Despite the 2020 election being more than two years out there are a few names you may want to prepare to hear a lot more.
There is no sense speculating on who will win the primary at this point in time. The early front runner ends up losing half the time, such as Howard Dean to John Kerry in 2004, or Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama in 2008. Or the early front runner is really expecting more of a coronation than an actual race, such as Al Gore in 2000, or Hillary Clinton in 2016. So you either know who will be nominated, or you really have no clue. Not much of a middle ground when it comes to this matter.
For 2020’s Democratic primary there is absolutely no telling who will come out on top.
But there are a few major players who will almost certainly be slugging it out.
Bernie Sanders – Sanders, an Independent Senator from Vermont, is likely to run again in 2020. There will be some significant hurdles to overcome for Sanders, as he will be 78 years old by the time of the election. He will also face serious opposition from establishment Democrats who will be bitter about his 2016 run and that he is willing to run as a Democrat only when it suits him. He will also be hammered relentlessly on his silence over Russian assistance in 2016.
Yes, there is clear evidence that Russia worked to support Bernie Sanders. Russia’s goal doesn’t seem to have been so much to make Trump president as it appears to have been to make Hillary not president.
Elizabeth Warren – Warren, a Senator from Massachusetts, would also face questions over age, as she will be 70 by the time of the election. Though this does not appear to have hurt Trump or Clinton in the last election, Americans do seem to prefer younger, charismatic, and energetic candidates for the office. A New England liberal, Warren is popular with the Democrat’s progressive base. She will likely face attacks as a woman with the usual dog whistles during both the primary and in the event she reaches the general election.
Additionally Warren may suffer during the primaries, where the more vocal base has a louder voice, on identity politics, having allegedly falsely claimed to be more Native American than she actually has in her genes.
Cory Booker – Booker, a Senator from New Jersey, will not face issues of age, as he will only be 50 at the time of the general election in 2020. Booker is young, charismatic, and energetic. He does, however, have a record of backing financial elites over the common person. This will not go over well with the Democratic base. The more left leaning base will hound Booker relentlessly over this issue.
Plus, the man is from New Jersey. There are going to be skeletons in the closet. Though this is purely speculative…come on, New Jersey.
Kamala Harris – Harris, a Senator from California, has many things going in her favor. She is, like most Senators, exceptionally well educated, well spoken, and quite successful, having served as the 32nd Attorney General of California. She will not have any issues with the identity politics of the left since she is a genetic amalgamation of the entire human race, from the looks of things. Just Google ‘Kamala Harris Race’ and you will get results for Black, Asian, and Indian. And she’s a woman who attended an HBCU. How do you attack that?
By attacking her time as the Attorney General of California.
Harris was involved over the years in a number of controversial cases that will serve as fodder for opponents. Whether these were her personal views or the views she was forced to defend as the AG of California will never truly be known. But nonetheless her opponents will imply or outright state that her positions in the cases are her personal positions as well.
There are too many to easily summarize, which in and of itself is a bad sign, so I will just include this link for you to read.
Each candidate has pros and cons. Some are better positioned than others. But there is no divining the outcome when it comes to the 2020 Democratic primaries. Not yet, anyway.
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