Posted on 09/21/2018 8:04:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Difficult as it may be to believe, the 2020 election is right around the corner. Candidates began announcing they were running for the 2016 election in the first few months of 2015, so expect candidates for the upcoming presidential election to announce they are running in early 2019.
The Republican primaries are likely to be uneventful. Donald Trump remains popular among Republicans, so any NeverTrump who runs against him in the primaries won't pose much of a threat. The Democratic primaries are another matter. After Hillary Clinton's defeat in the last election, the Democratic Party has been leaderless, and a definitive frontrunner is yet to emerge. As of right now, the four most likely candidates for the Democratic nomination in 2020 are Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris.
Biden is the most popular of all the potential candidates and would pose the most serious threat to Trump. Biden could win back the white working class for the Democrats, and the fact that he was vice president under Barack Obama would help him greatly in both the primaries and the general election, since Obama is still very popular among Democrats. Biden was mentioned as a possible candidate in the 2016 election but announced in October 2015 that he would not run. Perhaps he didn't want to divide the establishment wing of the Democratic Party so Clinton would more easily gain the nomination. With her having lost in 2016 and presumably out of the picture for 2020, maybe Biden will see himself as the logical successor to the establishment Democratic banner and run.
However, he may not receive the nomination. Biden is a white male in a party that increasingly despises white males and wants to see more diversity in its leadership.
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Good post.
In regards to #2, the city suffered horribly on 9/11 and he says something stupid like that? Democrats have warped brains. But we already knew that.
What if....just WHAT IF....
....they don’t end up having one?????????????
They don’t have a viable candidate today. If PDJT continues like he has, who is going to WANT TO TRY????? You know he’ll troll you, you’d need to be an incredibly strong candidate. Everyone so far, any established politician, has lost to him. He has a 100% win record.
If they do have a candidate I can’t imagine it’d be anything more than a show - I can’t see “wild support” for whomever it might be. Plus, it’ll HAVE TO BE some FAR FAR LEFT candidate, that is all that is left of the democratic party.
The One.....
The Only....
The one, real, true RAT.....
THE MadMaxiePad!!!!!!
And she should pick that stupid-looking, brain-dead Lewis as her running mate.
“If O’Rourke wins (unlikely), they man nominate him.”
If Beto pulls it off I could see that happening. What other Hispanic candidates are there who happen to be Irish?
Unfortunately I think Cruz just might manage to lose the election, as challenging as this would be. I’m counting on Trump to pull Cruz over the finish line in spite of himself.
Whoever it is, the ramp-up to the election will be the greatest ever for political advertisements. Showing politicians, in their own voices, abandoning any semblance of due process or justice to enact their own political ends.
Mark
Her liver won’t last that long.
Well, only self-flagellating, self-hating, perpetually apologizing, groveling-in-the-dirt white males, who promise to be a rubber stamp for the leftist genocidal agenda.
Yep. The “black” card still has quite of bit of playability in it in certain quarters.
Spartacus.
Satan! Represents the DNC perfectly.
I’m still holding out hope for this ticket:
Weiner/Holder 2020
Yeah. Her campaign slogan can be “Not Her Again”.
I know who they WON’T nominate: a white straight male. So that puts a lot of people out of the picture.
All the harpies who have ever tried to assail Trump have been promptly and unceremoniously dispatched by him as if he were brushing lint off his lapel. Harpies, dismissed! (e.g., pocahontas, kamala, hilary, gillibrand, ocasio)
That leaves the “reluctant” oprah. She will stay aside until the last possible moment. This will happen just before the other candidates eviscerate each other; but soros will forbid that and prevent it at all “CO$T$”.
Oprah it will be.
Agreed. She has a lot of experience running for president. She must be getting good at it by now.
Would the Dems nominate an old white man? Im betting on Warren.
Joe #MeToo Biden.
I think it will be President Kamala. I already call her that because that is how she sees herself. That isnt how Willie Brown sees her, though. He just sees scalp.
Scary thing is, as idiotic as she is, she could gather all the votes of the Gullibles and Lefties both. Educating Americans on actual truths of life and Trumps true accomplishments would be the ONLY way to beat someone like Kamala. You would need a strong media platform that they would actually see.
Ditto
Maybe a sacrificial lamb such as Dole or McCain was for the Republicans? That has a problem too, because Trump isn't an establishment figure, and hasn't been coerced into becoming one, and the advantage for the 0bama/McCain ticket was that the Dems won either way. Such a figure could, however, form a core around which an updated Dem party might be built, to be later discarded in favor of someone a little shinier. I'd place Cuomo in that category at the moment, perhaps even Bloomberg, who helps solve the funding issues that put the DNC into Hillary's pocket in '16. Harris is an outside possibility (all of them are, to be candid) who isn't viewed as a "uniter", meaning unity of everyone covered under the current version of identity politics that's shackling the Democrat party to the radicals. Shriekers, yes, union rank and file, no. And so there we have the third problem: nearly all the current possible candidates have been caught by the Dems' lurch toward the left and away from the working class. Of all of those only Bernie has a track record of making the right noises, and despite him being an old white male who once again isn't actually a Democrat, he still has a chance and some political legitimacy. That will tell you how weak the bench really is.
At the moment it will be up to the most influential wing of the Democrat party to decide: the media. That's who to watch.
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