Year: 2019
Sanders Raises $10 Million in First Week of Candidacy
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New York Times: “By Monday, after less than a week as a presidential candidate, Mr. Sanders has collected $10 million from 359,914 donors, campaign officials said. But perhaps just as daunting a figure for his rivals is this: Nearly 39 percent of those donors used an email address that had never before been used to give to Mr. Sanders. … For Mr. Sanders, the flood of money from fresh email addresses suggested to his team that he was dramatically expanding a donor network that had already dwarfed his 2020 competition.”
Castro Touts Work Ethic
“I don’t golf, so I’m going to work a lot harder than this president.”
— Julian Castro (D), quoted by the Dallas Morning News.
Republican Former Lawmakers Urge Congress to Block Trump’s Emergency Declaration
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Twenty three former Republicans members of Congress have penned a letter, urging legislators to “pass a joint resolution terminating the emergency declared by the President.”
Ex-Security Officials Issue Statement Against Trump’s Emergency Declaration
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“A bipartisan group of 58 former senior national security officials will issue a statement Monday saying that ‘there is no factual basis’ for President Trump’s proclamation of a national emergency to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border,” the Washington Post reports.
If Mueller’s Conducting a Witch Hunt, He’s Found the Coven
“We know he’s indicted 37 people and 199 different counts, including Trump’s inner circle. People like Michael Flynn, his national security adviser, Paul Manafort, his campaign manager, Michael Cohen, his personal lawyer. So if this is a witch hunt Mueller’s found a coven at this point.”
— Former acting Solicitor General Neil Katyal, on Meet the Press.
On His Last Day in Office, Ronald Reagan Delivered a Message for Donald Trump
“If we ever close the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.”
