• Bernie Sanders has made it official and is running for the Democratic nomination a second time.
• New Jersey governor Phil Murphy has endorsed Cory Booker, the junior senator from his state.
• Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, has endorsed his state’s Amy Klobuchar.
• Kamala Harris has won the endorsement of Governor Gavin Newsom and a slew of California state legislators.
• Klobuchar is not endorsing Medicare-for-all and free college education, positioning herself as a “straight-talking moderate“.

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• Peter Beinart on Sanders’ anti-exceptionalist foreign policy.
• Josh Putnam on the difficulties in Harris locking down California.
• Axios on Republicans grabbing socialism as a 2020 lifeline.
• NBC on Sanders’ two challenges: competing in a crowded left-wing field and convincing rank-and-file Democrats to support an independent.