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Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez laid out the moraland politicalconsequences of Republicans managing to pass Trumpcare, saying in a statement thatTrump and Republicans will own every preventable death, every untreated illness, and every bankruptcy that American families will be forced to bear if this bill becomes law and millions lose access to affordable health care.

Perez highlighted the number of Americans who would lose out and what it is that theyre losing outfor: a tax cut for the wealthiest.

The 24 million who would lose access to health care is not just a numberit represents fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and even newborn babies with heart diseases or cancers that are too costly to treat without affordable insurance.

Trump and Republicans are telling the parents of children with special needs that theyre on their own. Theyre telling insurance companies to go ahead and use lifetime limits to decide when someone with a chronic illness has had enough health care. As if this attack on ordinary Americans werent reprehensible enough, Republicans in Congress might keep Obamacares best protections for themselves and their staffers, as they rip them away from their own constituents. It seems the only people who will truly benefit from this legislation are the uber-rich, who will pocket hundreds of billions in tax breaks. Trump and Republicans will be held accountable.

Perezalso recorded a robocallasking people to call Congress to oppose the bill.

Trump and the Republicans will own it morally. Ordinary voters need to make every Republican who votes for this own it in a way they actually feelby making them face angry constituents every time they show their faces and, in 2018, at the polls.

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Top Democrat on Trumpcare: 'Trump and Republicans will own every preventable death' - Daily Kos

The June 20 election for the suburban Atlanta seat vacated by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price remains tight, with a survey from a Democratic polling firm finding Democrat Jon Ossoff one point ahead of Republican Karen Handel well within the margin of error.

The poll, conducted early last week by Anzalone Liszt Grove Research, found Ossoff up 48 percent to 47 percent over Handel, running strongest among those who voted in 2016, but had not voted in 2014. In April 18s closely watched first round, Ossoff won 48.1 percent of the vote; Handel, a former Georgia secretary of state who has narrowly lost two recent bids for statewide office, won just 19.8 percent of the vote.

In a tweet, the pollster celebrated the numbers as good news for the first-time Democratic candidate.

But Republicans, surprised by their underdog status in a seat that has been deep red for more than 30 years, are encouraged by any sign of Handel consolidating votes.She has not nabbed the endorsement of Dan Moody, a former legislator who ran fourth in the primary, but she enjoyed a burst of donations after the first round and a burst of attention when President Trump arrived in Atlanta for the National Rifle Association of America conference and a fundraiser.

Youd better win, the president joked to Handel, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Heading into the runoffs third week, Handel also had the endorsement of the U.S.Chamber of Commerce, which went on the air with a TV ad attacking the Democrat as a Hollywood candidate, a theme in ads from the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Congressional Leadership Fund, which is aligned with Speaker of the House Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.).

But none of that has budged the numbers in the Ossoff-Handel showdown. In polls taken before April 18 that asked about a hypothetical runoff, Ossoff either trailed Handel or led byone or two points. But polls underrated Ossoffs first-round vote total. The final pre-primary surveys put Ossoffs runoff vote projection at 42 percent; he outperformed that and came within a few thousand votes of outright victory. The final pre-election poll, conducted by Opinion Savvy, found Ossoff and fringe Democrats getting 42.1 percent of the total district vote; on Election Day, the partys candidates won 49 percent of the vote.

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Poll: Democrat still leads in tight race in Georgia - Washington Post

Auditions for 2020 Democratic presidential candidates appear to be in full swing not four months into the Trump administration -- with the typical cast of governors and senators positioning themselves while party elders appear to step back.

Among them, former Vice President Joe Biden has denied plans to run after giving mixed signals.

Guys, I am not running, Biden said last weekend at a sold-out New Hampshire Democratic fundraiser.

The 74-year-old Biden -- who has a colorful history keeping his political story alive -- made the announcement after gleefully telling reporters days after Donald Trumps stunning November 2016 win over Democrats: "I am going to run in 2020. What the hell man."

Even the shortlist of Democratic senators potentially eyeing the job is long, with Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota being mentioned.

Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, who ran for president last year as a Democrat, continues to stay on the national stage. But he would be 79 in 2020.

Warren and Franken, in particular, took advantage of the recently televised Senate confirmation hearings on Trump appointees to increase their national profile with tough-talking soundbites.

It's going to be open season, Douglas Smith, a managing partner at Kent Strategies who worked on campaigns for Al Gore and both Clintons, told Fox News on Tuesday. Elizabeth Warren started running six weeks before Hillary Clinton lost.

Another potential prospect, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, on Monday appeared to take herself out of the mix, telling cable Spectrum News: I'm focused entirely on running for Senate, so yes, I'm ruling it out."

With real estate magnate and former reality TV host Trump winning as a first-time candidate, a few names from the entertainment and entrepreneurial worlds also have voiced interest.

Among them are Kanye West, the rapper-producer who first announced his 2020 interests in a 2015 MTV awards show and more recently in an August 2016 BBC interview.

