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Beto O’Rourke thinks he is born to run for president, and so far, it looks like two members of New York’s congressional delegation agree. In doing so, Maloney and Rice became the first members of New York’s congressional delegation to endorse any of the politicians currently vying for the Democratic nomination. O’Rourke, 46, represented El Paso in Congress for three terms. That, Democratic political consultant Bruce Gyory says, is why moderates Rice and Maloney are backing him. To endorse so early in the race – before candidates have even outlined their national policy platforms – might seem rash, but Kathleen Rice said working with O’Rourke in Congress made her confident in his policy positions. Maloney, arguably the most moderate Democrat in New York’s House delegation, could be attempting to bolster his credentials in a swing district. But it may just be that like Rice, he and O’Rourke already have a relationship. What is perhaps most notable – if not totally surprising – about this pair of endorsements, is that the only 2020 Democratic presidential candidate from New York still has no support from New York’s congressional delegation. Beto O'Rourke represents energy in a Democratic Party that is breaking up into pieces that will hopefully unite during the November general election.” So while Rice and Maloney may not have been likely to support Gillibrand, their endorsements of O’Rourke have drawn more attention to the fact that Gillibrand is still running without home state support. “I have a great relationship with Sen. Gillibrand,” Rice said.

President Donald Trump has branded as "disgraceful" the resolution passed after Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments suggesting House supporters of Israel have dual allegiances. Democrats increased their share of the Jewish vote between the 2016 and 2018 elections, from 71 percent to 79 percent. Trump's efforts to paint the Democratic party as anti-Jewish came after tweets and comments by freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who suggested that pro-Israel lobbying groups controlled U.S. lawmakers through political money. While some Democrats said the remarks played into anti-Semitic slurs about how Jewish money controls American politics, Omar said they were "not intended to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole." Jesse Lehrich, a foreign policy spokesman for 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, said Trump's attacks ring hollow from a man who spoke sympathetically of some of the white supremacists who held a 2017 march in Charlottesville, Virginia. Matthew Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, said "there's a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of support" among Jewish voters for what Trump is doing, though he has not seen any new polling on the question. Soifer, the executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, cited the drop-off of Jewish support for Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections to say that Trump and the GOP are losing traction with these voters. A Gallup report released Thursday said that, according to 2018 data, 52 percent of Jewish-Americans described themselves as Democrats, while only 16 percent identified themselves as Republicans. Among Jewish respondents, 26 percent approved of Trump's performance as president; 71 percent disapproved. Trump carried only 8 percent the African-American vote in 2016, according to exit polls.

During recent closed-door testimony, Fox News has learned that a senior FBI lawyer said the chances of securing the Page warrant were only '50/50' without relying on the controversial anti-Trump dossier; chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports. Newly unsealed court filings show how the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and an associate shared with the FBI and a host of media outlets the unverified dossier that alleged the Russians had compromising information on now-President Trump. McCain had denied being the source for BuzzFeed after it published the dossier, which was funded by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, but had acknowledged giving it to the FBI. In a newly unsealed declaration from September, former senior counterintelligence FBI agent Bill Priestap confirmed that the FBI received a copy of the first 33 pages of the dossier in December 2016 from McCain. In another filing, David Kramer -- a former State Department official and McCain associate -- said in a Dec. 13, 2017, deposition that the dossier was given to him by author and former British spy Christopher Steele, which he then provided to more than a dozen journalists at outlets including CNN, BuzzFeed and The Washington Post. The details were first reported by The Daily Caller. Kramer told investigators that it was the sense from Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson that “having Senator McCain provide it to the FBI would give it a little more oomph than it had had up until that point.” “I think they felt a senior Republican was better to be the recipient of this rather than a Democrat because if it were a Democrat, I think that the view was that it would have been dismissed as a political attack,” he said. Kramer also described how BuzzFeed News reporter Ken Bensinger came to get hold of the dossier, before the outlet became the first to publish it in its entirety. But Kramer said he left Bensinger alone to read the memos and, in that time, Bensinger took photos of the dossier.

