The Boston Globe - 27.08.2019

TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2019 The Boston Globe TheNation A

A new national poll suggests
the race for the 2020 Demo-
cratic presidential nomination
may be tight-
ening, with a
virtual three-
way tie be-
tween former vice president
Joe Biden and two more pro-
gressive rivals, Senators Bernie
Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Despite the dead heat —
Sanders and Warren each with
20 percent support among
Democratic voters and Biden
with 19 percent — the Mon-
mouth University Poll released
Monday may hint at a concern-
ing trend for the candidacy of
Biden, the poll’s previous front-
runner, whose support declined
from 32 percent when the poll
was taken in June.
Sanders of Vermont and
Warren of Massachusetts both
picked up several percentage
points of support since June.
Voters were asked whom they
would support among 23 Dem-
ocratic candidates.
Patrick Murray, who runs
the polling institute at Mon-
mouth, in West Long Branch,
N.J., said the poll suggested the
race for the Democratic nomi-
nation was tightening.
“The main takeaway from
this poll is that the Democratic
race has become volatile,” Mur-
ray said. “Liberal voters are
starting to cast about for a can-
didate they can identify with.
Moderate voters, who have
been paying less attention,
seem to be expressing doubts
about Biden.”
Murray cautioned that the
results were just “one snapshot
from one poll.” The poll of 800
voters included 298 people con-
sidered registered Democrats
or Democratic-leaning and had
a margin of sampling error of
plus or minus 5.7 percentage
points within that group. The
national poll was conducted by
telephone from Aug. 16 to 20.
NEW YORK TIMES

WhiteHousestatesMelania
TrumphasnevermetKim
President Trump on Mon-

day claimed that first lady

Melania Trump has ‘‘gotten to

know’’ North Korean leader

Kim Jong Un, prompting the

White House to clarify that the

two have never met.

Trump made the comment

at a news conference at the

Group of 7 summit in Biarritz,

France. While answering a

question about Iran, he took a

detour to discuss the country’s

real estate potential, then piv-

oted to North Korea.

‘‘I also say that, by the way,

with respect to North Korea,

Kim Jong Un — who I’ve gotten

to know extremely well; the

first lady had gotten to know

Kim Jong Un, and I think she’d

agree with me — he is a man

with a country that has tremen-

dous potential,’’ Trump said.

White House press secretary

Stephanie Grisham issued a

statement soon after noting the

first lady has never met Kim.

‘‘President Trump confides

in his wife on many issues in-

cluding the detailed elements

of his strong relationship with

Chairman Kim — and while the

First Lady hasn’t met him, the

President feels like she’s gotten

to know him too,’’ she said.

WASHINGTON POST

Prosecutorsneardecisionon

whethertoindictMcCabe

Federal prosecutors in

Washington appear to be in the

final stages of deciding whether

to indict Andrew McCabe, the

former deputy FBI director and

a frequent target of President

Trump, on charges of lying to

federal agents, according to in-

terviews with people familiar

with recent developments in

the investigation.

In two meetings last week,

McCabe’s lawyers met with the

deputy attorney general, Jeffrey

A. Rosen, who is expected to be

involved in the decision about

whether to prosecute, and for

more than an hour with the US

attorney for the District of Co-

lumbia, Jessie K. Liu, according

to a person familiar with the

meetings. The person would

not detail the discussions, but

defense lawyers typically meet

with top law enforcement offi-

cials to try to persuade them

not to indict their client if they

failed to get prosecutors to

drop the case.

An indictment of a former

top FBI official is extremely

rare and would be the latest

chapter in the saga of McCabe,

who was fired last year over the

issue now under criminal in-

vestigation — whether he failed

to be forthcoming with internal

investigators examining the

FBI’s dealings with the media.

McCabe, a 21-year FBI vet-

eran, was fired in March 2018

after then-Attorney General

Jeff Sessions rejected an appeal

that would have let him retire

within days with a full pension.

McCabe has said his dismissal

was politically motivated and

meant to undermine the spe-

cial counsel’s Russia investiga-

tion by trying to discredit him.

NEW YORK TIMES

SarahSandershaswebsite,

eyespossiblebidforoffice

Former White House press

secretary Sarah Sanders on

Mondayunveiledacampaign-

style website highlighting her

close ties to President Trump, a

moved that stoked speculation

that she will make a 2022 bid

for governor of Arkansas.

The site, which Sanders an-

nounced in a tweet, describes

her as a ‘‘trusted confidante’’ of

Trump and quotes him calling

her ‘‘irreplaceable,’’ a ‘‘warrior,’’

and a ‘‘very special person with

extraordinary talents.’’

Visitors are invited to sign

upfor e-mailupdateson Sand-

ers’s activities.

Trump has encouraged

Sanders to make a Republican

gubernatorial bid in her home

state, saying she would be ‘‘fan-

tastic.’’ Last month, Sanders’s

father, former Arkansas gover-

nor Mike Huckabee, confirmed

her interest during a radio in-

terview in which the Republi-

can said she would start explor-

ing a possible run following

somedowntime.

Sanders served as Trump’s

press secretary from July 2017

until late June, when she re-

signed. Fox News announced

last week that it had hired

Sanders as a contributor.

WASHINGTON POST

Housepanelsubpoenas

formerWhiteHouseaide

The House Judiciary Com-

mittee subpoenaed former

White House aide Rob Porter

on Monday, the panel’s latest

attempt to try to move public

opinion in favor of impeaching

President Trump.

Committee Chairman Jerr-

old Nadler, Democrat of New

York, said in a statement that

the panel had issued the sum-

mons to Porter, seeking his tes-

timony on Sept. 17.

The committee’s summons

to Porter comes as it plans to

continue laying out a case that

Trump obstructed justice. The

Judiciary Committee, which

has impeachment jurisdiction,

is considering whether to draft

articles of impeachment

against the president in the fall

as 133 House Democrats have

called for starting proceedings

to oust the president.

Porter, the former White

House staff secretary who left

amid allegations of domestic vi-

olence in previous relation-

ships, was a central witness in

former special counsel Robert

Mueller’s investigation. He saw

Trump lash out at former

White House counsel Donald

McGahn for not firing Mueller,

according to Mueller’s report.

WASHINGTON POST

NewpollhasSanders,Warren,andBidenindeadheat

POLITICAL

NOTEBOOK

ELIZABETH FRANTZ/NEW YORK TIMES

Former vice president Joe Biden spoke at a campaign event at Loon Lake Campground in Croydon, N.H., on Friday.

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