Who are the toughest Democratic opponents for potential GOP Presidents in 2020?

[Mister Mets]

This question's ridiculously premature, but this seems to be the place to ask it.

How much would it matter for the Democratic field in the next presidential race who the Republicans elect this time around? Would certain potential candidates be stronger against Marco Rubio than Jeb Bush, and vice versa? Or would it not really matter who Republicans nominate?

There's the obvious caveat that we have no idea how a potential Republican nominee would be as President, which makes speculation even more difficult.

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Castro

Castro

Gillibrand

Heinrich

Me

Bernie

Lizzie

[CookieDamage]

Biden

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

Gabbard, Yang, Warren maybe.  They'll never get on the ticket, but in a general election, they'd all have great appeal to independents and leaners and that's what matters. Not the vote-blue-no-matter-whos.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The Rs are 3/0 against Gore and Kerry and Hillary but 0/3 against Obama and Biden and they beat Hillary in 2016 not 2008, the Rs must realize that they will have difficulty as it presently is to beat another future D Prez. Gore had Lewinsky and the Rs still manage to barely beat all three Ds they won in. Due to the structure of the 291/247 EC map

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

Gabbard, Yang, Warren maybe.  They'll never get on the ticket, but in a general election, they'd all have great appeal to independents and leaners and that's what matters. Not the vote-blue-no-matter-whos.

All of them suck, Yang is a nobody with an online cult who unlike trump isn't a pop-culture icon with universal name recognition. Gabbard is a weird paleocon in terms of social issues who doesnt' excite any part of the base and will fail. Warren has little appele outside the progressive base and will flame out hard.

[Motorcity]

The Rs are 3/0 against Gore and Kerry and Hillary but 0/3 against Obama and Biden and they beat Hillary in 2016 not 2008, the Rs must realize that they will have difficulty as it presently is to beat another future D Prez. Gore had Lewinsky and the Rs still manage to barely beat all three Ds they won in. Due to the structure of the 291/247 EC map

They cheated with Gore and Hillary, and still lost the popular vote. Kerry lost because he ran against a war time incumbent with a relatively strong economy and still came within a hair of winning.

As Pete Buttigieg said the election must be “big enough that this election is beyond cheating distance.”

So the question isn’t who will win, who will win by at least 4%? Consider the difference between the PV and EC