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Starbucks’ Schultz Gives Even More Signals That He’s Looking To Take On Trump In 2020

John Bickley

Fresh off his much-hyped, and by insiders’ accounts sub-par, “unconscious bias” training sessions, the progressive outgoing chairman of Starbucks is making it painfully obvious that he is looking to trade his success in the business world for a go at the political sphere.

On Monday, Howard Schultz, 64, announced that he would be stepping down from Starbucks by the end of June, igniting speculation that he was planning a 2020 presidential run. On Tuesday, Schultz expanded his political rhetoric and laid the groundwork for framing himself as a centrist Democratic presidential candidate.

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