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\"For a small campaign like ours without a big dollar donor network and a campaign that refuses PAC contributions, we knew we had to rely fully on the power of the people,\" she said in a video posted on her Twitter account. \"We've been blown away.\"
The New York senator contended with past congressional votes this week as she addressed her controversial record on immigration during her tenure in the U.S. House while also embracing her relationship with former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
\"When I was a member of Congress from upstate New York, I was really focused on the priorities of my district. When I became senator of the entire state, I recognized that some of my views really did need to change,\" Gillibrand said during a CNN town hall Tuesday. \"They were not thoughtful enough and didn't care enough about people outside of the original upstate New York district that I represented. So, I learned.\"
GIllibrand also said in the town hall that Clinton has given her advice about her presidential campaign and is a \"role model for all of us.\"
\"Hillary Clinton put that 65 million cracks in that highest and hardest glass ceiling. She's inspired the world by her bravery and courage,\" Gillibrand said. \"Secretary Clinton is still a role model for all of us.\" But despite her admiration for Clinton, Gillibrand said that she believes former President Bill Clinton should have resigned after the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Harris signaled that she's open to an all-female Democratic ticket in 2020, saying in an interview on SiriusXM Progress's Make It Plain, \"Wouldn't that be fabulous?\"
Harris landed in third place in a new Quinnpiac University poll of her home state of California. The poll found that Harris had the support of 17 percent of Democrats and voters who lean Democratic, putting her behind Biden (26 percent) and Sanders (18 percent).
She also made her third trip to Iowa earlier this week -- focusing on the issue of raising teacher pay -- according to her campaign.
The former Colorado governor took the stage at the Building Trades Conference in Washington to court the pro-union crowd, urging that the country \"needs a president\" that supports unions.
In his speech, Hickenlooper focused on his private sector experience as a business owner, saying that it will complement his ambitions in the public sector.
\"I didn't check off how many times I said you're fired,\" he told the audience, an apparent jab at President Trump. \"I said you're hired. … That's why I am running for president.\"
Hickenlooper will also make six stops in Iowa starting Friday, during his second trip to the state.
Inslee, who has staked his 2020 candidacy on climate change, reinforced his focus on the issue Wednesday while seeking to show his broader record beyond climate.
\"We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we are the last generation, literally, who can do something about it,\" the Washington governor said at a CNN town hall.
He also took aim at one key debate playing out across the 2020 field — reforming Senate rules and the filibuster. \"We're not going to be able to get health care done, or anything else for that matter, unless we get rid of the filibuster,\" he said. \"If the filibuster is still in Mitch McConnell's hand come 2021, all hope is sort of down the tubes to be able to do real significant reform.\"
Inslee travels to Iowa on Friday to visit community members who have been affected by recent flooding, according to his campaign.
After announcing earlier this week that her campaign committee, Amy for America, raked in $5.2 million in the seven weeks after the launch of her campaign, Klobuchar stopped at a union conference in Washington to deliver a pitch to voters.
Politico reported that the Minnesota senator spoke about her grandfather saving money in a coffee can to send her father to college and her father's struggle with alcoholism later in life.
\"I saw him sink to the lowest valleys because of his struggles. He got three DWIs, and it was on the third DWI that he finally had to go and get treatment,\" she said. \"Because of his work, because of people that worked with him … just like people work with you, he was pursued by grace, and his life changed.\"
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Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who is still considering a run for the White House, signaled that he is closer to making a final decision. \"I have not made my decision yet. I am very close,\" he said at the Building Trades Conference in Washington. \"If I do decide, I'll make a decision in a couple of weeks.\"
McAuliffe spent most of his speech Wednesday touting his record as governor of Virginia -- before underscoring his willingness to take on Trump.
\"I think when you're looking for your next president, you have to look at the governors because they are CEOs,\" he said. \"I just want you to remember one thing -- of all the candidates running, how many have actually wrestled a 280-pound, 8-foot alligator for a political contribution for $15,000.\"
\"If I can wrestle an alligator, I can sure as hell wrestle Donald Trump,\" he said.
After announcing his long-shot bid for president, Messam traveled to both South Carolina and Nevada, before heading to California on Thursday. The Democratic mayor of Miramar, Florida, kicked off a two-day visit in the state with a stop at the University of Southern California's College Democrats meeting.
The Massachusetts Democrat embarked on a tour through the early primary states of New Hampshire, South Carolina, Iowa and, most recently, Nevada.
The former Marine, who is considering a 2020 bid, sought to bill himself as an \"outsider\" in his pitch to a core group of Nevada voters: veterans.
\"I've always been an outsider,\" Moulton said, according to the Nevada Independent. \"I've always been willing to take on the Washington establishment. That's been true in almost everything I've done, and I'm someone who doesn't have a long political history. But I am someone who believes in this country.\"
As Moulton inches closer to a decision, Politico reported that he is asking voters if he should run for higher office in digital advertisements running on social media.
