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DECEMBER 12, 2019: Michael Bloomberg is donating $10 million to House Majority PAC. Circuit Judge Jocelyn Newman upheld the South Carolina Republican Party’s decision to cancel its 2020 presidential primary. 

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“Most debates have seen anywhere from five to nine polls released in the last two weeks, but for the upcoming debate, it seems as if there will be less than five. So what’s behind the dearth in polling? One obvious culprit is Thanksgiving. Pollsters try to avoid polling around the holidays because of concerns about response rates — people are often traveling or visiting family and friends. In that sense then, it’s not surprising that there weren’t any polls released right after the holiday weekend when few pollsters would’ve been in the field anyway. However, pollsters could have conducted surveys last week and then released them this past weekend — yet none did. But of course, the DNC doesn’t control when independent media organizations or universities choose to conduct their polls, so some of this is just bad luck for candidates like Booker, Castro and Gabbard. It’s also unclear, especially in the case of Booker and Castro, whether more polls would have helped them. Remember, neither has a single qualifying poll to their name.

However, the DNC does get to decide which polls count toward qualification. So that means some major national pollsters who have released surveys since Thanksgiving aren’t counted, including Morning Consult, The Economist/YouGov, and Reuters/Ipsos. But the DNC argues candidates have had a fair shot of making the December stage. ‘Candidates have had 26 opportunities to hit 4 percent, including multiple opportunities in all four early states,’ Adrienne Watson, deputy communications director for the DNC told FiveThirtyEight.”

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Thursday is the final day for Democratic candidates to qualify for the SIXTH PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY DEBATE ([link removed]) on Dec. 19.

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JOE BIDEN ([link removed]) unveiled his immigration plan ([link removed]) on Wednesday, which includes the following policies in his first 100 days in office: ending family separations at the border, reversing the Trump administration’s metering of asylum applications, increasing humanitarian resources for migrants, and ending prolonged detention. 

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MICHAEL BLOOMBERG ([link removed]) is donating ([link removed]) $10 million to House Majority PAC to support House Democrats being targeted for supporting the impeachment inquiry. 

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_The New York Times_ profiled ([link removed]) CORY BOOKER ([link removed]) while he was campaigning in Iowa. Booker is launching a bilingual training program ([link removed]) for Latino voters in Nevada on Saturday.

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PETE BUTTIGIEG ([link removed]) is attending a fundraiser ([link removed]) in Baltimore co-hosted by state Dels. Maggie McIntosh and Luke Clippinger on Thursday.

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JULIÁN CASTRO ([link removed]) spoke at the Latino-Native American Cultural Center in Iowa ([link removed]) on Wednesday.

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TULSI GABBARD ([link removed]) will campaign in South Carolina ([link removed]) on Thursday and Friday.

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AMY KLOBUCHAR ([link removed]) will speak at a roundtable on labor issues ([link removed]) in Florida on Friday. 

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BERNIE SANDERS ([link removed]) will hold a town hall and rally on Friday with Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) in New Hampshire ([link removed]) .

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TOM STEYER ([link removed]) is holding a town hall ([link removed]) in Napa, California, on Thursday.

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ELIZABETH WARREN ([link removed]) is delivering an economic policy speech ([link removed]) at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics on Thursday.

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MARIANNE WILLIAMSON ([link removed]) is speaking at Unity Church in Des Moines, Iowa ([link removed]) , on Friday.

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ANDREW YANG ([link removed]) is opening ([link removed]) a campaign office in Ames, Iowa, on Thursday. He is also playing a public basketball game ([link removed]) against U.S. House candidate J.D. Scholten.

 
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Circuit Judge Jocelyn Newman upheld ([link removed]) the SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN PARTY ([link removed]) ’s decision to cancel its 2020 presidential primary. 

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NBC News profiled DONALD TRUMP ([link removed]) ’s campaign efforts in Pennsylvania ([link removed]) , including its organization on the ground, training sessions, and recent rallies.

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FiveThirtyEight: Why It’s Tougher To Qualify For The December Democratic Debate ([link removed])

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Pew Research Center: How Pew Research Center is approaching the 2020 election ([link removed])

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Politico: The New Union Label: Female, Progressive and Very Anti-Trump ([link removed])

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Hillary Clinton applauded the adoption ([link removed]) of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, while Bernie Sanders said it did not go far enough.
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