2020 Dem candidates

[PresidentTRUMP]

Thoughts from Dem's?

[AGA]

Cuomo and Booker are good. Maybe Warren or Brown, but not Kaine or Castro.

[KingSweden]

Cuomo would go down like a lead balloon in the Midwest, IMO

[Comrade Funk]

Cuomo would go down like a lead balloon in the Midwest, IMO

[Person Man]

Cuomo would go down like a lead balloon in the Midwest, IMO

Booker might be OK. Castro seems promising.

[The Other Castro]

Cory Booker or Chris Murphy.

[Cynthia]

Sherrod Brown. White male, from midwest, has high name recognition

Cory Booker. Black, appealing

Elizabeth Warren. Dem standard bearer (although a bit too old)

[justfollowingtheelections]

The next Democratic presidential candidate will have to be a Bernie supporter.  Al these idiots endorsed Hillary and they were proven to be dead wrong.

Jeff Merkley is probably a good choice.

[Orser67]

After the way Trump won the Midwest, I think Sherrod Brown is well positioned as the potential anti-Trump. Booker and Kamala Harris would be extremely formidable in the primaries and could excite turnout in the general. Kaine and Gillibrand could both inherit Clinton's supporters. Those are my top five.

I actually think that Harris could easily become the frontrunner, depending on how she does on the national stage. She could raise all of the money in the world and as a half-asian, half-black woman, she'll have the chance to set all kinds of firsts.

[Senator-elect Spark]

Merkley, Cuomo, Harris, Murphy

[AGA]

Cuomo would go down like a lead balloon in the Midwest, IMO

What makes you think that?

[Pandaguineapig]

After the way Trump won the Midwest, I think Sherrod Brown is well positioned as the potential anti-Trump. Booker and Kamala Harris would be extremely formidable in the primaries and could excite turnout in the general. Kaine and Gillibrand could both inherit Clinton's supporters. Those are my top five.

I actually think that Harris could easily become the frontrunner, depending on how she does on the national stage. She could raise all of the money in the world and as a half-asian, half-black woman, she'll have the chance to set all kinds of firsts.

Sherrod Brown would have to win reelection first and Harris has no appeal in the rust belt or south

[Illiniwek]

Booker and Warren are the final two. Warren wins because the Bernie progressives will be fired up.

[Kleine Scheiße]

Sherrod Brown or Martin O'Malley. Preferably the latter.

[MasterJedi]

If it was right now it would be Warren, Booker as VP, should get the millennial/AA groups out that Dems need to win back all the tight states.

[Higgs]

Cuomo so the Democrats can get schlonged again with a corrupt moderate.

[KingSweden]

Cuomo would go down like a lead balloon in the Midwest, IMO

What makes you think that?

While I realize Trump is a brashness New Yorker, he certainly has a different style than say a Cuomo would have

[JA]

I’m going to become a broken record on this forum and probably annoy people with this, but our party must take this time in the political wilderness to discover who we want to be. Do we wish to continue the Clinton-Obama coalition, which would be a nomination of Booker, Cuomo, Castro, Kaine, or Gillibrand, which has enabled us to win the popular vote for 6 out of 7 Presidential elections, yet has cost us the House, Senate, majority of Governorships, State Houses, and State Senates? Or do we nominate Brown or Warren, which would begin a transition away from the Clinton-Obama coalition and the rather cultural elitist identity we have acquired along with it?

This is a very important question we must ask ourselves. Sanders showed the way forward with a new coalition, one composed of millennial, working class, and minority voters. Brown would be our best candidate to form this coalition, with Warren being more of a political figure somewhere between the two. On this basis, I would vote for Brown first and Warren second. I don’t want any of the others because I don’t want the Democratic Party to become the minority/upper-middle-class/coastal elite party; we should be the party of the working class composed of all ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds.

How Donald Trump conducts his Presidency will help shape our future even more than what we do ourselves; if he explicitly becomes the “voice of the working class,” then Democrats will likely continue targeting white collar voters in the sun belt; however, if he becomes more of a standard tax break/cut government Republican, then the party will likely refocus its efforts on appealing to blue collar rust belt voters.

[Eraserhead]

Ugh, out of those choices I'd probably go with Brown but I hope we can find someone better.

[The Other Castro]

I think if we see a female President in the near future, she will be a Republican. Timid Democrats, with even the hint of a possibility that Clinton's loss was a result of sexism, might be too afraid to get behind another woman for some time.

[White Trash]

Not a fan of this list, but I'll take Brown. Wouldn't mind Warren either.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

We need a progressive like Bernie, Warren or Brown who can appeal to white working class voters.

[JA]

We need a progressive like Bernie, Warren or Brown who can appeal to white working class voters.

Exactly. We need to drive up turnout and enthusiasm among minorities and millennial voters while also increasing our appeal to the WWC by emphasizing an economic populist message.

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Huma Abedin

[Wiz in Wis]

On this list... Sherrod Brown. Warren is fine too, but Brown is from the Midwest.

I think the one thing to keep in mind is that, 4 years from now, Trump will either be seen as a successful president (50%+) approval rating and it will be hard for anyone to win... or he will be a disaster and may face a GOP primary challenge.