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 10, 2019
The presidential hopeful recently told the Texas Tribune that he had a change of heart about a controversial vote he cast in 2016 on offshore drilling.
His campaign spokesperson told the news outlet that his vote to allow federal dollars to fund oil and gas exploration studies in the eastern Gulf was about trying to \"get off of our foreign reliance on resources in oil and gas that has caused so much foreign wars and American lives and troops and resources.\" But after speaking with voters on the campaign trail, the spokesperson said, O'Rourke \"wouldn't cast the same vote today.\"
The former Texas congressman has been crisscrossing early voting states, bringing the style of his unsuccessful 2018 Senate bid against Ted Cruz to the rest of the country. After an 843-mile drive through Iowa, O'Rourke returns to South Carolina on Friday for his second trip since announcing his candidacy, for a three-day drive through Charleston, Clemson, Denmark, Beaufort and other communities.
In a pro-worker pitch to a union audience at the Building Trade Conference, the newly announced 2020 candidate anchored his speech to his roots in the Midwest, pushing a populist message to the predominantly blue collar audience.
\"The national emergency in the United States today is that the American dream for millions of Americans is on life support,\" he began. He also took a swipe at Trump, without mentioning him by name: \"Put the phone down, let's get to work.\"
But the native Ohioan then turned his criticism inward, to his own party, suggesting that Democrats don't need a \"savior\" but someone who can \"grind it.\" He also added that the party should \"not be so hostile to the free enterprise system, not be hostile to business.\"
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All eyes were on the two-time White House hopeful's tax returns this week. Sanders, a millionaire, told The New York Times he would release 10 years of tax returns by April 15. He refused to do so in 2016, which brought comparisons to President Trump.
Sanders also introduced a signature piece of legislation Wednesday: the Medicare for All Act. The bill, which he has introduced several times in the past decade, is far more sweeping than previous versions; it would provide government-run, Medicare-style health insurance for all Americans.
\"Health care is a human right not a privilege,\" Sanders said. \"Together, we are going to end the international embarrassment of the United States of America -- our great country being the only major nation on earth not to guarantee health care to all as a right. That is going to end.\"
Earlier this month, Sanders reported that his first-quarter fundraising numbers show that he pulled in an impressive $18.2 million. Sanders heads to several Midwest battleground states this weekend, holding rallies in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
The former Starbucks CEO, who has not formally entered the race, stopped in Johnson County, Kansas, this week to pitch running as an independent to voters.
Schultz said he plans to make a decision over the summer on running, according to the Kansas City Star. During his trip through Kansas, before continuing on to Arizona and Utah, he told a crowd at a local community college that \"the extreme ideology of the Republicans and the extreme ideology of the Democrats do not represent the vast majority of Americans who are at the center of this country, and we have to unleash them.\"
The U.S. House member from California officially announced his candidacy on Monday on \"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.\"
\"It's official,\" Swalwell said. \"Boy, did it feel good to say that.\"
Swalwell also unveiled that gun control and student loan debt will be the centerpiece of his 2020 agenda on ABC's \"Good Morning America\" on Tuesday.
\"I'm telling folks, keep your rifles, keep your shotguns, keep your pistols, we just want the most dangerous weapons out of the hands of the most dangerous people,\" Swalwell said. \"Most gun owners believe that.\"
At his first event as a presidential candidate, Swalwell visited Broward County -- the site of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 students and teachers. \"Throughout this campaign, there will be other issues that I talk about — health care, education and climate change,\" he said. \"But my pledge to you tonight is that this issue comes first.\"
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Warren announced a $6 million fundraising haul in the first quarter from 135,000 donors. The average donation was $28.
While the Massachusetts senator bested two of her colleagues in the Senate -- outraising both Klobuchar and Booker by $1 million -- she still fell short of others like Sanders and Harris.
The announcement came on the heels of Warren releasing her 2018 federal tax returns, which revealed that she and her husband together made nearly $850,000 and paid about $231,000 in federal taxes after deductions on that income.
\"I've put out 11 years of my tax returns because no one should ever have to guess who their elected officials are working for. Doing this should be law,\" Warren said in a statement.
Yang told ABC News's George Stephanopoulos on \"This Week\" that his cornerstone universal basic income proposal -- which would provide every U.S. adult with a $1,000 guaranteed monthly income -- will prepare the U.S. economy for the 21st century.
\"We have to solve the problems that got Donald Trump elected in 2016,\" Yang said. \"And to me, the main driver of his victory was that we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, the swing states he needed to win.\"
Yang said he's running to prepare the country for a future in which new technologies could cause a third of the nation's jobs to disappear.
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