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 mid-2010s,and continue to be a large coalition in the modern Democratic Party.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013,as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009,and as the first lady of the United States as the wife of president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party,she was the party's nominee in the 2016 U.S. presidential election,becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party. Clinton won the popular vote,but lost the Electoral College vote,losing the election to Donald Trump.
Ann C. Frank Lewis is a leading American Democratic Party strategist and communicator. 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.
Margaret Ann Williams is a former director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University and is a partner in Griffin Williams,a management-consulting firm.
Leah D. Daughtry is an American political operative.
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.
Hillary Clinton is an American politician from the state of New York who was the Democratic Party's 2016 nominee for president of the United States. Clinton is the first woman in U.S. history to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party. She was defeated in the 2016 general election by Republican Donald Trump.
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.
The Hillary Victory Fund was a joint fundraising committee for Hillary for America,the Democratic National Committee (DNC),and 33 state Democratic committees. As of May 2016,the Fund had raised $61 million in donations.
Dennis Cheng is an American development executive. He served as the chief development officer of the Clinton Foundation from 2011 to 2015. He served as the national finance director of the 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton and senior advisor of external outreach for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.
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 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.
Presidential primaries and caucuses are being organized by the Democratic Party to select the delegates to the 2024 Democratic National Convention,to determine the party's nominee for president in the 2024 United States presidential election. The elections will take place in all 50 U.S. states,the District of Columbia,five U.S. territories,and Democrats Abroad,and will be held between February and June that year. Incumbent President Joe Biden is running for re-election with Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate. Biden maintains a significant lead in polls,and no incumbent president in modern history has lost renomination.
Ana Cruz is a civil servant and lobbyist at Ballard Partners Tampa,Florida. She was the first Hispanic person to serve as executive director of the Florida Democratic Party and served as spokesperson for Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaigns in 2008 and 2016. Ana Cruz is known as “Tampa’s First Lady”,partner of Tampa Mayor,Jane Castor.
