More than a dozen 2020 Dems in California for DNC summer meeting

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AUGUST 23, 2019: Seth Moulton becomes sixth notable Democrat to suspend his presidential campaign. More than a dozen 2020 Democrats are in California for the party’s summer meeting. Bernie Sanders released a $16.3 trillion climate change plan.

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HEATHER HARGREAVES is a staffer with experience managing the NextGen America issue group, which Steyer founded. She graduated from Stanford University with a degree in economics and political science in 2003.
PREVIOUS CAMPAIGN WORK:

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2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign, field organizer and Campaign for Change Nevada director

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2006 Steve Westly California gubernatorial campaign, field director

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2017-2019: NextGen America, executive vice president and executive director

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2015-2017: NextGen Climate, national advocacy director and national program vice president

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2010-2015: Mercury Public Affairs, vice president

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2009-2010: Alliance for Climate Protection, deputy field director

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“Tom is the only candidate with the experience to call out Trump as a fraud, beat him on the economy, and start putting the American people before corporations.”​​
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"Governors' mansions are no longer an obvious stepping stone to the White House. Modern presidential campaigns require name ID, a broad donor base and national platform — none of which you get by being a successful small state governor. Governors have executive experience and outsider credentials that look great on paper, but it's really hard to translate that into nationwide support in modern politics."

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MICHAEL BENNET ([link removed]) , CORY BOOKER ([link removed]) , JULIÁN CASTRO ([link removed]) , KAMALA HARRIS ([link removed]) , AMY KLOBUCHAR ([link removed]) , TIM RYAN ([link removed]) , BERNIE SANDERS ([link removed]) , JOE SESTAK ([link removed]) , TOM STEYER ([link removed]) , ELIZABETH WARREN ([link removed]) , MARIANNE WILLIAMSON ([link removed]) , and ANDREW YANG ([link removed]) are attending the summer meeting ([link removed]) of the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. The event is running from Thursday through Saturday.

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JOE BIDEN ([link removed]) hired pastor Michael McClain to be his campaign’s faith outreach director ([link removed]) . Biden will campaign in New Hampshire ([link removed]) Friday and Saturday. Rep. Lou Carrea (Calif.) also endorsed ([link removed]) Biden Thursday.

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CNN will host two town halls ([link removed]) with BILL DE BLASIO ([link removed]) and STEVE BULLOCK ([link removed]) Sunday. Ana Cabrera will moderate de Blasio’s town hall and Alisyn Camerota will moderate Bullock’s event.

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PETE BUTTIGIEG ([link removed]) will spend three days in New Hampshire ([link removed]) with stops in Merrimack and Nashua Friday. He also unveiled ([link removed]) a $300 billion plan to address mental health policy and the opioid crisis.

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JOHN DELANEY ([link removed]) did not rule out a possible gubernatorial run ([link removed]) in Maryland Thursday. “I’ve always believed in the Lincoln expression, which is, 'You can only paddle to the next bend in the river.' And so, I’m just paddling towards this bend,” Delaney said.

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TULSI GABBARD ([link removed]) was the inaugural interviewee for Rolling Stone’s new podcast ([link removed]) , _Useful Idiots_. She discussed the 2018 Hawaii false missile alert and Syria.

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KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND ([link removed]) tweeted ([link removed]) that she had 115,000 donors, making her 15,000 donors away from the grassroots fundraising threshold for the September and October debates.

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KLOBUCHAR will campaign in New Hampshire ([link removed]) Sunday and Monday.

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SETH MOULTON ([link removed]) suspended ([link removed]) his presidential campaign Friday. “I think it’s evident that this is now a three-way race between Biden, Warren and Sanders, and really it’s a debate about how far left the party should go,” he said in an interview with _The New York Times_. 

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BETO O'ROURKE ([link removed]) released his “21st Century Labor Contract ([link removed]) ,” calling for a $15 federal minimum wage, guaranteed collective bargaining rights, raising the overtime pay threshold to $50,000, and passing the Paycheck Fairness Act.

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SANDERS issued a $16.3 trillion climate change plan ([link removed]) that would seek to reduce carbon emissions by 71 percent by 2030 and transition the U.S. to 100 percent renewable electricity. 

 
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* The DONALD TRUMP ([link removed]) campaign announced its Iowa leadership team ([link removed]) Thursday with Gov. Kim Reynolds and Chuck Grassley as honorary state chairs, Carly Miller as state director, and Stephanie Alexander as regional political director. 

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** WHAT WE’RE READING
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CBS News: Remember when governors used to win the presidency? ([link removed])

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Los Angeles Times: Meet the undecided New Hampshire voter who’s trying to see every single candidate in person ([link removed])

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USA Today: Joe Walsh and the other Republicans who may challenge Trump in the 2020 primaries ([link removed])

FLASHBACK: AUGUST 23, 2015

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won ([link removed]) their respective party’s Cast Your Kernel poll at the Iowa State Fair.
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