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Trump Gets Surprise Standing Ovation From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'You Weren't Supposed to Do That' (Video)

Rare moment of levity comes after Trump mentions recent robust employment statistics for women in the workforce

Last Updated: Feb 6, 2019 @ viii:49 PM

Donald Trump got a rare bipartisan standing ovation during Tuesday nighttime's State of the Spousal relationship Address when Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and fellow female lawmakers rose to their feet in a thunderous applause.

The women cheered after Trump mentioned the robust number of women in the workforce and in Congress in particular.

"No one has benefited more than from our thriving economy the women who have filled 58 percent of the newly created jobs concluding year," Trump said.

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At beginning, Business firm Speaker Nancy Pelosi stayed seated, every bit did the her fellow colleagues. Only then the women — many of them dressed in suffragette white — began cheering, every bit they rose to their feet.

Other lawmakers also clapped and pointed at the women in white, many of whom were newly elected to Congress in the Autonomous "blueish wave" and were clapping more than for themselves than the president.

"Y'all weren't supposed to do that," a surprised Trump responded to the unexpected moment.

He then added: "Don't sit down yet, you're going to similar this."

"Exactly one century later on the Congress passed the Constitutional Amendment giving women the right to vote," Trump continued, "we likewise have more women serving in Congress than at whatsoever time before."

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Democrats and Republican then began chanting, "U.Due south.A, U.Due south.A!"

Pelosi besides stood up and clapped in the president's direction. The gesture was widely seen every bit a literal clap back, giving the net the the meme of the night.

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A record number of women are serving in the House of Representatives. Only while women and people of colour make up a bulk of the newcomers on the Democratic side, the Republican side is overwhelmingly white and male. Of the 102 women currently serving in the House of Representatives, thirteen are Republican and 89 are Democratic.

According to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, of the 127 female voting members of both the Business firm and Senate, 106 are Democrats and 21 are Republicans.

"That's smashing," Trump told the roaring oversupply. "And congratulations."

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2020 Presidential Contenders: Who's Still Challenging Donald Trump and Who's Dropped Out (Photos)

There'south less than a year to become until the 2020 presidential election, where the presumptive Autonomous nominee — former Vice President Joe Biden — is expected to take on President Donald Trump.

Simply before then, the race was filled with a number of candidates eyeing the Oval Function. Here'south TheWrap's listing of everyone who is running for president — and who has dropped out.

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Joe Biden – Democratic Party

Entered Race: April 25, 2019

The quondam Obama VP was a tardily entry to the race, formally declaring his run for the presidency on Apr 25. But he's long been a presumed frontrunner, leading many early on polls. This is his third presidential run, and for months he'southward been telling anyone who'll listen that he'd be the nearly qualified candidate for the chore. He's also already been under scrutiny over criticism well-nigh his beliefs with women, prompting him to mail service a video promising he'd be "more mindful and respectful" of a woman's "personal space."

Biden has also been prone to embarrassing slips of the tongue, among them placing the assassinations of RFK and MLK in "the late '70s," mistaking his campaign'due south text number for a website, waxing nostalgic about his friendships with Senate segregationists, and s aying "poor kids are only as bright and just every bit talented equally white kids."

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Elizabeth Warren – Democratic Political party

Entered Race: Feb. nine, 2019

Dropped Out:March five, 2020

The Massachusetts Senator formally announced her candidacy on Feb. ix at a rally in her home state, and shortly subsequently followed up with a tweet that read: "I believe in an America of opportunity. My daddy concluded upwardly equally a janitor, but his little girl got the take chances to be a public schoolhouse teacher, a college professor, a U.s. Senator – and a candidate for President of the United states. #Warren2020." But on March five, 2020, following a disappointing Super Tuesday performance, Warren officially ended her bid for the presidency.

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Bernie Sanders – Democratic Party

Entered Race: Feb. xix, 2019

Dropped Out:April eight, 2020

Bernie Sanders, the runner-up in the 2016 contest for the Democratic nomination, had a momentous campaign for the presidency with policies championing economic equality and rhetoric advocating for a political revolution that drew him scores of defended supporters. But equally the Autonomous primary elections arrived, his campaign'southward disappointing functioning widened the gap toward the nomination betwixt the Vermont senator and his main competitor, Joe Biden. In early April, Sanders officially suspended his entrada for the presidency.

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Pete Buttigieg – Democratic Party

Entered Race: April 14, 2019

Dropped Out:March 1, 2020

The 37-twelvemonth-old mayor of South Curve, Indiana became the get-go openly gay presidential nominee from a major political political party. Buttigieg came away with the almost delegates from the Iowa Caucuses merely couldn't go on his momentum going in the other early state primaries.

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Michael Bloomberg - Democratic Party

Entered Race: Nov. 24, 2019

Dropped Out: March 4, 2020

The quondam mayor of New York is the 2d billionaire to enter the crowded Democratic field with just one yr until the ballot, using his considerable personal wealth to fund his ad campaign. He dropped out later a poor showing on Super Tuesday.

