Posted on 09/17/2017 5:41:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary Clinton failed to become America’s first female president last November when she was beaten by Donald Trump.
But which women could win in 2020?
1. Elizabeth Warren
The current favourite to become America’s first female president is the progressive Democratic senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren. Warren was first elected to the senate in 2012, and is up for re-election in 2018. Plenty of outlets have speculated that Warren could be preparing a 2020 presidential bid, including earlier this year in the Observer.
After Donald Trump and Mike Pence, Warren is the third favourite American to become president in 2020, according to Oddschecker, with William Hill offering odds of 10/1 for a Warren presidency. The site offers odds of 2/1 for a Trump win, as well as odds of 8/1 for his vice president.
2. Michelle Obama
Predecessor to Melania Trump, worldwide education champion and wife of Barack Obama, Michelle is currently the betting markets’ second-favourite women to become US president after the 2020 election. An unofficial Facebook page called “Michelle Obama For President 2020” has almost half a million likes, however, her most avid of supporters will be disappointed to hear that Mrs. Obama has declared that she has no plans to run for the country’s top job, as reported in the Independent.
Then again, it would not be the first time a politician said something and later changed their mind…
The odds of a Michelle Obama presidency are 20/1 with Ladbrokes.
3. Kamala Harris
Harris is a newcomer on the national political stage, but she has already been tipped as a possible 2020 Democratic candidate, including in the Guardian. Harris only became a senator (from California) in January this year, and has previously served as her state’s attorney general.
She has even backed Bernie Sanders’ forward-thinking single-payer healthcare bill, as reported by the Washington Post, something which could help her with progressives in the 2020 primaries should she decide to run. William Hill offer odds of 33/1 for a Harris presidency in 2020 while Coral offer odds of 20/1.
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4. Amy Klobuchar
Klobuchar is another Democratic senator, this time from Minnesota, and has also been tipped as a possible presidential candidate. She is more experienced in national politics than Warren and Harris, having served in the senate since 2007.
Ladbrokes offer odds of 50/1 for a Klobuchar presidency in 2020.
5. Hillary Clinton
Could Hillary Clinton make a comeback? Before winning two presidential election victories in 1968 and 1972 respectively, Richard Nixon was the Republican Party’s nominee in 1960, but ultimately lost out to JFK. A Clinton comeback would not be the most far-fetched thing to happen in American politics, but a Trump versus Clinton rematch seems unlikely, probably why her odds are so long (PaddyPower: 50/1, Coral 40/1).
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6. Catherine Cortez Masto
Cortez Masto is another Democratic senator that has been talked about as a possible presidential candidate in 2020, albeit on a lesser scale compared to the likes of Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris. Her political progression is remarkably similar to Harris’ going from being a state attorney general (this time for Nevada) to becoming her state's senator following last year’s election.
PaddyPower odds: 33/1, Ladbrokes: 50/1. Coral: 50/1.
7. Kirsten Gillibrand
Gillibrand was first elected as a senator from New York in 2008, taking over from Hillary Clinton, who vacated the seat when she joined the Obama administration as secretary of state. She has also served in the US House of Representatives.
William Hill offer odds of 40/1 for a Gillibrand presidency while Ladbrokes offers odds of 50/1, however, the Hill has reported that she has declared that she will not be running.
As with a Michelle Obama run, three years is a long time: anything can happen and minds can change.
Just keep it steady, Trump. No one is going to elect Warren or Obama.
Trump will win re-election easily against any of these deranged moonbats.
The democrats run, appoint, and hire demographics, not talent. 2020 the only requirement will be a vagina. And they’ll love worst than the more than 300 electoral drubbing they got this time. Because they are only interested in demographics, not talent.
7 Very very liberal women! Jeez, can’t they find any conservative women? I don’t care if the candidate would be a black Asian transgender female who dies her hair bright green if the person knows the US constitution.
Note that they only see liberal women.
Not any Republican members of Congress, nor Governor Palin, nor Ambassador Haley, nor any of a number of very qualifies conservative and/or Republican women.
Heck, Carly would be better than any of the women they named.
Kamela Harris is the only one of that coven with even a remote chance.
Harris will not run in 2020 if Trump has good numbers. They will save her for 2024. She is a very aggressive radical liberal.
After 8 years of President Trump, America will only elect Alpha Males to the office of the President.
There are a number of qualified women out there to run. One high on my list is Condoleezza Rice. A proven performer in the political field and a real genious. She proved that with her interview with Newsmax in April of this year when asked again about running. She countered, “not in my DNA.”
