-by Sam HusseiniIn her New Years Eve announcement forming an exploratory committee for the presidency, Sen. Elizabeth Warren made a great point: "Right now, Washington works great for the wealthy and the well-connected.
Kamala Harris by Nancy OhanianAs we saw Saturday morning, Gillibrand has been sniffing around Wall Street for financing for her presidential campaign.
When Elizabeth Warren did her first interview after announcing the formation of a presidential exploratory committee, she chose Rachel Maddow. You can safely skip another typically exciting 5 full minute Maddow windup. The point I would like to get to was Warren's call-- at around the 9:40 moment on the video-- for Democrats to eschew campaign money from what Bernie calls "the billionaire class," including self-funders (Tom Steyer and, especially, on-again/off-again Republican Michael Bloomberg). "Just think about this upcoming Democratic primary," said Warren.
I had dinner Thursday night with JD Scholten to talk about... his next steps. Will he take on Joni Ernest for the U.S. Senate seat next year? Or will he complete what he started last year and oust Steve King from Congress? Something else? When I got home, I scanned the Des Moines Register to see what's going on there.
Yesterday, we posted Chapter V of The Worst Democraps Who Want To Be President: Terry McAuliffe. You can take a look at the entire series here.
Reports have it that Trump wants Jim Webb as Defense Secretary. He might even make a good Defense Secretary (or a lousy one; I don't know) but I think the two prima donnas deserve each other.
We covered the Elizabeth Warren announcement-- and video-- on Monday morning. She's the first top-tier candidate to jump into the 2020 race.
Jeremy Toback's essay, Democracy Is Coming To The U.S.A.-- which I referenced in the title of this post last night-- is worth taking to heart if you're contemplating doing what I did when Nixon became president.
"The economy can only go down from here. The number of revelations from Robert Mueller can only go up," wrote Edward-Isaac Dovere in his Atlantic essay, 10 New Factors That Will Shape the 2020 Democratic Primary. And whether those two sentences excite you or depress you, he wants to warn you that they don't mean a Democratic candidate is a shoo-in for 2020.
I expect dozens of politicians for the 2020 election cycle (for Congress as well as president) to start officially announcing later in the week, or maybe next week. Kara Eastman (NE-02) and Elizabeth Warren (President) beat them to it. Kara announced she's running for Congress again-- Blue America's first endorsed candidate for the 2020 cycle-- a week or so ago and Elizabeth Warren announced that she's formed a presidential exploratory committee a few hours ago.
