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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBernie Sanders is running for president again. This time, he's a frontrunner.
Is the 2020 election really wide open given that Bernie was the runner up in the 2016 primaries? I would think that he would collect the bulk of grass roots contributions now. Only Biden has as much name recognition, and he can use similar attacks against him like he did against Hillary.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/19/18200479/bernie-sanders-running-president-2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders caught the establishment Democratic Party off guard three years ago; few anticipated the strength of his candidacy and message.
Things have changed. Sanders announced on Tuesday he is running for president again but this time, hes not the underdog. This time, he is a frontrunner who, despite coming in second in 2016, has fundamentally altered the Democratic Party.
Sanders, now 77 years old, is the most popular senator among constituents in America and consistently ranks among the top potential 2020 candidates in early polls. That said, hes joining a packed field, including progressive firebrands like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (MA) and Kamala Harris (CA), and possibly Sherrod Brown (OH). Prominent Democrats such as Joe Biden are also expected to jump into the race.
Sanders, in an email to supporters on Tuesday, laid out a vision featuring a number of his longstanding policy priorities including free college and Medicare-for-all. Im running for president because a great nation is judged not by how many billionaires and nuclear weapons it has, but by how it treats the most vulnerable the elderly, the children, our veterans, the sick and the poor, the email reads.
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Bernie Sanders is running for president again. This time, he's a frontrunner. (Original Post)
TomCADem
Feb 2019
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How anyone can think he has a better chance in 2020 than he had in 2016 is dumbfounding.
Garrett78
Feb 2019
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BSdetect
(8,989 posts)1. He's a legend in his own nap time.
redstatebluegirl
(12,264 posts)2. Good one.
NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)3. "frontrunner" based on what?
2naSalit
(86,068 posts)4. Awww, that's too bad.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)6. This early, Frontrunner Status Equals Name Recognition. (nt)
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)8. How anyone can think he has a better chance in 2020 than he had in 2016 is dumbfounding.
Not even Iowa and New Hampshire will go as well for Sanders in 2020, much less Nevada, South Carolina and Super Tuesday. I don't think he'll make it to Super Tuesday.