The “Who is running in 2020?” tea leaves thread

[Mr. Morden]

Jeff Merkley and Pete Buttigieg are going to Iowa:

"2020 Watch: Merkley, Buttigieg to headline Progress Iowa Corn Feed"

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2017/06/13/2020-watch-merkley-buttigieg-headline-progress-iowa-corn-feed/391478001/

Buttigieg was also on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hIX8hyn53o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGwv8BMWSeQ

[Mr. Morden]

http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/23/stephen-colbert-for-president-2020/

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[Mr. Morden]

Sunday morning talk show watch:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NEWS_SHOWS?SITE=AP

Bernie Sanders will be on Meet the Press tomorrow, while John Kasich will be on State of the Union.

[Mr. Morden]

More about Jason Kander

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/23/politics/2020-vision-jason-kander-eric-holder/index.html

From that story:

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[Mr. Morden]

Buttigieg is launching a PAC:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/democratic-mayor-launches-pac-aimed-at-politics-of-the?utm_term=.keQd8P7rp#.qkM9g8Klj

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[Mr. Morden]

Sunday morning talk show watch:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NEWS_SHOWS?SITE=AP

Bernie Sanders will be on Meet the Press tomorrow, while John Kasich will be on State of the Union.

I guess Tim Ryan was also on Meet the Press this morning....live from Iowa:

https://twitter.com/kailanikm/status/878971245836075010

[Mr. Morden]

The Kansas City Star has a new story on Kander:

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article157930459.html

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[Mr. Morden]

Merkley does not rule out running for prez:

https://kobi5.com/news/senator-merkley-addresses-rumors-of-presidential-bid-55607/

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[Mr. Morden]

Cuomo held a fundraiser for his reelection last night, but spent much of the night talking about issues at the federal level:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cuomo-sounding-ambitious-reelection-fund-raiser-article-1.3280613

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Also appearing at the Cuomo fundraiser: Joe Biden

[Mr. Morden]

According to various people in Martin Heinrich's political orbit, there is no planned run for president in 2020 in the offing:

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-martin-heinrich-isnt-running-for-president-2017-6

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[Mr. Morden]

Kander's headed back to New Hampshire on July 6th (he was just there a few weeks ago):

http://www.wmur.com/article/democratic-voting-rights-activist-kander-to-return-to-nh-next-week/10240943

[Mr. Morden]

CNN’s Eric Bradner has been doing these “#2020 Vision” news roundup stories every Friday for the last several weeks.  They give you a short helping of the preceding week’s 2020 news.  Here’s the one for today:

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/30/politics/2020-vision-kirsten-gillibrand-single-payer/

Most of the stuff mentioned there has already been discussed on this board if not this very thread, but here are two tidbits of interest:

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The above would be more useful if we knew who the “smart Democrats” in question were.  Are they actually people who are plugged in to Senate Dems, and in a position to know something?  Or just smart people who follow the news?

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The USS Iowa?  Is Harris just trolling us now?  She doesn’t want to create a flurry of 2020 speculation by visiting the state of Iowa, so she goes to a ship named after the state. 

[Mr. Morden]

Sunday morning talk show watch:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NEWS_SHOWS?SITE=AP

Tomorrow, Kasich will be on This Week, Paul will be on Fox News Sunday, and Sanders and Sasse will be on State of the Union.

[Mr. Morden]

Harris is raising a bunch of $ for Dems up in 2018:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/30/politics/kamala-harris-2018-democrats/index.html

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The story also notes that she’ll be keeping up an active travel schedule in the fall to do more fundraisers.  Also interesting how the large-ish # of California House seats in play benefits Harris.  She has more of consequence going on in her own backyard than, say, someone like Chris Murphy.

[Mr. Morden]

Garcetti asked about a run for president, and says that he’s “not running”.  But his answer is clearly meant to suggest the present tense, as in, he’s not running for president right this second, but that doesn’t preclude him jumping into the 2020 race in, say, 2019:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-garcetti-future-20170630-story.html

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Also, when he did an event in Wisconsin last month, he made this comment in a media interview there, regarding whether a big city mayor could make the jump to the presidency without holding any statewide office first:

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[Mr. Morden]

Here’s a story about Tim Ryan’s recent trips to early primary states:

http://www.myajc.com/news/what-ohio-tim-ryan/wZkEFc6Z5xmDNsWuPqyiAK/

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[Mr. Morden]

Here’s a story about Tim Ryan’s recent trips to early primary states:

http://www.myajc.com/news/what-ohio-tim-ryan/wZkEFc6Z5xmDNsWuPqyiAK/

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Really weird that that's coming from the Atlanta Journal Constitution...

It's just a reprint from CQ-Roll Call.

[Mr. Morden]

Jake Tapper asked Sasse if there is any chance of him challenging Trump for the 2020 GOP nomination, and Sasse gives a response in which he changes the subject, and doesn't come anywhere close to addressing the question:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/02/sotu.01.html

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[Mr. Morden]

Politico has a new story on how de Blasio's efforts to build a national profile seem to have fizzled, and he's trying to reboot the process:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/03/de-blasio-new-york-mayor-240190

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[Mr. Morden]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/elizabeth-warren-fellow-senators-visit-troops-afghanistan-article-1.3300402

Warren is spending Independence Day with the troops (and fellow Armed Services committee members) in Afghanistan.

She went with Sheldon Whitehouse, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham.





Fun fact: Of the incoming class of Senators in 2012, Warren was the last of that group to do an overseas trip.  Her first one didn't take place until near the end of 2014.  But she's on the Armed Services Committee now, so I guess she has to care more about foreign policy. 

[Mr. Morden]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/fellow-senators-visit-troops-afghanistan-article-1.3300402

elizabeth-warren-Warren is spending Independence Day with the troops (and fellow Armed Services committee members) in Afghanistan.

She went with Sheldon Whitehouse, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham.





Fun fact: Of the incoming class of Senators in 2012, Warren was the last of that group to do an overseas trip.  Her first one didn't take place until near the end of 2014.  But she's on the Armed Services Committee now, so I guess she has to care more about foreign policy. 

None of whom are likely to run in 2020 or 2024 (unless Whitehouse is doing something I don't know about).

Oh yeah, I know they're not running and Warren is.  I didn't intend for my post to be a criticism of your post or anything like that, so I hope you didn't take it that way.  Your post is exactly the sort of info that should be in this thread.  I was just posting more info for interested readers.

[Mr. Morden]

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/cory-booker-axe-files/index.html

Man, these guys are pretty big liars.  Booker isn't "actively thinking about higher office"?  Yeah, right.  Not that Booker is unique in that regard.  All of the prospective candidates say something like this when asked about a presidential run, and all of them are lying.  

[Mr. Morden]

Bernie heading back to Iowa to give keynote speech on 7/15:

http://cciaction.org/july15/

That was mentioned in this very thread back in April. 

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=233345.msg5616770#msg5616770

[Mr. Morden]

Regarding the possibility of Evan McMullin or Mindy Finn doing a presidential campaign rerun in 2020 (either in the GOP primary or going Indy again), this from Mindy Finn may or may not be relevant:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/05/whats-next-for-mindy-finn-240205

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[Mr. Morden]

Chris Matthews said he "heard" that Adam Schiff is running for president:

http://freebeacon.com/politics/chris-matthews-claims-adam-schiff-might-run-president/

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