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| Stacey Abrams fuels rumors of 2020 run with Senate announcement – live updates | Stacey Abrams fuels rumors of 2020 run with Senate announcement – live updates |
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| We want to take a moment to cross-refer you to our live blog of developments in Venezuela, where opposition leader Juan Guaidó urged supporters to take to the streets to force his rival Nicolás Maduro from power. | |
| The Venezuela blog is here. | |
| The US secretary of state has announced that the United States “fully supports the Venezuelan people”: | |
| Today interim President Juan Guaido announced start of Operación Libertad. The U.S. Government fully supports the Venezuelan people in their quest for freedom and democracy. Democracy cannot be defeated. #EstamosUnidosVE | |
| Erik Prince, the controversial founder of the private war company formerly known as Blackwater and brother to education secretary Betsy DeVos, might have just become the latest Donald Trump associate to find himself on the wrong side of the law. | |
| House intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff has announced that his committee would make a criminal referral to the justice department regarding alleged false testimony to the committee by Prince. | |
| “The evidence is so weighty that the Justice Department needs to consider this,” Schiff told the Washington Post. | |
| The New York Times reported a year ago that Prince arranged an August 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr and foreign nationals eager to help the Trump campaign. Meeting attendees included an Israeli social media specialist and George Nader, a convicted pedophile working on behalf of princes in both the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. | |
| Prince elided the meeting from his description of his work for the Trump campaign that he gave the committee November 2017. Prince told the committee “I played no official or, really, unofficial role” in the Trump campaign and described his work on behalf of Trump like this: | |
| I supported him momentarily. I attended some fundraisers. I wrote some papers on some different foreign policy position and, you know, kicked them up into the adviser-sphere on what should be done on Middle Eastern or African counter-terrorism issues. | |
| “Also I arranged and attended meetings between the campaign and foreign nationals offering to help Trump win” – Prince left that part out. | |
| Separately, the Mueller report suggests that Prince might have misled the committee about the nature of a meeting he had during the campaign in the Seychelles with a Russian investor. | |
| Stacey Abrams’ decision not to run in Georgia for a US senate seat has intensified months of speculation about what’s next for the Democratic rising after she narrowly lost the state’s governor’s race last year. | Stacey Abrams’ decision not to run in Georgia for a US senate seat has intensified months of speculation about what’s next for the Democratic rising after she narrowly lost the state’s governor’s race last year. |
| Abrams’ decision not to challenge US senator David Perdue in 2020 keeps the door open on a possible presidential run this year, a prospect the former Georgia state lawmaker has teased in interviews and appearances. | Abrams’ decision not to challenge US senator David Perdue in 2020 keeps the door open on a possible presidential run this year, a prospect the former Georgia state lawmaker has teased in interviews and appearances. |
| In 2018, the Abrams campaign mobilized a record number of nonwhite voters in the state, while winning larger shares of white voters than Barack Obama. Abrams fell just short of becoming the first black woman elected to be governor of a state, in a race marred by accusations of voter suppression. | In 2018, the Abrams campaign mobilized a record number of nonwhite voters in the state, while winning larger shares of white voters than Barack Obama. Abrams fell just short of becoming the first black woman elected to be governor of a state, in a race marred by accusations of voter suppression. |
| Her loss to Brian Kemp, the former Republican secretary of state, devastated Democrats in Georgia and around the country, even as a record number of women and people of color led the party to a majority in the House. Almost immediately Abrams received calls to run for Senate, governor (again) and president. | Her loss to Brian Kemp, the former Republican secretary of state, devastated Democrats in Georgia and around the country, even as a record number of women and people of color led the party to a majority in the House. Almost immediately Abrams received calls to run for Senate, governor (again) and president. |
| She has met with several 2020 presidential candidates, including Joe Biden, who reportedly wanted to name her as a running mate before he had even announced his own candidacy. The suggestion was premature: “I think you don’t run for second place,” Abrams replied, when asked about his offer on ABC’s The View. | She has met with several 2020 presidential candidates, including Joe Biden, who reportedly wanted to name her as a running mate before he had even announced his own candidacy. The suggestion was premature: “I think you don’t run for second place,” Abrams replied, when asked about his offer on ABC’s The View. |
