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

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In his Senate debate, Rubio (fingers presumably crossed) says he will serve a full Senate term, "God willing."

He doesn't need to cross his fingers to lie to you, RB, he's going to run again and then say that he meant he wouldn't resign in order to run. Basically, he's just giving himself a sentence to use in 2020 when Walker, Cotton, Haley, or one of the others mentioned in this thread use the same Christie attacks against him. If he beats Murphy (hope he doesn't but who knows at this point) he's not going to suddenly learn to respect his seat and the people who put him in it.

The people are putting him in his seat so he can run against Hillary Clinton.

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I don't get why people are talking up Newsom. Is he going to announce his presidential run in his inaugural address for Governor?

...and even if he was elected Governor in, say, 2014, and had enough experience on the job to mount a national campaign, he's still DLC trash who would get ripped to shreds in the primary.

So, like the majority of the primary electorate?

Amusing how virtually all the candidates who are signaling interest (Booker, Cuomo, Zuckerberg) are from what is seen as the "neoliberal" wing of the party.

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Sheryl Sandberg? Now this is getting embarrassing. I can already hear the chorus of "four more years."

It definitely feels like some DNC types are pushing for "We need our OWN businessman/woman to run against Trump". Cuban, Zuckerberg, Sandberg. Hard to look at the 2016 primary and thiink "You know what these Bernie supporters would go for? A billionaire with shady business dealings."

Well the DNC has this bizarre belief that we elected Trump because he's a businessman who would create jobs. We voted for him because we were pissed. Nominating a wealthy Silicon Valley CEO who will jet around the country talking about "smart power," "21st century economy," etc along with the same naked embrace of identity politics could make her an even worse nominee than Hillary.

People like Trump because he builds things. Real, tangible things (or big beautiful tremendous hotels in his words) unlike Sandberg, who basically administers an increasingly outdated social media platform. She'll give speech after speech about how it's time to "Make America Hopeful Again" or whatever cute slogan she comes up, but her vision is the same path of globalization that the world is reacting against. We don't want smart cars or Amazon drones, we want steel mills and factories.

Sandberg running against Trump would be a dream come true.

This is a very amusing post, since regardless of who is President there won't be steel mills or factories, and there will be smart-cars and drones. Very soon people will be voting who don't remember a time when steel mills and factories were common, and smart-cars and drones weren't.

Also, what's up with your second paragraph? People don't like Trump. Especially those who live in the places where he builds things.

Whether Sandberg would be a good candidate or not depends on her skills as a politician, which are difficult to judge since she's never run for office. "Make America Hopeful Again" is indeed a very stupid slogan, so if anybody goes with that we'll know enough to answer the question.

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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.

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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).

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Warren doesn't sound thrilled about running.

"Elizabeth Warren 2020" continues to feel like it'll be a replay of "Scott Walker 2016".