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Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is giving a new push to his 2020 campaign today by announcing a new version of his “Medicare for All” plan.
“What our system does is get rid of insurance companies and drug companies making billions of dollars in profit every single year,” Sanders told CBS News in an interview Wednesday.
CNN’s Joan Walsh has advised likely 2020 Democratic president candidate Joe Biden not to run, according to a report this morning in The Hill.
According to Walsh, it would be better if Biden would support a woman candidate. She said that Biden has been saying that he wants to change what the former vice president called “a white man’s culture.” And the best way to do that would be to elect a woman as president.
Democratic U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will give her first speech as an official presidential candidate in New York City today, and will call Donald Trump a “coward” in front of his own hotel. The new 2020 candidate will also accuse the president of “tearing apart the moral fabric of our country.”
The governors are coming, the governors are coming.
Former Democratic Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has just announced that he is running for president in 2020. He joins Washington state governor Jay Inslee who announced last week that he is also seeking the Democratic nomination for president next year.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Friday he’s running for president, saying he will emphasize attempts to combat climate change during his bid for the Democratic nomination.
“I’m Jay Inslee and I’m running for president because I’m the only candidate who will make defeating climate change our nation’s Number 1 priority, ” the 68-year-old governor said in a video announcing his candidacy.
Newsweek Magazine is reporting this morning that “Kamala Harris has leaped to the front of an already-packed Democratic 2020 race.”
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Former Vice President Joe Biden is still fueling speculation that he will run for president in two years.
On his book tour in Missoula, Montana, Monday night, Biden discussed his 2020 prospects, saying he believes that he is the “most qualified person” to be president. He also said that his decision would be made in the next two months. He also called himself a “gaffe machine.”
After being mailed a pipe bomb by the infamous “MAGABomber” last week former First Lady and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is not running for cover. On the country, she is leaving open the possibility of another run for the presidency.
