While the Iowa caucus, the first leg of the Democratic nomination contest for the presidential election of November 3, was held on February 3, "Le Monde" launches its campaign logbook. A daily update, five days a week until September, with campaign facts, political advertisements, polls, maps and figures that allow you to follow and experience the most important electoral competition in the world.
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, launched an appeal for unity in the Democratic Party on Wednesday, February 26, after a particularly heated debate. " I hope everyone will line up without ulterior motive behind the person who will be invested for the presidential whatever it is ", did she say. " We can not display any division, it is only a question of unity, unity, unity She said during a closed-door meeting with the House’s Democrats.
The push by independent senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, who came out on top in numbers of delegates during the last two consultations, in New Hampshire and then Nevada, worries the elected officials who won in 2018 in hard-fought ridings to Republican leavers. The measures he defends, as well as his label of socialist democrat, constitute a challenge for these elected officials.
Interviewed by Associated Press, Tom Malinowski, elected in a disputed riding in New Jersey and who supports former Vice President Joe Biden, said he would do so "Absolutely" the same with Bernie Sanders if the senator became the party candidate. But the representative believed that "Risking losing an extraordinary opportunity by designating someone who tends to divide our own camp would overtake me".
Representative Elaine Luria, who defeated an outgoing Republican in Virginia in November 2018, also told the Associated Press that a nomination from Bernie Sanders would be "Incredibly confrontational" and could endanger congressional centrists like her. His opponents are already trying to qualify this former Navy officer, a graduate of the Naval Academy, as " socialist ". It is " ridiculous ", She estimated, but "Bernie Sanders simply adds gasoline to a fire."
Democrats only have 19 seats ahead of the House, while they must win at least three seats in the Senate, provided they win the presidency, to get the narrowest majority.
