Local leaders meet with Sanders’ campaign staff, raise issues of importance to Arab American community
February 29th, 20200 DEARBORN — Local civic, Arab and Muslim American leaders gathered at The Arab American News office here on Wednesday, February 26, to discuss issues of importance to the community as part of a meeting that included Michael Fasullo, state coordinator for Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign team and Alia Phillips, the campaign's 2020 field...
Bernie Sanders blasts AIPAC conference as a platform for “bigotry,” says he won’t attend
February 26th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Democratic presidential front-runner Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) blasted the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Sunday in a statement announcing his intention not to attend the organization's annual conference next month. According to Sanders' Twitter account, he said he will not attend the...
Bloomberg, Sanders campaigns court Arab American voters as Michigan primary looms
February 21st, 20200 DEARBORN — Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg's campaign has been especially active in Michigan in recent weeks, as the former New York City mayor has been introducing himself to voters ahead of Michigan's March 10 primary election. Local Arab American leaders met with Bloomberg national campaign representative Fatima...
Former New York City Mayor Bloomberg enters the fray as Dems prepare for next campaign battle
February 21st, 20200 LAS VEGAS — Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg officially entered the Democratic race on Wednesday here, as the top six candidates seeking to unseat president Trump spoke out on the issues during a debate. Bloomberg faced sharp criticism from his new rivals, including from former Vice President Joe Biden over his controversial...
Sanders secures narrow win in New Hampshire as Biden slides to fifth place finish
February 15th, 20200 MANCHESTER, NH —Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders cemented his status as the front-runner for the party nomination with a narrow win over Pete Buttigieg in New Hampshire's presidential primary on Tuesday. Sanders, the progressive Independent senator from neighboring Vermont, finished first, with Buttigieg, the former...
Mike Bloomberg gains endorsement from Wayne County Exec. Warren Evans
February 15th, 20200 DETROIT — Wayne County Executive Warren Evans announced his endorsement for former New York City Mayor and billionaire businessman Mike Bloomberg in the 2020 presidential race, a report from the Detroit Free Press said. Evans, a former Detroit police chief and former Detroit mayoral candidate, has been in office since 2015. He made...
Race for the White House: Iowa Caucus kicks off 2020 race as Democratic, Republican conventions loom
January 31st, 20200 The race for the White House officially kicks off in Iowa on Monday, Feb. 3, with both Democratic and Republican candidates jockeying for delegates at polling locations across the state. The Iowa caucus is the first event in a months-long primary season that will run through the beginning of June, leading up to the July 13 Democratic...
Report warns of technology-based threats from WhatsApp, other apps prior to 2020 election
November 26th, 20190 NEW YORK CITY —A major New York-based university is warning of potential technology-based threats that could compromise the 2020 presidential election, the website Tech Times reported. In a report released this September by the New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, the organization said that bad actors...
Arab Americans helped turn Virginia blue
November 20th, 20191 Many Virginians recently celebrated as both houses of the Virginia legislature came under Democratic Party control. In the past 30 years, the state has shifted from being a conservative Republican state to a liberal Democratic stronghold exemplified by the recent elections. Political analysts attribute this profound change to demographic...
Trump to American Jews: A vote for a Democrat is a vote against Israel
August 23rd, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump beat back criticism of his comments accusing American Jews who vote for Democrats of “great disloyalty” and went a step further on Wednesday, saying any vote for a Democrat is a vote against Israel. “I think that if you vote for a Democrat you are very, very disloyal to Israel and to the Jewish...
2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker says he went to Senate to defend Israel
August 17th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to a recent question inquiring whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is racist, New Jersey Senator and presidential candidate Cory Booker said he entered the Senate to stand up for the state of Israel. Booker was asked about Netanyahu at the Iowa State Fair on August 10 by Jewish...
2020 Elections: Tulsi Gabbard firm against U.S. instigating costly regime changes and policy towards Iran
August 9th, 20192 DETROIT – In a teleconference last Friday, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) spoke to reporters from five ethnic media outlets about her presidential campaign, the importance of diplomatic relationships and other issues. The conference was the second in an ongoing series of communications facilitated by Ethnic Media Services. It came...
How Biden’s secret 2002 meetings led to war in Iraq
August 3rd, 20190 Even though former Vice President Joe Biden’s favorability has declined following the first Democratic debate, he remains largely considered the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination by many mainstream media outlets and pundits. Early in the first debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders mentioned how Biden had supported the...
