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NOVEMBER 15, 2019: Michael Bloomberg is spending $100 million on digital ads critical of Donald Trump through the end of the primary season. More than a dozen Democratic candidates will be in California over the weekend.

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TAMIA BOOKER is a Democratic staffer with experience in outreach and engagement. Her prior experience includes work on two presidential campaigns and as deputy chief of staff to Sen. Booker (to whom she is not related). Booker graduated from Florida A&M University with a degree in political science and Spanish in 2005.
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2016 Hillary Clinton (D) presidential campaign, national African American outreach director

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2008 Barack Obama (D) presidential campaign, youth vote director

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2017-2019: Office of Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), deputy chief of staff

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2016: Democratic National Convention Committee, director of constituency and allied groups engagement

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2010-2015: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of External Affairs, associate director

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2008-2010: College Democrats of America, executive director

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“As the 2020 election approaches, both parties are sinking money and time into college campuses, driven by the idea that students—often dismissed as low-turnout layabouts—could have a huge effect in a tight race in a swing state. The mega-campuses of the Brobdingnagian public universities and community colleges in states like Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan or Pennsylvania are sometimes called ‘battleground campuses’ by organizers and activists on the ground. ‘In an election that could come down to a point or two either way in Arizona or Wisconsin, turning out voters at ASU, University of Wisconsin-Madison and other college campuses in these states could easily make the difference,’ said Andrew Baumann, a pollster for Global Strategy Group, a consulting firm that spent 2018 trying to figure out what makes the would-be college voter tick for Tom Steyer’s NextGen.”

– Kyle Spencer, _Politico_

 
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CORY BOOKER ([link removed]) , PETE BUTTIGIEG ([link removed]) , JULIÁN CASTRO ([link removed]) , KAMALA HARRIS ([link removed]) , AMY KLOBUCHAR ([link removed]) , BERNIE SANDERS ([link removed]) , TOM STEYER ([link removed]) , and ANDREW YANG ([link removed]) are participating in the California Democratic Party and Univision’s Real América Presidential Forum ([link removed]) on Saturday.

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JOHN DELANEY ([link removed]) , DEVAL PATRICK ([link removed]) , JOE SESTAK ([link removed]) , and MARIANNE WILLIAMSON ([link removed]) are also ([link removed]) attending ([link removed]) the California Democratic Party’s endorsing convention over the weekend in Long Beach.

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MICHAEL BENNET ([link removed]) will continue to campaign in New Hampshire ([link removed]) on Saturday with events across the state.

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JOE BIDEN ([link removed]) spoke ([link removed]) about gun violence at the Los Angeles Trade-Technical College on Thursday before attending two fundraisers in Southland. Biden has two more fundraisers scheduled in Seattle ([link removed]) on Friday.

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A new super PAC, United We Win ([link removed]) , was formed on Thursday to support BOOKER. The group is expected to spend $1 million on social media advertising in the next month.

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STEVE BULLOCK ([link removed]) will campaign in Iowa ([link removed]) on Sunday with stops in Polk County and Poweshiek County.

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BUTTIGIEG released his first radio ad ([link removed]) in South Carolina as part of a $2 million ad buy in the state.

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DELANEY announced ([link removed]) Kandie Stroud would join his campaign as communications director.

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TULSI GABBARD ([link removed]) will campaign in New Hampshire ([link removed]) on Saturday and Sunday with house parties across the state.

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ELIZABETH WARREN ([link removed]) will campaign in Iowa ([link removed]) on Saturday with stops in Waverly and Cedar Rapids.

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YANG released a technology platform ([link removed]) on Thursday that called for establishing data as a property right, creating a Department of Attention Economy, and increasing regulation of digital ads. 

 
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DONALD TRUMP ([link removed]) raised ([link removed]) $3.1 million in small-dollar donations during the first day of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry.

 
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MICHAEL BLOOMBERG ([link removed]) is spending $100 million on digital ads ([link removed]) critical of TRUMP through the end of the primary season. The ad campaign will begin Friday in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. 

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The New York Times: Why Voters Don’t Seem Interested in Barrier-Breaking Candidates ([link removed])

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Roll Call: States in the South with outsize roles in the 2020 elections ([link removed])

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South Florida Sun-Sentinel: NBC News will spotlight Miami-Dade and its ‘unique storyline’ leading up to 2020 election ([link removed])

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