season, given his opposition. 

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders slagged his chief rival, Hillary Clinton, for being inconsistent in an interview this morning on NBC News’ Meet the Press. 

Anticipating the big presidential debate on CNN, candidate Bernie Sanders is doing … well, not much of anything, to get ready.  Sanders, as Gabriel Debenedetti of Politico writes:

It has become common to liken Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders. They’re both “outsiders” who have seemingly bucked the system and have struck a nerve with the base of their respective parties. For Sanders, a self-described social democrat from the most liberal state in the union, his anti-Wall…

Following last week's tragic shooting in Oregon, Hillary Clinton is making big promises on gun control. She's even gone so far as to promise "executive action" to restrict gun sales, even though such measures would be constitutionally questionable. Even President Obama, who has not exactly been shy…

Only a few months ago, Hillary Clinton's campaign was highlighting how frugal their operation is. That's already changed. 

Impossible to imagine anyone predicting this six months ago, but as Matea Gold and John Wagner of the Washington Post report

We're two weeks from the first Democratic debate and to be honest with you, I can't tell right now if we are underestimating Hillary Clinton's weakness, or her strength.

Readers of The Scrapbook may have noticed that a “controversial” American political figure gave a much-publicized speech on a well-known college campus last week. And that while his views were not likely to find favor at that particular institution—indeed, are regarded as anathema by faculty and…

While there have been extensive comparisons of Bernie Sanders to Larry David—and there are undeniable similarities—some are now comparing the Jewish senator and presidential candidate to Pope Francis. 

Vice President Joe Biden has made significant gains in the national Democratic primary polls in recent weeks, with a new Bloomberg poll showing a quarter of registered Democratic primary voters supportin him, his best numbers yet.

The chairwoman of the Democratic party attributed the popularity of both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump as evidence that Americans are fed up with their current government. 

More Iowa Democrats say they support Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in a new Quinnipiac poll of likely caucusgoers. According to the poll, 41 percent say they support Sanders, the Vermont senator, with 40 percent supporting Clinton, the former secretary of state and New York senator. In…

Bill Clinton, the husband of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, will “reemerge,” as CNN puts it, next week on behalf of his wife’s presidential campaign. The former president will headline a fundraiser in Chicago on September 17, the first of what the campaign says will be several events where…

A new national poll of Democrats and Democrat leaners finds Hillary Clinton with 42 percent support in her party's presidential primary, down 10 points from a month ago and facing significant opposition from other candidates. The Monmouth University poll found Clinton, the former secretary of…

Joe Biden had praise for Bernie Sanders, but had nothing for Hillary Clinton. Biden, of course, is considering challenging Sanders and Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Whatever the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, the summer of 2015 will be remembered as the summer of Trump and Sanders. The other candidates, especially the Republicans, could learn a lesson from the two renegades, who have figured out how to capitalize on the fact that America is in a…

Let's check in with the big 2016 news from last week: Jim Gilmore? He gone. From the CNN debate, that is. I expect he'll be formally gone from the race soon and whoever manages to scoop up his support will be in the driver's seat to Cleveland.

The most frequent words that come to mind when Americans think about Hillary Clinton are "liar" and "dishonest." That's according to a new national poll from Quinnipiac that asked more than 1500 registered voters to say the "first word" that comes to mind when they hear the Democratic presidential…

Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton in a new poll of "usual" New Hampshire Democratic primary voters. According to Public Policy polling, a Democratic firm, Sanders has 42 percent support to Clinton's 35 percent support.

As Megan R. Wilson of The Hill writes

Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has doubled his support in the Democratic presidential primary since June while frontrunner Hillary Clinton has seen her support among primary voters nationally drop by more than 20 points in that same time. That's according to a new poll from Fox News that shows…

There's a saying in politics, "when you're explaining, you're losing." It's applied a few ways, but it generally means that in situations in which politicians have to explain away a scandal or gaffe, as they're explaining, their supporters become somewhat dismayed or begin to question the…

Dispatches from the front tell of Bernie Sanders surging into the lead in the New Hampshire polls. From the time he began what was then viewed as a quixotic campaign for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination, Sanders’s chances have been laughed off and his successes explained away. He is,…

THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with editor William Kristol on why Bernie Sanders, not Donald Trump, is more important in the 2016 cycle.

Hillary Clinton still leads the Democratic field in Iowa, but according to a new Public Policy Polling survey of "usual Democratic voters" in the Hawkeye state independent Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is making gains there.

Hillary Clinton is a reflection. Whatever the left wing of the Democratic party embraces, she reflects. Not in toto, however. That would locate her too far to the left and jeopardize her quest for the presidency. She’s a partial reflection.

Last night in Seattle, Washington, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke to a crowd of 15,000 strong. Sanders spoke about income inequality. 

Earlier today, a Twitter user with the handle @Ladysandersfarm questioned the Democratic National Committee chair's decision to limit the number of debates to six.