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LSSBB said:
Harris doesn't appear to have the foreign experience. I think Tammy Duckworth has better experience there, plus the military background chops. Harris could be a good Veep candidate.
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I prefer candidates that weren't injured in battle.
/trumpism
 
acbytesla said:
I find it difficult to imagine voting for Trump if Satan himself was running against him. In so many ways I hate Pence even more then Trump, but it would still be a no brainer to vote against Trump if they were facing each other on the ballot.
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Wouldn't Pence be easier to beat if he became President before 2020?
 
C_Felix said:
Gonna go way out on a limb here:

K. Harris & J. Kennedy III for the Dems in 2020.

Harris talks tough. I mean she has a Trump-esque style of "I don't take no bulls...", but with better grammar. I have a feeling, that if she decides to throw her name into the ring, her attidude will resonate with the Dem base.

Kennedy. IMHO, the current political ethos (for lack of a better word) could go for some invigorating young blood. I look at Trudeau in Canada and am kinda envious that they have a spry young leader - someone closer to my age. Someone who seems to be more "anti-stupid" than anything. (When people ask me my political party, I reply with, "Anti-stupid") At least that the impression I get from him.

Plus, JKIII might want, need, or the movers and shakers behind the scenes of the Democrats might want to "season" him a tad bit.
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Joe Kennedy is a 3 term Congressmen. Normally, that isn't enough but much of this is about 'presence' on the stump. Does the candidate connect with the people? Compare Hillary to Bill. Hillary was far more qualified than Bill but he was a far better candidate than Hillary could ever be.

I saw Avenatti give his speech in Iowa and I was highly disappointed. The words were good but his delivery was only so so. He really needs help with that.
 
acbytesla said:
I saw Avenatti give his speech in Iowa and I was highly disappointed. The words were good but his delivery was only so so. He really needs help with that.
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Avenatti seems like an ******* who is best used to attack other ********. He would do well to avoid running for election.
 
Dr. Keith said:
Avenatti seems like an ******* who is best used to attack other ********. He would do well to avoid running for election.
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Avenatti is extremely valuable. He has a talent for trolling Trump. His reuniting the little boy with his mother was both highly admirable and embarrassing to Trump. He is not however, presidential material. He needs to keep undermining faith in Trump's leadership, provoking tweets that reinforce the perception the Trump is unhinged and generally distracting the president from actually trying to govern.
 
Craig4 said:
Did we just see a new contender enter the race? Admiral McRaven is looking awfully presidential right now.
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Sadly, I think some of the Progressive wing of the Dems will oppose McRaven simply because he is a retired admiral. There is a huge dislike of the military in general among the Left Wing of the party.
 
dudalb said:
Sadly, I think some of the Progressive wing of the Dems will oppose McRaven simply because he is a retired admiral. There is a huge dislike of the military in general among the Left Wing of the party.
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Which is odd considering he was a senior leader in a cradle to grave welfare state.
 
Whoever runs in 2020 won't have the superdelegates to kick around any more:

In a long-awaited bid to reinvigorate the Democratic Party and heal the divides of the 2016 presidential primary, the Democratic National Committee voted Saturday to disempower superdelegates as part of a package of historic party reforms.
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It's almost like 1972 never happened.
 
Brainster said:
Whoever runs in 2020 won't have the superdelegates to kick around any more:



It's almost like 1972 never happened.
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My first reaction to this was disbelief. How can they do this after what happened to the GOP in 2016?

But maybe the devil is in the details.
While superdelegates won't vote in the first round, they will be able to vote in the second round (if one is needed).

It is worth to remember that superdelegates never actually decided who the nominee would be.

What will change now (I hope), is the way the media reports on the Democratic primaries, by only reporting real delegate counts.
 
Firestone said:
My first reaction to this was disbelief. How can they do this after what happened to the GOP in 2016?
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Yeah, I mean the media got it totally wrong and therefore Bernie Sanders is sure to win easily in 2020.
 
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Brainster said:
Yeah, I mean the media got it totally wrong and therefore Bernie Sanders is sure to win easily in 2020.
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They also changed the rules for caucuses, and a number of states that held caucuses in 2016 will hold primaries in 2020.

All in all, it looks that the party "establishment" did better than expected/feared in this reform of the primary process.

It's early days of course, but hard to see Sanders doing better in 2020 than he did in 2016. And he would have lost to Clinton with this new system too.
 
Bernie Sanders will win in 2020 provided he's healthy.

If the Democrats are stupid enough to run another boring, centrist establishment candidate to impede him in this climate I'll probably lose hope in them forever.

Get behind Bernie if you want to win.
 
Craig4 said:
John Hickenlooper
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A good chunk of Americans are too, ahem, "primal" to vote for a President with too many syllables in their name. I wish I were joking.

Just like a candidate is more likely to win if they are at least somewhat good looking, they are more likely to win the fewer syllables they have in their name.
 
Venom said:
Bernie Sanders will win in 2020 provided he's healthy.

If the Democrats are stupid enough to run another boring, centrist establishment candidate to impede him in this climate I'll probably lose hope in them forever.

Get behind Bernie if you want to win.
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In the betting markets, Kamela Harris has a 5/1 chance to win the nomination, followed by Elizabeth Warren with a 6/1. Sanders trail with a 10/1, on par with Cory Booker.
 
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