Looking ahead to 2020

[Proud Liberal Dem]

Who does everybody think would be good potential candidates to unseat Trump in 2020? I know that the dust hasn't quite settled on 2016 but given how important it is to reclaim the WH in 2020, does anybody have any dream candidates? Have there been any names bandied about within the party as potentials for 2020 yet? I would guess that, due to age, neither Clinton nor Sanders are likely to run again. So, who's up to bat for us, next?

[Xipe Totec]

1. There's a midterm 2018. Let's worry about that one first. nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Exactly

I'm sick and tired of many of those who profess to be Dems ignoring the mid terms. In 2014 most post on DU were arguing who should be the 2016 presidential candidate or attacking other Dems for not being pure enough.

In fact I'll take it a step further. Off year elections probably influence our lives more than the presidential ones do. We have to stop ignoring them.

[haele]

2. 2020 is a census year. 2018 is critical on the local/state level to build from.

It's critical for the Democrats to recover in order to undo the gerrymandering the GOP was able to accomplish because they won big in 2010. And political recovery never begins from the top down, it's always a bottom up effort.

The majority of electoral disasters progressives and liberals suffers is due to gerrymandered districting. Local and state politics drive the social culture that either allows for a progressive, forward facing agenda, or a return to "business as usual" plantation politics - where the wealthy play games with each other, and the rest of the population just tries to get along with whatever's left over.

Haele

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. I'm not saying that we should ignore 2018 by any means

Thinking about who we might want to go up against Trump in 2020 is incredibly important too, though, so I thought that I'd kick off a discussion about that while we're all sitting around waiting for the Trumpocalypse to start. But if nobody's interested in the topic, that's fine.

[Jersey Devil]

9. Redistricting is not done in the same year as the census

Congressional redistricting would not be in effect until 2022

[haele]

11. No, but the legislature and officials that oversee redistricting

Are typically elected in 2020. The 2010 tea-party surge is what made the census redistricting so disastrous for the decade's political landscape.

Haele

[Dawson Leery]

12. A 4 year Governor would have influence over the maps.

Hold PA and pick up MI/FL/OH/IL etc and Democrats have more power.

[NightWatcher]

4. You wacky bastard. We're not going to get to vote again.

Forget the gerrymandering and voter suppression, trump is going to stay in until he passes the office to Ivanka, meanwhile his horrible cabinet will continue to run unchecked.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. I hope Elizabeth Warren runs. n/t

[trof]

10. Too old. Sorry.

[msongs]

6. should be taking back state legislatures or there will be NO 2020 nt

[BlueStater]

7. There's absolutely no guarantee Trump will be the nominee next time.

My personal opinion is that early Baby Boomers need to exit the presidential stage already. I'd rather not see anyone born before 1950 run for president again. Sorry, no Bernie or Warren.

[Jersey Devil]

8. If I had to choose right now - Elizabeth Warren - but

there is a long road to travel before we get to the primaries for 2020. There may very well be someone who at this time is relatively unknown who becomes a star by leading the fight to preserve things like Medicare and civil rights. I had never heard of Bill Clinton in 1988 or Barack Obama in 2004 or, for that matter, George W Bush in 1996.