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VIDEO: Record-Breaking Turnout For Youth Voting Early

VIDEO: Record-Breaking Turnout For Youth Voting Early

by Amanda Rooker | Nov 3, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured, Topics

WASHINGTON — Voting for the 2020 election has been underway for weeks. Roughly 100 million ballots have already been cast, including nearly 10 million ballots from young people ages 18-29. This change in voter behavior comes from a demographic that is traditionally...
Field Organizing and Voter Mobilization from Home

Field Organizing and Voter Mobilization from Home

by Amanda Rooker | Oct 31, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured, Topics

WASHINGTON — With the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the country in the closing months of the presidential campaign, Democratic campaign workers have been forced off the trail and into their living rooms where they’ve cold called hundreds of people a day —...
VIDEO: Surge in Early Voting Indicates Record-Breaking Turnout

VIDEO: Surge in Early Voting Indicates Record-Breaking Turnout

by Amanda Rooker | Oct 31, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured, Topics

ROCKVILLE, MD — With three days left until Election Day, roughly 90 million people have cast their ballots early, more than 50% of overall turnout in the 2016 election. Long lines at early voting sites, huge increases of mail-in ballots, and polls showing sky-high...
Pelosi “Optimistic” On Stimulus Deal Before Election Day; Obstacles Remain

Pelosi “Optimistic” On Stimulus Deal Before Election Day; Obstacles Remain

by Amanda Rooker | Oct 22, 2020 | Featured, Health

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Democrats and the White House are close to a deal that would provide relief to Americans hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, but President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders are less optimistic....
Senate Democrats Block Vote on $500 billion COVID-19 Relief Bill

Senate Democrats Block Vote on $500 billion COVID-19 Relief Bill

by Amanda Rooker | Oct 21, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats blocked a vote on the Republicans’ $500 billion COVID-19 stimulus package Wednesday, arguing it didn’t do enough to help Americans hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.   Senate Republicans could not muster the 60 votes needed to defeat a...
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