| Earlier this year she was selected to deliver the Democratic rebuttal to Donald Trump’s state of the union speech, a job typically reserved for rising party leaders. | Earlier this year she was selected to deliver the Democratic rebuttal to Donald Trump’s state of the union speech, a job typically reserved for rising party leaders. |
| Her resume includes a degree from Spelman College, a renowned historically black college for women, a master’s in public policy from the University of Texas and a law degree from Yale. She served as former minority leader in the Georgia statehouse from 2011 to 2017, has published several romance novels under the pseudonym Selena Montgomery and is an unabashed Trekkie. | Her resume includes a degree from Spelman College, a renowned historically black college for women, a master’s in public policy from the University of Texas and a law degree from Yale. She served as former minority leader in the Georgia statehouse from 2011 to 2017, has published several romance novels under the pseudonym Selena Montgomery and is an unabashed Trekkie. |
| After her loss, she published a book, Lead from the outside, and launched the Fair Fight Action voting rights group. | After her loss, she published a book, Lead from the outside, and launched the Fair Fight Action voting rights group. |
| Hello and welcome to our live blog politics coverage. Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost her run for the Georgia governorship in 2018, has ruled out a run for the US Senate in 2020, she announced. | Hello and welcome to our live blog politics coverage. Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost her run for the Georgia governorship in 2018, has ruled out a run for the US Senate in 2020, she announced. |
| “I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for the United States Senate,” Abrams said in part. “I am so grateful for all the support and encouragement I’ve received from fellow Georgians to leaders of Congress and beyond. However, the fights to be waged require a deep commitment to the job, and I do not see the US Senate as the best role for me in this battle for our nation’s future.” | “I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for the United States Senate,” Abrams said in part. “I am so grateful for all the support and encouragement I’ve received from fellow Georgians to leaders of Congress and beyond. However, the fights to be waged require a deep commitment to the job, and I do not see the US Senate as the best role for me in this battle for our nation’s future.” |
| I am grateful for all the encouragement I received to run for U.S. Senate, and I’m committed to doing everything I can to help elect a Democrat to that seat next year. #gapol pic.twitter.com/5o14BqgqwO | I am grateful for all the encouragement I received to run for U.S. Senate, and I’m committed to doing everything I can to help elect a Democrat to that seat next year. #gapol pic.twitter.com/5o14BqgqwO |
| Our Washington reporter Lauren Gambino will have more on Abrams’ decision shortly. | Our Washington reporter Lauren Gambino will have more on Abrams’ decision shortly. |
| Meanwhile it’s kumbaya Tuesday, with the Democratic leaders of Congress heading to meet Donald Trump at the White House this morning to discuss a potential deal on infrastructure. | Meanwhile it’s kumbaya Tuesday, with the Democratic leaders of Congress heading to meet Donald Trump at the White House this morning to discuss a potential deal on infrastructure. |
| Such a deal has been the subject of serial campaign promises, including by Trump. But what would it look like? In a letter sent yesterday by House speaker Nancy Pelosi and senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, the Democrats asked for “substantial, new and real revenue” for a “comprehensive” infrastructure package to include clean energy and organized labor. On his side, Trump has promised $1.5tn in infrastructure spending, so maybe among all those zeroes there is room for agreement somewhere. | Such a deal has been the subject of serial campaign promises, including by Trump. But what would it look like? In a letter sent yesterday by House speaker Nancy Pelosi and senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, the Democrats asked for “substantial, new and real revenue” for a “comprehensive” infrastructure package to include clean energy and organized labor. On his side, Trump has promised $1.5tn in infrastructure spending, so maybe among all those zeroes there is room for agreement somewhere. |
| But those who remember Nancy and Chuck’s last visit to the Oval Office are not totally optimistic. In that meeting, Trump vowed to shutter the government over his beloved border wall, which he proceeded to do, until political fallout from the debacle forced him to sign a spending bill that did not fund the wall. | But those who remember Nancy and Chuck’s last visit to the Oval Office are not totally optimistic. In that meeting, Trump vowed to shutter the government over his beloved border wall, which he proceeded to do, until political fallout from the debacle forced him to sign a spending bill that did not fund the wall. |
| Second time’s a charm? | Second time’s a charm? |
| Thanks for joining us today. | Thanks for joining us today. |