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Ongoing: Possible runs for president in 2020:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-potential-2020-candidates-are-doing-and-saying-vol-5/

Running for President: 'Absolutely Brutal': Why White House Runs Aren't For Everyone

"The process is cruel," former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said Thursday, announcing he would not seek the White House. He explained that the way families are exposed in presidential campaigns was ultimately the factor that convinced him and his wife to pass on a run. "Every family has its warts, has its issues ... has its things they'd rather keep private, and we do as well."

But otherwise private matters have a lot to do with modern-day campaigns. Scrutiny of presidential candidates has always existed on some level, but the trend of picking through personal lives has accelerated in the past 30 years.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/09/674765114/absolutely-brutal-why-white-house-runs-aren-t-for-everyone?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20181210&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews

Undated: The United States presidential election of 2020, scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2020, will be the 59th quadrennial U.S. presidential election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2020
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February 15: Trump Kicks Off His 2020 Reelection Campaign on Saturday

The president is taking the permanent campaign to new levels with a political rally in Florida—the latest sign that he’s already planning for a second term.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/trump-kicks-off-his-2020-reelection-campaign-on-saturday/516909/

July 20: Trump's 2020 Campaign Has Already Paid Out $600K—to Trump.

Even though Trump is, in fact, the current president, he only stopped running for a brief few hours on Inauguration Day. As soon as Trump filed for re-election, at 5:11 pm on January 20, his campaign officially sprang back into action ... That means Trump can legally continue to funnel funds from donors back into his own businesses.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-2020-campaign-money/

September 8: The top 15 possible 2020 Democratic nominees, ranked
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/08/the-top-15-possible-2020-democratic-nominees-ranked/?utm_term=.568571e92dcd

October 14: Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon made a bold prediction Saturday that President Trump would accomplish something in 2020 that no presidential candidate has done in nearly 30 years.

"President Trump is not only going to finish this term, he's going to win with 400 electoral votes in 2020 ..."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/steve-bannons-bold-2020-prediction-has-trump-achieving-a-feat-not-seen-in-nearly-30-years/article/2637551

October 15: Donald Trump campaign ramps up 2020 re-election fundraising ... But legal fees are a major cash drain, new disclosure shows
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/10/15/21208/donald-trump-campaign-ramps-2020-re-election-fundraising

October 17: Donating to Trump?... Trump's 2020 re-election campaign is driving a steadily rising share of its contributions to the lawyers representing the Trump campaign and the President's son. Legal consulting fees account for $1 of every $10 the campaign has spent this year [up from 3.9% in Jan to 27% in September, totaling 13% overall], according to a review of campaign finance records. ... last financial quarter, 24% of the campaign's legal bills bankrolled the legal fees of Trump's eldest son
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/donald-trump-campaign-legal-fees/index.html


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October 23: Mark Cuban May Run Against Donald Trump In 2020 As A Republican ... “I wouldn’t run unless I have solutions.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mark-cuban-2020-president_us_59ed5fc4e4b0958c4682dac2

October 24:
Hillary 2020? Trump better hope not ...
Why Hillary Clinton would be well-positioned to win in a rematch

On Oct. 16, 11 months after defeating her, President Trump tweeted another of his regular insults about his 2016 opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton. Sandwiched between boasts about his presumed role in the stock market’s rise and his rally in South Carolina, Trump wrote: “I was recently asked if Crooked Hillary Clinton is going to run in 2020? My answer was, ‘I hope so!’”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/10/24/hillary-2020-trump-better-hope-not/?utm_term=.d61421e591d5

October 25: The Four Red States Where Trump 2020 Is Already in Trouble ... Two hundred thousand Puerto Ricans are moving to Florida, but that’s just for openers. Trump could face problems in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Wisconsin, too.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-four-red-states-where-trump-2020-is-already-in-trouble

November 10:  Joe Biden thinks it’s critical that Donald Trump not get a second term — and though it’s early, he doesn’t yet see anyone else who could stop that from happening.