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Amy Klobuchar – Democratic Political party

Entered Race: February. x, 2019

Dropped Out: March 2, 2020

The Minnesota Democrat, first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006, announced her bid on February. 10, 2019, maxim that she wanted to work for "everyone who wanted their work recognized." Klobuchar'south key problems she wants to tackle if elected president include revising voting rights protections and prioritizing cybersecurity.

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Tulsi Gabbard – Democratic Political party

Entered Race: Jan. 11, 2019

Dropped Out: March xix, 2020

Gabbard, a U.South. Representative for Hawaii'due south 2nd congressional district, endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2016, only in 2020 she'due south all-in on herself. Gabbard is running on immigration and criminal justice reform.

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Tom Steyer – Democratic Party

Entered Race: July 9, 2019

Dropped Out: February. 29, 2020

The billionaire and climate change activist entered the race in July, saying in a video "if you retrieve that there'due south something absolutely critical, try every bit hard as y'all can and let the chips autumn where they may. And that's exactly what I'chiliad doing. My name'due south Tom Steyer, and I'm running for president."

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Pecker Weld – Republican Party

Entered Race: Apr 15, 2019

Weld is a former Governor of Massachusetts who has been on the record virtually his displeasure of Trump, specifically Trump'due south desire to be more of a "king than a president."

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Deval Patrick - Democratic Party

Entered Race: November. xiv, 2019
Dropped Out: Feb. 12, 2020

The former governor of Massachusetts acknowledged the challenge of jumping into the Democratic primary and so late in the game. Simply in his announcement he took a veiled swipe at other candidates, maxim the political party was torn between "nostalgia" and "our big thought or no way." He dropped out after the New Hampshire primary, declining to secure a single delegate.

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Michael Bennet – Democratic Party

Entered Race: May ii, 2019
Dropped Out: February. 11, 2020

The Colorado senator has been a song supporter on advancing the field of artificial intelligence and expanding the Child Tax Credit. He dropped out on the twenty-four hours of the New Hampshire primary.

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Andrew Yang – Democratic Party

Entered Race: Nov. 6, 2017
Dropped Out: February. 11, 2020

The entrepreneur and son of immigrant parents from Taiwan became a contender a year agone, tellingThe New York Times that he will abet for a universal basic income. Just he failed to proceeds traction and dropped out the solar day of the New Hampshire primary.

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Joe Walsh – Republican Party

Entered Race: Aug. 25, 2019
Dropped Out:Feb. 7, 2020

The former congressman from Illinois turned bourgeois talk testify host announced in Baronial 2019 that he would enter the GOP primaries to claiming President Trump. "I'chiliad running considering he'due south unfit; somebody needs to footstep up and there needs to exist an alternative. The country is sick of this guy's tantrum -- he's a child," he told ABC News.

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Cory Booker – Autonomous Party

Entered Race: Feb. 1, 2019
Dropped Out: Jan. xiii, 2020

The New Jersey senator and erstwhile mayor of Newark formally tossed his name into the presidential lid on Feb. 1, the get-go day of Black History Month. Booker ran on a platform of catastrophe mass incarceration if he were to be elected president. His absence in the race ahead of the caucuses fabricated the remaining Democratic field significantly less diverse.

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Marianne Williamson – Democratic Political party

Entered Race: Jan. 28, 2019
Dropped Out:Jan. ten, 2020

The "Healing the Soul of America" writer and founder of Project Affections Food announced her candidacy during a political rally at the Saban Theater in Los Angeles on January. 28. Williamson ran on a platform of reparations and "economical justice for women and children."

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Julián Castro – Democratic Party

Entered Race: Jan. 12, 2019

Dropped Out: Jan. 2, 2020

The former mayor of San Antonio -- and former Obama chiffonier member -- supports immigration reform and eliminating pb poisoning. Castro was the only Latino candidate in the running, and he said in a video released by his campaign that he's "non washed fighting."

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Kamala Harris – Democratic Party

Entered Race: Jan. 21, 2019

Dropped Out: December 3, 2019

The California senator announced her bid for the presidency on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 21, while appearing on ABC's "Good Forenoon America." As a possible indication of her chances, her January CNN town hall was the network'southward highest rated unmarried presidential candidate town hall e'er. Harris is pro Medicare-for-all and raising instructor pay.

Harris came out of the gate strong with a solid showing at the first debate, but failed to carry that momentum. Reports of staff mismanagement and fundraising challenges led to her to suspend her candidacy in early December.

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Beto O'Rourke – Autonomous Party

Entered Race: March 14, 2019

Dropped Out: November 1, 2019

The former congressman from El Paso, Texas, announced he is running for president on March xiv, proverb: "This is a defining moment of truth for this country and for every single one of united states of america," and that the challenges accept never been greater. "They will either consume us, or they will beget usa the greatest opportunity to unleash the genius of the Us," he added. O'Rourke has already made a name for himself equally a record-breaking fundraiser, the bailiwick of an HBO documentary and a favorite among Hollywood aristocracy. He dropped out Nov 1., tweeting, "I am announcing that my service to the country will not be as a candidate or every bit the nominee."

