There are 36 article(s) tagged 2020 presidential campaign:

• December 2019

  • Bloomberg to campaign in Memphis Thursday

    Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is one of 16 Democratic contenders in the March 3 presidential primaries.

    By Bill Dries December 18, 2019

  • Sanders supporters plan for Tennessee Super Tuesday presidential primary

    The Saturday gathering at the AFSCME union hall Downtown drew a group of 60 supporters. It follows a similar gathering Tuesday for those supporting rival Democratic contender and former Vice President Joe Biden.

    By Bill Dries December 15, 2019

  • Local Biden supporters court undecideds in city’s Democratic base

    Biden partisans locally are pushing the narrative that the former vice president is the only Democrat in a large pack of contenders who can beat President Donald Trump in the November general election.

    By Bill Dries December 11, 2019

• October 2019

  • CPAC Memphis gathering touts Trump re-election

    Republican U.S. Senate contender Bill Hagerty was among those pushing the president's re-election campaign. Gov. Bill Lee talked about criminal justice reform and education reform as efforts that are beyond ideology. Lee also never mentioned President Donald Trump during his remarks at the Tuesday gathering.

    By Bill Dries October 29, 2019

  • Ford Jr. offers nuanced view of partisan politics and Trump

    Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. returned to his hometown and the city he represented for a decade in Washington to talk about national politics, President Trump and the city’s edge.

    By Bill Dries October 22, 2019

  • Bergmann rallies Trump supporters Downtown as first step in Democratic county

    Trump supporters who oppose the House impeachment inquiry gathered in the Civic Center Plaza Thursday in what organizer Charlotte Bergmann said is the first of several rallies attempting to change the county’s identity as a Democratic stronghold.

    By Bill Dries October 18, 2019

• September 2019

  • Kamala Harris cancels Memphis appearance

    The Democratic presidential contender cancelled a Sunday rally at East High School to attend a memorial in South Carolina. Several key states ahead of Tennessee on the primary schedule will determine how much of a battleground the state is for Democrats.

    By Bill Dries September 22, 2019

  • Jill Biden campaigns on unity theme at Germantown fundraiser

    The wife of former vice president and current Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden attended a fundraiser in Germantown Thursday. She urged Democratic supporters to not believe that the nation is divided permanently along partisan lines. The state's presidential primaries are March 3.

    By Bill Dries September 19, 2019

  • Kamala Harris to campaign Sunday in Memphis

    The Democratic presidential contender will hold a town hall meeting at East High School Sunday evening. The Tennessee presidential primary is in March.

    By Bill Dries September 18, 2019

• July 2019

  • Nelson: Biden is in trouble for working with James Eastland. Who was Eastland anyway?

    Joe Biden recently suggested maintaining civil relations with even the most difficult people is important to accomplish anything in Washington. The problem? He chose as an example ardent segregationist James O. Eastland, who represented Mississippi in the Senate from 1942 to 1978. 

    By Michael Nelson July 01, 2019

• March 2019

  • U.S. Sen. Warren touts ‘different kind of campaign', ‘big systemic change’ in Douglass High campaign stop

    U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren drew a crowd of more than 400 in North Memphis for the first Memphis appearance by a presidential hopeful in advance of the Tennessee presidential primaries of March 2020.

    By Bill Dries March 18, 2019