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Dear Beto and Julian, Please Don’t Run for President

ARE YOU PLANNING TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT ON THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET IN 2020? IF not, why not? Everyone else is. Seventeen Republicans ran in 2016, and the nominating process winnowed them down to the least qualified and most deranged. Now, Trump looks pretty beatable, so a bewildering assortment of A, B, C and D-list Democrats are lining up to run, from strong candidates like Kirsten Gillibrand to a Maryland congressman we are told is

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