The “Who is running in 2020?” tea leaves thread, Part 2

[Mr. Morden]

The other thread has reached 2000 replies, so I'm locking it.  Here's the new thread for candidate news.  Mods, please sticky.

I guess I should also offer a link to the old thread, in case you want to revisit it:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=233345.0

[Mr. Morden]

Howard Schultz "sounds like a candidate":

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Starbucks-exec-Howard-Schultz-sure-sounds-like-a-12218617.php

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[Mr. Morden]

CNN to host town hall debate Monday with Graham, Cassidy, Sanders and Klobuchar.

IIRC, Klobuchar's one of the only likely 2020 Dem. presidential candidates in the Senate who isn't co-sponsoring the "Medicare for all" bill.  So it'll be interesting to see what she has to say on single payer.

[Mr. Morden]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/22/politics/2020-vision-bernie-sanders-health-care/index.html

Lol, another O'Malley early state visit:

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[Mr. Morden]

Tom Steyer

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/tom-steyer-2020-democrats/540357/

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[Mr. Morden]

We need to make this a sticky and make the mods pay for it

I PMed TJ asking him to do that, but he hasn't responded.

[Mr. Morden]

Sunday morning talk show watch: For the first time in a while, it looks like none of the likely 2020 Dems will be on any of the Sunday morning shows tomorrow, though Rand Paul (who I suppose might conceivably run again in 2020) will be on Meet the Press:

http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook/2017/09/23/trump-i-might-have-made-a-mistake-in-backing-strange-aides-told-trump-not-to-personally-attack-kim-gardner-gop-donors-are-furious-jon-favreaus-new-pad-seth-moulton-gets-married-bday-spicer-222440

[Mr. Morden]

At an event in Texas, Franken says “I don’t want to be president”:

http://lacrossetribune.com/news/franken-says-he-won-t-run-for-president-in/article_61fde4bb-ec86-5852-9104-7aa1610cc342.html

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[Mr. Morden]

Booker’s latest dodge:

http://freebeacon.com/politics/booker-dodges-question-president-three-years-away/

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Biden rips Trump over Charleston comments in South Carolina speech (Charleston branch of the NAACP):

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/23/biden-rips-trump-over-race-in-south-carolina-return-243060

Additional Biden-South Carolina moves:

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And here’s more Biden activity:

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[Mr. Morden]

Biden is launching a daily podcast:

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/352291-biden-launches-daily-news-podcast

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Cuban says there’s a 10% chance that he runs for president, and that it’s the only political office he would consider running for:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2735192-mark-cuban-says-theres-a-10-percent-chance-he-runs-for-president

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[Mr. Morden]

Ben Sasse heading to Iowa.

Source?

[Mr. Morden]

Ben Sasse heading to Iowa.

Source?

A tweet

OK, looks like there's a story in the DMR now:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/26/ben-sasse-speak-iowa-family-leader-event/703653001/

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[Mr. Morden]

Jill Biden: "We take one day at a time."

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/jill-biden-on-husband-s-prospects-we-take-one-day/article_ff227f0e-a387-11e7-be11-dfcc427dc188.html

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Gabbard goes on another foreign trip, and gets banned from Azerbaijan (though this time along with a bipartisan delegation):

http://www.civilbeat.org/2017/09/how-did-tulsi-gabbard-end-up-blacklisted-by-azerbaijan/

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[Mr. Morden]

Kasich asked about another presidential run:

http://freebeacon.com/politics/kasich-wallace-co-host/

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[Mr. Morden]

John Podhoretz suggests Oprah Winfrey as the Dems' best 2020 chance for prez, and her Twitter response is not exactly a denial of interest:

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/353042-oprah-touts-op-ed-urging-her-to-run-for-president

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[Mr. Morden]

Here's this week's #2020Vision column:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/29/politics/2020-vision-bidens-oprah-ben-sasse/

As usual, much of it covers ground we've already talked about here.  But here are two things from the column that I don't think we've mentioned...

Kander will be in the early caucus state of Nevada tomorrow:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1620832121310458/

And Seth Moulton (on his way to Iowa) responds to a question about 2020:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/09/29/seth-moulton-says-been-approached-run-for-president/ApxiBZNzL6Nm2brvo8th3K/story.html

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[Mr. Morden]

Earlier this week, Cuomo headed to the early caucus state of Nevada to speak before a gathering of the Transport Workers Union:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2017-09-26/ny-gov-cuomo-to-speak-at-las-vegas-labor-convention

Meanwhile, Howard Schultz is asked about a presidential run, and responds “never say never”:

http://www.king5.com/opinion/editorials/the-sound/interviewer-howard-schultz-coy-about-2020-presidential-run/479398418

[Mr. Morden]

Sunday morning talk show watch:

This Sunday, Kasich will be on "State of the Union", while Sanders will be on both "State of the Union" and "This Week":

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

[Mr. Morden]

On Twitter I found this pic of Tim Ryan and Seth Moulton from today's Iowa Steak Fry:



But this guy had the best shirt there:

[Mr. Morden]

Garcetti is spending an awfully large portion of his time traveling out of state (including a trip to early caucus state Nevada next month):

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-garcetti-out-of-town-20170912-story.html

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[Mr. Morden]

Jason Zengerle at the NYT has a new rundown of the 2020 Dem. field:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/30/opinion/who-can-beat-trump-in-2020.html

O'Malley has got to be upset that he didn't even get a mention.  How many more Iowa and New Hampshire visits does he have to do before the MSM notices his existence?  

Most surreal sentence from the piece is the one in which Zengerle calls Amy Klobuchar "a sort of thinking man’s Sarah Palin".

[Mr. Morden]

Was it because Klobuchar said she could see Canada from her porch?

She's repeatedly said the same about Iowa:

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/07/nation/la-na-early-states-courtship-20120907

Not sure how it's possible to see both Iowa and Canada at the same time.  Her glasses must give her incredible vision. 

[Mr. Morden]

More Mark Cuban:

https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/dallas-mavericks/mavericks/2017/09/30/90-percent-mark-cubans-presidential-campaign-donald-trump-look-like

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