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Bill Weld announced Friday he is exploring a primary challenge against President Donald Trump in 2020. “Weld is the same ex-Republican who deserted Massachusetts for New York; who endorsed President Barack Obama over Senator John McCain for President; who renounced the GOP for the Libertarian Party; who ran against the Trump-Pence Republican ticket in 2016, while cozying up to Democrat Hillary Clinton,” Lyons said in a statement. “After abandoning Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians, Weld demands that faithful Republicans consider him as their standard bearer. Charlie Baker, who once served in Weld’s administration? Baker was Weld’s secretary of Health and Human Services. No worries in D.C. And lastly, how about those currently in the White House? Lewis serves it up at MassBay State Rep. Jack Lewis, D-Framingham, visited the main campus of MassBay Community College in Wellesley Hills last week to lend a hand to the college’s monthly Mobile Market. Lewis, along with state Rep. Alice Peisch, D-Wellesley, passed out fresh fruit and vegetables delivered from the Greater Boston Food Bank to students, staff and faculty members on Wednesday. Cooper said that since the program started in 2016, the Food Bank has delivered 130,000 pounds of produce to MassBay. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently announced that she has chosen Lau to manage her 2020 presidential campaign.

Bill Weld is back. Brett, a former Massachusetts state representative who has stayed in touch with Weld since their time together at the State House in the 1990s, says he reached out to the 73-year-old former Republican governor to see if there was any interest in speaking at Politics & Eggs. Despite running in a disproportionately Democratic state in a presidential election year, the Weld-Kerry race was neck-and-neck through the summer, before the incumbent senator won with 52.7 percent to 41.2 percent of the vote. After switching his residency back once more to Massachusetts, the former Republican governor was picked to be the 2016 vice presidential running mate of Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson. “We are planning a partnership as president and vice president; I think it’s something unprecedented,” Johnson, who referred to himself as the “lesser half” of the ticket, said at the time. During the campaign, Weld had responded to Libertarian Party members who were skeptical of his Republican record by pledging to remain “Libertarian for life.” And the former governor was so active in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections — touring Libertarian conventions, talking about how the party could grow, fundraising for the party, and endorsing its local candidates — that he stirred speculation that he was setting the groundwork for a 2020 presidential campaign on the Libertarian ticket. And later last month, several outlets reported that he was considering running against President Donald Trump in the 2020 GOP primary. “I’m not going to have anything to say until my talk at Politics and Eggs,” he told WMUR. Then and now, Weld has hardly been the only anti-Trump Republican. While acknowledging the difficulties of running a primary campaign against a Republican president, Brett says he feels pretty sure that Weld will announce plans for a White House bid Friday.