“The devastating stress and anxiety that comes with living paycheck to paycheck, not being able to afford to put food on the table or take your child to the doctor is making us sick and has fractured and divided our communities across the nation,” he said. “We have to fix it.”Sign Up
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Ryan unsuccessfully challenged now-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the minority leader post in 2016, winning the support from roughly a third of the Democratic Caucus. Ryan also opposed Pelosi for the speakership in 2018 after Democrats won control of the House.
He is the latest Democrat to join the 2020 field but unlikely to be the last. Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to launch a White House bid by the end of the month. Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who revealed Wednesday that he has prostate cancer and will undergo surgery during recess this month, is also likely to jump into the primary, as is Rep. Seth Moulton .
Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost last year’s governor’s race in Georgia, told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that a White House bid is “probably third on the list, but it’s an important consideration.”
I have been trying so hard not to say one bad thing about any Democratic candidate, but will any one be left in Congress? I heard him on Morning Joe, and I was like
Who isn’t running on that?
Dude. Why. None of us knows who you are. If adding you starts to drag this sorry lifeboat to the bottom, we're going to kick you overboard and feed you to the sharks.
YAWN= :)
Enough people are running, thanks but no thanks