Could Russ Feingold (D-WI) be a viable candidate for President or Vice in 2020?

[nekipa12]

He is a strong progressive who is popular with the Democratic base and with Independents.
He has strong record in taking on the status quo.
He is an outsider who has served 18 years in the US Senate and 10 years as a private citizen.
He could carry battleground states in Michigan,Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin along with Minnesota and New Hampshire.
Looking at the other Democratic candidates in 2020
Cory Booker(D-NJ) is too lenient to corporate America.
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA),Bernie Sanders (D-VT),and Joe Biden (D-DE) are too old to serve as POTUS.
Sherrod Brown (D-OH) will have to vacate a US Senate seat that is likely to go Republican assuming Ohio has a Republican Governor in 2020.
A Booker/Feingold-D ticket could be a winning Democratic Ticket in 2020.

[mencken]

He is a strong progressive who is popular with the Democratic base and with Independents.
He has strong record in taking on the status quo.
He is an outsider who has served 18 years in the US Senate and 10 years as a private citizen.
He could carry battleground states in Michigan,Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin along with Minnesota and New Hampshire.
Looking at the other Democratic candidates in 2020
Cory Booker(D-NJ) is too lenient to corporate America.
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA),Bernie Sanders (D-VT),and Joe Biden (D-DE) are too old to serve as POTUS.
Sherrod Brown (D-OH) will have to vacate a US Senate seat that is likely to go Republican assuming Ohio has a Republican Governor in 2020.
A Booker/Feingold-D ticket could be a winning Democratic Ticket in 2020.

LOL

I guess Feingold could be the Democratic Rick Santorum, the left-wing protest vote who lost his most recent election.

[The_Doctor]

Feingold won Wisconsin 3 times, before his 2010 and 2016 loss. Both losses were narrow, nothing like Santorum's 20 point loss in 2006 (point against him: he lost by a bigger margin than Hillary lost Wisconsin). That said, Feingold led for much of 2016 in polling and lost because of the Trump/Johnson surge in Wisconsin near the end.

TBH, I think if anyone could win the Presidency in 2020, it'd be someone like Russ Feingold. The OP has a lot of the right reasons why Feingold could win. He's an outsider, authentic populist, has own the type of people who the Democrats need to see move back into the Democratic column, and so on and so on.

I don't think any other type of Democrat wins, except maybe Sherrod Brown, barring the GOP setting themselves on fire, and dancing in the flames with horns buck naked in front of the entire country chanting Satanic hymns. Polarization and incumbency and partisanship is a pain in the behind.

[justfollowingtheelections]

No, just no.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I would vote for him! But lame VP option.

[nekipa12]

Sure. He lost in a humiliating fashion last year, but hey, if Rick Santorum can come back from a landslide loss and become a viable Presidential candidate, then so can Feingold. That being said, I don't see another run for elected office in his future.

Santorum lost by an 18 point margin in 2006. Feingold lost by a 5 point margin in 2010 and 4 point margin in 2016.
Santorum would have lost PA in the 2016 Presidential race had he been the Republican nominee. Feingold could narrowly win WI in the 2020 Presidential race if he were to be on the Democratic ticket.

[Frodo]

He would have been had he not lost his Senate seat in 2010, and disgraced himself again last year trying to regain it.  

As Trump would say, no one likes losers. 

[nekipa12]

Feingold could have avoided being a 2 time loser had he ran for the US Senate in 2012 instead of the 2016 rematch against Johnson. Feingold could have benefited from Obama coattails in 2012.

[The_Doctor]

Two Senate losses isn't that meaningful in the face of a man who had no political career to speak of 18 months ago and is set to be sworn in as President this Friday.

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He would have been had he not lost his Senate seat in 2010, and disgraced himself again last year trying to regain it.  

As Trump would say, no one likes losers. 

Why'd Trump join the party of loser Abe Lincoln?

https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/education/failures.htm

[Chief Justice Keef]

He's lost two Senate races in a row. I don't think he has the capital to stage an effective run. It's possible, though.

Poor Russ, though. Dude's a progressive hero and he's gotten beat two times by the kook Ron Johnson.

[TomC]

He'd really need to freshen it up and be a rock star, but I'd love to see it happen. Just might.

[GoTfan]

The only way that happens is if he runs for and wins the governorship in 2018

[nekipa12]

The only way that happens is if he runs for and wins the governorship in 2018

Feingold took a pass at running for the US Senate in 2012 when it was an open seat election with Obama on top of the ticket and he took a pass at running for Governor in 2012 recall and 2014 against Scott Walker. I'd like to see Feingold-D run against and defeat Scott Walker in 2018.

[Maxwell]

I like Feiny but no.

[Pericles]

Feingold became the establishment. He broke his promise to get a majority of campaign funds from in-state small donors. Not just that, he, like a typical establishment career politician, tried to fudge the issue and evade the truth that he broke his promise to Wisconsinites and became another lying politician. The Russ Feingold of 1992 was not the Russ Feingold of 2016.