Kirsten Gillibrand presidential campaign, 2020
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| “ | I believe this country needs a movement rooted in compassion and courage. We want an America defined by strength of character, not weakness of ego. We need to protect our basic rights and fight for better health care, education and jobs. And I believe I'm the woman for the job.[2] | ” |
| —Kirsten Gillibrand (January 2019)[3] | ||
Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from New York, launched an exploratory committee on January 15, 2019, and formally declared her candidacy on March 17, 2019.[4]
On August 28, 2019, Gillibrand suspended her presidential campaign.[1]
Gillibrand focused her campaign on economic and social issues, including addressing sexual assault in the military, healthcare for 9/11 first responders, increasing transparency in politics, Medicare for All, and universal paid family leave.[5][6]
Prior to serving in the U.S. Senate, Gillibrand represented New York's 20th Congressional District in the U.S. House.[7]
Gillibrand in the news
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This section featured five recent news stories about Gillibrand and her presidential campaign. For a complete timeline of Gillibrand's campaign activity, click here.
- August 28, 2019: Gillibrand suspended her presidential campaign. She discussed her decision in an interview with The New York Times.
- August 27, 2019: Gillibrand pledged to pass a national public service plan in her first 100 days as president.
- August 22, 2019: Gillibrand tweeted that she had 115,000 donors, making her 15,000 donors away from the grassroots fundraising threshold for the September and October debates.
- August 20, 2019: Gillibrand spoke with NBC News about her mental health policy proposal and the opioid crisis.
- August 19-20, 2019: Gillibrand said she was open to running for vice president if her campaign did not succeed. “I will do public service in all its forms,” she said. Gillibrand also released a mental health services policy proposal calling for the expansion of community health centers and certified community behavioral clinics.
Biography
Gillibrand was born in Albany, New York, in 1966 and grew up in upstate New York. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Asian studies in 1988 and obtained her law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1991.[8][9]
After graduating from law school, Gillibrand clerked for Judge Roger Miner on the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. After working in private practice, she entered government service as special counsel to then-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Andrew Cuomo. After working on Hillary Clinton's (D) campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2000, Gillibrand returned to private practice.[10]
In 2005, Gillibrand left private practice to run against incumbent Rep. John Sweeney (R) in New York's 20th congressional district. Gillibrand won 53% of the vote to Sweeney's 47% in the 2006 election.[11] Gillibrand won re-election with 62% of the vote in 2008.[12]
In 2009, Gov. David Paterson (D) appointed Gillibrand to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton (D), who had resigned to serve as secretary of state.[10] Gillibrand won election to the remainder of Clinton's term in 2010 with 60% of the vote. She was elected to a full term with 68% of the vote in 2012 and won re-election with 67% of the vote in 2018.
In December 2017, Gillibrand was the first member of the U.S. Senate to call on Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) to resign following allegations of improper conduct.[13]
Campaign staff
- See also: Kirsten Gillibrand presidential campaign staff, 2020, Presidential election key staffers, 2020, and Presidential campaign managers, 2020
The table below shows a sampling of the candidate's 2020 national campaign staff members, including the campaign manager and some senior advisors, political directors, communication directors, and field directors. It also includes each staff member's position in the campaign, previous work experience, and Twitter handle, where available.[14] For a larger list of national campaign staff, visit Democracy in Action.