When I've talked about the idea of being president, I'm not saying I have any political views, he said in the interview. I don't have views on politics. I just have a view on humanity, on people, on the truth.

Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and Shark Tank host, has become the face under the familiar headline, Wont rule out a presidential run.

The 58-year-old Cuban has for years toyed with the idea, last month telling Five Thirty Eights Nate Silver, Ill get back to you on that, then telling The Washington Post he had no interest but at the same time, sometimes you got to do what you got to do.

Cuban has hinted about running as either a Democrat or Republican, but campaigned with Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee, and has criticized former friend Trump and his policies.

I know Mark Cuban well, Trump responded once on Twitter. He backed me big-time, but I wasn't interested in taking all of his calls. He's not smart enough to run for president!

Clintons daughter, Chelsea, has also been briefly mentioned as a long-shot candidate.

David Payne, a Republican strategist and president of Codavate, told Fox News on Tuesday that voters in presidential elections historically vote to one extreme, then the other, with Trump in 2016 being the year of the wildcard or at least of the anti-establishment candidate.

In politics, the pendulum never stops in the middle, he said. Polls show those who voted for President Trump are largely happy with their pick, which might lead us to believe there are some more openings at least in 2018 in the House and Senate. But its too early to know about 2020.

The potential field also includes a list of high-profile governors including Colorados John Hickenlooper, New Yorks Andrew Cuomo and Virginias Terry McAuliffe, a former Democratic National Committee leader and prolific fundraiser whose trade mission this week to Mexico has renewed talk about a potential run.

He has a record [of governing] and can raise lots of money, Smith said. But hell also have to run past being too tied to Clinton Inc.

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New OMB Director Mick Mulvaneys old 5th District, which takes in populous suburbs of Charlotte and stretches south, is not prime territory for Democrats. | M. Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO

The Republican primary for Mick Mulvaneys old House seat will go another two weeks after the candidates forced a special-election runoff Tuesday night, giving Democrat Archie Parnell a head start in his long-shot bid to make a conservative stretch of South Carolina competitive.

Parnell, a former Goldman Sachs tax expert, cruised through the Democratic primary with about three-quarters of the vote while state Rep. Tommy Pope and former state legislator Ralph Norman advanced to a runoff on the GOP side, since no one got a majority of the vote. Pope had 31 percent and Norman 30 percent in the crowded field when the Associated Press called the runoff Tuesday night.

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Pope and Normans runoff will be in two weeks, on May 16. The general election is June 20, the same day as a closely-watched special election to replace Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price in his old Georgia district.

Mulvaneys old 5th District, which takes in populous suburbs of Charlotte and stretches south through rural areas to the outskirts of Columbia, is not prime territory for Democrats: President Donald Trump carried it with 57 percent of the vote in 2016 as Mulvaney, now the director of the Office of Management and Budget, also won easily. The district does not have a big urban center or recent history of supporting Democrats down-ballot since Mulvaney knocked longtime Democratic Rep. John Spratt out of Congress in 2010.

But Democrats note that any gap in voter enthusiasm could impact a deep-red district as it did in Kansas in April, where a sleepy special election briefly troubled Republicans who worried their voters were not engaged. The swing that happened in Kansas, if that happens here, we win, Parnell said.

Parnell has a net worth in the millions, which he could use to pay for TV advertising in the special general election. In an interview before the election, Parnell didnt deny he could put more of his own money into the contest.

Yet outgoing South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Matt Moore said that the party primary should engage Republicans in the district in a way they werent engaged in Kansas or Montanas upcoming special election, where party leaders picked the candidates. I will eat my shoes if a Democrat wins South Carolinas 5th District, Moore said.

Before someone can take on Parnell one-on-one, its possible that national Republican groups will turn their attention to the runoff between Pope a former prosecutor-turned-state legislative leader who earned national press attention for prosecuting a woman for drowning her two children and Norman, a real estate developer and legislative hardliner who became famous for being on the wrong side of 124-1 votes in the state House.

Norman has said he would gladly join the House Freedom Caucus, and could receive the backing of the conservative Club for Growth. Business-oriented groups are more likely to back Pope, who has already received a donation from the corporate PAC of Boeing, a major employer in South Carolina.

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KINGSTON, N.Y. >> Cassandra Burke has launched a bid for the Common Councils Eighth Ward seat.

Burke, of 117 Rondout Drive, says she will seek the Democratic line in the November election. The Eighth Ward seat currently is held by Steve Schabot, also a Democrat.

Burke, who has never held elected office, said in a press release that she has lived in Kingston for five years and is excited about running.

I have made this decision because, as a mother of three children and a longtime resident of the city, I see so much potential in Kingston for us and our future generations, and I want to help nurture that potential.

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Burke is a former member of the citys Human Rights Commission and a current member of the Community Development Advisory Board.

The Common Council seats in all nine city wards are up for election in November. Council members serve two-year terms.

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Democrat launches bid for Eighth Ward seat - The Daily Freeman