Who Will Be the 2020 Democrat Nominee?

[ClydeR]

This article says Warren, Biden, Booker, Harris and Sanders are all getting ready to run.

Ms. Warren, 69, now leads a small advance guard of Democrats who appear to be moving deliberately toward challenging President Trump. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., wielding a political network cultivated over decades, has been reasserting himself as a party leader, while Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California have emerged as fresher-faced messengers for the midterms. And Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the runner-up in the 2016 primaries, has been acting like a candidate as he considers another race.

All five have been traveling the country, raising money for Democrats and gauging the appeal of their personalities and favorite themes. As a group, they are a strikingly heterogeneous array of rivals for Mr. Trump, embodying the Democratic Party’s options for defining itself: They are distinguished by gender and race, span three decades in age and traverse the ideological and tonal spectrum between combative Democratic socialism and consensus-minded incrementalism.

Yet absent, at least so far, is either an obvious political phenom like former President Barack Obama or an establishment-backed juggernaut in the mold of Hillary Clinton. Unlike the last few Democratic primaries, the unsettled race evokes the sprawling nomination fights of earlier decades — lacking a dominant figure and seemingly inviting new leaders to rise.

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[Gelston]

Fallen will be.

[Taernath]

Warren/Biden most likely.

[drauz]

Warren/Biden most likely.

I would guess Biden/Warren, someone as vice president with 2 different candidates sounds weird.

[Taernath]

I would guess Biden/Warren, someone as vice president with 2 different candidates sounds weird.

I meant more that it would be a combination of those two, Biden could be the prez or maybe they want to run a woman again, either way it's a solid ticket.

[Neveragain]

Midterms mean way too much this time around to even guess as to what the democrat party will look like this time next year. If we're looking at a blue dud in the midterms, there will be a complete overhaul of the democrat party before 2020. Anything before this November is nothing but pontification.

[Archigeek]

Midterms mean way too much this time around to even guess as to what the democrat party will look like this time next year. If we're looking at a blue dud in the midterms, there will be a complete overhaul of the democrat party before 2020. Anything before this November is nothing but pontification.

Agreed. I'd go so far as to say that in this sense, a blue dud means less than a solid pick up of seats. I think taking control of the house is a big stretch, but if they don't cut the margin in half, some people will wake up and realize they need to start working more for the people than corporate interests if they want the backing of the people. There is dissatisfaction on both sides of the aisle in that regard, it's just manifesting in different ways.

[Parkbandit]

Agreed. I'd go so far as to say that in this sense, a blue dud means less than a solid pick up of seats. I think taking control of the house is a big stretch, but if they don't cut the margin in half, some people will wake up and realize they need to start working more for the people than corporate interests if they want the backing of the people. There is dissatisfaction on both sides of the aisle in that regard, it's just manifesting in different ways.

You believe the left's problems are because they are not working more for the people rather than corporate interests?

[Archigeek]

You believe the left's problems are because they are not working more for the people rather than corporate interests?

I thought I was clear that I believe people on the left and right don't think politicians on either side of the aisle are working for them, and that belief is manifesting in different ways on the left and the right.

[Gelston]

I think it would be stronger with Biden in front. We still have never had a female Vice President, so it would still be a first with Warren too.