2020 presidential election

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kanye West‘s unlikely White House bid is getting help qualifying for presidential ballots in key states from Republicans around the country, fueling suspicions he’s being pushed to run by allies of President Donald Trump hoping to siphon support away from Joe Biden. The rapper qualified for Colorado’s presidential ballot on Thursday, after […]

Democrats seem to be trolling voters ahead of the 2020 presidential election with talks of reparations for Black Americans and student loan forgiveness. There are a number of celebrities who have spoken out in favor of reparations, but when TMZ caught up with former NBA star Charles Barkley, he wasn’t sure a bill — specifically H.R. 40 — which calls for […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — It’s been part of South Carolina politics for nearly three decades, but House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn’s “World Famous Fish Fry” is a little different this year, becoming a showpiece Democratic event in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. At Clyburn’s invitation, 22 Democrats seeking their party’s presidential nomination will […]

There are currently 18 Democrats running for president and one of those people is the mayor of Miramar Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam. Many people believe that Miramar is a small town but Messam says it’s actually Florida’s 13th largest city. He tells Roland Martin on the TJMS that his mission is to give Americans, “a […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris says there should be a federal moratorium on executions. The senator from California discussed the matter on National Public Radio on Thursday, a day after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California granted reprieves to 737 death row inmates and signed an executive order placing a moratorium on […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — California Sen. Kamala Harris is announcing the backing of Iowa Democrat Deidre DeJear as she travels to the early 2020 caucus state Monday. DeJear was Iowa’s first African American to win a primary for statewide office last year, but lost in her attempt to unseat Iowa’s Republican secretary of state. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s political leaders need to work together and help unite the nation, Vice President said Thursday as the impasse between the White House and Congress stretched the partial government shutdown into a record 34th day. “It’s like we’ve divided the country into pieces,” the potential 2020 Democratic presidential contender told a gathering […]

I had a chance to meet so many of our listeners yesterday in San Antonio and always love seeing you all face to face. Listen, I was absolutely blown away by the King Day March there in San Antonio. Over 300,000 showed up and it was literally the largest King Day March in the nation. […]

This morning I wanted to take a few minutes to weigh in on the 2020 presidential elections. Now I know it’s January of 2019, and the elections are not until November of 2020, so it seems like we are a long way away, but the Democratic debates begin in just 6 months. That’s nothing. I […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — As she nears a decision on whether to seek the presidency, Sen. Kamala Harris is taking on what could be a hurdle in a Democratic primary: her past as a prosecutor. In her memoir published Tuesday, the California Democrat describes herself as a “progressive prosecutor” and says it’s a “false choice” to […]

In a new profile of Gayle King for the New York Times, the “CBS This Morning” co-host and her BFF Oprah Winfrey opened up to reporter Amy Chozick about how their close bond developed. Oprah and Gayle met in their early 20s when they were both working for a TV station in Baltimore. It’s known that Oprah let Gayle crash at her […]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — If the deep field of potential Democratic presidential contenders is on pins and needles as Beto O’Rourke decides his next move, it could be a long wait. The outgoing Texas congressman’s team says he has no timeline or roadmap for deciding if he’d like to parlay a surprisingly close loss to […]