Donna Lease Brazile is an American political strategist,campaign manager,and political analyst who served twice as acting Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). She is currently an ABC News contributor,and was previously a Fox News contributor until her resignation in May 2021. Brazile was also previously a CNN contributor,but resigned in October 2016,after WikiLeaks revealed that she shared two debate questions with Hillary Clinton's campaign during the 2016 United States presidential election.
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.
The 2008 Democratic National Convention was a quadrennial presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party where it adopted its national platform and officially nominated its candidates for president and vice president. The convention was held in Denver,Colorado,from August 25 to 28,2008,at the Pepsi Center. Senator Barack Obama from Illinois gave his acceptance speech on August 28 at Invesco Field in what the party called an "Open Convention". Denver last hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1908. Obama became the party's first nonwhite nominee,and nominee of African descent,for president. Senator Joe Biden from Delaware was nominated for vice president.
Ann C. Frank Lewis is an American Democratic Party strategist. Lewis served as White House Communications Director in the Clinton administration and in senior roles under Hillary Clinton. She is currently the co-chair of the Democratic Majority for Israel.
The 2008 Michigan Democratic presidential primary took place January 15,2008. Originally,the state had 156 delegates up for grabs that were to be awarded in the following way:83 delegates were to be awarded based on the winner in each of Michigan's 15 congressional districts while an additional 45 delegates were to be awarded to the statewide winner. Twenty-eight unpledged delegates,known as superdelegates,were initially able to cast their votes at the Democratic National Convention in Denver,Colorado.
The 2008 Florida Democratic presidential primary took place on January 29,2008. Originally,the state had 185 delegates up for grabs that were to be awarded in the following way:121 delegates were to be awarded based on the winner in each of Florida's 25 congressional districts while an additional 64 delegates were to be awarded to the statewide winner. Twenty-five unpledged delegates,known as superdelegates,were initially able to cast their votes at the Democratic National Convention.
Leah D. Daughtry is an American political operative and Christian clergywoman.
The 2016 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention,held at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,from July 25 to 28,2016. The convention gathered delegates of the Democratic Party,the majority of them elected through a preceding series of primaries and caucuses,to nominate a candidate for president and vice president in the 2016 United States presidential election. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was chosen as the party's nominee for president by a 54% majority of delegates present at the convention roll call securing it over primary rival Senator Bernie Sanders,who received 46% of votes from delegates,and becoming the first female candidate to be formally nominated for president by a major political party in the United States. Her running mate,Senator Tim Kaine from Virginia,was confirmed by delegates as the party's nominee for vice president by acclamation.
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 Democratic primary to nominate a woman for President.
The 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton was announced in a YouTube video on April 12,2015. Clinton was the 67th United States Secretary of State and served during the first term of the Obama administration,from 2009 to 2013. She was previously a United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009,and is the wife of former President Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton served as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
In the 2016 presidential campaign,Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sought the Democratic Party's nomination in a field of six major candidates and was the runner up with 46% of the pledged delegates behind former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,who won the contest with 54%. Sanders,the junior United States senator and former Representative from Vermont,began with an informal announcement on April 30,2015,and a formal announcement that he planned to seek the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States on May 26,2015,in Burlington,Vermont. Sanders had been considered a potential candidate for president since at least September 2014. Though he had previously run as an independent,he routinely caucused with the Democratic Party,as many of his views align with Democrats. Running as a Democrat made it easier to participate in debates and get his name on state ballots.
A total of ten debates occurred among candidates in the campaign for the Democratic Party's nomination for the president of the United States in the 2016 presidential election.
Shefali Razdan Duggal is an Indian-American political activist and diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to the Netherlands. She was previously appointed by President Barack Obama to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council,which supervises the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,for a term which expired in January 2018.
Ana Violeta Navarro-Cárdenas is a Nicaraguan-American political strategist and commentator. She appears on various television programs and news outlets,including CNN,CNN en Español,ABC News,and Telemundo. She is also a co-host of the daytime talk show The View,garnering Daytime Emmy Award nominations for her work.
In March 2016,the personal Gmail account of John Podesta,a former White House chief of staff and chair of Hillary Clinton's 2016 U.S. presidential campaign,was compromised in a data breach accomplished via a spear-phishing attack,and some of his emails,many of which were work-related,were hacked. Cybersecurity researchers as well as the United States government attributed responsibility for the breach to the Russian cyber spying group Fancy Bear,allegedly two units of a Russian military intelligence agency.
The 2017 Democratic National Committee chairmanship election was held on February 25,2017,at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta to determine the next chairperson of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). It was the first contested DNC chair election since 1985.
The 2020 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention that was held from August 17 to 20,2020,at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee,Wisconsin,and virtually across the United States. At the convention,delegates of the United States Democratic Party formally chose former vice president Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris of California as the party's nominees for president and vice president,respectively,in the 2020 United States presidential election.
The 2020 presidential campaign of Tulsi Gabbard,the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district,began on January 11,2019. In January 2020,she was polling at about 1 to 2 percent. Had she won,she would have become the first female,Hindu,and Samoan president in American history,and the youngest person to ever hold the office. She made reducing military activity abroad a central message of her campaign.
The 2024 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention in which delegates of the United States Democratic Party voted on their party platform and ceremonially reported their vote to nominate Vice President Kamala Harris for president and her chosen running mate Governor Tim Walz for vice president in the 2024 presidential election. It was held from August 19 to 22,2024,at the United Center in Chicago,Illinois. Delegates virtually nominated Harris and Walz the first week of August. Harris is the first Black woman and first South Asian woman to be the presidential nominee of a major political party in the United States,and the first Democratic presidential nominee from the Western United States.
