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Fresh off the grand opening of his first New Hampshire campaign office, presidential candidate John Delaney addressed students and business leaders at a "Politics & Eggs" event in Bedford. Delaney, making his fourteenth visit to the Granite State since launching his campaign in 2017, called for a restoration of American unity and a renewed sense of national purpose. “I think our current president is the divider-in-chief, but he’s only the punctuation mark on decades of failed politics,” Delaney said. >> Raw video: See Delaney's speech The former Maryland congressman said while he opposes President Donald Trump and seeks to defeat him in 2020, the president is not the central focus of his campaign. “My campaign is about solving problems, focusing on the future, and bringing people together – that makes me more of a moderate,” Delaney said. If he’s elected, Delaney lists education and addressing climate change as top priorities, with a carbon tax and publicly funded “K-14,” adding two years of no-cost community college beyond high school. He’d also spend his first hundred days working to pass legislation that already has broad bipartisan support in Congress. Delaney said he appreciates “the energy” behind the Green New Deal and ‘Medicare for All’ proposals. He said he supports measures he believes are more practical and compatible with the economy – another ‘third way’ solution that aims to find compromise between Washington’s partisan factions. “We can have a different politics,” Delaney said.

Two nights later, that televised celebrity encounter was re-"televised" on Saturday Night Live, with movie and TV star Alec Baldwin playing the role of President Trump. "Do I think Alec Baldwin is likely to be the nominee? The subject of the article was the spike in the number of celebrities with no political experience who are making the list of potential 2020 candidates. Not that celebrity politics is anything new. Reagan was governor of California and the head of the Screen Actors Guild. But a president Kanye? TV attorney Michael Avenatti makes no bones about the fact that he believes it's his relentless combativeness that makes him the best nominee for the Democrats. But how the media works isn't how governance works. That's not what celebrities do. Donald Trump's celebrity helped make him president, absolutely.

Two nights later, that televised celebrity encounter was re-"televised" on Saturday Night Live, with movie and TV star Alec Baldwin playing the role of President Trump. "Do I think Alec Baldwin is likely to be the nominee? The subject of the article was the spike in the number of celebrities with no political experience who are making the list of potential 2020 candidates. Not that celebrity politics is anything new. Reagan was governor of California and the head of the Screen Actors Guild. But a president Kanye? TV attorney Michael Avenatti makes no bones about the fact that he believes it's his relentless combativeness that makes him the best nominee for the Democrats. But how the media works isn't how governance works. That's not what celebrities do. Donald Trump's celebrity helped make him president, absolutely.