Kirsten Gillibrand’s 2020 presidential campaign

Kirsten Gillibrand dropped out of the 2020 presidential race on August 28. Here’s the rest of the Democratic field.

Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York senator known for her #MeToo advocacy, is making gender equity the centerpiece of her presidential campaign. A two-term senator who has also served in the House, Gillibrand has made a name for herself by pushing for reforms in the US military and calling for accountability in Congress when it comes to sexual misconduct.

Several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have presented their foreign policy “visions,” most of which focus on broad themes like ending America’s “forever wars” and rebuilding traditional alliances.

But few candidates have offered specifics on how they’d actually accomplish those goals. Kirsten Gillibrand just changed that.

New York senator and 2020 presidential contender Kirsten Gillibrand’s new plan to fight climate change takes aim at the institutions that have caused and profited off the problem. The proposal aims to hold fossil fuel companies financially accountable for damages stemming from a warmer world.

“I’ll make climate polluters pay, transform our economy with good-paying green jobs, and protect clean air and clean water as fundamental human rights,” Gillibrand wrote in a Medium post on Thursday. “So as president, I will create a Climate Change Mitigation Trust Fund, funded by an excise tax on fossil fuel production to generate $100 billion annually for climate mitigation projects. The fossil fuel industry — not taxpayers — will pay for projects to lessen the effects of sea-level rise, extreme weather, and other climate-related disasters.”

Kirsten Gillibrand’s fiery Fox News town hall on Sunday showed exactly why it’s vital for more women to have a seat at the table.

On a varied set of issues, from abortion rights and intersectionality to gun control, Gillibrand confronted Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, openly criticizing the network’s coverage of abortion during one particularly pointed back-and-forth. A New York senator who’s long made gender equity a core plank of her political identity (and now her 2020 candidacy), Gillibrand delivered a town hall appearance that only underscored the importance of this message.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has sought to make gender equity and family policies cornerstones of her 2020 presidential campaign, and a wide-ranging set of proposals she unveiled on Wednesday further illustrate this focus.

Gillibrand’s new platform, something she’s calling the Family Bill of Rights, includes measures aimed at making child care more affordable, as well as policies that would give more children access to health care and pre-K.

During a Tuesday night CNN town hall, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) tried to tackle her biggest campaign problem: name recognition.

Gillibrand, who is running as a resistance candidate, is trailing far behind the frontrunners in national polls of the 2020 Democratic field. She took direct aim at President Donald Trump on Tuesday, even calling him “weak and a coward.”

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Wednesday became the first candidate in the 2020 field to release her 2018 tax returns, and in doing so, she pressed the other contenders in the already very crowded field to follow suit.

“For public servants, releasing your tax returns shows the American people that you work only for them, not the powerful,” she said in a statement. “I’m proud to be the first presidential candidate to release my latest returns, and take that critical step towards transparency.”

Kirsten Gillibrand is making a perhaps not-unwise bet in an era dominated by Democratic women: that her paid family leave proposal can distinguish her in a crowded 2020 Democratic field.

“The American people want national paid leave. We even have a president who I agree with on basically nothing talking about the need for paid leave,” Gillibrand said during a Monday MSNBC town hall. “The best way to provide national paid leave is to make it an earned benefit.”

A top aide for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is now leaving the office in the wake of a report that raised questions about her office’s handling of a sexual harassment allegation, according to Politico.

This comes weeks after a report in which a former female staffer alleged that Gillibrand’s office mishandled a sexual harassment complaint that she filed last July, and provided an opaque response to retaliation the staffer says she faced after reporting the issue, according to a letter Politico’s Alex Thompson and Daniel Strauss obtained from the staffer. She ultimately resigned about three weeks after filing her initial complaint, despite having no other job set up at the time.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) took the stage at an MSNBC town hall on Monday night to reaffirm her position as a #MeToo champion, defending her criticism of other lawmakers accused of sexual assault and her own office’s handling of the issue.

Gillibrand, a longtime leader on combating sexual assault in the military and in Congress, recently faced blowback over the handling of a sexual harassment allegation in her office. According to a Politico report, a female aide in her mid-20s resigned over the way harassment allegations she had raised about a senior male colleague were ultimately treated.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is now formally running for president in 2020, and her first major campaign stop is designed to make a statement: She will rally on the steps of the Trump International Hotel in New York City.

The New York lawmaker known for her #MeToo advocacy formally announced her bid in a video posted to Twitter Sunday morning, joining a crowded field of candidates looking to turn Donald Trump into a one-term president.

Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York lawmaker known for her #MeToo advocacy, has announced an exploratory committee for a run for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, becoming the second senator to make her interest in the 2020 race official.

Gillibrand made the announcement Tuesday evening during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. In it, she cast herself as a unifying figure who can bring the country — and Democrats and Republicans — together. “You have to start by restoring what’s been lost, restoring our leadership in the world,” she said.

Former President Bill Clinton is breaking his silence regarding a much-buzzed-about statement from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who said last fall that he should have resigned from the presidency following revelations about his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky.

Clinton, in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning that’s scheduled to run this weekend, said he disagreed with the lawmaker, arguing that “she’s living in a different context.”

New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) introduced a bill Thursday to place more scrutiny on Border Patrol agents when they stop and question passengers on buses and trains.

The Department of Homeland Security Accountability and Transparency Act would require border patrol and immigration enforcement agents to document every instance when they stop, search, or interrogate people. The bill is co-sponsored by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Tom Udall (D-NM) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR). The law applies to all stops by agents who work for US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).