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Mark Sanford – Republican Party

Entered Race: Sept. 8, 2019

Dropped Out: November. 12, 2019

The former governor of S Carolina -- who resigned in disgrace in 2007 later on lying near an extramarital affair -- announced his challenge to Trump, saying, "We have lost our fashion." Sanford, who was besides a U.S. congressman from 1995 to 2001 and 2013 to 2019, pledged to tackle the nation'south ballooning national debt and reverse Trump's policies on trade protectionism. He dropped out in November saying the issues on his platform were overshadowed by the ongoing impeachment process.

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Kirsten Gillibrand - Democratic Party

Entered Race: January. xv, 2019

Dropped Out: Aug. 28, 2019

The senator from New York announced her bid Tuesday, Jan. xv on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert." Gillibrand, whose campaign slogan is "Brave Wins," supported paid family leave and protecting women'southward rights.

On Baronial 28, 2019, she announced her withdrawal. "To our supporters: Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Now, let's get beat out Donald Trump and win back the Senate," she tweeted.

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Seth Moulton – Autonomous Party

Entered Race: April 22, 2019
Dropped Out: Baronial 23, 2019

The Massachusetts congressman and Republic of iraq War veteran concluded his campaign for president in a speech to the DNC in San Fransisco. "I recall information technology's evident that this is now a three-mode race between Biden, Warren and Sanders, and really information technology'southward a debate about how far left the political party should go," Mr. Moulton told the New York Times.

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John Hickenlooper

Entered Race: March 4, 2019
Dropped Out: Aug. fifteen, 2019

The former Colorado governor supported stricter gun command laws and free trade.

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Howard Schultz – Contained

Dropped Out: Sept. half dozen, 2019

In January the onetime Starbucks CEO expressed initial involvement in running. In August, Schultz reportedly suspended his campaigning until after Labor Day, citing medical issues. In September, Schultz cited those bug and more in a alphabetic character on his website as reasons he had to take himself out of the running.

"My belief in the need to reform our two-party organisation has not wavered, just I have concluded that an independent campaign for the White House is not how I can all-time serve our country at this time," he wrote.

Schultz is a co-founder of the venture capital firm Maveron, which is an investor in TheWrap.

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Eric Swalwell

Entered Race: April 8, 2019
Dropped Out: July 8, 2019

The California congressman wrote in a statement on his campaign's website almost his decision to bow out of the 2020 presidential race, "I'll never forget the people I met and lessons I learned while travelling [sic] effectually our corking nation – specially in the communities most affected past gun violence."

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Jay Inslee – Democratic Party

Entered Race: March ane, 2019
Dropped Out: Aug. 21, 2019

The Governor of Washington ran on a platform focused on climate alter, proposing a "100% Clean Energy for America Plan" that would come across emissions drop to goose egg by 2035.

He announced he was dropping out of the race during an appearance on "The Rachel Maddow Bear witness."

"It'south become clear that I'chiliad non going to be conveying the ball," Inslee told Maddow. "I'm non going to exist the President, I'yard withdrawing tonight from the race."

Inslee added that he's optimistic that climatic change will exist a major role of the Democratic political party's priorities.

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Wayne Messam – Democratic Candidate

Entered Race: March 28, 2019
Dropped Out: Nov. 20, 2019

The mayor of Miramar, Florida, a city about Miami, is a first-generation American who has called for terminate the filibuster and erasing student debt. He merely raised $5 -- v -- during the quarter that ended Sep. 30, and dropped out less than two months later.

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Neb De Blasio – Democratic Party

Entered Race: May 16, 2019

Dropped Out: Sept. twenty, 2019

The New York City mayor was looking for more taxes for the wealthy and regulating "gig jobs" under his proposed Universal Labor Standards.

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Steve Bullock – Autonomous Party

Entered Race: May 14, 2019

Dropped Out: December. 2, 2019

The Montana governor said in a statement, "While at that place were many obstacles we could not have anticipated when entering this race, it has become clear that in this moment, I won't be able to break through to the top tier of this withal-crowded field of candidates."

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John Delaney – Democratic Party

Entered Race: July 28, 2017
Dropped Out: Jan. 31, 2020

The U.S. Representative for Maryland's 6th commune declaredback in July 2017. He said he'll "end reckless trade wars and expand merchandise," "create a universal health care organization" and "launch a national AI strategy." But he dropped out before the Iowa caucuses.

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Joe Sestak – Democratic Party

Entered Race: June 23, 2019
Dropped Out: December. 1, 2019

The erstwhile Pennsylvania Congressman had a plan for America that includes investing in American manufacturing and strengthening antitrust laws. But short of funds and media attention, he dropped out.

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Bernie Sanders is the latest to stop the race for the Oval Office

At that place'south less than a year to go until the 2020 presidential election, where the presumptive Democratic nominee — quondam Vice President Joe Biden — is expected to accept on President Donald Trump.

But before so, the race was filled with a number of candidates eyeing the Oval Office. Here'southward TheWrap'due south listing of everyone who is running for president — and who has dropped out.