Posted on 11/27/2016 8:55:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
By Election Day, ambitious Democrats had already resigned themselves to an eight-year wait for their chance in the national spotlight. Hillary Clinton was an overwhelming favorite against Donald Trump and, assuming she won, running a primary challenge against her in four years would be a fool’s errand.
Then Clinton lost.
Although this most stunning upset in modern presidential history has produced (and will produce) a thousand aftershocks, one of the most unlikely and important is that the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 is now open.
That opening is made all the more remarkable by the fact that there is simply no logical heir (or even heirs) to President Obama or Clinton — no obvious candidate waiting in the wings to step forward and rebuild the party. Vice President Biden appears to have decided that he is done running for office. As a two-time loser, Clinton is done, too. And after that, the bench is, well, pretty thin.
Politics, of course, abhors a vacuum. So candidates will run. Here is a look at who they might be:
Sen. Cory Booker: Booker has been a national figure since the mid-2000s, when he was elected mayor of Newark. His résumé — football at Stanford University, a Rhodes scholarship — is impressive, and many Democrats see the young (he’s 47), charismatic, African American U.S. senator from New Jersey as the second coming of Obama. But the campaign that Booker ran for the Senate in 2013 was more competitive than it should have been largely because of his shaky performance. He may start the 2020 race as the front-runner, but he still has lots of questions that need answering....
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Louis Farakhan
Does anyone think Bill Gates might run against Trump? Or is he too into his business to bother with it? When Trump won, that set a precedent.
You nailed it! Working class whites have already figured out they’re no longer welcome in the Democrat Party and now the white liberals in positions of power in that party will find themselves being kicked to the curb. Play the race card and get burned by it at the same time. The white power structure of the DNC will find that out quickly.
Chelsea for the Dim candidate in 2020.......go Chelsea, we need another 70 IQ candidate on the Dim side....
I was surprised she didn't make her move this time. She was born in 1949, so she would be 71 while running, turning 72 in her first year of office. I think that in 2020 the Dems will want a newer face rather than being the party of the geriatric revolutionary.
We will see who they start building up over the next year or so.
In related news, the quixotic push to do recounts in three states continues. Not with an eye to overturning the election, but with the intention of delegitimizing the Trump Presidency over the next 4 years, in preparation for easing the runway for a DemocRAT run in 2020.
We’ll see the floodgates open by next summer. They’ll be jockeying for position behind the scenes until then, and there were be dozens of rumors and trial balloons before ones who didn’t get to run in 2004 have been waiting for years now because it’s been Hillary’s Turn even since then. (Until Oprah upended it getting behind Obama)
Ron Fournier speculates that Hillary is joining in the recounts to keep her 2020 options open.
Here’s t hoping he’s right, I would love to see that bitch get beat down into the ground one more time.
Kirsten Gillibrand will be the Democratic nominee for President in 2020 and remember you heard it here first.
Jim Webb is no spring chicken; he’s 70 years old now.
I’m speculating that Hillary thought she would win no matter who her running mate was, and didn’t want to compete with another young, clean, articulate black man.
Pretty good analysis.
Not really - I recall he made a huge splash giving the red-blue speech at the 2004 convention, and so when he entered the race in 2007, it was sort of expected...
This is what is wrong with our country, thanks to the media and the education system. Rather that focus on fixing our society and country, they continue to keep the emotional pot stirred.
To hell with the 2020 election. Now is the time to end this accursed Obama/DC UniParty tragedy/atrocity and Make America Great Again!
2020 Democratic presidential nomination is now open.
A barrel of monkeys select only one.
A Black or Hispanic politician in his late 40s or early 50s, or a Hollywood celebrity. The Democratic Party just will not go after the non-college white guys or rural Yankees ... they’re a write-off the same way white guys in the South have been.
The thing is, they are a mostly geriatric party. This is the fruit of the republicans having so many red states and the Congress.
I think she was intimidated by Hillary's supposed inevitability. After the election, she has supposedly been running to every camera she can find.
Pocahontas, Abs, Giggles, & Beta Man. Not the greatest of lineups for 2020.
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