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TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 11:02 AM Feb 2019

Bernie 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, he’s 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, he’s 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. “I’m 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 OP
He's a legend in his own nap time. BSdetect Feb 2019 #1
Good one. redstatebluegirl Feb 2019 #2
LOL!! peggysue2 Feb 2019 #5
"frontrunner" based on what? NRaleighLiberal Feb 2019 #3
Awww, that's too bad. 2naSalit Feb 2019 #4
This early, Frontrunner Status Equals Name Recognition. (nt) JaneQPublic Feb 2019 #6
ayep Baclava Feb 2019 #7
How anyone can think he has a better chance in 2020 than he had in 2016 is dumbfounding. Garrett78 Feb 2019 #8

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)
8. How anyone can think he has a better chance in 2020 than he had in 2016 is dumbfounding.
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 02:19 PM
Feb 2019

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.

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