So, he's been telling people privately, that might mean he’ll just have to run himself.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/10/joe-biden-2020-trump-244757

November 10: Shark Tank investor [Mark Cuban] has been politically active this year by criticizing many of President Donald Trump's decisions and publishing a plan to fix the Affordable Care Act. Speaking at The New York Times DealBook Conference on Thursday, Cuban said that if he challenges Trump in the 2020 race, he'll do so as an independent.
https://www.inc.com/emily-canal/shark-tank-mark-cuban-presidential-run-2020.html

November 13: Former Vice President Joe Biden hasn't made up his mind about whether to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, but he is "not closing the door," he said today.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/vice-president-joe-biden-closing-door-2020-presidential/story?id=51110056
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January 23: In a series of hypothetical 2020 one-on-one contests Trump trails Vermont Sen.Bernie Sanders by a 55% to 42% margin [13 points] among registered voters. He lags further behind former Vice President Joe Biden by a wide 57% to 40% split [17 points], and trails television personality Oprah Winfrey by a 51% to 42% divide [9 points].
http://rpnewswire.com/politics/datalog/sanders-biden-outperform-trump-2020/

January 25: Oprah Winfrey is downplaying her interest in a presidential run in a new interview, saying she doesn’t “have the DNA” for a run.

“I’ve always felt very secure and confident with myself in knowing what I could do and what I could not,” Winfrey explained to InStyle Magazine. “And so it’s not something that interests me. I don’t have the DNA for it.”
http://fox5sandiego.com/2018/01/25/oprah-winfrey-insists-shes-not-running-for-president/

January 27: Candidates of color get off the sidelines in the age of Trump: 'The soul of America is at stake right now'

Run For Something, a national group started after the election to recruit and train Democratic candidates, has recruited more than 15,000 potential candidates, according to co-founder Amanda Litman, a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer. Two-thirds of those candidates are women, and one-third identify as persons of color. 
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/27/politics/candidates-of-color-age-of-trump/index.html

February 21: Artificial intelligence could supercharge hacking and election meddling, study warns ... AI programs can make it easier for trolls with minimal technical skills to make fake videos, audio, researchers warn
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/artificial-intelligence-could-supercharge-hacking-election-meddling-study-warns-n849601

February 27: Brad Parscale, Trump's tech 'genius,' tapped to be campaign manager for president's 2020 re-election bid
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/27/trump-names-brad-parscale-as-campaign-manager-for-2020-re-election-bid.html

February 27: Donald Trump 'to announce' plans for 2020 election

Donald Trump will run for a second term as president and will name Brad Parscale, his 2016 digital strategist, as his campaign manager for 2020.

News that Mr Trump is running for president may not come as a major surprise, since the President filed paperwork for his 2020 campaign on Inauguration Day, allowing him to begin taking donations for the upcoming presidential race. But, the naming of Mr Parscale as campaign manager marks the biggest step towards defining a framework and strategy to take on the endeavour thus far.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-2020-re-election-us-president-campaign-manager-brad-parscale-white-house-russia-a8231061.html

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March 28: Could the president be beaten in a primary? The short and easy CW is, lots of luck! Only two incumbent presidents have faced serious primary opposition in the past 50 years: Ronald Reagan challenged Gerald Ford in 1976, and Ted Kennedy took on Jimmy Carter in 1980. Both lost after spirited contests. Two others faced less serious opposition; George H.W. Bush dispatched Pat Buchanan in 1992, and Richard Nixon crushed the two Republican congressmen — one from the left and the other from the right — who challenged him in 1972. The sole president in memory knocked out of office by the primary process was Lyndon Johnson, who abandoned his reelection campaign after Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy stunned observers by finishing a close second — 7 points behind LBJ — in the New Hampshire primary.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/28/how-to-primary-trump-in-2020-217717

April 19: Trump declared he's running again. Many Republicans aren't ready to back him.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/19/politics/congress-republicans-trump-second-term/index.html

April 22: Demographic shifts show 2020 presidential race could be close

A new bipartisan report runs through some of the scenarios that would lead to Trump’s reelection or a win for Democrats. The States of Change report, authored by a long list of groups including the Center for American Progress and the Bipartisan Policy Center, suggests there is a long-term structural advantage for the Democratic Party but a much more complicated short-term picture.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/demographic-shifts-show-2020-presidential-race-could-be-close-n868146

May 21: Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday he will run for re-election on an agenda that would prioritize working families.

The campaign said Sanders would kick off his re-election bid with a series of rallies across Vermont next month.

Sanders ... is among the list of possible contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 ....

"Our struggle to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent — a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice — must continue," Sanders wrote in a statement released by the campaign.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article211577659.html

June 8: Mitt Romney predicts Donald Trump will win in 2020 'solidly.' Is he right?

