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Situational awareness - April 17, 2019 Good Wednesday morning from Salt Lake City. Here's what is driving the day: - Elizabeth Warren campaigns in Utah today.
- Candidates in Utah are talking about abortion. Is that a good campaign strategy?
- Democrat Ben McAdams raises more than $300,000 for his re-election bid. At the same time, at least two Republicans are mulling a challenge to McAdams in 2020.
- Trump vetoes a resolution seeking to end US involvement in the war in Yemen.
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TICK TOCK Today is the 107th day of the year. There are 258 days remaining in 2019. 3 days to the Utah Libertarian Party state convention (4/20/2019) 17 days to the Utah State Republican Party Organizing Convention (5/4/2019) 17 days to the United Utah Party state convention (5/4/2019) 47 days until the municipal election filing period opens (6/3/2019) 51 days until the municipal election filing period ends (6/7/2019) 66 days to the Utah State Democratic Party Organizing Convention (6/22/2019) 70 days to the first Democratic presidential primary debates in Miami (6/26/2019) 104 days to the second Democratic presidential primary debates in Detroit (7/30/2019) 118 days to the 2019 Utah primary elections (8/13/2019) 202 days to the 2019 municipal elections (11/5/2019) 285 days to the first day of the 2020 Utah Legislature (1/27/2020) 293 days to the 2020 Iowa Caucuses (2/3/2020) 321 days to the 2020 Utah presidential primary (3/3/2020) 562 days until the 2020 presidential election (11/3/2020)
Today At Utah Policy  Analysis: Is abortion a potent political issue in Utah?
By Bob Bernick, Contributing Editor
This past legislative session, the majority Republicans passed, and GOP Gov. Gary Herbert signed, an abortion restriction bill that clearly violates the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade and will land Utah in a federal court case it may well lose.
 McAdams raises $300,000 as potential 2020 opponents begin to test the waters
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams raised just over $300,000 during the first fundraising quarter of the 2020 election cycle. He may need to raise much more than that as two Republican lawmakers are mulling challenges to McAdams next year.
 The political crazies will always be with us - Bernick and Schott on politics
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
Veteran political journalists Bob Bernick and Bryan Schott discuss the latest Utah political news. In this episode:
 Weekly survey: Will Jon Huntsman run for governor again?
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
As UtahPolicy.com reported, current Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr. is considering a return to Utah and another run for governor in 2020.
OTHER UTAH HEADLINES Deseret News Salt Lake Tribune Other
NATIONAL HEADLINES Thursday is M-Day in Washington. A redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report will be released to Congress and the public tomorrow. Here's what you should expect - https://nyti.ms/2UH2yby - President Donald Trump is expecting to be vindicated by the release of Mueller's report, but several White House aides are fearful of the president's temper should the report reveal damaging news - https://cnn.it/2UDyKfQ
Veto #2. President Donald Trump issued the second veto of his tenure, nixing a bipartisan resolution seeking to end US involvement in the war in Yemen - https://cnn.it/2Gkk4sd
Reversal on asylum seekers. Attorney General William Barr decided Tuesday that some asylum seekers cannot be released on bond by immigration judges, which could lead to immigrants being held indefinitely - https://nyti.ms/2UEllUW
Legal battle between the White House and Congress. President Trump's attorneys are preparing to resist congressional investigations, which could set up a protracted legal fight over congressional subpoena power - https://wapo.st/2UFt84Y
More troops to the southern border. President Trump has ordered thousands of additional American military personnel to the southwest border according to a new document drafted last week - http://bit.ly/2UIhUN4
Sanders scores on Fox. Sen. Bernie Sanders' Fox News town hall was the most-watched TV event of the 2020 campaign cycle so far, drawing nearly 2.6 million viewers - http://bit.ly/2UIhrKO - More Democrats may be heading to Fox News, including South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg - http://bit.ly/2UIHJwk
2020 Democrats aren't donating to charity. According to publicly released tax returns from some of the Democratic presidential hopefuls shows they don't give much to charity compared with other Americans with similar incomes - http://bit.ly/2ULQfLj
Freshman Dems rake in campaign cash. Some of the most vulnerable Democrats in Congress raised more than $300,000 in the first fundraising quarter of the 2020 election cycle - https://politi.co/2UHbr4N
Hmmm. A new poll shows nearly 4-in-10 voters believe President Trump's campaign was spied on during the 2016 election - https://politi.co/2UE3n4Z
North Korea may be ramping up production on nuclear weapons. Satellite images show the possible reprocessing of radioactive material into bomb fuel at North Korea's main nuclear site - http://bit.ly/2Gwi5RN
Trend to be aware of. Far-right activists, who are being chased away from online platforms like Facebook and YouTube are turning to Tik Tok, a video-sharing app popular with Gen Z users - http://bit.ly/2UH2CIk
Terrifying. Denver-area schools are shut down as police search for an armed woman who is "infatuated" with the Columbine massacre. The woman traveled to Denver from Florida, then bought a weapon and ammunition just days ahead of the 20-year anniversary of the school shooting - https://reut.rs/2UJOC0z
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1397 - Geoffrey Chaucer tells The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. 1512 - The Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Martin Luther after he refused to admit to charges of heresy. 1524 - Italian navigator Giovanni Verrazano discovered what is now New York Harbor. 1861 - Virginia's secession convention votes to secede from the United States, becoming the 8th state to join the Confederate States of America. 1905 - The Supreme Court decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. 1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. 1969 - Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy. 1993 - A federal jury convicted two Los Angeles police officers and acquitted two others of violating the civil rights of Rodney King during his 1991 arrest and beating.
Policy News  Rio Tinto to be honored with Utah Foundation's Civic Cornerstone AwardRio Tinto will be honored with the Civic Cornerstone Award at Utah Foundation's 2019 Annual Luncheon on May 21st at the Little America Hotel.
 Plaid opens engineering hub in Salt Lake CityThe Economic Development Corporation, Salt Lake City, and the Governor's Office of Economic Development are excited to announce that Plaid is opening an engineering hub in Salt Lake City.
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