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On Wednesday, fellow New York Democrat, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, was pessimistic about Gillibrand's presidential chances, telling the New York Daily News she didn't feel Gillibrand could win in Midwestern states like Ohio. Maloney later partially walked back the comments, issuing a statement noting that Gillibrand is an \"outstanding Senator and would be an exceptional President\" and that she was \"simply commenting on the importance of winning back previously blue states and having a strategy for doing so.\"
Harris delivered a preemptive response to the State of the Union Tuesday, criticizing Trump's \"insincere appeals to unity.\"
\"I want everyone to remember this: The strength of our union has never been found in the walls we build,\" the California senator said.
During a conversation with historically black colleges and universities leaders Thursday, Harris was critical of the way gender has played a role in the Senate, citing the Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings as an instance during which she was treated differently than her male colleagues.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found enthusiasm for a potential Harris nomination to be nearly equal to that of Biden, with 58 and 60 percent of respondents, respectively, saying they would be excited for the two to emerge victorious from the primaries.
Hickenlooper visited South Carolina Tuesday and Wednesday, where he conversed with voters and spoke to the state's Hospital Association. Speaking to reporters, the former Colorado governor said that voters were interested in a candidate's record of achievement, something that has become the centerpiece of his stump speech ahead of a potential announcement.
Next Tuesday, Holder will visit Des Moines for a speech at Drake University's Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement.
Inslee told CNBC this week that a presidential campaign decision is coming \"in weeks, not months\" and continues to pitch himself as the potential candidate most focused on environmental issues.
\"Both by experience and passion and commitment, I have had a long, demonstrated vision statement for economic growth around clean energy that is unique amongst potential candidates.\" Inslee said.
Klobuchar will make \"a little announcement\" in Minneapolis Sunday, she said in a video posted to her social media accounts Wednesday, one that will reveal her decision regarding a presidential run, she earlier explained on MSNBC Tuesday.
Minnesota Public Radio reported Monday that, should Klobuchar enter the presidential race, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will extend her an endorsement.
\"If Sen. Klobuchar chooses to go, I'm with her,\" said Walz, a former member of the U.S. House, adding, \"It's in our best interest to have multiple choices out there, but I would argue that as more Americans get to know Amy Klobuchar, she'll prove to be the person that they may want to get with.\"
Klobuchar was the subject of a scathing HuffPost report Wednesday that included claims she mistreats her Senate staff, frequently describing their work as \"the worst,\" leading to high turnover in her office. Some former staffers pushed back in the story, arguing that the senator had high standards and suggested that male senators would not face such criticism for similar behavior.
Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu all but ruled out a 2020 presidential run in an interview on CNN's \"New Day\" Wednesday morning, but added a \"never say never\" caveat.
Landrieu, who released a book last year and has been outspoken in his criticism of Trump in a number of television appearances to start 2019, cited the influx of \"great candidates in the race,\" and said that the race was \"getting filled up.\"
As for potential candidates who he felt operate in a similar lane to himself, he cited Michael Bloomberg, Joe Biden and Beto O'Rourke, and additionally had high praise for Stacey Abrams' State of the Union response Tuesday night, saying he felt she would make a \"really good candidate.\"
Though he still has not reached a final decision, the former Virginia governor told CNN last weekend that he'd \"like to\" run for president and said, as he has before, that a decision would come by the end of March.
Following a brief appearance before the Bedford, New Hampshire Democrats last weekend, Moulton told reporters that he was \"not here to talk about 2020,\" and instead focused on \"spend[ing] the next two years making sure President Trump wasn't reelected.\" He conceded, however, that he was \"not sure what that means for me.\"
O'Rourke admitted to \"thinking about running for president\" during a conversation with Oprah Winfrey in New York City Tuesday and said, of the prospect of helping to unify the country, \"I'm so excited at the prospect of being able to play that role.\" He said he would announce his decision about a run \"before the end of the month.\"
Pressed on what was preventing him to declare a candidacy on the spot, the former Texas congressman said that his family was an important consideration.
\"For the last seven years, my family hasn't seen me,\" he said. \"That's the far more important responsibility.\"
A New York Times profile Wednesday detailed O'Rourke's mid-20s, which he spent living in New York. The newspaper described him as \"adrift,\" comparing his \"quarter-life crisis\" of soul-searching to his ongoing contemplation of a presidential campaign and recent travels through the country's interior.
Though he has given unilateral responses to the State of the Union in the past, Sanders faced criticism this year over the belief that he was distracting from Democrats' official responses, delivered by Stacey Abrams and Xavier Becerra -- though he did describe Abrams' address as \"extremely effective\" at the top of his speech.
In his remarks, Sanders called attention to the struggles of the nation's middle class and took issue with Trump's avoidance of climate change and other progressive priorities.
The former Starbucks CEO continued to rebut the criticism that his potential run as an independent could pave the way for Trump's reelection, explaining that he wanted to pay forward the success he was able to achieve and help others do the same, previewing a theme he would touch on in an appearance at Purdue University Thursday.
Ralph Nader, whose own third-party presidential run in 2000 is still blamed by some Democrats for preventing Al Gore from winning that year's election, wrote for Time this week to both defend and attack Schultz's moves, arguing that \"'spoiler' charges\" constituted \"political bigotry,\" but that the billionaire's policy positions were closer to those of the GOP, rather than being centrist, as he claims.
Next week, Schultz will participate in a CNN town hall in Texas on Tuesday, before continuing on his book tour in Philadelphia on Wednesday and Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
Warren again faced backlash this week for her past claims of Native American heritage. After the Washington Post revealed Tuesday that the Massachusetts senator wrote on her State Bar of Texas registration card in 1986 that she was \"American Indian.\"
\"I can't go back,\" Warren told the Post in response. \"But I am sorry for furthering confusion on tribal sovereignty and tribal citizenship and harm that resulted.\"
Questioned further about the situation on Wednesday on Capitol Hill, Warren explained that the claim was a result of her \"family story\" and again apologized.
\"When I was growing up in Oklahoma, I learned about my family the same way most people do. My brothers and I learned from our mom and our dad and our brothers and our sisters. They were family stories,\" she told reporters. \"But that said, there really is an important distinction of tribal citizenship. I'm not a member of a tribe. I have apologized for not being more sensitive to that. It's an important thing.\"
The controversy arose just days before Warren was set to make a major announcement Saturday in Lawrence, Massachusetts, before embarking on a campaign swing through the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
Weld, the former Republican Massachusetts governor and 2016 Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate, re-registered as a GOP voter, according to the Massachusetts secretary of state's online voter registration status lookup.
The Boston Globe earlier reported that Weld was strongly considering a Republican primary challenge to Trump.
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