Welcome to Got Issues?, MTV News’s candidate-by-candidate breakdown of your biggest concerns and questions about 2020 race. in the event you log into your student cash advance provider’s app as a month, groan at the balance, and put your phone back down, some of the 2020 presidential candidates wish to aid you — and the other Residents of the U.S. Who collectively hold $1.56..

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Political debates can be star-making things. Out of the format comes an one-liner, a defining policy, or an impression so memorable it changes polls and voters' minds alike. Although while the dust still settles on the two-night Democratic primary debate in Detroit, Michigan, on July 30 and 31, one thing is clear: Jaden Jefferson is willing to cover it all. The 11-year-old reporter f..

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It was depressingly clear from the starting of the Democratic primary debate on Tuesday, July 30 in Detroit, Michigan, the two-night event would not end well for viewers hoping to determine on a candidate for the 2020 election  — which is, theoretically, supposed to be the point of a primary debate. Each night featured half of the major pool of contenders on stage. The show — an..

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By Lauren Rearick Night two of the Democratic primary debates featured protestors, a condescending remark, and an epic burn of former Vice President Joe Biden supplied by Senator Cory Booker. Throughout a heated exchange, Senator Booker questioned why Biden avoided addressing the migrant deportations that occurred under former President Barack Obama, in which the administration depo..

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The second Democratic primary debates in Detroit, Michigan, opened on July 31 with considerable drama: protestors interrupted the initial statements of two contenders to call for the firing of Daniel Pantaleo, the New York City policeman who did not face federal charges connected to the death of Eric Garner. Pantaleo was put on administrative leave right after Garner's death in July ..

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By Raquel Reichard There’s a uprising in the Caribbean. For more than a week, hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans have been protesting on the cobblestone streets of Old San Juan, Ponce, Mayagüez, and other towns on the island. The voices of elders, young adults, and children in unison yell “¡Ricky, renuncia!,” demanding Governor Ricardo Rosselló vacate his seat. On Monday..

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By Lauren Rearick On Monday, June 15, the United States Departments of Justice and Homeland Security unveiled a suggested ruling that should make the asylum claims process much more hard for migrants coming into the U.S. — And the American Civil Liberties intends to sue President Donald Trump to stop it from going into effect. People seek asylum as a way to increase residency in a..

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By Rebecca Nathanson For Austin Weahkee, a member of the Cochiti and Zuni tribes and Navajo Country, his activism started “basically from the day I was born.” While he was a child, his family member was piece of a campaign to prevent the construction of a road through Petroglyph National Monument, a sacred Native American site in New Mexico, where he grew up. They ended up losing..

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The Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning a series of raids in key cities, all in a task to target at least 2,000 undocumented migrants, per a New York Times report from July 11. Nevertheless the scope of the opening raid may spread far wider, as officials told the Times the raids may also result in "collateral" deportations of other migrants in the ta..

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there really are plenty of things the sitting President cannot do that typical Residents of the U.S. Can — everything from opening the windows of his house and copyrighting published works to being alone in public and riding in open convertibles. And that list just got one item longer, thanks to President Donald Trump, the Tweeter-in-chief who insists on blocking his haters, inclu..

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And then there were... Well, still a lot of them. Eric Swalwell, a Congressman from California, has dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination for the 2020 presidential election. "Today ends our presidential campaign, yet it is the starting of a possibility in Congress, with a new perspective shaped by the lives that have touched mine and our campaign while in these last..

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By Mary Emily O'Hara For the opening time, transgender equality is a presidential debate topic — nevertheless what does it mean any time there really are no trans candidates to weigh in? On Wednesday, June 26, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro became the initial 2020 Presidential candidate to raise the allocate problem of transgender equality at the ..

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