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About the cabinet of newly elected President Barack Obama, the Los Angeles Times gushed in 2008: "Seldom has a presidential Cabinet included so many intellectual and political heavyweights. Obama's other achievement is to have assembled such an impressive team with due deference to the need for an administration that 'looks like America' -- Bill Clinton's shorthand for ethnic and gender diversity." Sounding the same "diversity" theme, former Vice President Joe Biden recently told NPR: "I have the most diverse staff of anybody running. I've always done that. ... The country has to look like, the administration should look like, the...

He may not be on the Democratic ballot, but the 2020 presidential candidate wielding the most influence over the party's remarkably unsettled primary fight is President Donald Trump.As the race for the next occupant of the White House enters the final weeks of 2019, awash in a surprising degree of uncertainty, Democratic voters have Trump on their minds as much as the crowded field of contenders jockeying for the right to challenge him. From a distance, Trump is hanging over every aspect of the Democratic contest.