Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein Welcome back to the political season. If it seemed like it never left us – well, that’s because it didn’t. President Donald Trump is thrusting himself back into the campaign narrative, with a 2020 slogan – “Keep America Great, exclamation point” – and with his midterm involvement marked by the kind of nicknames, insults and partial truths we’ve almost come to expect. Tomorrow’s special election in a deep-red Pennsylvania House will mark a clarifying moment in the midst of considerable White House chaos. As Trump’s presidency teeters between breakdowns and breakthroughs, a slice of Trump country gets its say in a race Trump knows will be a statement on his presidency. “This guy should win easily,” Trump said Saturday of Rick Saccone, the GOP candidate in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District. He isn’t wrong about that. While national Republicans have been talking up their own candidate’s flaws, bracing for an embarrassing defeat, Trump publicly declared himself a Saccone fan: “I think he is handsome.” The problem for Trump won’t be how Saccone looks – but how Saccone’s race makes Trump look. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks Over the weekend, the DNC moved forward in the process of reforming the party. While one of the catchiest changes on the table deals with cutting the number and power of super delegates, other parts of the plan could have even bigger ramifications for the party's primaries. Two recommended ref... Link to the full article to read more