Month: April 2019

Beto O’Rourke, a former Democratic congressman from Texas, made a name for himself during the 2018 midterm elections, in which he almost stole a Texas Senate race from the Republican incumbent Ted Cruz. Before entering the political sphere, O’Rourke spent his high school and college days playing in punk-rock bands, as a member of a… Read More

Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is quite the Renaissance man. Before he became the first African American U.S. senator from the state of New Jersey, he was an elite college football recruit who signed to play at Stanford, a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, a graduate of Yale Law School and the mayor of… Read More

*Updated April 23, 2019 As an Oklahoma native with middle-class roots, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has dedicated her political career to, primarily, protecting what she calls “America’s promise” — the promise that anyone who works hard and does what they are supposed to should be able to support themselves and the ones they love. But… Read More

Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has quickly established herself as one of the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination in 2020. The daughter of Jamaican and Tamil Indian immigrants, Harris in many ways embodies the American dream. After graduating from Hastings College of the Law in 1989, Harris worked her way through the San Francisco District… Read More