Four states look to cancel Republican primaries
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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019: Howard Schultz announced Friday that he would not run for president. South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, and Kansas are expected to cancel their presidential primaries.
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ERIN WILSON is a Democratic staffer with extensive experience in Pennsylvania politics. Wilson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in political science and government in 2005.
** PREVIOUS CAMPAIGN WORK:
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2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, Pennsylvania deputy state director
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2008 Bob Roggio (D-Penn.) U.S. House campaign, senior advisor
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2006 Bob Casey (D-Penn.) U.S. Senate campaign, deputy political director
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2004 Joe Hoeffel (D-Penn.) U.S. Senate campaign, political coordinator
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2017-2019: Office of Sen. Bob Casey, state director
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2014-2016: Democratic National Committee, Northeast political director
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2007-2014: Office of Sen. Bob Casey
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2011-2014: Deputy state director
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2009-2011: Director of outreach and special projects
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2007-2009: Regional representative
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2005-2006: Office of Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.), assistant to the first lady
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2002-2004: Rock the Vote, Philadelphia street team leader
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Notable Quote of the Day ([link removed])
“While the ability to generate big crowds is certainly nice — it may signal enthusiasm among highly engaged voters or produce favorable media coverage — you should ignore any candidate, surrogate or media outlet that tells you that large crowd sizes mean that the polls are underestimating a candidate’s support. It’s just spin; polls are much more accurate at forecasting elections than crowd-size estimates, which don’t tell us all that much.
For every example like 2008, when then-Sen. Barack Obama’s huge crowds seemed to reflect real enthusiasm for his campaign, there is one like 2012, when former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won his primary despite drawing noticeably small crowds on the campaign trail. Or take what happened in 2016. Despite a lot of hay being made about crowd sizes during the 2016 campaign, that cycle also was an argument against crowd sizes being predictive. Although now-President Trump did often draw large crowds at his primary rallies, Hillary Clinton reportedly beat him out for largest crowd of the 2016 campaign, 40,000 to 30,000. And at roughly this point in the Democratic primary in 2016, Sen. Bernie Sanders was outdrawing Clinton!”
– Nathaniel Rakich, _FiveThirtyEight_
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** DEMOCRATS
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NINETEEN DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES ([link removed]) —all but WAYNE MESSAM ([link removed]) —are expected ([link removed]) to appear at the New Hampshire Democratic Convention over the weekend.
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The HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION will host a presidential town hall ([link removed]) on CNN about LGBT issues on Oct. 10. JOE BIDEN ([link removed]) , PETE BUTTIGIEG ([link removed]) , JULIÁN CASTRO ([link removed]) , KAMALA HARRIS ([link removed]) , AMY KLOBUCHAR ([link removed]) , and ELIZABETH WARREN ([link removed]) are set to attend. Other presidential candidates may join the event in the coming weeks.
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MICHAEL BENNET ([link removed]) will campaign ([link removed]) in Massachusetts Friday and New Hampshire Saturday.
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BIDEN will make his first visit to Alabama as a presidential candidate on Sunday. _Politico_ profiled ([link removed]) his southern state strategy and the importance of South Carolina to his campaign.
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In an interview ([link removed]) on _Tucker Carlson Tonight_, BILL DE BLASIO ([link removed]) discussed his mayoral experience, automation, and gun buyback programs.
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_BuzzFeed News_ profiled ([link removed]) CORY BOOKER ([link removed]) in an article titled, “Will Cory Booker’s America Rise?”
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BUTTIGIEG spoke ([link removed]) about Afghanistan, his Episcopalian faith, and climate change on _The Late Show with Stephen Colbert_ Thursday night. Buttigieg made his first television ad buy ([link removed]) of the campaign, spending $87,000 in Iowa markets.
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JOHN DELANEY ([link removed]) issued his digital privacy ([link removed]) and technology platform on Thursday, which includes federal legislation modeled after the California Consumer Privacy Act, protections for consumers who opt out of data collection, and a requirement that companies obtain informed consent before recording and storing private conversations through communication devices.
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TULSI GABBARD ([link removed]) spoke ([link removed]) at the “Politics & Eggs” series in New Hampshire on Thursday. She will remain ([link removed]) in the state through Saturday.
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BERNIE SANDERS ([link removed]) will speak ([link removed]) at Iowa State University Sunday as part of his college tailgate tour.
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JOE SESTAK ([link removed]) discussed ([link removed]) his campaign strategy in an interview on CBS News Thursday.
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In an interview ([link removed]) with CNBC, TOM STEYER ([link removed]) discussed why he did not believe his wealth should disqualify him in the Democratic primary.
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ANDREW YANG ([link removed]) said ([link removed]) he would not run as a third-party candidate if he lost the Democratic nomination because it would increase Trump’s chances of winning.
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DONALD TRUMP ([link removed]) campaign manager Brad Parscale will headline ([link removed]) the California Republican Convention.
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JOE WALSH ([link removed]) responded ([link removed]) to reports that Republican parties in South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, and Kansas were expected to cancel their presidential primaries. He said, “It’s wrong, the RNC should be ashamed of itself, and I think it does show that Trump is afraid of a serious primary challenge because he knows his support is very soft.”
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BILL WELD ([link removed]) also criticized ([link removed]) the planned cancellations, saying, “We don’t elect presidents by acclamation in America. Donald Trump is doing his best to make the Republican Party his own personal club. Republicans deserve better.”
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South Carolina GOP Chairman Drew McKissick defended the plan, saying, “As a general rule, when either party has an incumbent president in the White House, there’s no rationale to hold a primary.”
** ON THE CUSP: TRACKING POTENTIAL CANDIDATES
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* HOWARD SCHULTZ ([link removed]) announced ([link removed]) Friday that he would not run for president. “My belief in the need to reform our two-party system has not wavered, but I have concluded that an independent campaign for the White House is not how I can best serve our country at this time,” he wrote in a statement.
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** WHAT WE’RE READING
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The Des Moines Register: A family affair: As their parents campaign in Iowa, kids of 2020 candidates get a taste of the trail ([link removed])
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FiveThirtyEight: Don’t Let Crowd Sizes Mislead You ([link removed])
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The Wall Street Journal: ‘It’s Kind of Like an Addiction’: On the Road With Trump’s Rally Diehards ([link removed])
FLASHBACK: SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
After reaching a $1 million crowdfunding goal, Harvard Law professor Larry Lessig said ([link removed]) that he was running for president.
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