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Many Democrats support affirmative action programs to further this goal. [47] Democrats also strongly support the Americans with Disabilities Act, to prohibit discrimination against people based on physical or mental disability. [48] As such, they pushed the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, a disability-rights expansion that became law.
They work to advance the party's goals and encourage Americans living abroad to support the Democrats. The Young Democrats of America (YDA) and the High School Democrats of America (HSDA) are young adult and youth-led organizations respectively that attempt to draw in and mobilize young people for Democratic candidates but operates outside of ...
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...
Here are some key moments from the 2024 presidential campaigns of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump as they make their last pitches to voters on Election-eve.
New Democrats, also known as centrist Democrats, Clinton Democrats, or moderate Democrats, are a centrist ideological faction within the Democratic Party in the United States. As the Third Way faction of the party, they are seen as culturally liberal on social issues while being moderate or fiscally conservative on economic issues. [ 1 ]
Biden's convention swan song was a catalogue of his successes, which he also attributed to Harris. But he looked every bit his 81 years, showing why Democrats are relieved.
In the aftermath of President Biden’s unsteady debate performance last week, Democrats, including Biden himself, were faced with a stark choice: Should they continue to place their support ...
The War Democrats were a group of Democrats that opposed the Copperheads and supported President Abraham Lincoln's stance towards the South and bring it back in the Union; however, they objected to Lincoln's emancipation policies and after 1863 were increasingly less enthusiastic about the war and its goals.