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The Story: Senator Kamala Harris (D - Ca), who has been running for President since January of this year, tweeted Tuesday, "with deep regret --...

The Story: Iran this week announced that it has enriched more than 300 kilograms ((660 bs) of uranium. This indicates that it no longer considers...

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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.

The Story: Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hi) tweeted out a sentiment rare among the Democratic primary candidates who have thus far declared themselves. Her tweet, in...

At the same time, some argue that debate over the Democrats’ supposed “lurch to the left”, as relentlessly highlighted by the president, is an oversimplification that overlooks the Democratic electorate’s desire to limit Trump to one term. “The challenge for Democrats will be to have a substantive, even heated debate over progressive policy while still reminding voters that re-electing Trump would be a catastrophe,” said Jon Favreau, a former speechwriter for Barack Obama whose podcast, The Wilderness, examined the rebuilding of the party after 2016. Play Video 1:18 “Democratic candidates should debate each other but they shouldn’t disqualify each other,” he said. Sanders pushed Clinton on issues including climate change, trade, Wall Street reform and college affordability. As he did so, he strengthened the progressive wing of the party. Warren, Gillibrand, Harris and Booker have signed on to Medicare for All, the single-payer healthcare proposal drafted by Sanders. Many of the contenders have pushed a variation of debt-free college tuition and Warren, Gillibrand, Booker and Harris have embraced the Green New Deal championed by rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “There’s going to be a lot of Democrats on the stage when the primaries begin,” he said, “but I don’t think there’ll be nearly as much distance between them as people think.” Play Video 1:49 Differences, he said, would likely amount to one candidate campaigning on a subsidized jobs program tailored to a marginal group versus another advocating for a guaranteed jobs program affecting millions of people. The question is how far does each of them want to push in terms of solutions to those problems.” Biden has been mulling a third run for president and would be the most establishment-friendly figure if he did jump in. People talked about reforming Ice.” ‘America will never be a socialist country’ Republicans have sought to cast the Democrats’ agenda as “socialist”, zeroing in on healthcare and tax proposals that poll better than the GOP seems to think.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A record-breaking number of women plan to run for president in 2020. Democratic Senator Kamala Harris of California made her formal announcement on Good Morning America Monday. Councilwoman Carol Berz says she thinks the current political and social environments have sparked women's interest in public office. Movements, like The Women's March, continue to dominate the headlines, but Berz says it takes more than marching to make women to run. Serving on Chattanooga's City Council for more than a decade, Berz says she understands why more women now are answering the call to public service. "I think its economy of scale, I think it's equity in business, I think it's education - I think it’s all sorts of things. I think the thing we need to realize is these aren't Republican or Democratic issues. Those who were some the first to see women step into our community's leadership roles, like Marie Hurley Blair, daughter of Mai Bell Hurley, Chattanooga's first female elected to city government, say the key to success as a woman in politics is standing your ground. "She had self-doubt at times, but I think she really was very much a big fixer person and had such a strong belief in the potential of what Chattanooga could become and was a part of that at every step,” said Blair. Councilwoman Berz expects, if the momentum continues, even more women will sit in the commission chambers and even in the Oval Office.

With the 2020 presidential election already underway, 57 percent of registered voters said they would definitely vote against President Donald Trump, according to the latest poll from the PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist. Another 30 percent of voters said they would cast their ballot to support Trump, and an additional 13 percent said they had no idea who would get their vote. According to the poll, 29 percent of Republicans and conservative-leaning Independents said they felt favorable about Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. Voters’ preferences are no less clear in the Democratic primary field, which is growing quickly ahead of the party’s first primary debates this summer. The early stage of the Democratic primaries comes as Trump awaits the conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and faces a new challenge from the Democratic-controlled House. The partial government shutdown — now in its 27th day and the longest in U.S. history — hasn’t helped. Fifty-seven percent of respondents believe that, overall as president, Trump is not doing enough to work with congressional Democrats, this latest poll suggests. With neither side yielding, nearly two-thirds of Americans admire elected officials who are willing to compromise despite disagreements with others, a slight uptick from April 2017, when 58 percent of U.S. adults said they felt that way. “What we’re seeing in each of these questions is a sense that compromise is desired and both sides should be working more with the other,” Miringoff said. And a bigger segment of Republicans said they want elected officials who don’t waver, compared to Democrats and Independents.

What We’re Following Today It’s Monday, January 14. Here’s what else we’re watching: Dueling Narratives: Recent reports that Trump had gone so far as to seize his own interpreter’s notes in an effort to conceal details about his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and that the FBI at one point opened an inquiry into whether Trump was working on Russia’s behalf sparked very different reactions from Republicans and Democrats. Pivot! : Last week, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham was all in for Trump declaring a national emergency to secure funding for a border wall, even tweeting on Friday, “Declare a national emergency NOW.” But by Sunday, he had started to change his tune. Unthinkable (Drew Angerer / Getty) Two years into President Trump’s first term in office, The Atlantic looks back on the moments that have defined his presidency. Unthinkable is our catalog of 50 of the most improbable incidents to date—from the truly outlandish to the truly destructive—that under any previous administration, Democratic or Republican, would still have been unthinkable. "If people really want to change the Senate to reflect the size of states, then just abolish the Senate." "I have a better idea: one senator from each state, elected for a six-year term, and 50 senators elected at-large for 12-year terms," writes Daniel R. Van Wyk of Everett, Washington. Read more reader ideas on reapportioning the Senate (or not), and read Orts’s response here. (Adam Serwer) “In 2014, as Trump was mulling a run for president, he made an appearance in Iowa with King, calling him ‘special guy, a smart person, with really the right views on almost everything,’ and noting that their views on the issues were so similar that ‘we don’t even have to compare notes.’”? Read on.