| Kirsten Gillibrand presidential campaign national staff, 2020 | |||
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| Staff | Position | Prior experience | Twitter handle |
| Jess Fassler | Campaign manager | Chief of staff, office of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | N/A |
| Dan McNally | Senior advisor; Campaign director | Political director, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee | N/A |
| Semedrian Smith | National political director | Deputy campaign manager, Sherrod Brown for United States Senate, 2018 | N/A |
| Meredith Kelly | Communications director | Communications director, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee | @meredithk27 |
| Evan Lukaske | National press secretary | Regional press secretary, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee | @lukaske |
| Stefanie Conahan | National finance director | Senior national finance adviser to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | N/A |
Campaign finance
The following chart shows Democratic presidential campaign fundraising, including both total receipts and contributions from individuals, as well as campaign spending. Figures for each candidate run through the end of June 2020 or through the final reporting period during which the candidate was actively campaigning for president. The total disbursements column includes operating expenditures, transfers to other committees, refunds, loan repayments, and other disbursements.[15]
Satellite spending
Satellite spending, commonly referred to as outside spending, describes political spending not controlled by candidates or their campaigns; that is, any political expenditures made by groups or individuals that are not directly affiliated with a candidate. This includes spending by political party committees, super PACs, trade associations, and 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups.[16][17][18]
This section lists satellite spending in this race reported by news outlets in alphabetical order. If you are aware of spending that should be included, please email us.
Campaign advertisements
This section shows a sampling of advertisements released to support or oppose this candidate in the 2020 presidential election.
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Campaign themes
The following campaign themes and issues were published on Gillibrand's presidential campaign website:[19]
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Fighting for women and families TRACK RECORD Kirsten has led the national fight for paid family leave in Congress since 2013. Kirsten has been the foremost champion for sexual assault survivors in Congress and has led efforts for justice and accountability in our military, on college campuses and in Congress. Kirsten has fought for women’s reproductive rights and access to the health care they need, and she has a perfect 100% lifetime rating from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. To Kirsten, policies that support women and families are a priority, not an afterthought. She fights for bold ideas that will make a difference for families’ health and economic security, even when nobody else will. And in the face of a president who demeans women and threatens their rights, Kirsten’s fearless advocacy for women is the antidote. Women are half of this country—and they deserve a president who values and fights for them. We need to protect women’s rights and access to the health care they need. Reproductive rights are civil rights, and they are nonnegotiable. With Republicans waging an unprecedented assault on abortion access, Kirsten has pledged to only nominate judges who will commit to upholding Roe, and she was the first candidate to put out a comprehensive reproductive rights agenda. As president, she will codify Roe into law, end the Hyde Amendment, protect Title X funding and Planned Parenthood, and guarantee access to reproductive health care — including abortion —nationwide. We need to look out for families, not special interests. As a working mom of two young kids, Kirsten has always brought that perspective to her work in Congress, and as president, she’ll fight for every family like she fights for her own. We need policies that will help families make ends meet and get ahead: affordable child care, universal pre-K, a $15 minimum wage, equal pay for equal work, and tax relief for middle-class and low-income families. Kirsten is also committed to combating our maternal mortality crisis—particularly the glaring disparities and institutional racism facing women of color in our health care system—and introduced the MOMS Act to protect every new mom. We need to make national paid family leave a reality. America is the only industrialized nation in the world without any form of a national paid family leave plan. Our failure to prioritize paid leave forces millions of Americans to make an impossible choice: provide for their family or care for their family. Kirsten has led the national fight for paid leave to fix this problem. Her FAMILY Act—a national paid leave program that she’s introduced in every Congress since 2013—would give workers 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave to care for a new child, a sick family member, or their own health issues, all for about the cost of a cup of coffee a week. Paid leave is part of Kirsten’s Family Bill of Rights—read it here. We need to