Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing - March 27, 2019

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Messam to decide on run March 30   March 27, 2019: John Hickenlooper and Howard Schultz made critical comments on the Green New Deal. Wayne Messam’s exploratory committee announced it would make a decision about 2020 on March 30. Share the latest from the campaign trail.         Notable Quote of the Day “Rightly or wrongly, the political press is going to treat the filings as the first ‘ballot.’ So, it’s important both for optics, but also as a warning light for campaigns that have performed less well than others.” —Joel Benenson, 2016 Clinton chief strategist, on the March 31 FEC filing deadline Democrats The Human Rights Campaign announced that Cory Booker would speak at a fundraising dinner in Los Angeles on March 30. Pete Buttigieg appeared on the podcast The Breakfast Club, hosted by Charlamagne Tha God. Buttigieg discussed his black agenda and being an openly gay politician. Kirsten Gillibrand disclosed her 2018 taxes and called on the other candidates to do the same. She reported $218,000 in total income last year between her Congressional salary and a book deal and paid $29,170 in federal taxes. The Detroit NAACP announced that Kamala Harris would give the keynote address at its 64th Annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner on May 5. John Hickenlooper published an op-ed in The Washington Post arguing the Green New Deal “sets us up for failure” because the goals it sets are unachievable. He called for cooperation between the federal government and private industry, and likened this approach to the space race and curing polio. Open Secrets reported that the super PAC Act Now on Climate has spent more than $1.3 million on behalf of Jay Inslee since the beginning of March. Inslee is the only candidate aligned with a super PAC so far. Wayne Messam’s exploratory committee said that he would make an announcement relating to the 2020 presidential campaign on March 30 at Florida Memorial University. Messam formed his exploratory committee on March 13. The Center for Public Integrity profiled Marianne Williamson’s campaign contribution history, highlighting both campaigns she had given to and individuals who have contributed to her campaigns. Andrew Yang hired Al Womble as his Iowa campaign chair. Womble was the 3rd Congressional District's Democratic chair in 2018. Democrats flipped the district in 2018 when Cindy Axne beat Rep. David Young. Republicans Donald Trump’s campaign announced it would hold a fundraising dinner in Los Angeles on April 5. NBC Los Angeles reported that tickets would cost $15,000 for dinner, $50,000 for a photo opportunity, and $150,000 to participate in a roundtable discussion.   Join the authors behind Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing as they catch you up on what has happened so far this year. Find out who is running, who is on the fence, what the campaigns are doing, and more. Reserve your spot today! On the Cusp: Tracking Potential Candidates Howard Schultz was interviewed on Fox Business Channel with Maria Bartiromo. He criticized Trump for wanting to repeal the Affordable Care Act without another solution, and said that lawmakers proposing the Green New Deal “are well intentioned people that are trying to do good things,” but that they were suggesting things they knew were not going to pass. Election Updates On March 21, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) signed SB 445 into law, moving the state’s presidential primary to Super Tuesday (March 3, 2020). Super Tuesday will now feature 11 presidential primaries—Alabama, Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia. Arkansas temporarily moved from a March primary to a May primary for the 2016 election cycle, but SB 445 makes the return to Super Tuesday permanent. What We’re Reading FiveThirtyEight: Here’s How We’re Defining A ‘Major’ Presidential Candidate CBS News: Why some Democrats want to see more Supreme Court justices on the court The New York Times: Inside Kamala Harris’s Small-Dollar Fund-Raising Operation Flashback: March 27, 2015 Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight profiled several potential candidates who could declare campaigns if Hillary Clinton chose not to run. He looked primarily through the lens of fundraising and identified Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Cuomo as potential candidates based on exceeding fundraising expectations during the 2010, 2012, and 2014 cycles.