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Deval Patrick presidential campaign, 2020
Date: November 3, 2020 |
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| “ | This race is not just about the character of any one individual, but about the character of the country. This is our chance to reclaim the American Dream.[1] | ” |
| —Deval Patrick (November 2019)[2] | ||
Deval Patrick is a former Democratic governor of Massachusetts. He announced that he was running for president on November 14, 2019.[3] He suspended his presidential campaign on February 12, 2020, after not receiving any delegates in the Iowa caucuses or New Hampshire presidential primary.[4]
Patrick said on his campaign website that he wanted to renew the American Dream through what he called opportunity, reform, and democracy agendas.[5] He said he supported establishing a public option but not under the terms of Medicare for All, eliminating some student loan debt, and simplifying the tax system.[6]
Patrick worked as U.S. assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division from 1994 to 1997. He also served two terms as governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015.[7]
Election results
New Hampshire primary
New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary on February 11, 2020
Candidate |
% |
Votes |
Pledged delegates |
|
 | Bernie Sanders |
25.6
|
76,384 | 9 |
 | Pete Buttigieg |
24.3
|
72,454 | 9 |
 | Amy Klobuchar |
19.7
|
58,714 | 6 |
 | Elizabeth Warren |
9.2
|
27,429 | 0 |
 | Joe Biden |
8.4
|
24,944 | 0 |
 | Thomas Steyer |
3.6
|
10,732 | 0 |
 | Tulsi Gabbard |
3.3
|
9,755 | 0 |
 | Andrew Yang |
2.8
|
8,312 | 0 |
 | Deval Patrick |
0.4
|
1,271 | 0 |
 | Michael Bennet |
0.3
|
952 | 0 |
 | Cory Booker |
0.1
|
157 | 0 |
 | Joe Sestak |
0.1
|
152 | 0 |
 | Kamala D. Harris |
0.0
|
129 | 0 |
 | Marianne Williamson |
0.0
|
99 | 0 |
 | Steve Burke |
0.0
|
86 | 0 |
 | Julián Castro |
0.0
|
83 | 0 |
 | John Delaney |
0.0
|
83 | 0 |
 | Steve Bullock |
0.0
|
64 | 0 |
|
| Tom Koos |
0.0
|
64 | 0 |
 | David John Thistle |
0.0
|
53 | 0 |
|
| Lorenz Kraus |
0.0
|
52 | 0 |
|
| Robert Carr Wells Jr. |
0.0
|
45 | 0 |
|
| Henry Hewes |
0.0
|
43 | 0 |
 | Sam Sloan |
0.0
|
34 | 0 |
|
| Mosemarie Boyd |
0.0
|
32 | 0 |
|
| Ben Gleiberman |
0.0
|
31 | 0 |
 | Mark Stewart Greenstein |
0.0
|
31 | 0 |
|
| Thomas Torgesen |
0.0
|
30 | 0 |
|
| Rita Krichevsky |
0.0
|
23 | 0 |
|
| Michael Ellinger |
0.0
|
19 | 0 |
|
| Jason E. Dunlap |
0.0
|
12 | 0 |
 | Roque De La Fuente III |
0.0
|
11 | 0 |
|
| Raymond Moroz |
0.0
|
8 | 0 |
| Other |
2.0
|
6,081 | 0 | |
 |
Total votes: 298,369 • Total pledged delegates: 24 |
Iowa caucus
Patrick in the news
- See also: Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing and Editorial approach to story selection for the Daily Presidential News Briefing
This section featured five recent news stories about Patrick and his presidential campaign. For a complete timeline of Patrick's campaign activity, click here.
- February 12, 2020: Patrick ended his presidential campaign. He said in a statement that “the vote in New Hampshire last night was not enough for us to create the practical wind at the campaign’s back to go on to the next round of voting.”
- February 10, 2020: Patrick spoke at New England College and the Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence Forum in New Hampshire.
- February 3-4, 2020: Patrick continued to campaign in New Hampshire with stops in North Conway, Hanover, New London, Nashua, Manchester. He also visited the University of New Hampshire.
- February 1-2, 2020: Patrick campaigned in New Hampshire with stops in Manchester, Exeter, and Portsmouth.
- January 31, 2020: Patrick spoke about foreign policy at the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire.
