Notable Quote of the Day

“Strange things happen at contested conventions. At the last such Democratic confab in 1952, the nominee was neither the front-runner, Sen. Estes Kefauver, nor Vice President Alben Barkley, ostensibly supported by President Harry S. Truman. Instead, on the third ballot, Democrats nominated Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson II.

Party elders felt that only Stevenson could keep Northern and Southern Democrats united, and had tried unsuccessfully to draft him to run. Only after a platform fight about civil rights; a disastrous meeting between Mr. Barkley and labor leaders; and wrangling over a loyalty oath aimed at Southern Democrats that threatened to fracture the party, as happened in 1948, did Stevenson reluctantly agree to run. Truman then arrived in Chicago and ordered some of the candidates out of the contest and favorite-son delegations to swing to the Illinois governor. The party left largely unified and mostly happy.

It is hard to see any of the Democratic ex-presidents playing Truman’s calming role in 2020.”

– Karl Rove, Republican political consultant

Democrats

• Michael Bennet issued his anti-poverty agenda at a campaign event in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Sunday.

• Joe Biden campaigned with former Secretary of State and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry in New Hampshire on Sunday.

• Michael Bloomberg spoke at the quarterly state Democratic Executive Committee meeting in Texas on Saturday.

• Cory Booker is airing a new radio ad in South Carolina about his family history on stations with large black audiences.

• Pete Buttigieg released a $700 billion childcare and education platform on Saturday that would provide universal childcare and pre-kindergarten programs.

• Julián Castro will kick off a three-day tour of Iowa on Monday with meet-and-greets across the state.

• John Delaney is campaigning in New Hampshire on Monday.

• Tulsi Gabbard is campaigning in Nashua, New Hampshire, on Monday.

• Amy Klobuchar attended a town hall Sunday in Denver about elections, voter registration, campaign finance, and election security.

• Deval Patrick campaigned in Maine on Saturday.

• Bernie Sanders began a three-day tour of Nevada on Sunday with stops scheduled in Elko, Carson City, Reno, and Las Vegas.

• Tom Steyer campaigned in Iowa on Sunday.

• Elizabeth Warren spoke at the College of Charleston in South Carolina on Sunday.

• Marianne Williamson is campaigning in Iowa on Monday.

• Andrew Yang announced that he had hired Julia Rosen to lead his digital operations and Ally Letsky to lead his direct mail operations. Letsky worked on the 2012 Obama and 2016 Clinton presidential campaigns.

Republicans

• Donald Trump attended a private fundraiser in Florida on Saturday that raised $3.5 million for the state Republican Party. He featured Clint Lorance and Mathew Golsteyn, two former soldiers who received presidential pardons related to war crimes.

• HuffPost profiled Joe Walsh and his change from being a Trump supporter to Trump critic.

Flashback: December 9, 2015

According to Facebook’s year in review, the 2016 presidential election was the most talked about topic on the platform. Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders were the second-, fourth-, and fifth-most talked about politicians, respectively.