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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) slams President Trump over the partial government shutdown in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper. #CNN #News

Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey counts more billionaire potential financiers as friends or allies than many other potential candidates for the 2020 Democratic nomination. The hope of these potential candidates is that grass-roots donors and progressive activists would reward them more handsomely in the primary for rejecting such funds. The financial firepower would be alluring to those with a ready network of financiers, such as Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, who is seen as likely to have a super PAC, according to donors, strategists and people close to him. Some allies are already discussing possible super PACs for Senators Kamala Harris of California and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, the two most Democratic donor-rich states in the nation. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has deep relationships with home-state donors who could finance a campaign, but she has also invested in creating a digital network of small donors. Strategists inside multiple potential 2020 operations described active discussions on the big money conundrum. “But I also knew people were sick of it all.” Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont refused support from super PACs during his 2016 presidential run. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is likely to reject the assistance of a super PAC should she run for president. People close to her said that she is unlikely to seek super PAC assistance in 2020 and that she is unlikely to endorse any candidate who would if she does not run. “I’ll probably give to Bernie and Elizabeth to start out the primaries,” he said.

Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. But for Democratic organizers, civil rights activists and African-American elected officials, Mike Espy’s loss in the Mississippi Senate race on Tuesday cut deep. Their ranks include eight black candidates who won in majority white districts. But in some of the highest-profile races, mostly in the South, efforts to elect black Democrats came up short. Mr. Gillum, Ms. Abrams and Mr. Jealous would have been their states’ first black governors — and the only black governors in office in the United States. And had Mr. Espy won in Mississippi, he would have been the first African-American to represent his state in the Senate in nearly 150 years. It wasn’t a win but it was certainly a victory.” The outlook for minority candidates is likely to get clearer next year, when multiple black Democrats could be running for president. ____________________ 2020 Watch • John Kerry tells Harvard students that he’s “going to think about” running for president. • The Willamette Week reports that Senator Jeff Merkley has “quietly asked” state legislators to change a law barring running for two offices at the same time, allowing him to run both for senate and president in 2020. ____________________ What to read tonight • A new twist in the special counsel investigation: Michael Cohen, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, admits in court to engaging in negotiations over building a Trump tower in Moscow well into the 2016 campaign.

Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith at an election night party in Jackson, Miss., this month. — A special election for the Senate in Mississippi has become a test of racial and partisan politics in the Deep South, as a Republican woman, Cindy Hyde-Smith, and an African-American Democrat, Mike Espy, compete for the last Senate seat still up for grabs in the 2018 midterm campaign. Ms. Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to a seat in the Senate earlier this year, seemed until recently to be on a glide path toward winning the election in her own right. A private Republican poll last week found Ms. Hyde-Smith’s lead over Mr. Espy had narrowed to just five percentage points, three people briefed on the data said. “It would’ve been so much better if she apologized,” Mr. Feaster said. The contest went to a runoff when none of four candidates received the 50 percent of votes needed to win outright. Strategists in both parties believe Ms. Hyde-Smith remains the favorite: She was the top vote-getter in the first round, slightly outpacing Mr. Espy even though there was another Republican — Chris McDaniel, a divisive, strongly conservative state senator — on the ballot. No Democrat has won a Senate race in Mississippi since 1982. “People know there’s a runoff. Mr. Espy’s advisers have told political donors that they believe he needs to mobilize black voters in force and win about a quarter of white voters to defeat Ms. Hyde-Smith, a near-herculean task in a state where the two political parties are split chiefly along racial lines.

Former ICE director Tom Homan and Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce react to Sen. Harris' statements. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number…

Social media stars sound off after the Democrat senator compares ICE to the KKK during a Capitol Hill hearing and Nancy Pelosi thanks Rev. Al Sharpton for 'saving America'. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated…

Democratic Senator Kamala Harris’ comments comparing ICE and KKK cause concern at a hearing on Capitol Hill. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The…

Angela Xiao State attorney-general hopeful William Tong knows the Elm City’s votes are a must for Democrats running for office in Connecticut. As midterm elections near, Tong opened with an appeal to Yale’s voters — telling attendees about his own background and political career. He then delved into a discussion about the race, his plans for the position and an interpretation of the legal field’s current atmopshere, before ending with another appeal to vote. “That’s true in cities across the country because Democrats stand for, in general, fairness and equity and social change. “I was surprised by how personal [Tong] was,” attendee and YULAA member Nathalie Beauchamps ’21 said. He was the first Asian-American to be elected to a state-level position in Connecticut’s history. Tong also highlighted his hope of holding the petroleum industry accountable for damage to the environment and climate change. Tong told attendees that “the next frontier for us is to join Rhode Island in suing Big Oil for climate change.” He noted that Rhode Island’s pioneering attempt to challenge the petroleum industry is rooted in an argument credited to former Yale Law School professor and former Law School dean Harold Koh, who also served as the State Department’s Legal Adviser under former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton LAW ’73. Tong won the three-way Democratic primary with 57.8 percent of the vote and faces Republican state attorney Susan Hatfield in the general election. Residents of Connecticut will go to the polls to vote on a plethora of state-level positions on Nov. 6.

Law enforcement source says authorities are investigating two packages in California, one sent to Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris, the other addressed to billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer; Jonathan Hunt reports from Los Angeles. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation on the US Supreme Court is a major accomplishment. (Oct. 10) AP With nerves still raw from the wrenching confirmation process of now Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, speculation whirls regarding what the political implications will be. What might these two black senators tell us about the direction of racial politics in the country? Both, in my view, point to a core redefining of the black presence in the Democratic Party. Whereas 41 percent of Americans describe themselves as "born again" or evangelical, 61 of blacks do. But the movement of Democrats farther left, highlighted by the divisiveness of the Kavanaugh hearings, could be a watershed in racial politics. Booker and Harris are rooted more in Democratic Party progressivism than the traditional concerns of black Democrats. It is this kind of perversion of justice, displacing facts with prejudice and claims, that has historically been used to persecute blacks — particularly sexual assault claims leveled against black men. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, is exactly what they don't need. And more and more black Americans are beginning to understand this.