The 18 Democratic candidates vying to take on President Donald Trump in 2020 are reacting strongly to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report — and to Attorney General William Barr’s framing of Mueller’s findings.
During the 2018 midterms, Democratic candidates running for Congress mainly focused their messaging around issues like health care, taxes, and education — deferring on taking a stance on whether Trump should be impeached until after seeing the report.
In the 448-page report, released Thursday, the special counsel team said they did not find sufficient evidence to bring a charge of conspiracy against anyone involved in the Trump campaign for illegally coordinating with Russia to influence the 2016 US election.
The report also said that while Mueller’s team did not make a “traditional prosecutorial judgment” as to whether Trump obstructed the Mueller probe itself and other federal investigations involving him, they could not “exonerate” him on allegations of obstruction of justice.
Mueller’s report detailed 11 separate instances they examined for possible obstruction of justice — but said that by not executing his wishes, Trump’s own aides and advisers stopped him from possibly committing more clear-cut obstruction.
By all accounts, 2020 Democrats are still unlikely to center their campaign messages around the Trump-Russia investigations.
But the report’s murky conclusions on obstruction — and their conclusion that the Trump campaign believed they would benefit from Russian interference in the 2016 election — will likely serve as campaign-trail fodder for the Democrats hoping to defeat Trump in 2020.
Here are the presidential candidates who have weighed in so far on the Mueller report, and what they’ve said:
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