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Chuck Schumer spent months trying to get Stacey Abrams, who nearly won the Georgia governorship last November, to run for the U.S. Senate in 2020. He even chose her to give the official Democratic response to the State of the Union, a slot typically reserved for only the party s most talented up-and-comers.Abrams, however, announced this week that she would pass on the run stanley quencher against freshman Republican Sen. David Perdue. And that s a problem for Schumer, who needs to be recruiting top-tier talent like Abrams across the country if Democrats are g stanley cups oing to have a shot at winning back the Senate.Abrams i stanley cups s not the only prominent Democrat to turn down a potential Senate run in recent weeks, stymying Schumer s efforts to recruit strong candidates for 2020. Some are passing on the Senate in order to join the massive Democratic primary field, which already has nearly two dozen candidates. Democrats control 47 Senate seats, while Republicans have the other 53. And while attention is focused on the race for the White House, it would be difficult for any potential Democratic president to fulfill his or her campaign promises unless they wind up with at least 50 Senate seats after the next election.Former Rep. Beto O Rourke chose to run for president after he narrowly lost his Texas Senate race in 2018, instead of challenging Sen. John Cornyn in 2020. Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper joined the presidential race instead of running against Sen. Cory Zteu Trump backer charged with assault after being seen on video exhaling twice on protesters
Struggling in a tight race in the polls, GOP presidential nominee George W. Bush has unleashed a new attack ad which openly mocks his Democratic rival, Vice President Al Gore.CBS News Correspondent Phil Jones reports Democrats quickly returned fire about the ad, which Bush approved for air on the same day that the Texas governor talked about clean politics with young people in Kentucky. Politics doesn t have to be ugly and mean. It doesn t ha stanley thermobecher ve to be a system that downgrades people to try to lift somebody up, said Bush. But starting Friday, the Republican National Committee RNC will start running the Bush-approved ad - the most negative and direct attack yet on Gore. The RNC ad - which will air in 17 states - features a TV on a kitchen table. An image of stanley cup Gore at the Buddhist temple in California flashes across the screen, as well as the vice president speaking about campaign finance reform. Oh, there s Al Gore, reinventing himself on television again. Like I m not gonna notice, says a woman s voice in the a stanley thermos mug d. Who s he gonna be today The Al Gore who raises campaign money at a Buddhist temple - or the one who promises campaign finance reform And the 30-second ad ridicules Gore s claim about the Internet. I took the initiative in creating the Internet, says Gore in a clip from a 1999 interview with CNN that runs in the ad. Yeah, and I invented the remote control, too. retorts the woman in the RNC spot. The TV-in-the
Chuck Schumer spent months trying to get Stacey Abrams, who nearly won the Georgia governorship last November, to run for the U.S. Senate in 2020. He even chose her to give the official Democratic response to the State of the Union, a slot typically reserved for only the party s most talented up-and-comers.Abrams, however, announced this week that she would pass on the run stanley quencher against freshman Republican Sen. David Perdue. And that s a problem for Schumer, who needs to be recruiting top-tier talent like Abrams across the country if Democrats are g stanley cups oing to have a shot at winning back the Senate.Abrams i stanley cups s not the only prominent Democrat to turn down a potential Senate run in recent weeks, stymying Schumer s efforts to recruit strong candidates for 2020. Some are passing on the Senate in order to join the massive Democratic primary field, which already has nearly two dozen candidates. Democrats control 47 Senate seats, while Republicans have the other 53. And while attention is focused on the race for the White House, it would be difficult for any potential Democratic president to fulfill his or her campaign promises unless they wind up with at least 50 Senate seats after the next election.Former Rep. Beto O Rourke chose to run for president after he narrowly lost his Texas Senate race in 2018, instead of challenging Sen. John Cornyn in 2020. Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper joined the presidential race instead of running against Sen. Cory Zteu Trump backer charged with assault after being seen on video exhaling twice on protesters
Struggling in a tight race in the polls, GOP presidential nominee George W. Bush has unleashed a new attack ad which openly mocks his Democratic rival, Vice President Al Gore.CBS News Correspondent Phil Jones reports Democrats quickly returned fire about the ad, which Bush approved for air on the same day that the Texas governor talked about clean politics with young people in Kentucky. Politics doesn t have to be ugly and mean. It doesn t ha stanley thermobecher ve to be a system that downgrades people to try to lift somebody up, said Bush. But starting Friday, the Republican National Committee RNC will start running the Bush-approved ad - the most negative and direct attack yet on Gore. The RNC ad - which will air in 17 states - features a TV on a kitchen table. An image of stanley cup Gore at the Buddhist temple in California flashes across the screen, as well as the vice president speaking about campaign finance reform. Oh, there s Al Gore, reinventing himself on television again. Like I m not gonna notice, says a woman s voice in the a stanley thermos mug d. Who s he gonna be today The Al Gore who raises campaign money at a Buddhist temple - or the one who promises campaign finance reform And the 30-second ad ridicules Gore s claim about the Internet. I took the initiative in creating the Internet, says Gore in a clip from a 1999 interview with CNN that runs in the ad. Yeah, and I invented the remote control, too. retorts the woman in the RNC spot. The TV-in-the