{"id":394489,"date":"2019-01-29T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-york-senator-kirsten-gillibrand-another-right-wing-democrat-enters-the-2020-race\/"},"modified":"2019-01-29T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:37:00","slug":"new-york-senator-kirsten-gillibrand-another-right-wing-democrat-enters-the-2020-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-york-senator-kirsten-gillibrand-another-right-wing-democrat-enters-the-2020-race\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: Another right-wing Democrat enters the 2020 race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: Another right-wing Democrat enters the 2020 race<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Leslie Murtagh and Philip Guelpa<br \/>\n    <br \/>29 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York announced January 15 on \u201cThe Colbert Show\u201d her intention to seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. With eight declared candidates already, and as many as eight more expected to join the race, the number of Democrats hoping to cash in on President Trump\u2019s unpopularity could well set a record.<\/p>\n<p>But no matter what mask they don, or what \u201clane\u201d they hope to occupy in the race, these Democrats represent the interests of business and finance, and espouse different versions of anti-working-class politics. Gillibrand is no exception.<\/p>\n<p>One prominent aspect of her campaign is an emphasis on identity politics. She is the second female senator to join the race, following Elizabeth Warren and preceding Kamala Harris. The video on the front page of her campaign website starts with her name being typed into a Google search bar, cutting to her children\u2019s names on her Wikipedia page, followed by \u201cmom\u201d being typed into a new search bar, which brings up photos of her family and her cooking in a kitchen for them.<\/p>\n<p>Answering host Stephen Colbert\u2019s question, Gillibrand spoke of wanting to be the president of the United States because she is a \u201cyoung mom,\u201d who will \u201cfight for other people\u2019s kids as hard as I would fight for my own.\u201d After making brief and hollow statements of her support for better public education, healthcare, and jobs, Gillibrand stressed that these issues will be impossible to accomplish without \u201ctaking on institutional racism\u201d and \u201ctaking on the corruption and greed in Washington\u201d\u2014the latter, soon highlighted, being something with which she has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/29\/gill-j29.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: Another right-wing Democrat enters the 2020 race By Leslie Murtagh and Philip Guelpa 29 January 2019 Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York announced January 15 on \u201cThe Colbert Show\u201d her intention to seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. With eight declared candidates already, and as many as eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}