On Politics: Next Democratic Debate Lineup Is In

2019年8月29日星期四

On Politics: Next Democratic Debate Lineup Is In

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August 29, 2019

Morning Edition

Good Thursday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today.

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• After two rounds of back-to-back debate nights, the next Democratic presidential debate will be a one-day affair. Only 10 candidates qualified to be on the stage on Sept. 12. The debate process that was equal parts spectacle and grievance session is coming to an end. The race is entering a new phase, it’s about to feel smaller.

• The latest round of polling shows Joe Biden with a significant national lead in the Democratic presidential race, suggesting that his lead in the earlier stages of the campaign season has been relatively durable throughout the summer.

• After failing to qualify for a third debate next month, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who presented herself as a champion of women and families, said Wednesday that she was withdrawing from the Democratic primary.

• Hurricane Dorian, the first big storm to threaten Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria ravaged the island two years ago, struck Puerto Rico with a glancing blow on Wednesday, causing widespread worry and bringing back difficult memories of still-fresh trauma.

• President Trump is looking for shortcuts to construct his wall on the Southwestern border, even suggesting that officials should seize land in order to get the project done. An administration official said that the president was joking when he suggested aides break the law to build his wall.

• The children of United States service members and other federal employees born abroad will no longer be granted automatic citizenship under a Trump administration policy set to take effect in October.

• A top American diplomat said the United States would not prosecute or otherwise seek to punish President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela if he voluntarily left power, despite bringing his country to the verge of economic collapse and humanitarian disaster.

• Attorney General William P. Barr will host a holiday party at the Trump Hotel that could cost $30,000, creating an optics problem for the Justice Department as it defends Mr. Trump for profiting off his hotels while in office.

• One of Washington’s most powerful Democratic lawyers denied that he deceived federal investigators about whether he had aided a public-relations campaign by Ukraine’s president to repair his battered image in the United States.

• A secret cyberattack against Iran in June wiped out a critical database used by Iran’s paramilitary arm to plot attacks against oil tankers and degraded Tehran’s ability to target shipping traffic in the Persian Gulf.

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Today’s On Politics briefing was compiled by Isabella Grullón Paz in New York.

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