From Beto O’Rourke to the president’s first veto, it’s been a busy week in American politics. Here are some of the biggest stories you might have missed (and some links if you’d like to read further). ___________________ Congress stood up to the president this week. Additional Reading • G.O.P.’s Attempt to Avoid Emergency Showdown With Trump Is Scuttled, by Trump • How Every Senator Voted on Ending Trump’s National Emergency • Impeaching Trump Is ‘Not Worth It,’ Nancy Pelosi Says An even-more-crowded primary. But will Beto O’Rourke, whose near-miss Senate run in Texas last year propelled him to Democratic stardom, change the polls? His entrance into the race on Thursday adds a relentless campaigner with a small-dollar fund-raising army to the crowded field. Policy issues around the Democratic primary are also coming into focus. Additional Reading • Why Texas Is Nearing Battleground Status (It’s Not Just About Beto) • Milwaukee Picked as Site of 2020 Democratic National Convention • As Hillary Clinton Steps Away, a Political Era for Women Wanes Trump’s record-breaking budget proposal. His budget proposal — totaling $4.75 trillion, a record — calls for cuts to domestic programs like education and environmental protection, while increasing military spending. In the first two months of 2019 alone, they have killed 225.

And Sanders is younger than three other American politicians who are qualified to be president, two of whom are considering a run for the office — former vice-president Joe Biden and former California governor Jerry Brown. Biden, 78, is a year older than Sanders. Story continues below Nelson Mandela was the same age that Sanders is today when he became the first democratically elected president of South Africa in 1994. He and his African National Congress dismantled apartheid and wrote a national constitution that became the most progressive in the world. Mandela decided not to run for a second term in 1999. If he had run — and almost certainly he would have won — he would have been 88 at the end of his second term. Like South Africa, Tunisia also allows for two five-year presidential terms. After all, the oldest sitting president in U.S. history, Donald Trump — who was 70 when he was elected in 2016 — may turn out to be the worst. If Trump is removed from office before the 2020 election, along with vice-president Mike Pence (who, unlike Richard Nixon’s vice-president, Gerald Ford, may be seen to be complicit in Trump’s suspected criminality), Pelosi would become president. I am an Elder of the Tribe.” It is time for elders, many of whom for decades have been consigned to rest homes, to assume real power, bringing their wisdom, experience and human discernment to transforming our world for the better.

Several of the President's political advisers, preparing for a re-election campaign focused on boosting turnout among the President's base of supporters, have looked to the possibility of Trump's impeachment as an opportunity to cast Trump as a victim of Washington politics and overzealous Democrats, three sources close to the White House and the campaign said. "Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there's something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don't think we should go down that path, because it divides the country." The comments amounted to Pelosi's strongest to date on the prospects of impeaching Trump and while she did not entirely close the door on the possibility, her comments indicated that she is loath to hand the President a deeply divisive issue to rev up his base and drive the conversation away from policy issues. "I think it was really smart on her part," a senior Republican operative close to the campaign said of Pelosi. "Why go through a lengthy drawn out fight over something that's going to be divisive and energize the President's base when there's an election coming up and you can win that?" Republican and Democratic operatives alike are looking to the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton as an important reminder: Clinton, who was impeached on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, saw his approval rating rocket to the highest level of his presidency during the impeachment proceedings. Right now, we have neither one," a senior House Democratic aide told CNN. Even without impeachment, Democrats will continue to pursue investigations into Trump and his administration and, while the findings could prove damaging, the President has already begun to fashion those investigations into his latest boogeyman, accusing Democrats of zealous political overreach. And so while some of Trump's advisers took Pelosi's comments as a sign she is trying to move her caucus away from impeachment, others saw it as a set up. "She has 100% intent of impeaching this President," said David Bossie, an outside political adviser of the President's who worked as the House oversight committee's chief investigator in the lead-up to Clinton's impeachment.

Jewish millennials launch liberation movement from the Democratic Party after the Rep. Ilhan Omar controversy. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service,…

House anti-hate resolution leads to party infighting, Nancy Pelosi facing new questions about how much control she has over her the Democratic Party; reaction and analysis from 'The Five.' #TheFive #FoxNews FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news…

A candidate says that the idea of packing the Supreme Court to move it leftward is no laughing matter, suggests he would consider it.

Senator Bernie Sanders re-enters the Presidential fray, this time as a front-runner, with his now-familiar revolutionary message.