Who Really Has a Shot in 2020?
There are dozens of potential candidates. Here’s how to tell who’s a serious contender.
She’s running.
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It’s not really true that midterm elections kick off the next presidential campaign. After all, Democrats have been running for president for nearly two years now. They’ll continue doing so over the next few months without much change, except that some folks who were running for other offices until last week felt obliged to claim that they weren’t interested in the presidency and can now drop that pretense.
Even so, many in the media see the midterms as a useful marker. We’ve had another round of Top Candidate lists from CNN and FiveThirtyEight and the Fix, among others. There’s been at least one new poll. So it’s worth thinking about who might be serious contenders.