Biography
Patrick was born in 1956 in the South Side of Chicago. He graduated from Milton Academy in Massachusetts in 1974 and Harvard College in 1978. After working for the United Nations in the Sudan, he earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1982.[8][9]
Patrick began his legal career working as a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Throughout the 1980s, he worked at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York City and in private practice at the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow.[9]
In 1994, President Bill Clinton (D) nominated Patrick for U.S. assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. He served in that role until 1997. Patrick returned to private practice, working as general counsel at Texaco and the Coca-Cola Company.[8]
Patrick served two terms as governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015, becoming the first black governor in the state and the second in the history of the United States.[10]
Campaign finance
The following chart shows Democratic presidential campaign fundraising, including both total receipts and contributions from individuals, as well as campaign spending. Figures for each candidate run through the end of June 2020 or through the final reporting period during which the candidate was actively campaigning for president. The total disbursements column includes operating expenditures, transfers to other committees, refunds, loan repayments, and other disbursements.[11]
Satellite spending
Satellite spending, commonly referred to as outside spending, describes political spending not controlled by candidates or their campaigns; that is, any political expenditures made by groups or individuals that are not directly affiliated with a candidate. This includes spending by political party committees, super PACs, trade associations, and 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups.[12][13][14]
This section lists satellite spending in this race reported by news outlets in alphabetical order. If you are aware of spending that should be included, please email us.
- Through January 2020, Reason to Believe spent more than $1.8 million on ad buys in the early nominating states to support Patrick.[15]
Democratic presidential primary debates, 2019-2020
- See also: Democratic presidential nomination, 2020
The following table provides an overview of the date, location, host, and number of participants in each scheduled 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate.
Debate participation
Patrick participated in none of the Democratic presidential primary debates that took place while he was a candidate.
Campaign advertisements
This section shows a sampling of advertisements released to support or oppose this candidate in the 2020 presidential election.
Support
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Campaign themes
The following campaign themes and issues were published on Patrick's presidential campaign website:[5]
| “ |
For Everyone, Everywhere The moment is precarious – and also full of possibility. The public is asking big questions and insisting on big solutions. Renewing the American Dream requires we deliver on an Opportunity Agenda, a Reform Agenda, and a Democracy Agenda. But we can’t make meaningful and lasting change to our policies without also changing our politics. That means governing not for the next news cycle or election cycle, but for the next generation. Not just to beat the incumbent, but to shape a better future for everyone, everywhere. Opportunity Agenda An Opportunity Agenda is about growing the economy out to working people and the marginalized, not just up to the well connected. In a global economy where knowledge is power, that means investing time, ideas and money in education, innovation and infrastructure. Education from pre-K to community college, and right through workforce development and retraining, because education is the single best investment the public can make in its own collective future. Innovation because it is our competitive edge in the world. That means cultivating industries like clean tech, precision manufacturing, robotics, gaming, cybersecurity, transportation, green construction and biotech, to name just a few of the economic revolutions underway or within our grasp. And infrastructure because it is the platform the public builds to enable personal ambition and private investment. That means roads, rails, bridges, airports, train stations, broadband and a modernized efficient electric grid. That means school buildings and parks, laboratories and libraries. Reform Agenda A Reform Agenda is about making meaningful fixes to the big systems that consistently fail to meet modern needs. This means a health care system that provides access to high-quality, low-cost health services everywhere and for every single individual, bar none. This means an immigration system that provides for both border integrity and human dignity, that encourages the determined and creative whose values align with ours to make their home here. This means a justice system that focuses less on warehousing people than on preparing them to re-enter responsible life. Democracy Agenda A Democracy Agenda is about fixing the many devices that have crept into our political system to engineer outcomes at odds with the public will. The hyper-partisan gerrymandering where the Party picks the voter rather than the other way around. The voter suppression and other gamesmanship used to make it harder for your vote to count. The explosion of dark money into elections. The influence of paid lobbyists. We must root these out and return power to where it belongs: with the people.[1] |
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| —Deval Patrick 2020[5] | ||
Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing
The following section provides a timeline of Patrick's campaign activity beginning in November 2019. The entries, which come from Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing, are sorted by month in reverse chronological order.
2020
2019
See also
- Democratic presidential nomination, 2020
- Presidential candidates, 2020
- Presidential election endorsements, 2020
- PredictIt markets in the 2020 presidential election
- Presidential candidate campaign travel, 2020
- Democratic presidential primary debates, 2020
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ YouTube, "Deval Patrick Announcement Video," November 14, 2019
- ↑ CNBC, "Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick enters the 2020 Democratic primary race," November 14, 2019
- ↑ NPR, "Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick Ends His Presidential Bid," February 12, 2020
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Deval Patrick, "Vision," accessed November 14, 2019
- ↑ CBS News, "Deval Patrick announces he is running for president," November 14, 2019
- ↑ Axios," Deval Patrick on the issues, in under 500 words," November 14, 2019
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 The History Makers, "Biography," accessed November 14, 2019
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Encyclopedia.com, "Deval Patrick," accessed November 14, 2019
- ↑ U.S. News & World Report, "Ex-Massachusetts Gov. Patrick Announces Dem Presidential Bid," November 14, 2019
- ↑ FEC, "U.S. President," accessed July 16, 2019
- ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Outside Spending," accessed September 22, 2015
- ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Total Outside Spending by Election Cycle, All Groups," accessed September 22, 2015
- ↑ National Review.com, "Why the Media Hate Super PACs," November 6, 2015
- ↑ OpenSecrets, "Majority of top 2020 Democrats backed by outside groups as early primaries near," January 29, 2020