The simple fact is that there is no hard-and-fast -- or even close -- indicator that, two and a half years out from a reelection race, can tell us whether a president will win.

Mitt may be right. Or wrong. We just won't know which for another few years.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/politics/donald-trump-2020-mitt-romney/index.html

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July 5: Chinese company producing Trump 2020 flags despite looming trade war
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/politics/china-trade-trump-2020-flags/index.html

July 30: The president is running his re-election campaign precisely the way he governs—playing three opposing power centers off each other, and listening mainly to his own instincts. It’s going to get ugly, and soon. “We’re going to call them out,” says Steve Bannon. “Kirsten Gillibrand, show us what you got. Elizabeth Warren? Kamala Harris? Howard Schultz? He’s going to cut through these guys like a scythe through grass.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/inside-the-trump-2020-campaigns-disorganized-attempt-to-keep-america-great


August 22: A much-too-early 2020 poll has some bad news for Donald Trump

Fewer than a third of voters are sure they want to reelect him.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/22/17768342/donald-trump-2020-matchups

September 5: Trump on 2020: 'Nobody is going to come close to beating me'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/405254-trump-on-2020-nobody-is-going-to-come-close-to-beating-me

October 5: The effort to unseat Susan Collins in 2020 is already underway
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/05/politics/susan-collins-2020-challenge/

October 11: Flake calls Trump supporters' 'lock her up' chants 'disturbing,' and fears for future of Republican Party

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said in a recent interview that he hopes somebody runs against President Trump in the 2020 election ...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flake-calls-trump-supporters-lock-her-up-chants-disturbing-and-fears-for-future-of-republican-party

October 22: Rumor Mill: Progressive Duo Bernie Sanders And Elizabeth Warren May Have Something Up Their Sleeve

There is now growing speculation that the two may come together to run against Trump. The idea simple: they want to unify their base instead of fracturing the progressive vote and allowing a more moderate Democrat to win the party ticket.

“I suspect that in the coming weeks and months, there will be discussions," Sanders said about a potential progressive unification.

Progressive voters seem to be fond of the idea, too.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2018/10/22/rumor-mill-progressive-duo-bernie-sanders-and-elizabeth-warren-may-have-somethin-n2530503

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November 25: Senator Amy Klobuchar isn’t confirming or denying a possible presidential run in 2020.

“I’ll just say that I’ll let you know if — I’ll let you know when I make any kind of a decision ...

Senator Klobuchar is considered one of the potential candidates who will make a bid for the White House in the next election. In an interview with ABC This Week, she said people have been talking to her about a possible run.
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/11/25/amy-klobuchar-2020-presidential-run/

December 10: Comey calls on Americans to 'use every breath we have' to oust Trump in 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/09/politics/james-comey-donald-trump-2020/index.html

December 14: Here Are The 'Outside The Box' Progressive Ideas 2020 Democrats Are Pitching
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/14/675655962/here-are-the-outside-the-box-progressive-ideas-2020-democrats-are-pitching

December 19: Poll: Americans don't believe Trump has received the message from the midterms
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/poll-americans-don-t-believe-trump-has-received-message-midterms-n948721?cid=referral_taboolafeed
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February 15:
Beto O'Rourke says he 'absolutely' supports destroying existing walls on southern border
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/beto-orourke-says-he-absolutely-supports-destroying-existing-walls-on-southern-border

February 22: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., is facing additional allegations of abusing her staff after a report Friday said the presidential candidate berated an aide for forgetting to bring utensils — forcing the lawmaker to eat a salad with a comb.

Klobuchar addressed the allegations when she announced her presidential candidacy earlier this month in Minnesota.

"I love our staff — look at this incredible event they put together," Klobuchar told reporters. "And, yes, I can be tough, and, yes, I can push people, I know that. But in the end, there are so many great stories of our staff that have been with me for years and have gone on to do incredible things. And I have, I'd say, high expectations for myself. I have high expectations for the people that work for me, but I have high expectations for this country. And that's what we need. We need someone who is focused on getting things done for the country."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/klobuchar-ate-her-salad-comb-report-says-n974746?cid=referral_taboolafeed

April 29: A Brief Guide to the Joe Biden–Anita Hill Controversy

What did [Joe] Biden do during the hearings?

As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time, it fell on Biden to preside over the [Clarence Thomas] hearings. Critics of his performance tend to hone in on three things.

First, he did little to stop members of the committee from attacking Hill. The Republicans were the most relentless. Arlen Specter asked her why she didn’t report the behavior to HR and said that discussing “large breasts” at work was common. Howell Heflin asked if she was a “scorned woman” and if she had “militant attitude relative to the area of civil rights” or a “martyr complex.” Charles Grassley accused her of lifting the pubic hair story from The Exorcist.

Second, Biden failed to call additional witnesses who could have corroborated Hill’s testimony. One of those women, Angela Wright Shannon, told Roll Call in 2016 that it was probably a good thing that she didn’t testify. “I don’t think I could have maintained the grace and dignity of Anita Hill,” she said. Hill, in 2014, said Biden declining to put the other witnesses in front of the committee was “a disservice to me” and “a disservice more importantly, to the public,” as allowing those women to testify would have “helped the public to understand sexual harassment. He failed to do that.”

Lastly, Biden’s critics say that his own questioning of Hill was unfair, blaming him for “setting an accusing, skeptical tone and losing control,” the Washington Post reports. Charles Ogletree, a Harvard law professor and Hill’s attorney at the time, told Politico he still blames Biden for mishandling the hearing:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/guide-joe-biden-anita-hill-controversy.html

June 12: Trump Tells ABC: Sure, I’d Collude Again

In a new interview released this afternoon by ABC News, President Trump tells George Stephanopoulos that he’d take information from a foreign government if one offered dirt on his 2020 opponent. “I think you might want to listen, there isn’t anything wrong with listening.”

President Trump rejected the idea that such foreign government interventions amounted to election interference. “It’s not an interference, they have information — I think I’d take it. If I thought there was something wrong, I’d go maybe to the FBI — if I thought there was something wrong. But when somebody comes up with oppo research, right, they come up with oppo research, ‘oh let’s call the FBI.’ The FBI doesn’t have enough agents to take care of it. When you go and talk, honestly, to congressman, they all do it, they always have, and that’s the way it is. It’s called oppo research.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-tells-abc-sure-id-collude-again


June 13: Pelosi: At Best, Trump Doesn’t Know ‘Difference Between Right And Wrong’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday chalked up President Trump’s foreign dirt remark to the President simply not knowing the difference between right and wrong.

“What the President said last night shows clearly once again, over and over again that he does not know the difference between right and wrong. And that’s probably the nicest thing I can say about him,” she said. “If he doesn’t know the difference, it could explain some of this ridiculous behavior.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pelosi-trump-right-wrong

June 13: Republicans lash Trump for being open to foreign oppo

GOP senators vowed they would immediately turn to the FBI if approached with foreign dirt.

Soon after Donald Trump sparked his latest all-consuming controversy, Lindsey Graham spoke to the president and urged him to rethink his willingness to use foreign opposition research against his political opponents.

“The law is pretty clear. You can’t take anything of value from a foreign government,” Graham said he told Trump. “He says, ‘I didn’t say I did.’ I said: ‘Sitting down and talking to somebody’s not a crime, but it’s probably not a good idea. … I don’t agree with you.’”
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/13/republicans-trump-foreign-interference-remarks-1364220


June 13: US President Donald Trump has caused a splash on Twitter after he tweeted to say he had met the "Prince of Whales".

Referring to his recent UK state visit, the president initially wrote on Twitter: "I meet and talk to 'foreign governments' every day.

"I just met with the Queen of England (U.K.), the Prince of Whales, the P.M. of the United Kingdom, the P.M. of Ireland, the President of France and the President of Poland.

"We talked about "Everything!" Should I immediately call the FBI about these calls and meetings? How ridiculous! I would never be trusted again.

"With that being said, my full answer is rarely played by the Fake News Media. They purposely leave out the part that matters."

In a tweet on Thursday night, the head of the Federal Election Commission rebuked the president without naming him.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-48622001

June 13: The head of the Federal Election Commission released a statement on Thursday evening reiterating, emphatically, that foreign assistance is illegal in U.S. elections.

“Let me make something 100% clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election,“ wrote Ellen Weintraub, chairwoman of the FEC. “This is not a novel concept.“

She also sent the statement via Twitter with the introductory line: “I would not have thought that I needed to say this.“
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/13/fec-election-foreign-trump-1364598
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