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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When the election came up during the Civil War Lincoln was asked who the Democrats would run against him and he said something like, “they’ll run a war democrat on a peace platform or a peace democrat on a war platform”.
I think the democrats nowdays will run either, a communist/socialist on a transgender platform or a transgender on a communist/socialist platform, or I’ll just go with the “ham sandwich” remark.
When they fail to regain either the House or Senate in the midterms they will implode and nominate some far out leftist like Sanders or Ellison.....
Well that's a lot of Leftists to choose from!
Leiberman/Warren. Although that would not be the most entertaining ticket. My dream ticket would be Harris/Booker. :)
‘Zactly; my thesis being, now we can take that outrage to another, higher level w/Kamala Harris. The prospect should be irresistable to the left.
Kamala Harris was selected within days of the Hillary loss.
She will be the nominee sure as the sun sits in the sky, if the propaganda trail is a reliable one... and it always is.
Yep, that should work...
RE: When they fail to regain either the House or Senate in the midterms...
Hmmm... I notice you use the word “when”, not “if”. You seem certain about the midterm results despite what the current polls tell us....
I REPEAT: AGAIN:
Kamala Harris is not ELIGIBLE to be POTUS or in any position that can succeed from POTUS.
Both of her parents are from foreign countries. One is from India—one is from Jamaica.
They met in the USA, fell in love, married, and THEN had Kamala.
At the time Kamala was born, NEITHER of her parents were American citizens.
She cannot be President.
We already got snookered by Obama. We cannot let it happen again.
I can’t make much sense of what the polls are saying these days - one day the generic is plus 10 for the ‘rats and the next it’s plus 1 - I think the ‘rats are as energized as they’ll ever be because of their hatred for Trump, but I think it’s too early for many independents and Repubs to really focus in on the issues and whom they’ll vote for - I’m guessing they’ll have a fairly good pickup in the Senate and maybe lose ten to fifteen in the House, mainly because of the redistricting jiggering that’s been going on - at the worst I think they could lose the House narrowly but hold the Senate by a few, and that will allow them to continue investigating the DOJ and FISA corruption - what I’m most concerned about - so there’s all that and the fact that I try to think optimistically whenever possible
MaCauliffe/Gillenbrand
Not true.
It was well known at the time he was not eligible. The Republicans knew it and refused to confront that.
We weren't snookered, we were betrayed. If the Dems nominate her, we will again be betrayed. You can make book on it.
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