{"id":324509,"date":"2017-09-04T03:14:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T02:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-teams-2020-signals-spark-chatter-among-dems\/"},"modified":"2017-09-04T03:14:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T02:14:41","slug":"obama-teams-2020-signals-spark-chatter-among-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-teams-2020-signals-spark-chatter-among-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama team\u2019s 2020 signals spark chatter among Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/348927-obama-teams-2020-signals-spark-chatter-among-dems\"><strong>The Hill<\/strong><\/a><br \/>Sept 3, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Democrats are expressing concern that advisers and aides to former President Obama have already begun signaling which candidate they might support for the White House in 2020.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama\u2019s closest confidantes, and David Simas, the CEO of Obama\u2019s foundation, have sent smoke signals urging former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to enter the race.<\/p>\n<p>Simas, who once served as a top aide to Patrick, is an ardent supporter of Patrick, sources tell The Hill, while Jarrett has privately told friends that she would do what it takes to support him.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/08\/01\/obamas-inner-circle-is-urging-deval-patrick-to-run-215443\">Politico<\/a> reported\u00a0last month that\u00a0Jarrett believes a President Patrick is \u201cwhat my heart desires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, friends of Jarrett\u2019s say that while she would love for Patrick to run, she is also open to other candidates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/348927-obama-teams-2020-signals-spark-chatter-among-dems\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Sunday, September 3, 2017  at  6:35 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/obama-teams-2020-signals-spark-chatter-among-dems.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p>        <!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n --><\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/obama-teams-2020-signals-spark-chatter-among-dems.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HillSept 3, 2017 Democrats are expressing concern that advisers and aides to former President Obama have already begun signaling which candidate they might support for the White House in 2020.\u00a0 Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama\u2019s closest confidantes, and David Simas, the CEO of Obama\u2019s foundation, have sent smoke signals urging former Massachusetts Gov. Deval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-324509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}