Tag: 2020 presidential coverage

  • Sanders wins Nevada caucuses

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucuses on Saturday afternoon, marking his third straight popular vote victory in the Democratic presidential primary. With 4% of precincts reporting, he had won 54% of the county convention delegates used to determine the number of pledged delegates allocated to each candidate. Former Vice President Joe Biden followed with…

  • Bloomberg leads in weekly pageviews for the first time; lifetime Democratic leader Yang ends campaign

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    Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers reflect the time investments of our community of thousands of readers who visit a Ballotpedia because they think the candidate is worth knowing more about, whether they believe the candidate has a strong chance of winning or is…

  • Five Democratic candidates will debate in Las Vegas on Wednesday

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    The Democratic Party will hold its ninth presidential primary debate on Feb. 19 in Las Vegas, Nevada, three days before the state’s presidential caucuses take place. Five candidates have already qualified for the debate: former Vice President Joe Biden, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. All five received…

  • Michael Bennet (D) ends presidential campaign

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    On Tuesday night, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) announced he was ending his presidential campaign. Based on results with 47% of precincts reporting, Bennet received 0.3% of the vote in the New Hampshire Democratic primary. Bennet finished in 10th place in the Iowa caucuses with 4 final votes. He participated in two of the eight…

  • Sanders, Trump win New Hampshire presidential primaries

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    U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) won the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday night. With 93% of precincts reporting, Sanders led former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg by 1.6%. Both are projected to win 9 pledged delegates. Sanders also won the New Hampshire primary in 2016. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) was the only…

  • Andrew Yang (D) suspends presidential campaign

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    Shortly after polls closed in the New Hampshire presidential primary on Feb. 11, Andrew Yang (D) announced he was ending his presidential campaign. Yang said, “I’m a numbers guy and if we are below a threshold where we are going to get delegates here in New Hampshire, if we are unlikely to hit that threshold…

  • New Hampshire holds first-in-the-nation presidential primary on Tuesday

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    Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is the Democratic delegate scoreboard leader, earning a projected 14 pledged delegates out of Iowa. Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), the popular vote winner in Iowa, follows with 12 pledged delegates. The Sanders campaign requested the Iowa Democratic Party complete a partial recanvass of the results in 25 precincts and…

  • Buttigieg becomes third Dem candidate to get 9k pageviews in a single week; Walsh accumulated 101k pageviews by end of his campaign

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    Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers reflect the time investments of our community of thousands of readers who visit a Ballotpedia because they think the candidate is worth knowing more about, whether they believe the candidate has a strong chance of winning or is…

  • Federal Register weekly update; no significant final rules published

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    The Federal Register is a daily journal of federal government activity that includes presidential documents, proposed and final rules, and public notices. It is a common measure of an administration’s regulatory activity. From February 3 to February 7, the Federal Register grew by 1,288 pages for a year-to-date total of 7,190 pages. Over the same…

  • Seven Democrats will debate in New Hampshire four days before first presidential primary

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    The Democratic Party will hold its eighth presidential primary debate in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Feb. 7. Seven candidates qualified for the debate: former Vice President Joe Biden, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. Bernie Sanders, investor Tom Steyer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and businessman Andrew Yang. Yang was the only candidate to qualify…