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DNC chair Tom Perez: Expect a 'double-digit' field in 2020 presidential primary
Chicago Tribune ^ | 1/26/17 | Kim Janssen

Posted on 10/28/2017 5:33:51 PM PDT by Libloather

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Speaking to University of Chicago students at the university’s Institute of Politics, Perez said, “I would welcome that because sometimes I hear people say we don’t have a bench of presidential candidates, and I could not disagree with that more.”

Perez didn’t identify any candidates he expected to run, though former Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, and U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan have all been rumored to be considering a 2020 run. The Republicans in 2016 had 17 candidates, forcing underperforming candidates off the main stage and into a second-tier debate. A double-digit Democratic field would be a significant increase on the half-dozen Democrats who ran in 2016.

“I think that debate (would be) spectacular,” Perez said. “My job is to make sure the playing field is level.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020; dnc; perez; president
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Won't they be incapacitated once Hillary sucks all of the air from the room?
1 posted on 10/28/2017 5:33:51 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

It’s going to be a Looney Tune show with Trump pointing out the clowns.


2 posted on 10/28/2017 5:37:48 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Libloather

Democrats don’t respirate oxygen.


3 posted on 10/28/2017 5:37:51 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Libloather

With triple-digit ages and single digit IQs


4 posted on 10/28/2017 5:38:15 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Libloather

Kamala Harris was born to an Indian national and a Jamaican national, she is not a natural born citizen.
She was born an Indian, Jamaican, America.


5 posted on 10/28/2017 5:38:26 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Libloather

...Won’t they be incapacitated..

They will be more incapacitated by decreasing voter registrations and the numerous investigations of democrat wrongdoing. None of this, especially the Russian boomerang, is building the democrat voter base.


6 posted on 10/28/2017 5:39:02 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Indian, Jamaican, American.


7 posted on 10/28/2017 5:39:13 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Libloather
More doesn't work in the Democrats' case. You ever notice how the media never praised or even said a word about how diverse the GOP field was in 2016, and how the Democrats were aging white people? Also the GOP field was diverse politically; you have RINOs, libertarians, populists, and social conservatives.

No matter who the Dems' field, they will all share the same ideology and appeal to a narrow swath of voters who will vote for whoever wins the Dem nomination anyway.

8 posted on 10/28/2017 5:40:01 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: Sasparilla

Do you know how many people die every year and start voting Democrat?


9 posted on 10/28/2017 5:40:13 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: digger48

A real freak show.


10 posted on 10/28/2017 5:40:19 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: Libloather

What a joke.

These people can’t even tell what’s going to happen next week, but they can make headlines by telling what’s going to happen in three years.


11 posted on 10/28/2017 5:40:24 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Lurkinanloomin

That ship sailed long ago


12 posted on 10/28/2017 5:40:29 PM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: Libloather

The double-digit field is their way of trying to eliminate the upstarts. First, they place ringers at the various ideological poles to attract the fervent followers. That serves to eliminate the lesser pragmatic candidates. Then, they torpedo the ringer, with or without his cooperation (remember how Bernie just seemed to fold one day and we concluded he was bought off). If an upstart gets strong, they decide what losers to eliminate and everyone gangs up on the upstart.

Perez, a Hillary stooge, is working on the assumption that Hillary will have an uphill battle in 2020. Divide and conquer (with a double-digit field) is her only hope.

It makes it even more miraculous that Trump was able to survive such a bruising ordeal in 2016. But Republican voters decided not to have any of the establishment antics.


13 posted on 10/28/2017 5:40:43 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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Kamala Harris was born to an Indian national and a Jamaican national, she is not a natural born citizen.
She was born an Indian, Jamaican, America.

Those things are only problems for Republicans.

14 posted on 10/28/2017 5:41:15 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Libloather

LOL, excellent. Let them deal with it.

That was a disaster for us.

When you have to 14 people on a stage, each one gets hardly any time to reveal themselves.

Get 5-7 top contenders by the beginning of 2020, and move on from there. We’ll have one. Anyone on our side thinking Trump is vulnerable, would have just disqualified themselves as having the brains necessary to run for president.

I hope the Democrats have 45 contenders. Remember, “...the more the better...”. Not!


15 posted on 10/28/2017 5:43:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Rush Limbaugh: 45% of California families speak a foreign language at home. Oth src: full U.S. 21%)
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...
But where are the clowns? Send in the clowns
Don’t bother they’re here
...


16 posted on 10/28/2017 5:44:06 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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The 2020 Dem convention is shaping up to be the world's longest short bus 😨😛
17 posted on 10/28/2017 5:44:18 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: Libloather

Perez didn’t identify any candidates he expected to run


The bench is too deep to pick any out. Oh, yeah.


18 posted on 10/28/2017 5:44:24 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: al baby

2009 wasn’t that long ago.
Barry Soetoro is all the proof anyone should need that the founders were right to restrict that office to citizens who were born here of citizen parents with no foreign ties.
We should not abandon parts of the Constitution because they are inconvenient.


19 posted on 10/28/2017 5:44:28 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Libloather

Because the Dims are all about a “level playing field”, right?
Ask Bernie’s opinion.


20 posted on 10/28/2017 5:45:24 PM PDT by GnuThere
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