Presidential debate in Detroit energizes voters and organizers in Dearborn
August 3rd, 20190 DETROIT — The Democratic primary debate that took place July 30 left the audience with a comprehensive idea of which candidates seem to stand a chance of winning the nomination, what their plans entail and just how each of them could be right for Detroit, specifically, and Michigan at large. Despite competing for voters at the left...
Candidates spar over immigration, healthcare on day two of the Democratic presidential debates in Detroit
August 3rd, 20190 DETROIT — Day two of the Democratic presidential debate at the Fox Theatre touched on many topics of great importance to the Arab American community, including the immigration crisis and selecting a candidate capable of defeating President Trump in 2020. Candidates included former vice president Joe Biden of Delaware; California......
Presidential candidate Andrew Yang dismissive of problematic U.S.-Israeli relationship
July 28th, 20197 DETROIT – As Democratic candidates gear up for 2020’s presidential election, many have reached out to ethnic communities to garner support and spread awareness of their platforms. Outside of some notable candidates, some of whom have been part of the Washington political machinery for decades, this year’s field includes...
National polls don’t mean much. Here’s why.
July 22nd, 20190 "Here we go with the Fake Polls," President Trump tweeted on July 15. "Just like what happened with the election against Crooked Hillary Clinton." He's complaining about several polls that show him losing the national popular vote to various Democratic presidential aspirants, in some cases by double digits. He has a point. In 2016,......
Bernie Sanders proposes canceling entire $1.6 trillion in U.S. student loan debt
June 24th, 20190 Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) proposed a bill on Monday eliminating all $1.6 trillion of student debt held in the United States, two days before the candidates' first debate in Miami, adding to the 2020 policy fight of the Democratic presidential primary. Sanders' proposal suggests that the federal government pay to wipe clean the student...
Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper announces presidential campaign
March 9th, 20190 DENVER — Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Monday that he is launching a 2020 campaign for president. He made the announcement in a video called "Standing Tall", which follows Hickenlooper's life from laid-off geologist, to owner of a brew pub, to mayor of Denver and to governor. Hickenlooper implies in the video...
Hillary Clinton rules out run for president in 2020
March 9th, 20190 WASHINGTON D.C. — Hillary Clinton announced she won’t run for president in 2020, but said she’s “not going anywhere.” The former secretary of state, senator and first lady ruled out a presidential campaign during an interview posted Monday by a New York TV station. “I’m going to keep on working and speaking and...
Sanders chooses Muslim American to manage his presidential campaign
February 22nd, 20190 WASHINGTON, DC - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) chose Faiz Shakir, a Muslim American, to serve as his campaign manager for his second run for president. Shakir previously served as national political director of the American Civil Liberties Union since early 2017. Before his position at the ACLU he worked as a senior advisor to......
California Democrat Kamala Harris declares candidacy for president
January 24th, 20190 WASHINGTON — In what is becoming a highly diverse field, California Democratic Senator Kamala Harris declared her candidacy for president on Monday, entering on the Martin Luther King Day federal holiday. Harris, who became the second African American woman to serve in the United States Senate, declared her candidacy in the same...
Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard announces run for president in 2020
January 14th, 20190 With the 2020 presidential race less than 22 months away, Democrat Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii has decided to make her candidacy official. Gabbard announced her intention to run this past Friday on CNN's 'The Van Jones Show,' on an episode that was slated to air Saturday night. “There are a lot of reasons for me to make this......
Latino-Arab American Ammar Campa-Najjar narrowly lost in midterms, plans to run in 2020
January 7th, 20190 SAN DIEGO - In November, Ammar Campa-Najjar hoped to become the first Latino Arab-American member of Congress. Though he was facing off against Rep. Duncan Hunter – who with an ongoing finance scandal is embroiled in controversy – he faced an uphill battle. The 50th Congressional District in California – which encompasses parts of...
The real midterm elections wave wasn’t blue, it was Muslim
November 22nd, 20180 The Muslims are no longer coming—they are here! Well, in reality Muslims have been in America and contributing to it even before the nation was formed, since approximately 15 percent of the slaves from Africa were Muslim. But now Muslim Americans are “here” in a whole new way as a record number won their elections on Nov. 6.......