invest in public education and stand with teachers. A child’s opportunity and success shouldn’t depend on which block they grew up on. To strengthen our communities, combat systemic inequality and ensure all of our kids have the chance to reach their potential, we have to invest in our public schools. This means paying teachers a living wage, maintaining small class sizes, and ensuring teachers have the resources and support they need. We need to stop sexual assault and harassment. Kirsten believes that women should be valued in America, and that means we need to stop sexual assault and harassment. Even before the #MeToo movement, she has been the national leader in Congress on the fight for justice and accountability on behalf of sexual assault survivors, and has led the crucial national conversation around sexual abuse. And she takes on this fight no matter who she’s up against, whether it’s the Pentagon, major universities, President Trump, or even her own party. Kirsten has never backed down from a fight if it’s the right thing to do—even if it means she has to stand alone. Making the economy work for all of us TRACK RECORD Kirsten voted against the 2008 bank bailout twice because she didn’t think American taxpayers should hold the bag for Wall Street risk. Kirsten has championed the most comprehensive national paid family and medical leave program since 2013. Kirsten co-led the successful fight to expand Small Business Administration microloans for minority and women business owners, increasing access to capital for small business owners often not served by banks. For far too long, our economy has been a tilted playing field in favor of the wealthiest Americans and corporate special interests, while middle- and working-class families struggle to make ends meet. Fixing this is not only a matter of growing our economy and making sure everyone has a fair shot at opportunity—it’s also about taking on greedy systems of power that reinforce economic inequality and hold Americans back. We need to guarantee a Family Bill of Rights. Kirsten believes the measure of America’s economic success is whether families are able to make ends meet, and whether kids are able to reach their full potential. Kirsten’s Family Bill of Rights plan is her economic policy agenda to level the playing field in the first, critical years of a child’s life, and ease the enormous financial burdens that families face when they raise a child. Her plan, which she’ll enact in the first 100 days of her presidency, includes national paid family leave, universal pre-K and affordable child care, and proposals to increase support and reduce cost barriers for new parents—regardless of their gender, race, or zip code. We need to create sustainable jobs and reward work. Every American deserves a good job, the dignity of hard work and a paycheck that allows them to pay the bills and save for their and their children’s futures. We need to make sure that everyone has guaranteed access to full employment, and that workers have the skills training and support to fill good-paying jobs and advance their careers. Our students need an education that provides the STEM skills and experience necessary for the jobs of the 21st-century economy. We should also treat the urgent need to act on climate change as an economic opportunity. When we invest in green technology, spur innovation and incentivize the use of renewable energy under the Green New Deal, we’ll also invest in massive new technical skills training and create family-supporting, sustainable jobs for the future. We need to tackle economic inequality and raise wages. It’s unacceptable that so many Americans are forced to work multiple jobs and make sacrifices just to take care of their families while the cost of living and corporate profits soar. Our economy should value and reward workers, not just CEOs and shareholders. We need to stop big corporations from making taxpayers subsidize astronomical paychecks for corporate officers. We need to raise the minimum wage to $15 nationwide and lift millions of families out of poverty. We need to empower more workers to share in the profits of their work by encouraging more companies to become employee owned. We should expand access to affordable banking services and virtually eliminate predatory lending by creating postal banking. We need to rein in Wall Street risk and protect our financial system so unchecked greed can’t hurt families again. We should stop the transfer of massive generational wealth that exacerbates economic inequality. And we need to reverse the Trump tax plan’s massive corporate tax cut and make sure that wealthy Americans and companies pay their fair share in taxes—we should be looking out for middle-class families, not giving handouts to millionaires and corporations. We need to make college affordable and reward public service. Student debt is an out-of-control crisis in this country, and it isn’t just a burden on individual graduates—it’s a drag on the whole economy. We need to allow graduates and their families to refinance their student loans at the lowest available rate, and we should make college more affordable by expanding the GI Bill. Kirsten’s national public service plan would reward students with two years of tuition-free education at a community college or public university for every one year of public service they perform. We need to make health care