The “Who is running in 2020?” tea leaves thread

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Biden to teach at University of Pennsylvania

[Blackacre]

Biden to teach at University of Pennsylvania

Not Delaware???

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Biden to teach at University of Pennsylvania

Not Delaware???

Delaware has universities?

I kind of saw Biden moving to Pennsylvania or New York or wherever after he left his post.  It's hard to imagine Delaware being a place where people live by choice, you know?

[Blackacre]

Biden to teach at University of Pennsylvania

Not Delaware???

Delaware has universities?

I kind of saw Biden moving to Pennsylvania or New York or wherever after he left his post.  It's hard to imagine Delaware being a place where people live by choice, you know?

The University of Delaware's a pretty good school

[Mr. Morden]

Hickenlooper isn’t ruling out a run:

http://www.coloradoindependent.com/163902/hickenlooper-2020-president

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[Mr. Morden]

Kasich is going to New Hampshire in April:

http://www.wmur.com/article/nh-primary-source-democrats-question-sununu-on-budget-priorities/8695185

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[Comrade Funk]

Biden to teach at University of Pennsylvania

Not Delaware???

Delaware has universities?

I kind of saw Biden moving to Pennsylvania or New York or wherever after he left his post.  It's hard to imagine Delaware being a place where people live by choice, you know?

No sales tax, although I'm sure Biden is rich enough to not care lol

[Blair]

Tbh Kasich going to New Hampshire is probably to cash in the goodwill he got there, and to sell his book

[justfollowingtheelections]

Biden to teach at University of Pennsylvania

So I guess he's not running for Carper's seat like many assumed.

[justfollowingtheelections]

Hickenlooper isn’t ruling out a run:

http://www.coloradoindependent.com/163902/hickenlooper-2020-president

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Well, the Democratic voters support single-payer and Hickenlooper fought hard against the single-payer ballot initiative.  He's not going anywhere.  Maybe he should run as a Republican.

[Vosem]

Hickenlooper isn’t ruling out a run:

http://www.coloradoindependent.com/163902/hickenlooper-2020-president

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Well, the Democratic voters support single-payer and Hickenlooper fought hard against the single-payer ballot initiative.  He's not going anywhere.  Maybe he should run as a Republican.

If Hickenlooper does poorly, this won't be the reason. The state ballot initiative was massively flawed, both major parties came together to oppose it, and the people of the state voted against it 21/79. Even famously liberal Boulder County rejected it 38/62.

[justfollowingtheelections]

Hickenlooper isn’t ruling out a run:

http://www.coloradoindependent.com/163902/hickenlooper-2020-president

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Well, the Democratic voters support single-payer and Hickenlooper fought hard against the single-payer ballot initiative.  He's not going anywhere.  Maybe he should run as a Republican.

If Hickenlooper does poorly, this won't be the reason. The state ballot initiative was massively flawed, both major parties came together to oppose it, and the people of the state voted against it 21/79. Even famously liberal Boulder County rejected it 38/62.

Well yeah, if both the Democratic governor and the Democratic Senator oppose it, it obviously won't pass.  Perhaps they should have tried to introduce something that would work, but obviously they didn't care.

[publicunofficial]

Hickenlooper isn’t ruling out a run:

http://www.coloradoindependent.com/163902/hickenlooper-2020-president

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Well, the Democratic voters support single-payer and Hickenlooper fought hard against the single-payer ballot initiative.  He's not going anywhere.  Maybe he should run as a Republican.

If Hickenlooper does poorly, this won't be the reason. The state ballot initiative was massively flawed, both major parties came together to oppose it, and the people of the state voted against it 21/79. Even famously liberal Boulder County rejected it 38/62.

Well yeah, if both the Democratic governor and the Democratic Senator oppose it, it obviously won't pass.  Perhaps they should have tried to introduce something that would work, but obviously they didn't care.

Does Jimmy Dore/TYT have a video ripping Hickenlooper you can link us to?

[Mr. Morden]

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Joe-Biden-Signs-With-CAA-for-Post-White-House-10923016.php

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More Biden:

http://www.universityherald.com/articles/64298/20170208/joe-biden-university-pennsylvania-teacher-president-2020.htm

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[RI]

I'm all for a Kasich 2020 bid. It makes perfect sense.

[Mr. Morden]

A woman on Twitter whose bio says "West Michigan Reporter for @MichiganRadio" tweets:

https://twitter.com/lzsmitty/status/829901988569706497

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and Amash retweeted it.

[Mr. Morden]

John Weaver and other Kasich 2016 advisors have set up a nonprofit organization ”that will promote themes the Ohio governor pushed during his unsuccessful run for last year’s Republican presidential nomination":

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/10/politics/john-kasich-political-organization-donald-trump/index.html

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"Two Paths" is of course also the name of Kasich's upcoming book.

[Vosem]

Will actually be very interesting to see just how well Kasich and Amash do in the early states. There hasn't been even a semi-serious attempt at challenging an incumbent President since Pat Buchanan ran in 1992 (and not an actually serious attempt since Ted Kennedy in 1980).

[Mr. Morden]

In late January, both of the Castro brothers participated in a meeting in Austin with Texas Democratic leaders to plot strategy for the 2018 midterms in Texas:

http://www.elpasoproud.com/news/texas-democrats-begin-to-plot-out-strategy-for-2018-midterms/654477531

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[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Seth Moulton in email convo with reporters about it?

https://twitter.com/TheFix/status/830784632090193922

[Mr. Morden]

Sunday morning talk show watch: Sanders is on "Meet the Press" this morning:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NEWS_SHOWS?SITE=AP

[Mr. Morden]

Seth Moulton in email convo with reporters about it?

https://twitter.com/TheFix/status/830784632090193922

I don't interpret the tweet that way.  Some guy says he wants Moulton to run, and then Cillizza says he's doing an email convo with Moulton later this week.  Cillizza's comment doesn't indicate that the conversation has anything to do with Moulton running for president.

[Mr. Morden]

The headline here says that Gillibrand says she’s not running in 2020.  But the actual text in the article doesn’t establish that she said that:

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/319099-gillibrand-im-not-running-for-president-in-2020

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“No, I am running for Senate” and “I really love my job” doesn’t mean that you’re not also running for president in 2020.  It’s a standard non-denial response.  Though I guess it depends on what the “No” part is in response to, which we don’t know unless we get the transcript of what question was being asked.  Hopefully that’ll be released at some point.

In other news, sounds like another denial of some sort from Franken, but as with Gillibrand, I’d like to see the full context, which I guess we’ll get since SOTU does release transcripts eventually:

https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/830786014130094080

[Bojack Horseman]

Hickenlooper isn’t ruling out a run:

http://www.coloradoindependent.com/163902/hickenlooper-2020-president

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Well, the Democratic voters support single-payer and Hickenlooper fought hard against the single-payer ballot initiative.  He's not going anywhere.  Maybe he should run as a Republican.

If Hickenlooper does poorly, this won't be the reason. The state ballot initiative was massively flawed, both major parties came together to oppose it, and the people of the state voted against it 21/79. Even famously liberal Boulder County rejected it 38/62.

Sounds a lot like the Ohio marijuana abortion of a ballot measure.

[Mr. Morden]

As I mentioned in another thread, despite previously closing the door to running for president in 2020, Mark Cuban seems to have reopened it at least a little by sharing this email he wrote to Trump in May 2016, in which he says “I may go after that job some day and it could be against you”: