DEMS/ELECTION/ELIZABETH WARREN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [1-31-19] weighed in on the field of 2020 Democratic challengers, proclaiming that Sen. Kamala Harris had the best campaign rollout while continuing to needle Sen. Elizabeth Warren about her claimed Native American heritage. Harris formally announced her campaign last Sunday in a raucous rally in Oakland, Calif., to a crowd of more than 20,000 people. She raised $1.5 million in the first 24 hours of entering the field. But Trump was not as kind to other Democrats, saying that others were ‘very flat,’ without naming names. The president has long needled Warren over her past identification as Native American, using the derogatory term ‘Pocahontas’ to refer to the Massachusetts Democrat. Before the midterm elections, Warren released the results of a DNA test to support her claims, a move that was criticized by some Native American leaders…Trump also said he will be running for a second term, on the day his reelection campaign announced it had $23 million in cash on hand at the end of 2018. He also dismissed the notion of a GOP primary challenger, concluding he has ‘great support in the party.'”
–Brent D. Griffiths, “Trump on 2020 Dems: Harris had ‘best opening act’,” Politico, January 31, 2019 10:56 pm