Happy Thursday! Beto O’Rourke has decided to run for president. Add him to the laundry list of Democratic hopefuls that now includes Sens. Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders and Kirsten Gillibrand. As one senior senator told us last night, the weekly caucus lunches are getting fun. So what does Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat who passed on running himself, think of Beto’s entrance to the race: "Just one more, one more, one more gets in the race,” Brown said during an appearance on CNN. “Bring ’em in, and it’ll be an interesting primary fight.”
Topping the news: Utah’s hate crime law has long been regarded as weak and difficult to pursue, but on Wednesday the Senate gave final approval of a bill seeking to remedy the law and make it more enforceable.