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Owen Jones, English journalist and political commentator [97] Helen Keller, American political activist [98] Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader [99] [100] [101] Naomi Klein, Canadian author and social activist [102] Leszek KoĊakowski, Polish philosopher and communist dissident [103] [104] [105]
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a political nonprofit organization, not a political party. Therefore, DSA members and endorsees usually run as members of the Democratic Party, Green Party, Working Families Party, or as independents. [citation needed] In the 2017 elections, DSA members were elected to fifteen state and local ...
This is a list of major Democratic Party candidates for president.The Democratic Party has existed since the dissolution of the Democratic-Republican Party in the 1820s, and the Democrats have nominated a candidate for president in every presidential election since the party's first convention in 1832.
Bernie Sanders, who remained an independent in the Senate throughout the primaries (despite running for president as a Democrat), is a self-described democratic socialist, and represented the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, which includes politicians such as Ed Markey, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Elizabeth ...
Independent (Endorsed in Democratic Party primaries, caucuses with Democrats) [13] [14] [15] Danny Davis: House January 3, 1997: Incumbent Illinois: Democratic Party (former New Party member and DSA member) [a] Bernie Sanders: House January 3, 1991: January 3, 2007: Vermont: Independent (won most Democratic Party votes) [13] [14] [15] Major ...
2001 – Michael Bloomberg, was a Democrat before running for mayor of New York City, New York as a Republican. He later became an independent before rejoining the Democratic Party in 2018 and being a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. [427] 2002 – Sheila Kiscaden, Minnesota state representative elected as a Republican.
Democratic: Roosevelt was re-elected as a Democrat. Albert Watson: South Carolina: 2nd: February–June 1965 90th: Democratic: Republican: Watson resigned his seat as a Democrat on February 1, 1965, and then won a special election as a Republican on June 15, 1965. Ogden Reid: New York: 26th: March 22, 1972 92nd: Republican: Democratic: Donald W ...
In the North, most War Democrats returned to the Democrats, and when the "Panic of 1873" hit, the Republican Party was blamed and the Democrats gained control of the House of Representatives in 1875. The Democrats emphasized that since Jefferson and Jackson they had been the party of states rights , which added to their appeal in the White South.