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A slate of mayors considering presidential bids are hopeful of their 2020 prospects, as they look to leverage themselves as outsiders and effective negotiators at a time when Washington has just emerged from a record-long government shutdown. Mayors have had little luck ascending to the highest office in the nation, with no sitting mayor ever elected to the White House. But the new crop of potential 2020 contenders believe that their executive experience as mayors could differentiate them from the quickly growing pack of candidates running for the Democratic nomination. “What usually happens i

Sen. MORE (D-Calif.) on Sunday officially launched her bid for the presidency in 2020, kicking off her campaign with a speech touting unity and equality. “With faith in God, with fidelity to country and with the fighting spirit I got from my mother, I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for president of the United States," she said Sunday during a rally in Oakland, Calif., her hometown.  "I'm running to fight for an America where the economy works for all people.

Momentum is building for action to prevent patients from receiving massive unexpected medical bills, aided by MORE, who is vowing to take on the issue. Calls for action against so-called "surprise" medical bills have been growing, spurred by viral stories like one involving a teacher in Texas last year who received a $108,000 bill from the hospital after his heart attack.

The survey, from the Wall Street Journal and NBC News, showed approval for Trump, weeks into the shutdown of about a quarter of the federal government, was exactly the same as when it started. The poll, conducted over a four-day period that ended on Jan. 23 — two days before Trump signed a three-week continuing resolution to reopen the government until Feb. 15 with no funding for his planned wall along the U.S. border with Mexico — showed Trump’s support levels did not change from before the shutdown began. “Mr.

In other words, Sims’ book reveals that CNN pushed out an attack on a current Trump aide by an ex-Trump aide — providing the ex-Trump aide with anonymity to shield the person’s identity — and did not verify whether it was actually true before CNN printed it. Sims’ new book Team of Vipers: My Extraordinary 500 Days in the Trump White House is out on Monday and has already created a lot of waves with revelations about disloyalty to Trump from senior White House officials like cur

In other words, Sims’ book reveals that CNN pushed out an attack on a current Trump aide by an ex-Trump aide — providing the ex-Trump aide with anonymity to shield the person’s identity — and did not verify whether it was actually true before CNN printed it. Sims’ new book Team of Vipers: My Extraordinary 500 Days in the Trump White House is out on Monday and has already created a lot of waves with revelations about disloyalty to Trump from senior White House officials like cur

Dan Pfeiffer, former President Barack Obama’s senior White House adviser, mocked Trump for “The Art of the Cave.” Cardi B agreed with a Resistance activist that Pelosi “dog walked” Trump. Some of Pelosi’s allies pointed out that they were vindicated because they had argued that Democrats needed a master tactician like Pelosi as Speaker, as opposed to an amateur, to combat Trump.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The gym was hot. The lights malfunctioned. But the audience of nearly 1,000 people was engrossed as Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a presidential hopeful, did what she does best: “nerd out,” as she puts it. After talking up gun control laws and criminal justice reform on a recent South Carolina campaign swing, Warren dug into the nitty-gritty of free market regulation and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency she helped create, which has returned more than $12 billion to people in refunds and canceled debts.

Renée Graham Now that California’s Kamala Harris has announced for president, conspiracy theorists are making up the same lies about her citizenship that Barack Obama faced.  Michael A.