Gillibrand has none of Clinton's baggage (real or imagined). That's huge as she'd be able to assemble the same coalition and then add to it as moderate suburbanites (especially the women) would have less reason to wander to Trump.
I like Klobuchar and I think she'd be a good candidate. Rather a foil to Trump -- what character attacks can Trump lobby on her? Perhaps a bit dry?
Warren is probably less electable simply because of the antipathy she's already garnered.
McCaskill would do well, too, but no chance she runs. Can't do a competitive Senate race and then turn around and immediately run for president.
There are a lot of ways in which Harris can be attacked, some legitimate, but most dog-whistley. Being rather inexperienced and far to the left wouldn't help, though I'd like to see a former prosecutor go after Trump during a debate
I like Gillibrand and Harris. I can't find any baggage for Gillibrand. From what I've read on Gillibrand she is less guarded than Hillary. Agree on Harris. Most of Harris's baggage will be from her Attorney general days.Still Harris is far more charismatic than Hillary. Both don't have anywhere near the baggage real or imagined that Clinton did.
She'll be attacked for her Wall Street connections, of all the female potentials she's the one with the biggest Wall Street problem by far. And she's married to a banker and has received gigantic donations from Goldman Sachs.
"But her record on Wall Street will haunt her. Gillibrand, as usual for New York senators, has worked assiduously on behalf of the financial industry. In 2010 she briefly suggested filing an amendment making it harder to regulate derivatives trading, though she later backed down after a backlash. In 2011, she complained that derivatives regulation would make U.S. banks uncompetitive. In 2013, she and five other Democratic senators wrote to then-Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew arguing essentially for an indefinite delay of regulations on cross-border derivative trading. As Reid Pilfant wrote in 2012, she has "quietly overcome considerable skepticism about her on Wall Street to become a go-to advocate for the financial services industry in her own right.
http://theweek.com/articles/691363/kirsten-gillibrand-2020-not-wall-street-problemHer record on gun control and especially immigration would at least be something that would be used against her in a primary.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/us/politics/28immigration.html
