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The race for the Democratic presidential nomination is both competitive and fluid less than 100 days before the Iowa caucuses, with a stable trio of leading candidates and a fourth — Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind. — now rising above a dozen others in the low single-digits, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. Democrats see former vice president Joe Biden as the strongest leader among the top candidates and also say he has the best chance of defeating President Trump.

NEW YORK — Politics can be a bruising business. But President Donald Trump took a break from battling the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry to watch another bloodsport Saturday, drawing a mixed response at a UFC match at a raucous Madison Square Garden. Both loud boos and cheers could be heard as Trump, joined by his adult sons, Don Jr. and Eric, as well as several congressional Republicans, took their seats ahead of the pay-per-view mixed martial arts match.

MORE is scheduled to hold a “Keep America Great” rally in Tupelo, Miss., ahead of a crucial gubernatorial race in the state. Trump will be joined by Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves who is running for governor in an open gubernatorial race that's tighter than the GOP would prefer. Trump is scheduled to speak at 8 p.m. Watch live in the video. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2019 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.

MORE on Friday lashed out at New York Democratic leaders as the two sides traded barbs following the president's announcement that he has declared residency in Florida. In the span of four tweets, Trump blasted Gov.

dropping out of the Democratic presidential race. "Oh did you hear? Beto," Trump riffed to supporters during a campaign rally in Mississippi. "Oh that poor bastard. Poor pathetic guy. He was pathetic." The president mocked O'Rourke for his failed Senate run against Sen. MORE (R-Texas) and his emphatic arm gestures. "Does he ever stand on the floor and speak?” Trump said. “But he’s waving his arms and going crazy, and I said ‘What the hell is [he] doing?

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) announced Friday that he would drop out of the presidential race, ending what was once thought to be a potential leading 2020 Democratic bid that failed to garner the same enthusiasm that surrounded his Senate campaign last year. O'Rourke said in a post on the website Medium that it had become clear he did not have the means to keep his campaign afloat, an acknowledgement of the financial struggles the former Texas congressman has faced in recent months. "My service to the country will not be as a candidate or as the nominee.

MORE on Friday painted himself as the victim of an impeachment effort years in the making. The president portrayed the investigation in harsh terms during a rally in Tupelo, Miss., equating it to a clandestine plot by his Democratic detractors.

“Actually, and I’m happy about this, Conan the dog got more publicity than me and I’m very happy about that,” Trump said. Trump commented on the raid during a rally in Mississippi on Friday night after the successful American special forces raid against Baghdadi last Saturday. Trump noted that the media quit reporting on the story of the successful raid as soon as they could. “That story disappeared so fast. Gone,” Trump said. That’s okay; I didn’t do it for the story.

“Yesterday’s vote by the radical Democrats is an attack on democracy itself,” he said. The president spoke to his cheering supporters at a rally in Mississippi on Friday night, denouncing the Democrats for their attempt to impeach him. “Yesterday the Democrat voted to potentially nullify the votes of 63 million Americans, disgracing themselves and bringing shame upon the House of Representatives,” he said. The president told his supporters that the Democrats were looking for a way to impeach him ever since he first took office, reminding them that the Russia “witch hunt” failed miserably.

“In the delusional democrat fantasy, I am now supposed to be afraid of someone called one percent Joe,” Trump said. The president pointed out that Biden struggled to get more than one percent support when he ran for president in 1988 and 2007, until Barack Obama selected him as his running mate. “We’ve now named him very slow Sleepy Joe,” Trump said. “He’s gotten slower and slower.