Former Vice President Joe Biden tops a list of prospective Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential race in a new survey.
Seventy-four percent of Democrats in the Morning Consult/Politico poll out Monday view Biden favorably. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, with a favorable rating from 51 percent of Democrats, follows Biden in second place.
“I have no intention of running for president, but I’m a great respecter of fate,” Biden told NPR last week. “I don’t have any plans to do it, but I’m not promising I wouldn’t do it,” he continued.
Other contenders in the new poll included Democratic Sens. Al Franken, Cory Booker, and Kamala Harris.
The survey is an early one — there are more than two years until the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucus — and in the Trump era, big shifts in the conventional political calculus that guides many politicians can happen at a moment’s notice.
But already, potential candidates are making moves to begin closing the gap of voters who have no opinion or do not know of them, hoping to move them to the “approve” column. Kander has sought to grow his national profile with a new organization called “Let America Vote,” which puts him on the ground in states such as New Hampshire. Harris has used her new job as senator to woo progressives and criticize the Trump administration in high-profile committee hearings.
Source: www.leftscoop.com
Hmmm… I wonder why Bernie’s name didn’t make the list.
Fear? Cowardice?
Not a Democrat.
Biden certainly is a Democrat!
Seeing as though he ran as a dem last year, is the defacto leader of the party at the moment in a lot of ways, is the only one in the party or out who still represents traditional democrat, New Deal values and is the most popular politician in America (83% approval rating), this was just another in a long, long, list of stabs at Bernie by the corporocrat rag Politico. Plain and simple.
Because the pollsters didn’t ask it. I guess they didn’t want him in the headline of the article.
Rubbish! Complete brainwashing rubbish.
The People’s Party!! Bernie Sanders!!
So where IS the People’s Party ??
Seems like Bernie just likes being in the spotlight.
But when is comes to actual work toward goals, he’s missing in action.
Where is he as California works toward single payer health care ?
Why isn’t he leading the parade?
No, he’s just smart enough to know that creating a third-party at this time will split the vote and guarantee a Republican win.
Because he is traveling the country getting a groundswell of people to fight against Trumpcare. But I guess that doesn’t matter to you because you just wanted to bash him out of ignorance.
Pushing single payer in new york, funny how Hillary decides to pop up there again as he nears getting it done, also the way you seem as if you’ve done 0 research.
The Commie TRAITOR SANDERS? Yeah, the PEOPLE OF RUSSIA’S Candidate! That loser needs to get out of the country and go kiss up to his leader…PUTIN! Wait until the whole story of Russia’s influence comes out….Sanders and Jill Stein were in it up to their ASS!
I think Kamala Harris is an excellent choice for either President or VP. Nor sure which side Cory Booker really swings!
Don’t think Elizabeth Warren wants it And would love JOE bIDEN IF AGE ISN’T A PROBLEM!
I like Senator Kamala Harris and Rep. Joe Kennedy III. We need new, young, dynamic, energetic, and very smart. We need our version of Macron and Trudeau. I love Elizabeth Warren too.
Joe Biden is known, trusted and loved nationwide. We have a good sense of his positions on the economy–including budget, taxes, trade–foreign relations, education, the environment, defense and campaign finance reform, Each of the other distinguished individuals on this list is very impressive in the context in which we have seen him/her: Senator Harris in the hearings; Senator Warren on the House floor, etc. I would like to learn (soon!) the positions of these potential candidates on the full spectrum of matters critical to governance. Meantime, I marvel at this stellar array of choices!
What a bunch of idiots. I suppose the DNC is looking forward to another 4 years of Trump. If they run an Establishment Dem the largest voting block, Independents, will not vote with them. How the hell do you think Hillary lost and the biggest buffoon in the nation won. Good job DNC. Keep up the good work.
Good example of corporate media BS. Show a picture of Bernie in the article to imply he was listed in the poll, but did not make the cut. When in fact, he was not listed as a choice in the poll. True, he is not a Dem, but what is the point of the poll if you don’t list one of the most popular possible non-right wing candidates who did run as a Dem last year.
And would have easily won if not for corporate media BS.
adam schiff!
I’m in a closed state Indiana and I can only vote Dem or Rep in the Primary, therefore I will only vote Bernie, Tulsi or Nina! I saw what the DNC did last year, not just throughout the country, but I was in Philadelphia! The DNC is not the people’s party anymore!
Also, Indiana only has 8 electoral votes, thus my Presidential vote has never counted. However, it does for the Green party! If Jill Stein could have just gotten 5% of the national vote? She would have been federally funded in 2020, just like the two corrupt parties.
We need more than two parties to keep the other two in line!
2020…DEMEXITGREEN!
We need Elizabeth Warren …most DEFINITELY…..WOULD VOTE FOR HER IN A HEARTBEAT ….BOO H ET ??? HELL NO….HE’S BE ONE A REPUBLICAN LACKEY…SO ….NO !!