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The Axe Files
Pete Buttigieg
• Two Term Mayor of South Bend, Indiana • Navy Veteran • First Gay President? • Age: 37 • Main Issues: Climate and Economy, Raise Minimum Wage, Medicare for All • His “Thing”: Loves Bernie Sanders , Last name pronounced buddah-gidge
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The Breakfast Club
Kamala Harris
• Senator of California • Former DA of San Francisco, Former AG of California • First Indian and Jamaican Woman President? • Age: 54 • Main Issues: Medicare for All, Justice • Her “Thing”: Current Democratic ‘IT’ Candidate and roast master general during senate hearings especially against Kavanaugh. Was too hard on low level criminals during her prosecutor days though.
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The Axe Files
Kirsten Gillibrand
• 2 Term New York Senator • Advocacy for women and victims of sexual assault especially within the Military. • First Woman President? • Age: 52 • Main Issues: Women’s Rights • Her “Thing”: Was once conservative and now a progressive. Vocal leader and supporter of the #MeToo movement. Wants to get more women in politics.
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1A
Julian Castro
• Two Term Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, • Former HUD under Obama Administration • First Latino President? • Age: 44 • Main Issues: Universal Pre Kindergarten, Medicare for All, Immigration Reform • His “Thing”: Keynote speaker of 2012 DNC (Obama was DNC keynote in 2004)
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Joe Rogan
Tulsi Gabbard
• Two Term Hawaii Congresswoman • Iraq War Veteran • First Hindu & Samoan Woman President? • Age: 37 • Main Issues: War & Peace • Her “Thing” Bernie Sis with a little “met with Syria President Assad and was anti-lgbtq” so not your mother’s leftist!
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TYT Interviews
Elizabeth Warren
• Two Term Massachusetts Senator • Oversaw 2008 Financial Bailout and Created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Basically a program to make sure 2008 doesn’t happen again) • First Woman President? • Age: 69 • Main Issue: Income Inequality, Medicare for All • Her “Thing”: Anti wall-street and big corporations. “Nevertheless, she persisted” “Pocahontas”
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Interesting People in Interesting Times
Andrew Yang
• No Political Career • Lawyer and Silicon Valley Tech VC • First Asian President? • Main Issue: Universal Basic Income • Age: 44 • His “Thing”: Aware of tech and automation issues and wants to slowly transition workers through a technological change.
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Speakeasy with John Harwood
John Delaney
• Three Term Former Maryland Congressman • Multimillionaire banking guy, co-founded two companies that IPO’d on NYSE • First Centrist President? • Age: 55 • Main Issues: Bipartisanship is his love language, Universal Healthcare • His “Thing”: First to announce presidential run…in 2017
Confirmed 2020
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Wilson
We’re ways away from the Democratic Iowa Caucus where the official party nominee will be nominated for the 2020 Presidential election but the candidates are pouring in. So far, eight notable people are officially running with a slew of others “considering (Joe Biden)” and others who have yet to put their “official bid” in (Mr.Starbucks). This Issue is a TL;DR introduction accompanied with a podcast interview of each candidate so you can hear how they actually speak (some before their presidential bids so their motive may be a bit different). This issue is in reverse chronological order of announcement date and we’ll try to update this list as more candidates come in so keep your eyes out! Like always, enjoy!