Congressman joins White House race
BOSTON — U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts is the latest Democrat to jump in the race for the White House, saying Monday on ABC’s Good Morning America that, “I’m here to tell you and to tell America that I’m running for president of the United States.”
Moulton, 40, an Iraq war veteran, said he wanted to run a presidential campaign that would “bring this country back together,” talking “about patriotism, about security, about service.”
“These are issues that for too long Democrats have ceded to Republicans,” he said.
Moulton first came to prominence in 2014 when he unseated long-term incumbent U.S. Rep. John Tierney in a Democratic primary and went on to represent the state’s 6th Congressional District, which includes several communities north of Boston. He gained national attention for helping lead an unsuccessful effort within the party to reject Nancy Pelosi as House speaker after Democrats regained control of the chamber last year.
Moulton has been a frequent critic of President Donald Trump — from the president’s foreign policy decisions to his push for a wall at the southern border.
Moulton has staked out familiar policy positions for Democratic presidential hopefuls, including calling health care a right, pushing for tougher gun laws and co-sponsoring the Green New Deal.
He has raised $255,000 so far this year and had about $723,000 in his campaign account as of the end of March.