Less than a month before the Iowa caucuses, Democratic presidential candidates should be finalizing plans for campaign blitzes in the state with the nation’s first nominating contest.
Instead, five 2020 contenders are wondering how often they’ll be able to set foot there at all, with senators preparing to sit as jurors in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, which is expected to begin sometime this month.
The Senate has not yet set rules or a schedule for the trial, but many senators, including some of those running for the Democratic presidential nomination, believe it will look something like Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial in 1999.
Senators met for the trial every afternoon, six days a week, Monday through Saturday, from Jan. 7 to Feb. 12.
A Trump trial lasting that long has the potential to disrupt campaigning in both Iowa (which votes Feb. 3) and New Hampshire (which votes Feb. 11).
Of the five senator-candidates — Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Michael Bennet of Colorado — Sanders appears to be the best positioned to balance his senatorial duties with campaigning.
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Sanders’ war chest, including his field-leading $34.5 million haul in the last quarter of 2019, allows him flexibility that other contenders can’t match — including the use of private jets to ferry him back and forth for late rallies in early states.
“They’re not going to be meeting at night [for the trial], so we can obviously fly from D.C. to states and hold events in the evening and fly back, you know, so he can be back in the morning to do his work in the Senate,” Sanders campaign adviser Jeff Weaver told NBC News.
“He’s an energetic candidate,” Weaver added. “He has a very vigorous schedule, and, you know, he can do that.”
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Yep and those aircraft won’t be powered by biofuel or solar panels. It’ll be “Jet A,” provided by those evil oil executives he has threatened to JAIL on several occasions. The incongruence (here) is staggering…
Energetic Bernie drips with irony.
John Travolta has his own 707 and he has been known to just fly it all by himself providing that it was built as a passenger Jet and DiCaprio,Gore and David(Laurie)still have their own private jets much smaller