The “Who is running in 2020?” tea leaves thread, Part 3

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I don't know if anyone's mentioned this yet, as the article is from June, but Abercrombie is writing a book, which he hopes to publish next year.

http://www.kitv.com/story/38549883/former-governor-abercrombie-writing-political-book

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Didn't see this in the last few pages:

Sen. Michael Bennet ‘Seriously Thinking’ About A 2020 Run For President (Bente Bierkeland, Colorado Public Radio)

I wasn't expecting this. I know Bennet has voiced frustration with the culture of the Senate, but I would have figured he would have left for agency work or private sector work before trying a Presidential run. It'd be pretty interesting seeing a race between him and Hickenlooper - Bennet's base seems like it would be rather small and niche and he hardly has a chance with anyone in the Progressive Wing who pays any attention to individual Senator's voting records.

I remember him also being mentioned by Obama as a potential presidential candidate, which really surprised me at the time. I wonder if Patrick doesn't end up running, whether or not Obamaworld will throw its weight behind Bennet.

I doubt it, Bennet voted for Gorsuch. 

Based on Bennet's 2016 reelection numbers which mirrored the numbers of the Democratic Party in the state at the Congressional and Presidential level, even though he was running against a weak challenger, Bennet strikes me as a generic corporate Democrat.

Bennet did not vote for Gorsuch. He voted for cloture, but did not vote for the nomination. Those are not the same thing.

Bennet is my number one choice for the Democratic nomination in 2020, and has been ever since 2016. If he runs, I will be absolutely ecstatic.

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https://twitter.com/meetthepress/status/1088566981073215488?s=21

It's happening. Every day is one day closer to the start of the Bennet presidency.

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More Messam:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryancbrooks/wayne-messam-president-mayor-florida

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He could be a very formidable candidate.

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Bennet going to Iowa for a Feb. 22-23 visit:

https://www.krdo.com/news/colorado-democratic-sen-bennet-set-to-visit-iowa-amid-a-possible-2020-presidential-bid/1019659489

God-Emperor Bennet will be our next President. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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Good news on Biden, he's the candidate most suited to beat Trump. Atlas vastly underrates him when compared to people in real life's opinion. It's ridiculous.

It makes me feel like the Dems are about to do what the GOP did so many times during the Obama administration and throw away a winnable race during the primary a la Christine O'Donnell, Richard Mourdock, and Todd Akin.

Nominating just about any of the candidates running qualifies as throwing away the nomination. The Democratic Party isn't sending its best, folks!

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Great profile on Bennet from the Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/senator-michael-bennet-weighing-run-president/583993/

POLK CITY, Iowa—Sitting under a framed ticket from an old Obama town-hall meeting, down in the basement of a farmhouse surrounded by snowy fields of corn and soybeans, I tell Michael Bennet that an Iowa Democrat who’d come to hear him speak compared him to pea soup. Good pea soup, hearty. But still pea soup, in a 2020 primary field that has sizzling fajitas and cake on the table.

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Bennet is on edge. He has been warning of the destruction of democracy for years. He thinks he’s more Cassandra than the boy who cried wolf, as he points out when I remind him that in October 2017, he warned that Trump’s decision to cancel the protections for Dreamers needed to be fixed immediately. It hasn’t been. “These issues are tearing at the heart of who we are,” he says.

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Not a Dem single voter in CNN's panel wants clown Biden to run

A group of Democratic voters who had supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 rejected former Vice President Joe Biden's bid for the presidency during a Tuesday morning panel on CNN's "New Day."

"How many of you would like to see Joe Biden get in?" co-host Alisyn Camerota asked the panel. "Show of hands?"

No one raised their hands. Multiple people shook their heads.


"What's happening?" Camerota said.

"His time is done," Democrat Carol Evans replied.

Democrat Russell Banks expanded on her point.

"I'll be honest, I used to think like, you know—because obviously he was riding the Obama wave, and I thought he was the person that would unite the party, but to be honest, you know, Senator Biden really comes from kind of the good-old-boy politics of the past," he said.


https://freebeacon.com/politics/cnn-panel-of-democrats-dont-support-biden-his-time-is-done/

Hopefully Biden is done

These freedom fighters are the Bennet voters of the future.