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Situational awareness - June 19, 2019 Good Wednesday morning from Salt Lake City Welcome to Utah's must-read daily political news rundown. Please encourage your friends and colleagues to sign up for our emails. Here are the stories we're following today: - The list of Republicans who may run to replace Rep. Rob Bishop in Congress is long.
- Donald Trump kicks off his 2020 re-election bid.
- Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense withdraws after a domestic violence incident comes to light.
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TICK TOCK Today is the 170th day of the year. There are 195 days remaining in 2019. 3 days to the Utah State Democratic Party Organizing Convention (6/22/2019) 7 days to the first Democratic presidential primary debates in Miami (6/26/2019) 41 days to the second Democratic presidential primary debates in Detroit (7/30/2019) 55 days to the 2019 Utah primary elections (8/13/2019) 85 days to the third Democratic presidential primary debate (9/12/2019) 139 days to the 2019 municipal elections (11/5/2019) 222 days to the first day of the 2020 Utah Legislature (1/27/2020) 229 days to the 2020 Iowa Caucuses (2/3/2020) 258 days to the 2020 Utah presidential primary (3/3/2020) 267 days to the final day of the 2020 Utah Legislature (3/12/2020) 503 days until the 2020 presidential election (11/3/2020)
Today At Utah Policy  Rob Bishop is retiring next year. Which Republicans are vying to replace him?
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
While most of the attention on the 2020 election is focused on the jockeying for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, the race to replace retiring 1st District Congressman Rob Bishop could have an unusually large field next year.
 I got bamboozled - Bernick and Schott on politics
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Award-winning journalists Bryan Schott and Bob Bernick discuss the latest political news from the Beehive State and beyond.
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NATIONAL HEADLINES 2020 - President Donald Trump kicked off his re-election bid in Orlando Tuesday night by hitting familiar themes, including attacks on immigration, the press and his 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton - https://nyti.ms/2MYMcaN
- Trump's campaign manager Brad Parscale says he sees a political advantage for the president if Democrats move to open impeachment proceedings against him. He also predicted Trump would win by a landslide in 2020 - https://cbsn.ws/2WXF5UQ
- During the rally, Trump promised to cure cancer and AIDS if he's re-elected to another term in the White House - http://bit.ly/2WTt5na
- President Trump is planning to live tweet next week's Democratic debates. Trump's political advisers tried to keep the president off of Twitter during the debates, but were unable to convince him to stay away from the social media platform - https://on.wsj.com/2MV0MQA
Shanahan out. Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense withdrew his nomination on Tuesday after reports surfaced of a domestic violence incident in which his son attacked his own mother with a baseball bat. Shanahan defended his son in the incident which left his mother with a fractured skull - https://wapo.st/2MUZhlq
- The FBI is also investigating another domestic violence incident wherein Shanahan and his former wife both claimed to the police they had been punched by the other. The alleged fight was not disclosed when Trump nominated Shanahan to be the Pentagon's second-in-command two years ago - http://bit.ly/2WSOiNP
- The White House knew about the domestic violence incident that ultimately derailed Shanahan's nomination for months according to two administration officials - https://cbsn.ws/2NcbdzB
Fiscal time bomb. Congressional leaders and the White House are optimistic they can find a funding deal before this fall to prevent another government shutdown and avoid hundreds of billions in automatic spending cuts, but that's only if President Trump stays out of the way - https://politi.co/2MVmELL
Social media fight du jour. Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outraged Republicans and conservative commentators when she compared migrant detention camps along the U.S.-Mexico border to "concentration camps" - https://wapo.st/2MUAuOr
Trump vs. the Fed. President Trump is suggesting he could fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Trump has repeatedly urged the Fed to cut interest rates to boost economic growth - https://wapo.st/2MW8U3f - Trump asked White House lawyers to examine the legality of removing Powell as chair earlier this year - https://bloom.bg/2WQ9ggA
The investigations. Former White House communications director Hope Hicks is scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning. The White House is asserting Hicks is "absolutely immune" from answering questions about her time in the White House - https://politi.co/2N05tZs
China. The Dow jumped 350 points on Tuesday amid reports President Trump would meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Japan next week - https://cnn.it/2WTPK2A
4th of July. President Trump wants Air Force One to fly over the National Mall during his Fourth of July celebration next month - https://wapo.st/2N04Grs
Saudi Arabia. A U.N. report says Saudi Arabia is responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and calls for an investigation into the role crown prince Mohammed bin Salman played in the slaying - https://nyti.ms/2MT1ZYC
Sarah Sanders' next move. The outgoing White House press secretary is seriously considering running for governor in Arkansas. Sanders and her allies have been making calls to donors and Republican operatives in the state - https://politi.co/2WSgEb1
Charitable giving down. Nonprofits say the Trump tax cuts are responsible for a 3.4% dip in charitable giving last year because of the tax overhaul passed by Congress in 2017 - https://bloom.bg/2WUXVMf
Sobering. The number of refugees on the planet has hit an all-time high as more than 70 million people have been forced to flee due to violence or persecution - https://cnn.it/2WQ95BW
Environment. Permafrost in Canada is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, the latest sign that global climate change is accelerating even faster than scientists had feared - https://reut.rs/2NcdECf
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1586 - English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America. 1846 - The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. 1856 - The first Republican national convention ended in Philadelphia with the nomination of explorer John Fremont of California for president. James Buchanan, a Federalist nominated by the Democrats, was elected. 1862 - Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford. 1953 - Convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by electric chair at Sing Sing Correctional facility in New York. 1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the Senate. 1987 - The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring schools to teach the creationist theory of human origin espoused by fundamentalist Christians. 1991 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrendered to police. 2000 - The Supreme Court ruled prayers led by students at public high school football games aren't permitted under the constitutional separation of church and state.
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