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.
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:
2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, Pennsylvania deputy state director
2008 Bob Roggio (D-Penn.) U.S. House campaign, senior advisor
2006 Bob Casey (D-Penn.) U.S. Senate campaign, deputy political director
2004 Joe Hoeffel (D-Penn.) U.S. Senate campaign, political coordinator
Other experience:
2017-2019: Office of Sen. Bob Casey, state director
2014-2016: Democratic National Committee, Northeast political director
2007-2014: Office of Sen. Bob Casey
2011-2014: Deputy state director
2009-2011: Director of outreach and special projects
2007-2009: Regional representative
2005-2006: Office of Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.), assistant to the first lady
2002-2004: Rock the Vote, Philadelphia street team leader
“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!”
Biden will make his first visit to Alabama as a presidential candidate on Sunday. Politicoprofiled his southern state strategy and the importance of South Carolina to his campaign.
In an interview on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Bill de Blasio discussed his mayoral experience, automation, and gun buyback programs.
BuzzFeed NewsprofiledCory Booker in an article titled, “Will Cory Booker’s America Rise?”
Buttigiegspoke about Afghanistan, his Episcopalian faith, and climate change on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday night. Buttigieg made his first television ad buy of the campaign, spending $87,000 in Iowa markets.
John Delaney issued his digital privacy 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.
Tulsi Gabbardspoke at the “Politics & Eggs” series in New Hampshire on Thursday. She will remain in the state through Saturday.
Bernie Sanders will speak at Iowa State University Sunday as part of his college tailgate tour.
Joe Sestakdiscussed his campaign strategy in an interview on CBS News Thursday.
In an interview with CNBC, Tom Steyer discussed why he did not believe his wealth should disqualify him in the Democratic primary.
Andrew Yangsaid he would not run as a third-party candidate if he lost the Democratic nomination because it would increase Trump’s chances of winning.
Republicans
Donald Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale will headline the California Republican Convention.
Joe Walshresponded 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.”
Bill Weld also criticized 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.”
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
Howard Schultzannounced 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.
After reaching a $1 million crowdfunding goal, Harvard Law professor Larry Lessig said that he was running for president.
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