President Trump has his first Democratic challenger in the 2020 presidential election: Rep. John Delaney of Maryland, who announced his bid Friday.

“The current administration is making us less prosperous and less secure,” Delaney wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post on Friday. “I’m running because I have an original approach to governing and economic policy that can put us on a different course.

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