Posted on 12/27/2016 9:17:52 AM PST by PROCON
Democrats grappling with the shock of Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump are also beginning to turn their attention to 2020, and pondering who could defeat Trump as he vies for reelection.
Here are The Hill’s initial rankings of where the potential candidates stand.
1. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.)
How would the 2016 election have panned out had Warren challenged Clinton in the primary? That’s one of the great unknowables of Democratic politics. But now, there is little doubt that the Massachusetts senator is the leading contender for the 2020 nomination.
Warren, a former Harvard Law School professor, has been beloved by the left throughout her late-blooming political career, largely because of her no-punches-pulled attacks on banks and the financial industry. She got under Trump’s skin via Twitter during the 2016 campaign too.
The recent news that Warren will join the Senate Armed Services Committee in January has stoked speculation that she is looking to bolster her foreign policy and national security credentials in advance of a presidential run. Warren would be 71 by the time of the next election, but she is three years younger than Trump.
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Mark Cuban.
Mark Cuban.
SOS (Same Old Socialists)
The presidency ages one but at age 70 he's got more energy and stamina than most 50 year olds.
“The man is leaving office more liked and respected than he has ever been. “
The man is despised by everyone not on the left. His approval rating like everything else is a work of fiction.
Tulsi Gabbard in 2020.
I don’t see a white man at the top of the Rat ticket maybe ever again.
I’m looking forward to the Obama gang sabotaging all the white candidates to clear the way for Michelle.
This is nauseating. Trump isn’t even sworn in yet and Election 2020 is ramping up.
The rising stars in the Democrat party were aborted.
As we start to see the demographics rising, Democrats will burn themselves out as the amount of leftists who support abortion and have abortions will eliminate enough of them that they are no longer self-sustaining. We clean out some of the entrenched liberals in the university level and we’ll start seeing more and more conservative teachers, students, rising adults, etc. Only way they survive is to immigrate in new leftists or to brainwash them.
Not that she should ever run but Melania would blow both Moochelle and Crooked Hillary away as president.
This has to be from the funny pages?
LOL! At the lot of them....
I know Kamala Harris has a few skeletons in her closet from her SF days. And from what people have told me, Booker has skeletons in his closet too from his days as Mayor.
Bern is 75 years old now - I doubt he will run. Same for Biden and Hillary.
Kaine is a comic. He’s like a clown.
Patrick is interesting. I thought he would have made a serious bid a few years ago.
This has to be from the funny pages?
LOL! At the lot of them....
I know Kamala Harris has a few skeletons in her closet from her SF days. And from what people have told me, Booker has skeletons in his closet too from his days as Mayor.
Bern is 75 years old now - I doubt he will run. Same for Biden and Hillary.
Kaine is a comic. He’s like a clown.
Patrick is interesting. I thought he would have made a serious bid a few years ago.
This is nauseating. Trump isn’t even sworn in yet and Election 2020 is ramping up.
It is not so much that the election is ramping up, but after having Obama trip up the Clinton machine to the point that it failed, one ought to probe the wreckage looking for a Democratic bench.
If I were placing a bet a this point it would be on Michael Rubens Bloomberg. That is what their navel gazing is going to produce. Democrats: “If we just had a billionaire to run against Trump we would win.” And oh yah, we will make believe he down with the white working man struggle, but supports BLM and higher taxes on the middle class. If it is one of the ones on the list, they will have to start raising money right after the first of the year. It will become apparent that none of them can raise enough money legally. Then watch who makes several trips to the middle east and china for the money that will be laundered into their accounts.
Like Obama, as a less than single term senator she would have little history for the electorate to judge he on. Given the chance at cobbling together women and minorities for historic firsts would make her a potentially tough candidate perfect for democrat race baiting and dividing the the electorate up and feed the us vs them narrative.
Rep Hawaii; Tulsi Gabbard if I am not missing her name.
1. Sen Elizabeth Warren
2. The Bern
3. Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.)
4. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.)
5. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
6.First lady Michelle Obama
7. Gov. John Hickenlooper (Colo.)
8. Sen. Chris Murphy (Conn.)
9. Vice President Joe Biden
10. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (N.Y.)
11. Sen.-elect Kamala Harris (Calif.)
12. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
13. Former Gov. Deval Patrick (Mass.)
14. Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.)
15. Oprah Winfrey
Please! No more election speculation for at least 2 years!
This perpetual campaigning is exhausting-—for voters!
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