Likeliest Democratic Nominee in 2020?

It is never too early to start speculating especially as someone intent on the nomination will probably need to make a decision probably no more than 18 months from now.

Bernie Sanders will obviously be way too old. And he is probably somewhat disillusioned with how the Party treated him in 2016.

Elizabeth Warren is probably a major sentimental favorite, but she'll be old in 2020 (71) and her being from Massachusettes probably brings little to the table.

I would keep a close eye on New Jersey senator Cory Booker. He'll be at the prime age for a presidential run (51) and has a history of policy advocacy pretty appealing to many. Fiscally conservative but socially liberal (or progressive). And he has seven years as mayor of Newark so he has serious executive experience.

What makes Dayton so sure there's going to be an election in 2020?

My feeling --- at the moment at least --- is that if it ain't Elizabeth Warren, the Dems are going to face a major defection of supporters.

That is if the party hasn't collapsed by then anyway. Maybe Donald will revive it bigtime.

FTFY

lol if you think we'll still have a country in 2020

just lol

Arnold should run as a Democrat and challenge Trump. Ellen Degeneres can be his running mate.

America has already turned into a reality TV show anyway, might as well go all in.

Arnold is too old.

My money's on Warren.

Fixed for constitutional accuracy.

He's a year younger than Trump.

More importsntly, he wasn't born here.

Arnold's also not eligible...not born here (or had the required number of years of residency at the ratification of the Constitution ).

Who it won't be: Schumer, Biden, Sanders.

Maybe Warren, maybe Kaine. I'm sensing Cory Booker's positioning himself for it (or maybe for a VP slot). Andrew Cuomo.

But in 8 years , he'll be 7 years older than Trump is now.

Too old.

Who cares?

2020 is too far away yet - a lot can happen. Right now I'd say Elizabeth Warren, but we've got three years between now and then, and she's getting old. I'd bet on someone not even on the radar yet, myself.

If the Democrats have any brains in their head they will search high and low for someone who is not from the Senate. Or old.

Democrats need a Governor or hell an Anti-Trump like Elon Musk.

Elizabeth Warren is widely loved in the party, even more so in the wake of "nevertheless, she persisted." She will be 71 in 2020 -- compared to Trump's 70 in 2016 -- so, in light of the fact that women live longer than men anyway, there's no rational argument for considering her "too old." (That said, we still have plenty of age-related double standards for women, and we can probably count on the right-wing lie machine fabricating any number of terminal illnesses for her.)

Flip side -- people love looking for trends in presidential politics, even though the sample set is incredibly small, and one of those trends is that Democrats tend to win when they nominate a relative unknown (Obama, B. Clinton, Carter) and lose when they nominate a party elder whose name has been bandied about forever (H. Clinton, Kerry, Mondale, Gore).

I'm surprised that there didn't emerge a couple of Obama admin. officials (aside from Hillary Clinton) as potential "rising stars" in the Democratic hierarchy

Cuomo

I'm still going with Nova's pick. Oprah or bust, imho!

She talks a good game but she's just as much a part of the system as Hillary was.

Who cares if the party loves her. If she can't draw the votes in states that she needs for the electoral college than she will lose the same way Hillary lost. Frankly she can't do it and she knows it.

The Dems tried a moderate last year; it didn't work because there was little energy relative to Trump. Obama, although he governed as a moderate, ran as a solid liberal and he won twice because he had the energy. Sanders and Warren have the energy. That's where the party should go.

I wouldn't call Hillary Clinton a "moderate". I would call her a liberal who just happened to be good at milking Wall Street for millions of dollars.

lmbo if you think the planet earth will be inhabitable in 8 years and we won't be living underground or dead

If you really believe that, you should be headed for the hills.

The delusions are hilarious.

No. Please. Run Warren and Sanders. Keep going further left.

Just rename the party from Democrat to Commicrat.

Wonder if Biden would run again?

How about Tammy Duckworth


or would she get screwed on the "natural born" thing? I wouldn't want to be the pundit leading that charge.

I figured with her dad being a marine, there was a reasonable chance she'd been born at a base hospital? an embassy?

Get past that controversy, and she'd hit just about every need for the 2020 face of the democrats.

52, female, she'd be the first president to have actually served in combat since Bush 1, moderate and relevant political portfolio, decent education credentials. Probably wouldn't rock the boat too much other than to get the country back together after this administration.

lmfto if you think hills will save us