Al Franken for 2020!

[jmowreader]

Franken has two huge advantages over Hillary: he's able to connect with the common person, and he hasn't been the recipient of 30 years of hard-right love.

[First Speaker]

1. I love Al...but don't we have anyone who'll be under 70 years old in 2020...?

[Hortensis]

2. Good point. Also, I do like Al, but he's less than compelling

without the humor. Kinda boring, in fact. I see him doing his part in the Senate.

[yallerdawg]

5. Katy Perry is looking good.

I've got my eye on her, if she were to run.

[sarisataka]

12. Won't work Taylor Swift fans would never vote for Katy

and we will lose Christian voters because Katy kissed a girl... and liked it.

[yallerdawg]

15. Damn.

That is a lot of baggage...for a woman.

[demmiblue]

18. Lol!

P.S. you forgot about Left Shark, the commie.

[sarisataka]

21. I did forget that

And the reaction of animal rights groups when she says she wants to see their Peacock.

Completely unelectable

[Calculating]

28. She's got my vote

If Trump is qualified to run our country, why not Katy Perry? Perry 2020! Get America ROARING again!

[StevieM]

40. I don't think age should matter. Elizabeth Warren will be 71 in 2020 and I think she will be

more than ready to assume the presidency.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Too short

That shouldn't matter, but it does.

Too Jewish.

Same comment applies.

[shraby]

4. I think a focus on 2018 is more in order.

We need to retake the house and senate in a big way. We're screwn without them.

[yeoman6987]

16. 2018 makes 2016 look like a birthday party.

Completely frightening. 23 democratic seats in many red seats to 8 repug seats. I am completely scared. I think repugs gets filibuster proof in January 2019 unless we pick outstanding candidates like yesterday.

[Kingofalldems]

20. Again and again and again you post this same screed. Over and over.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2627453

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2618268

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1608358

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1605798

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2534578

Maybe you should combine all your concerns about 2018 into one thread.

[Begabig]

25. Are you keeping a list?

[Kingofalldems]

27. Not your business.

[LP2K12]

48. Sure seems like you are...

Is there a DU Neighborhood Watch?

Are you selectively tracking members or tracking everyone?

[leftynyc]

6. Kirsten Gillibrand

She's my senator and my pick for the next nominee.

[DFW]

17. She also has some very strong support in the party

That includes at least one party guru who would have pushed her to run this time if Hillary had not.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

23. She has some skeletons in her closet from when she was a lawyer

The people who were apoplectic about Hillary's Wall Street speeches and Wal-Mart connections really, really aren't going to like.

[leftynyc]

29. I'd have to know more

I only know her as a congressional rep in an adjoining district to mine and as a senator. She's been stellar.

[jumptheshadow]

32. She is a fine senator (nt)

[uponit7771]

7. Nope, Franken shook hands with a thousandaire so he's not left enough for some /sarcasm

[First Speaker]

8. How about Tammy Duckworth...?

...another 4-year senator from Illinois...I'd love to see the GOP try swiftboating her...

[Crunchy Frog]

35. There would be questions about her eligibility, since she was born in Thailand.

They maybe couldn't swiftboat her (though they're certainly not too low to try), but there would be massive birther type insanity.

[Table]

9. No way! Hillary needs to run in 2020. She will WIN!

[demmiblue]

10. .

[Sherman A1]

13. Precisely

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. Can't tell if you're being serious or not (no sarcasm tag)

but, and I'm saying this respectfully as a Hillary voter both in the primary and GE, she is finished. 2016 was her second bite at the apple and she lost it. Although some of the circumstances were outside of her control, she sadly would likely not be considered to be a serious candidate in 4 years and I'm guessing that she is probably finished politically at this point due to her age and health. I am really disappointed that she lost because I thought that if any woman could have been the first elected POTUS, it would have been her. But there is a portion of this country that rabidly hates her and was overeager to embrace Don the Con against all reason, logic, and concern for their own well-being.

[loyalsister]

22. I think she's probably not that masochistic

Campaign take a huge emotional and physical toll on candidates. I can't imagine that it would be worth going through all of it a 3rd time.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. there are dozens more who could do this in 2020. in the meanwhile i wish people would engage more in

2018.

kamala harris, martin o'malley, xavier becerra, kristen gillibrand, gavin newsome, andrew cuomo to name a few.

[Auggie]

30. Plus 1

[StevieM]

42. Cuomo has said he is not running. Newsom (there is not "e" at the end of his name) will either have

lost a bid to be governor of California, or won and become governor in 2019, the year the campaign for president begins.

Becerra would have been a great candidate, but he just agreed to become California's attorney general.

I don't think O'Malley is likely to run again after just losing so decisively in 2016. Although, to be clear, I liked O'Malley a lot and I think he would have made a good nominee and a good president. Then again, there certainly would have been a terrific fake scandal that the GOP made up against him.

Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand seem likely to run.

I am not sure why you left Elizabeth Warren off the list. I definitely think she will run and is probably the early front-runner.

Then again, Bernie Sanders might very well run again, even at his advanced age.

Other possible contenders are Sen. Amy Klobachar of Minnesota, Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado, former governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, and HUD Secretary Julian Castro.

I think that Patrick won't run if Warren does. And I think that if Bernie Sanders doesn't run then maybe Tulsi Gabbard will.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

44. Everyone says they are not running till they are

so i am not 100% about Cuomo. Becerra can leave AG position in 4 years.

Deval Patrick is def a consideration, as is Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Tom Perez.

Warren is too old. OR will be by then. I dont think she wants to either. IF sanders runs he will likely lose again.

Tulsi Gabbard would NEVER make it out of a democratic primary. NEVER. she is quite conservative and we only dont recognize that because she supported Bernie, but minute she herself is in the limelight, that candidacy is over.

[StevieM]

45. I am not saying that I would vote for Tulsi Gabbard, only that she might run if

Bernie Sanders doesn't.

I wouldn't vote for Bernie, but it is possible that he will run again, even if he only plans on serving one term. We don't even know if Hillary had planned on running for a second term if she had won.

I disagree that Warren will be too old. I think she will run, and I think she is very likely to win the nomination and win the presidency.

In any event, she certainly deserves to be included on any list of potential candidates. She is the early front runner.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

46. i really dont see HRC doing it. And you are right about Tulsi

sorry, i thought you were encouraging her to run, not just predicting it.

There are many reasons beside age that i dont think Warren wants to do it.

But yes, you are totally right, they could well be in the running

[StevieM]

47. What I meant about HRC is that if she had won the presidency she might not

have run for re-election. She might have been content to serve one term.

I cannot imagine that Hillary would ever run again after everything she has just been put through. She was a victim of McCarthyism.

I am convinced that Warren wants to run and that she will run. I guess we will have to wait and see.

And I was definitely not encouraging Tulsi Gabbard to run for president.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

49. Yeah, i def dont get the part of the dem base that thinks we should go further left

but supports Tim Ryan & Tulsi Gabbard

[TuslaUltra]

14. well said! he's both celebrity AND political brawn

[OnDoutside]

24. Maybe Al could choose Jill Stein as his running mate?

[jmowreader]

31. If he wanted to commit political seppuku, maybe

[OnDoutside]

51. See below for punchline.... 😉

[Begabig]

34. I thought you wanted to win...

[OnDoutside]

50. Who wouldn't be gripped by a Franken/Stein ticket ?

Btw, I'm here all week 😂

[Kittycow]

53. Haha..I fell for it. Be back tomorrow night!

[blm]

26. His wit is the greatest advantage. It would unnerve his opponent.

This is something I know better than just about anyone, and I am not ashamed to say so. ; )

[yallerdawg]

33. He wrote a book about his presidency, if he ran.

It ended in his removal from office for a moral issue - kind of dated now.

[Rstrstx]

36. Really, why not Oprah??

I mean seriously.

[jmowreader]

37. Oprah isn't a professional politician

After four years of this numbskull, people might realize why hiring a guy with no experience in elected office is a bad idea.

Here's the funny thing: A lot of people who voted for Trump are in position to hire people for their own businesses. Probably ninety percent of those people wouldn't hire someone without experience in the position they are hiring for, or at least experience in a similar one. What experience does Trump have? Let's see...he opened a lot of companies that hire minimum-wage workers by the bushel...he fired a bunch of people...he had a TV show...he ran a corrupt university...he bankrupted a lot of companies...he pissed off half the world...he really sucks at applying makeup...yeah, those are great qualifications for being the leader of the free world.

What does Trump have going for him? Aside from the obvious (many people in my area chose Trump because they thought he would erase the entire Obama legacy) it's entertaining to watch him, if you're into that kind of entertainment. The other candidates the Republicans ran, like Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina, weren't entertaining at all.

We need someone with two characteristics: good public policy skills and experience, and the ability to make people like him or her. Franken can do both.

[PRETZEL]

38. Let's see what the playing field looks like after the 2018 midterms

and possibly take a look at some of the Dem Governors or junior senators who are making their mark.

[jmowreader]

39. How about John Bel Edwards?

He's a good governor from a populous red state, and he served in the 82nd Airborne Division.

[PRETZEL]

41. Don't really know much about him,

may have to take a look.

That's what I mean. Him, possible Tom Wolfe from PA.

[moda253]

43. WRONG MN SENATOR

Klobuchar in 2020.

She would be amazing.

[Va Lefty]

52. Gavin Newsom

Next Governor of California. At the very least he needs to be on the ticket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Newsom