affordable for everyone. Health care is one of the largest out-of-pocket expenses for middle- and working-class families nationally, and our health care system still leaves too many Americans hurting. We need Medicare for All to make high-quality, universal, affordable health care a reality for everyone. We also need to crack down on greedy drug companies that raise prices to the point of being out of reach. Kirsten has led the fight to lower the cost of health care and take on big pharmaceutical companies, including introducing legislation to hold companies accountable for price gouging. We need to protect our social safety net for all Americans. Millions of Americans depend on our social safety net to make ends meet, and we have to keep that promise. We need to protect and expand Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and also refuse to allow politicians to cut lifelines for low-income families like CHIP, SNAP and WIC. We need to protect American workers in a global economy. America succeeds when workers succeed—and workers deserve a president who has their back. Kirsten has led on the fight to protect and strengthen workers’ rights and remove hurdles to forming unions and having a voice in the workplace. She’s fought for manufacturers and passed a law that will make critical federal investments to create good-paying manufacturing jobs and boost local economies across the country. She’s also led on legislation to stop corporations from shipping U.S. jobs overseas, stop federal tax dollars from subsidizing these companies, and reward companies that bring jobs back home. Getting corruption and greed out of government TRACK RECORD Kirsten was the first member of Congress ever to make her official meetings, personal financial disclosures and earmark requests public. Kirsten wrote and passed the STOCK Act, which made it a crime for members of Congress to profit from insider information. Kirsten led the effort to overhaul how Congress handles sexual harassment, creating accountability and access to justice for survivors. Our government should answer to the American people, not to special interests. But right now, corruption and greed are displacing our voices in our government. Taking on powerful interests is at the root of just about every major policy challenge we need to solve—whether that’s tackling student debt, getting Medicare for All or passing gun safety laws. Kirsten will never back down from that fight. We need to get dark money out of our politics. The only way to make progress on the issues we care about—whether it’s reducing the cost of prescription drugs, combating gun violence, or fighting climate change—is by getting big, unaccountable money out of politics. Right now, wealthy special interests and their lobbyists have outsized influence over our laws; Kirsten has a plan to root out that influence and put power back into the hands of the people. Her Clean Elections Plan is a critical structural change that will bring more voices to the table, ensure elected officials are beholden only to voters, and finally break the gridlock in Washington. Kirsten’s walking the walk: This campaign doesn’t accept donations from corporate PACs or federal lobbyists, and we have disavowed individual super PACs. We’re fighting to restore power to people, so we’re powered by people. We need transparency in our government. The American people deserve to know how their elected officials are fighting for them—and that starts with shining a light on how decisions are made in Washington. Kirsten was the first member of Congress in history to make her official meetings, personal financial disclosures and earmark requests public; The New York Times called it “a quiet touch of revolution.” She releases her personal tax returns every year and believes the president and vice president—as well as any candidate who runs for those offices—should have to do the same. We need to make sure our leaders play by the same rules as everyone else. Kirsten has championed ethics reform since her first days in Congress. She wrote and secured the passage of the STOCK Act in 2012, which finally made it illegal for members of Congress, their families and their staff to profit from insider information gained through public service. At the time, The Washington Post called it “the most substantial debate on Congressional ethics in nearly five years.” She introduced the CLEAR Act, which ensures voters know when registered lobbyists spend money on a political campaign and how much. She also led the charge on passing legislation to combat and create accountability on sexual harassment in Congress, including ending the practice of using taxpayer dollars for sexual harassment settlements. Protecting our planet Climate change is the most serious threat to humanity today, and we need immediate and bold action to address it before it’s too late. Kirsten believes climate action should be this generation’s moonshot—but to save our planet, the next president has to be willing to take on the climate deniers, polluters, and the oil and gas special interests. Kirsten will, because we can’t afford not to. We need to pass a Green New Deal and get to net-zero emissions. We’re running out of time to address climate change, and we can’t settle for half-measures. Kirsten was one of the first supporters of the Green New Deal: an ambitious framework to save our planet by investing in