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Trump says healthcare vote will come after 2020 election   April 2, 2019: Kamala Harris raised $12 million in the first quarter of 2019. Donald Trump announced that a vote on healthcare would take place after the 2020 election. Share the latest from the campaign trail.         Notable Quote of the Day “It might seem like a good thing to have a cereal aisle’s worth of candidates to choose from, but behavioral science predicts that too many options will, counterintuitively, result in lower satisfaction among Democratic voters—and possibly lead to lower enthusiasm and lower turnout. We saw a demonstration of this so-called ‘cereal aisle effect’ in the Chicago mayoral race, where a crowded, diverse, and qualified field of 14 candidates without prohibitive frontrunners coincided with almost the lowest turnout in city history at 33.4 percent.” – Lilly Kofler, U.S. director of behavioral science at Hill+Knowlton Strategies Democrats Cory Booke, Julián Castro, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jay Inslee, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O'Rourke, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren spoke at the We the People Summit in Washington D.C., on Monday. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the event’s sponsors—which included the Service Employees International Union, League of Conservation Voters, and Communication Workers of America—spent $65 million on Democratic candidates and other groups in 2018. Find videos of their speeches here. Pete Buttigieg was interviewed on The Ezra Klein Show, where he discussed his theory for political change and his experiences as mayor. The Guardian profiled Julián Castro, tracking his path from the mayor of San Antonio to U.S. secretary of housing and urban development to presidential candidate. John Delaney will air the first television ad in New Hampshire, making a 60-second ad buy for two weeks. Tulsi Gabbard posted a video on Twitter criticizing the Trump administration’s decision to allow firms to sell nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. Kamala Harris raised $12 million in the first quarter of 2019. The average donation was $55. Amy Klobuchar became the fourth presidential candidate to release her tax returns on Monday. Wayne Messam was interviewed on MSNBC and Fox News, where he discussed consumer and student loan debt. Beto O'Rourke said he would sign an executive order on his first day in office requiring his Cabinet members to hold monthly town halls for accountability. O’Rourke also said he supported abolishing the Electoral College. Bernie Sanders discussed possible term limits for the Supreme Court and rotating judges to the appeals courts. Marianne Williamson is speaking at Iowa State University on Tuesday as part of the university’s pre-caucus campaign series. Andrew Yang discussed automation, geoengineering, and universal basic income in an interview with Wired. Republicans Donald Trump said that Republicans were working on a new healthcare proposal but it would not be introduced until after the 2020 election.     On the Cusp: Tracking Potential Candidates James Comey is not running for president, despite reports following an April Fool’s Day tweet that he had entered the race. Election Updates Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) are introducing a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College. What We’re Reading The Atlantic: Beto Sees Trump's Immigration Trap Clearly FiveThirtyEight: What More Than 40 Years Of Early Primary Polls Tell Us About 2020: Part 1 Vox: Trump has a strong foreign policy narrative for 2020 Flashback: April 2, 2015 Newsweek discussed the religious evolution of several leading presidential candidates, including Jeb Bush, John Kasich, and Marco Rubio.