Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley will not seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., has so far declined to endorse another candidate in the presidential race.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley will not seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, telling NBC News that he believes he can best fight for the issues most important for him by staying in the Senate.
Or he could make a visit to another border detention facility holding migrant children — in some cases separated from their parents as they sought asylum and a new life far from violent Central American homes. Since he last visited one last December in Tornillo, Texas, the Trump administration closed what he had called a “tent prison” for children.
Addressing each will require not only a strong Democrat in the White House, but a Congress — especially a Senate — that is no longer dysfunctional to work with him or her, he said in the interview.
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