A Four-Person Race for the Democratic Nomination?

Townhall.com ^ | May 16, 2019 | Scott Rasmussen

[Kaslin]

From the moment former Vice President Joe Biden threw his hat in the ring, he has been the dominant front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. That status was confirmed in the most recent ScottRasmussen.com poll of the race, showing Biden with 39% of vote and a 19-point lead.

His nearest challenger -- Sen. Bernie Sanders -- attracted just 20% support, and nobody else reached double digits.

But in a party that has become younger and more racially diverse, it's never seemed likely that two white men over 70 would have the field to themselves. The question all along has been which of the other 20 or so candidates might move into the top tier.

It's certainly early, but it may be that Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are gaining the traction they need to make it a four-person race. In our latest poll, they finished third and fourth with 8% and 6% of the vote, respectively. That's a long way back, but both Warren and Harris offer Democrats a much-needed contrast rather than limiting the options to a pair of older white men.

Not only that, the poll found that Sanders, Harris, and Warren are the top three second choices for Biden voters. Biden, Warren, and Harris are the top second choices for Sanders' voters.

When you add up the first, second and third choices for Democratic voters and Democratic-leaning independents, Biden makes the top three for 66%. Fifty-one percent put Sanders in that category. Warren is a top-three pick for 33%, while Harris is selected by 29%. Nobody else reaches 20%.

Other survey data found that 85% of Democratic voters and Democratic leaning Independents would be excited or satisfied with Biden as the party's presidential nominee. That's a pretty amazing total, but Biden is not alone. A ScottRasmussen.com national survey found that 77% would also be satisfied with Sanders. Seventy-three percent say the same about Harris and 71% about Warren.

Only 4% to 6% would be depressed with any of those candidates as the party nominee.

Looking through the data, it's clear that former Congressman Beto O'Rourke and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg aren't all that far behind Warren and Harris. But other than being young, neither of those men offers a compelling rationale for why they should be considered instead of Biden or Sanders. And neither of them has all that much experience in office to draw upon.

At the moment, therefore, it looks like the Democrats have a four-person race. Biden is the front-runner, and the race is his to lose. Sanders has a core following from the last time around, but there are questions about whether he can appeal to a wider base. Warren and Harris are making their first run for the White House and appear well positioned to shake things up when voters begin to pay attention.

[bert]

Speculative speculation about nothing of actual substance

The article attempts to justify being

[KC_Conspirator]

Well it is Scott Rasmussen, polling is his career.

[Don W]

Fauxcahontas and Ms Round-Heels? If those are the best the rats have...

[CptnObvious]

Sleazy Joe for President. Sniff Sniff

[Sans-Culotte]

Yes, but this article was written before De Basio threw his hat into the ring. That changes everything. /s

[commish]

Oh please let this be the final 4.

Joe is well........Joe

Bernie might make a lot of noise in the primaries, but would crash and burn spectacularly in the General.

Warren is Hillary part II - shrill, not likeable and reminds people of that bossy aunt everybody tolerates but nobody likes.

Harris is a fringe kook who disqualified herself with much of America with her "executive order confiscating all guns" crap.

[Liz]

...... this article was written before De Basio threw his hat into the ring. That changes everything /s....

You got that right....BOL.

76% of NYC citizens told a pollster the Mayor really should not go down the 2020 road.

He won the mayor’s seat with 72% of the vote....after he had the number tattooed on his wife’s a**
to double the thrill, DiBlobbio began making plans for the presidency.

But, Pray Tell, Where Does De Blasio Get The Money For His Eternal Presidnteial Campaign Trips?

NEWS CLIP BY Marcia Kramer, CBS News, April 5, 2019 / FR Posted by EinNYC

.....ethical questions are being raised about where he’s getting all the money to fund his cross-country presidential campaign trips.“On The Road Bill,” the mail-it-in mayor of New York City has been galloping all over the country to test the presidential waters with a suspicious campaign cash box that’s raising lots of eyebrows. “To me, that’s a real no-no,” Betsy Gotbaum of the Citizens Union said. Gotbaum is questioning how de Blasio is raising money for his “Fairness PAC” – the political action committee that is allowing the mayor to dream about running the country.“Is it the appearance of something wrong?” CBS2’s Marcia Kramer asked .......

REALITY CHECK—De Blobbio gave his wife $850 million tax dollars for (cough) mental health projects.
But the imbecile can’t account for the 41 programs (money laundries) supposedly spending staggering amounts of tax dollars......

Blobbo and his fashion-flop wife enter GMA studios.

This is who greeted them

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[chajin]

I think we are about to see the Election In Reverse, where the GOP presents the incumbent, and the Dems provide the Designated Loser.

Up until now, I have thought that the Dems would go bat-crazy and find, say, a fourfer (Afro-Latina trans lesbian) as meat for the base, then run their true candidate in 2024. Now, however, I am thinking more like 1984, when the former VP Mondale joined with a woman (Ferraro) to provide very little competition for Reagan, so it will be Biden/Harris or maybe Biden/Hirono (can't be Biden/Warren, the pair would be too old and too white).

The Dems would do this because they know they don't really have a chance to beat Trump at the ballot box. However, the day after the re-election, Trump immediately becomes a lame duck, the rest of the GOP begins to run for cover, and the Dems spend four years finding scandals (think Iran-Contra) and working to keep Trump from completing his agenda. Since there is no one to take Trump's place, even if the GOP wins in 2024 it will be with a GHWB-lookalike who will prepare the party for its loss in 2028, and history will repeat itself.

[rktman]

Yeah, but the gooder nooze is that de blah blah blah z 0 is supposedly going to announce today. Finally some sanity in the dem free for all. Just kidding! This is better than comicon I’m guessing. What’s with all these white dudes trying to push the wymun out of the way? Don’t they CARE about wymun? Well we know for sure buttplug doesn’t.

[central_va]

Biden-Harris ‘20 “a feeler and kneeler”

[Great Awakening]

If the current occupants of Congress truly represent the people, we are in real trouble.

[ArtDodger]

Doesn’t really matter, does it?
Whoever piles out of the clown car on top will be the star that all the liberals get behind. Once the union leaders direct their minions on how they are to vote, and the media revs up, making sure to hand the answers to the tough questions to the crowned one, it is still going to be iffy whether Trump can pull it off.
We need to participate and be vigilant.

[stonehouse01]

“Elizabeth Warren...’bossy aunt’...”

You are too kind. Warren is the quintessential controlling virago.

[Buckeye McFrog]

My only caveat is that if the banks do something STOOOOOPID between now and the election, the Fake Indian could suddenly become formidable.

[dead]

Kamala Harris is the designated "sidekick of color" destined to serve the white man who heads the ticket.

Elizabeth Warren is a harpie librarian - only millennial SJW chicks take her even a little bit seriously. Non-player.

[TMN78247]

Rather than a 4-person DP nomination race, it’s beginning to look like a 40 or even 400 candidate race.
(CHUCKLE)

Frankly, no matter how many candidates that the DIMocRATS finally field, they are all fit the description of LOSERS to DJT.

Yours, TMN78247

[ridesthemiles]

Ms Round-Heels?”””

She isn’t eligible to be President.

Neither of her parents were USA citizens when she was born here.

She is an anchor baby-—nothing more.

[ridesthemiles]

ABC GMA should register as a Democrat PAC, since they spend so much air time fawning over ANY Dem candidate for any position.

[ridesthemiles]

KIamala is only an anchor baby-—She cannot be President.