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Corey Lewandowski to be first Trump associate to appear before House Judiciary Committee

FILE – In this April 28, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump, left, watches as Corey Lewandowski, right, his former campaign manager for Trump’s presidential campaign, speaks during a campaign rally in Washington Township, Mich. Trump is throwing his support behind his former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who is considering a run for Senate in his home state of New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

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UPDATED 2:30 PM PST – Sat. September 7, 2019

The president’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in the coming weeks.
Reports Saturday said Lewandowski will appear before the panel to answer questions related to their probe into possible obstruction of justice by President Trump.
Specifically, lawmakers are looking into findings outlined in the special counsel’s report, which claims the president instructed Lewandowski to pressure former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, to curb the Russia probe.
The former campaign head has maintained that Democrats are on a political witch hunt. In an interview with OAN, lewandowski slammed Hillary Clinton and her so-called “cohorts,” who he claims kick-started the Russian collusion narrative.
Lewandowski’s upcoming testimony comes after the panel’s chairman Jerry Nadler issued subpoenas to two other administration officials to testify the same day.
However, only Lewandowski is expected to appear before the committee on the 17th.

GOP plans California comeback in 2020, Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale says at state convention

Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale insisted Saturday that the GOP hasn’t given up on California despite setbacks at the polls there in 2018.
“We have the potential to win back eight congressional seats, back to Republicans, here in California,” Parscale said at the state Republican Party’s fall convention in Indian Wells.

“We have the potential to win back eight congressional seats, back to Republicans, here in California.”
— Brad Parscale, Trump 2020 campaign manager

But Parscale acknowledged the job won’t be easy – and said the work would ultimately have to be done by the Golden State's Republicans, not national party leaders.
“You’re the California GOP,” he said, according to Politico. “There’s no trick I can do on my laptop that you can’t do yourselves. It takes hard work, and talking to your neighbors. And with a strong leader with President Trump at the helm, the sky’s the limit.”

"It takes hard work, and talking to your neighbors. And with a strong leader with President Trump at the helm, the sky’s the limit."
— Brad Parscale, Trump 2020 campaign manager

Democrats hammered California’s GOP at the polls last year, leaving Republicans with only seven of the state’s 53 seats in the U.S. House. Both California seats in the Senate also belong to Democrats.
The state’s Republicans were dealt another harsh blow just last month when the registrar of voters in Orange County – long a GOP stronghold in Southern California – reported that registered Democrats there now outnumbered registered Republicans for the first time since the Watergate era.
Nevertheless, Parscale told conventioneers Saturday that the Trump reelection campaign was planning a big effort in California, with as many as 50 paid staffers, making it one of “the largest Election Day operations” in state history, Politico reported.
In addition, the campaign plans to leverage artificial intelligence and other high-tech tools, in a bid to learn “who the voters are, where they live, how they consume information – and how to contact them,” he said.
“Many of you are worried that we have written you guys off – that California doesn’t matter,” Parscale said. To the contrary, he said, the Trump campaign views the nation’s most populous state as a key battleground in “the fight for the future of this country.”
Later this month, President Trump is scheduled to visit California, with events planned in the San Francisco Bay Area and San Diego, Sacramento’s FOX 40 reported.
Trump previously visited California in April, making stops in Los Angeles and at the state’s border with Mexico.
Fox News’ Andrew O’Reilly contributed to this story.

Trump family ‘dynasty’ will ‘last for decades,’ 2020 campaign chief says

President Trump and his family represent a political movement with the potential of transforming the Republican Party, according to Brad Parscale, manager of the president’s 2020 reelection campaign.
“I just think they’re a dynasty,” Parscale told reporters after delivering a speech Saturday at the fall convention of the California Republican Party.
“I think they’re all amazing people … with amazing capabilities,” he said, according to the Associated Press. “I think you see that from Don Jr. I think you see that from Ivanka. You see it from Jared. You see it from all.”

“I think they’re all amazing people … with amazing capabilities. I think you see that from Don Jr. I think you see that from Ivanka. You see it from Jared. You see it from all.”
— Brad Parscale, manager of President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign.

Parscale was speaking at the end of a week that saw Ivanka Trump embark on a trip to Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay to promote the Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative; saw Republican political strategist Rick Wilson predict in a Daily Beast column that Donald Trump Jr. will seek and likely win the 2024 GOP presidential nomination; and saw Jared Kushner appoint a lieutenant in his role of crafting the president's Middle East policy, according to Politico.
Earlier Saturday, Parscale told the convention crowd in Indian Wells that the Trump family’s influence would likely “last for decades,” and propel the GOP “into a new party – one that will adapt to changing cultures.
“One must continue to adapt while keeping the conservative values that we believe in,” he added, though when speaking later with reporters he declined to speculate on whether any of the president’s family members would seek elected office, the AP reported.

Then-President-elect Donald Trump, center, is flanked by daughter Ivanka Trump and son Donald Trump Jr., at a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City, Jan. 11, 2017. (Associated Press)

At the California GOP convention, party delegates sought to develop an election strategy in a heavily Democratic state that Trump lost by more than 4 million votes in 2016. Polls show the president remains widely unpopular there.
Parscale acknowledged that California was not a key focus of Trump's reelection plans. "This is not a swing state," he said, drawing laughs from the crowd.
But he noted California was the biggest source of the president's campaign donations.
The party's struggles in California are well known. Democrats control every statewide office and both chambers of the Legislature, while holding an edge of nearly 4 million in voter registrations. Both U.S. Senate seats are in Democratic hands, and the party has a 46-7 edge over Republicans in U.S. House seats in the state.
The last significant push by a Republican presidential candidate to win California was in 2000, when George W. Bush was backed by more than $15 million, then lost to Democrat Al Gore by 12 points.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.

Kamala Harris apologizes for laughing after audience member calls Trump 'mentally retarded'

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., claimed Saturday that she didn't hear an audience member at a New Hampshire town hall Friday call President Trump "mentally retarded" and apologized for laughing after the comment.
"When my staff played the video from my town hall yesterday, it was upsetting," Harris tweeted Saturday. "I didn’t hear the words the man used in that moment, but if I had I would’ve stopped and corrected him. I’m sorry. That word and others like it aren’t acceptable. Ever."
Video of the incident includes the following exchange:
Audience member: "What are you going to do in the next one year to diminish the mentally retarded actions of this guy?"
Harris: "Well said." (Giggles.) "Well said. Well, I plan to win this election, I'll tell you that."
"I heard him talk about the other stuff and then that came later and it was not something that I really heard or processed or I in any way condone. That's for sure," Harris told CBS News on Saturday.
She added: "It's offensive and you would think that in the year 2019, people would have a better understanding of how hurtful a term like that can be; but also the history behind it, which is a history of really ignoring the needs and the realities and the capacity of our disability community."
Last month, Harris released a policy proposal geared at expanding economic opportunity for people with disabilities.
"Kamala believes in an America that is fully accessible and inclusive for everyone and her administration will fight to make this a reality across all parts of our society," the proposal read.
The document also contained a pledge to include people with disabilities in her policymaking processes. "As president, Kamala will have diverse leaders with disabilities developing all the policies her administration champions, including priorities that will lift up people with disabilities," the plan read.