DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Sen. Bernie Sanders, who entered the growing field running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday [2-19-19], had ‘missed his time’ for a successful bid for the White House. Trump has repeatedly raised what he has been describing as the threat of socialism in U.S. politics, most recently during a speech Monday [2-18-19] directed at Venezuelan-Americans. Many have viewed Trump’s remarks as at least partly aimed at a number of progressive Democrats running to unseat him in 2020, including Sanders…Sanders, an independent from Vermont, sent a campaign email Tuesday announcing that he will once again seek the Democratic nomination, jumping into an already crowded field of nearly a dozen candidates, with many more expected to join. Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton in 2016, but won wide support in the Democratic party’s liberal wing…Sanders described himself a democratic socialist and focused on social and economic justice, a platform seen as too radical by many in the Democratic Party establishment.”
–John Fritze, David Jackson and Michael Collins, “Trump says Bernie Sanders ‘missed his time’ for presidential campaign,” USA Today, February 19, 2019 3:05 pm