2020 Democratic Primary: Wide Open(NON-REPUBLICAN VOTERS ONLY)

[Mr. Morden]

This isn't a Top 6 list just the 6 people I think will run.

1.) Kamala Harris
2.) Cory Booker
3.) Andrew Cuomo
4.) Tulsi Gabbard
5.) Martin O'Malley
6.) Tim Kaine

Klobuchar met with both the Iowa and South Carolina delegations at the DNC this summer.  And she dropped tons of hints in 2012/2013 indicating presidential ambitions, but presumably didn't run in '16 because she figured she had no chance against Clinton.  I'd say she's as likely to run in 2020 as anyone.  Gillibrand has made similar moves in the past ~5 years, though not quite as overt as Klobuchar.  Not sure if Gillibrand running would be complicated by her homestate governor also running.  (But hey, Bush and Rubio managed to coexist in the same race.)

It's also useful to look at the list of surrogates who potentially have national ambitions who campaigned for either Clinton or Sanders in Iowa last winter, before the caucuses:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2016/03/27/whos-running-president-2020-iowa-visits-offer-hints/82230962/

Tammy Baldwin
Cory Booker
Julian Castro
Bill de Blasio
Tulsi Gabbard
Kirsten Gillibrand
Tim Kaine
Amy Klobuchar
Tom Perez

Some of them were presumably just angling for veep.  But I don't know, it wouldn't shock me if, say, Bill de Blasio had presidential ambitions.  Maybe Cuomo, Gillibrand, and de Blasio could all run and split the New Yorker vote.

[Maxwell]

Maggie Hassan ?

4 years Governor

4 years Senator

62 years old (in 2020)

ran as a tough on crime, tough on drugs, anti-Obama Democrat. Hassan is definitely pretty low on my list.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

I'm not sure. A woman can't win yet, though.

[Vosem]

Voted for Ron Wyden.

I have no plans to support President Trump (no plans to not support him either; would depend on specific issues), but I certainly plan to vote in the 2020 Democratic primary if it is contested and the Republican primary is not. If this is the field, my vote is for Wyden, though I realistically don't think he'll run.

Most likely Booker will be the frontrunner and against most of the Democratic Party he could have my vote.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I'm not sure. A woman can't win yet, though.

Yes, a woman can do anything, so long as she has talent and good will. Gillibrand can win if she wants it. I wouldn't count Klobuchar out either, but she would have to earn my vote.

[2016]

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx would be a good choice as would HUD Secretary Julian Castro.

Please no Senator. I've had enough of that.

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

I voted for Warren and would be enthusiastically behind her if she ran; but I also would prefer someone younger. Gillibrand would be a close second for me, don't know much about Klobuchar.

[TDAS04]

Wyden.  Gillibrand would also be very good.

[indysaff]

Warren's best shot was this cycle. She won't run in 2020.

I'm betting on Harris, Booker, Kaine, maybe Klobuchar

Long shots: Tulsi Gabbard or Nina Turner

[Soonerdem]

1. Elizabeth Warren/Bernie Sanders I am confident only one of them would run and I would probably vote for the one that did.
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2. Other liberal senators like gilibrand, Franken, klobachur and the rest who I like.

3. Kamala Harris/Gavin Newsom this where the big drop off is and I think these two are gossips against trump and those below are underdogs

4. Michele obama
5. Random Dem Governor from blue state. This is the cuomos and the raimondos and inslee types who I would think would be a mistake



6.Cory Booker. The 2020's Walter Mondale.



7. Random left wing celebrities: Kanye and every other liberal actor.

[ProgressiveCanadian]

Warren!! Don't see the appeal corporate owned Booker.

[Hammy]

Warren.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

I'm not sure. A woman can't win yet, though.

A woman literally just won the popular vote.

Yes, but the electoral college gives hicks and rubes an outsized influence, and these hicks and rubes aren't interested in holding a woman to the same low standards it holds men.

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

Wyden.  Gillibrand would also be very good.

I love Wyden for his anti-NSA stance, but he's too pro TPP.

[Liberalrocks]

Here comes Kamala

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm not sure. A woman can't win yet, though.

A woman literally just won the popular vote.

Yes, but the electoral college gives hicks and rubes an outsized influence, and these hicks and rubes aren't interested in holding a woman to the same low standards it holds men.

You know, at some point you're just going to have to sit down and recognize that Clinton was not, in fact, an impeccable candidate who could do no wrong and whom it was the electorate's fault for not thrilling to.

[Torie]

Totally clueless for me. I have zero idea.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I love how only 3 of the 7 people in this thread's poll actually ran and none of them actually won a primary or caucus.