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‘Do Something’: 2020 Democrats Are Stuck After Mass Shootings

With Congress on August recess, the candidates running to take on Donald Trump can call for action on guns, but they can’t take any themselves.
Source: Elise Amendola / AP

Shortly after 12 a.m. ET this morning, Senator Kamala Harris tweeted, “My message to the president on gun violence.” What followed was an eight-second clip of an interview she had conducted on MSNBC earlier in the evening, after a gunman killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens more at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

“Have the courage to act,” the California Democrat said. “Do something. Do something. Because when I’m

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