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CHARLOTTE, NC — Less than 30 days until election day and Wednesday night vice president Mike Pence and senator Kamala Harris will go face to face in Salt Lake city – in the first and only vice presidential debate.
WCCB Political contributor Mary C. Curtis has a preview of the debate and why it matters.
CHARLOTTE, NC –Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden for president during the second night of a virtual convention. The former vice president secured the nomination in a virtual roll call vote Tuesday night. The second night of the DNC featured more influential names throwing their support behind Biden. WCCB political contributor Mary C. Curtis discusses the biggest takeaways from the DNC.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The virtual Democratic National Convention gets underway on Monday.
So what will the message be?
And how will Democrats keep the excitement up at a virtual event?
And the debate over the post office and mail-in voting.
Our political contributor Mary C. Curtis has more in the video above.
Kamala Harris made history, again, this week, when she became the first Black woman and first Asian American picked for a major political party’s presidential ticket. The daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, the California Democrat has been many firsts.
She has been a county deputy district attorney; the district attorney for San Francisco — the first woman and first African American elected to that position; and California’s first female, Black and Asian American attorney general. Harris was also the second Black woman to join the Senate, succeeding Democrat Barbara Boxer in 2017.
Not quite four years ago, it was Joe Biden, as vice president, who swore her in as California’s junior senator. Now Biden is counting on Harris to help him win the White House as his running mate.
With us on Political Theater to talk about this pick is CQ Roll Call columnist Mary C. Curtis, a longtime political correspondent covering the intersection of politics, culture and race.
CHARLOTTE, NC — The ticket is set.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has picked Sen. Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate.
Harris is the first Black and Asian-American woman to be on a major party’s presidential ticket.
WCCB Political contributor Mary C. Curtis gives her expert analysis on the decision.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – This week, Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden could announce his running mate.
So who are the final contenders?
And what factors will go into the former Vice President’s decision?
And the U.S. intelligence community’s top election security official is raising concerns about election interference.
Our political contributor Mary C. Curtis has more in the video above.
CHARLOTTE, NC — Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is expected to name his vice-presidential pick next week, before the Democratic National Convention convenes.
Biden has pledged to choose a woman as his Vice President but the big question is…who will he pick?
Political contributor Mary C. Curtis breaks down the top contenders.
Are frightened Democrats in the middle of an ugly fight to the death between the so-called progressive and moderate wings of the party? To observe the weeping and gnashing of teeth after the New Hampshire primary, you might think so. Let’s just say, that reaction is premature and missing the point.
Yet there are already calls from some in the Democratic establishment, such as it is, for consolidation of the moderates to fight a Bernie Sanders surge that would presumably cast the party into the electoral wilderness in 2020, when the main focus, the reasoning goes, is to beat Donald Trump. To be fair, that seems to be top of mind for all those who want Trump out of office. When I go to the market or gym, anyone of a certain political persuasion even vaguely familiar with what I do for a living asks me “who can beat Trump” before I get a “hello.”
OPINION — It doesn’t take a candidate of color on a debate stage to raise issues of justice and inequality. But that has been the way it has worked out, mostly.
For example, it was exhilarating for many when then-candidate Julián Castro said in a Democratic debate, “Police violence is also gun violence,” while naming Atatiana Jefferson, killed in her Fort Worth, Texas, home by a police officer who shot through the window without identifying himself. Castro’s words were an acknowledgment of the lived experiences of many in America. He has since dropped out of the race, as has California Sen. Kamala Harris, who chided her party for taking the support of black women for granted.
