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It’s often been said that Donald Trump destroyed all precedents in his astonishing rise to the presidency in 2016. And one of the unusual things about him was his complete lack of prior experience in public office or running for public office. A few major-party nominees were closer to Trump in the empty resume department (notably 1904 Democratic nominee Alton Parker, a state judge, and 1940 Republican nominee Wendell Willkie, a utility executive), but for the most part, especially in more recent times, the major parties have nominated former or current senators and governors. That could help explain why two candidates (one potential and one actual) who together have 81 years of experience in elected office, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, top every poll. But as Nathaniel Rakich of FiveThirtyEight observes, voters tend to adapt their view of desirable candidate qualities to how they see their preferred candidates, more than the other way around. Thus Republicans told Pew pollsters early in the 2016 cycle that they valued experience over “new ideas” until Trump emerged as a favorite and flipped that particular script. The near–draft-level interest in former Georgia state legislator Stacey Abrams is unusual, too. It’s possible that while Trump hasn’t totally dispelled an interest in experience among voters in either party, Democrats are less worried than they might normally be about sending up a relative novice to oppose him; it’s not like Trump is going to depict himself as the wise, credentialed, steady hand on the tiller. It’s notable that candidates at both ends of the experience spectrum — Biden and Sanders, and O’Rourke and Buttigieg — are thought to be potentially strong among the white working-class voters so important to Trump’s 2016 election and 2020 reelection prospects. Perhaps all that’s going on is that against the terrifying Trump Democrats are valuing perceived electability above all.

At a rally Sunday in her hometown of Oakland, she officially launched her presidential campaign by tapping those same populist themes. A crowd that rally organizers estimated at 20,000 people filled the streets around a flag-draped Frank Ogawa Plaza, where Harris made her opening 2020 pitch: She will be the candidate who is both “a fighter for the people” and someone who can unite a country severed into partisan corners by saying that “we must seek truth, speak truth and fight for the truth.” “People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other. “Our United States of America is not about us against them. I’m running to be a president by the people, of the people, for all people.” Sunday’s rally capped a weeklong White House campaign rollout for Harris, 54, the former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general, that highlighted her roots. The daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica announced her campaign on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on ABC’s “Good Morning America”; stopped by her alma mater, Howard University; then appeared at a fundraiser for Alpha Kappa Alpha, her college sorority, at a gala Friday in South Carolina, a key early primary state. Her speech Sunday offered a road map of where she will take her campaign — starting with a full embrace of the progressive agenda. She intends to pay for it by eliminating parts of President Trump’s tax law that benefited the wealthiest Americans and by placing a tax on financial institutions. She has also introduced legislation that would give a tax break to renters. Wicks was a top state organizer for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. “If I have the honor of being your president, I will tell you this: I am not perfect.

Shortly after Nike's announcement, the consumer-research firm Morning Consult released a survey showing that Nike had indeed, as President Trump predicted, taken a reputation hit from its overtly political campaign. Interviews with 8,000 Americans showed a nearly 50 percent decline in Nike's favorability after announcing the Kaepernick ad campaign. Consumer interest in buying Nike products dropped by 10 percentage points. A polarizing political endorsement is going to cost a company with customers on the other side of the issue, though it may still pay off in terms of greater loyalty from people who agree. Yes, the percentage of Republicans saying they were likely to buy Nike shoes fell from 51 percent to 28 percent, but support also dropped among Democrats, albeit only by five percentage points. Nonetheless, if the Morning Consult findings hold up, the new ad campaign appears to be a lose-lose proposition for Nike. Maybe companies would think twice before injecting politics even into people's shopping decisions. Companies have historically avoided entering the political fray for fear of just what this survey shows: You often alienate far more customers than you gain. That's not healthy for America, which needs more points that people have in common, not more ways to divide into separate teams. Maybe Americans aren't divided on this one.

So what does this mean for Rhode Island? Trump's low approval numbers in RI do not trump Raimondo's incompetence in voter's minds. Voting for Raimondo will have no impact on President Trump. But voting Raimondo out will put an end to the incompetent Raimondo administration." Last week, Democratic Gov. This week, Republican Allan Fung became the target after WPRI-TV reported on a series of questions involving Fung's campaign headquarters at Chapel View. Fung's better half took the lead in responding to a comment by rival GOP candidate Patricia Morgan: "When Allan becomes Governor, he'll be the first Chinese Republican Governor in the history of the United States & the first Asian American and racial minority Governor in the history of Rhode Island, and I'll be so proud of him shattering all of those glass ceilings. UPDATE: Perez and a spokesman for House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello say Perez has Mattiello's support in the race. He had a great relationship with Republican Nikki Haley when she was governor and still texts with her now that she’s at the United Nations, and has a good one as well with new Gov. Disruptions in local news coverage are soon followed by higher long-term borrowing costs for cities.