New Democrats,also known as centrist Democrats,Clinton Democrats,or moderate Democrats,are a centrist ideological faction within the Democratic Party in the United States. As the Third Way faction of the party,they are seen as culturally liberal on social issues while being moderate or fiscally conservative on economic issues. New Democrats dominated the party from the late 1980s through the early-2010s,and continue to be a large coalition in the modern Democratic Party.
Ronald Alan Klain is an American attorney,political consultant,and former lobbyist who served as White House chief of staff under President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2023.
The following is a timeline of major events leading up to and immediately following the United States presidential election of 2008. The election was the 56th quadrennial United States presidential election. It was held on November 4,2008,but its significant events and background date back to about 2002. The Democratic Party nominee,Senator Barack Obama of Illinois,defeated the Republican Party's nominee,Senator John McCain of Arizona.
Bruce Reed is an American political advisor and non-profit administrator who was the president of the Broad Foundation. Prior to assuming that role in December 2013,he served as Chief of Staff to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and as CEO of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). On December 22,2020,it was announced that Reed would serve as a White House deputy chief of staff in the Biden administration,along with Jen O'Malley Dillon.
Joe Biden,the 46th president of the United States,has run for public office several times,beginning in 1970. Biden served as the 47th vice president (2009–2017),and as a United States senator from Delaware (1973–2009). Biden is the oldest elected and serving president,the second Catholic president,after John F. Kennedy,and the first president from Delaware.
Peter Joseph Souza is an American photojournalist,the former chief official White House photographer for Presidents of the United States Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama and the former director of the White House Photography Office. He was a photographer with The Chicago Tribune,stationed at the Washington,D.C.,bureau from 1998 to 2007;during this period,he also followed the rise of then-Senator Obama to the presidency.
Jennifer Rene Psaki is an American television political analyst and former government official. A political advisor who served under both the Obama and Biden administrations,she served the Biden administration as the 34th White House press secretary until May 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously served in the Obama administration as the White House deputy press secretary (2009);the White House deputy communications director (2009–2011);the spokesperson for the United States Department of State (2013–2015);and the White House communications director (2015–2017). Psaki was a political contributor for CNN from 2017 to 2020. As of March 2023,she hosts the talk-show Inside with Jen Psaki on MSNBC.
Neera Tanden is an American political consultant and government official who served as director of the United States Domestic Policy Council from 2023 to 2025. Tanden previously served as a senior advisor and staff secretary to President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2023 and as president of the Center for American Progress (CAP),a center-left policy research and advocacy organization,where she worked in different capacities since its founding in 2003 until she joined the Biden administration in 2021.
Evan Maureen Ryan is an American public servant who served as White House cabinet secretary in the administration of Joe Biden. She previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) in the Obama administration (2013–2017) and was assistant for intergovernmental affairs and public liaison for then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Presidential primaries and caucuses were organized by the Democratic Party to select the 4,051 delegates to the 2016 Democratic National Convention held July 25–28 and determine the nominee for President in the 2016 United States presidential election. The elections took place within all fifty U.S. states,the District of Columbia,five U.S. territories,and Democrats Abroad and occurred between February 1 and June 14,2016. Between 2008 and 2020,this was the only Democratic Party primary in which the nominee had never been nor had ever become President of the United States. This was the first time the Democratic primary had nominated a woman for president.
Brian Edward Fallon Jr. is an American political operative. He was the national press secretary for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign,a role he began in March 2015,and was a senior advisor in Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign. In 2018,he founded the legal advocacy organization Demand Justice.
The official White House photographer is a senior position appointed by the president of the United States to cover the president's official day-to-day duties. There have been twelve official White House photographers. Since the beginning of the second presidency of Donald Trump,the position is currently occupied by Daniel Torok.
On April 25,2019,former vice president Joe Biden released a video announcing his candidacy in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. On November 3,2020,Biden and his running mate,Kamala Harris,defeated incumbent Republican president Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence in the general election.
Candidates associated with the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries for the 2020 United States presidential election:
The 2020 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on Tuesday,November 3,2020,as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Georgia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote,pitting the Republican Party's nominee,incumbent President Donald Trump of Florida,and running mate Vice President Mike Pence of Indiana against Democratic Party nominee,former Vice President Joe Biden of Delaware,and his running mate Senator Kamala Harris of California. Georgia has 16 electoral votes in the Electoral College.
This article lists the candidates for the Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 2020 presidential election. Former Vice President Joe Biden of Delaware,the 2020 Democratic nominee for President of the United States,considered several prominent Democrats and other individuals before selecting Senator Kamala Harris of California as his running mate on August 11,2020. Harris formally won the vice presidential nomination on August 19,2020,at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. The Biden–Harris ticket would go on to defeat the Trump–Pence ticket in the general election.
Lawrence Jackson is an American photographer and photojournalist. He was an official White House photographer,covering the vice presidency of Kamala Harris. He also served as an official White House photographer for the Obama administration. Before his work in government,he was a news photographer.
Hartina M. "Tina" Flournoy is an American political advisor who served as chief of staff to vice president Kamala Harris from 2021 to 2022.
Emmy Ruiz is an American political advisor serving as the White House director of political strategy and outreach for President Joe Biden.
