Hawaii and Kansas Dems will use ranked-choice voting in primary

------------------------------------------------------------
 
------------------------------------------------------------

[link removed]

OCTOBER 15, 2019: Twelve Democratic presidential candidates will meet on stage Tuesday in the fourth primary debate of the 2020 election cycle. Hawaii and Kansas will use ranked-choice voting in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.

_Share the latest from the campaign trail._

mailto:?&[email protected]&subject=Check out this info I found from Ballotpedia&body=[link removed] [blank]    [link removed] [blank] [blank]    [link removed]

------------------------------------------------------------

 

 
** WHICH ELECTION FEATURED THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY DEBATE?
------------------------------------------------------------

*
a. 1932→ ([link removed])

*
b. 1948→ ([link removed])

*
c. 1960→ ([link removed])

*
d. 1976→ ([link removed])

NOTABLE QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Omission from November's debate could effectively choke off a candidate's visibility and fundraising and make it impossible for them to mount a realistic challenge. Castro, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, Klobuchar and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas are all on the cut line. … There's no better way for those candidates to engineer the big moments they need than to tangle with one of the front-runners.”

– Stephen Collinson ([link removed]) , CNN

“Premeditated attack strategies have a mostly losing record so far. The most successful of them—Kamala Harris’ biographical repudiation of Biden’s recording on busing—lent Harris only a short-lived boost as her moment of moral righteousness soon faded to equivocation.
John Delaney earned plenty of screen time in the second debate acting as the moderate counterweight to Warren, but moderate voters already had their preferred counterweight in Biden, and they also like Elizabeth Warren more than they like John Delaney. Tulsi Gabbard, similarly, took a hatchet to Harris in the second debate, a moment that may have hurt Harris but hardly helped Gabbard. And in the third debate, Julián Castro famously ‘insinuated’ that Joe Biden was losing his mind and was rewarded with a sharp collapse in his net favorability.”

– Jim Newell ([link removed]) , _Slate_

 
**
------------------------------------------------------------

 
** DEMOCRATS
------------------------------------------------------------

*
The DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE ([link removed]) approved proposals from the state parties in Hawaii and Kansas to use ranked-choice voting ([link removed]) in the 2020 presidential primary.

*
JOE BIDEN ([link removed]) , CORY BOOKER ([link removed]) , PETE BUTTIGIEG ([link removed]) , JULIÁN CASTRO ([link removed]) , TULSI GABBARD ([link removed]) , KAMALA HARRIS ([link removed]) , AMY KLOBUCHAR ([link removed]) , BETO O'ROURKE ([link removed]) , BERNIE SANDERS ([link removed]) , TOM STEYER ([link removed]) , ELIZABETH WARREN ([link removed]) , and ANDREW YANG ([link removed]) will participate in the fourth Democratic presidential primary debate ([link removed])) Tuesday in Westerville, Ohio. Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper, and Marc Lacey will moderate the event.

*
MICHAEL BENNET ([link removed]) , BIDEN, STEVE BULLOCK ([link removed]) , BUTTIGIEG, HARRIS, and SANDERS participated in the second UFCW presidential candidate labor forum ([link removed]) in Iowa Sunday.

*
BENNET, BULLOCK, JOHN DELANEY ([link removed]) , KLOBUCHAR, O’ROURKE, JOE SESTAK ([link removed]) , and MARIANNE WILLIAMSON ([link removed]) answered questions on retirement issues ([link removed]) in a survey produced by _Yahoo Finance_ and the Funding Our Future Campaign.

*
BUTTIGIEG, KLOBUCHAR, TIM RYAN ([link removed]) , STEYER, and YANG attended ([link removed]) the Ohio Democratic Party’s annual state dinner at the Greater Columbus Convention Center Sunday.

*
In an ethics plan ([link removed]) released Monday, BIDEN proposed establishing a constitutional amendment to eliminate private dollar funding of federal campaigns, strengthening whistleblower laws, and establishing a commission on federal ethics.

*
BUTTIGIEG released a digital ad ([link removed]) in Iowa Tuesday critical of Medicare for All. It features political analysts discussing the healthcare proposals of SANDERS and WARREN.

*
SANDERS proposed requiring corporations with at least $100 million in revenue and all publicly traded companies increase employee ownership stakes ([link removed]) by providing 2 percent of stocks to their workers until at least 20 percent of the company is employee-owned. His corporate accountability plan released Monday also called for having workers directly elect 45 percent of the board of directors.

*
SESTAK began airing his first ad ([link removed]) in New Hampshire Sunday, which focuses on his military and congressional career.

 
** REPUBLICANS
------------------------------------------------------------

*
MARK SANFORD ([link removed]) discussed foreign policy ([link removed]) and the TRUMP administration’s policy on Syria and Turkey in a CNN interview Sunday.

*
Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, and campaign manager Brad Parscale will host ([link removed]) a “Keep America Great” panel Tuesday in San Antonio, preceding DONALD TRUMP ([link removed]) ’s Thursday rally in Dallas.

*
JOE WALSH ([link removed]) is campaigning Tuesday in Davenport, Iowa ([link removed]) .

 
** ON THE CUSP: TRACKING POTENTIAL CANDIDATES
------------------------------------------------------------

*
CNBC reported ([link removed]) that MIKE BLOOMBERG ([link removed]) was still considering running for president if BIDEN left the race.

------------------------------------------------------------

[link removed]
------------------------------------------------------------

 
** WHAT WE’RE READING
------------------------------------------------------------

*
FiveThirtyEight: Who Will Win The Fourth Democratic Debate? ([link removed])

*
The New York Times: Facebook Political Ads: What the 2020 Candidates’ Campaign Spending Reveals ([link removed])

*
The Wall Street Journal: These Counties Voted for Every White House Winner Since Reagan ([link removed])

FLASHBACK: OCTOBER 15, 2015

Ben Carson and Donald Trump submitted a joint letter ([link removed]) to CNBC saying neither would agree to attend the month’s debate if opening and closing statements were not permitted and the event ran longer than 120 minutes. 
[blank]
BALLOTPEDIA DEPENDS ON THE SUPPORT OF OUR READERS.

The Lucy Burns Institute, publisher of Ballotpedia, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All donations are tax deductible to the extent of the law. Donations to the Lucy Burns Institute or Ballotpedia do not support any candidates or campaigns.
 

Click here to support our work ([link removed])
 
------------------------------------------------------------

============================================================
** Follow on Twitter ([link removed])
   ** Friend on Facebook ([link removed])
_Copyright © 2019, All rights reserved._

OUR MAILING ADDRESS IS:

Ballotpedia
8383 Greenway Blvd
Suite 600
Middleton, WI 53562Decide which emails you want from Ballotpedia.
** Unsubscribe ( [link removed] )
 or ** update subscription preferences ( [link removed] )
.