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His efforts were rewarded with a job in President Trump’s cabinet. Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker, clawed back to national prominence seven years ago despite posing little threat to take the nomination, turning the protagonist of his wife’s children’s book — a fictional elephant named Ellis — into a kind of campaign mascot available for voter consumption. “They introduce you, and then they say, ‘... and former presidential candidate!’ It’s not bad.” It is not. [Who’s running for president in 2020? Al Sharpton, who sought the Democratic nomination in 2004, said the experience aided his civil rights advocacy and increased his personal clout, expanding his opportunities even though he never approached serious electoral strength. “I don’t think anyone who runs for president does it just to boost their careers,” said Steve Israel, the former chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “We’re seeing generational cases being made here and they’re landing,” Mr. Swalwell said. “I was on the national stage before,” he said, suggesting that his presidential campaigns had little effect on his future prospects. “I did Fox for five years after I left the Senate. “I was in favor of bringing Snowden home, stopping drone strikes, ending capital punishment,” Mr. Chafee said.

There are some who continue to maintain that talking about politics over a meal, particularly a holiday meal, is bad form. A Pie with 232 Blueberries and 200 Cranberries usrjrey Your family may not notice that this pie reflects the new configuration of the House of Representatives after what was unequivocally a blue wave, so you'll need to subtly remind them by saying "This pie reflects the new configuration of the House of Representatives after what was unequivocally a blue wave." you should genially ask your family, as you casually knock the crumbling chimney of the home over. While other politicians are out dining at Trump Hotels with oil barons and Bane from Batman, AOC is at home making Instant Pot recipes and talking about policy. Traditionally, the president pardons both turkeys although one is low-key given a cabinet appointment, but Trump would sentence both turkeys to execution if he could. Duck Anadolu Agency Note: do not serve the Glamour Duck. Did the Glamour Duck take your job, Greg? Your family will say, "Who asked for this?" And you'll respond, "although the majority of the family did not want this dish, the menu was swayed by disproportionate representation and an influx of corporate money. I will not be holding a town hall to discuss this.

Detroit's school board is officially considering whether the Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine should be renamed; reaction from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking…

Donald Trump began his Presidential campaign by calling Mexican migrants criminals and rapists, he began his Presidency by signing an anti-Muslim travel ban, and he’s going into the midterms doing everything he can to gin up fears about immigrants. Along the way, his Administration has put DACA in limbo, instituted a policy of separating parents from children at the border, held children in cages, slashed the number of refugees the country takes in every year, and proposed making it harder for immigrants who receive public assistance to become legal residents. His has been an anti-immigrant Administration as much as it’s been anything else. On Tuesday, Axios published portions of an interview its reporters recently conducted with Trump, in which the President asserted that he had the power to end birthright citizenship by executive order. “It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t,” Trump said. Legal opinion is against Trump here—the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment reads, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside”—and it’s not even clear from his quotes to Axios when or if he intends to sign such an order. “Birthright citizenship has become a contentious issue in the Republican primary race,” she wrote, “with outright calls that it should be done away with or disavowed (Trump, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham); that it ‘doesn’t make any sense’ (Ben Carson); that it needs to be ‘reëxamined’ (Chris Christie); or that it is being ‘taken advantage’ of in ways that should be countered (Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush)—or just a waffling unwillingness to defend it (Scott Walker).” Trump wasn’t alone here—most of the Republican field saw questioning birthright citizenship as a necessary position to take to win the primaries. But staking out the most extreme positions, demonizing and dehumanizing foreigners, ragings against “those people,” this is how he won elections in 2016, and this is how he wants to win them next week.

(AP Photo/Chris Gardner, File) The Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The portrait used to hang in the hallway, welcoming children and parents to the Archbishop Borders School in Baltimore: A smiling Dr. Ben Carson in surgical scrubs, rubbing together the careful, steady hands that helped him become the nation's most famous black doctor. "The person who has the most to do with your success is you," it reads. That was before Carson's presidential bid, before he withdrew from the race and endorsed Donald Trump, before he was tapped to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Carson's story of growing up in a single-parent household and climbing out of poverty to become a world-renowned surgeon was once ubiquitous in Baltimore, the overwhelmingly Democratic city where Carson made his name. But his role in the Trump administration has added a complicated epilogue, leaving many who admired him feeling betrayed, unable to separate him from the politics of a president widely rejected by African-Americans here. Carson declined to be interviewed for this story. Instead, he sent a written statement. Shaun Verma, a Ben Carson Scholarship recipient and Johns Hopkins graduate, says Carson's use of his story of hard work and determination to justify scaling back the safety net for the same communities that raised and revered him "is really, really disappointing." Some Maryland conservatives view Carson differently. When assistance is scaled back, those accustomed to the status quo are bound to be disappointed, he said, adding that Carson "is learning" how to sell his policies to skeptics.

(CNN)The "Abolish ICE" chorus overtaking the immigration debate has Democrats and liberals scrambling to respond to a base of supporters angered by the country's immigration service while at the same time trying to project that they support a secure border. "I don't think ICE today is working as intended," New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a potential 2020 candidate for Democrats said Thursday night on CNN. "I believe that it has become a deportation force, and I think you should separate the criminal justice from the immigration issues." Calls to re-imagine and shrink the US government usually sound from the other side of the political aisle, and there have been a lot of them in recent years. Rick Perry wanted to trim three departments from the federal government -- so many that he once famously forgot the names of all the departments he'd end. Let's see ... commerce, education," Perry said. And the passage of tax reform by Republicans in Congress won't stop people like Cruz from trying to make the tax code even simpler and trying to "abolish" the IRS. In June the Trump administration suggested a large-scale reorganization of the federal government, which would merge the Education and Labor Departments and replace the Department of Health and Human Services with something new that would also include administration of food stamps, a massive program under the Department of Agriculture. Former President Barack Obama wanted Congress to give him broad authority to reform duplicative government agencies, but they didn't do it. People who want to abolish ICE aren't complaining it is duplicative, or that it's performing a function the federal government should not, but rather that deportations are out of control.

-Written by Elaine Godfrey (@elainejgodfrey) Today in 5 Lines President Trump announced the U.S. will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and reinstate sanctions against the country. The leaders of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom put out a joint statement condemning the decision. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that his country will remain in the agreement for now but warned that he will resume enriching uranium if negotiations fall apart. Chinese state media reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un plans to discuss “phased and synchronous measures” to deal with its nuclear program during an upcoming meeting with Trump. Fair-housing activists sued the Department of Housing and Urban Development and its secretary, Ben Carson, over the agency’s decision to postpone an Obama-era rule meant to prevent segregation in federal housing. The Races We’re Watching Voters in West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, and North Carolina will select nominees in their states’ primary elections. In West Virginia, we’re keeping our eye on the Republican Senate primary between Representative Evan Jenkins, state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, and the former coal executive Don Blankenship. President Trump urged voters on Monday not to support Blankenship, because he “can’t win” a general election. : New data suggest that to win black voters, Democrats will need to find candidates willing to call out racism and run explicitly anti-racist campaigns. (Vann R. Newkirk II) Snapshot What We’re Reading The Case for Gina Haspel: Critics argue that the Senate shouldn’t approve someone who oversaw the torture of terror suspects to lead the CIA.

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