infrastructure, creating a green jobs economy, and protecting clean air and water. As president, she would work to get us to net-zero emissions by setting ambitious clean and renewable energy and efficiency standards, eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and creating tax incentives to reward innovation and investment in renewable energy technology, and phasing out fossil fuel production on our public lands and waters. She would also rejoin the Paris climate agreement on day one of her presidency to restore US international climate leadership. We need to put a price on carbon. If we’re going to get serious about stopping the effects of climate change, we have to decrease our reliance on fossil fuels—and the worst carbon polluters should pay to fix the damage they have caused. Kirsten would use incentives to steer companies away from fossil fuels and toward clean and renewable energy sources. She would also make climate polluters pay to address the impacts of climate change by establishing a new climate mitigation trust fund paid for by an excise tax on fossil fuel production. We need to guarantee clean water and clean air as a human right. The Flint water crisis should have been a nationwide wakeup call on environmental injustice, but the fact is that millions of Americans lack access to clean water and clean air—and low-income communities and communities of color have borne the brunt of those health and economic disparities. Kirsten has fought for years to regulate PFOA/PFAS in drinking water, and introduced the Promoting Infrastructure and Protecting the Economy (PIPE) Act to create a $5 billion federal water infrastructure grant program to provide more tools for communities to address urgent water projects. We need to stand up to special interests and phase out fossil fuels. Kirsten was one of the first Democratic presidential candidates to sign the No Fossil Fuel Money pledge to reject campaign contributions from fossil fuel executives and PACs. As president, she will stop the expansion of offshore drilling and end new drilling on public lands, limit fracking, and require companies to report climate risks. Restoring our values TRACK RECORD Kirsten has supported Medicare for All since 2006, and she wrote the Senate’s transition plan for getting there from our current insurance system. Kirsten has been a champion for LGBTQ service members, including leading Senate efforts to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and fighting the Trump administration’s ban on transgender troops serving in our military. Kirsten has led the charge to enact postal banking, which would give unbanked people access to checking accounts and small loans, combat the racial wealth gap, and protect low-income people from predatory lenders. Americans need a president who will restore the moral fabric of this country and bring back the integrity, compassion, and leadership in the world that we’ve lost. From protecting health care and our planet to combating hate and discrimination, so much of the fight ahead of us is about deciding who we are as a country. Kirsten will stand up for what’s right and repair what’s been broken. We need to make universal health care a reality. Health care should be a right for everyone in this country, not just a privilege for those who can afford it. Kirsten supports Medicare for All, and she wrote the Senate’s transition plan to get there from our current private insurance system. She defended against Republican attacks on the Affordable Care Act and has fought to protect health coverage for people with preexisting conditions. Universal health care has to include access to mental health care and the full range of reproductive health care, reduce prescription drug costs, and support addiction treatment. We need to keep families together and fix our broken immigration system. This administration’s hateful attacks on immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are outrageous and unacceptable. Kirsten has fought against family separation and inhumane treatment of children and families at our border. She has also fought alongside Dreamers and immigrant communities to keep families together, create a pathway to citizenship, and enact comprehensive immigration reform. We need to protect voting rights and the integrity of our elections. Voter suppression, partisan gerrymandering, election tampering, and foreign interference in our elections are direct threats to our democracy. Kirsten believes we need to restore the Voting Rights Act and then go even further: We should enact automatic voter registration for every 18-year-old citizen, expand access to online registration and early voting, make Election Day a federal holiday, and end partisan gerrymandering and voter roll purging. We also need to protect against the real threat of foreign interference in our elections by requiring paper ballots, reinforcing elections security, and holding accountable any country or entity that attempts to undermine our democracy. We need to keep fighting for LGBTQ equality. Kirsten was the first presidential candidate to announce a comprehensive LGBTQ rights agenda—including plans to guarantee equal rights under the law, support families and kids, protect and expand access to health care, and ensure the safety of LGBTQ individuals. She has stood with the LGBTQ community throughout her career, from her early support for marriage