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Post by Admin on Aug 7, 2019 17:43:41 GMT
Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has announced a plan to dramatically expand internet access in rural communities, aiming to give “every home in America” fiber broadband at an affordable price. Her proposal includes an $85 billion grant program for nonprofits and local governments to build fiber networks, as well as protections for cities that want to run their own broadband services. And it would overhaul a deeply flawed reporting system that’s hidden huge service gaps across the country.
Warren laid out her “public option for broadband” in a policy paper released this morning. It’s designed to encourage locally and publicly operated broadband networks while reducing the power of big internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon, which have little incentive to expand into many smaller communities but still lobby for legally protected near-monopolies. Rural Americans have markedly lower access to high-quality internet service, and the problem is particularly bad on tribal lands.
Warren’s plan would create an Office of Broadband Access in her newly founded Department of Economic Development. The broadband office would distribute $85 billion to utility cooperatives, nonprofit organizations, tribes, and cities or counties, giving them funds to lay fiber in “unserved areas, underserved areas, or areas with minimal competition.” In return, these groups would offer a plan that reached 100 Mbps as well as one “discount” plan for low-income customers. At least $5 billion of that grant money would go specifically to tribal nations.
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Post by Admin on Aug 9, 2019 5:31:13 GMT
2020 candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., doubled down on calling President Trump a white supremacist at a campaign stop in Harlan, Iowa. She claimed the president "cozies up to the white supremacists," when asked by NBC's Ali Vitali.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Wednesday that President Donald Trump is a white supremacist, making her rebuke of the President one of the strongest from the crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates candidates in the wake of two mass shootings in the US, one involving a white supremacist suspect.
Warren, who answered "yes" when asked by the The New York Times during a campaign stop in Iowa if Trump is a white supremacist, told the paper that Trump "has given aid and comfort to white supremacists" and "done the wink and a nod. He has talked about white supremacists as fine people. He's done everything he can to stir up racial conflict and hatred in this country."
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Post by Admin on Aug 15, 2019 4:41:25 GMT
Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is trailing former Vice President Joe Biden by just 1 point in a new Economist–YouGov weekly tracking poll.
Biden sits at 21 percent support in the survey, while Warren is close behind at 20 percent. The next candidate is Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at 16 percent support among voters.
The survey comes as Warren continues to outpace Sanders, the other progressive in the race, and move closer to Biden in other polls.
Biden, by and large, remains the front-runner in most surveys, but Warren's rise in the polls comes with the Vermont senator falling from second to third place.
A Monmouth University poll of Iowa caucusgoers released on Sunday showed Warren at 19 percent support, while Sanders sat at 9 percent support. Biden still led the pack at 28 percent in that survey.
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Post by Admin on Aug 17, 2019 20:09:50 GMT
Joe Biden’s strongest selling point -- that he’s the most likely to beat Donald Trump -- is losing some of its edge, as Elizabeth Warren vaults into second place because a growing number of Democrats think she can win the general election. In a new Economist/YouGov poll, 65% of Democratic voters said Biden would "probably beat Donald Trump" — unchanged from June. But the number saying the same thing about Warren jumped 14 points since then, to 57%, the highest of any other candidate. In the overall race, Biden led Warren by just 1 point among Democrats in a match-up with Trump. That’s after being 16 points ahead of her in June, according to the poll. Warren’s boost in the primary dovetails her improving head-to-head poll numbers against Trump. A Fox News survey this week found her leading Trump by 7 points nationally, after the same poll found them statistically tied in June. It also coincides with rival campaigns and party strategists beginning to explicitly challenge the notion that Biden is electable.
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Post by Admin on Aug 24, 2019 17:43:27 GMT
Forget Iowa, forget the polls and forget the talking heads -- Elizabeth Warren will be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, according to people who really matter ... bookies. Okay, it's not a guarantee, but according to oddsmakers at US-Bookies.com ... Warren has surged ahead of Joe Biden in the past week and is the favorite to win the Dem nomination to go up against Donald Trump in 2020. Warren's odds are currently 15/8, making her the fave over Biden who's 11/4. Kamala Harris is 11/2 and Bernie Sanders is 6/1 ... followed by bigger long shots like Pete Buttigieg at 12/1 and Beto O'Rourke at 33/1. In terms of actually WINNING the presidency, Warren still leads the Dems at 9/2 compared to Biden at 6/1. Of course, because he's not facing as much competition right now, Trump's the favorite to win in 2020 overall ... he's odds are even money. It's interesting ... prior to the June debates, Biden was the frontrunner, but was passed by Harris after her strong performance in the second debate. Warren was third, according to the odds.
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