Sad. I think she’d make a great one. She’s a lot like Margaret Thatcher, gutty, straight forward, and tough. President has to be.
Unfortunately, none on the list in this thread are.
rwood
Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California. She is the daughter of a Tamil Indian mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris. And her father, Donald Harris, was an African American of Jamaica citizenry. But as she was born on American soil, she qualifies as a natural born citizen. Her parents were approved to enter as he was a teaching college professor and her mother was a research physician in the studies of cancer. So, it is a lot like an anchor baby.
rwood
Great, just what we need, an angry white, brown, or black woman as POTUS. NOT!
“7 women who could become US president in 2020 from Warren to Obama”
If pigs had wings they COULD fly!!!!
Warren and Obammy?
Get real.
Condoleezza Rice Is a genius? She voted for Obama. Maybe she's a racist genius.
OMG that would be funny!
“Condoleezza Rice Is a genius?”
She is reported to have an IQ in excess of the 150’s. She skipped grades during her schools years, entered college where she obtained her bachelor’s degree from the University of Denver at aged 19, and then her master’s degree in political science from the University of Notre Dame.
She worked at the State Department under the Carter administration and then pursued an academic fellowship at Stanford University, where she later served as provost from 1993 to 1999.
On December 17, 2000, she left her position and joined the Bush administration as National Security Council as the Soviet and Eastern Europe Affairs Advisor to President George H. W. Bush during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification.
Following her confirmation as Secretary of State under George W. Bush, Rice pioneered the policy of Transformational Diplomacy directed toward expanding the number of responsible democratic governments in the world and especially in the Greater Middle East. That policy faced challenges as Hamas captured a popular majority in Palestinian elections, and influential countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt maintained authoritarian systems with U.S. support. She has logged more miles traveling than any other Secretary of State and while in the position, she chaired the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s board of directors.
In March 2009, Rice returned to Stanford University as a political science professor and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. According to the 2016 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report (Think Tanks and Civil Societies program, University of Pennsylvania), Hoover is #18 (of 90) in the “Top Think Tanks in the United States”.
In September 2010, she became a faculty member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a director of its Global Center for Business and the Economy.
She is currently on the Board of Directors of Dropbox and Makena Capital Management, They are a file hosting service operated by American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. Dropbox was founded in 2007, by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, as a startup company, with initial funding from seed accelerator Y Combinator.
Among her many influential mentors would come to include Brent Scowcroft, George H. W. Bush’s national security adviser, and George Shultz, secretary of state under Ronald Reagan, a true republican list. And she was drawn to the Hoover Institute because of the conservative economy theories of Herbert Hoover who was our 31st president from 1929 till 1933. He was the president that inherited the great depression and started our financial comeback.
There’s more, but this is enough. Her voting record is her personal thoughts based upon who was running. But her lifetime of work, and her allegiance for a vast majority of her life is to conservatism. And anyone that votes straight party without considering the candidates is not doing a service to their party. You can end up with ultra liberal “republicans” in the senate like Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Dean Heller, Mark Kirk, or some that are really untrustworthy like John McCain or Lindsay Graham.
But the question was, does she qualify to be called a genius? Yeah, I think so.
rwood
Big deal. She went to college at 16. So did I.
But I didn’t vote for Obama. She did.
A genius should be smart enough to see that Obama is/was a zero.
They are watching, watching, watching all the time.
Human emotions get in the way of their surveillance.
They do get a chuckle out of some of your articles, though.
Remember, they are watching, watching, watching, all the time.
I also entered college early, skipped three grades to get there. Wish I hadn’t now.
Obama ran against McCain and Romney. Neither is a true conservative and Obama didn’t run as a far left liberal. He ran as a moderate just like Clinton did. The American people trusted Obama to more or less stay the course and didn’t believe Romney or McCain were going to do much better. And to be honest, neither did I.
And if your idea of genius is based upon a single vote, then people like Einstein, Madam Curie, and many other geniuses would be considered less than their capacity.
And you never know where genius is. The highest recorded IQ of any Hollywood actor was Jill St. John. Hers was over 200. She was a Mensa. Sure didn’t look like a genius.
Obama won those elections because the conservatives didn’t have any legitimate candidates to run against him. And Romney and McCain are a perfect example of just putting in the time. Many voted for Obama to see his theories through. And they didn’t become a zero until late in his second term thanks to the media. Who would have known?
rwood
We knew. Hated McLame and the Romneybot, but voted for them because Obummer was so much worse.
Had Romney won, we would not have Trump. Sometimes there are blessings where we least expect it.
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