equality and leading the charge to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, to fighting for the rights of transgender people to serve in our military. She is an original cosponsor of the Equality Act, and is fighting for the rights of LGBTQ people to live, work, raise families, serve in the military, and go to school without discrimination. We need to address institutional racism. Despite the progress we’ve made on civil rights, the hard truth is that institutional racism persists in our economy, education, health care, housing, and criminal justice system. Kirsten believes that everyone must be part of the struggle for justice and has led on policies that would help combat systemic inequality and bias, lift up communities of color, and expand opportunity for everyone. She wrote and introduced a bill to establish postal banking, which would let people without checking accounts—disproportionately people of color—open accounts and take out small loans at their local post office. She has also led efforts to fight injustices and close disparities in law enforcement, access to clean air and water, health care, maternal mortality, and education. We need to fix our broken criminal justice system. When low-income people and people of color face huge disparities in arrests, sentencing, and incarceration compared to wealthy and white people for the same or lesser charges, it’s a clear and urgent sign that we need to rectify the injustices in our criminal justice system. We have a mass incarceration crisis, and institutional racism pervades the way we enforce laws. To rectify this, we should legalize marijuana at the federal level and expunge past records; reform our sentencing laws so that judges can have more flexibility when dealing with low-level, nonviolent drug offenses; change federal rules for our prisons; end cash bail; and invest resources in communities harmed by the racist war on drugs. Keeping America safe TRACK RECORD Kirsten has consistently fought for the rights of our service members, leading efforts on ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, resisting President Trump’s ban on transgender troops and pushing for accountability for sexual assault survivors in our armed forces. Kirsten has an “F” rating from the NRA, and she’s proud of it. Kirsten ran her first campaign in 2006 on ending the Iraq War, has called for ending the war in Afghanistan since 2011 and has fought for a new congressional Authorization for Use of Military Force before any future military action. As the third-ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services committee, Kirsten has stewarded America’s national security interests, met with allies around the world and advocated for our service members and veterans. She’s also seen that reckless policy at home undermines our safety as much as many threats abroad. In order to regain respect on the world stage as well as keep our families, communities and service members safe, we have to restore our moral leadership in Washington. We need to restore our leadership in the world with strength and compassion, not fear and hate. Immigration is one of America’s greatest strengths, not a weakness. We need to secure our borders effectively, but also make loud and clear that racism and fear of our neighbor are not a national security strategy. Building a taxpayer funded wall, ripping families apart, banning Muslims and turning our backs on refugees and asylum seekers are cruel and ineffective policies. Maintaining America’s global standing as a fair and welcoming land of opportunity will make us far safer than kicking people out based on what they look like or what they believe. We need to return to American leadership rooted in our moral values—putting people over politics, protecting the vulnerable and promoting peace and progress rather than unilateralism and self-interest. We need to end our gun violence epidemic. Mass shootings and gun violence are a national crisis that threaten the safety of our families and communities. We can’t accept repeated tragedies and tens of thousands of deaths every year as normal, and we can’t accept politicians choosing NRA money over Americans’ lives. We need to pass universal background checks, stop gun trafficking, ban assault rifles and close gun sale loopholes to make sure guns can’t get into the hands of dangerous criminals, terrorists or domestic abusers. Kirsten has fearlessly and consistently stood up for commonsense gun safety and taken on the greed of the gun lobby in the Senate, earning her a proud “F” rating from the NRA. We need a strong and strategic foreign policy, not endless wars. We must work with—not alienate—our allies, maintain international commitments and leverage diplomatic and humanitarian strategies before resorting to military ones. Most importantly, military engagements should not continue without a clear strategy, defined and achievable goals and the consent of Congress through new Authorizations for the Use of Military Force. America’s commander in chief is not a dictator, and the decision to deploy our troops can never be made lightly or unilaterally. We must stop preparing for yesterday’s threats, as new technologies and capabilities present new challenges. We must invest in ensuring that America continues to have a high rate of innovation and prepares a diverse field of scientists and engineers who will make our country