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Situational awareness - October 10, 2019

Good Thursday morning from Salt Lake City

Thanks for reading Utah's must-read daily political news rundown. Please encourage your friends and colleagues to sign up for our emails.

Here are the stories you need to pay attention to this morning:

Trump tried to get the Justice Department to back off a criminal case involving a client of Rudy Giuliani. Support for impeachment hits a record high in a Fox News poll. Will Biskupski's endorsement tip the race for SLC Mayor?

TICK TOCK

Days to the 2019 Utah municipal elections: 26 (11/5/2019)

Days to the first day of the 2020 Utah Legislature: 109 (1/27/2020)

Days to the Utah presidential primaries: 145 (3/3/2020)

Days to the 2020 Utah primary elections: 264 (6/23/2020)

Days to the 2020 election: 390 (11/3/2020)

Today At Utah Policy

How much will Biskupski's endorsement impact the Salt Lake City mayoral race?
By Bob Bernick, Contributing Editor
Monday outgoing Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski, as expected, officially endorsed mayoral candidate Luz Escamilla, a sitting Democratic state senator.News analysis: Here's how Utah can maintain mobility in face of rapid growth
By Dana Meier & LaVarr Webb
Fifty-thousand people is enough for a pretty good-sized city in Utah. In fact, it's about the population of Murray. And that's about how much Utah's population has recently been growing each year, most of it along the Wasatch Front.

OTHER UTAH HEADLINES

Deseret News

Op-ed: The missing part of the conversation on sales tax on food Jay Evensen: DYou're paying less in taxes - that's a good thing, right? Ralph Hancock: Pantheism is a danger on democracy's horizon Critics urge Rocky Mountain Power to abandon more coal faster Mitt Romney says Kurds 'shamefully betrayed' as Turkey attacks in Syria How Mitt Romney survives the slings and arrows of team Trump

Salt Lake Tribune

Gov. Herbert is fundraising to launch a policy center in his name at Utah Valley University Rep. John Curtis says he would seek to curtail OHVs in national parks if locals are united in opposition UTA OKs $400M-plus construction plan that includes new airport TRAX station and Ogden bus rapid transit Billboard fight bubbles to the surface in Salt Lake City mayoral race Clearfield mayor announces GOP bid for retiring Rep. Rob Bishop's congressional seat

NATIONAL HEADLINES

Woah!

President Donald Trump asked then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to help persuade the Justice Department to drop a criminal case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was a client of Rudy Giuliani in 2017 [Bloomberg].

Impeachment

Support for impeaching and removing President Trump from office hit a record high in a new Fox News poll. Just over half of Americans support booting Trump from office [Fox News].

President Trump is reportedly calling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as many as 3 times per day to rage about Republican lawmakers who he sees as disloyal [The Week].

House Democrats are prepping a raft of new subpoenas for testimony and documents related to President Trump's dealings with Ukraine [New York Times].

Former Vice President Joe Biden publicly called for Trump's impeachment on Wednesday [New York Times].

Former Rep. Trey Gowdy has left Fox News to join the Trump legal team fighting impeachment [NBC News].

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said there was "no blackmail" in the phone call with President Trump that set off the current impeachment inquiry [ABC News].

Conservative media figure Matt Drudge is souring on President Trump as he faces impeachment [CNN].

The Trump campaign has spent $718,000 on Facebook ads about impeachment [Axios].

The impeachment drive by Democrats in Congress is helping the GOP recruit new candidates for 2020 [Politico].

Syria

Turkish forces are advancing on the ground toward Kurdish fighters in northern Syria [AP].

U.S. intelligence officials warn ISIS could regroup after the U.S. abandoned the Kurds in Syria. Those Kurdish forces are guarding approximately 12,000 ISIS fighters who were captured [NBC News].

President Trump downplayed the U.S. alliance with Syrian Kurds saying, "They didn't help us in the Second World War" [Washington Post].

Hmmm

A new book reveals another 43 allegations of alleged inappropriate behavior by President Trump, including 26 instances of unwanted sexual contact. One woman alleges Trump hid behind a tapestry at his Mar a Lago resort in the early 2000s to grope a woman [Esquire].

Trade war

President Trump's tariffs have cost U.S. corporations at least $34 billion [Axios].

BUSINESS HEADLINES

Of all the success stories that began in Utah, none is larger than this one (Deseret News) Northern Utah leads state, most of the nation in jobs growth (Standard-Examiner) Panel examines interaction of outdoors industry, Cache Valley gov't (Herald Journal) Utah's Ogden-Clearfield metro area ranks No. 3 in the nation for job growth (Salt Lake Tribune)

Policy News

Envision Utah, state leaders release vision for teacher compensation
An Envision Utah-facilitated task force of education, business, and state leaders has offered recommendations for adjustments to teacher compensation (and other aspects of the profession) that will attract the state's best and brightest teachers into the classroom and retain them long-term.LDS Earth Stewardship welcomes Sharon Eubank and launches gratitude campaign
LDS Earth Stewardship (LDSES) welcomes Sharon Eubank, director of Latter-day Saint Charities, as the keynote speaker at the annual LDSES Fall Forum pn Thursday, Oct 10, at 7 pm at White Memorial Chapel in Salt Lake City.Treasurer Damschen recognized for outstanding service to National Association of State Treasurers
The National Association of State Treasurers (NAST) recognized Utah State Treasurer David Damschen during its annual conference this week with the Jesse M. Unruh Award for his outstanding service to the association, the profession and Utah.