On Politics A.M.: Pete Buttigieg Makes His Case

2019年10月17日星期四

October 17, 2019

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

Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., a former Navy intelligence officer who served in Afghanistan, is taking a notably more modulated and targeted approach as he seeks his party's nomination, reflecting both the experiences of a post-9/11 generation of veterans and the sensibilities of a nation that largely reveres them, even as it is increasingly wary of military adventures abroad.

President Trump seemed to wash his hands of the conflict between Turkey and America's Kurdish allies in Syria, generating withering criticism from Republican allies, who rebuked him in a House vote.
After vowing not to cooperate with a "kangaroo court," the president has largely failed to prevent current and former members of his administration from talking to Democrats seeking to impeach him.

A former top aide to the secretary of state told Congress that he had resigned amid mounting frustrations over the Trump administration's sidelining of career diplomats working on Ukraine policy and its failure to support them in the face of the impeachment inquiry.

House Democrats are worried that the impeachment inquiry is threatening their attempts to show that they can govern with a "kitchen table" focus. It's a political dilemma that could deepen as the investigation marches on.
For months, the Democratic presidential race has seemed to move inexorably toward a confrontation between former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. But Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and moderates on the stage are not ready to yield.
A day after they sparred in the debate, Mr. Biden aimed more criticism at Ms. Warren, who has joined him as a front-runner.

In the past three months, Mr. Biden spent more on his campaign than he raised. He begins an aggressive phase of the primary race with far less cash on hand than top rivals.

After monthslong contract negotiations failed, teachers in Chicago announced Wednesday evening that they would go on strike, causing the cancellation of classes starting on Thursday for some 300,000 public school students in the nation's third-largest district.

The United States has begun requiring Chinese diplomats to notify the State Department ahead of any meetings they plan to have with local or state officials and with educational and research institutions.

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

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