economically successful and help safeguard our security. And when we fight terrorism, we should use all the tools available to us, not just military force. We need a president who understands that education, economic opportunities and tolerance reduce the risk of war and terrorism, and excessive force and bigotry make us less safe. We need to protect ourselves from attacks online and off. Cyber security, election security and data privacy are crucial to our national security, and right now, America is behind the times. We should lead the way among our global partners to defend against cyberattacks, secure our elections against tampering, prioritize privacy and limit outside access to Americans’ data. Kirsten has pushed to step up our national cybersecurity efforts since 2014, including directing our armed forces’ integration of technology and cyberdefense into their operations and training. More recently, she fought for a national commission that would examine the cybersecurity of our elections systems—including during the 2016 election—and identify and protect against likely future threats. We need to take care of the people who serve our country. We undermine our security and military readiness when we don’t look out for our own service members. In her role as the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, Kirsten has championed an agenda to improve access to benefits for our active military and has worked to ensure that when service members and veterans return home, they have job opportunities, educational and training tools, safe housing and other important services available to them. She’s also fought for the dignity and safety of all service members, including resisting President Trump’s hateful and pointless ban on transgender service members in our military and leading efforts to create accountability, justice and support for sexual assault survivors in our armed forces. We need to protect all Americans from sexual violence. Keeping Americans safe includes protecting them from violence and harassment, and nobody has led that fight more fiercely than Kirsten. She has tirelessly advocated for accountability and justice for survivors—on college campuses across the country, in our armed forces and in Congress—even before the crucial #MeToo movement gained a national foothold. Women and survivors have faced institutional bias and self-protection in favor of sexual predators for too long—we need to believe survivors so there can be investigations and accountability. Kirsten has fearlessly stood up to powerful institutions—including the Pentagon, major universities, this president and even her own party—to make sure women and survivors are valued and respected the way they deserve to be. [2] |
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| —Kirsten Gillibrand for President 2020[19] | ||
Gillibrand participated in an interview series with The New York Times that asked 21 Democratic candidates the same series of 18 questions. To view Gillibrand's responses, click here.
Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing
The following section provides a timeline of Gillibrand's campaign activity beginning in January 2019. The entries, which come from Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing, are sorted by month in reverse chronological order.
2019
See also
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- Presidential candidates, 2020
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Axios, "Kirsten Gillibrand drops out of the 2020 presidential race," August 28, 2019
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Twitter, "Kirsten Gillibrand on January 15, 2019," accessed February 22, 2019
- ↑ CNN, "Kirsten Gillibrand officially jumps into 2020 race, teases speech at Trump hotel in New York," March 17, 2019
- ↑ NBC News, "Kirsten Gillibrand forming exploratory committee for 2020 White House run," January 15, 2019
- ↑ The Lily, "Here’s a look at which policies Kirsten Gillibrand will focus on, including paid family leave and combating sexual harassment," January 16, 2019
- ↑ Bioguide, "GILLIBRAND, Kirsten, (1966 - )," accessed February 1, 2019
- ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, "GILLIBRAND, Kirsten, (1966 - )," accessed July 17, 2019
- ↑ WUSA, "Who is Kirsten Gillibrand?" May 7, 2019
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 New York Daily News, "Who is Kirsten Gillibrand? New York congresswoman to take Clinton's Senate seat," January 23, 2009
- ↑ Archive.org, "NYS Board of Elections - Congressional Vote - Nov. 7, 2006," December 14, 2010
- ↑ New York State Board of Elections, "NYS Board of Elections Rep. in Congress Election Returns Nov. 4, 2008," accessed July 17, 2019
- ↑ The New York Times, "On Sexual Misconduct, Gillibrand Keeps Herself at the Fore," December 6, 2017
- ↑ Democracy in Action, "Organization," accessed November 4, 2019
- ↑ FEC, "U.S. President," accessed July 16, 2019
- ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Outside Spending," accessed September 22, 2015
- ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Total Outside Spending by Election Cycle, All Groups," accessed September 22, 2015
- ↑ National Review.com, "Why the Media Hate Super PACs," November 6, 2015
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Kirsten Gillibrand, "Issues," accessed July 18, 2019
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